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links, book signing, and congrats to Melissa de la Cruz!

Don't forget to tell me what your least favorite Halloween candy is--you could win an ARC of Beautiful Creatures AND The Hollow!

Links:

Just about everyone in the blogosphere has linked to this piece in The New Yorker, and there's a reason for it--read it, and you'll see why.

Pimp My Novel continues to discuss P&L statements--part two and part three

Agent Kristin Nelson talks about royalty statements, using Random House's as an example

Editorial Ass on Your Pub Date, Minus Two Weeks

And a reminder-...

win an ARC of Beautiful Creatures AND The Hollow!

This week, I'm giving away an ARC of Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl AND The Hollow by Jessica Verday. (That's over 1100 pages of reading joy!!!)

I was talking to my husband about this week's contest last night and he said, "Well, you know what it has to be about, right?"

I shook my head, and he said, "Remember last year? The contest I kept wanting updates on?"

And then I remembered and so, for my husband--and also because it is a lot of fun--this week's contest is:

Your *le...

it is Tuesday, right?

I know it's not Monday, but it sure feels like one. Weird. But on the plus side, it's going to be under seventy degrees here today. Yay for almost fall weather! (And it does look like later this week temps will actually be in the 50s--oooh, sweaters here I come!)

Moving on to links:

The one thing you don't ever want to hear from your publisher

Nicola Morgan on writing and publication expectations -- the first entry makes me wince a little (okay, a lot) but I put the link up for this: ...

falllllllllllll!

I woke up this morning and it was cool out so I got all optimistic and grabbed a sweater. And then my husband said, "You do know it's going to be about 75 today, right? And 80 tomorrow."

Ugh, ugh, UGH! Am I the only person out there who wants fall--real fall--to show up already? I feel like I need to go outside and chant or something. I'm not asking for a lot, just for a chance to wear shirts that have long sleeves all day!

Also! Don't forget to tell me about ya covers you love (or those you d...

dc area book signing (yay!) and contest

I'm super happy to say that, thanks to the awesomeness that is the KidLitosphere Conference, I'll be signing copies of Something, Maybe at Hooray for Books in Alexandria on Sunday, October 18th at 2 PM--if you can come, I'd sure love to see you!

Hooray for Books is in Old Town Alexandria at 1555 King Street, and I will have a few little gifts on hand for people who come by....

And now for the contest--this week I'm giving away an ARC of a book everyone's buzzing about: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzp...

one eye open

I totally hate those nights where you technically "sleep," but most of said sleep is taken up by strange dreams (people looking at bowls of alphabet soup (???)) and waking up every thirty minutes or so. What I wouldn't give to be able to sleep like my dog, who not only can seemingly fall asleep at will, but who is a true, champion sleeper. She can sleep through thunderstorms that produce window-shattering hail, through 4th of July fireworks that go on at night well past the 4th, and through m...

ARC winner, links, and when is it going to actually be fall?

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting tired of these balmy October days? If nothing else, I have some super cute long sleeved shirts and these awesome boots that I want to buy! But it's hard to wear the shirts or buy the boots (what do you think? Should I???) when it's going to be 75 degrees. (I did mention that it's OCTOBER, right? Shouldn't it be not summer-like outside???)

Okay, moving on. Congrats to Staysi, who won the ARC of Beautiful Creatures and keep an eye out for this week's give...

You asked, so here it is: win an ARC of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES!

Last week, so many of you mentioned the upcoming Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl as a book you wished was in stores now, so....

I'm giving away an ARC of the book!

I'm spinning this contest off one of the Simon Pulse Blogfest questions that were sent out, but that weren't picked to go up during the Blogfest. The question in question (!) was:

What is one book that you had to read for school that you absolutely hated?

My answer: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I didn'...

what's up with livejournal?

Does anyone know why it's taking LiveJournal hours (or recently, DAYS) to put up syndicated feeds? It's very odd to post something at 9 am yesterday and then read it this morning.

I do have a few links today and I'm warning you in advance, some of them mention me and well, you know, once in a while I can't help myself...

An article about why Banned Books Week is still needed in The Huffington Post and hey! Living Dead Girl is mentioned! Check it out.

Agent Nathan Bransford explains exactly what...

okay, I can take a hint

During last week's contest, the book that was mentioned most often? Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

Guess who has an ARC of that very book?

Yep, that's right. I'll be running a contest for it later in the week, so stay tuned...

Before I move on to links, I want to congratulate Briana, Helen, Meredith, and Andrea, who were the winners of last week's contest!

And here are the links:

C.L. Anderson on the roller coaster that is writing for a living

Rachel Aaron also riffs on T...