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Welcome to the Website of Gail Dayton. May 23, 2009
January 10, 2009
So I'll leave y'all to read the excerpt, and I'll get back to work. K? Thx. November 4, 2008
Anyway, I sent out a bit of a newsletter somewhere in here--maybe right after I got home. But
I haven't sent out my excerpt yet, because of the hurricane. It hit Sept. 13, and pretty much scrambled
the next couple of months. That's coming up. I will indeed get the excerpt up soon, and give away the
book as promised. News! Oh! And here's the cover to New Blood! The more I look at it, the more I like it, especially because it's not like anything else out there. Read more about the book on the Books page. August 16, 2008
AND, I have ONE (1) copy of New Blood to give away to some lucky newsletter subscriber. I didn't snitch many copies from the book signing, and have managed to hang onto one for a subscriber prize, plus some island swag. (I generally collect most of the swag folks give to the reporters at my part-time dayjob, so I can share it out in prizes. Yeah, it's touristy junk, but it's cool touristy junk...) That's my shameless "Sign Up For My Newsletter" plug. Send me an e-mail with "Subscribe" in the subject line, and I'll sign you up. I don't send them out very often, so you definitely won't be inundated, and I put extra-special treats in them, like first looks at excerpts, or deleted scenes, and especially prizes to be won. So it's a good deal. Really. In the meantime, even though I don't have the cover yet, and I don't have my excerpt up yet, y'all can go see what I DO have on the new book on My Books page. May 2, 2008
I'm dreadfully sorry things are all in a mess, and I'll do my very best to get it straightened out ASAP. March 29, 2008 I've had some good news! (And if you read my blog you'd know it already).
It's a three-book deal, with Old Spirits (my title) scheduled in the spring of 2010, and the third book (which still hasn't got a title) set for the fall. That means I'll need to write fast, so I have time to get that third book written. Tor is one of my dream publishers. I love so many of the books they publish, and I'm thrilled to be working with them. January 17, 2008 The Eternal Rose has gone back for a second printing. 
So there's no excuse. You CAN get your very own copy. Y'all can buy it in your bookstore, or at
Amazon or Borders or Barnes & Noble online, or even as an e-book from Fictionwise, so
really, read it.
Yeah, I know. It's been, like, forever since I updated the website. But really, nothing new has happened. Except life, and that never stops, but it doesn't have anything to do with the books, which, I know, is why y'all have dropped by to visit my website. I'm busy writing away on new stuff but as far as I know, none of it has sold yet. So we're kind of in a holding pattern. I do update my blog on a more-or-less regular basis. (If I don't, the daughter nags me.) So if you want to keep an eye on what I'm doing, you can check by there. Or you can sign up for my newsletter. (E-mail to me with "Subscribe" in the subject header.) Admittedly, I send out a newsletter about as often as I update my website, but I put good stuff in it. I'm sending one out this week--or maybe next. And I do send the latest out for a couple of weeks after, to people who sign up late. If I don't get it sent out by 1 Feb 08, somebody send me an e-mail and nag me about it. I have "deleted scenes" to send! Of course, I'm moving to a new renthouse (one without stairs to the front door!) right around 1 Feb, AND that's Mardi Gras, so... Yeah. I'd better get it done before then, huh? (Oh yeah, I did update the pictures in my gallery finally. Check them out.) If you want to keep up with the very latest info about Gail Dayton, and the books I'm writing and what's going on, skip over to myblog. It's as much about my life as about the writing. Everyday sorts of things like my flowers or my painting, or my family. When things are going well with the writing, I do note it down, as well as the days when I want to beat my head against the desk. You're not going to get stories about me chasing shoplifters down the mall. I'm a writer. I spend my working days sitting in my office, writing stuff at my desk
(I'm one of those freakish throwbacks who writes first drafts in longhand.)
(Yes, I am insane.) (Rollerball pen on college-ruled looseleaf notebook
paper kept in colored manila folders, for those who simply have to know.
And I change from black ink to blue ink and back again every day, so I can tell when I
start and stop for the day.) and staring out the windows when the words
aren't coming. Stop by and say hello. --Gail Dayton
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I will be attending ApolloCon June 26-28 at the Doubletree Hotel at Bush Intercontinental Airport, 15747 John F. Kennedy Blvd., in Houston (between 1-1/2 to 2 hours away through Houston traffic--ick). Y'all might stop by and say hi, if you perchance are in the vicinity.
I am also participating in the Literacy Book Signing at the Romance Writers of America national conference in Washington, D.C. from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. July 15 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW.
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