T Minus Two Days til Secret Society Girl and a Digger Gave To Me

…a bouquet of tasty lollipop roses!!!

Today’s Winner is:

JULIE LETO

Apparently, I live to destroy her pre-conference diet. First Pom Fraps and now this.

Why roses? Y’all know the drill: read the book and find out.

Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow… two days! T.W.O. D.A.Y.S!

Yesterday, Marley asked me if I was going to be able to sleep the day before my book came out. Now, I’m not usually the kind of person who is unable to sleep. In fact, I’m the kind of person unable to, well, not sleep. I’m allergic to all-nighters. It’s another thing that I have in common with my heroine. I used to be able to pull it off if absolutely necessary, but I did it so often during one month towards the end of college while preparing my two theses (yes, I wrote two, since I was a double major: one was about post-colonialism and the development of the Western theory of Shangri-La vis-a-vis James Hilton’s Lost Horizon, and the other was about water pollution and reclamation efforts of a particular anthracite mine whose washout fed into the Susquehanna, and if you think there was any overlap in these two projects, you would be sorely mistaken) that I have been incapable of pulling one ever since.

And what does this mean today, dear readers? 1) that I will fully be able to sleep on Monday night and 2) that I definitely have to push forward on this deadline so I’m not forced to try (and fail) to pull any at the end of August.

So I got this email the other day from an unnamed entity who felt the need to tell me that she thinks the new direction my blog has taken is, in her words, annoying. Breathless excitement about my book release and daily giveaways are not, apparently, to be borne. (I suspect she may just be bitter about not winning any lip gloss.) So I just want to remind you that this is and always was intended to be a special pre-release season here on Diana’s Diversions, and eventually, the flow of lip gloss will slow to a trickle and we’ll get back to ranting about sucky industry scammers and extolling the virtue of the synopsis and talking about whether or not there should be a law about the cut of Sailor Boy’s jeans. (Sailor Boy’s mom, if you’re reading this, I totally did not just say that.)

Now, those of you who ARE here for the lip gloss and lollipops, sorry to disappoint. I think it’s entirely likely that you will find my droning on about query letters and voice to be annoying, and that thong will start looking pretty damn good.

So, let’s make these last drawings really count! Enter in the comments section for tomorrow’s SUPER-fabulous giveaway.

And, if any of you are still reading rather than just being all, “Ho, hum, press comment, leave something mindless and hope she picks my number tomorrow” I’d like to announce that I have, at long long last, winnowed down the enormous number of choices in digital cameras and will be picking my new one up today. Therefore rejoice, because pretty soon, there will be pictures a-go-go on this blog once more.

Oh, and stay tuned for the news about the beer, which I’m just bursting with (news, not beer).