Disturbing the Dead
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"Fast-paced, chilling and compulsively readable."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Edge-of-the-seat suspense and a budding romance make this essential reading for fans of Margaret Maron and Karin Slaughter."
--Library Journal starred review
"Dark, suspenseful... a lethal, gothic drama."
--Publishers Weekly
"A terrific, tangled skein of family secrets and hidden murders, beautifully plotted and excitingly told."
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Welcome, and thanks for clicking in.
There’s nothing quite like the thrill of holding your published book
in your hands, but for me the most exciting time is the period between turning
in a manuscript and receiving copies of the printed book. I’ve just begun
the pre-publication process with Broken Places, which is scheduled for publication
by Poisoned Pen Press in March 2010.
Oh, I’ll admit it’s nerve-wracking to wait for the editor’s
reaction to the manuscript. She might hate it! She might declare it unpublishable!
She might want massive changes! The waiting period produces plenty of material
for writerly nightmares. But even before I hear from my editor, the amazing
Barbara Peters, things are moving forward. I’ve written a blurb for the
catalog. The cover artist and I have exchanged thoughts about images for the
jacket. The book is beginning to feel real!
After I make any changes my editor requests, advance
review copies will be printed and I’ll see my words set in type in book form. I’ll probably
also see a lot of typos and other errors that were somehow overlooked in a
thousand previous readings. Those will be corrected (at least I hope I’ll
catch all of them) before the book goes to press, but reviewers will receive
copies of the uncorrected ARC. When the prepublication reviews begin to appear,
I’ll know it’s really going to happen: my book is going to be published.
I suppose authors who are seeing their 25th or 30th or 50th books published
might be a bit blase about the whole process, but I don’t think I ever
will be. It will always feel like a dream coming true, no matter how often
it happens.
 T his time around I’ll have some extra ARCs printed to give away, so
keep checking back if you’d like to enter a drawing to win one a little
later on. While we’re waiting for Broken Places to become a reality,
let me share this with you – the cover of the Japanese-language edition
of The Heat of the Moon, published in Japan in March. I think it’s beautiful
and haunting.
Please join me each Wednesday, my regular blog day on Poe’s
Deadly Daughters!
--Sandy
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