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ARC Giveaway!

I'm giving an ARC of AS YOU WISH away!
Well, sort of. Here's how this song and dance works:

I'm sending three ARCs out into the world with the following instructions written inside the cover:

If you are holding this book, here's what you should do:
1. Read it, if you're into that sort of thing.
2. Write your name in it.
3. Take your picture with it. Send the picture to jacksonapearce@gmail.com. No, it doesn't have to be a good picture. Cell phone pictures are fine.
4. Pass the book along to someone els

OMG LOOK

I HAVE ARCS.
This excites me. So my sister got my camera and started recording.

I offer you these proofs

Please to enjoy.

1.Proof that some books will always, always be made of win: Official WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE movie poster.

2. Proof that sheep and LED lights can be combined:3. Proof that my students are way cooler than me:

Teaser Tuesday

The first SWEETLY Teaser Tuesday. It's rather long, apologies.

Just some quick backstory: SWEETLY is a modernization of Hansel & Gretel. The Fenris werewolves are obsessed with seventeen-year-old Gretchen, so their stepmother throws her and her twin brother, Ansel, out of the house in order to protect her own daughter. After weeks of aimless driving, they decide to go to the beach only to have their car break down in Live Oak, South Carolina.

       The cottage is tucked away between mountainous o

Shadowed Summer

This is SHADOWED SUMMER:

I have not read it. This is because it, along with a bunch of other books, were sent to my old address, not my new one. This makes me CRAZY LIKE CRAZYSAUCE. I am crazy in such a way because I really, really want to read SHADOWED SUMMER for the following reasons:

1) Saundra wrote it. Saundra is awesome. She's a fellow Deb and runs half the Debs programs, including the Debsness giveaway.
2) It's a ghost story that's set in the south. The south has the coolest ghosts, in my o

Debsness!!!

Life FAIL

Yesterday at coffee shop:



Me: la la la, working on SWEETLY outline
Waiter: la la la, let me refill your diet coke.
Me (3 hours later): Wow, six handwritten pages! Time to leave.
Me: *rustles in purse for credit card*
Me: *rustle?*
Me: *rustle rustle?!?*
Me (to self): omg I have no card or money and I will have to wash dishes omg
Waiter: Ready to pay?
Me: Um...I...I...I have to run to my car. I’ll leave my notes and sunglasses here, be right back!
Me: *calls GDB* OMG YOU HAVE TO LEND ME $20 NOW I’LL BE AT

Flycon 2009

I almost forgot! I'm participating in Flycon 2009, which is a fancy online convention of chats and such. I'll be on the panel for "When is Young Adult not really for Young Adults?", which will be held tomorrow at noon Eastern. You can see the rest of the schedule HERE.

Slacker me

Here are the things I do to procrastinate:

1) Look at pictures of dogs I want to adopt and imagine them cuddling with Alcott
2) Email m_stiefvater pictures of said dogs
3) Check twitter
4) Clean things
5) Pretend I'm not procrastinating

That last one is rough because I don't always realize I'm doing it. I think, "I'm not being lazy, I'm on the computer!" But no. I'm on the computer, maybe the manuscript file is even open, but I'm not actually doing anything. I'm just scrolling through it, staring, acc

Weekend of Breaks

PURITY is kind of eating my brain. Listen carefully, and you can hear the nom-ing sounds.
I was zooming along, all easy-like, things going good...then BAM. That plot device I killed? It has reformed, changed, and demands to be re-instated. That's okay, I suppose-- it's not on a deadline or anything-- but man, I hate thinking I'm finished only to realize no, there's another week or more of rewrites/edits to do. I used to think rewriting/tearing books up/replotting/etc. stopped happening after you