{"id":104,"date":"2008-12-02T14:14:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T22:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-12-12T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T00:41:23","slug":"ravenous-romances-lauches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/ravenous-romances-lauches\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravenous Romance lauches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"snap_shots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenousromance.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #86b9d3;\">Ravenous Romance<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" class=\"snap_preview_icon\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; background-position: -1128px 0px; min-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 0px; left: auto; float: none; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.58.1\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); visibility: visible; max-width: 2000px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; padding-top: 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; cssfloat: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.58.1\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/a> is the\u00a0brand new publisher that will be publishing my first novel <em>Sex, Lies &amp;\u00a0Wedding Bells<\/em> (in January). Their website\u00a0just went live on Monday. Warning: their main page is NSFW!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"snap_shots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenousromance.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ravenousromance.com\/images\/stories\/RR_728x90_launch.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There had been a lot of negative talk about this publisher on some of the writers&#8217; boards and that has put a damper on my excitement about getting a contract offer for the first novel I dared to submit anywhere. But now I&#8217;m eagerly anticipating seeing my book featured even if it&#8217;s only for a day.<\/p>\n<p>But I think the site looks very nice and they have a decent number of books and stories to start out. It seems each book gets featured for a day, and as I mentioned before, each novel is also available as an audiobook.<\/p>\n<p>So far, they&#8217;ve only got one novel and one story for their <a class=\"snap_shots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenousromance.com\/panamour.php\"><strong><span style=\"color: #86b9d3;\">Panamour<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" class=\"snap_preview_icon\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; background-position: -1128px 0px; min-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 0px; left: auto; float: none; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.58.1\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); visibility: visible; max-width: 2000px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; padding-top: 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; cssfloat: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.58.1\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/a> category, which is what they are calling their LGBT offerings. I guess it&#8217;s less competition for me, but it also means that they won&#8217;t be a magnet for the readers that particularly like that category. I have to work a lot harder to get people over there, I guess!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nice inteview with Holly Schmidt, one of the founders (and my editor). <a class=\"snap_shots\" href=\"http:\/\/lustbites.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/all-about-ravenous-romance.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #86b9d3;\">All About Ravenous<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" class=\"snap_preview_icon\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; background-position: -1128px 0px; min-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 0px; left: auto; float: none; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.58.1\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); visibility: visible; max-width: 2000px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; padding-top: 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; cssfloat: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.58.1\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I admit, I haven&#8217;t purchased anything over there yet, but if any of you do, please let me know what you think of the story or novel. And make sure to save $4.99 for my book when it&#8217;s available next month, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravenous Romance is the\u00a0brand new publisher that will be publishing my first novel Sex, Lies &amp;\u00a0Wedding Bells (in January). Their website\u00a0just went live on Monday. Warning: their main page is NSFW! There had been a lot of negative talk about this publisher on some of the writers&#8217; boards and that has put a damper on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,19],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ravenous","tag-sex-lies-and-wedding-bells"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-1G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}