Claire Gillian

And here she is, finally!! The cover and back blurb for my novel, The P.U.R.E., to be released by J Taylor Publishing on or around 4/16/2012. Woo-hoo!!

No one ever said Gayle Lindley’s first job would be a killer.

Fresh out of college, Gayle’s career path should follow the yellow brick road straight to the top. Thanks to a menial errand gone wrong, a wayward tongue, and a randy supervisor who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, Gayle’s stuck in corporate hell.

Discovering a company secret only turns up the heat.

The one part of her life not going down in flames is her friendship with the gorgeous but intensely private, Jon Cripps. Jon would make the perfect consolation prize for Gayle’s pity party if dating a co-worker wasn’t career suicide. Then again, with all Gayle has been through, maybe falling in love is the lucky break she needs.

Hitting the cool sheets with Jon soothes her mind and body, but it also enrages whoever’s behind the smokescreen she’s uncovered at work. Someone is willing to kill to protect their secrets, and Gayle and Jon are the targets.

With both her heart and livelihood at stake, Gayle’s early career-limiting moves could turn into life-terminating ones.

Blog post from J Taylor Publishing: The PURE

I added my long awaited NaNo widget to my ROW80 stats page, but I don’t like seeing 3 yellow blocks in week 2. My daily average dropped below 1667, mostly because I took yesterday to edit vs. write new material. Still, I ended up writing new material for my novel so I counted that for NaNo and that’s all that kept me at yellow and not red for yesterday.

I have next week off though and plan some major writing then…after I get a new driver’s license. Glerg. Wonder if I can still pull off subtracting twenty pounds…hmm.

I got my two weekly blog posts done plus one to grow on.

Only ONE more day until I can reveal the cover and back blurb for my novel! Woo-hoo!

I received my cover for my other pen name’s Christmas anthology day before yesterday, but, alas, I cannot yet reveal it until we work out the attendant fanfare amongst the contributing authors.

[[Begin Rant]] I’m happy to note that there are only ten contributing authors, which means for the FIRST TIME, I won’t be left off the author list for the work at Amazon. I can’t tell you how disappointing it is to finally publish something, but because the publisher didn’t include your name in the info sent to Amazon OR because you were the eleventh or higher contributor, you got left out in the cold. Amazon policy. I’ve challenged it already with tepid at best results. Searches on my pen name will bring up my author page but NOT my anthology. If you go to my author page, there is a link to my anthology but who goes there looking for books by an author? I don’t. I look at what the search results bring back. Ok, I’ll end my ranting now. This has just really hurt my already-stomped-into-the-dust-just-getting-to-publication writerly feelings and I gotta vent (yet more than I already have). [[End Rant]]

My goals and current stats for this round are on my ROW80-4 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports. Give them some encouragement too.