Archive for: August, 2008

Win A Free Book

Win A Free Book

Mary Beth Kelsey is giving away her book!

Whoohoo! 
Guess who just blew into town?!?

and she’s here
to take care of a few things.
Billie Wisher’s daddy isn’t a no-good bank robber . . . is he?
Billie’s daddy is on the run. If the police catch him, it’s off to Pendleton Penitentiary for sure. And she just got him [...]

Blog Run Sunday

Blog Run Sunday

Today’s pair of time-sensitive links for writer:

From Fusenews: Rights, Radicals, and Rex, T. Nominations begin in September for the Thurber House writer-in-residence program. For more information, contact Patricia Shannon, Director of Children’s Programming, at pshannon@thurberhouse.org.

Registration for Kindling Words East and West opens September 6, 2008. The East writers strand will feature Nancy Werlin. [...]

Blog Hopping

Blog Hopping

I’ve been blog hopping, and these caught my eye:

Harry Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping, Into the Future – A Fuse #8 Production – Blog on School Library Journal
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat: Isobelle Jade, the self-published model scored a deal with HC UK, sends info about “how to pitch your book when you’re broke….”
EA disses science fiction: Editorial [...]

Quick Links of Self-Promotion

Quick Links of Self-Promotion

Beware: Blatant Self-Promotion Ahead!
1. Julie Prince has posted an interview with me about Soul Enchilada at YA Books Central.
2. professornana has posted the first official review of Soul Enchilada. Excerpt: “Bug is no damsel in distress (and she would be the first to hit you upside the head for thinking that) but she cannot win [...]

The Envelope, Please

The Envelope, Please

It’s August 1st, time to announce the winner of the Candy Heart ARC Contest. The winner will receive both a signed copy of the ARC of Soul Enchilada and a 1:18 scale model of a 1958 Cadillac Biarritz (it’s bigger than it looks in the pic).
In all there were 25 excellent entries. The Teen [...]

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