You guys! I HAVE A WEBSITE!

As of this past Monday, there is exactly six months until FREEFALL comes out.  (Six months??!!!)
This seems like a good a time to officially announce my website:   mindiscott.com

The site was designed by the talented (and patient!) Vicki with Swank Web Style using photography from my January shoot with Brittney Bush Bollay.  I'm so very happy with how it turned out!

You can read lots of revealing stuff About Me.  I'm not quite finished putting in all the content; it's a work in progress for some of it.  I'm going to be adding more photos to the photo page and continually updating (and embarrassing myself with) the Read My Old Diaries page as well.  I'll also see if I can maybe add a FREEFALL excerpt in the coming months or some sort of FREEFALL FAQ on the books tab.  Yay!

But, yeah.  That's the stuff!  Please check it out and let me know what you think.  There is a link from the blog to the site and vice versa.  So that's fun!  If you ever get bored, you can just click back and forth and back and forth to see the two different headers.  Not that I've ever done anything like that . . .

The arrival of FREEFALL's Advance Reviewer's Copy.

I got a package yesterday.  It was a large, padded envelope that had been ripped open, stapled shut again, and labeled like so:

I'm sorry, too, The Postal Service. I'm sorry, too.

You see, said "damage" to my article resulted in me receiving the Simon & Schuster Fall catalog (yay!) and just one ARC in the envelope instead of the catalog with two ARCs that my editor sent me (boo!). 

I'm going to assume that since no one could have guessed the contents, they didn't intentionally mutilate the package in order to steal my ARC.  I'm also assuming that it fell out by accident and is somewhere within the belly of the USPS waiting to be returned to me.  I've been in contact with USPS and have filed a report.   So maybe, just maybe, it will turn up (all mangled) four weeks from now. 

Hey, it could happen, right?

The good news in all this is that even though I didn't get my two ARCs, I did get one.  And it is PRETTY FRICKEN COOL, I have to say.  The whole family here decided to give it some love and attention!

Here's the FREEFALL ARC and me, chilling in front of my house:

And here's Oz sniffing the ARC and Angelus hiding from it:

Oz sniffing the ARC. 

Niña is posing behind it and Neko is relaxing beside it:

 

And Dwayne. . .  Oh, hey!  What's that you're reading?  Anything good?

Random Wednesday updates. (It is Wednesday, right?)

1.  This is the last day of the March Madness Writing Challenge.  My goal was to write 25 scenes before the end of March.  I made that goal!  I actually wrote 26 scene and did some development work, too.  Thanks,  , for organizing and motivating!

2.  My ARCs are coming!  My ARCs are coming!  I'm only getting two, so I won't be able to share.  But, yes, bound galleys for FREEFALL do exist and I'll be gazing at them in person.  I'll post pics as soon as they arrive.  :-)

3.  I had a dream last night that I fainted while in the freezer aisle at Safeway.  As I was falling to the ground, I had just enough time to wrap my purse strap around my arm a few times so that no one could steal it while I was unconscious.  Ever since my hot pink/turquoise hearts purse containing one, two, and five dollar bills as well as half-dollar and silver-dollar coins was stolen from Chuck E. Cheese when I was around ten, I've had a lot of concern that it will happen again.  Even in my dreams, as you can see.

4.  A few minutes ago, I was staring out the window at clouds.  I saw one that looked JUST LIKE a poodle glancing over its shoulder.  In the fifteen seconds it took for me to grab my camera and take a picture, the wind had already blown its head off its body.  It was very disappointing.   See?

5.  All right.  In reference to #1 here.  The truth is, I'm kind of petrified now that March is over.  I have all these rough scenes and I want to do something amazing with them.  But I tried to open a Word doc to start typing, and had a jolt of panic and could hardly breathe.  I'm going to need to set some very specific April goals to work toward.  The sooner I can write this book, the sooner cool things can happen with it, of course.  It's all up to me here.  I'm doing this.  Yes.

YA author/pet contest

The Book Scout has a contest going on to match pets with their YA authors.  One of the animals that I live with is represented!  Can you guess which one?  Check it out here!