Mary E. Pearson's Blog, page 22

Too much fun . . .

And I wish I could just play chopsticks--with my fingers!

And we're off!

The Miles Between Road Trip  begins!



The arcs are off, and here's the starting point-- Carlsbad, CA !  This is The Miles Between at the historic Leo Carrillo Rancho (well, historic in California terms) in Carlsbad, just a couple of miles from my home.  One of the reasons I chose this site to show off is because it is a very peaceful and beautiful place to walk or picnic (if you are ever in my neck of the woods) and also because peacocks make an appearance in The Miles Between and this is one of the

Road Trip! Road Trip!

Drumroll please . . .

And the first Road Trip bloggers climbing in the car are:



In the order that I picked them:

1. Jo Knowles!

2. Erika!

3. Chaney Bennett!

4. Sherwood Smith!
 

Hop in the car gang! Let's see the country and your neck of the woods!  Let me know the address where you would like me to send The Miles Between Tour Arcs and lets get this trip on the road!

Thanks to everyone who threw their name in the hat! I am going to keep the rest of the names to draw from in case someone along th

Around Blog Town . . .

An interesting discussion of ARCS at A Chair, A Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy.   I've visited several book clubs this past year, where guests show up with ARCS they ordered on Amazon and they had no idea when they were purchasing them that they  were not the finished books.  I think when you are in the book world you assume that everyone knows what an ARC is, but the vast majority of people do not. 

An interview with Alex Flinn about her new book A Kiss in Time is over at the YA Authors Cafe.  I love

Turtles, Geckos, and Mynahs . . .

oh my!

I'm back from a short vacation, where I shared a room with several geckos.  They were quiet fellows so I didn't mind.  Actually, I loved it.  And just outside our door were giant toads, mynah birds, egrets, and in the cove just steps away, sea turtles.  I didn't get a lot of pictures this trip, but I did take a few for wallpaper on my computer. I like to use those throughout the year to at least mentally take me away. I will post those in a few days for anyone who might want some tropical

Wow!

I am so excited that so many of you are ready to kick off The Miles Between Road Trip . 

Now you really have me curious--there were a lot of you who said you already had possible "pictures" picked out.  Hmm.  I wonder . . .

There is still time to throw your name in the drawing if you want to be one of the "kick-off" road trip bloggers.  You can find more information about it in my last post   HERE.


Hope you are all having a relaxing weekend.  I am nursing a sore shoulder from being a little too exu

Road Trip! Road Trip!

We're going on a road trip!  No, not me--the ARC!  The Miles Between ARC is headed out on a cross country road trip starting here in San Diego and ending up on my editor's desk in New York City by publication day on September 1st!
 Since THE MILES BETWEEN is an unusual road trip story, my editor and I decided it deserved an unusual road trip of its own.  And this is where YOU come in.  THE MILES BETWEEN is going to see the country!  And there are lots of miles between San Diego and New York to se

Humungargantuan cotton balls . . .

I've had a lot of great book visits in the last week and I hope to get pics posted soon but I had to ask a quick question about this:

I saw these gigantic cotton balls hanging from a tree outside the Coronado Library and I felt like I stepped inside a Dr. Seuss book.  You'd think being in California I would have seen these before but I haven't.  What are they?  Or maybe I DID step into Seussland? 
 

In Living Color . . .

The last several days have been crazy busy (aren't they always?) but I've been meaning to get this picture up ever since my sister sent it to me. As some of you know, I have peacocks in my neighborhood, so pictures and sightings of them always catch my interest.

But none of them in my neighborhood strut around like this guy (yes, it is a guy--the injustice of nature) and I almost didn't think this was a photo when I saw it--it looked like a drawing:


I am not much of a photographer. For me it is

Friday Five . . .

1.  Sometimes even four cups of coffee do not get your butt in gear.

2.  Sometimes the people you expect the least from surprise you and give you the most.

3.  Will the picky bluejay who keeps brushing all the seed out of the birdfeeder to get to his "favorite" seeds, kindly stop?  There is more seed on the ground now than in the feeder.

4.  Excited about the paperback cover.  Very different from HC, but I love it.  Out in August I am pretty sure.

 

5.  Warm weather, patio time, and pizza tonight.