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The Wormies Are Giving Away 10 Copies of Give Me!

[image error]The Book Worms are one of my favorite groups at Facebook and Goodreads. It's not that the group subject matter makes them so unique – we talk about books, ha. All kinds of books, with the common denominator being "books we like" instead of a particular genre.

I think it must be because the people in the group are nice, friendly, and interesting themselves that we end up having nice, friendly, and interesting conversations. Right now, there's one going on about fairy tales.

And get this – Book Worms are giving away 10 – 10! – copies of Give Me. The giveaway ends in a few days. You can enter right here.

 

 

 

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Give Me Goes to Kindle Obsessed

Misty at Kindle Obsessed has reviewed Give Me. This is just the kind of review I love – interesting and funny – whether you end up wanting to read the reviewed book or not.

If you don't follow Misty's reviews … snap out of it! (imagine Cher slapping Nicolaus Cage)

I'm sitting here thrilled to have a book reviewed at Kindle Obsessed, and delighted that

Misty enjoyed

the story!

I love my Nespresso machine

I've tried going caffeine free, and it just doesn't work for me. Coffee is necessary to my happiness.

I'm brutal on espresso machines. I'm too cheap to buy a really good, several-thousand dollar orgasmatron device, and yet I've broken/overused/abused so many of the things that I've spent enough to buy a commercial monster.

About a year ago, I took the Nespresso plunge. I thought, what the heck? It's only $350. Only! ha. Little did I know I was about to get sick and not be able to work so much. That seems like a fortune to me now! But anyway, I bought a Nespresso Citiz and fell in love!  

It's quiet, quick, clean – and the espresso is delicious.

There's only one small problem. I broke it. First, the milk frother just stopped working. I didn't do that! But then, I tried using a fake pod that you can refill in the pod compartment, and it didn't work. I think it must have bent something inside.

Anyway. About three weeks ago, I got a call from Nespresso customer service asking how everything was with my machine. They must have noticed that I stopped ordering pods. I told them about the milk frother and that I thought I'd broken the brewing part of the machine.

No problem! The customer service guy said, "I'm sending you a new frother right now and a loaner machine with a return box for yours. We'll fix it."

And that's what happened. Within a few days, a lovely machine just like mine showed up in a returnable UPS box and full postage. I've been using the loaner, and falling in love with the delicious Nespresso lattes all over again. I sound like a commercial.

I just got an email that my machine has been fixed, and they're extending the warranty another 6 months. This cost me nothing. Not even postage.

Some companies do it right. I love my Nespresso machine.

 

Rigelodeon – Newsletter Schmoozeletter

Alrighty then! I dipped my toe into the newsletter pool and I still have my toe. So far, so good. It was a little bit fun – enough to make me want to do it again. And better.

Here's the deal: Rigelodeon (isn't that a great name?) will go out via email sporadically. Twice some months, some months not at all. I'll talk about books or movies or espresso machines that I've loved.

I'll also include easter eggs – little giveaways that only subscribers can win, things like gift cards and free books – with each Rigelodeon.

Right now (through September 30) I'm having a subscription drive through my Facebook page here. Sign up for Rigelodeon through that, and you could win a $25 Amazon gift card. See, it's already starting!

Newsletter Schmewsletter

I just sent out a newsletter using a new provider. I'm not sure if I like it! It took me a long time to figure out all the bells and whistles, and I don't know if it's useful to the subscribers.

Sigh.

We learn as we go!

Deadly Treats goes to Pattinase

I am excited beyond belief to have a story in the Halloween anthology Deadly Treats edited by Anne Frasier (Theresa Weir) for Nodin Press.

Today Pattinase hosts a guest post by moi about how I came to write my story, Slurp!, about a writer with a muse problem.

Testing Rafflecopter: Win a $20 Amazon gift card.

I just signed up for Rafflecopter – supposedly an easy way to do giveaways. Oh, yeah? Let's see how it works!

If you want to play, fill out  form below.  I'll give away a $20 Amazon gift card to a random winner.

Note: It's pointed out in the comments that you have to click the "I did this" button to answer the question.

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Cade and Galen

It's always fun to  imagine which actors would play the characters if someone made a story into a movie.

In Give Me, a fairy tale, Domhnall Gleeson is the perfect Cade Bausiney, in my mind.

 

 

And for 10th century Prince Galen, I like Freddie Stroma

Space Junque Goes to Mrs. Giggles

Okay. I'm going to have to do a little fangirl squee here …

All right. I'm back. Mrs. Giggles has reviewed Space Junque. And she liked it!