Sometimes the best gifts really are free:
Ha! Do you love it? It’s in my size, too.
YA Book Nerd’s Best Books of 2009 (scroll down to the category Girls with Brains).
Bookworming in the 21st Century’s review of Geek Girl.
Well, I’m off to cash in some of those gift certificates. Hope everyone had a lovely holiday. Here’s to a happy 2010!
Or more accurately, in Barbara Vey’s YA Saturday Morning Breakfast Club Book Blurbs.
I love the write up the teen reviewer gave Geek Girl. We did aim to be both funny and scarily accurate. I’m so glad she enjoyed the book.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an avid reader must be in want of these new YA books!
Prada & Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard and The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading by Darcey Vance and Charity Tahmaseb
If you want to enter a contest to win these books, visit this entry and complete the sentence: “It is a truth universally acknowledged….”
I know I haven’t been blogging here (much), but I’ve been crazy-busy blogging with Darcy on our Geek Girl’s Guide blog tour. So, we’re all over the ‘net from the 8th through the 30th.
And writing an original blog post for each day that is, we hope, fun and entertaining is a lot harder than it looks. I am in short supply of the witty these days (fortunately, Darcy is not).
Curious about where we are and what we’re writing about? You can follow along at Goddess Fish Promotions or the Geek Girl site. So far, we’ve written more about our story behind the story, pieces on what it’s like to collaborate, fun and funny interviews.
A while back Writer’s Digest had a call out for first-time publishing stories. I wrote something up, sent it in, then promptly forgot about it. They contacted me a while back to verify some info in case they used my piece. But since I heard nothing further, I assumed they didn’t. I found out via a friend of a friend that my little write up is in the July/August issue.
The issue isn’t on the stands yet, so I haven’t actually seen the write up (I don’t have a subscription, so I have to stalk the bookstores to get mine).
And! I’m going to be on the radio! It’s local radio, KMSU (Minnesota State at Mankato), but it’s the good kind of local, since I grew up in Mankato and the town in Geek Girl’s Guide is kind of/sort of based on Mankato. I’ll be on The Weekly Reader with Rachael Hanel.
I’m taping on Monday, but I don’t know what day the interview will air. I’ll let you know, since thanks to the wonders of the internet, you’ll be able to stream it. Yeah. I know. Freaky.
Over at the Geek Girl site, we’re hosting a big launch contest, which if you’re not related to me (or Darcy) you should really enter. You can win a prize bag for yourself (including the new iPod shuffle) and your best friend. Dude!
We’ve been getting a lot of great entries and I’ve been posting some to the site, but I decided a little color would be good. Since Miss B was already drawing pictures of herself and her BFF, I asked if she could provide some more.
So she did:
My only problem now? She’s gone on strike. Apparently she’s completely tapped out on BFF situations to draw. After all, you can’t force art.
It’s true. You can have your cake and eat read it too:
Cake and photos courtesy of the wonderful people I work with.
Our adventures in Danville this weekend. I’m testing out the gallery function here on WordPress, mainly because I’m feeling oh, so tired, lazy, innovative.
Click on a photo to see the larger image.
Andrew was dying to go to Big Boy (don’t ask, I have no idea why), which we finally did after we went rollerskating and played laser tag on Sunday.
This morning on the way to school, I asked Kyra what her favorite part of the trip was. She said, “Meeting Darcy.”
Awwww.
I really wanted to live blog the book signing, but couldn’t get a signal on my laptop. So … I decided to “live blog” anyway, only put it on time delay.
No pictures yet, since my camera has decided not to talk to my laptop, but Andrew played roving photographer and got some nice photos.
I’m glad I did take this little notes, because I’m not sure I’d remember anything, or at least coherently. We sold all the books on hand, and with the extra orders, ended up selling 54 books! Amazing!
Everyone was so nice and it was a really great experience.
So, here you go, live blogging:
1:48:cannot get wireless connection. Decide to put live blogging on time delay.
1:49: My daughter is skipping around the room like a maniac.
1:57: just signed a book. It’s almost time and I’m freaking nervous.
2:00: Okay, it is two o’clock and we haven’t officially started. I may have a heart attack.
2:06: Clearly I’m behind the power curve. We’re signing first.
2:07: Just met Jen from TRT! So. Cool.
2:15: Our books are all gone. We sold them all. Dude!
2:19: We are now signing bookplates
2:23: My kids, running amok.
2:26:Darcy’s giving her cheerleading/expectations talk.
2:27: Did you know Steve Martin was a cheerleader?
2:28: So was Kirk Douglas
2:30: So was Ronald Reagan.
2:33: And Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Dude!)
2:34: Local historical cheerleaders now! So cool. We’re making them stand up (but not cheer).
2:36: Darcy’s mom!
2:48: We’re done!
2:49: Snacks!
3:00: Wait! Q&A, then the snacks.
3:18: Bathroom break for my daughter.
3:21: Off to see Lincoln without a beard (this is my son)
3:27: Signing more bookplates for book orders.
3:30: My kids have vanished. Am hoping they are with Lincoln.
3:50: My kids return and it’s time to leave. I eat one cookie.
Look what I found on my computer desk this morning:
And stop over at The Geek Girl’s Guide to see what I found there. Warning: there’s 80s hair involved.
I couldn’t ask for a better launch day or better family and friends. I was totally surprised.
We’re going to be all over the ‘net this week. Well, we’re some places anyway–and we’re giving away signed copies of The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading at both spots.
First, we’ll have an interview up at Em’s Bookshelf. How many interviews have you read that end in a zombie attack? Exactly. You need to head over to find out how that all ends.
We’re also in the Author Spot at The Long and the Short of It. Today, Darcy asks me some hard-hitting questions. Want to know what you can cook in a paper bag? Head on over to find out.
And … updated to add Jen in MI, a wonderful friend, writer, and cook has a lovely take on Geek Girl’s Guide. Thank you, Jen!
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