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Hope everyone's having a lovely holiday season!. I want to say, thank you so much everyone who commented here! Sure, I could have just quietly written a check to HI or Kiva.org, as I have in the past. But you helped make that little bit of holiday giving social and connected, which made it both more fun and more meaningful to me. The total: 47 comments (3 added by Facebook) plus $5 generously added by my friend Jim. That takes us to $52... enough for the chicks and the geese, but not quite en...

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Just wanted to plug my Holiday Giving Challenge post. For every unique comment I get there by tomorrow night, I'll donate $1 to a great cause, so please click through and make me donate. I'm really enjoying the comments; I think it's a fun way to make holiday giving a social. :-)

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Okay, I was inspired by Nathan Bransford's awesome holiday challenge, in which he and several authors pledge to donate $1 to Heifer International for each unique comment their blogs recieve. (Go on, click the link and comment--make them donate!)  After commenting to Jennifer Hubbard's post, I decided to try it too.

If you feel like taking a moment to do so, please comment below with any wish or hope you have for 2010. Or, if you don't feel like revealing a wish, you can just say hi. Or leave ...

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I haven't blogged for awhile, so here's a quick update of what I'm up to and Whisper news.

1. Book Bloggers: Harmony's 1 ARC Tours is featuring Whisper, so please sign up for the tour here. Edit: 22 people had already signed up today, so I'll very likely be adding a second ARC to the tour.

2. Had a great time at a cookie-decorating party last night. Kudos to the hosts for getting two very different types of techies to mix and mingle: theatre tech people and software developers. Most popular...

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When I found out about Agent Appreciation Day, I knew I wanted to participate, because my agent Jim McCarthy is awesome. And I’m a naturally snarky person, not so much the gushes-with-praise type. But I have to make an exception for Jim.

His notes make my manuscripts wa-hay better. His email response time makes me suspect preternatural reflexes or alien technology. He understands me on the phone, even when I’m slack jawed and, relatedly, incoherent. He somehow knows when it’s time to check i...

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Want a free advance review copy of Whisper? All you have to do is click here to enter this giveaway. If you win, I'll send you the book, signed, along with a personal card wishing you a happy new year. Feel free to repost this anywhere. I love Goodreads giveaways. :-)




Joy is used to Hearing Whispers--to walking down the street and instantly knowing people's deepest, darkest desires. She uses this talent for good, to make people happy and give them what they want. But for her older sister...

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I'm working on the material for my author site, and I can't help but notice that whenever I start to work on my bio, I'll end up deciding to close the document and go on to something more fun. Like scrubbing the toilet bowl or writing synopses.

I'm not a total wuss or anything. I can write a short bio--as a writer you have to do this for yourself constantly, and I'm used to it. But it's one thing to write a few sentences for a conference presentation or the back of your book. It's another thi...

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Thanks to the Washington-State-area Tenners who braved the gray weather yesterday to show up at Bellingham's Village Books for lunch and good conversation. It was wonderful to meet you in person and talk books (and process)! I foresee some joint bookstore signing events in 2010. :-)

Clockwise from the left: Karen Kincy, Denise Jaden, Mindi Scott, Caitlin Kittredge, Chelsea Campbell, Kim Derting, and me, Phoebe Kitanidis.

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Here's what Robert carried home from the West Seattle farmer's market just now. This gorgeous red kuri squash will be sacrificed Thursday morning to make our "pumpkin" pie. More and better flavor than a real pumpkin.





And this cheese, by our local Port Townsend Creamery, is called New Moon. Yes, heh. The seller told my husband that someone down in Forks just had 50 pounds of it delivered, presumably for promotion purposes. :-)

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That's me, attempting to become one with the picture of Joy on WHISPER's cover. Did I mention I love my ARCs?

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