Where Am I?

I've been at the day job eleven hours today and I've got nothing. I'm asleep on my feet bloggie friends, but there are a couple of things I wanted to pass along to you.

Alexandra is having the first part of her ALA giveaway (I'm so ENVIOUS of everyone who got to attend) so be sure to visit and enter.

Ebyss is having an awesome Revision Contest which will be judged by the lovely Natalie Fischer from the Bradford Literary Agency. Only the first fifty entries will be accepted, so hurry!

Andrea is having a Three Good Things Book Giveaway where she will be giving away one wonderful Middle Grade novel per week for the next three. The contest for the first book ends Saturday July 9th.

There were a lot of book birthdays today but two in particular that I've been looking forward to reading:

A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie

and

 Creep

I'm also closing in on my 1st blogversary and there will definitely be a PARTY in celebration of that momentous occasion.

What books are have come out recently or will be released soon that you can't wait to get your hands on? Do you have a contest going on that I missed?

News and Happenings

Happy Friday! I never thought it would get here. So much great stuff going on around the blogosphere right now, I thought I would pass it along.

The wonderful Marieke is doing a new series of posts on her blog called How To Thursdays. Every two weeks she'll have a great industry professional over to talk about writing, editing, critting and literary theory. Her first interview with Leah Cypress (author of Mistwood, Greenwillow) is up, and there's a bonus giveaway too!

Everyone wants to increase followers and Rachel Harrie is going to help us do just that. She's kicking off a Writers' Platform Building Crusade on her blog. It's a great way to meet other writers.

Have you all congratulated the beautiful and talented Elana Johnson on the fantabulously gorgeous cover for her upcoming novel Possession? Yay Elana!

From the epic, epicness of WriteOnCon.com has sprung a new writer's group called The Voice. A place where some of us who met during that awesome online conference go to critique each other's work, provide support and encouragement, and sometimes just hang out. We are also planning to start live online group meetings which I'm particularly excited about since I haven't been able to find a writer's group in my area. We'd love to have you join us.

There are four writing blogfests upcoming that should each be a lot of fun:

1. Blogfeast 9/23/10
2. Mash-up Blogfest 10/1/10
3. They're People Too Blogfest 10/2/10
4. Bad News Blogfest 10/3/10

Do you have a contest or "fest" coming up that I missed? If so, please leave it in the comments.

Here's hoping your weekend is long and the writing comes easy! Ciao, my lovelies.

You Can't Win If You Don't Play

There are just some terrific book giveaways going on now so I thought I would list them in one place. These are in the order of ending soonest:                                        

Shannon at Ramblings Of A Wannabe Scribe  is giving away books from the middle grade Grey Griffins series. Ends Sept. 5th.

Carolina at Carol's Prints is giving away eleven ARCs. Ends Sept. 6th.8th.

Sara at Babbling Flow is giving you a chance to win one of  nine ARCs. Ends Sept. 8th.

Meg at In Which A Girl Reads is giving away twenty-five YA books. Ends Sept. 19th.

The gals and guy at Reading Teen are offering one of  fifteen ARCs. Ends Sept. 24th.

You should click right over and enter so you don't miss out on all the awesomeness.

Are you a member of Goodreads?  If not, you should be. They have like a bazillion book giveaways you can enter and new ones are added daily. It's the best site I've found to catalog my books and discuss them with friends.

If you know of any other great contests or giveaways going on right now, or maybe have one of your own, feel free to list them in the comments.