I now have a publishing contract!

[Wordmaker]

I've been announced as the winner of a contest for a publishing contract with WiDo Publishing:

http://karenjonesgowen.blogspot.com/2011/04/w-is-for-wido-publishing-and-winner-of.html

Rock on!

[Vryce]

Gratz! that is all sorts of Awesome sauce!

[Snowleopard]

Congrats that is awesome.

[Magnus]

Congratulations

[Wordmaker]

Thanks everyone! I'm going to be doing a lot of online promotion as I'm based in Ireland and WiDo are in Utah, so I'll be making announcements as and when they happen!

[Vryce]

Can we get a short little thing on what its about, i understand urban fantasy...
if i have to wait till it comes out... so be it

[Wordmaker]

Sure!

Nathan Shepherd is a man haunted by dreams of past lives. Gifted with eidetic memory, he is drawn to patterns than others missed and finds himself obsessed with unusual occurrences and mysterious deaths. When he discovers a series of murders which have taken place over a hundred year period, he is certain they're connected. Searching for the truth, Nathan is drawn into the hidden supernatural world of New York, ruled over by a society of cruel immortals. In his quest to stop the killer once and for all, he learns more about his past and his true nature than he ever thought possible, but risks losing those closest to him along the way.

[LizW65]

Congratulations!  Sounds very interesting--will it be ink and paper or ebook?

[Wordmaker]

Both. It'll be availble in print and at the very least on the Kindle and the Nook.

WiDo Publishing distributes both in brick and mortar stores in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK & Ireland, as well as online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

[Aludra]

Very cool! Do you have plans to submit a Big Idea piece to Whatever.com?  I suggest looking into it if you don't.

(I know I'm not the only one who looks forward to those to find new books I'd never have learned of otherwise.)

[Wordmaker]

I haven't heard about that. What is it?

[Aludra]

It's a post that an author writes explaining the Big Idea behind their book.  It allows the author to have a dialogue with potential readers in the comments.  There are rules for submitting your book to it, but I can't find the post about the rules.  I beleive they're something like:

Request must be submitted by the editor/publisher.
The book must be getting released in the next x months.

This is a link to the recent peices.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/category/big-idea/

[Wordmaker]

Excellent, thanks! I'll check that out.

[Aludra]

You're welcome and good luck!

[Vryce]

Rading your blog on saw Dionaeahouse...
thanks for that.. great read