Sandy Williams http://sandy-williams.com Writer of Urban Fantasy Wed, 16 May 2012 20:23:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cover Reveal: The Shattered Dark It’s here! It’s here! The Shattered Dark’s final cover!

I’m so excited to share this with you guys. I absolutely love it. I feel like I’ve totally one the book cover lottery with these two books. I love how The Shadow Reader’s cover was kickass and pink, and I love how The Shattered Dark’s cover is kickass and purple!

Yes, McKenzie is holding a sword again. No, she still doesn’t know how to use the darn thing, but she does hold one for more than two minutes in The Shattered Dark.

So, here it is. The cover for The… Read More »

]]> http://sandy-williams.com/2012/05/16/cover-reveal-the-shattered-dark/ A Few Random Things
  • Two weeks ago, when I wrote down my weekly goals, I forgot one tiny detail: I was leaving town for a week and a half. All my goals pretty much flew out the window when I remembered that, and I spent my time scrambling to get ready instead of crossing things off my list (although I did finish my copy edits!). So, lets pretend that week’s goals are this week’s goals. ‘kay?
  • I was reading through Fitness Magazine the other day. It was it’s anniversary issue. In it, it talked about fashion changes over the years. One of those

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    ]]>     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/05/14/a-few-random-things/     Weekly Goals I just realized I never updated my goals last week. Oops. I actually did well on them! And I had a super productive week, writing wise last week. I finished my copy edits! I finished them EARLY! Tell me your impressed.

    Of course, I’m not quite relinquishing the manuscript yet. I’m going to read through it at least two more times before it’s due, just to make sure I’m not missing something obvious and I might tweak word choices or sentence structure or something, but the book could be published as is and I’d be extremely happy with it.… Read More »

     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/04/30/weekly-goals-4/     Newsletter Winner and Copy Edits Why, hello there, Thursday. Where the hell did you come from?

    I’m way late on posting the winner of my latest newsletter contest. This should have gone up on Monday. Life is just crazy, crazy, crazy, which is why I’ve been debating temporarily closing down this blog. (The poll on that link is still open if you want to offer your input. I’ll try to post the results in a week or so. So far, the answer isn’t what I thought it would be!) It’s going to be even crazier for the next two weeks. I received my copy… Read More »

    ]]>     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/04/26/newsletter-winner-and-copy-edits/     Thinking About Shutting Down This Blog You know how every blog I post here begins with an apology for not posting here more often? I think I’ve finally come to the conclusion that I can’t keep up with this blog like I should and like I want to. The only thing worse than not having a blog, IMO, is having a blog that’s rarely updated.

    I wouldn’t be going dark on the internet, though. I’d still post every Monday on the Magic & Mayhem blog. I’d link that to my Amazon and Goodreads profile (you should be able to subscribe to my Magic & Mayhem feed by… Read More »

    ]]>     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/04/20/thinking-about-shutting-down-this-blog/     Want to know what The Shattered Dark is about? I know there’s very little information out there about the sequel to The Shadow Reader, The Shattered Dark. The main reason for that is because I’ve just now reached a point with the book where I actually like it. Honestly, I was ready to just kill off everybody and stop writing in the middle of the story, but I gritted my teeth and kept typing.

    And kept typing.

    And kept typing.

    Seems like it took forever to write that book, but now that I only have copy edits and galley pages to work on, I feel so much better about… Read More »

    ]]>     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/04/19/want-to-know-what-the-shattered-dark-is-about/     Giveaway Winner and Weekly Goals First, the winner from the giveaway two weeks ago is:

    Lexi!

    Email me your address at sandy AT sandy DASH williams DOT com and I’ll send you an autographed copy of Mari Mancusi’s THE BLOOD COVEN. :-)

    I had every intention of updating the blog last week with a real post instead of just a quick one, but getting ready for the RT Convention sucked away every second of my free time. Actually, it was probably the babies that sucked away the seconds, but still. I thought about getting ready for Chicago a whole lot! So, I didn’t… Read More »

    ]]>     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/04/16/giveaway-winner-and-weekly-goals/     Quick Post I’m scrambling to get out the door to catch a flight to Chicago. Just wanted to say I’ll post a winner from last week’s giveaway next week. I’m behind on everything still! I did do well on my goals last week. More later!

    ]]>     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/04/10/quick-post/     Weekly To-Do List and Giveaway! Hi, guys! I’m back! I turned in edits for The Shattered Dark on Friday after working nonstop for the last month. Well, okay, I slept and ate and watched the boys for a few minutes here and there, but seriously, I was basically working 12 hours a day 7 days a week since the beginning of March. I was practically doing the same thing in January and February, too, but I made time for grocery shopping then and did go out once or twice with the family/friends. So, am I tired? Yes. Utterly exhausted and pretty much near urnout
    with… Read More »

    ]]>     http://sandy-williams.com/2012/04/02/weekly-to-do-list-and-giveaway/     My First Public Book Signing! The Shadow Reader has been on the shelves for almost five months now, so I realize it’s ridiculous that I’m just now doing a public signing. The only books I’ve put my signature to so far were for my friends and family and for giveaways on blogs. With the twins and the deadlines and the general chaos of life, I just haven’t had the time (or the mental energy!) to set something up.

    And I didn’t exactly set this one up. Actually, I didn’t set it up at all. Others have put a lot of hard work into organizing the… Read More »

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