Blog Entry: Prize pack winners, room stickers, and BODY
Woot! A few hours later than planned - due to unavoidable childcare issues - here are the winners of the Publication Day Prize Packs! The two runners-up are: theironchocho and @malibu_love
And the grand prize winner is: Shawna Lenore!
Please contact me with your postal addresses and I'll put your packs in the mail tomorrow!
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Today was no longer Publication Day, but it was a good day nonetheless. Since I'd sent off Kat3 on Friday (which continues to feel weird, after working on it for nearly two years!), today I used my childfree time for...okay, guess the LEAST LIKELY thing you can imagine. Ready?
I cleaned the house (or at least the living room, because, well, that was how much energy I had). Yes. It was THAT rare and unlikely an occurrence! But it was actually a relief to have the time to do it...and it will be even MORE of a relief to go back to writing as soon as the whole house is in reasonably good shape. That's my goal, after the last three months of putting all my spare energy into revision and forcing myself to ignore all the clutter (because why worry about something you can't change?): to FINALLY unpack the leftover boxes from our April move and get the house into a reasonably tidy and well-organized condition.
Better late than never...and at least part of the house-fix-up has actually been fun, since I spent about an hour putting up room stickers of tigers and monkeys and lions in one of the rooms of our house. (Guess whose? No, not mine. If I chose room stickers for my and Patrick's room, they'd either be Regency images or dragons.)
And the very coolest part of the last 24 hours has been the fact that I got the chance to read an ARC of Ying Lee's The Body at the Tower. I loved her first book, A Spy in the House (in fact, I loved it SO much that I actually sent her fanmail, something I'd never done after reading a book before!), but ohhhhhhh....I love Body EVEN MORE. You can read my review on Goodreads for now, and in a month or so, I'll probably give away a copy of the published book, because I loved it THAT much - I feel evangelistic about it! (It stands alone perfectly, btw, so you don't need to read Spy to read Body - but heck, why not?)
Which books do you guys love enough to thrust at everyone you know?