urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire Rose-Owls and Pumpkin Girls The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2009-06-29T17:26:31Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:124421 seanan_mcguire @ 2009-06-29T10:22:00 2009-06-29T17:26:31Z 2009-06-29T17:26:31Z Counting Crows, "Rain King/Party of the Second Part." Item the first: remember that tomorrow is going to be the drawing for <a href="http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/122722.html">the final ARC giveaway for the month of June.</a> All you have to do to enter is go to the entry and leave a comment. That's it. Nothing more complex than that. Tomorrow, I'll be flicking on the random number generator and letting it tell me who our lucky winner will be. So take a chance! All it'll cost you is thirty seconds and a couple of clicks!<br /><br />Item the second: the Book Zombie&mdash;and isn't that just about the best name ever? It makes me want to adopt her and cover her in puffy blue cats&mdash;is working on her review of <i>Rosemary and Rue</i>. You can <a href="http://www.thebookzombie.com/2009/06/tss-lets-talk-about-nothing.html">see a little sneak peek of what's coming</a> over at her blog. I'm all excited and jumpy and stuff. I love seeing new reviews come out. (This probably won't last, once we get into wider reviews and I become totally overwhelmed and start hiding under my desk. But right now, I love them like I love pumpkin pie. Sweet, sweet pumpkin pie.)<br /><br />Item the third: I'm currently updating and finalizing my appearances for the next several months. As a reminder, you can always see which conventions I'm planning to attend by hitting my website, and I try to update the information with panel times and details on readings just as soon as I possibly can. I'll be in Seattle on August 22nd for the <i>Grants Pass</i> release party (and yes, some discussion of a house concert has occurred, but there's nothing concrete). There are currently three official <i>Rosemary and Rue</i> release parties scheduled for early September, all of them in the San Francisco Bay Area; I'll keep you posted if we wind up scheduling appearances anywhere else.<br /><br />(There <i>will</i> be a release party at OVFF, in Columbus, Ohio, in late October. You'll need to be a member of the convention to attend. But there will be cake.)<br /><br />More to come later, but those are the memos for the morning. In other news, I have sufficient Diet Dr Pepper. You may all live.<br /><br />Whee.