And number 136 on my list of followers is HEATHER HOOTON! Congratulations Heather! Email me your mailing address through my contact page and I’ll ship it off to you asap. Thanks everyone for participating! You’re the best!

Here is what the warmer looks like:

Beautiful, isn’t it? All you have to do to win this amazing giveaway is one very simple thing, and maybe–wait for it–nothing at all! The very simple thing you have to do is “like” Emerald City on Facebook. That’s it. You don’t even have to leave a comment here. And if you’ve already “liked” it, you’re golden. A week from now, next Thursday, I will randomly choose one of my Facebook followers to win this awesome prize. So make sure you’ve “liked” Emerald City (if you haven’t already, just click up in the upper right hand corner of this page on the little F icon under “follow me”) by next Thursday and then check back here to see if you’re the big winner!

Good luck!

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That’s not even my real confession, at least, not the juiciest one. Here it is:

I’ve been cheating on my sequel.

I’ve had this horrible cold, see, and I’m miserable and achy and, well, miserable. So I’ve barely gotten out of bed during the day, which means I can’t sleep at night. And when I can’t sleep at night, my writer brain goes crazy and I start getting all kinds of ideas. Also, I listen to my iPod to try to get tired, but it never works. It just gets me all inspired and stuff. So I was listening to a particular song and something suddenly clicked in me and I jumped out of bed and tiptoed to my computer and…um…started writing. A different book. I know!! I have so much guilt, I haven’t told a soul, not even my husband. But I’m so insanely excited about it I did the same thing the following night. And I can’t stop thinking about it. And this is not the book I’m supposed to be thinking about writing!! But it’s a book I’ve always wanted to write, one I had the idea for forever ago, when Emerald City was still just a fetus in the womb, not fully developed. And the other night, with the insomnia, and the song, and the creative mind going crazy…it just clicked and I had to start writing. I tell myself maybe I can do both. One book by day, the other by night. Then I remember that I have to sleep sometime, and, who am I kidding? I sleep much more than the average bear. Literally, bears, who hibernate all winter. I sleep more than them. So…*she sighs sadly* I know I have to somehow force myself to put this new book on a figurative shelf until my sequel…and prequel…and other sequel…are finished. It may be years before I can write this!

I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Please don’t tell my sequel, it would never forgive me.

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My Fan Club

BARNES & NOBLE

Me and My Mom

Me and My Dad

Both events were so much fun and huge successes! Thanks to everyone who came out for them!