Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 6

Resolutely

I have a buncha files saved on in MS Word named variations of “Blog Blog Blog.” I have more than a decade’s blogs saved up there. It is actually verging on ELEVEN YEARS. About a fourth of my life. I have written these blogs in three different houses on three different computers in two different cities.

Beautiful Maisy was a toddler when I began. She is about to be a teenager. Sam the grade schooler is halfway through his junior year. A pirate cat and a demon-infested cat have both shuffled off...

Apology Cookie

Remember when I was sick? Not me. Not much. It is kind of a mucus-y, eye-juice coated blurry-lensed blur of blurredness, as if I lived 3 days filmed through cheesecloth. During that time, I flat did not show up for a book event, which is not like me. So I went back Thursday to make up the event and I brought an apology cookie with little birds on it for the Staff and any readers who came back. Here is the cookie — it says SORRY I SUCK. And yeah, I think it is important to take responsibility...

Update, Update, Transcript from a Tour-versation

Also Y chromosome owners of taste and heart. nodnodnod

UPDATE ONE: Event. If you were at the ILL-FATED BAM event that got Flu Smacked into not happening, I am so sorry! I will be there on a make-up event on THURSDAY NIGHT. Yes, tomorrow, so in time for Christmas, and this event will be SO MUCH BETTER than the last could have been, because I am no longer leaking poisonous, infectious juices from all my face-holes.

7:00 PM BOOKS-A-MILLION at The Avenue at Peachtree City

258 City Circle, Peachtree...

What Maisy and I Did Today

They are melting! Because a snowman would have a very short life expectancy in Georgia. Anything with that much sugar on it and butter in it has an even shorter life expectancy in my house.

My fave is the fellow who has lost his nose. He is nonplussed! This is as Martha Stewart as I get—So I have showed you mine. NOW YOU SHOW ME YOURS.

Warning: TACKY. Contains Cat Butts

These candy bars cost five dollars each. THEY. ARE. WORTH. FIVE. DOLLARS.

I am home and sick and worn to a nub from tour. I walked in my door and my immune system crashed from all the breathing in airplane air which is full of plague rat dander and leprosy spores.

BUT LOOK I AM HEROICALLY BLOGGING ANYWAY, WHICH IS AMAZING! You should probably send me Zzang WOWSA and WHAT THE FUDGE bars. *nod nod nod* No, actually, I am checking in with you because you are SO NICE. I know you are so nice, becau...

Me Before You

I was home from tour for Thanksgiving – I head back out on the road again TOMORROW for the last leg. If you live in any of these places left on tour, please come on out! ALSO If you WON Virtual Book Tour, please send me a snail addy or whatever I need to get it to you. I have about half the addresses I need. Both prints and half the MoM copies shipped. NO EARRINGS as of yet, and still half the MoM copies are on my dining room table, waiting to knwo where to go.

Here is a snapshot of my break....

VBT WINNERS and a REDIRECT

TODAY my guest blog is a REALLY OFF THE WALL q and a courtesy of Powell’s, featuring hand puppets, cats, yoga, and various kinds of banging. Here we have no blog. Just a winner announcement.

So, remember the PRIZES for the VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR? No? You can see them here. We did it just like the Oscars, except I wore a black bag from the thrift shop instead of Vintage Valentino, we mercifully skipped the dance montage, and no one played us off if we talked too much. If you didnt; make it to the...

Redirectica

SO last night I was in FAIRHOPE, doing a book tour event, and I was supposed to stay over but I just kinda—I needed to be home. SO I cancelled my hotel reservation (THEY WERE SO NICE TO LET ME without making me cry or even explain too much) and I drove 6 hours into the black night.

I put the audiobook I had been listening to on HOLD and swapped to listening to a Reacher novel because Dick Hill will keep you AWAKE as he describes how Reacher hands a beat down to evil.

I arrived at 3 and my cat...

PUB DAY!

I AM ON THE ROAD. I MISS YOU ALREADY. I hope to see you on the tour, and then it will be harder to miss you, because you will be there. If yu cannot be there, you can still get on on the virtual book tour. Just have the orders in before 4 PM EST! You can see the button in the TOP LEFT SIDEBAR, just hit that!

Here is a thing you can listen to while you wash the dishes, if you like. It has video too, but it is just me making crazy rubbery faces and dripping madness foam and having google eye. Oh...

RECREATIONAL ROBOTS and PS You Are Invited

LOOK what I will be doing this afternoon. 4 PM EST. You come, too. Pretty please? Sugar etc? It will be fun.

THIS IS WHERE THE CHAT TAKES PLACE (to be clear) (because I got a couple of asky emails)

I am going to put on eyeliner and a nice top. SECRETLY, you and I will both know that from the waist down it is a horrorful wasteland consisting of those floppulant pink fantasy Francy-pants I dug out of a dumpster in Avignon and bare Winter Feet in DESPERATE NEED of Pedicurating.

BUT the parts on...