Laini Taylor's Blog, page 14

Thank you for coming last night!

Well, that was awesome! Thank you so much to everyone who came to Powell's last night. I had a blast. That was the first bookstore event Jim and I have done. You see, since I worked in an independent bookstore all through college and sometimes introduced the author events, I know how often it happens that even for wonderful authors . . . no one shows up. Or maybe two people. So I was afraid to do bookstore events, though by now I felt confident that locally I could generate an audience, even ...

First Kisses -- the Lips Touch winners!

Congratulations to the winners of the " Lips Touch - First Kiss contest"! Thank you for playing :-) It was really fun reading everyone's entries, both the true stories and the made-up ones. It's good to know I'm not the only person who had a totally gross first kiss. I read a lot of gross-out stories! Yeah, kissing is something wonderful that can go so very, very wrong!

But for the first winner , I want to present a kiss from the other end of the spectrum, from a blogger whose love story is an ...

There's a new book-lover in the world :-)

Happy birthday, Lips Touch! *Another Starred Review!* Plus: Keep the kisses coming!

Happy birthday, Lips Touch ! It seems like I've had a lot of happy birthdays lately: two new books and a new baby! We also celebrated Leroy's 15-3/4 birthday recently with a nice little meat cake :-) Still, I must soak these occasions up, because I won't be having another book birthday for a while. Got to finish some works in progress first.



And . . . Yippeeeee! Another starred review!!!! This one is from Booklist. Thank you, Booklist!

*Lips Touch: Three Times*
Taylor, Laini (Author) , Di...

Goodness! Lips Touch comes out Thursday! It's book give-away time!

Jim asked me this evening if I wasn't going to do a Lips Touch blog post and giveaway, and it occurred to me: Goodness, September is almost over! Which means October first is Thursday, which means Lips Touch is almost here!!! Yippeeee! My third book! (Fourth, counting The Drowned ).

So of course, a giveaway is in order. Two copies of Lips Touch are up for grabs, signed by both me and Jim. How do you win them?

Tell me about your first kiss.

How fun! There are three first kisses in Lips Touch. On...

The Incredible Sleeping Baby + Essential Baby Gear for the Early Weeks

Parents-to-be, while you're pouring over the menu of "extras" you can order to customize your new baby (cuteness, sweetness, unscented poop, etc), I definitely recommend going for the "Super Sleeper" app. I know it's expensive, but it's sooo worth it! For the last two nights, Clementine has slept for six-hour stretches!! I've woken her for a final change and feed at midnight, and then she's slept until six! It's downright civilized of her. Okay, so maybe we didn't pay extra for this. Maybe we...

End Petlessness

So, remember that stray cat I took to the Humane Society earlier in the week? Er, it turns out he wasn't a stray after all. Oops.

While I was out Friday getting my roots done, a guy came to the door and asked Jim if he'd seen a black and white cat. Jim told him yes: we'd taken him to the Humane Society. To which he responded, angrily, "That was you?" and then accused Jim of "stealing his cat."

Well. It's probably a good thing I wasn't home because I would have loved to tell him that his cat w...

Sit on this bear

What do you think this is, aside from a bear?
If you guessed that it is a bean bag, you guessed right! Isn't it great?
I want it :-)

(It can be purchased here.)

Just randomly came across that at the Small Magazine blog, which I just discovered. They feature all kinds of awesome art, toys, clothes, etc, for children. And for adults who are really children. Ahem. You know, like adults who want to sit on bears. Check out the cool finger puppet project.
I want to make some!

I'm bookmarking this site. ...