New Linda Gerber!, Writing Chain, and Book Award
inda Gerber has a new book out:Hacked, the third episode in the Lights, Camera, Cassidy series.
To celebrate, she's running a giveaway for the next two months! Spread the word (tweet-ready!):
"Lights, Camera, Cassidy Charmed Summer Giveaway! Win charms, one-of-a-kind charm necklaces, even a chance at an iPhone 4! http://tinyurl.com/78k8o92."
Someday I hope I get to celebrate a book launch (future ROW80 goal!)...
Meanwhile, I've made a list of all the missing scenes in Ayten's story, as well as the names I still need, including a couple of priests, a handful of Castilian brigands, a kitten... Any suggestions?
The other thing I've been doing really well for two weeks now - surprise! surprise! - is keeping up a writing chain each morning. Love me that shiny new story!
I got the chain idea from Jenny Maloney's blog:
Step 1: Get a big calendar.
Step 2: Draw an X on each day you write. (After a few days, you'll have a chain of Xes)
Step 3: Don't break the chain.
I've gotten an award from Chris Fries!
"This award is for book bloggers only.
To receive this award the blog must be at least 50% about books (reading or writing is okay)
Along with receiving this award, you must also share the top five favorite books you have ever read
(more than five is okay)
(more than five is okay)
You must give this award to 5-10 other lucky book blogs you adore."
Five Classic Novels That I Love
1. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
5. anything by Evelyn Waugh and Somerset Maugham
Chris passed on the award to everyone he follows, and I'm going to do the same!
Which books will you choose?
Comments
I've heard of the writing chain idea before, but never tried it. It does sound like a good writing idea/motivator!
The writing chain idea sounds fantastic!
I come from the Insecure Writer's Support Group, trying to catch up with as many blogs as I can.
Keep up the great work, and good luck!
I come from the Insecure Writer's Support Group, trying to catch up with as many blogs as I can.
Keep up the great work, and good luck!
Ugh, I can't pick just 5 favorite books. Dickens's Great Expectations, I guess, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hmm. I'll have to give it a good think.
Ugh, I can't pick just 5 favorite books. Dickens's Great Expectations, I guess, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hmm. I'll have to give it a good think.
Congrats too on your award!
Congrads on the award. You deserve it! And you are waay cool for passing it to all the peeps!
Only five???? Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, The Great Gatsby by F, Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte's Web by E.B.White, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, oops! I went over. :-)
And five books... Only five books. Well that means I need to take some time and think about my options. I think The Living Reed by Pearl Buck would be there for sure. And so many others....
For now it's any wip related writing, alberta - even if I'm working on more than one wip at a time...
Thanks for coming by, Gina!
Ooh, that's a good one, Sara - I Capture the Castle has been on my wishlist for ages.
Argh, now I feel guilty, Vicki, for not including Shakespeare :-)
Thanks Lynda!
Oh yes, Charlotte's Web, definitely, Robyn!
Haven't read that one, yet, Eden - thanks!
Classics that I Love:
How Green Was My Valley
Jane Eyre
Silas Marner
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(can't think of a fifth of the top of my head)
Thanks Jemi!