Great news! The Immortal Prince, Book 1 of the bestselling Tide Lords series is finally available in the USA and Canada.  (UK readers will have a to wait a little longer for the British edition, but you can purchase the series in the meantime through Amazon.uk if you absolutely can't wait.)

So... what is The Tide Lords about I hear you ask? Basically, it's about a suicidal immortal. That was my first choice for a title, actually - Suicide of the Immortals" - but my agent (and the publishers) balked at the idea of having the word "suicide" in the title. Despite my argument that The Virgin Suicides did all right, my pleas fell on deaf ears. Oh well.

The Immortal Prince turned out to be a very cool title, and the book has been a mainstream bestseller in Australia and I still can't believe nobody had thought of it until now...

Publishers Weekly had this to say about The Immortal Prince...

With snappy dialogue and deft characterizations, especially of her sympathetically drawn canine Crasii, Fallon neatly pulls the story threads together into a multihued tapestry of myth, deceit and ambition.

So... here's the blurb ...

When a routine hanging goes wrong and a murderer somehow survives the noose, the man announces he is an immortal. And not just any immortal, but Cayal, the Immortal Prince, hero of legend, thought to be only a fictional character. To most he is a figure out of the Tide Lord Tarot, the only record left on Amyrantha of the mythical beings whom fable tells created the race of half-human, half-animal Crasii, a race of slaves.

Arkady Desean is an expert on the legends of the Tide Lords so at the request of the King's Spymaster, she is sent to interrogate this would-be immortal, hoping to prove he is a spy, or at the very least, a madman.

Though she is set the task of proving Cayal a liar, Arkady finds herself believing him, against her own good sense. And as she begins to truly believe in the Tide Lords, her own web of lies begins to unravel...

You can buy the US edition here from Amazon

Or you can get it from Barnes and Noble

If you live in Canada, you can get it here

If you live in the UK, you can get it here.

You can get the German langauge edition here

And if you live in Australia (or the USA, or Canada for that matter) and haven't got it already, run straight down to your local bookseller and demand they get it for you, if it's not already in stock!

This is a four book series. The next book is The Gods of Amyrantha, will be out early next year, followed by The Palace of Impossible Dreams and then the last book, The Chaos Crystal, which is finished and delivered, so you can start the series confident in the knowledge that if I happen to get hit by a bus before you get to book 4, you'll still be able to find out what happened... LOL.

I hope you have as much fun reading this series as I had writing it.

 Here's a fun way to kill a few minutes while you should be working...

This meme is thanks to the wonderful G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.

I'm off to conquer something now. Have fun:)

I finally sent my Masters Thesis in today. It carries the bizarre title of: Introducing Mr Perky: Subverting the fantasy trope of immortality in contemporary speculative fiction.

Sonny Whitelaw had a better title. She's a real smartypants, so of course, she's already got her degree. Her exegesis is called: The Attraction of Sloppy Nonsense: Resolving Cognitive Estrangement In Stargate Through The Technologising Of Mythology

I started my degree in 2006. I was supposed to finish it in 2006. Oh well.

It's pretty much done, now, except for a couple of references I need to track down (for quotes I used back before I realised I needed to quote effing page numbers as well as all that other stuff when you cite something...). I won't say it's been fun. I think it's on a par with having my wisdom teeth pulled, actually. But I have made some marvellous friends along the way, who will be friends for life. That sort of makes all the pain worthwhile.

So, now all I have to sit back and wait for my supervisor to get back to me, tell me we're right to go, then get it bound and sent off for marking.

Having acquired the ultimate in USB powered geeky things, with my USB gloves, I started to wonder what else was ut there...

I can see I have some more shopping to do...

Behold, the USB aroma dispenser...

The USB ashtray (even thogh I don't smoke..but hey somepeople do)

The USB traffic light...

And the ultimate useless USB gadget... The USB Pole Dancer. I kid you not.

Happy Mothers Day!

Bloggin late tonight. Been up playing True Colours and Trivial Pursuit with the gang. Lots of laughing involved, and I won both games, confirming my status as the Queen of Useless Information. I Rule!.

And speaking of friends and fun, some of my friends have a twisted sense of humour. No, actually, that probably not true.

All my friends have a twisted sense of humour.

One such twisted individual sent me the following link in a fabuous long and detail catch-up email which I promise, Lynne, I will get around to answering.

In the meantime, click here if you want to talk to God.

Seriously:)