Crazy Black Friday

Okay. This is the third year in a row that I have sat outside Best Buy for great Black Friday deals. If you've never heard of Black Friday, it's the one day of the year with deals good enough to make me sit outside a store in line for 19 hours with a low of 26 degrees and flurries.

This year I got a Toshiba laptop and printer for 229.00 to which I added 1 gig of memory for $15.00. I got a camcorder for 199.00 and a 40 inch flat panel tv for 1149.00

It was great. I met some great people in line. But now I have a writing laptop and printer for almost nothing. Gotta love that deal.


Leila Brown 'The crazy chick from the line outside Best Buy'.

It's Release Day!

The Diamond Heartstone Releases Today!

That's right folks. It's release day. The Diamond Heartstone released today.

I'm a published author! *Doing the snoopy dance.*


Thanks,
Leila Brown

That sinking feeling

It's one day before my book releases and I am a bundle of nerves. I have promo'd as much as possible. I have been at chats. I've released excerpts. I've done as much as I can think to do. So what now?

Just sit back and wait to see what happens? I don't know if I can do that. I really what to make a big splash. But for that to happen a lot of people need to really like the book. *fingers crossed*

I can only hope. Now on to revising my Vampire Oracle book. I have a couple of ideas for new series. I need to let those ideas percolate for a while. Maybe that will get my mind off of the release tomorrow.

Yeah, I think it's unlikely too.

If your reading this, buy the book tomorrow and tell me what you think!

Leila Brown

Side-lined!

I was blind sided last week with the death of a loved one. It hit me hard and fast. I have been a little lax in my duties. But if you are expecting something from me or an email with information. I swear I will be getting to that today.


Thanks,
Leila

Guest Blogging Today

Hey, I'm guest blogging today over at The Romance Studio Blog.

Come by and see how I research the cities I use for the setting of my book.


Leila

Type the last words

I just typed the last words in the first draft of Sacrifice. :D

The book came in at 20,385 words only 385 words over the limit. And that is before I go in and add in any needed words. Sucks. But it's done.

I will take tomorrow off. Maybe brainstorm a new story or something. Then it's off to do the first revisions. And cut some words. I would love to come in at 19.5 before I hand it in to the editors. Just so I have a little wiggle room.

But it's done. Done. Done. * Booty shaking *

Leila Brown

By the Power of Grayskull....

I just finished watching The Princess of Power -- the first She-Ra movie. And although my little rug rat was crawling over me I was a kid again. I believed that there was a magical dimension and...I got more ideas for more stories.

I love / hate when that happens. I love it because I enjoy thinking up new worlds. I love that first bite of insipration. I hate it because I am working on other things. This bright new shiny idea must go in the que...which by the way is getting impossibly long.

Anyway...what cartoons inspired you as a kid? Which ones can you watch now and be pulled back to a time when you believed anything possible?

For me it's those five little words...By the Power of Grayskull!


Leila