Jan
19
2010
2%, eh? That is something of a buzz kill, not gonna lie.
So I worked my butt off yesterday and did all of the taxes which may not seem like a big thing but I worked from 7 AM straight through until about 9:30 PM with only a break to go to the gym (about 45 minutes) and make and eat dinner (about an hour and a half).*
*Side note: Rachel Ray and I are going to throw down. Woman claims her recipes take 30 minutes but that is a bold faced LIE. OK, maybe they take 30 minutes to cook but to cut up all the vegetables and other stuff takes 30 minutes by itself! I know, Rachel, you have sous chefs that do that cutting for you but unless you want to send those damn sous chefs over here to cut my damn veggies for me, don’t claim a recipe takes 30 minutes when only the cooking part takes 30 minutes but the whole thing takes over an hour. Freaking liar!
But I digress.
So since I worked like a fiend today, I decided to spend today on writing. Now, it wasn’t on fun fiction writing, it was stuff for the new edition of The Trading Assistant’s Assistant (coming out very soon, I will post when I know exactly when). We are adding a whole new section to reflect changes to the TAprogram and I totally just housed that puppy today so I’m feeling good about getting that done.
I’ve been working an extra long day Monday, Wednesday, and Friday so I was thinking of making Tuesday and Thursday all writing days so that I can devote a whole day to writing projects without feeling like I’m neglecting real work. Not sure if I will be able to pull this off as there is *a lot* of real work to do but a girl can dream. But I pulled it off today so it shows some potential.
Also, you may have noted from my last post that the number of words I had left in the year made no sense. This is because I could only get Google Docs to calculate this in a very dumb way so I am going to try to enlist the husband to figure out a less stupid way to have it calculate. In the meantime, we are going manual. But while this means ridiculous stats such as how many words left and how on track I am aren’t working, I can guarantee that Mr. Potato is 100% correct if nothing else.
I wrote 2,867 words today. This is 2% of my goal. Facts.
Anyway, the potato is taking a break and watching the old boob tube because I am going to jump in the shower and then take advantage of Free Movie Tuesday with the husband and catch Sherlock Holmes this evening. All in all, a very productive week so far, here’s hoping I can keep it up! 
What up, Holmes!
Rachel Ray, I’ve got my eye on you.
Oct
28
2009
I logged into my GoodReads account today and noticed a really nice new review of The Author that was posted by one of the giveaway winners:
I’ve never read anything by Hillary DePiano……… I won a copy of this book in a giveaway. It was an awesome novella. I couldn’t put it down! As an added bonus, she signed the copy I received I definitely recommend this book to people who LOVE page-turners. Thumbs up!
Thanks to Chris for that really nice review! You can see the original post here.
I was also pleasantly surprised that another giveaway winner posted reviews of The Trading Assistant’s Assistant on GoodReads, Amazon and her own blog which was incredibly kind of her! You can read her review on her review blog here.
If you have read either of these books and have a spare second to review it on Amazon, GoodReads or your personal site, it would be very much appreciated!
Haven’t read either book? Well, copies of both are available on Amazon right now (The Author is also available for the Amazon Kindle, iPod Touch and iPhone) so why not grab a copy.
Short on cash right now? No problem. You can get started reading The Author for free via audio book right here. The rest of the book will be posted soon so you can go through the entire book without paying a cent.
Oct
19
2009
Huge thanks to anyone who took the time to enter the book giveaway I was running in partnership with GoodReads! I was really pleased in how much interest there was in this contest so I definitely plan on hosting another giveaway in the future (maybe for Christmas?) so please let me know below what you’d like to see in a future giveaway so that I can make it better.
There were a total of 983 people who entered the contest which is a good 980 more people than I was expecting so, again, thanks for passing the word to those who did!
Now, I’ll bet you are dying to know who won. Let me go ahead and end the suspense right now and offer a hearty congratulations to the winners!
The links below are to the winner’s GoodReads profile so that you can friend them if you wish. Keep in mind that GoodReads selected the winners, not me, so don’t get mad at me if you didn’t win as I had nothing to do with it!
The following people won copies of The Author (this giveaway was the only one for 5 copies)
The winner of the copy of The Love of Three Oranges was Ariel Richardson.
The winner of the copy of The Trading Assistant’s Assistant was Bev ethington
Huge congratulations to the winners! Your copies will be shipping out today so you should be getting them soon.
If you missed out on this giveaway, don’t worry! Not only will I be sure to do another giveaway in the future, you can always get these books at any time from bookstores like Amazon.
PS: If you aren’t my friend on GoodReads yet, why the heck not? Friend me here.
