Eyes on Special Mystery Project X

While Marianne was sipping strawberry margaritas in Mexico (Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And not that I’m jealous or anything.), I was taking new photos outside in snowy twenty-something degree weather for Special Mystery Project X (which you will be hearing about soon, but until then, which will be referred to as…Special [...]

Indy Booksellers FTW

We authors all love independent booksellers. LOVE THEM! You know why? Cause they really care about books. So I was super excited to have GAMER GIRL be selected for the American Bookseller’s Association Indie Next List.

The Indie Next List, drawn from bookseller-recommended favorite handsells, epitomizes the heart and soul of passionate bookselling. Independent booksellers [...]

We are so Ghetto Fabulous*

This just in. Writerpal Alisa Kwitney called to tell me that she’d received the latest issue of the SFFWA organization’s magazine, and that Marianne and I were mentioned as being authors to watch out for in the urban fantasy/paranormal romance subgenre.
SFFWA stands for Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Inc, [...]

Marianne speaks at Massachusetts Library

For those of you who live in Massachusetts or Southern NH, please come see me at the Haverhill Public Library tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm. Info is below:
Local Author Returns to her Roots to Kick off Teen Read Week
Mari Mancusi, author of the hit teen book series The Blood Coven (Boys that Bite, Stake That!, [...]

“…my Too Short Skirt and socks would like to thank the academy, but without my brain, none of this would be possible…”

Warning: Pictures of short skirts and thigh high socks below. 
I found out a couple of days ago that my book Wired (the prequel to Irreversible) won 1st Place in its category of the FF&P Prism Awards, followed by one that said it also won Best of the Best. My first reaction was to blink rapidly.  Then I smiled.  Then I burst [...]

It’s Video Wednesday. (Yeah, I know we don’t have a Video Wednesday. But we do have fresh video.)

Fellow author Leanna Renee Hieber was over doing some writing the other day.  I needed to shoot a video for the Dorchester promo site, and then I decided she needed to shoot some video too.  The results, below. (Don’t you just LOVE the frame Vimeo auto-picked for hers?  *giggle*  Leanna, I SWEAR I had nothing to do with [...]

ZOMG – GaMer Girl!

My editor was sweet enough to send me over a couple of advanced final finished copies of GAMER GIRL – my November YA release. Gamer Girl is my first ever hardcover novel so I’m particularly proud/excited!
So proud, I had to take a couple photos of my new baby!
Here it is! Sitting at my desk at [...]

Wanted: Man to fix time anomalies. Must be able to splice seconds and manipulate minutes at above average pace. (New video)

Today is Book Release Day, the most exciting day in It’s All About Me* Week. To celebrate, below we have blurbage and brand new video (!)
I wrote Irreversible as a book that could be enjoyed without having read Wired, but for those of you who did read Wired and cried at that one part (I cried [...]

Rebels of Romance Take Romantic Times

We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog for a little blatant self promotion…

Be sure to check out the September issue of Romantic Times Magazine this month to see our cover story! Yes, we made the cover! Well, technically it’s Lori Foster’s book on the cover, but we made the sidebar cover. Good nuff 4 me.
Anyway, [...]

Barb @ Publisher’s Weekly

The delightful lovely wonderful Barbara Vey, Publisher’s Weekly romance blogger extraordinaire, mentioned Liz and I and the Dorchester Live the Romance photography competition in her blog today. Go forth and comment!!
Marianne