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October 14, 2010
I HAVE NOT DIED!
Promise! I have just been EYEBALL DEEP in HEX HALL 3: THE MOST HEXXXIEST*, and if you know anything about the Hex Hall books, you know that I could mean that LITERALLY. ;-)
But soon I shall return, as I have MUCH TO TELL! Like:
1) How I Went To The Decatur book Festival, and Basically Openly Wept With How Happy I Was, And Also Ate Tapas With Authors Who Are Far, Far More Awesome Than Me.
2) How I Finally Met Myra McEntire and Victoria Schwab, and, Lo, Was Surprised We Did Not Leave Decatur With One of Those 3-way BFF Necklaces.
3) How The Auburn Writers Conference Was Filled With Joy and Delight
4)How Agent Holly Came Down For Said Conference, And It Was The First Time We'd Met, and She Was Lovely and Amazing and All I Hoped She Would Be (and More). And How, Whilst Walking Around Downtown Auburn With Agent Holly Her First Night In Town, We Walked Past a Parking Lot Where a Band Was Seriously, I Am Not Even Kidding You, Playing "Sweet Home Alabama," and I Was All, "I Cannot Believe This Is Happening, Welcome To My State."
5) How I Will Show You the Cover for DEMONGLASS (Which Doth Come Out March 1, 2011!), and You, Like Me, Will Be Like, "That Are Amazeballs."
So that's all to come soon!
Until then, I AM SO SORRY for the lack of blogging. Even my Beloved Ben Barnes judges me.
"Rachel, your lack of blogging...saddens me."
Soon, Mes Anges! XOXO!
* That's still not the real title. Just in case you were wondering.
But soon I shall return, as I have MUCH TO TELL! Like:
1) How I Went To The Decatur book Festival, and Basically Openly Wept With How Happy I Was, And Also Ate Tapas With Authors Who Are Far, Far More Awesome Than Me.
2) How I Finally Met Myra McEntire and Victoria Schwab, and, Lo, Was Surprised We Did Not Leave Decatur With One of Those 3-way BFF Necklaces.
3) How The Auburn Writers Conference Was Filled With Joy and Delight
4)How Agent Holly Came Down For Said Conference, And It Was The First Time We'd Met, and She Was Lovely and Amazing and All I Hoped She Would Be (and More). And How, Whilst Walking Around Downtown Auburn With Agent Holly Her First Night In Town, We Walked Past a Parking Lot Where a Band Was Seriously, I Am Not Even Kidding You, Playing "Sweet Home Alabama," and I Was All, "I Cannot Believe This Is Happening, Welcome To My State."
5) How I Will Show You the Cover for DEMONGLASS (Which Doth Come Out March 1, 2011!), and You, Like Me, Will Be Like, "That Are Amazeballs."
So that's all to come soon!
Until then, I AM SO SORRY for the lack of blogging. Even my Beloved Ben Barnes judges me.
"Rachel, your lack of blogging...saddens me."
Soon, Mes Anges! XOXO!
* That's still not the real title. Just in case you were wondering.
September 10, 2010
DEMONGLASS Faux-Barbie Theatre
If you would like to A) Win an Arc of DEMONGLASS, B) See some of the plot of DEMONGLASS acted out with Faux-Barbies, and C) Watch me fend off a Demon-Chihuahua, then I suggest you go to Chantel Acevedo's blog RIGHT THE HECK NOW.
Hurry, hurry! The contest closes on Friday!
AND check out the awesome that will be the Auburn Writers Conference! I'm gonna be doing a workshop called, "Are You There Ghouls, It's Me, Buffy: The Supernatural Coming of Age Story." I will probably babble about metaphors ...
Hurry, hurry! The contest closes on Friday!
AND check out the awesome that will be the Auburn Writers Conference! I'm gonna be doing a workshop called, "Are You There Ghouls, It's Me, Buffy: The Supernatural Coming of Age Story." I will probably babble about metaphors ...
September 3, 2010
The Decatur Book Festival! (And BLUE HAIR!)
Okay, so have you ever wanted to come see me in person, and actually COUNT how many times I say "awesome" or "like?" (Or possibly "amazeballs?" That's my new word. I'm trying not to overuse it, though.)
Would you like to hear my ramblings on Real Drama in the Supernatural World?
Are you dying to see what my NEWLY HEX HALL-BLUE STRIPED HAIR LOOKS LIKE?
Spoiler: It looks like this. Also, note Small Son hammin' it up for all he's worth in the background. My child, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, and...
Would you like to hear my ramblings on Real Drama in the Supernatural World?
Are you dying to see what my NEWLY HEX HALL-BLUE STRIPED HAIR LOOKS LIKE?
Spoiler: It looks like this. Also, note Small Son hammin' it up for all he's worth in the background. My child, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, and...
August 26, 2010
THANK YOU!!
Thanks SO MUCH to everyone who entered the DEMONGLASS giveaway! I was totally blown away by all of your generosity, as was C.J. You are all AMAZING and MADE OF FLOWERS AND SAUSAGES! Besos!
And BIG CONGRATS to Maria, who, thanks to Random Number Generator, won the ARC of DEMONGLASS, and will soon know the identity of The Lip Toucher! ;-)
But since SO many of you entered, and I am SO THANKFUL for that, I'll give y'all a couple of treats!
First off, THREE random snippets from DEMONGLASS:
"Maybe the...
And BIG CONGRATS to Maria, who, thanks to Random Number Generator, won the ARC of DEMONGLASS, and will soon know the identity of The Lip Toucher! ;-)
But since SO many of you entered, and I am SO THANKFUL for that, I'll give y'all a couple of treats!
First off, THREE random snippets from DEMONGLASS:
"Maybe the...
August 23, 2010
Bring A Little Girl Home! Be Awesome! Win an ARC of DEMONGLASS!
Oh man, don't ALL THREE of those things sound like something you'd like to do?! Well, good news: YOU TOTALLY CAN!
Here's the deal: My friend and agent-mate, C.J. Redwine, is one pretty amazing chick. In addition to writing her own (amazing-sounding) novels, she's super-supportive within the writing community. She hosts these kick-ass query workshops, and she does hilarious interviews with authors, like this one I did with a were-llama, AKA The Best Interview of My Life.
Naturally, when C.J. ak...
Here's the deal: My friend and agent-mate, C.J. Redwine, is one pretty amazing chick. In addition to writing her own (amazing-sounding) novels, she's super-supportive within the writing community. She hosts these kick-ass query workshops, and she does hilarious interviews with authors, like this one I did with a were-llama, AKA The Best Interview of My Life.
Naturally, when C.J. ak...
July 14, 2010
MORE Books That You Will Like (This Time Featuring The New Fictional Love of My Life)
First off, let me apologize for the length of this blog post. It's ridiculous. BUT. I figure if one only tends to blog every few weeks, one ought to at least be pretty thorough when one DOES blog. Also, one should stop saying "one" now.
Moving on!
As I mentioned in my last post, I have a major thing for All Things Victorian. Well, you know, except for the whole wearing corsets thing. And also the covering of table legs because said legs might make men think ESCANDALO thoughts about ladies' leg...
Moving on!
As I mentioned in my last post, I have a major thing for All Things Victorian. Well, you know, except for the whole wearing corsets thing. And also the covering of table legs because said legs might make men think ESCANDALO thoughts about ladies' leg...
July 6, 2010
Books That You Will Like (Part 1)
Dearest Blog Readers: Y'all may not be as nerdy as me, and therefore not spend nearly as much time watching public television as I do, but a few years ago, The Husband and were watching PBS, and we came across a show called "Sandwiches That You Will Like." This is obviously the most brilliant title for anything ever. It's right up there with "Snakes on a Plane" in terms of just putting everything the show/movie will be about right there in the title.
In homage, I decided to give today's blog a...
In homage, I decided to give today's blog a...
June 29, 2010
In Which Rachel Tells of Her Office Woes, and Flirts With TL;DR
If any of you follow me on Twitter, then you know I had a VERY TRAUMATIC EVENT happen this weekend: Small Son murdered my laptop.
Okay, so he didn't mean to, which technically makes it 2nd degree murder, or maybe even manslaughter, but STILL. My precious laptop, only a year old, was dead deadity dead dead. If you are easily upset by graphic photos, look away now.
THE HUMANITY!
Luckily, almost all of my work was backed up on a jump drive, and what WASN'T backed up digitally is written in a noteb...
Okay, so he didn't mean to, which technically makes it 2nd degree murder, or maybe even manslaughter, but STILL. My precious laptop, only a year old, was dead deadity dead dead. If you are easily upset by graphic photos, look away now.
THE HUMANITY!
Luckily, almost all of my work was backed up on a jump drive, and what WASN'T backed up digitally is written in a noteb...
June 18, 2010
"With a REBEL BELLE, She Cried, 'Books, Books, Books...'"
Remember that KILLER good news I mentioned in my last blog post? Well, said good news posted in Publisher's Marketplace last night! BEHOLD:
Author of HEX HALL Rachel Hawkins's REBEL BELLE, about a high school Miss Popularity whose world changes when a funny thing happens on the way to the (Homecoming) coronation: she's recruited into the Paladins, a supernatural sect of bodyguards sworn to protect those who will play an important role in the future, and charged with saving her archnemesis...
Author of HEX HALL Rachel Hawkins's REBEL BELLE, about a high school Miss Popularity whose world changes when a funny thing happens on the way to the (Homecoming) coronation: she's recruited into the Paladins, a supernatural sect of bodyguards sworn to protect those who will play an important role in the future, and charged with saving her archnemesis...
June 10, 2010
Psst! Your Crazy Is Showing!
Hello, my lovelies! I know, I know, over a MONTH with no blogging! ESCANDALO! But May was kind of a crazy month at Chez Hawkins, what with our trip to Maine (now an annual thing, apparently, and just as fab as last year), The Husband finishing school (THANK YOU BABY JESUS), preparing for The Husband to be out of the country for 2 whole months (Boo! Hiss! Sob!), and attempting to detoxify ourselves from an attack of The Crazy.
It was this last thing that really threw me for a loop, and so I dec...
It was this last thing that really threw me for a loop, and so I dec...
