I'm Giving It Away For Free!

Giving It Away For Free
(the only time Momma would approve)
I'm giving it away for free the entire month of June. That’s right. A book a day, every day in honor of my latest book release Giving Up the V. All you have to do to is sign up for my newsletter and you are entered to win. Enter once and you are in the running to win a book every day in the month of June.

I have a fresh, new look to my website and have moved there permanently. I blog over there in the Advice for Young Ladies section. I will keep this blog up as an archive but you may want to switch your bookmark to http://www.serenarobar.com/

Thanks!

Cover for Giving Up The V

Check out the preliminary cover for Giving Up The V. Pretty cute, huh? Another midriff book. I am beginning to refer to all my books as The Midriff Books. The last four books have all had the midriff model. What is happening to these poor girls heads? Some sort of free floating photography accident run amok?

Look at me with Felicia Day...

...the talented actress, writer and producer of The Guild.  She also played Penny in Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog.  Picked up a copy of The Guild this weekend at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle and can't wait to see all the groovy behind the scenes stuff.

Working on my next book proposal as Giving Up the V has past the revisions and edit stage.  Look for it in bookstores on June 9, 2009.  

New book coming in Summer 2009

I have a new book coming out with Simon Pulse in the summer of 09 entitled "Giving up the V". Here is the blurb from PW.

March 24, 2008
Children's: Young Adult
Serena Robar's GIVING UP THE V, about one sixteen-year-old who swears she's nowhere near ready to "give up the V" despite being surrounded by a forward thinking mother and sex-obsessed friends, to Michael del Rosario at Simon Pulse, by Holly Root of the Waxman Literary Agency (world).
This is a departure from my usual paranormal fare but I am excited to do a contemporary YA. This is a candid, hilarious view of high school today and I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. I imagine the tagline of the book reading something like this "Will she or won't she?"

At first I knew the answer to that question but as I get to know the characters better and delve deeper into their psyche, I am beginning to question my decision. So, will she or won't she? Now I'm not so sure. Stay tuned to find out.

PS- And I apologize to my readers who have been hounding me about the next installment in my Psi Phi house series. At this time the publisher has no plans to continue with Colby and Piper's adventures but I will be the first one to tell you if things change. I would like to continue on with something new set in the same setting of PSU (Puget Sound University AKA Paranormal Supernatural University or Para Super U) but my fingers can only type so fast. :)

Great sense of humor required

This is probably not the first time you have seen these clips but if it is, here is the set up. Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimbell having been going out for going on five years so for her anniversary present to Jimmy, she rolls this clip...on his late night talk show.



A month later Jimmy exacts his revenge at his post Oscar show with this clip.



I can't help but imagine Ben and Matt's daughters as teens, surfing the web and they stumble across these videos. I imagine the horror on their faces at the thought of anyone bleeping their dads or contemplating their dads having sex at all. No matter if you are the sexiest men of the year, your kids will always think your having a sex life is the grossest thing ever.

Also, how funny would it be for Jennifer Gardner to buy the bumper sticker on Harrison Ford's car (selling on ebay) and putting it on the back of her vehicle?

I love a good private joke and love it even more when I am included. Kudos Jimmy and Sarah!

-Serena

They are back to writing and I am back to blogging

This will be a short post as I have to join my son at his coop preschool today. Very happy the writers voted to ratify their contract and go back to work. The part about the writer's strike that really bugged me is how the media (owned by the people the writer's were striking) kept saying the writers were asking for more money on internet content and downloads. Since they were getting absolutely NO MONEY for these things that seems very misleading. They just wanted what was fair. In a couple of years I doubt anyone will be watching their favorite shows on traditional television. I know I don't now. I watch all my stuff online. And I even own a tivo.

So I am very happy the writers are creating and giving us the shows we love. Think of all the times you quote a line from a show and you don't even know who the brilliant mind was that wrote that episode. Very sad. I wish they would always put the writers in the credits (which is rarely done). I follow my favorite actors to new series and shows. I watched Firefly because it starred Gina Torres who I discovered from Xena: Warrior Princess. That's when I fell in love with Joss Whedon's work and proceeded to watch all the Buffy episodes in 3 weeks one summer.

I never would have discovered the brilliance that is Joss save for following one of my favorite actresses to her next job. I feel the same way about the entire cast of Firefly. I watch Chuck because it stars Adam Baldwin and I watch Terminator: The Sara Connor Chronicles because it stars Summer Glau. And I will watch ANYTHING with Nathan Fillion in it.

I would totally follow my favorite writers to whatever show they were working on. Hell, that's why I love Chuck Lorre and all his work. He's brilliant. Then I found him on the internet. I now know he was the guy who wrote all the programs that I thought were so funny. That is how a fan base is built. People wanting to connect with their favorite actors, writers, authors, etc and learn more about them and their work.

So welcome back writers. We missed you.

Will not blog until writer's strike has ended and the WGA gets to go back to work