Protected: Hey LJ Friends!
Contest Winners! ALA! Books of Wonder!
First, I want to thank you guys SO much for the #sealove! You guys are awesome. From requesting SEA for your school library to writing beautiful and thoughtful reviews to highlighting Sea as your book of the month. Thanks to Novel Novice for so many excellent features on the tsunami, PTSD, and today for putting together a terrific playlist you can find here: http://novelnovice.com/books/book-of-the-month/june-2010-sea-by-heidi-r-kling/
Without further adieu…I have picked FIVE winners from the WEEK NINE GIVEAWAY.
All the entries names were folded into tiny pieces of paper and my kids and their adorable UK friend chose the winners!
THEY ARE:
sparima
courtney
love reading x
bookaholic
ari
Congratulations!
Please snail mail your address to the contact form on my website: http://heidirkling.com and you’ll see what you’ve won when you get the prize in the mail! I’ve ordered a new shipment of bookmarks AND posters are coming too. So stay tuned for more #sealove giveaways and thanks for playing!
You’ve been asking about my UPCOMING EVENTS…
…here they are!
SATURDAY, June 26–SCBWI Debut Author Event–2-4 p.m. in Walnut Creek
Heidi R. Kling & Cynthia Omololu
“A Writer’s Journey: From Idea, to Publication, Marketing and Beyond”
2 to 4 PM
Location:
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
1924 Trinity Avenue
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
http://www.stpaulswc.org
Cost:
$10
SUNDAY, June 27, The Red Carpet Interview at the Newbery Ceremony. #fancy
MONDAY, June 28-ALA signing at Penguin Booth 11:30 a.m.-noon
Washington Convention Center
Need Day Pass to attend
I’m so excited to meet the librarians and sign copies of SEA.
TUESDAY, June 29-ECLIPSE PREMIERE (attendee) in NYC! Voltari Ventures event (TICKETED EVENT) I’m not performing at said event. I am a happy audience member. ^..^
Whoever will she choose?
WEDNESDAY, June 30–Books of Wonder “Coming of Age Romantic Adventures Abroad” Author Event with Angie Frazier (EVERLASTING) and Christina Gonzalez (THE RED UMBRELLA)
FREE Open to public! I’m so excited for this event!
Check out this fantastic flyer!
I’m a huge fan of Books of Wonder on the occasions I’ve been lucky enough to get there.This is such a treat for me that they are hosting us.
We have a fun event planned with readings and giveaways and lots of Q&A. Hope to see you there!
Now for the SERIOUS STUFF.
Red Carpet?
This is serious business.
Thinking something blue.
Can you help me? These are some of the ideas I’ve come up with thus far.
A: Huh? Versatile, charming, unique. And true blue.
OR
B:
OR
C:
Too much?
30 Days of Summer–Guest post by Saundra Mitchell
Hi all–Saundra is going a blog tour to celebrate the paperback release of her debut novel (Edgar Nominated) Shadowed Summer! If you haven’t read this mysterious and beautifully written book–remedy now! I’m giving a copy away here! Leave a comment after the (extremely kind) post from Saundra. I didn’t know she was going to write about me. EEk! ;-)
The winner of the EPIC CONTEST will be posted later this afternoon. Enjoy!
June 21, 2010 – Heidi R. Kling
LEAN ON ME
I’m so excited that SEA is finally out in the world! I met Heidi a
couple of years ago- I’ve never known somebody so sparkly and
enthusiastic. Her energy levels were crazy- they never dimmed, and it
was amazing, because she threw off all these sparks celebrating other
writers.
I’ve always been the solitary type- write in the dark, revise in the
dark, occasionally peer outside in surprise that somehow, it’s not
actually dark. I loved other writers, but I loved them selfishly-
quietly in my own head. Heidi helped pull me out of that dark.
Lots of people will tell you that community is important, and having a
writing group is useful. But it wasn’t until I joined The Debs and met
Heidi, that I actually believed them. There’s so much to learn about
being published. Your editor and your agent can’t possibly tell you
everything- and not everything you read online applies to you.
For example, the print runs and expectations for adult books are VASTLY
different than the print runs and expectations for YA books- but because
everything “writing” gets lumped together, it’s hard to figure out what
to believe. When you have a writers group, you’re never alone. We’re
there to celebrate the happy moments, and to cry together when things
aren’t going so great.
It doesn’t surprise me at all that Heidi didn’t let SEA being moved to
2010 slow her down. She threw herself right back into the community and
created The Tenners! We’re so lucky to have debut groups. And I’m so
lucky to have someone like Heidi in my life. She’s an amazing writer,
and she shares her knowledge and her successes and her unrestrained glee
without hesitation.
I’m not sure where she gets the energy, but I sure do admire it!
SHADOWED SUMMER
by Saundra Mitchell
In paperback June 8, 2010
www.shadowedsummer.com
Win me here! Or Buy me now below. :-)
Indiebound URL:
http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780440422570
Book Depository URL:
http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780440422570/Shadowed-Summer
Powell’s URL:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-9780440422570-0
Amazon URL:
http://www.amazon.com/Shadowed-Summer-Saundra-Mitchell/dp/0440422574/
– ~ Shadowed Summer ~
Available Now from Delacorte Press
www.shadowedsummer.com
In a town as small as Ondine,
every secret is a family secret.b>
Greater Bay Area Bookstore Tour & Cheeseburgers!
I stopped off to wish my dad a Happy Father’s Day yesterday on my Greater Bay Area Bookstore Road trip, which was about half planned/half fly-by-Oh-look-there’s-a-bookstore! Was great seeing him and telling him that one of our stops was to one of our favorite “Read the New York Times and have breakfast while browsing books at Book Depot–a most adorable bookstore cafe in beauteous and quaint Mill Valley. He used to live over the hill in even tinier Stinson Beach when me having a book on an indie bookstore shelf was a farawaydream.
Book Depot where Martha Flynn wanted to sleep on a bench in the playful town square.
The YA section is tiny–no more than just a couple tall bookshelves–and they didn’t have SEA. But I introduced myself to the lovely clerk and she said “Oh, we’ll have to order some! when I left her postcards and she read the premise. Yay!
Other stops all had SEA on the shelves!
How exciting at stores that weren’t even in my neighborhood!
The clerks were all so enthusiastic and kind. Now there is signed stock at:
Books Inc. Opera Plaza, San Francisco (One of my favorite stores!)
The Book Passage, Corte Madera
Copperfields, Santa Rosa (and probably Petaluma too, if they share their signed stock?)
Book Passage was amazing–I can see what all the fuss is about now. Very community oriented with a nice feel. SEA was faced out AND has as many copies as Will Grayson, Will Grayson. :-)
My good friend Sarah and her family stopped by to get signed copies, so great seeing them!
Copperfield’s signing with Malinda Lo (ASH) and Cheryl Herbsman (BREATHING) was so enjoyable.
There was a smallish crowd, but they were lively and full of questions. The best part was Amanda the event’s coordinator who introduced us with such gusto and well-researched bio facts–it’s clear she’s a huge YA fan and made us feel so comfortable. I felt honored to be reading alongside Deb-friends Malinda and Cheryl (who both bought my book–aww!)
I brought door prizes including a sea turtle kite that didn’t look at all like this:
Martha and I stopped at In & Out on the way home because I lack the self-control to ever drive by an In & Out Burger and remember? Whenever I’m on the road I forget to eat and then crave a cheeseburger around 10 p.m.?
Who can resist the allure of the In & Out?
On the way home–I had to blast 70′s music from my $5.00 CVS CD to keep me awake and I felt a bit like a minor league baseball player on the wide open road making so many stops.
Martha told me she knows an author who drives back and forth across the country signing stock whenever a new book comes out. That it’s invaluable to meet the people who will hand sell your book.
After meeting so many fantastic booksellers, I can see why.
Happy Father’s Day!
CONTEST ENDS AT MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT
WINNER ANNOUNCED TOMORROW!
We’re taking our daddy to the beach. What are you doing?
One week birthday?! Goodreads Movers & Shakers List!?
I know what you’re thinking. Oh, God. She’s like one of those new mommies who you meet and you’re like, “How old is your baby?” and she’s all glowy and belly patting and says, “Thirty one and a half weeks. We’re having a party tonight to celebrate.” Then makes all kinds of gaga noises.
Come on now.
I didn’t even know it had been a week (a week!) until the loveliest of lovelies Jandy Nelson tweeted me, “Happy first week birthday for SEA!” She is just too awesome.
So wow. One week in the wild.
How does it feel to have your book Out There?
People keep asking. So let’s see. Great things:
1. I had the two big readings/signings and they both went well. We sold a lot of books! People were happy!
2. The Goodreads thing is VERY SHOCKINGLY CRAZY cool. The fact that SEA is ONE OF SIX BOOKS chosen for Goodreads June Movers and Shakers list? Among these other (all adult!) books? It reminds me of the Sesame Street song: “One of these things is not like the other” AKA: one of these books is not plastered everywhere, and is not even at Border’s bookstores…lalallalaalala…” Okay. Good thing I don’t write for PBS children’s programing. BUT BUT. Here’s the very short list that includes SEA.
(From Goodreads) showing 1-6 of 6)
June 2010 The Passage (Hardcover)
by Justin Cronin
In a not-so-distant future, a paranoid U.S. government injects death-row inmates with a virus designed to turn them into superhuman soldiers. But the inmates escape and spread a nightmarish plague to the population—the infected are out for blood. In the midst of post-apocalyptic disaster, a six-year-old girl may be civilization’s only hope. Jackie calls it “a modern-day Frankenstein tale—literary science fiction on a…more my rating:
June 2010 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Hardcover)
by Nicholas Carr
The Internet has accelerated our way of life, but is it remapping our brains? Carr’s 2008 Atlantic article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” ignited the blogosphere, and now the tech critic digs deeper into the Internet’s intellectual consequences. Genevieve says, “This is pop science at its best—lucid but evenhanded and accessible but highly informative. This book will give you a lot to think about.”
June 2010 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Hardcover)
by Aimee Bender
Little Rose Edelstein can taste the emotions of those who prepare her food: lunch ladies, cooks, and most painfully, her mother. This bittersweet tale reveals the confusion and mystery of growing up. Pamela says, “Every thought in this novel is so clear and so lovely…I feel like I’ve got to take a personal day just to keep thinking about it.”
June 2010 How Did You Get This Number (Hardcover)
by Sloane Crosley
Crosley’s debut collection of essays, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, established her as a quintessential young New Yorker. Her new collection includes plenty of pithy observations on city living but also takes her farther afield, getting lost in the winding streets of Lisbon and fending off grizzly bears as a bridesmaid in an Alaskan wedding. Greg says Crosley “reminds me of David Sedaris, and some of the sentences are …more my rating:
June 2010 Backseat Saints (Hardcover)
by Joshilyn Jackson
Trapped in rural Texas, Rose Mae Lolley submerges her feisty personality to survive in a relationship with a controlling and abusive husband. Fate intervenes when an airport gypsy’s tarot reading issues a harsh warning: Her husband will kill her unless she can kill him first. Laura says, “You will feel as if Rose is sitting right next to you pouring her heart out, as the author has brought her to life so vividly.” my rating:
June 2010 Sea (Hardcover)
by Heidi R. Kling (Goodreads Author)
In this young adult novel, 15-year-old Sienna travels to Indonesia to help the survivors of the tsunami, but she is still grieving for her mother, whose plane disappeared over the Indian Ocean three years ago. When she falls in love with a local orphaned boy, she finds herself caught between two worlds. April says, “Imagine a book that will melt your heart…picture an exotic location…now add in a large smattering …more
EEEEEK! THAT’S MY BOOK. THE ONE I WROTE IN MY KITCHEN. THE PASSAGE IS ON THAT LIST.
In case you live in a cave, the Passage is like the DiVinci Code of this summer. There were posters the size of the moon at BEA. The bear book and the cake book are everywhere. In Oprah’s summer book magazine, everywhere!I It’s just such a shock and thrill that SEA, the only YA, is on this very short list of such incredibly looking, popular-like-wildturkey titles. (Okay, that came out of nowhere. Wild turkeys are wildly popular?) ;-)
You get the point. I’m happy x 1 zillion about being on that list!
So what else? I’m still thinking about that lemon cake book and how awesome that book looks.
I’m also checking my Amazon ratings religiously. But isn’t that what new book mama’s SUPPOSED to be doing? Not fretting about those silly numbers, is like not fretting about the bath temperature. Or the flecks of skin on a newborns hairline.
So how do I feel overall?
Strangely at ease. I mean, it’s frustrating when people go to six bookstores and still cant’ find my book–but I point them to Kepler’s online where they can order a signed copy. Shipments arrive late–some stores will stock a whole bunch, some won’t stock it–I encourage Indie buying whenever possible, but I’ve had readers buy on Kindle, Nook, Amazon–whatever–as long as their getting their hands on the story, I’m happy.
My friend Jennifer laughran at my NYMBC launch party said, “I’ve never seen you this calm.” It was after I gave my talk and signed 80 some odd books. I was thinking about it later, and I’m not sure what to make of it–I guess it’s just the frenetic ride to get here–the climb–has sort of leveled out. I’m getting a lot of positive reinforcement, too. A heckofalot more people love my book than loathe it. And that’s nice. But that’s not what it is–maybe it’s just the fact that I did it. I climbed the mountain. I carried this book to the top, and now I need to watch it do it’s thing. Race down the hill full speed or take it’s time meandering…who knows.
My little blue book could crash and burn or be highlighted on Oprah and have Bradgelina take it on as their next project and go on to win multiple Academy Awards. Or sell 200 copies.
WHO KNOWS.
The point is, I’ve done everything I could, and will continue to sign and speak and meet readers etc., but emotionally, I know I put my heart and soul into sharing this project with the world. So no matter what the book’s outcome I know I did my personal best. I know that as my truth.
So I don’t think it’s calmness–this whatever-strange-vibe.
I think it’s peace.
Burt? Are you thinking we better read some of these adult books this summer? I love YA and all, but I cannot resist lemon cake and a good Grizzly Bear…
Books Inc. Launched SEA in style!
What a fun, fantastic night at Books Inc. So many people came out to celebrate along with me–I think my family was even more excited that I was–my sisters were crying, my mom and dad and step-mom were so proud and happy. My husband was giddy–my son was giddy x 10. Watching them. That was my favorite part.
And the cupcakes. Oh the cupcakes!
Martha Flynn, the fabulous Martha Flynn, ordered custom cupcakes with tiny orange Converse and blue sea stars and crimson crabs and they were ADORABLE.
Orange creme soda and champagne (not mixed worry not) equaled fizzy nom. Of course, like my wedding day, the whole thing whizzed by in a tremendous blur. I remember a) smiling a lot and b) Jennifer Laughran wrestling my mike away.
Thanks to Not Your Mother’s Book Club and Jennifer Laughran for hosting with the mosting, to the book bloggers who drove from far away, to my local friends and family, to my sister and our friend Christa for flying all the way down from Portland, for my best friend from college Lenka, fellow creative writing major/Days of Our Life writing applicant (hah) for coming down with her beautiful kids. My author friends Jandy Nelson, Daisy Whitney, CJ Omololu, Lisa Dez, and Linda Joy Singleton for shimmering in the crowd, and Martha Flynn for giving me *gasp* wait for it, john varvatos custom made Converse AND a scarf. (It’s an inside joke involving Damon from TVD, and wow, les gasp!) and reader fans who participating in #sealove and who are awesome!
Everyone Dared to Love. Big time. :-)
And now for a collage of completely unordered pictures of ze night!
Launch poster plus LOOK AT ALL THOSE SEA’S!
Heidi talking to a very full house Phil Donahue style.
Launch poster! So blue!
Heidi taking Q & A-the audience had lots of great questions!
Happy at the signing table
Heidi and Zoe! (Zoe’s mom took a ton of these pics, and she fist-bumped my mom about Damon’s hotness.)
Heidi and Christine! She brought flowers! So sweet.
Heidi signing a book to Lenka Vodicka fellow banana slug writing gal >>famous cupcake pictured there!
Jennifer Laughran giving a so-sweet intro. <3
People were taking a lot of pictures of me. I’m so happy I had my hair done. :)
Heidi and Mermaid-hair Jessica (Chick Lit Teens) who came all the way from Sacramento w/ her nice dad! Maybe they’ll go to Indo together next?
Me and the table of yummy Indonesian food and fizzy drinks!
If you have more pictures from the launch, please leave them in comments!
For more yummy pictures on the launch see these terrific blogs:
http://www.chicklitteens.com/2010/06/heidi-r-klings-sea-launch-party.html
http://erindealey.blogspot.com/2010/06/happy-sea-launch-heidi-kling.html
Thanks to everyone for coming out and celebrating with me and taking these pictures I spun off of Twitter and Facebook and Dad’s email. :)
Kepler’s Event! June 10, 2010 “Reality Bites”
What a great evening at Kepler’s! Thanks to everyone who came, it was a full house, standing room only, and such an eclectic mix from our mutual Penguin rep, few members of my writers group, eager readers, baseball moms, my neighbors, my dad, other friends, book bloggers, fellow authors, etc. one blogger, Gail, even flew in from Boston! And Pam brought Sea cake!
Sharing the evening with the loveliest of lovelies Jandy Nelson (The Sky is Everywhere) and Nina LaCour (Hold Still) made it ten times more special. They epitomize warmth and class and I adore them both.
Angela, again, was hostest with mostest. And Molly saved the day by both putting together a beautiful power point presentation for us which included highlighting our book trailers. Here is the story in pictures!
(left to right) Heidi R Kling, Nina La Cour, Jandy Nelson
“Teen Realistic Fiction” covers
Jandy reading from The Sky is Everywhere
Nina reading from Hold Still
Heidi reading from Sea
Heidi’s “talk” about Sea (note cover and blurb behind me–thanks Molly!)
Feeling happy
Feeling pensive?
Long line of customers :)
Signing my real live book! For real live readers!
from left to right: Gail (boston blogger), Angela, me (trying hard not to do my BEA “lean”), BookaliciousPam, Nancy, Nina and Jandy
Dare to Love tank tops came in THAT. DAY. Molly again saved the day by helping wrap them in lovely sea grass ribbon and put teeny popsicle stickers to mark the size. Aren’t they GORGEOUS? We’re selling them tomorrow at the launch party and on my NEWLY REMODELED website–same address–new look. In the SEA STORE!!
All proceeds go to an Aceh, Indonesia NGO where my tsunami survivor friend Usul works.
http://heidirkling.com/
Spread the #sealove!
Click on SEA STORE then choose color and size. You know you MUST HAVE ONE.
Tomorrow is my LAUNCH PARTY at BOOKS INC. in PALO ALTO.
I hear literaticat is painting her toenails blue!
Mine are orange and blue.
This is so fun.
My sister and one of our oldest friends, she’s not biologically old, I mean, we’ve known her forever, are flying down from Portland and driving down with my mom—my dad, my other sister, my best friend from college, my writing homies from S.F., I mean, I can’t wait.
I even found ORANGE CREME SODA IN BOTTLES.
Indonesian food is being catered.
It’s going to be a BASH.
I hope I can survive the awesome.
Sea you tomorrow??
Birthday Gifties to Share, A Special Note to You, Grammy’s B.day 2
I’m overwhelmed by the outpouring of love for SEA’s birthday today.
I’ve been crying happy-touched tears all morning!
First I woke up to this unbelievable gift from Frenetic Reader (Khy!) and bunch of other so-kind bloggers and a famous author popping up at the end. Aww. <3 Check it out here:
http://www.freneticreader.com/2010/06/happy-release-day-heidi-r-kling.html
Last night we had a raging #sealove party over on Twitter.
I gave out lots of prizes including charm bracelets, tank-tops (which will go on sale on my website TONIGHT!) The are made with beautiful American Apparel--all proceeds go to NGO women's rights program in Aceh, Indonesia where my friend Usul works. More pictures and info on the tank-tops later.)
Yesterday, a reviewer sent me a song inspired by SEA as a gift.
The email subject simply said, "A gift."
I opened it up and it was this beautiful song.
It's called "Beautiful Sea."
He said he was so touched by the book that he was inspired to write it. Okay. This is what authors only dream about. Well, this author anyway.
I listened to it on repeat for like an hour then begged him to let me share it. He is shy but he said he'd leave it up on his blog for a couple of days. Please leave him a comment if you liked it. I think it would mean a lot to him.
http://djslifeinfiction.blogspot.com/2010/06/beautiful-sea-original-song.html
I told DJ that I get it. It's very scary the idea of sharing a creation baby with the rest of the world.
Music, like books, like poems, like plays, are so close to your heart.
Obviously, the material means a lot to you or you wouldn't have spent so much time so much effort on your passion.
Thanks for being brave enough to share this beautiful piece of you with us, D.J. :)
Another gift I got yesterday was word from Goodreads that SEA was chosen as a "Mover and Shaker" book of June! When my editor wrote to tell me this I wasn't quite sure what it meant--but what it means is that SEA was one of only SIX books chosen from all the books out in June as popular books that they wanted to highlight on their list of...
THREE MILLION PEOPLE.
*faints*
*comes to because I have a signing tonight at Kepler's with Jandy Nelson and Nina LaCour at 7 p.m. and I still have to work on the Power Point presentation and find segments of SEA to read and then practice reading in teh shower while dodging piles of a) paintbrushes b) clothes b) Pokemon clothes that are scattered like stepping stones on my wood floor. I'm not usually this messy, but let's just say I'm glad there are no paparazzi outside looking in.*
SEA also shares her birthday with my Grammy who turns 90 years old. I'm sad to say she won't be able to make my Saturday, June 12 Launch Party at Books of Wonder after all, because she is suffering from dementia and the trip (4 hours) would be too confusing for her. She does understand that my book comes out today. She keeps it on her side table where she keeps her coupons and her cross-word puzzles and she reads the ARC almost every day. She has encouraged me to "Never give up on your writing" since I was about ten years old. An avid reader and talented writer in her own right, she never wrote anything down. She told me all her stories, and I wish I could remember every detail, but I don't. She says she regrets never writing and I think, in someways, this is like her publication day too. So happy book birthday to you too, Grammy! I love you!
ANYWAY here is that GOODREADS list. Which includes THE PASSAGE (!!)
SEA is the only YA book on it.
http://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/14-june-movers-shakers
*moves/shakes/quakes*
Thank you to Goodreads, to everyone at Penguin Young Readers, to the fabulous bloggers, my fellow YA authors, my new readers and the greater YA community for embracing this (non-vampire/non-werewolf and YES, sadly, no-mermaid) story. Thank you to my amazing husband who is so supportive, does such fantastic work and strives each day to improve the human condition.
Thank YOU for reading this book and helping me honor the survivors of the tsunami, the love ones they lost to the sea and the idea that hope lives on if you have enough faith in yourself and the will to believe.
Peace and love,
Heidi
VOYA! SEA ships on Amazon! Charms! #sealove
You know you wait for something forever and then it’s here and it’s just this crazy wild blur of happy and even more crazy than you imagine and also strangely normal because you’ve been working toward it for so long and you just think WOW. Well, that’s my world these daze. Here are a few highlighted frenzies from today:
Amazon! My book is shipping! How do I know this? Because my SIX SEA’s are coming. No judging, I ordered them way-back-when the button first popped up. I couldn’t help it. :)
Check out my curious rankings here:
http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Heidi-R-Kling/dp/0399251634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253219363&sr=8-1
We’re spreading the #sealove BIG TIME by throwing a three-day-Twitter-SEA-party complete with lots of PRIZES like this:
This artist is MAGIC. How did she find an orange Converse CHARM? Because she’s MAGIC.
Like it? Me too! 50% of proceeds are donating to earthquake victims, and I like that even more.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/49021067/sea-inspired-converse-charm-bracelet
My Deb friend Megan sent me this beautiful review of SEA by VOYA this a.m.
This made me so happy. Here a bit of it:
“Kling captures the innocence and heartbreak of first romance superbly in this tender love story…this page turner evokes the harshness of disaster as well as the beauty of the young soul…sure to be a hit with romance readers, this book is perfect to present as a summer beach read.” -Angie Hammond, VOYA
Hope you like it too!
Two more daze!
Shrek, Rpattz and Monday, Monday…Four Daze Till Sea!
1. Saw SHREK the Final Chapter? Ever After? Today with The Boy. We loved it. Highly recommend for all ages. Family, friendship, true love–covered everything I like. Plus, who can say no to a talking donkey? Plus, this last green-ogre installment had profound messages about what happens *after* the happy ending. About how reality isn’t all sunshine and roses, but when you’re with the people you love you are following your bliss.
Then tonight, a bit less quality entertaining, but entertaining nonetheless, THE MTV Movie Awards. Kstew and Rpattz still pretending they aren’t together and sweeping all the awards? Check. Awkward girl/girl kiss in order to gain fresh street cred? Check. Tom Cruise balding and doing creeper things with a stick? No comment. Bella saying to Jacob, “Stop smiling we’re just going for a ride,” and then taking off on the motorcycle with her arms wrapped around him while a stunned Edward looks on? AWE-SOME. Did I mention I got invited to see a special early Eclipse premiere between ALA and Books of Wonder event? Well, I did. This is another gift from Twitter. A very sweet gift.
2. Early SEA readers, remember the temple Borobudur where Deni and Sienna go together on the moped? Well, there’s a restaurant in San Francisco by the same name, and it CATERS. I’m thrilled beyond thrilled because I wanted to get authentic Indo food for my launch party Saturday at Books Inc., Palo Alto, but we even among all of our varied restaurants, we don’t have Indonesian food, so this is just thrilling. Am calling them in the morning! Speaking of launch food, my lovely friend Bookaliciouspam. Well, Pam, offered to make SEA THEME cupcakes for the party! Orange and blue and coconut too. Yummy and so generous and wow.
3. Reviewers have been exceedingly kind to SEA. I appreciate so much the time it takes to write this up and maintain a blog. Here are a few recent ones if you’re interested.
http://novelnovice.com/2010/06/03/sea-by-heidi-r-kling-saras-review/
http://bookalicio.us/2010/05/sea-by-heidi-r-kling/
http://www.goodbooksandgoodwine.com/2010/05/review-of-sea-by-heidi-r-kling.html
http://sarahbear9789.blogspot.com/2010/05/sea-by-heidi-r-kling.html
http://book-mac13.blogspot.com/2010/05/sea.html
http://www.missremmersreview.com/2010/06/sea-heidi-kling.html
http://thepagesofbrooks.blogspot.com/2010/06/sea.html
Sorry if I forgot yours. Just in case here is the most recent Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6482981-sea
Novel Novice is also holding a cool travel writing contest to win a copy of SEA, and they did a thoughtful post about remembering the tsunami. Please check out their great site and enter to win here: http://novelnovice.com/2010/06/02/tell-us-your-travel-story-to-win-sea-by-heidi-r-kling/
4. I finished my revisions on the Mystic Falls Vampire Diaries essay today. Deadline day. I pretended I was a therapist evaluating Damon and Stefan Salvatore. A female therapist.
Spending time thinking about his interpersonal conflicts has not been rough.
5. Want to support independent bookstores but don’t have one near you? NEVER FEAR. I signed stock at Kepler’s Books this morning! Signed copies of SEA will be available online at their store here: http://www.keplers.com/signed-editions–you can order them RIGHT NOW. Tell them Heidi sent you specially.
Have a good Monday, everybody!
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