THREE MONTHS *freak out*
Three months until The Clockwork Dagger comes out.
AHHHHHHHHH.
Okay. I’m cool. I’m calm. I can handle this. [[Send chocolate.]]
A few things you can expect over these next months:
– reminders that preorders and the first few weeks of a book’s release are huge in a writer’s career
– links to blogs or good reviews [do you have a blog? want me to drop by for a guest blog or interview? drop a comment here or on Twitter or Facebook!]
– news on events around release time
– have you preordered The Clockwork Dagger yet?
– gratuitous use of gifs to convey complex emotions
– September on Bready or Not will be CAKE MONTH. Because CAKE.
– if you can help spread the word through social media/family/enemy infiltration, that’d be fantastic!
I’m doing my utmost to get ready. When dreams comes true, it’s weird and crazy and awesome.
Let’s do this!
Handy dandy ISBNs and links for preordering!
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-06-231384-3
ebook ASIN (Amazon): B00HLIYZ5U
ebook ISBN (Nook): 978-0-06-231385-0
Release: September 16, 2014
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Read MoreSunday Quote extends Happy Father’s Day wishes
Read More“Well–then the book is done. It has no virtue any more. The writer wants to cry out–‘Bring it back! Let me rewrite it or better–Let me burn it. Don’t let it out in the unfriendly cold in that condition.'”
~John Steinbeck, original dedication to East of Eden
Bready or Not: Triple-Layer Lemon Pie
Two of my husband’s favorite things: lemon and pie.
Another, more recent favorite thing: ease of eating. See, my husband decided to get braces last fall. I didn’t endure that particular hell as a teenager (I had other hells instead), so it’s been rather educational to see everything he has to endure–sore teeth, broken wires, and just overall trickiness with choosing food to eat. He needs things that won’t get stuck between his teeth and that he can easily eat with a fork or spoon.
He had to go get his monthly dental tweaking done, so I decided to surprise him.
He was absolutely delighted with this pie. It’s cold and soothing, lemony and sweet, and very easy to eat. It’s really an awesome summer pie because it is cold and it’s totally no-bake. It comes together in a matter of minutes and just has to set. It also keeps well–my husband ate it slowly over five days.
The perfect summer pie!
From Kraft Recipes.
Bready or Not: Triple-Layer Lemon Pie
Ingredients
- 2 3.4 oz boxes Jell-O Lemon Flavor Instant Pudding
- 2 cups cold milk
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 graham cracker crust homemade or bought
- 8 oz Cool Whip thawed; reduced fat is fine
Instructions
- Whisk together pudding mixes, milk and lemon juice. It will be thick. Spread 1 1/2 cups onto bottom of crust.
- Mix half of the Cool Whip into the remaining pudding.
- Spread the Cool Whip/pudding mixture over the pure pudding layer in crust. Top with remaining Cool Whip--the third layer. Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm.
OM NOM NOM.
Phoenix Comicon, in Retrospect
Wow. What a weekend.
From Thursday with the craziness of the Holy Taco Church and friends dining together in a former church now dubbed the Taco Guild, to Friday’s full day of convention, to Saturday with back-to-back panels and a grand finale of Drinks with Authors… whew! I’m still tired. My toenails are even sore after two days of steampunk boots.
I’m very happy I was able to share the days with my friend Rachel, who flew out from Texas to keep me sane, because I do crazy things like feed churros to the people but I don’t feed myself. We also glammed ourselves up for Saturday!
I made so many new friends. Maybe a few enemies. But we won’t speak of them.
Plus, I was even provided the divinity known as Churro Bacon Cupcakes. A holy chorus sang. For a few brief seconds, the world was at peace.
Then the cupcake was gone and the world went to crap again.
But that’s okay, because there’s always next year, and more awesome people, and more cupcakes.
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