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NEW NEWS IS GOOD NEWS Oooh, ooh, wee! Josh's newsletter is on the move. If you were already a subscriber to the old list, no sweat -- you don't have to do a thing -- it's all taken care of. And if you were never a subscriber, now might be the time to join, because there are going to be some truly amazing new bells and whistles. Plus the usual goodies... SO, IT DID STAND A GHOST OF A CHANCE... POISON IN THE PEN Beginning February 15, Josh will be doing acolumn on writing gay mysteries at Not Your Usual Suspects Blog. Don't be a Samson -- this is one column you definitely shouldn't push aside! IT'S GOOD TO BE KING... Josh finished 2011 with a "humbling slew of awards and recognition for which I sincerely thank you all." At the much-respected Reviews by Jessewave site, Josh was voted Favorite Male-Male Author, sweeping an impressive field of contenders. Meanwhile, over at the Goodreads MMR Reader Choice Awards, Josh carried home a hefty bundle of awards including:
Not to be outdone, readers over at Love Romances Café showed Josh some more love, bestowing its "Best Mystery/Romantic Suspense/Thriller Book" award on Snowball in Hell, as well as giving Josh and co-contributors Harper Fox, KA Mitchell and Ava March an "Honorable Mention in the Best Anthology" category for their Men Under the Mistletoe collection. RARE JOSH STORY "Cards on the Table," a novella that only appeared as part of a two story anthology years ago is finally getting a new lease on life, courtesy of Just Joshin,' Josh's new e-publishing imprint, and is now available through all the usual suspects. Besides being revised slightly, the new standalone e-book edition will feature a great new cover (see below). PICTURE THIS! Congratulations to Karen Kapszukiewicz, the winner of the "Cards on the Table cover art contest. Like Josh says, "Karan's blue boy conveys that SoCal snappish heat and sun-dazzled water of mid-summer. And of course...the blood-spattered tarot cards. A big Thank You to Karan for her wonderful submission!" EVERYDAY WILL BE LIKE A HOLIDAY As everybody knows, the holidays can be Hell, so who would think on again, off again, up and down Adrian and Jake would have it so together? Or do they? Check in with our favourite boys as they chill over pizza and beer at LAX, waiting to embark on a little Holiday journey of their own, in this exclusive interview... DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? Listen up! Men Under the Mistletoe, the new seasonal smasheroo featuring new stories by Josh Lanyon, Harper Fox, Ava March and K.A. Mitchell, is now available as an audio book from audible.com. JOSH GETS SMASHED For those of you not on Kindle or Nook, Josh is making his self-published titles available through Smashwords.com in a variety of formats including .epub, .pdf, .pdb, .lrf, .rtf, etc. FREE PIRATES! Still putting off reading the Adrien English series? All Romance Ebooks will be offering Death of a Pirate King as a free download for 48 hours starting December 19th. WILL AND TAYLOR 'FESS UP Wondering what Will Brandt and Taylor MacAllister, the hunky heroes of Josh's Dangerous Ground series, are up to? Get it straight from the Special Agents' mouths, as they take time off from their jobs at the Department of Diplomatic Security to answer readers' questions in an exclusive interview over at Jessewave. SIGN OF THE TIMES Want Josh to autograph your ebooks? Impossible, you say? Not so, loyal reader! Many of Josh's titles are now available on Kindlegraph. For more info go to http://www.kindlegraph.com/ and see what the fuss is about. GET A CLUE! To mark the upcoming holiday-themed anthology Men Under the Mistletoe, featuring new stories by Harper Fox, Ava March, KA Mitchell and Josh Lanyon, Carina Press is hosting a Scavenger Hunt. The hunt begins November 15 and will run until December 2, ending at midnight. Who knows? You could win a $100 gift card to the e-book retailer of your choice. (Hey, you could buy an e-reader for that!) Two entries will also be randomly selected to win a free download of the Men Under the Mistletoe anthology. To enter just visit Josh's "Lone Star" page starting November 15, and hunt down the websites of Harper, Ava or KA to answer the easy-breezy questions based on the Men Under the Mistletoe anthology stories. SMALL DEATHS FOR SALE For one week only JCP Books is holding a pre-order special. Get the final batch of Petit Morts -- or the entire seventeen story collection -- at significant savings thru October 24th. TRICK OR TREAT! October is a big month for fanyons. Mummy Dearest, the first in a new comic adventure series called The XOXO-Files releases October 4th from Samhain Publishing. You can see the new book trailer on our Video page. Also from Samhain this month, the print edition of All She Wrote, the second book in the Holmes & Moriarity series, is on sale through Amazon and Barnes and Noble on Wednesday October 5th. At the end of the month and just in time for Halloween, the final batch of Petit Morts will launch from JCP Books . There will be a whopping seven titles this time around from Jordan Castillo Price, Clare London, and Sean Kennedy. The novelette "Just Desserts" is Josh's offering. The Irregulars anthology, with Josh's contribution, "Green Glass Beads," is available for preorder this month through Blind Eye Books. Why do you want to preorder your copy of this anthology by award-winning authors Nicole Kimberling, Ginn Hale, Astrid Amara, and Josh Lanyon? Because if you preorder from Blind Eye you also get the ebook for free. That's right. Both print and ebook version for the price of one! Just specify which file format you'd like when you place your order through this link. ISSUES WITH NOOK? A number of you have asked about missing ebook titles on nook. There are apparently ongoing issues with Barnes and Noble as far as titles mysteriously dropping off the Nook catalog. This is not specific to any author or genre, it seems to be randomly across the board. So far (it's been well over two months now) and there has been little progress in getting the situation resolved. We just wanted to let you know that we're aware of it and Josh's publishers are aware of it, and we're hopeful B&N will eventually get the situation straightened out. We are still trying to list independently published titles like In a Dark Wood and The French Have a Word For It. DEAD RUN COMING Dead Run, the fourth book in the Dangerous Ground series, will be coming September 13th from Loose Id, but you can check out the excerpt and watch the book trailer right now. NICE OM U ALLEN TE ONTMOETEN! Goed nieuws!Josh has signed with Merc Books, the Netherlands-based publisher, for Dutch translation of the Adrien English series. Fatale Schaduwen (that's Fatal Shadows if your Dutch isn't quite up to scratch) will be released sometime in September. Look to this page for more info. THE EMPEROR'S NEW DUDS Of course the biggest news of all is our brand new and totally revamped website! Hope you enjoy it. Take some time to look around. There's lots to see! FOOD OF THE GODS Good news! The second batch of Petit Morts is now available in print. Food of the Gods features Josh's stories "Critic's Choice" and "Sort of Stranger Than Fiction" as well as offerings from Jordan Castillo Price and Sean Kennedy. Check the Books pages for more info. LIKE YOUR MAGIC ROUGH? Josh riffs on the Thin Man films with This Rough Magic, the first book in a new lightly comic A Shot in the Dark mystery series set in 1935 featuring San Francisco playboy Brett Sheridan and tough guy PI Neil Patrick Rafferty. IT'S MOVING DAY Josh is moving his blog from LiveJournal to blogspot. Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly. When we're all done and unpacked, we'll order pizza and beer... MISSING YOUR SHORTS? Don't you just hate when THAT happens? Three of Josh's early short stories (In a Dark Wood, A Limited Engagement and In Sunshine or In Shadow) are now available as e-books through Barnes & Noble nook, Amazon Kindle or as PDF files through this site. Just go to each individual page and you can order them directly. OH YEAH? WELL, TAKE THIS! Come writers and prophets... Josh is now doing a monthly writing m/m column at Reviews by Jessewave. The Size of It runs the second Tuesday of every month. IT'S ALL HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARY Three projects Josh was involved with last year made the American Library Association's first inagural Over the Rainbow booklist: Strange Fortune, The Dark Tide, and The Golden Age of Gay Fiction. In other library news, Library Journal has also listed Fatal Shadows and the entire Adrien English series as one of ten must-have titles in any Male-on-Male romance core collection. NOW HEAR THIS His for the Holidays is now available as an audio book at audible.com. LC CHASE COVERS JOSH! The winner of the In a Dark Wood cover contest is LC Chase. Look for the book to re-release in January 2011. Head on over to the In a Dark Wood page to see LC's winning artwork. |
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