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Still FREE, Still editing.

Julia Barrett — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:57:08 +0000

When I edit… I edit. There’s no stopping. I actually picked up supper tonight. Don’t usually do that. Plus Jake and I went for a two hour hike late this afternoon – until after sunset. It was sweet! And he’s being a lovely boy these days – really, I swear! Didn’t even snap at that vicious Teacup Chihuahua, Zini, when Zini attacked his toes. God almighty that little Zini is nasty.

The Artist and Is It Spicy? are FREE on Amazon through the 18th. Did I say FREE? Hmmm. Did I mention the books are FREE? The truth is I write to be read so please, go read! Should I remind you once more that the books are FREE? :)

I know I’ve scheduled my other free days too, just can’t remember the exact dates at this moment, aside from Incorporeal – Valentine’s Day, of course. I’m also hoping for a quick release of In the Flesh. Another round of edits to go.

Oh and I can’t miss The Big Bang Theory and Person of Interest.

And then it’s on to a serious topic. Red Bull.

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Lots of NEWS!

Julia Barrett — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:50:08 +0000

New cover reveal, new blurb, and a free book update…

To celebrate the upcoming release of In the Flesh, I have a brand new romantic look for book one of this two book series, Incorporeal – here’s a peek!

Sara Wise is sick of ghosts. They’ve haunted her since she was a child, destroying her family, endangering her life. When an incorporeal being appears in her shower, she curses him soundly and orders him out, but this ghost is sticky. Not only does he invade her shower, he moves into her home, invading her dreams, sharing her bed. The reluctant Sara finds herself falling in love with a dead man.
Despite Sara’s objections, Natan de Manua isn’t permitted to leave. Protecting the woman is both his penance and his means to redemption. She’s not easy to protect, she fights him nearly every step of the way, except in her bed. Nathan may have come to regain his soul, but instead he risks losing his heart.

So you wanted to read the blurb for In the Flesh, eh? It’s all yours…

Lightning in the middle of a blizzard? Dr. Sydney Blake knows such a thing exists, but this is the first time in all her life she’s experienced it. Has her truck been struck? Blinded by the flash, she slams on the brakes and dives from the driver’s seat, right into a snow drift. As a shivering Syd gropes to her feet, she keeps her eyes shut tight, praying she didn’t actually see what she thinks she saw in that flash of light… a golden giant standing smack dab in the middle of the road, right in front of her pickup. No way. Not possible. Or is it?

The big news - Incorporeal and all my other self-pubbed books, are available for free for Amazon Prime Members!

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Post game wrap-up.

Julia Barrett — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:29:40 +0000

So I watch the Superbowl for the ads AND the game. Gotta love the game. If only international conflicts were decided on the football field. Men could smash each other to their little hearts’ content, within the rules of the game. Yeah. Make football, not war.

There have been years when the ads were about a bazillion times better than the game. Not this year. I only enjoyed two and a half ads – the Chevy Mayan 2012 Apocalypse ad and the kid peeing in the pool ad – although I don’t have a clue what the kid was advertising. But the look of relief on his face was priceless. The half-ad I liked was the clip from the coming Avengers movie. Thor is such a freakin’ hottie and Tony Stark is so wonderfully snarky. Plus I’m a sucker for all things comic book. The movie will probably tank, but as long as I can look at Thor. Sigh. And who the heck is Scarlet Johansson playing? Oh, Black Widow. Meh.

Okay, got that outta the way. Now I must do some promo.

A couple friends posted some hilarious stuff, like pee your pants stuff. Here you go – Tom Stronach and Aaron Pound.

Hey, in preparation for the release of In the Flesh, book one, Incorporeal, is available for free on Smashwords and over at ARE. Go, upload!

My friend, author Casey Wyatt, has a dynamite debut paranormal romance – Mystic Ink. This is a really good read.

And here’s some news for all you Bostonians…sorry about the Pats. Dimensions, a U.K. entry, is the closing film for the Boston Sci Fi Film Festival – Saturday, February 18th. This looks like a great film. Lucky you Boston dudes and dudettes. Here’s some info:

Dimensions is a 1920s/30s sci-fi drama and revolves around a scientist’s obsession with going back in time, to revisit a moment from his childhood. It stars Camilla Rutherford (Gosford Park, Rome) and Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Harry Potter and the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Inbetweeners). Dimensions premiered at the Cambridge Film Festival (UK) and outsold (per screen) the UK premieres of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Help and Midnight in Paris - not bad for a micro-budget, independent film, with only word-of-mouth (we can’t afford a fancy PR agency!).

The trailer: http://youtu.be/pq3vwQywQ54

The website: http://dimensionsthemovie.com/

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The joy of real.

Julia Barrett — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:06:15 +0000

I don’t use the word blessed, because I don’t consider myself special, nor do I think God chooses to bless certain people while ignoring others. However, I can say that I have been fortunate enough to spend significant face time with two authors I’ve met on line.

A little over a year ago, author Mia Watts visited me. She and I first met in a superficial way via our shared publisher, but we really met when I read her gorgeous prose in Claimed By Darkness, and I just had to tell her how magnificent her writing is. Claimed is the only M/M romance I’ve ever read or, for that matter, will ever read. Just the facts, ma’am, no insult intended to all you readers of M/M. I compared her prose to Lord Dunsany. Wordy, evocative, lush, sensational…

Anyway, Mia let me drag her up a mountain, to the beach, all over our little valley. She’s the same in person as she is on line, genuine, funny, enthusiastic, loyal, sweet.

Now I’ve met author and book blogger, Penny Watson, up close and personal. I loved having her here. What you see over at her site or read in her books, is exactly what she is. Like Mia, she’s genuine, warm, funny, enthusiastic… not quite as sweet, she’s a bit on the spicy side! And it’s funny, we originally met over food, and man, we ate some great meals (Morimoto anyone?) during her visit. She read my contemporary, Beauty and the Feast, and contacted me. The circular nature of author interactions is really very interesting!

I’m amazed I’ve had the opportunity to meet two such talented, creative, intelligent authors. They are exactly what the genre needs to show the world that romance is not for dummies. Penny’s most recent release, Sweet Magik, is a thinking woman’s Christmas romantic fantasy, i.e., librarian soft porn, as it was recently referred to in The Paris Review. Damn girl, that kind of publicity is priceless! Green with envy here…

Anyway, Penny, I am so glad you came! Missing you already!

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For Tom – Rrrrrrrripped!

Julia Barrett — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:41:16 +0000

No way is this real. I swear…no….way on earth is this real. Tom, is this what I meant? Seriously?

Where’s the deflate tab?

Author Penny Watson and I managed to get one hike in today, another is scheduled for tomorrow and then it’s off to a couple wineries and an olive oil tasting.

We’ve been emailing each other between bedrooms! Ha!

All right, nighty-night. I am beat!

Oh, finished up with In the Flesh. Will get to edits later in the week. Love, Julia

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