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Team Kornetsky Update: the cover for FIXED is here!

Since Amazon got the jump on me, without too much further ado, the cover for FIXED, the second Gin & Tonic mystery…. When someone from the local animal shelter approaches her about finding  grant funds that have gone missing, Ginny Mallard convinces her bartender friend Teddy Tonica to help her investigate once again. They soon [...]

Heart of Briar is up for pre-order!

You know, if you have a desire for such a thing.   He has been taken. And you are his only chance.”  That wasn’t something Jan expected to hear-especially from strangers who’d just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn’t expected her rescuers to be shape-shifters….  Now it turns out [...]

Boosting the Signal on the S&S Situation

What situation, you ask?  This one. This Saturday I saw the New York Times article Barnes and Noble/Simon & Schuster Dispute Said to Hurt Sales. Later in the day, a high-up Simon & Schuster executive also linked to that post from his Facebook account, saying that yes, this is what’s going on. Another article about it [...]

First Look: HEART OF BRIAR and SOUL OF FIRE

Ladies and gentlemen, readers of all ages… ….your first look at the Portals duology!   The truce is broken. The portals are open. The elves are coming. Save your world, early and often.   coming in August!     and, for those of you who can’t wait, a hint of SOUL OF FIRE, the second [...]

Reposting the good news from late December, for the New Year.

from Publishers Marketplace: “Laura Anne Gilman’s SYLVAN INVESTIGATIONS, a two-novella set about a half-human, half-faun PI, investigating cases that fall between the cracks of the magical and the mundane, to Jacqueline Smay at Plus One Press, for print rights only.” Yes, these are the Danny novellas we Kickstarted.  Yes, I am pretty damn pleased.  :-) [...]

In which I’m getting the hang of this new-fangled multi-prong publishing world….

So, the last week of the year probably isn’t the best of times to announce a deal  (nobody’s around to cheer) and I’ll probably re-announce it come January, but the details have been hammered out and I’m pleased to say that PlusOne Press will be doing the trade paper edition* of Miles to Go/Promises to [...]

Welcome, welcome to L.A. Kornetsky!

There’s nothing like the panic of waking up and thinking OMG NEW BOOK TODAY! If I ever get blasé about that, please hit me. Because EEEEEEEEE! *manages to hop in excitement and shudder in concern, all at once* And yes, launching a new identity AND a new series kind of cranks both sides of that [...]

TourKornetsky launches with some velocity…

Thanks to the offices of a good friend who -despite gas rationing and shortages- was still willing to drive me to the airport at oh ack thirty, I made my flight with a minimum of stress. And we apparently had not a tailwind but a shake-your-tailwind, because we beat the predicted arrival time by a [...]

Something Not Mysterious…

From the fantasy WiP draft, in which our heroine has an encounter with a Jenny Greenteeth, a river sprite, and we have a moment of levity before the storm breaks…. ————- “Relax, human,” the river spirit said, still grinning. “I’m no brownie-man, to begrudge you your place in the court. She uses us as she [...]

Delighted Author Dance: “an underlying strength that elevates it…”

Yeah, it’s sort of been “all mystery all the time” here, and that will probably continue for another month or so.  But there will be stuff on the fantasy front soon too, I promise! —————– So, everyone loves it when a reviewer – a professional critic – likes their book. But honestly, the thing that [...]