I am so thrilled to announce the two winners of my Trick-or-Treat book giveaway contest! I had a lot of great entries and I am even more excited about the people who have found my blog and stuck around. I really love you guys!!!! Thank you so much!
I won’t hold you in suspense any longer though. The two winners are…
Elena
and
Jamie M.
CONGRATULATIONS!
I’ll be getting both boxes in the mail sometime this week. I will also be dropping you both emails tomorrow with details about when I’m shipping them out. I hope you enjoy the boxes!
Happy Halloween to the rest of you! It has been a fun month and aside from my one glitch, I really enjoyed posting all the time. I have one post I did not manage to make before the end of the holiday so I will be doing that later next month.
Speaking of next month, at midnight tonight the world kicks off NaNoWriMo – that is National Novel Writing Month and it is a pretty big month for the writing blogosphere. I still intend to post regularly, but I may drop to 3 times a week (mon-wed-fri) instead of 5 days a week. We’ll see. I hadn’t planned to join NaNo this year, but at the last minute I decided what I could really use is a jump start to the creativity center of my brain which has shriveled up a little from editing. I’m going to write a separate story in the same universe as the novel I’m writing and I’m hoping that’ll get me revved up come December to jump back into the main novel.
Who else is doing NaNo this year? Please let me know! My name over there is: tellgreatstories and you’re absolutely welcome to buddy me. I’ll be doing a lot more cheerleading for everyone else than writing, I think, and that’s ok with me. I want to help everyone succeed!
Being that it is the last day of October and Halloween is finally upon us, I have only a couple more things to point you to for the horror lover in us all. First, a t-shirt to tickle the nerd in all of us:
YES. ZOMBIE SCHRODINGER’S CAT FOR THE WIN. You can purchase your very own over at SplitReason for $18.95. I’m wringing my hands over it but I think I’m going to get one.
Unshelved is a comic I love and wholly support, and they posted a preview of the first 3 issues of a new comic called Rotten. Zombies in the Wild West which reminds me of Deadlands the roleplaying game and that’s cool enough for me. I have read the first 2 previews and it looks pretty good. I love me some comics so I’ll be checking them out. It was very nice of the creators to give us a preview. You never see comics being that cool. (Also the post with the preview PDF links have other reviews of zombie books if you’re interested.)
Sommer
My name is Sommer and I'm a writer from the Midwest. I am currently working on a YA novel about superheroes, reading as much as I can, blogging, and saving the world.
I just buddied you…good luck and I’ll be keeping an eye out for my package (eeh! can’t wait!)
Isn’t there a novel you’re supposed to be finishing?
You know I’m participating this year in NaNo? I can’t remember if I told you that or not. Are you tellgreatstories on the website so I can friend you?
I need a break from my novel.
I am, however, using NaNo to write a story set in the same universe across the country. So I’m not entirely leaving my novel behind, I’m just gettting some creative perspective. Editing has kind of taken away all my creative juices.
Yes, I am under: tellgreatstories
I won! This is so exciting! Thanks so much for this awesome giveaway…I can’t wait to get my box o’ books! And I went onto the NaNo site to buddy you but it’s down for maintenance…so I’ll do it tomorrow. But here’s an early Good Luck to you and thanks again!
You’re so welcome!!! I also just realized I spelled your name wrong above. Whoops. I’ll fix that now!
I hope you love your box of books!!!!!!
Yeah I’ve been trying to get on the site since I signed up but no-go. Makes sense. If you look on the right side of my site you will see a word counter I’ve used for several years. It is a favorite of NaNo writers apparently because every year the first couple of days the site crashes and I lose my counter for about 24 hours.
Add me as soon as you can so I can follow you too!!! I’m so very excited this year. It is the first time I’ve got a writing blog and writerly friends to share NaNo with.