Just wanted to let you all know that Keri is running a fun "Aussie" related contest on her site, go to this link for details: http://www.keriarthur.com/contest.html

Yes, here's the link to the audio CD at amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073932 … oding=UTF8

No questions, just a comment: so far I own and have read "Dancing With the Devil", "Hearts in Darkness" and "Chasing the Shadows" and they were all AWESOME! I just bought a copy of "Kiss the Night Goodbye" as AS SOON as I finish with that I'm going to read "Beneath a Rising Moon" which my roommate is reading right now and so far loves it. SO GREAT to see you on this site, which I'm sure a lot of your fans are on and will be so psyched to see you on too! I do not know how so many people waste their time with the nothingness of television when there is so many really great books out there. Thanks!

SWEET!!! I get to start reading another author!! WOOHOO!! Man I would love to go to an RT convention....guess I'll better kick my duff in gear!!  Hiya I'm JamieD. I'm a biblioholic. There is no 12 step program....I'm so screwed....

The Busboy wrote:

Hi Kez!  How was the RT convention?  Are you going to the Houston, Texas one next year?

RT was fantastic. I've never been to one before, but they always looked like great fun, and it was.  It was a hell of a plane trip to get to daytona from melbourne, mind--we were actually flying for 24 hours, and awake for 35! But I met lots of my fav authors, chatted, did signings, and had a good time admiring the many costumes at the nightly themed dances. I'm definitely going to houston next year--and I'll be bringing tim tams for those who like that little biscuit.

Sounds like a blast, so like how many authors were there? and how many different book titles did they give away?  What is your writing schedule like?  How many hours a week do you write?  Do you write during the day or night?  What is your favorite kind of subject matter in books?

Cool post Keri, thank you for the insight!  What are your favorite kinds of paranormal characters?  Which of your books is your favorite that has special meaning to you, and why?  Which of your character(s) is your favorite?  Do you identify with any one of your characters the most?  (you know, a character that would be the most like yourself?)  Regarding that RT Convention, it sounds unbelieveable that they give that many books away, that's so wild (JamieD would like that a lot I'm sure).  What was the total attendance number for that convention?  Was it huge?  Thousands of people?

kez wrote:

well, at the bookfair on saturday there would have to have been well over 200 authors sitting there and signing. And most of the major paranormal and urban fantasy authors were there all week. I couldn't even guess at the number of books being given away--everyone who registered was automatically able to pick up ten books of their choice. And there was books being given away at most of the morning mixers and many of the parties. I know people who came home with 50 or more books, most of them the latest titles. If you're a bookoholic, if was a dream

50 or more books?! That's crazy, that's worth the trip alone! Not to mention meeting your favorite authors! I smell a roadtrip next year...Houston or bust! Also, thanks for answering all of these questions. And good questions Busboy!

FREE!!!!???!!!! as in no moola??!!! GARK!!!! I so have to look that shindig up!! THAt is Major coolness!! I'll put my clothes in the small bag and my FREEE BOOOOKKKKKSSSS in the huge luggage!!!

I recall reading a story...one mind you ...of the loch ness. It was shown in a favorable light of course, being a friend of the hero. In fact, I was watching a discovery channel show about Nessie and Champ (the US monster) I do believe they had only one fuzzy but real photo of Nessie but not one of Champ. Of course, the eyewitnesses abound in both places with crazy cool stories about the sightings. Very interesting....I wanna read that one too when you're done writing it!!

kez wrote:

my fav kinds of paranormal characters varies depending on what I'm writing. Right now, it's werewolves that has taken the fancy of my muse, though the loch ness monster (she's a shifter, you know ) is fast coming another fav. Given there's no end to my wolf series in sight (barring bad sales), I can see me writing about weres for a while yet. If I'm reading other peoples books, I love shifters and weres. I'm actually not keen on a lot of the vampire fiction out there, simply because a lot of it tends to go too deep into the whole alpha male area (and I generally can't stand alpha males.) I know a lot of werewolf fiction goes into the alpha male thing too, but at least that's a little more understandable. They're half wolf after all

I guess my favourite characters (from my books) would have to be (a) Nikki and Micheal, simply because they were my first sale, and even today, five...six?...years down the track, I'm still getting emails saying how much people loved them. Which meant I obviously did something right there. My other favourite is Riley, because she's my breakout character. 

total number of people at RT would have been around 800. It wasn't huge, but it was great fun.

Cool, well I'll tell ya, you're in good company here with the fact that your muse likes werewolves right now, ha, ha, yes, good company indeed.  Do you do book signings?  Do you go on tour in Australia?  Have you ever been out and about and seen someone reading your book somewhere?  O.k., so 800 people at the convention, it seems like a fun crowd from what I know of it and the people I know of who go there.

The Busboy wrote:

Do you do book signings?  Do you go on tour in Australia?  Have you ever been out and about and seen someone reading your book somewhere?  O.k., so 800 people at the convention, it seems like a fun crowd from what I know of it and the people I know of who go there.

I've had one signing. The problem is, FMR isn't actually released in Australia--only America. Bantam own world english rights, but haven't decided to publish them elsewhere yet. So, the day I can walk into a bookstore and see my book sitting there still hasn't really happened. (Even when I went to the US, the walmart store I went into didn't have it--it was a bummer). There's a few stores here in Oz that do import it, and I have had a signing in one of those. It was cool

And yeah, RT is lots of fun

I hate to be dumb but what is a tim tam exactly??

I was also curious...how did you go about finding a publisher?