Release Date for Mechanical Magic

  I got my release date for my novella Mechanical Magic today. It will be available for purchase on February 8th, complete with the absolutely gorgeous cover by Anne Cain. I adore this cover to pieces, in fact its the background on several things now. I love how she made Aster look, and the hand is perfect. The background is complex and subtle in relation to the story.

It comes out a week before my birthday, which I think that might be one of my best birthday presents to date. I’m excited beyond words about this, and also incredibly anxious as well.  Suddenly its all here and there’s things to do and not enough hours in the day, or enough people to scrape me off the ceiling. However my best friend has promised rum and cookies to celebrate the release, which sounds great and like the start of a fine tradition. I will also have a Meet the Author even on the Dreamspinner Press Facebook page on February 11th, which I am also excited and nervous about.

Coffee at midnight

Its far too late, I’m knackered but I’m drinking an over priced yuppy cuppy cafe mocha when I should be sleeping. In my defense against the over priced coffee, I had a gift card from the holidays and a very lovely someone returned my keys to the people there and so I am grateful. Except that is not the reason for my late night battles against my current perpetual exhaustion.

I got the cover art for my novella today and I just about died, it was so absolutely gorgeous. It was more than I would have ever expected and had me dancing in my kitchen for five minutes instead of chopping onions. Not that I had a lot of expectations, but knowing Dreamspinner I knew it would be something good because I rarely ever saw a bad cover there. However this level of awesomeness I did not expect. I’m not an extremely visual person in general, so I didn’t have a clear or solid idea of what I’d like for the cover. What I got was beautiful and complex with an absolutely drop dead handsome man on it.

Also seeing my name and the title of the book on it is just a whole different thrill. Yet more legit-ness that just makes it real all over again. Perfect inspiration to write more. And since I have a cat on my back and he seems to have gotten comfy there, I suppose I’ll do just that.

So how does one start a blog?

So, I’ve been wrestling with how to start this thing for a long time. I’m bad under pressure like this, I can never think of anything at the time. My name is Lorraine Ulrich, I have a novella coming out with Dreamspinner Press sometime in the February most likely. Its a steampunk romance titled Mechanical Magic, which I’m still excited about. For the full bio you can go here which is newly added to the DSP website. I feel all kinds of legitimate now. :)

I have a love of cat and a fetish for angel wings. Serious fetish, there is just something about them that I can’t get enough of. I’ll probably expound on that later at some point. Trying to keep something in reserve for when I have to come up with other posts. I suppose I’m going to end here for the moment, because if I try to belabor this post I’ll never get it done.