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25 Belated Random Things About Me and an Amusing Anecdote

So, long ago when everyone was doing that “25 things about me” on Facebook, I was tagged a billion times. This week I got around to actually responding. Below is my note.

1) I have a “bad hand.” It’s my right hand, and it has always been just a little…non-functional. When I was twelve years old and my brain tumor was discovered, I learned the reason behind said bad hand. Alas, the tumor was removed and bad hand was still bad. BUT the bad part of my brain (which I hadn’t even known was bad!) was g

Good News All Around (Except for When I Hear Tommy)

Thanks to everyone who gave ideas on how to better promote my book. Today I had a long talk with my awesome agent, Michael. Everyone has been super helpful. Now all I need to do is learn how to blog for myself. I’m almost there!

Meanwhile, this week I finished the first draft of my forthcoming young adult novel Back When You Were Easier to Love. I forget if I have mentioned this on my blog before, but in case I haven’t, this book will be coming out from Dutton in early 2011. Now I am one

In Which I Discuss Vanity Searches and Traditions

Hello again!
Here I am with my trusty scribe Julie. Coming at ya straight from her casa. My husband, Daniel, suggested we make a new “tradition” of meeting every Friday night. He and Reo play Rock Band. Julie and I blog. Funny thing is, Daniel isn’t really a “tradition” kind of guy. During our first year of marriage, whenever I mentioned starting traditions, he kind of brushed off the idea. Now he’s all for starting a Rock Band/blogging tradition so maybe it will stick. Julie and I tried

Happy Valentine’s Day, One and All!

Sorry that I never update this blog. Some of you may know I type slower than an untrained ape. So my sister is typing this for me. Thanks, Julie!
This has been an exciting week for Em-Dawg. First off, I finished a very rough draft of my newest YA novel. Which is good because I was supposed to turn it in last month. It still needs some polishing before it is fit for my editor but it’s almost there. Woo hoo! Second, I’ve been substituting for a special needs class in the mornings. Emma, a

New Year, New Trailer

As an official welcome to 2009, I am actually posting!  And what a post it is!

Please watch and enjoy this quality video trailer I made for THE WAY HE LIVED (mainly by myself, but with some help from my husband).

Watch and enjoy!  And get others to watch and enjoy.  And if this doesn’t inspire you to read my book, I don’t know what will.  Because this is one awesome trailer.  If I do say so myself.

Posting Again Cause I’m Consistent Like That

So, I kept telling myself I’d blog on Friday, because although I missed last Friday, I remembered that my last entry was titled “Good News Friday.”  Hence, I thought I had posted it on Friday.  Posting on Friday was going to become my new thing.  I’d post every Friday.  I’d (for once) have some tiny semblance of consistency in one minor aspect of my life.  Then, I realized my Good News Friday entry had been posted on Monday.

There goes the consistency idea.

Anyway, I can’t blog on Monday because I

Good News on Friday

So, now that my book is officially out there, I definitely need to be more diligent about posting.   Especially if great Fridays like last Friday become a trend!

Thanks to the5randoms, YA authors and super-bloggers, for posting this interview with me on Friday.

Meanwhile, this review was published in Salt Lake newspaper City Weekly.  I was so surprised and so pleased not just by the fact they reviewed the book, but by the way the reviewer totally and completely “got” The Way He Lived.

As soon as I

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

So, my birthday was on Tuesday, and can I just say how much it rocked? I seriously loved this birthday.

Besides getting a ton of cool gifts (including but not limited to this) I also got my author copies of THE WAY HE LIVED. Not only did this mean I could revel in the book’s shiny-covered, new-book-smell glory, it also meant my friends who pre-ordered their copies from Amazon could do this, too (although they might not have. Which is totally fine).

Other good things have happened for my book latel

A DAWSON GIRL

It’s that time again: The fourth season of Dawson’s Creek is on TBS.

It’s always been my favorite season of Dawson’s Creek. For me, that year was the show’s Golden Age.

Everything came together that year—the writing was quick, the soundtrack was awesome, the characters were at their best

Oops: Betsy Tacy

Thank you to reviewer, blogger, and all-around book brainiac Little Willow for alerting me to this issue and getting me the permission to repost this piece from Lorie Ann Grover (I wanted to the same thing with Little Willow’s name that she did with Lori Anne’s—you know, where you click on it and it links to her website? But I am an idiot, and I don’t know how.)