My Weekend Round-Up
1) My daughter’s boyfriend graduated from the University of Washington on Friday. We were late getting there due to traffic, the ceremony was long, and it was stuffy in the venue. But I cried when this amazing young woman spoke about putting herself through college as the single mother of two, and I was inspired by how hard all of those kids worked to get to that day. Congratulations, Mat, we’re SO proud of you!2) I finished FIRELIGHT by Sophie Jordan, and WOW. Just WOW! I was wondering how she was going to pull of the whole dragon ancestry thing (especially of the fire-breathing variety) but she totally did it. I LOVED IT!
But what’s even better than ME finishing FIRELIGHT??? I’m going to share the FIRELIGHT love. In July, I’m going to run a contest for an ARC of this awesome September release, so stay tuned!!!
3) THE BODY FINDER is coming to Brazil! I found out on Friday that Editora IntrÃnseca Ltda will be publishing the Portuguese language versions of TBF and Desires of the Dead in Brazil. So welcome to the TBF family, Editora IntrÃnseca!!!
4) And you wanna see something REALLY cool? My German publisher, Coppenrath, set up this AWESOME website for The Body Finder. I have no idea what it says (Sprechen Sie Deutsch?), but I LOVE the colors, the German cover, and the new title (Bodyfinder: Echoes of the Dead). Germany, FTW!!!
5) Last, and certainly not least, we had sun in the Northwest. Huzzah! You think I kid, but I totally don’t. It’s been a soggy, raining, gloomy mess out here and we’ve been in desperate need of some Vitamin D. This weekend temps broke 80, my daughter got a farmer’s tan, and I may have staved off Rickets for yet another year.
Now it’s your turn: How was your weekend???
Comments
I got a couple members of my family to read TBH and they are all converts to Team Jay! Just thought you should know.
I had a nice weekend because I had dinner with some good friends and the Celtics won last night.
I did spend a while at the pool though. We have lots of sun here. And humidity. You're welcome to as much of that as you want!
Congrats on all the great things coming your way.
(and thanks for the shout out to Babs in your interview. What a huge compliment. You made my day!)
I hope a lot more sun come your way!!
Kristi - Kids! Always gettin' in the way!
Welcome Theresa and Susan, glad to have you here!!!
JEM - Good luck on revisions. :)
Heidi - I <3 Babs, you know that!!!
My weekend kind of sucked and was kind of awesome. It involved funding for school, getting a new computer, and taking a friend to the hospital. I'm currently waiting for said computer to be ready for me to take home and introduce it to the rest of my electronics. I hope they play nice.
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We had sun here, too, but it was hard to tell, since I was down in NYC for most of the weekend. (5 hour drive w/ a bunch of high schoolers, only 7 days after Chicago, with exams coming up . . . am I nuts?)
Phantom of the Opera goodies abound. (FTW)
{wish Blogger had an edit comments button *grumble grumble mispelled-a-word grumble grumble*}
And thanks for the Firelight recommendation. Dragons, you say? Sounds fabulous.