Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 20
February 7, 2012
The Importance of Being Ansley, Part 2: The Curious Incident of the Ansley in the PetSmart
Part one is two entries down. Title courtesy of Brigitte.
My actual dogs---I found pics on my phone
Quick links: Tour dates, Alabama and then all the Carolinas are coming up next. Come see me!If I am not coming anywhere near you, this is REALLY the last day or two before VBS happens a the Alabama Booksmith, so Click Here to order and help support both an AWESOME Indie and my writing. It's the right thing to do.
Bagel had been agitating for a dog-friend for a long time. He is a hound, and...
February 6, 2012
Linktastica Guestblog, or, An Ansley Deferred
The A GROWN UP KIND OF PRETTY tour is all Alabama, all the time this week…Mobile, Fairhope, Montgomery, Birmingham! Please come out and see me, even if it stinking rains. Again. We can have fun even if we all come slightly premoistened.
Come February 9, at The Alabama Booksmith, VBS ends, so you cannot put it off ordering your signed, personalized first editions any longer. You know you want to participate. Look at the shiny crystal. Back and forth. Yesssss. Yessss. Sleeepyyyyy. Follow...
February 4, 2012
The Importance of Being Ansley, Part 1: The Bagel Back Story
REMINDERS: I am in Florida and Alabama now. If these are your stomping grounds, check the tour schedule and come see me. We will have fun. Pinky Swear. We are getting SO CLOSE to Virtual book Signing at Alabama Booksmith, so if you want a signed first edition/ personalized book stating you have the best dog or whatever other fun thingy you can think of to make me say like a puppet-mouth/ to support my work and an AN AWESOME and hugely valuable Independent bookstore go HERE to order, and ps...
January 29, 2012
Two Reminders, One Burning Question That Proves My Mental Illness Number is Nearing Terminal Numberlocity, and a PS
Reminder 1) I leave at 6 am for Mississippi on the first leg of the tour (HELLO OXFORD! HELLO JACKSON!) So if you are round about those parts, check the schedule and come out and see me. We will have fun. Pinky Swear.
Reminder 2) This also means that we are only a week and change away from the VBS at Alabama Booksmith, so if you want to participate/support my work/get more play/ have bouncier more behaving hair/support an AN AWESOME and hugely valuable Independent bookstore go HERE, and ps...
January 25, 2012
Launch Day
It's GROWN UP KIND OF PRETTY's launch day, so of course my mental illness number is so high that my main goal for today is to get all the way through hot yoga with no public weeping. If I can make it to the end, I will lie down, flattened and soaked in my own greases, stinking, trembling on my mat, and Isobel will come around and put cold towels soaked in lavender water on everyone's eyeballs.
I hereby give myself permission to weep silently and peacefully into my cold towel. If I don't...
January 20, 2012
This Happened
Oh My Best Beloveds, something AMAZING happened today.
Remember in the way-back-back of 2006 when I asked you to give me your email addresses if you wanted to be on the list to get my BRAND NEW EXCITING COMING VERY SOON ANY SECOND NOW REALLY newsletter that I promised to send out whenever I had a new book release? So you would know?
And you sweetly sent me your email addresses, and then I had several more books release without ever sending a single newsletter, and the years rolled by, and I ...
January 17, 2012
A Whatty WHAT Lair, You Say?
The The BookPage review for A GROWN UP KIND OF PRETTY is up, and lovely, saying things like engrossing and etc, but I have to admit my mind boggled a little bit when the review promised that my fifth novel features, "a forest sex lair."
A FOREST SEX LAIR! Below is a screen capture of some images that come up if you google the words "forest sex lair."
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. I was quite charmed with all these as I was nervous to google those words, but LUCKILY the vicious thorny...
January 12, 2012
What is The Virtual Booksigning?
This is a plain and simple little post that explains the Virtual Book Signing, and explains how (and also why) you should participate in it. (Under why? see: Diabetic kibble. See also: Supporting my work, because you want to allow me the privilege of continuing to write novels because you are a glorious human being of taste and substance.)
On the tour, I will visit Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, N and S Carolina, Louisiana and Virginia. If you live in one of those states, check the...
January 10, 2012
In Which Scott Triumphs Over All the Christmas
This Pilot Did Not Win Christmas
This is very late, but Strep prevented me from caring. Or sitting up. I am finally better, and antibiotics are miraculous.
I love to win Christmas.
Okay, let's be real. I love to win. ANYTHING. I have a problem.
I had to stop playing online Scrabble because it was wrecking me, spiritually, in a Gateway-Drug-to-Murder kind of way, taking me down an enraged path leading through Basement-full-of-the-carcasses-of-tortured-lizards Land and from there, straight into ...
January 4, 2012
Resolutely
Alanis Lyrics---It's like your current least fave bacteria is your fave color.
I have to tell you how Scott won Christmas, but I cannot because of my New Year's resolutions. Namely the FIRST one, which was:Do not get strep throat.
Status: Failed. Already. I am sitting here bleary eyed and sweaty and chilled all at once, with glands the approximate size and hardness of walnuts, digging through gites-for-rent in Paris and Provence (aka French House pR0n) on Home Away.
So I will have to tell you a...
