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2011 SCBWI LA Conference; Critiques, Rights, and Rock Stars!
What a conference! My awesome roomies, Shawn McGuire and Tammi Sauer, were so much fun! Thanks, ladies!!
I hadn’t been to LA for the conference since 2007 so it felt great to return. I was awarded a full International Conference Scholarship back in 2003 (they weren’t officially announced back then) and retruned several years in a row.
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Early Buzz for Mercy Lily! And blurb news, too!
Kristi, The Story Siren, is a well known and well respected blogger of teen literature and she's giving MERCY LILY a nice shout out on her blog! Check it out HERE.
Kristi showcases five Fall 2011 titles and I am honored to have MERCY LILY be one of them! Wow!!
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Winners for May Giveaway of MERCY LILY! *record entires!*
Quick...before LJ crashes on me again...here's the winners for the May Giveaway of a copy of MERCY LILY and bookmark swag from 2011 debut authors.
Winner: Sloan over on Goodreads! http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1892892-sloan
Bookmark winners: Nancy E. Davis, Amy Haffner on Facebook, and Lindsay on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/ ( Read more... ) -
WIP's, Book Sales, Inspiration
I have been quite the slacker when it comes to blogging these days and I’m going to try to do better! Life gets so busy and right now, taxes are on the top of my to-do list. Ugh.
I fine-tuned an author visit program and visited with a group of eight graders earlier this month and it was a blast!! I think doing author visits and presentations at ( Read more... ) -
March Winners & Mercy Lily cover!!!
Between Facebook and LJ, the March giveaway brought in 22 entries! Thank you and if you haven't entered, there's six more months to do so! I know I'm crazy!! :-)
The random drawing results are:
Mercy Lily winner...Liza Wiemer!
2011 debut author bookmarks... Pam Beres, Christine Kohler, and Christine M. Hendersen!
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Win Mercy Lily....just comment. Just do it. :-)
Drawing tomorrow for a free copy of Mercy Lily! I'll post the winners and show off my beautiful cover, too!
Enter by commenting here or go to the original post with contest deets and enter there: http://lisaalbert.livejournal.com/38068.html
Good luck and please spread the word to teens, teachers and libraries!
Thanks!!
Lisa
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Jen K. Blom POSSUM SUMMER and I'm a turkey!
Look who's here! Jen K. Blom! She's awesome as possum...okay, bad rhyme on my part...but I'm excited about her debut and being part of the blog tour! Isn't that cover just so sweet? Here we go....
Welcome to the POSSUMS ARE AWESOME blog tour for the middle-grade book, POSSUM SUMMER, coming out in March! (Have you preordered yet?)
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2011 Promising Debuts Discussion
The Cooperative Children's Book Center is a fantastic resource here in Wisconsin and I'm on the listserv with two hats on, my library aide hat and my author hat. For the second half of February, the discussion is focused on 2011 debuts and they've included a link to direct participants to the Elevensies 2011 group! http://community.livejournal.com/ ( Read more... ) -
First winner!! Nine Months of Mercy Lily Giveaway Contest
Pam Gardow is the winner for February! Congrats, Pam, and thank you for entering!
Thanks to everyone who entered! All entries this month will be included in the grand prize drawing on 11-11-11. If you didn't enter, there's still plenty of time because I'm giving away one copy each month uo to September 11, 2011. On my "Due Date" aka release day, ( Read more... ) -
2011 Debut Novel Giveaway -- Nine Months Until MERCY LILY!!
The February contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered! The March contest will be open for entries March 1st thru March 10th and the winners will be announced March 11th. One copy of Mercy Lily to one entry and 2011 debut author swag to three other entries. All randomly chosen.
So, check back March 1st - 10th and good luck!!!
*2011 Debut ( Read more... )