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10 Days till SEA! BEA/TAC Day 2!

Hey all- after a fun (crazy) weekend at the beach with the fam, I woke up this morning to emails and Twitter squee's of TEN DAYS TILL SEA! Wow. Can't believe it! Aside from all the launch stuff, setting up more signings with my publicist, answering a zillion interview/guest blog requests, chasing my toddler, and trying to remember to eat/pee/sleep in between I'm revising my Vampire Diaries anthology essay and adding scenes to my upcoming fantasy. Oy! People! Simultaneous authoring/mothering i...

BEA/TAC Day 1! Babbo, 007 and The Good Wife

The NYC trip was a whirlwind of organized chaos--I had such a fantastic time!

So we arrived at JFK after an early-early 5 a.m. wake up. My lovely friend Martha Flynn drove myself and Jenn Laughran to the airport. I snoozed a bit on the plane, which is unusual for me, but 5 a.m.?! After a movie and some music and some writing of the fantasy novel (couple new scenes!) we arrived at JFK to a long, long, long a$$ line of people waiting for taxis.

As you can see, I was too excited to be bothered b...

10'er WINNERS! WEEK #8's EPIC CONTEST!

Thanks for all the lovely things you said about The Tenners!
Sorry for the delay in announcing the winners.

Without further adieu the winner of THE BODY FINDER by Kimberly Derting kderting is k_teach21 , and the winner of THE REINVENTION OF EDISON THOMAS by jjhoutman is elnice Please email me at heidi at heidirkling dot com with your snail mail!

Thanks so much to the authors for donating your novels!


Thanks for playing!

THIS WEEK'S CONTEST WILL BE EPIC

To enter do FOUR following things:

1. Find...

Summer 2010 Indie Next List!

Thrilled to announce SEA made the Summer 2010 Indie Next List!

I love indie bookstores so much. It means the world to me to be included on this amazing list.

Here's the blurb:

Sea by Heidi R. Kling
(Putnam Juvenile, $17.99, 9780399251634)
"How do you carry on when your mother's plane disappears over the Indian Ocean? This is the question that has haunted Sienna for three years. When her father, a psychiatrist, announces he is going to Indonesia to try to help children who escaped the tsunami...

WIN A SIGNED COPY OF SEA PLUS Orange Converse!

DO THE WRITE THING FOR NASHVILLE (and for orange in general...)

http://dothewritethingfornashville.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-7-item-11.html

RUN RUN!

Bidding is already at $110 smackers!

Extra! Extra! Read all about me!*

(The subject is not the last of the bad jokes in this post. Be warned.)

So I realize with all these contests etc. I'm not doing a good job telling you
WHAT I'M DOING AND WHERE I'M GOING TO WISH MY BOOK A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

So here is an ANNOUNCEMENT of upcoming shenanigans.

1. TEEN AUTHOR CARNIVAL, New York City, MONDAY, MAY 24

One May 24 I'll be signing and speaking with all these amazing authors listed here:

http://teenauthorcarnival.blogspot.com/

There may be some of these:

And will certainly be SE...

SEA BLUE PEOPLE WIN MYSTERY BOOKS CONTEST: WEEK #7

Congratulations to last week's winners!
bookaholic_d Indeed the odds WERE in your favor!

WINS RESTORING HARMONY

AND magabygc wins a SIGNED paperback copy of NYT Bestselling THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH!

Use the form on my website: http://heidirkling.com/contact/ to send me your addresses winners!

SO this week's contest is TENNER WEEK!

ALL MYSTERY BOOKS

MORE THAN ONE WINNER!

ENTER TO WIN BY
-LEAVING A COMMENT ABOUT WHY THE TENNERS ARE AWESOME
-LINKING THIS CONTEST to your Blog, Website, Facebook
-FAN...

Happy Birthday Princess B and Happy Mother's Day to you all!

Life has a way of zooming by at a break-neck speed, doesn't it?

SEA is out in a month.

And my Princess Buttercup is turning TWO.

TWO YEARS OLD.

And I'm getting all tearing thinking about when I was pregnant with her, which seems like months ago.

Or minutes. Depending on the moment.

And you all were so supportive and wonderful and remember when I posted that picture of a baby in a basket and said when she appeared and took her first breath it was like she was a princess I stumbled upon in a forest?...

Do the Write Thing for Nashville Day 1

Heard about the terrible flooding in Nashville?
Three YA writers are doing something about it!
They are holding an auction where many YA authors and other pub biz peeps are donating their time (15 page crits/agent phone calls) to raise money for flood victims!

It's such a worthy cause and they have so many goodies up for grab!

Go here for more info: http://dothewritethingfornashville.blogspot.com/

SEA BLUE PEOPLE WIN DYSTOPIAN BOOKS CONTEST WEEK #6! DFTBA EDITION

dani_bookworm and lovelyhannahs are last week's winners!

Dani wins signed by both NYT bestselling authors hardcover copy of Will Grayson, Will Grayson and lovely Hannah wins signed by John Green paperback copy of the Printz award-winning (and one of my favorite books) Looking for Alaska!

Thanks to all who entered especially for asking about SEA in bookstores and doing your good deed. I loved reading your favorite words too. You are all awesome.

SO THIS WEEK BLUE PEOPLE

I'm giving away an ARC of ...