Daily Dish

ALESIA HOLLIDAY'S NEW HOME!

2008-11-24T19:41:00.004-05:00

Hi all! It was costing me a fortune to park a bloated website filled with not-so-recent books in cyberspace, so until the release schedule for Alesia Holliday comedies is back in the pipeline, you'll be able to find me here.

CONTACT INFO:

Email: alesiaholliday@gmail.com
Mailing address: PO Box 600024, Jacksonville, FL 32260

RIGHTS INFORMATION:

Lori Antonson
Foreign Rights Director
The Axelrod Agency
55 Main Street, PO Box 357
Chatham, NY 12037 USA
(518) 392-2100 - phone
(518) 392-2944 - fax
lori@axelrodagency.com

And please be sure to check out my new personality at AlyssaDay.com. Thanks!

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Blog hiatus

2007-03-19T09:23:00.000-04:00

I'm suddenly on a moved-up deadline and will be going no-post on this blog. You can catch up to me at my Warriors of Poseidon blog or over at Literary chicks. happy March and April!
Alesia

National Bestseller!!!

2007-03-07T15:01:00.000-05:00

Wow! I just heard that ATLANTIS RISING hit the Bookscan bestseller list for the week ending March 4th, before it was even officially released!! Woohoo!! Thank you to every single person who bought a copy!
Alyssa, happy dancing!

It's RELEASE DAY!!!

2007-03-06T17:57:00.000-05:00

ATLANTIS RISING is the featured March romance novel for the Borders/Waldenbooks group!! They say:

For her first paranormal romance—and the first in a series—Alyssa Day (aka Alesia Holliday) plumbs the depths of the sea and her fertile imagination to create the lost world of Atlantis, where powerful, profoundly sexy warriors have taken an oath to protect humankind should its end be near. Conlan, the High Prince of Atlantis, has been sent above to retrieve Poseidon's trident. He surfaces on an Earth populated with vampires, witches, and shapeshifters: some fighting to save mankind, some plotting its destruction. As a Warrior of Poseidon, he is forbidden to desire a human, but when he meets a woman with an uncanny psychic connection to him, his desire is strong enough to break any rule.

In stores now!! Woo hoo, happy release day!
hugs,
Alesia/Alyssa

Day 2 of 14 days of December

2007-02-22T08:20:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was exploration - what works? what doesn't? what should I keep, but maybe rearrange? Today is back into the work. The trick with a funny mystery is to walk the fine line of balance between the serious main plot and the humorous secondary plots. I ask myself on every page: is this advancing the plot or deepening character? Or, in the best cases, doing both? When the answer is no, the scene has got to be cut, no matter how clever or witty I think the dialogue is. Story is all, and readers deserve the best.

Oh, if you're interested in reading an interview with me, go here. See you tomorrow!

The 14 days of December - in February

2007-02-21T10:06:00.000-05:00

Okay, I'm taking a page from the lovely Jenny Crusie and her very funny blog and starting the 14 days of December. That's December Vaughn, star of my funny, romantic, suddenly a bit paranormal mystery series. Because I have to finish her next book, BLONDE JUSTICE, before my lovely editor comes hunting me with her pitchfork.

So here's the issue. I have a wonderful new character, and he's trying to take over the book. Looking at it, I may have let him, a little. So I need to cut him down to size. Is it my fault that I'm having more fun writing a psychic astrologer who looks and sounds a lot like Alan Rickman than I am writing a lawyer? I know, I know. Discipline. Back to the ripping and rending.

New cover art!!

2007-02-07T19:46:00.000-05:00

for December's next book, coming out in August

The black pit of despair

2007-01-23T14:52:00.000-05:00

I am currently vacationing in the black pit of despair, the hellhole I visit at least once every book, where I'm sure I'll never finish it. I keep calling out to random passersby to throw donuts down. Maybe I'll survive, just rounder.

We confirmed the number of guests for my daughter's seventh birthday party at the dreaded Chuck E. Cheese. I'm making goody bags for the parents that involve sample packets of Tylenol and airplane-sized bottles of booze. Seriously. (And, also, how is my baby turning SEVEN?)

A new me, part 2

2007-01-11T08:30:00.000-05:00

Check out my post at Literary Chicks today for an update on the healthy challenge and a tribute to a wonderful author, Gerri Russell, who is the queen of persistence!

Happy New Year!

2007-01-03T14:13:00.000-05:00

Stop by at Literary Chicks on January 4th for my description of the new year and the 2 new me(s), if you have a chance. I'm busy finishing BLONDE JUSTICE, the second of the December Vaughn mysteries, for everyone who has been asking when her next book will be out. The depressed psychic astrologer who showed up wanting to sue over Pluto being demoted from planet status had the entire law firm in an uproar. And then Jake came back from being out of town only to find out that an old crush of December's from high school is circling around.

Oh, yeah, and there's that pesky dead body. December just can't catch a break . . .

the cookie exchange

2006-12-17T21:56:00.000-05:00

Oh, yes, you're going to love this story!! Go check it out at Literary Chicks. WARNING: It may make you major league hungry for cookies . . .

The care and feeding of writers!

2006-12-10T16:15:00.000-05:00

We're launching a fun week at Literary Chicks where our husbands are taking over the joint. Stop by and see what Navy Guy has to say about the Care and Feeding of Writers!

huMONgous holiday giveaway!!

2006-12-01T19:00:00.000-05:00

Wowser! Head over to Literary Chicks for the scoop on how to win this amazing holiday prize basket filled with more than $200 worth of goodies and autographed books! Good luck!

Book Club Shout Out!!

2006-11-29T08:58:00.000-05:00

I'm very pleased and honored to announce that my book, BLONDES HAVE MORE FELONS, is the featured December book club read at Jennifer Crusie's Cherry forums! We're planning to have tons of fun all month, and I'll be on the boards answering questions especially during the week of December 1st through 7th! So please stop by and join the discussions and learn what in the HELL I was thinking to even make it LOOK LIKE poor Daisy the dog died in the book . . . [OFFICIAL DECEMBER VAUGHN MYSTERIES DISCLAIMER: NO DOGS DIE IN THE MAKING OF THESE BOOKS!!!]

hugs,
Alesia

Happy Thanksgiving!

2006-11-25T15:23:00.000-05:00

Since one of the blessings I'm most thankful for is my incredible luck having readers like all of YOU, I wanted to share a few of my holiday moments:

Science Boy in his favorite spot

The square pumpkin pie - I forgot until after the oven was preheated and the mixture was mixed and the crust was ready that I didn't have a pie pan any more . . .

Princess and her newly pierced ears and missing tooth

And the wonderful leg lamp ornament from A CHRISTMAS STORY that my darling husband found for me. "Must be Italian!"

I hope (for my U.S. readers) your holiday was filled with joy and too much pie and very little family drama!
hugs,
Alesia

My pug dogs

2006-10-16T10:21:00.000-04:00

Because people keep asking: This is Daisy (the apricot on the right) and Peanut (the fawn on the left), my furry babies. Daisy will be three on December 4th and Peanut will be one December 5th.

edible wedding dresses - the new craze?

2006-10-13T08:50:00.000-04:00

Let them eat cake - and wear it too!

Happy happy cover art dance!!!

2006-10-12T14:01:00.000-04:00

My evil alter ego Alyssa Day is doing the happy dance - check out her almost-final cover art (they're still planning to add a cover quote) here!

And the new website pages are in the works - can't wait!!!

There was karaoke

2006-10-11T09:40:00.000-04:00

Which is actually rather fun, in a scary way. Please see my post at the LC today on scariest karaoke songs - and worst songs in general!

Because I really need new boots

2006-10-10T17:51:00.000-04:00

And seriously, aren't these adorable?? I'm thinking one pair of each.

New Jersey

2006-10-10T11:31:00.000-04:00

So you evidently can't turn left in New Jersey. This is what? Everybody in the state broke their left turn signal at the same time? Some sort of political statement? Whichever it is, it meant an extra 20 miles in my years-long drive to the New Jersey conference Friday while I had a blonde moment and had to figure out the turn-right-to-turn-left conundrum.
Yeah. Like I said, blonde moment.
Anyway, pics are worth a thousand, and all that, and since the novella is due (how did that HAPPEN?? Wasn't I just finishing another book? Seriously, I'm looking into that space-time continuum rupture any moment now . . . )

Random thoughts

2006-10-04T09:10:00.000-04:00

Check out my post at Literary Chicks for random thoughts - I'm on my way to New Jersey for their fabulous conference and hard at work on the novella plus copyedits for ATLANTIS RISING, so life is a bit crazed . . .

A great reason to eat chocolate . . .

2006-09-25T16:18:00.000-04:00

The 2006 Pink and White M&Ms campaign is scheduled to run from August 15 through October 31, 2006, with Masterfoods promising to donate 35 cents for each 14-ounce package and 50 cents for each 21.3-ounce package of the candy sold during that period. Again, no mention has been
made of a maximum donation cap for this year.

So get your chocolate fix for a good cause!

How I nearly got kicked out of Colonial Williamsburg

2006-09-25T01:37:00.000-04:00

The problem was that my young son and even younger daughter were standing there watching the enactment where they were threatening to tar and feather a loyal supporter of the King for speaking out against Patrick Henry and the Revolution.

The problem was that they dragged the guy over to a post RIGHT IN FRONT OF US and pulled up his shirt and had a bucket of hot tar and my daughter started crying.

So naturally I couldn't stand for that. There may have been boos. Perhaps words like "If your cause is so weak that you can't allow dissenting voices to be heard, then you've already lost" may have been said. (To my surprise, one of Patrick Henry's cousins did come up and shake my hand and say "thank you," so that was cool.)

Then we ate ice cream and talked about how precious our freedoms are and how lucky we are to have them.

Wonderful place. We're definitely going to go back.

And don't get me started on Busch Gardens and HalloScream. To a Halloween junkie like me, it was wonderful!

Talk like a pirate!

2006-09-19T09:59:00.000-04:00

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Which I'm doing quite well, since I have a miserable cold! And in other news, the cover quotes are rolling in for ATLANTIS RISING - I'm so excited! Or, I would be if I didn't feel like warmed-over death.