So Much Fabulosity

I totally forgot to announce the winner of last week’s giveaway. Mea culpa. The winner is: Emilia Argon at Comment 22!

In other news, I’ve added a new event onto The For Darkness Shows the Stars Release Extravaganza. (I’m sure it’s the first of many such add-ons.) This one is super-exciting and one I’ve wanted to do for a long time:

Reading at Lady Jane’s Salon

When: Monday, June 4, 2012, 7 p.m.
Where: Madame X, 94 Houston Street, New York, NY 10012, 212.539.0808, www.madamex.com
What it is: New York City’s romance reading series. Diana will be joining other authors (names TBA, but I know it also includes Mari Mancusi) and reading from For Darkness Shows the Stars. Admission is $5 or one gently used romance novel. Cash bar (with $5 drinks). Proceeds to benefit women in crisis / transition and books to HousingWorks charity bookstore.

Please note: Diana is still in negotiations with her publisher to see if she can get her hands on a few copies of FDSTS to sell pre-release at this event. As this reading is in a bar, Diana does not know the policy regarding young ‘uns. If you’re not going to BEA and you want to see Diana in NYC in June, this is the place. (There will be more NYC-ish events later in the year). And if you are going to BEA, think about stopping by here anyway, because it promises to be a blast!

Other tidbits of fabulosity for this dreary Wednesday: the For Darkness Shows the Stars swag has started to show up Chez Diana, and I’m doing a whole lot of snoopy dancing ’round these parts. I mean, seriously pretty (and also pretty delicious) stuff happening here. I can’t wait for the events to start! I’ve also been keeping a mondo extreme secret for the past few months that is alllllmost ready to roll out and that’s driving me rather nuts (I thought I’d share some that anticipatory insanity with you).

This is what happens when I don’t have a book out in two years, and lucky, you guys are the beneficiary of my overboardness. I didn’t do much for Morning Glory given its tie-in novelization nature, and Ascendant came out at the same time my baby did, so events and publicity were kind of shot. (I remember attending the Baltimore Book Festival for the Zombies vs Unicorns panel on my due date and Holly and Kathleen were a wee bit concerned I was going to go into labor right there (it was very warm, y’all)l. Fortunately, Queenie was as big a procrastinator as I am.)

Anyway, that was all a year and a half ago, and now I’m training Queenie to say “For Darkness Shows the Stars is a richly envisioned portrait of a society in flux.” It may take a while, seeing as how she’s 19 months old, but I can wait. After all, that dude on the Geico commercial taught his hamster to say “Row.” And if not, well, I’ll just settle for “Yay, Mommy’s book.”

For more in-depth analysis than one might get from a toddler, I direct you to this recent write-up of For Darkness on the cool Janeite blog, “From JA to YA,” which is devoted entirely to Jane Austen adaptations for the younger set. Yes, there are enough to devote an entire blog to them — how cool is that? Part review, part article on the nature of adaptations, and raising some very provocative questions about whether Persuasion can even be properly done for a YA audience (one of the questions that’s consumed me for the last two years, let me tell you!), it’s a must read.

Ooh, the sun is coming out. Maybe I’ll go out and try to coax my garden into not dying on me. I know I owe you a goals update post. Coming soon.