Things That Make Me Happy/Things That Make Me Sad

The winner of the Book Pimp Giveaway is listed below (#9). Congratulations! Please email your address and which one of the four books (Venus Envy, Surviving Demon Island, The Rest Falls Away, and Magic or Madness) that you would like me to send you.

To the rest, thanks for entering, and we’ll do this again next week!

Things that Make Me Happy:
1. The totally awesome surprise I mailed to Gena Showalter that she may tell you about at her leisure.
2. The kick ass interior design of Under the Rose, and the fact that I’ve seen said kick ass interior design, which means that I saw my book looking like a book, and that’s always happy-making.
3. Speaking of happy-making, I just found out that Scott Westerfeld, New York Times Bestseller List regular, Aurealis nominee, Norton preliminary balloteer, and my long-time professional crush, is writing a follow-up to the Uglies trilogy, called EXTRAS, which will be out in the fall. I get all bubbly just thinking about it.
4. Justine Larbalestier is also on the prelim Norton ballot.
5. Susan Adrian has a new excerpt of her book up. Go read it.
6. Dona Sarkar-Mishra just announced her first book sale for How to Salsa in a Sari. Go congratulate her!
7. Marianne Mancusi just posted the cover and blurb of her new romance/sci-fi/adventure, Moongazer, on her blog.
8. I finished writing a synopsis yesterday and I’m very proud of it.
9. The winner of the Book Pimp Giveaway and his/her choice of the four books pictured on the giveaway post is… SARA (EATRAWFISH)

Things That Make Me Sad:
1. I’m having some sort of tooth pain.
2. Reading up on the type of pain it is on the internet in tandem with my dental history makes me suspect I may need a root canal.
3. Which is not cheap.
4. And I don’t have dental insurance.
5. And it’s so aggravating, because I had great dental insurance at my old job and did not need to go to a dentist, but less than a month after quitting said old job with the great dental insurance, I had a dental incident. (The only thing that even slightly mollifies my frustration of this situation is that even if I had sprung for the unreasonably expensive independent dental insurance, my hypothetical future root canal would not be covered, since there was an 18 month blackout window. Which means if you, like me, chipped a tooth, and then 6 months later you are experiencing a pain that indicates the need for a root canal, then you are up shit creek as far as coverage goes.)
6. Man, I hope this isn’t even worse than I think it is.
7. Did I mention how I don’t actually have a dentist here? Now taking recommendations. Feel free to email.