Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Tidying up



We have a WINNER! 

Child #4 donned her brand new 99 cent drugstore sandals and pulled a name from the bloggy bowl.

The lucky winner of Read My Lips by Teri Brown is ... 


So, Shelli, email me @ barrie.summy@gmail.com with your snail mail address. Congratulations!

I have officially arrived. My ARC (Advance Reader Copy) is for sale ILLEGALLY on ebay. $16.95 + $4.99 for shipping (in the US).  Even though it says right on the cover, "Not for sale."I am so not linking to it.  Also, can I just say they're have been ONE HUNDRED TWENTY changes since the ARC version. Not that anyone's counting...

At the end of last week, Editor Wendy sent me the 2nd set of revisions for I So Don't Do Spooky. So, if I seem less here, you know what I'm up to. Good revisions. Not too too tough to fix. Yay! Just new and improved with Wendy's brilliant and insightful observations. I have to turn it back in this week.

Child #4 is hugely enjoying her week-long Girl Scouts' day horseback riding camp. She has been assigned Echo, apparently the most beautiful horse on the farm. As it should be. So that the beauty of the horse and the rider match.

There are ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SIX days until the release of I So Don't Do Mysteries. Not that anyone's counting that either...

18 comments:

  1. 99 cents?! talk about fabulous!

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  2. those sandals are cuter than some i bought the other day for $10! :)

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  3. I thought 99-cent footwear had gone the way of the dodo. Yay for child #4 being so low-maintenance!

    And the bloggy bowl cracked me up. Is it a doggy bowl in its other life?

    Gotta run over to eBay...I hear there's a hot ARC for sale...later! =)

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  4. ARC on eBay? You're practically J.K. Rowling now! ;)

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  5. Congrats to the winner. Very exciting about the ARC being out. And more exciting that the book will soon follow. Yeah!

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  6. grats shelli!

    and to the teri brown/barrie summy books, too

    also to #4 for her horse skills :)

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  7. I am sooooo excited for your real book launch...but wow - bootlegged copies - cool...you sure have made it!!!!

    Cheers!

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  8. My kids have been bugging me for horse riding lessons. They would flip if they even knew there was such a thing as a week-long horse riding camp.

    Good luck with your revisions!

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  9. Congratulations Shelli - so close to Sheri... Oh well...

    Congrats on your ARC too!

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  10. Thanks for the play-by-play on the draw. Almost like it was televised. Cute sandals. :-)

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  11. Love the flip-lops! Congrats on your "arrival" - I didn't bid, I'm looking forward to the real thing!

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  12. The changes actually make the ARC more valuable to the people who collect them.

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  13. I can't wait for the official version!! I didn't even realize that there were ARCs until I visited Larry McMurtry's bookstores in Archer City, TX. I picked up a couple of copies that he had obviously been sent for "advance reading."

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  14. I'm counting! Can't wait for the official release day!

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  15. Congrats on the ARC. They will sell for a fortune on ebay soon.

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  16. You have arrived! Now get ready for people rooting for your garbage for more memorabilia!

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  17. Congratulations!! I am so happy for you. So well deserved. I am counting down the days until the official version is out. How exciting!

    XOXO

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  18. So excited for you.

    That camp sounds like fun.

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