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Mar 17th 2010
Win an ARC of Still Sucks from Goodreads & other news…
Since my publisher was so nice as to send me a bunch more ARCs, I’m also doing a giveaway on Goodreads for 8 copies. 
So far 372 people have signed up for it which is cool! The giveaway ends on March 30th, so get your entry in if you’re a member of GoodReads!
In other news, looks like my Spanish publisher has also picked up Still Sucks to Be Me! I have no idea when it will be out, but it’ll be out in Spanish sometime! Woot!
Mar 16th 2010
Winners of the Still Sucks to Be Me FANS Only ARC Giveaway!!
Okay, so remember how I said I’d reserve at least 3 copies to give away to fans? Well, my lovely publisher sent me another box of ARCs, so I’m DOUBLING that — I’m giving 6 copies away to people who entered the FANS Only SSTBM Giveaway! Woot! Without further ado…here are the winners…(more entries did help people out in the random picker spreadsheet)
- Taylor
- Alina
- Victoria
- Alessandra
- Autumn
- Jade
Congrats! All you guys gotta do now is email me at kim @ kimberlypauley.com OR use the Contact form and tell me a) full name / address (if you’re under 13, I’ll need a parent’s email so they confirm it’s okay for you to accept the book), b) whether you’d like the ARC signed or not and, if so, do you want it signed to you or just signed with my name.
You guys rock! I can’t wait to hear what you think of the book!!
I got all kinds of cool fan art and poetry. My favorite might have to be this (but it was all really, really cool):
Mar 16th 2010
Welcome to my new website!
So, whaddaya think of my brand-spankin’ new website courtesy Design Ng? There’s still a few content-y things I need to update (like the Q&A page…hey, you have any new questions for me??), but for the most part, we’re there! Love to hear your thoughts!!
BTW…since I’m dying to hear what you think…the first 5 people to comment here? I’ll totally send you some stickers and book swag Just leave a comment and then fill out the contact form with your name/address so I can send it off!
Another BTW…you can now sign up for the newsletter right on the site instead of having to email me!
Mar 8th 2010
Woot! New Site coming very, very soon!
Yay! My web designer person (who happens to be my lovely cousin, Doug) is back from vacation, so my new website is coming! That also means I won’t be posting for a day or two while we get stuff moved over. If you’re entering the Still Sucks to Be Me ARC contest, please both comment AND email me to make sure I get your entries. Hopefully everything will move over successfully, but it *is* technology and we know how that can go…so just to be on the safe side, be sure to email stuff too. In fact, it might even be best if you email me at kim@yabookscentral.com instead of my normal email address (kim@kimberlypauley.com) since my email will be moving too!
Keep your fingers crossed for me! And I hope you’ll like the new site!
Mar 3rd 2010
Still Sucks to Be Me Fan ARC Contest! (Ends March 15th!!)
Okay! It’s finally time to post the Still Sucks to Be Me Fan ARC Contest! I’ve reserved at least three advance copies of Still Sucks to Be Me not for reviewers or official-type people but purely for fans of the first book. Because I love you guys. Because you make writing worthwhile. Because you ROCK.
I’ve been trying to come up with a good contest. Some authors have fans do all kinds of crazy things (there was a cool one recently where the author had people post and do what the craziest thing they would do to get the book would be). So I decided to kind of take all those ideas and give you extra chances to win
Here’s what you gotta do…pick as many items as you want from the following list to do. Each one you do gets you an entrie(s) to win. If you do all of ‘em? You get lots of entries to win! Of course, you still have a chance to win if you do only one of them. If you’ve already done any of the items below, just note it when you comment and I’ll still give you the entry point towards that item!
- Follow me on Twitter. Comment back with your Twitter ID so I can confirm. (1 point)
- Fan me on Facebook. (1 point)
- Friend me on MySpace. (1 point)
- Sign up for my fan newsletter (1 point)
- Create any kind of fan art based on the books! (3 points) A drawing, a computer collage, a song, a poem, absolutely anything! You can e-mail it to me at kim@kimberlypauley.com and let me know it is part of your contest entry. Shoot, if you want to create more than once piece of art? I’ll give you points for each! And if you do something incredible, I will award extra points!
- Create a video book review (or some kind of video fan art/performance) and upload it to YouTube with the tags: “Sucks to Be Me, Book, Kimberly Pauley” (3 points)
- Tell a teacher or librarian how excited you are for the book! (1 point) If they e-mail me to confirm (make sure they tell me your name) OR ask me for a FREE Reading Group Guide, you’ll get an extra point! (1 point)
- Do anything you can think of to get the word out about the books and tell me what you did (1 to 3 points, depending on the difficulty level)
To enter, do the item(s) and then comment back on this post and/or e-mail me as appropriate with what you did. I’ll tally up all the points at the end of March and the winners will have the book in the first part of April! (Unless you guys would like me to cut the contest shorter…until March 15th? Then you’d have the book by the end of March, but you wouldn’t have as much time to get entries in…so your choice…comment and let me know!) UPDATE: The consensus seems to be March 15th! So I’ll end the contest then!
The contest is open to anyone, anywhere. Entrants under the age of 13 must have a parent or guardian confirm they can accept the prize if they win.
Hope you like the contest and have fun with it! Good luck!
Entry Tracking!
It was getting a little confusing, so I thought I would post here with who/what entries I have noted down. If you don’t see your name/entries on this list or you think you’ve got more than I’ve noted, LET ME KNOW by commenting below! My e-mail was getting really crazy, so I’m worried I might have missed some.
- Ben Woodard – 2
- Taylor – 22
- Alina – 35
- LexieR – 5
- Victoria – 31
- Schuyler – 3
- Alessandra – 4
- Annika – 8
- Kassidy – 4
- Jasmine – 2
- Sonya – 1
- Jessica – 1
- Catie S. – 4
- Sharli – 1
- Savannah – 2
- Jade – 4
- Bethany – 4
- Adriana – 2
- Alannah – 4
- Heather – 3
- Autumn – 8
- Nan – 7
Feb 20th 2010
Another review for Still Sucks to Be Me!
Teens Read? gave me a lovely little review of Still Sucks to Be Me which means a lot to me because I think it might be the first review I’ve gotten from actual teens for the book so far! The other reviews I’ve seen are all from older readers (I think. Am pretty sure. Sometimes it can be hard to tell. <grin>). Of course, I haven’t seen too many reviews yet, since the release date is still a while away, but each one is exciting!
Must I spell it out for you? I simply loved it. It was hilarious. I found it even funnier then the first book, (but then again, there was more cause for laughter in this book) (ie cow pie crown)… read the rest of their review…
You should follow me on Twitter here.
Feb 19th 2010
Adventures in Stickers
Okay, so I’m going to be one of the featured authors tomorrow at the Anderson’s Bookshop Children’s Lit Breakfast. Which is a huge affair, as I understand it. And I was thinking this afternoon how I only have book swag for my first book, since I hadn’t ordered any bookmarks or anything for my second one yet. And how, darn it, I probably ought to have something.
So I got the bright idea of making buttons. I went out to the Hobby Lobby to try and locate a button maker, since I’d seen one there before. But they, apparently, don’t carry them anymore and I didn’t have time to run out to another store (having little Max kinda crimps the footloose and fancy free days of my past). So I got the next best thing I could think of: a sticker maker.
I will not bore you (or traumatize you) with everything that has gone wrong with the making of these stickers. Let’s just say that I started trying to make them, eh, 4 or 5 hours ago. Right now, I’ve got a tiny little stack of completed ones.
I have had an Epic Craft Fail tonight.
Here’s what the sticker image looks like:
Simple, right?
Here’s a photo of the in-progress mess:
The Mess
And here’s my small stack of completed stickers. Of which I need something like 50. At least.
The Stickers
Seriously.
All I can say is, if anyone so much as impinges the craftiness of my stickers tomorrow? I may have to go medieval on them.
Feb 18th 2010
I'm on NPR! I'm on NPR!
Ack! Hyperventilate! Where’s a paper bag when you need one?? So, remember a while back I recorded an interview with Margot Adler for NPR? Well, I wasn’t sure if/when they’d be able (or want) to use it. And I have this vague fear that I said stupid things. BUT…
It’s going to air tonight!
It’ll be the last segment of All Things Considered, probably around 6ish. It’ll also be posted on their website later (that URL to follow, once it’s up). It’ll be me and other authors, like Whitley Streiber (which totally freaks me out a little, but hey!). Anyway, keep your fingers crossed for me that I don’t sound stupid!
UPDATE: Here’s the link to the NPR interview, as well as the news article text that goes with the aired interview — and Margot said my book was her favorite! I <3 Margot!
Feb 17th 2010
T-Shirts for Charity!
If you missed it the first time around, there’s a Sucks to Be Me T-shirt shop now featuring some of the coolest doodles from the books (like a vampire squirrel from book two!). Here’s the notice from the charity OpenBooks that I’m donating all the sales proceeds to. They’re really cool — you should definitely check them out!
So, cool threads for a good cause. How awesome is that?
Feb 16th 2010
Pictures from the Valentine's Day Signing
So, I completely forgot to take a camera with me on last Sunday’s Valentine’s Day author signing with Kristin Walker and Kristina Springer. Because I suck. Kidding. Kind of. BUT Kristen (@bookgoil AKA Bookworming in the 21st Century) came and was not so unprepared as I was. And she was kind enough to send me some pictures.
Looking at these pictures, I can’t help but think: Geez, I’m short.
Didn't we make it all purty?
Kristin, Me and Kristina lookin' all in charge and things
Kristin, Me, The Max (flirty boy), Kristina, and Kristen (that's a lot of K's)
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