Friday Five! Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls Giveaway, Cybils, O.C. Bookfest!

1. Sea was nominated for a 2010 Cybils Award! This fills me with happy. There were two things I really really wanted before Sea came out, 1 was for it to be an IndieNext Pick and 2 was for it to be nominated for a Cybils Award. Because I love independent bookstores and I LOVE book bloggers! So this means a lot to me.
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Sea was nominated in the first hour. Which is too cool. Thanks, Twitter for telling me about it, and thanks book bloggers for existing. Without you nobody other than my mom would know about my little blue book. You ROCK!

2. I wore my monkey pajama bottoms to the bus stop this morning. The monkey is even wearing cherry sunglasses. I blame Target and my utter lack of shamelessness.

3. Orange County Children's Book Festival is THIS Sunday. I'm going to be there. So are a lot of other authors. I'm reading and talking and giving away nifty things like tank-tops and posters at 11:15 a.m., and then signing copies of Sea and Visitors Guide to Mystic Falls Vampire Diaries immediately following my talk. Please come and see me! I'm flying there and back in one day. I am ambitious. Also, I like to fly. They have Starbucks right by the Southwest Gate you know. And who doesn't love that at O'Dark Thirty?

4. Speaking of Visitors Guide to Mystic Falls would you like to win a copy?
I thought so!
I have TWO to give away here complements of Smart Pop Press.

To enter to win just include your name, your email address, and YOUR FAVORITE MYSTIC FALLS CHARACTER in comments and I will pick two anonymous fans! I might even throw in some Sea goodies.

I'm going to see fellow contributor Kiersten White--you may have heard of Paranormalcy ? On Monday. So they might be signed by BOTH of us!

5. Damon. Put your silver knife down and get back to what you do best. Wooing Elena. You're hot, but even your hotness levels are getting grating when you are being so. stupid. (But the pictionary bit? Adorable.)

Okay, that's it!

Hope to see you Sunday in the O.C.
More info here: http://www.kidsbookfestival.com/
Enter to win Mystic Falls below in comments!
Contest ends next Thursday at 7:00 p.m. PST (just in time for the show...)