Doomsday Won’t Wait Any More
Apr 28th 2009
LoriHandelandLori Handeland & On Writing!
Today’s the day! Doomsday Can Wait hits the shelves.
I have loved writing this series. Love the heroine, Liz Phoenix, love the heroes, Jimmy and Sawyer. Love finding and fiddling with new “creatures” for Liz to either fight or adopt into the federation.
Since the first book, Any Given Doomsday, was released a lot of readers have wondered if there’ll be more of Sawyer–the Navajo shaman. And in this book there is. Because Sawyer’s mother, the Mommy Dearest of all time, is back and she has decided Liz needs to die.
Yeah, good luck with that.
I’ve always loved action movies, thrillers, things that move along. So when I write, I try to make my books reflect that.
Doomsday Can Wait starts off with a bang and keeps rolling from there. Eloisa James told me once that these books are “like Gothics on speed.” I thought that was perfect. Thanks, Eloisa!
I’ve brought a little excerpt for you today of DCW. You can find the rest on my website, along with a fabulous book trailer produced like a graphic novel.
Let me know what you think.
Then run right out and get your copy of Doomsday Can Wait!
DOOMSDAY CAN WAIT-
On the night all hell broke loose—again—I was working a double shift. The evening bartender had come down with a case of the “I’d rather be at Summerfest” blues, and I couldn’t walk out at the end of my scheduled hours and leave Megan alone to deal with the dinner rush.
Not that there was much of one. Summerfest, Milwaukee’s famous music festival on the lake, drew most of the party crowd. A few off duty cops drifted in now and then, they were the mainstay of Megan’s business, but in truth, Murphy’s was the deadest I’d ever seen it. Hell, the place was empty. Which made it easy for the woman who appeared at dusk to draw my attention.
Tall and slim and dark, she strolled in on dangerously high heels. Her hair was up in a fancy twist I never could have managed, even if my own hair were longer than the nape of my neck. Her white suit made her bronze skin and the copper pendant revealed by the plunging neckline of her jacket gleam in the half-light.
Megan took one look, rolled her eyes and retreated to the kitchen. She had no patience for lawyers. Did anyone? This woman’s clothes, heels, carriage screamed bloodsucker. In my world, there was always great concern that the term was literal. I nearly laughed out loud when she ordered Cabernet.
“With that suit?” I asked.
Her lips curved; her perfectly plucked eyebrows lifted past the rims of her self-regulating sunglasses, which had yet to lighten even though she’d stepped indoors. I could see only the shadow of her eyes beyond the lenses. Brown, perhaps black. Definitely not blue like mine.
The cheekbones and nose hinted at Indian blood somewhere in her past, as did the dusky shade of her skin. Mine was the same hue. I’d been told I was mixed race, but I had no idea what that mix was. Who I’d been before I’d become Elizabeth Phoenix was as much a mystery to me as the identity of my parents.
“You think I’d spill a single drop?” she murmured in a smoky voice.
How could something sound like smoke? I’d never understood that term. But as soon as she spoke, it suddenly became clear to me. She sounded like a gray, hot mist that could kill you.
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21 Responses to “Doomsday Won’t Wait Any More”
amy1242 on 28 Apr 2009 at 5:31 am #
It’s on my list of things to do today! I love your writing because it just flows. I also love the settings, being from Wisconsin, it’s fun to hear about places I’ve actually been and can picture it in my mind perfectly. I’m looking forward to reading this book! Congrats and good luck!!
Margaret on 28 Apr 2009 at 7:00 am #
Congratulations, Lori. A bit of fine reading there. It seems like a big release week for several of our goddesses. I need to pitch a tent at the doors of B&N.
Lori Handeland on 28 Apr 2009 at 7:01 am #
Thanks, Amy!! This book starts in WI as you can see by the excerpt. Then moves to New Mexico and several midwestern states. I love writing about places I’ve seen.
Lori Handeland on 28 Apr 2009 at 7:01 am #
I’m off to the store this morning myself, Margaret. I love visiting my book and need to pick up a few others.
Claudia Dain on 28 Apr 2009 at 7:49 am #
I love it! I’m off to Borders today to pick up my copy.
Suzanne, AKA Sabrina?
I’ll be buying yours today as well.
Pesky on 28 Apr 2009 at 7:55 am #
Lori Handeland on 28 Apr 2009 at 8:22 am #
Thanks, Pesky and Claudia.
I’m off to Borders right now and then to B & N and then . . .
Well, then I have to hit the grocery store, which isn’t half as much fun.
elsiehogarth on 28 Apr 2009 at 9:11 am #
Lori, I already have my copy, in my hot little hands, since I just got back from B&N with my order of books. I keep hoping that you will add the hotest man on this planet-Will Cadotte-in one of these books some day. You know how much I love that gorgeous Tai Chi Professor from Blue Moon.
Yasmin on 28 Apr 2009 at 10:09 am #
I am going to the mall this morning with my friend which is why I am up early Hehe. Will definitely get her to stop at the book store for me. Maybe even convince her to start reading romance novels
Nicole Jordan on 28 Apr 2009 at 10:10 am #
DCW looks so exciting, Lori! I’m off this afternoon to B&N, whohoo!
Samantha on 28 Apr 2009 at 10:37 am #
I loved, loved, loved Any Given Doomsday, so I can’t wait to get this book in my hot little hands!
Suzanne Enoch on 28 Apr 2009 at 10:43 am #
Woo hoo! I’m hitting the bookstore this afternoon, to turn all the goddess books face out. It’s going to be quite a task today. *g*
Lori Handeland on 28 Apr 2009 at 11:06 am #
Great, Elsie!!
Will may show up somewhere, someday. He’s such a great character.
Go, Yasmin. Bring us another convert!
Thanks, Samantha. Hope you enjoy DCW as much.
Thanks, Nicole!
Do it, Suzie! I found a great dump of your titles at B & N today. So cool.
Julia London on 28 Apr 2009 at 11:23 am #
Congratulations, Lori!
Madeline Hunter on 28 Apr 2009 at 11:27 am #
I sent DH out yesterday to buy all the new goddess books. I’m on deadline hell so I don’t get to play in stores for a couple of weeks. But he took care of it for me.
That is a really good little excerpt. I love how you slid in the descriptions without actually describing. There are already some questions I want answered, so of course I can’t wait to read the book.
Lori Handeland on 28 Apr 2009 at 11:35 am #
Thanks, Julia!!
And Madeline’s DH! LOL! What a sweetheart. Mine would be lost in a bookstore. Poor man.
I’m glad you liked the excerpt. I really love this villain. Or hate her. Both. She was great, evil fun.
Gannon on 28 Apr 2009 at 1:37 pm #
I just got my copy of DOOMSDAY CAN WAIT at the bookstore! Woo Hoo! I’m in the middle of writing a book review for RNTV and I have a couple more to read and review, but I may have to take a break and read DCW first!
Louisa Cornell on 28 Apr 2009 at 3:09 pm #
YAY !! I LOVE the excerpt and now I HAVE to go out and get the book. I got the first one after you blogged about it here a while back. Haven’t had the chance to read it, but I see a Doomsday marathon in my near future. I have four days off starting Saturday. Maybe I can reward myself with Goddess reading for every few pages I write and every few things I clean in the this train wreck of a house. Read Write Clean . Read Read Write Clean. Read Read Read Write Write clean Read Read Read Read Write Write cl– oh hell, I need to read some more! You ladies are SUCH a bad influence on me!
Lori Handeland on 28 Apr 2009 at 5:03 pm #
Yowza, Gannon. Sounds great. Thanks.
Appreciate it, Louisa. If you run out of places to clean you can head on over to my place.
Yeah, that never works.
TinaLouiseF on 28 Apr 2009 at 7:29 pm #
Suzanne and Julia’s stories were not at either Borders Express or Borders.
I did find Rachel’s at Borders.
Lori Handeland on 28 Apr 2009 at 8:13 pm #
I found everyone’s but mine at Borders. Sigh. But at B & N not a new goddess book in site. I struck out.
Soooo–back I go tomorrow.