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March 23, 2009
And the winner is…
Joe Glasgow!!! Congratulations Joe! And thanks to everyone who entered and helped me to spread the word about my novel. Stay tuned for more giveaways in the near future…
March 22, 2009
Anthem
Thanks to everyone who participated in the “Win an autographed copy of Waiting For Spring” contest! The following names will go into the sombrero Monday morning (yes, it’s a literal sombrero):
Joe Glasgow
Shannon Yarbrough
Jen O
Hoosiertoo
Kaitlyn (who entered on my MySpace blog, where I also posted this contest).
The winner will be announced Monday morning. 
In the meantime, here’s that Neil Diamond song I was talking about last week. (Thanks Robin and H2!)
March 20, 2009
A CONTEST!
To celebrate the first weekend of spring, I’ve decided to give away an autographed copy of “Waiting For Spring.” Here’s all you have to do to enter.
Mention the book in a blog post, your Facebook or MySpace profile, or on Twitter. Then come back here and post the link to the mention in the comments section of this post. How easy is that? Wicked easy! (If you’ve already mentioned the book before, that counts. Just leave the link here.)
The contest will run all weekend, ending Sunday, March 22, at 1
March 19, 2009
No more peeking at the sneak peak
Some of you may be wondering where the “sneak peek” on the Waiting For Spring page went. Well, I deleted it. I’ve decided to go in a different direction with the Rick & Wendy book (a sequel of sorts to Waiting For Spring), so the information and excerpts I had on the page are now obsolete. Therefore, it is gone.
The basic story is the same, but the more I work on this thing, the more I realize that this is Rick’s story, not Wendy’s. How weird is that? I started writing the damned thing to get ins
March 18, 2009
Oops!
For those of you who subscribe to my blog feed, you may have noticed that I accidentally posted my Publishing Renaissance article here instead of at PR. What’s worse, I posted the unfinished copy. I can tell you why it happened. I teased Zoe about doing the same thing a few weeks ago, and Karma is a bitch.
SO…for those of you interested in reading the actual, finished article in its proper place, here you go.
March 16, 2009
Kel: Official Nerd
Over the weekend, my best friend brought over a Get Well Gift that lifted my spirits and immune system better than flowers or chicken soup ever could have done:
March 13, 2009
Do you know?
Tonight I was chatting with a friend about Neil Diamond (yes…seriously) and it brought back something I hadn’t thought about in many years. Back in sixth grade I was in the school chorus. Not because I have a loverly singing voice. Quite the contrary. My singing voice sucks big time, a fact to which all of my friends and family, young and old, can testify. It’s just that I had (and still have) a rather deep voice, there weren’t any boys in the chorus whose voices had broken, and they needed an a
March 12, 2009
This n’ that and 5-5-not 5
* I’ve still been fighting that cold this week, and in fact am feeling it worse than ever. I haven’t been doing much of anything this week besides holding down the couch while watching DVR’d episodes of my newest television addiction: “Man vs. Food.” Instead of explaining the concept of the show, I’ll just show you the commercial:
It’s sick, but oddly entertaining. And let me tell ya, it’s just the thing for a chick on a diet to watch. Last night’s episode showed the dude attempting to devour a t
March 7, 2009
Read an e-book week
March 8 - March 14 is Read An E-book Week! Whoo-hoo!
If you haven’t read Waiting For Spring, this would be a good week to do it. It’s available on e-book at Kindle (where all the proceeds go to Spruce Run) and at Smashwords. Or you can download it directly from me.
Or if you have read it, here’s a list of other e-books I recommend:
The Proviso - Moriah Jovan
Servicing the Pole - Lauri Shaw
Steal Tomorrow - Ann M. Pino
Kept - Zoe Winters
Or, you can browse the selection of free and reduced price books o
March 5, 2009
I inspire passion!!!!!!!!!!
When I got to work on Monday, the following sign was waiting for me:
Well, the smiley faced sun wasn’t there. I added it myself. But you get the general gist. And I’m not being paranoid when I say that the sign was waiting for me personally. I am the “YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE” refered to there by my boss. He frequently leaves these signs lying around the store, covering a wide variety of topics. This is a good rule of thumb in interpreting the importance/severity of these notes:
No exclamation point
