both the times she blogged, it was the rising of the sun

Don't forget - US readers can still get the third Monkey Queen book, Under The Stars Of Faerie, for 99 cents at Amazon.com! This is a Kindle Countdown deal, and it ends at 11:59 PM PST on Wednesday, July 29! We'll have more details this coming week on a special sale for all non-US Amazon stores! More after the cut.

We've discussed Awakened, the exciting debut novel from Darksbane Books' Shei Darksbane. If you head to the "From East Of Eden" blog, you can enter a contest to win a copy of the Awakened ebook AND a $10 Amazon gift card! This contest closes July 31, so enter today!

A reminder: You can also get all four Monkey Queen books as paperbacks! We're taking steps to change all four books to white paper stock for the interiors, and those new editions will be available in the next few days through Amazon. If you can't go through there and want paperback copies of any or all of the books, let me know and I'll get you a quote.

And finally, from the "weird calendar photo" department, heavy metal China Air stewardess mocks your in-flight entertainment choice.