Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 3
July 26, 2014
Why Is This Country Store and Cafe in Rural Georgia Called “Goats on the Roof?”
Here is a POP QUIZ for after you view the film.
1) WHO just bought editing software that let’s them edit their iPhone movies on PC?
Did you guess? Hint: It rhymes with Possalyn. Hint 2: It was me.
2) WHO doesn’t really understand how to hold an iPhone while filming?
Hint: Same answer as above.
HEY! iPHONE Filmographers! How do I hold the phone so the movie isn’t whoopsy-tipsy sideways? I had to rotate the whole movie and it made it have black bars on the sides.
Don’t forget, you still have until MI...
July 24, 2014
3Q with Lydia Netzer (Yeah, with PRIZES)
Just leave a comment on the blog (or on Facebook, because, why not) before Sunday July 27th at midnight EST to be entered to win.
GRAND PRIZE: A Download Code for the Audiobook version of HOW TO TELL TOLEDO FROM THE NIGHT SKY by Lydia Netzer, read for you and ONLY you by me, because you are my Best Beloved. I put in crooning, tweets, narwhale splash noises and the voice of a man who is half water buffalo. Because I want you to be happy. You also get a free black hole and your OWN PLANET. *tru...
July 21, 2014
Bad Brain
Emily Clever is the second winner of the SELS SHARE image contest!
I have this weird sanity blind spot, where I never actually believe I am SICK. Even when I am demonstrably, incontrovertibly infected with microorganisms that are wrecking me on every possible level, like, say, I have a fever of 102.6 and mucus leaks from my wizened eye pits and I tremble when I stand, as if someone absconded with my real legs and then stuck newborn fawn legs into my hip sockets, I do not buy it.
Even when a do...
July 17, 2014
Mean Memes
Kimberly from FTK posted this quote on July 3, 2014 at 2:22 pm. She is winner 1 in the William Morrow quotes contest. Winners 2 and 3 announced in the next two posts!
Mono has grounded me. When I am not working, instead of going about with kids or friends or to yoga or to walk the dogs or to the YMCA or out to eat, I stare morosely into the depths of the internet, entertaining myself as I rest. FACEBOOK is my new leisure activity. The other day, someone posted one of those word puzzles that sa...
July 14, 2014
Loony
SO here was my plan for beach week, which is the same was my plan for every other beach week I have ever attended: Paddleboard and snorkel all day, then gorge myself on wine and buttered prawns all night while hanging with my favorite people in the world. Lather, rinse, repeat with extra butter.
What I actually did was work on my book, nap, and toddle feebly down the sand on short walks. No wine allowed (mono inflames the liver) and I had no appetite for prawns. I went to bed right after dinn...
July 10, 2014
Oh, Hi! CONTEST ENTRIES MADE HERE ARE VALID
A bright-bright brighter brightest best beloved pointed out that the comments were already closed on the contest entry.
You can enter on this entry. *sigh* Just leave your favorite line from SOMEONE ELSE’S LOVE STORY in the comments below this entry and you are entered. ALl the people on the old entry, also are still good. Everyone on Facebook—still good. In fact you can also still enter on Facebook if you prefer.
There are prizes—just scroll down to the original entry to see all the info.
I...
July 9, 2014
I Go Goop
THIS CONTEST—where you can win a brand new signed fresh PB of SOMEONE ELSE’S LOVE STORY hot off the presses plus another of my backlist PLUS your entry will be used by William Morrow to make COOL IMAGES—- ENDS FRIDAY.
You should please enter because reading the entries—especially when you choose a line that I forgot or was secretly proud of and spent a lot of time making—- is really making me feel warm and good and I need A LOT OF HELP to feel good.
This MONO….SUCKS. I wake up every morning fe...
July 4, 2014
The Friday Redirect
Me and Lydia in our roaring twenties.
HAPPY FOURTH. I am off for a week at the beach feeling like a PHLEMGY POO PILE. Hurrah!I blogged a different place BUT BEFORE YOU GO, Do not forget the contest going here until the 11th. You could win one of the very first PB copies of Someone Else’s Love Story and another of my titles. Please play. I am loving seeing the entries. It soothes my savage wildebeast heart as I languish on my bed of whining.
Why am I flopping and sweating on a whine-bed? You a...
July 2, 2014
We Interrupt This Total Inability to Blog with a CONTEST
SO—the paperback of SELS launches in a month. LOOK at this easter-y cover. I kinda love it.
In Pre-Celbratory Celebration, I have a contest, open to US peeps only please. SORRY, CANADA! I LOVE you Canada, but you are expensive and form-filling-out-y to mail things at. SORRY REST OF EARTH. I love you, too, Rest of Earth, but I can’t mail to you. I can barely make soup. YAY!
(The mental illness number is…stratospheric. The coping skills are set to maximum. LA LA LA.)
HERE IS THE CONTEST THOUGH! W...
May 13, 2014
What Giraffe Say
Hint: not RING DING DINGITTY BLARG BLARG LAR or whatever it is.
Self-improvement is not a slow, sustainable climb to glory for me. It comes in fits and starts and surges, with a lot of backsliding and re-victories and unvictories and periods of despair and sudden reversals and emergent mourning and losing interest and writhing in hopeless agony and regrouping and fussing and rare instances of stomping madly about yelling YAY ME I PROVE VICTORIOUS! along the way.
What can I say, it keeps me out...
