More great uses for FREEFALL bookmarks!

As you may recall, last week I received my FREEFALL bookmarks and demonstrated possible uses for them.  Then I mailed bookmarks to people who requested them.  The bookmarks have now been sent to a variety of states throughout the U.S. as well as to Canada and Philippines.  They'll be heading to Brazil this week, too.

Yeah, they're international.   

Today, I got to see how nonnymouse_ uses her FREEFALL bookmarks:

   

Awesomeness. 
Love. It.

Thanks so much for sharing the pics, Laurie!  ♥

So, everyone else who got bookmarks, I'd love to see something you're doing with yours!  Send me pictures! ( And let me know if it's okay to post to my blog and if you'd like me to link to your website!)

Oh, and in case you missed the original announcement and don't yet have FREEFALL bookmarks of your very own, do feel free to email me your name, address, and the quantity you're requesting:  mindirochelle AT gmail DOT com

Email insanity.

Somehow I managed to do something wacky to my Blackberry so that I lost all my contacts on the phone UNLESS I have a certain email account turned on.  That particular account has been having a lot of action lately, so the dinging was happening all day long and even into the night.  I actually got out of bed once and switched my phone to silent because it was out in the dining room waking me up.

For three nights in a row, I dreamed of little except emails.  All those lines and lines of text in front of my face, blurring before my eyes.  In one of the less stressful dreams, my publicist let me know that an event we're coordinating was all set up AND that she'd gotten me on another panel with some authors.  It was VERY exciting stuff until I woke up and realized those particular emails don't exist.

Anyway, Dwayne (mostly jokingly) asked if I'm cracking up.  I (mostly seriously) said that I'm not there yet.  But I am very much relating to the song opening line of MGMT's song "Time to Pretend."  (Warning:  Link is rated PG13 or R-ish for language.)

I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life.

I don't know how soon things will calm down (it definitely isn't just emails that have been keeping me busy), but I'm hoping for a bit of a break any old time now.  I very much miss my manuscript that I haven't been able to work on lately.  :-(

Friday 4 (because 5 is just one too many for me)

Four things that please me this week:

1.  This is what all of my email in-boxes looked like yesterday:  Empty!  And the folders are all organized as well.  Of course, the emptiness hasn't continued since I put out an offer to mail FREE AWESOME BOOKMARKS (and the offer is still open, just so you know), but I'm keeping up on it.  So far so good.

 

2.  I have tickets to see Silversun Pickups on July 31st!
 

3.  Over 450 people have added FREEFALL on Goodreads!  And I don't even know most of them!
 

 

4.  As you might know, on Twitter, one can categorize the people they follow onto various lists for easier reading.  I often see my name on lists of "authors", "writers", "kidlit", etc.  But the other day, I saw that someone put me on a list of "funny-people."  Morgan thinks I'm funny!

Bookmarks!

I got a box yesterday.  A box that is filled with 5,000 strips of glossy paper.  This is what it looks like inside:

As you might notice, those strips are the artwork from the FREEFALL cover in bookmark form!   (Bookmark design by Shane from Dwayne's band, Alabaster).  Fun, right? 

Since the FREEFALL bookmarks have arrived, I've found a number of different ways that one can use them. 

1.  You can build a falling-down one-story house of FREEFALL bookmarks:

2.  You can make a FREEFALL bookmark fan. . . :

3.  . . . And then hide behind said fan:

4.  FREEFALL bookmarks are also a great way to dress up ordinary pets:

           

5. And if you wanna, you can use FREEFALL bookmarks to keep your place in your own copy of FREEFALL (when you receive it in October, I mean):

As you can see, the options are pretty much limitless!  What would you do with FREEFALL bookmarks? 

(Oh, and if you would like a free bookmark or two or hundred, please email me (mindirochelle AT gmail DOT com) with your name, mailing address, and the number of bookmarks you'd like and I'll do my best to share the FREEFALL bookmark joy.  Unless I get overwhelmed with requests.  Then I'll just lie here curled up on the floor next to my box of bookmarks and wish I were an organized, on-top-of-things person.)

MEMORY LANE: Starstuck by Charles R. Cross.

The first writers conference I ever attended was the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) during the summer of 2005. 

This was my nametag. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------->

I also wore cute outfits from Ann Taylor Loft, the agent at my pitch session requested the partial of my manuscript FADED AS MY JEANS (which caused me run into the bathroom afterward to cry with joy), and one of my friends from my writing class placed in a contest at the awards banquet.  Good times all around, I say!

But at the time, even better than all of those things was the fact that at one of the dinners, Charles R. Cross sat next to me.  Charles Cross!  The guy who wrote the best Kurt Cobain biography EVER!  Yeah.  He sat. By me.  No, I'm not messing you.

Okay, so you might be wondering what the fuss was about.  I mean, I wasn't, like, a devoted Charles Cross fan or anything.  But the deal is that he was a real author with a real book out that I'D ACTUALLY READ and he talked to a lowlife n00b writer me like I was worthy or something!

In the days and weeks following the conference, meeting Charles was the thing I talked about the most.  Sometimes, I was really hilarious and said things like, "Oh, that totally reminds me of the time when Charles R. Cross, the New York Times best selling author of HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN, and I were talking at dinner at that writer's conference."

It's possible that some of my friends and family might have rolled their eyes and/or growled at me a few times.  But what a lot of fun it was! 

Thanks, Charles (if you Google yourself), for being cool.  :-)