Website news

My website has been updated with a link to this blog and my Facebook fan page. Check it out at http://www.lillygayle.com.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS is also listed on The Wild Rose Press’s website as a coming soon novel on their home page. If you go to http://www.thewildrosepress.com and click coming soon, then scroll down to paranormal and find vampires, if you click that link. OUT OF THE DARKNESS is the first book listed. Sadly, the website gives a release date of 7/9/10 as opposed to the 6/18/10 release date I was given in an email from one of the owners of TWRP, but either way, I’m expecting a summer release and I couldn’t be more excited!

It’s going to be a long, cold winter! So snuggle up with a good book from one of my HCRW writer friends or one of the many talented writers from TWRP. You can find hundreds of great books at http://www.thewildrosepress.com and some fabulous, home-grown NC writers at http://www.heartofcarolina.org and click the HCRW author link. My critique partners, Amy Corwin and Jenna Black both have books listed on that page and both are wonderful writers. So, snuggle up this winter. Stay warm. And enjoy a good book.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS is listed on The Wild Rose Press’s main page as a coming soon release. Check out the link! http://thewildrosepress.com/publisher/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=16&id=70&Itemid=106

The release date on The Wild Rose Press website is 7/9/10 but I received an email yesterday that said the book would be released on 6/18/10. Either way, it’s going to be one hot summer because OUT OF THE DARKNESS is a hot paranormal romance!

Okay, I hope folks think it’s hot. Guess I’ll find out when the reviews start rolling in. 🙂

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I have a release date!
OUT OF THE DARKNESS will be released on 6/18/10! Not quite as soon as I would have liked but the original release date was moved due to some in-house shifting of other titles. This could work to my advantage as there should be less competition with other vampire and wolf stories if it were released near lets say, Halloween. And OUT OF THE DARKNESS will make a good summer read so be sure to get your copy before heading to the lake or beach in late June of 2010. You can order a paper back version from http://www.thewildrosepress.com, http://www.borders.com, or http://www.amazon.com. Or you can use the ISBN to order it from most bookstores.

Print ISBN: 1-60154-730-7
Print ISBN 13: 9781601547309

But, the book will also available in electronic format at a lower price. I don’t own an e-reader myself but I want one. I saw a woman reading from either a Kindle or Sony e-reader on the beach and while I was fumbling with pages and bookmarks and trying not to get suntan oil on the pages of my paperback, she touched a screen to turn the page. And I was amazed that the sun didn’t make it hard to read. I could see the clarity of the screen from my beach chair, six feet away.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS received a HOT rating. There is no graphic language or violence but there is some profanity and folks do die. After all, some blood must be shed. It IS a vampire romance! OUT OF THE DARKNESS is part of the Black Rose imprint of The Wild Rose Press and my editor, Lil Farrell has been fantastic. She really did make this book better with her suggestions.

Thanks Lil!

To find out more about OUT OF THE DARKNESS please visit my website at http://www.lillygayle.com

“A fairy tale only ends happily because that’s the point where the
storyteller stops telling the story. I’m sure even Prince Charming and
Cinderella had a few quarrels after they got married, but that’s just
life…”–Dr. Megan Harper. from OUT… OF THE DARKNESS, coming soon from
The Wild Rose Press. http://www.thewildrosepress.com

Thanks to Bernie Delgado for giving me the idea of posting a line from my book here on the internet. He’ll receive a free signed copy once the book comes out. Congrats and thank you Bernie! And check out my web page at http://www.lillygayle.com. You can also find me on facebook and myspace!

Before a book goes into production, it is sent to a final reader who looks for mistakes and makes comments. Lill, my editor, just sent me an email regarding my final reader’s findings.

…the final reader found very little, a few line breaks from the formatting, a couple of missing words and a missed quotation mark. Her final comment… EXCELLENT STORY!!

I’m so excited and pleased. But I could not have done it without the help of so many people, whom I’ve thanked in my book, on my blog and on myspace. But there is one person I’ve never thanked who truly has made this a much better story. My wonderful editor from The Wild Rose Press, Lill Farrell.

Thanks Lill! You rock!

Since part of Out of the Darkness is set in Clarksville, Virginia, I thought I’d post this picture of the quaint little town taken from Kerr Lake…or as some folks in Clarksville call it: Bugg’s Island Lake. Check out the town’s website at http://www.clarksvilleva.com

Finished my galley today and sent it off to my editor, Lill. Now, it’s just a matter of waiting for reader feedback and the final galley. Then, if I don’t want to go over it again…which I don’t…then, that’s it. Lord, if I go over it again, I’m bound to want to change something. I think I’m just anal that way! But once the galley is finalized, it goes back to production, and I’ll finally get a release date.

I can hardly wait!

Received my book galley tonight. And I have 10 days to read it and make changes! The pressure is on. And I love it!

Basically, I have to read through the book as it will appear once it’s been published, looking for typos and any changes I want to make. And being the anal personality type I am, I have to restrain from making petty changes that aren’t really necessary!

I can’t make the changes on the actual PDF file. I have to send line edit changes in a separate document with a list of the changes I want to make, line by line, page by page, to my editor, who will forward it to a final reader. This, I’m assuming is the final stage before publication.

And it still doesn’t feel real!

Life is sweet! I have a book cover and I absolutely love it! Please check it out and let me know what you think. Personally, I think Angela Anderson, the artist at The Wild Rose Press did an awesome job!

I’m learning new terminology. A mock galley is an edited copy of my manuscript printed out in the book font and format, using the same page size and margins so it looks pretty much the way the book is going to look once it’s printed. That’s where I am now in the editing process. I’m going over the “mock galley,” checking the manuscript for errors, one last time and making sure that it reads the way I want it to.

This is my last chance to make changes and after the number of times I’ve read through this, one would think I couldn’t possibly find anything else to change. Wrong! I’m still finding minor changes I want to make. Mostly, it’s places where I want to delve deeper into the character’s POV. I think getting inside the characters head strengthens the story and adds depth to the characters.

But will my editor like the changes?

Guess I’ll just have to wait and see.