Crystal Green - One Author, A World of Stories

January 2012

How’s the new year treating you all? I hope it’s filled with only positive things. (I don’t know about you, but one of my resolutions was to always tell myself that I can accomplish what I set out to do. Ideally, I’ll get more done than I ever have before. )

Remember last year, when I had all those releases? Well, you’ll find that the 2011 scheduling has cut into the amount of books I’ll have out this year, LOL. At this point, my release schedule isn’t even solid—although I’m hoping I’ll have two to three Special Editions on the shelves (including a new SE series in May called St. Valentine, Texas!), plus one Blaze. I’m also working on some independent digital releases, though, and I’m very excited about what’s in store. I can’t announce any of those projects just yet, but I hope that you’re connected to my Twitter accounts (CrystalGreenMe and Christine Cody, for you urban fantasy fans) and/or Facebook (Chris Marie Green and Christine Cody). I still have my blog running, as well as my newsletter from the crystal-green.com site, too! It’s going to be a fun future, and I want to keep writing for you.

Even without a release until May, I’m going to be busy with a burst of appearances during February and the first part of March. I hope I get to see some of you at them! Here’s the schedule:

•    February 18, Saturday, 10:15, San Diego: world building panel at the San Diego RWA chapter meeting with Jillian Stone (AN AFFAIR WITH MR. KENNEDY) http://rwasd.com/chapterMeetings.html

•    February 25, Saturday, 8:30-3:30, Long Beach, CA: Passion and Prose reader’s event (check out the web site—Christina Dodd, Meg Cabot, and Gail Carriger are headlining, and there’ll be about 50 authors who are dying to meet you, including me!) http://www.passionandprose.org/

•    March 2 – 4, Friday – Sunday, San Diego: ConDor convention (panels to be announced, but please check the site for updates at http://www.condorcon.org/)

•    March 10 – 11, Saturday – Sunday, Tucson, AZ: Tucson Festival of Books. One panel Saturday (2:30, “Who Loves You Baby? Embracing the Bad Boy Hero”) and one Sunday (10:00, “Villains, Vixens, Vipers: The Role of Evildoers”) http://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/

I especially encourage you to check out Passion and Prose as soon as you can. It’s the first annual event, and it’s put on by the amazing Mysterious Galaxy book store, so it’s sure to be fantastic. You get to do “speed dating” with authors, which is going to give you lots of one-on-one time! If you go to www.passionandprose.org right now, you can sign up and assure yourself a spot.

Do you have enough to read this year yet? The reason I ask is because I’m giving away a priority-rate box full of new books from a store I visited during a going-out-of-business sale. : ( I snatched up a bunch of stories because I knew there’d be someone out there to give them love, so come on over and enter my latest contest!

So far, here’s what I know of my upcoming 2012 releases...

• COURTED BY THE TEXAS MILLIONAIRE, St. Valentine, Texas, Book One, Special Edition, May, written as Crystal Green

But watch for news on book two (which boasts the temporary title of THE TEXAS RANCHER’S SURPRISE BABY) and book three (which I have yet to write, but the proposal pages go by the title of THE COWBOY’S PREGNANT BRIDE). As for Blazes, I’m hoping there’ll be one out by the end of the year; it’s the first in a two-story series I’m calling “Naughty Bridesmaids.” The miniseries title kind of speaks for itself, doesn’t it? For Christine Cody and Chris Marie Green readers, we’ll have to see what comes down the pike soon (I’ve got projects waiting on some desks.), both in print and digitally....

Here’s to a spectacular 2012, you all—I look forward to celebrating every success with you!

Cheers,