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Contest Winners! ALA! Books of Wonder!

First, I want to thank you guys SO much for the #sealove! You guys are awesome. From requesting SEA for your school library to writing beautiful and thoughtful reviews to highlighting Sea as your book of the month. Thanks to Novel Novice for so many excellent features on the tsunami, PTSD, and today for putting together a terrific playlist you can find here: http://novelnovice.com/books/book-of-the-month/june-2010-sea-by-heidi-r-kling/

Without further adieu...I have picked FIVE winners from th...

30 Days of Summer--Guest post by Saundra Mitchell

Hi all--Saundra is going a blog tour to celebrate the paperback release of her debut novel (Edgar Nominated) Shadowed Summer! If you haven't read this mysterious and beautifully written book--remedy now! I'm giving a copy away here! Leave a comment after the (extremely kind) post from Saundra. I didn't know she was going to write about me. EEk! ;-)
The winner of the EPIC CONTEST will be posted later this afternoon. Enjoy!

June 21, 2010 - Heidi R. Kling

LEAN ON ME

I'm so excited that SEA is...

Greater Bay Area Bookstore Tour & Cheeseburgers!

I stopped off to wish my dad a Happy Father's Day yesterday on my Greater Bay Area Bookstore Road trip, which was about half planned/half fly-by-Oh-look-there's-a-bookstore! Was great seeing him and telling him that one of our stops was to one of our favorite "Read the New York Times and have breakfast while browsing books at Book Depot--a most adorable bookstore cafe in beauteous and quaint Mill Valley. He used to live over the hill in even tinier Stinson Beach when me having a book on an i...

One week birthday?! Goodreads Movers & Shakers List!?

I know what you're thinking. Oh, God. She's like one of those new mommies who you meet and you're like, "How old is your baby?" and she's all glowy and belly patting and says, "Thirty one and a half weeks. We're having a party tonight to celebrate." Then makes all kinds of gaga noises.

Come on now.

I didn't even know it had been a week (a week!) until the loveliest of lovelies Jandy Nelson tweeted me, "Happy first week birthday for SEA!" She is just too awesome.

So wow. One week in the wild.

How...

Books Inc. Launched SEA in style!

What a fun, fantastic night at Books Inc. So many people came out to celebrate along with me--I think my family was even more excited that I was--my sisters were crying, my mom and dad and step-mom were so proud and happy. My husband was giddy--my son was giddy x 10. Watching them. That was my favorite part.

And the cupcakes. Oh the cupcakes!
Martha Flynn, the fabulous Martha Flynn, ordered custom cupcakes with tiny orange Converse and blue sea stars and crimson crabs and they were ADORABLE.

Ora...

Kepler's Event! June 10, 2010 "Reality Bites"

What a great evening at Kepler's! Thanks to everyone who came, it was a full house, standing room only, and such an eclectic mix from our mutual Penguin rep, few members of my writers group, eager readers, baseball moms, my neighbors, my dad, other friends, book bloggers, fellow authors, etc. one blogger, Gail, even flew in from Boston! And Pam brought Sea cake!

Sharing the evening with the loveliest of lovelies Jandy Nelson (The Sky is Everywhere) and Nina LaCour (Hold Still) made it ten tim...

Birthday Gifties to Share, A Special Note to You, Grammy's B.day 2

I'm overwhelmed by the outpouring of love for SEA's birthday today.
I've been crying happy-touched tears all morning!

First I woke up to this unbelievable gift from Frenetic Reader (Khy!) and bunch of other so-kind bloggers and a famous author popping up at the end. Aww. <3 Check it out here:

http://www.freneticreader.com/2010/06/happy-release-day-heidi-r-kling.html

Last night we had a raging #sealove party over on Twitter.
I gave out lots of prizes including charm bracelets, tank-tops (which wi...

VOYA! SEA ships on Amazon! Charms! #sealove

You know you wait for something forever and then it's here and it's just this crazy wild blur of happy and even more crazy than you imagine and also strangely normal because you've been working toward it for so long and you just think WOW. Well, that's my world these daze. Here are a few highlighted frenzies from today:

Amazon! My book is shipping! How do I know this? Because my SIX SEA's are coming. No judging, I ordered them way-back-when the button first popped up. I couldn't help it. :)

Che...

Shrek, Rpattz and Monday, Monday...Four Daze Till Sea!

1. Saw SHREK the Final Chapter? Ever After? Today with The Boy. We loved it. Highly recommend for all ages. Family, friendship, true love--covered everything I like. Plus, who can say no to a talking donkey? Plus, this last green-ogre installment had profound messages about what happens *after* the happy ending. About how reality isn't all sunshine and roses, but when you're with the people you love you are following your bliss.

Then tonight, a bit less quality entertaining, but entertaining ...

7 Daze Till SEA! Week #9 Giveaway! SEA posing with friends!

Hey all,
Thanks to everyone for entering and spreading the word about SEA! Sorry this took so long to announce-not that it's a rave excuse but I've been busy. :-) So winners of last week's contest... *drum roll please*

Dead-Tossed Waves SIGNED HARD COVER winner is readingteen!

Prophesy of Days SIGNED FINISHED COPY is josiebooks

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST...

Linger ARC goes to...soulllful!

Congratulations!

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