DARK LORD BLOG TOUR! Watch the pavement sizzle...

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DARK LORD BLOG TOUR!  27 sites in 10 days

Rowena and the Dark Lord are off for a 10 day blog tour across North America! Follow along and watch the pavement sizzle. Warning: some of the sites are HOT!

April 28

Dragonwell Publishing
http://dragonwellpublishing.wordpress.com/ 

Mesdames of Mayhem
http://mesdamesofmayhem.com/2013/04/28/comedy-writer-falls-right-over-the-cliff-melodie-campbell/ 

April 29

Rosanna Leo’s Room
http://rosannaleo.blogspot.ca/2013/04/melodie-campbellrowena-and-dark-lord.html?zx=66e5fb06f61bf3a9 

James deBenedetto – Writing Dreams
http://writingdreams.net/?p=401

The Story Behind the Book

http://thestorybehindthebook.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/the-story-behind-rowena-and-the-dark-lord/

May 1

CyberLaunchParty
http://www.cyberlaunchparty.blogspot.ca/

The Dark Phantom

http://thedarkphantom.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/5-questions-with-melodie-campbell-author-of-rowena-and-the-dark-lord/

As the Pages Turn

http://asthepagesturn.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/read-a-chapter-rowena-and-the-dark-lord-by-melodie-campbell/

 May 2 

Beyond the Books
http://beyondthebooks.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/character-interview-cedric-the-dark-lord-from-melodie-campbells-rowena-and-the-dark-lord/

Tara Maya
http://taramayastales.blogspot.com/2013/05/just-released-rowena-and-dark-lord.html

May 3

Pat Flewwelling
http://www.ninedaywonder.com/2013/author-spotlight-melodie-campbell-time-travelling-funny-gal-with-the-criminal-mind

Straight from the Authors Mouth
http://straightfromtheauthorsmouth.blogspot.be/2013/05/straight-from-mouth-of-rowena-and-dark.html

May 4

Goodreads

http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/4121278-5-questions-with-melodie-campbell-author-of-rowena-and-the-dark-lord

Interview on Blogger News

http://www.bloggernews.net/129125

The Writer's Life

http://thewriterslife.blogspot.be/2013/05/why-book-tours-are-expensive-more.html

May 5

First Chapter Reveal on Mom Blogger’s Club

http://mombloggers.ning.com/profiles/blogs/first-chapter-reveal-rowena-and-the-dark-lord-by-melodie-campbell

Jim Callan
http://www.jamesrcallan.com/blog/

Another Draught
http://anotherdraught.blogspot.com. 
 
May 6

She Writes
 http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blogs/meet-melodie-campbell-author-of-the-comic-fantasy-rowena-and-the

Gloria Ferris
 http://gloriaferrismysteries.blogspot.ca/

May 7

Red Room
 http://redroom.com/member/mayra-calvani/blog/meet-melodie-campbell-author-of-rowena-and-the-dark-lord

Rosemary McCracken
 http://rosemarymccracken.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/melodie-campbell-on-writing-comedy/

Marta Chaussee
http://www.martachausee.blogspot.ca/

May 8

American Chronicle
 http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/301765

Book Marketing Network
 http://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/interview-with-melodie-campbell-author-of-the-comic-fantasy

Tammy Smith
http://www.sassyvixenpublishing.com/2013/05/wildandwickedwednesday-presents.html?zx=36f326e8f225fd36#.UYujg8pJRD8

May 9
http://clswinney.wordpress.com/

HUGE DARK LORD LAUNCH GIVEAWAY! 10 Authors (no, we're not giving away the authors...) 15 books and $50 gift card!

ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD LAUNCH GIVEAWAY! Many thanks to the authors who contributed for this terrific giveaway. Click below to enter. WARNING: Many of these books are HOT! a Rafflecopter giveaway

IT'S HERE! ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD, book 2 in the Land's End fantasy series

Now available: ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD! book 2 in the Land's End fantasy series. Reviews:
"Game of Thrones Lite"
"The Princess Bride with Sex"

 For a very limited time, ebook available at the special introductory price of .99! (will retail at 3.99)

Paperback coming soon.
http://www.amazon.com/Rowena-Dark-Lord-Lands-ebook/dp/B00CIZZS70

"Swords, sex and comedy...can it get any better than that!" Former Editor Distant Suns Fantasy Magazine

 

  AND THERE'S MORE! Cyberparty with HUGE giveaways on MAY 1!  Details coming soon.

COVER REVEAL! ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD, release on Sunday

Reviewers of the Land's End series said, "This is Game of Thrones Lite!"
We listened.
Here is the very Game of Thrones cover for
ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD!
Book 2 in the Land's End series
Available April 28

Burn Baby! Teaser from ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD, available April 28!

There he stood, maybe 10 feet away, hands on hips, like a minor god. His back was to the sun. I had forgotten how powerfully built he was, the size of his arms, the square of his shoulders. The way his legs stood apart, the large torso balanced on massive thighs. He wore a green tunic and no armor.

God, he was magnificent. Even now, even after all my time alone with Thane, I couldn’t help this feeling. There was something about Cedric that reached right through me and drew me like a moth to fire.

Burn, baby.

Melodie Campbell Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Awards!

"Life Without George" published in the Aug. issue of Over My Dead Body Mystery Magazine is a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Awards for Crime Writing in Canada!

In other news:
ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD, book 2 in the Land's End comic fantasy series, launches on APRIL 28.  Cover reveal coming soon...

Many thanks to reviewers who called this series "Game of Thrones Lite."  We've listened, and the cover will reflect this direction. Designer Ryan Doan ROCKS!

SELLING OUT TO HOLLYWOOD (comedy writer butchers reality)

I read one of those self-help books the other day, and I’m beginning to realize why I’m not getting very rich.  (For one thing, I’m not writing self-help books.)  It is patently obvious that nobody is going to get wealthy writing humour for newspapers unless they roll up the paper and whack somebody over the head with it during the course of a bank robbery.

So I’ve decided to switch media here and become a screenwriter.  I’m a natural.  I can sit in those funny collapsible canvas chairs just as well as the next guy, and besides, I know hundreds of unbelievable plots; I follow BC politics.

So here goes: for my first screamplay <sic> I’m going to do something made for TV; specifically one of those romance-suspense-action-thriller-northern-southern-civil war epic-type things, maybe a miniseries.  It would have everything – sex, violence, sex, betrayal, sex, revenge, sex - and maybe even some dialogue.  It would star a ravishing but thoroughly spoiled female lead, maybe called Sapphire.  Here’s a preview:

Sapphire flings herself up the sweeping staircase, catching bottom of skirt on knob of banister.

Sapphire (yanking at fabric):  Go away, Rot!  Just go away!

Rot:  I’m going, I’m going.  But one last thing, Sapphire honey, I’ve got to know.  How do you manage to go to the bathroom with that bloody hoola- hoop attached to your skirt?

Sapphire (rolling downstairs on her side):  Don’t go, Rot!  Please don’t go.

Rot (doffing hat):  Frankly Sapphire, I don’t give a hoot.

(From outside, several barn owls hoot.)

I predict a blockbuster.  But just in case, I have a second one planned.  It’s a 1960s historical spy flick, based on the true-to-life adventures of very bad people who might possibly be Russian.

First Spy (possibly named Boris):  Gee comrade, do you theenk perhaps we are raising peeples suspicions speeeking English with Russian accent?

Second Spy (also named Boris):  Especially seence it is very BAD Russian accent, comrade?”

Okay, so it needs a bit of work, and maybe some more sex.  I’m thinking of calling it Czech-mate. And if we bring it forward to modern times, the possibilities are endless.  What about a ‘Spy of the Month’ reality series?  Boris could live in an LA frat house with nine other comrades named Boris, and the survivor…

Or I could go back to writing for newspapers.