Monthly Archives: January 2011

Jan
20

It’s Like They Read My Book….

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Thanks to Jeffe for finding this! I love it! Go read more great comics at Questionable Content. 🙂 (And click on the picture for the larger size – couldn’t fit it all in here at full size without cutting it off…)… Read more
Jan
20

Where I Am Today

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Okay – things are crazy today, but here we go: 1) I’m over at Word Whores talking a little bit about nightmares (including a small excerpt from A Brush of Darkness) 2) I have a guest blog post today over at Literary Escapisms talking about why I write fantasy. Leave a comment about why you like fantasy for a chance to win a signed copy of A Brush of Darkness 3) A Brush of Darkness was the featured book over at Ciara Knight‘s blog today! Stop on by. 🙂 4) You still have time to enter the following giveaways: Queen of Happy Endings Babbling Flow – Ends Today! The OddShots – Ends Today! Okay, think that’s it. Remember a few weeks ago when I mentioned I was going to be all over the place for a few weeks? Yeah. That’s started. Gonna be a wild ride. 🙂 And yay –… Read more
Jan
19

Counting Down

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A few weeks ago I had taken Connor (who is 7) to the bookstore for Christmas shopping and I showed him the place on the shelf where the book would go: Connor: “Oh, you mean Hairbrush of Darkness?” Me: “Yes. Isn’t that cool?” Connor: “Yeah. Who do you think is going to buy it?  Probably no one.” *long pause and look of abject horror as he realizes what he just said* Me: “Well, you may be right. I hope not.” Connor: “God, I am *such* a jerk. I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it, Mom.” And I don’t think he did. I think he was just trying to make “adult” conversation and sort of spouting off at the mouth. Of course the rest of the day he kept coming over to hug me and tell me what  jerk he was. Still. Sorta hard to have an ego after that.… Read more
Jan
18

Echo Location

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I’m swamped today, but just a quick note to mention that I’m over at Savvy Authors, talking about using Wordle to find word echoes.  The rest of my day after work will be to frantically start writing up a few more guest posts. Missed one that was for Thursday…that was apparently due…last Thursday. Some days I think my head would fall off if it wasn’t attached. Incidentally, Canada has apparently started shipping A Brush of Darkness out, as a few people have told me they got their copies today. 🙂 Also, I’ll be mailing out signed copies to contest winners tomorrow, so hopefully they should have them by Saturday at the latest. I have gotten some additional requests for signed copies, or questions on how people can get signed copies – I’m working on that, so bear with me. 🙂 And I’m all booked for RWA and RT 2011 (still… Read more
Jan
17

Swag-ger

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In anticipation of next week, I finally caved in and bought a bunch of swag from Ninth Moon. Not a huge amount, and not stuff I really plan on giving away in large  quantities. The “Signed by Allison” stickers were a no-brainer, since I’m already getting requests for signed copies of BoD. I also got a sheet of little round stickers with the cover and some note-pad sheets (really just to have something nice to write little notes on, go figure!). Between that and the ton of bookmarks I still have left over I should be good. I wasn’t entirely sure about the rest of it – things like book plates and pens *seem* cool, but right now it’s more of an expense than I feel like doing. Although I have had some requests for swag (mostly in the form of bookmarks, which I’m happy to mail out), I don’t… Read more