EDITED ONCE AGAIN TO ADD: Guess who's going to get a box of his book tomorrow? Yeah, me! That's right. Fed Express is scheduled to deliver a box of my books tomorrow sometime. I will hold my baby in my hands. I'm so excited! Wahoo!
EDITED AGAIN TO ADD: To get a bookmark, 1) comment. Then 2) send me your snail mail address by email. I have this nifty program that will grab your snail mail address out of your email and make it into a label. I'm lazy. I don't want to type. I am sending a bookmark to: Trixie, Adam, Michelle, Frenzied Feline, and Roen. Surely you'd like a bookmark, too? We have 45 left. Come on, you know you want one. They're pretty cool.
EDITED TO ADD: Trixie has sent me her snail address so a bookmark will be snailing its way to her tomorrow. I should have mentioned if you want a bookmark, say so in comments and then send me your snail address. Yes, I want comments. Yes, I'm giving away bookmarks for comments. Me bad.
I have been told the Win A Bookmark Contest is too hard. That my creative and intelligent readers are having trouble figuring out legal, cheap, and reasonable ways for me to publicize Murder by the Acre that I hadn't already thought of and listed in yesterday's post.
Fine. I find that hard to believe, but fine. I'll modify the contest. Send me your snail mail address by email, and I'll send you a bookmark, one per address per request. The contest will still end Nov. 30, 2008 if not sooner because I'm only going to allot 50 bookmarks for the contest. When those 50 are gone, the contest be over.
Winners so far are:
Adam Huckeby
Frenzied Feline
Roen
Although I don't know if any of those three have sent me their snail mail address yet. (Yes, I know I have your snail addresses already, but send them anyway!) That means we have 47 bookmarks left, always assuming these three send their snail mail addresses to me.
By the way, at the book signings, each book has a bookmark with it. So come to the book signings! Also at the signings, you can register to win over $100 in MBTA, MBDD, and EndlesS merchandise. Is that cool or what?
Subject change: I continue to wrestle with health issues. I wish the doctors would figure out what's wrong. I've been attempting to take better care of myself. Vitamins, rest, healthy food, controlling my blood sugar, etc. I figure that such care couldn't hurt and should help.
My brother-in-law had another seizure and fell at church while taking up the offering. His glasses cut one eyebrow to the bone. He's doing okay, but the doctors have yet to tell them what's going on. They go back to the doctor for test results tomorrow. Keep him in your prayers.
127 people lost their jobs at our local hospital last week. Many of them are my friends and/or customers. Keep them in your prayers, too. For most, it was completely unexpected. 127 may not sound like much to you, depending on where you live, but for my little town, it was a hard economic blow. It accounts for over six million dollars in salaries lost, and that ain't chicken feed.
I read Ted Dekker's Blink the other day. The book is Christian fiction with a thriller/science fiction slant. (Did you see the movie Next? It has similar elements in it.) I liked the book and recommend it, but at times, I could feel it straining at the constraints placed on it by its genre. (An example: at the end of the book, our hero confronts one of the villains and calls him a "chump." It didn't ring right.) And there are couple of places where the religious discussion seems forced, but the action keeps moving, the characters are appealing, and it raises some interesting questions about free will and the nature of God. Check it out.
I started writing on Murder by the Mile. It's actually my novel for National Novel Writing Month, which is going on now. I'm in Nano, but not sure if I will get 50,000 words before month's end. I'm still enjoying all the writing and being part of the event. That's enough for me right now.
And now I'll close. You have a good day. Vote. Buy Murder by the Acre. Talk to you later.
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11 comments:
You are such a comment nazi! Ok, here's my comment, but I'm not going to give you my address. I only want the bookmark if we end up going to lunch again before you run out. What's your schedule look like the next few weeks?
Me! Please :( Even though I read about Vampires you don't like, apparently.
Adam, I'll call you.
Michelle, I love your vampires. Your vampires complete me. :)
Why did even have to enter in the first place?? ;)
Not sure I trust a program that will find my address in an email, so look it up. :D
How about going to book stores and write an advertisement in chalk on the sidewalk. I don't know if this is legal, but what are they going to do make you clean it up? :)
Help me out, what is snail mail?
Book to arrive any day, can't wait.
Adam, I mailed you a bookmark anyway! :)
Michelle, your bookmark is on its way. And your vampires are lovely. Your legs are nice, too.
FF, I wondered why you did. Bookmarks are on their way to you today. And yes, MBTM needs a cover, but I have to finish writing it first!
Powersleeper, your snail mail is your mailing address. You know, that black box where you get ads, bills, junk mail, etc. What is yours
For us non computer/blogger people, If you click on the "Tech" word at the comment section under each blog it is actually a link to his Blog "about me" page and has a section called "talk to me". That opens a email address which you can type you mail box address and send him a note.So i am now waiting for my bookmark too!
Roen
Yeah!
And, Hey! How do you know about my legs?
Good job, Roen, but I already mailed your bookmark to you today! :)
Michelle, the glory of your legs is known throughout the world of leggies.:)
WHAT?? It didn't post my comment??? Um. It should have said "I would dearly love to have a bookmark to go with the book I'm planning to buy after I pay for my ticket and insurance deductible from my latest crash." It won't take long, I'm sure. Thanks for sending a bookmark my way and I hope all of your books are sold before you ever get them!
No, you don't have to finish writing it. Think about what I used for the MBTA bookmark. I just need basic info. My fingers are itching to do some more of that without a deadline hanging overhead--then I'll have a chance to teach myself some more tricks! :)
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