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Bug’s Brilliance

thunderchikin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:55:39 +0000

Brilliance Audio has posted info about the audiobook for Soul Enchilada. It will be available on CD and MP3 for a variety of markets.

audio on-sale date
4/7/2009

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Soul Enchilada
by David Macinnis Gill Read by (to be announced)

Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed
978-1-4233-8225-6

7 Compact Discs - 8 hours (unabridged)

MSRP $87.97
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Not yet available for shipment.

The exclusive right to sell anywhere in the world in the English language only

Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Unabr Lib Ed
978-1-4233-8227-0

1 MP3-CD - 8 hours (unabridged)

MSRP $39.97
Quantity:

Not yet available for shipment.

The exclusive right to sell anywhere in the world in the English language only

Publication Date: 4/7/2009

YOUNG ADULT: Eunice “Bug” Smoot was thirteen years old when her grandfather put her soul up as collateral on his dream car — a classic 1958 Cadillac Biarritz. Now, five years later, Papa C is dead and buried, and Bug is trying to make it on her own by delivering pizzas and staying one step ahead of her landlord. And then the repo man arrives. Only Mr. Beals — stinking to high heaven of rotten eggs and sporting leathery wings — is not just any repo man…just as Pesto, Bug’s longtime unrequited crush, is not just any car wash attendant. Set in El Paso, Texas, this debut novel is peppered with car chases, basketball, a séance, true love, immigrant agents of a totally different sort, and, oh yeah, the Devil himself. Mostly, though, it features an irrepressible, memorable, wisecracking, absolutely fearless main character who will stop at nothing to win her freedom and protect her free will.

Soul Enchilada Cover

thunderchikin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:59:01 +0000

They say that every book has a story. If that is so, then the story behind the making of Soul Enchilada will start and end with the design–and the evolution of the design–of the cover. The folks at Greenwillow have worked on this puppy for months. In July, my editor said that they had gone through a hundred of ideas, and I bet in the meantime, they went through that many versions once again. Lucky me, all I had to do was smile, because every version they showed me was terrific, and I knew if they were putting that much effort into one cover, I was one very lucky debut author.

I love the typography (dig the horns), the flames, and the tagline, the devils is in the details. The way the purple bug is framed by the tridents makes me laugh, and it brings a touch of humor to what could be a scary cover.

Wordle to Your Mother

thunderchikin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:37:20 +0000

LJ friend and fellow YA author Debra Garfinkle posted a link to Wordle, which makes word art out of a text file. Like Debra, I seem to be obsessed with the word “Said.”