Head’s Up: Susan Dennard Blog Tour Week

/ January 17, 2012/ awesomeness, blogging/ 4 comments

One great thing about the YA community is that everyone is super supportive. We cheer each other on through Twitter and our blogs. We share our successes and disappointments over email and IM. When we finally get published, we like to spread the word. That’s what’s happening this week. Debut YA author Susan Dennard is travelling the blogosphere this week

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Summer Excitement

/ June 27, 2011/ awesomeness, lists, summer/ 4 comments

As the dreary, winterish months are my most busy, the sunshiney, summery months are my most productive. The warmth energizes me and the sun stays out way past it’s bedtime. There’s color and sound and overall awesome*.I’ll admit it: I like the Daystar. I also like the color yellow**. Today’s post isn’t about confessions. It’s all about what exciting things

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Tweet Much?

/ June 14, 2011/ award, awesomeness, distractions, self-gratifying amusement/ 11 comments

Apparently, I do. Last week I surpassed 10,000 tweets. It’s taken me over 3 years to do this, but I did. There should be some kind of award for this or something. Oh, wait. Tracey Neithercott* made me this pretty adorable award for the occasion. I’d like to thank the Academy for supply me with the technology to tweet-walk and

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In a Word, Awesome

/ June 6, 2011/ awesomeness, Four For Friday, friends, lists, weekend of awesome/ 7 comments

This past weekend marked the first annual Weekend of Awesome. If you lurk around here or around Kat’s, Erinn’s, or Pam and Quita’s blog you might have heard something about it*. WOA was our version of a writer’s retreat. Neat. So it was a conference?No, conference and retreat are entirely different. The purpose of a retreat is to focus on

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We’re Not Worthy!

/ February 22, 2011/ award, awesomeness, life, lists/ 4 comments

We’re stylin’ now! Don’t forget to check out the awesome contest Miranda and I are hosting in honor of hitting 100 followers! Now that our own shameless pimping is out of the way… So Kate, Perri, Kris, Pam, and Quita thought The Pie was award-worthy. We’re a quiet bunch over here, humble, even*. So when someone gives us an award,

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