Runaway October

Hey hey guys.

Long time no blog. Things are always hec­tic in Octo­ber here. I’ll have to get you all caught up in another post, because today I have some­thing VERY excit­ing for you guys.

Jacque­line Carey, Author of the Kushiel’s Legacy series and com­pan­ion Naamah Tril­ogy, has very gra­ciously given me a signed copy of her lat­est book to give to one of my lovely read­ers! How excit­ing! Guys, this is the first give­away I’ve had that I didn’t have to buy myself.

I think Carey is an amaz­ing author. I’m not even sure where I picked up her first book. It could have pos­si­bly been Good­will for all I know, but from there it was a mad dash to have ALL THE BOOKS! Saints Astray, and its pre­de­ces­sor Santa Olivia, are very dif­fer­ent from the books that first made me love Carey… dif­fer­ent like Nutella Vs Mac&Cheese dif­fer­ent and you don’t see me turn­ing either one down.

Here’s the book excerpt from Amazon:

Fel­low orphans, ama­teur vig­i­lantes, and mem­bers of the San­ti­tos, Loup Garron-the fugi­tive daugh­ter of a genet­i­cally engi­neered “wolf man”-and Pilar Ecchevar­ria grew up in the mil­i­tary zone of Out­post 12, for­merly known as Santa Olivia. But now they’re free, and they want to help the rest of the San­ti­tos escape. Dur­ing a series of escapades, they dis­cover that Miguel, Loup’s for­mer spar­ring part­ner and repro­bate sur­ro­gate brother, has escaped from Out­post 12 and is tes­ti­fy­ing on behalf of its for­got­ten citizens-at least until he dis­ap­pears from pro­tec­tive cus­tody. Honor dri­ves Loup to res­cue Miguel, even though enter­ing the U.S could mean los­ing her lib­erty. Pilar vows to help her.

It will take a dar­ing and absurd caper to extri­cate Miguel from the mess he’s cre­ated but Loup is pre­pared to risk every­thing… and this time she has help.

You can click here to read the first chap­ter or click here to order it on Amazon.

So, just leave me a com­ment, any com­ment — though prefer­ably some­thing about how pretty I am or that you’ll bring me gourmet cof­fee in bed every morn­ing — and we’ll ran­domly select a winner.

Rules:

• One entry per per­son. Dou­ble entries will be dis­qual­i­fied. Even par­tic­u­larly flat­ter­ing com­ments only count as one.
• Entries must be in by Mid­night Novem­ber 15^th. Win­ner will be announced the fol­low­ing morning.
• Win­ner has 48 hours to respond. If no response in said time frame, another ran­dom com­menter will be drawn.

Good Luck guys!

Ama­zon is hav­ing a great sale on tons and tons of toys. Lots of out­door stuff, but other cool stuff too… like this:

Check it out here!

To just be happy with my blog lay­out. It seems like every­day I’m decid­ing some­thing is not wrong. I’m almost to the point where I want to pay some­one to do a cus­tom theme for me. I’m one a new color scheme kick and can’t even find any­thing with the right col­ors! Grr.

Any­way, I have stepup a book­store for myself, full of all the won­der­ful books I’d like to share. You can find it here until I fix my lay­out and incor­po­rate it into my blog. If you would also be so kind as to click this link before buy­ing any­thing from Ama­zon, you would be help­ing us out greatly, as we get a small — very small — per­cent­age of what you buy. So instead of all the profit going to Ama­zon a lit­tle bit goes to us! Woot!

In the mean­time, check out this great arti­cle about Spring Farmer’s Markets.