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02 November 2009 @ 04:52 pm
'Mazing Things on a Monday  
Okay, so the title's a stretch. Mostly it's because I have the flu and I need to do a bullet post and I am too lazy to think of a better name for the post.

1. NaNo. I have 1,408 words at the moment and I'm thinking I'll double this this evening after the kids go to bed. Cold medication + drafting = not great idea. I keep feeling really productive and then realizing that I've been staring at the wall for an unknown amount of time. I also have spent too much time reading about the Scilly Isles today, because I like saying "I'm reading about the Scilly People" to my husband.

2. Interested in LINGER? Tomorrow at noon EST, Scholastic has given me clearance to post the official cover for LINGER and the first paragraph. That should have little fireworks-y things around it. First paragraph! Whooo!

3. Somehow, SHIVER ended up as one of the Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books for 2009, in exceedingly good company. It breaks my brain, just a little, to think of all the books published this year and to think that SHIVER, out of all of them, is one of fifteen children's novels picked.

4. While I was trying to understand this concept, Amazon posted their Top Ten Books for Teens in '09 list and SHIVER was on it.

5. It is only the cold medication that is making me sane right now. Otherwise I'd be floating.


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celestialgldfshcelestialgldfsh on November 2nd, 2009 10:36 pm (UTC)
Being sick stinks. My son had the flu last week, and I selfishly was petrified, thinking, "I'm going to get sick right when NaNo starts." I'm sorry that the jinx fell on you instead.

Congratulations on the honors for SHIVER! I can tell you that it's been prominently featured at both big bookstores near me here in Arizona.
Maggie Stiefvaterm_stiefvater on November 3rd, 2009 12:44 pm (UTC)
Hahahha, unfortunately, I've been nursing this cold for a long time and it just has morphed into new and exciting things.

Thank you!