More Freefall mentions

I've spotted a few more blogs talking about Freefall ! Julie at Bloggers heart Books selected it as one of her Waiting on Wednesday picks this week, as did Shelly at Write for a Reader.

There was also a wonderful review at All-Consuming Books - Book Reviews by Tiger!  I really love this quote from it:  "Freefall is exhilarating—I laughed out loud, I was turning the pages like crazy to find what would happen to Seth next, and I enjoyed it from start to finish."

Also, Shaun David Hutchinson, author of The Deathday Letter, gave Freefall a five-star rating on Goodreads and said this about it:  Freefall is a great story about growing up, facing your fears, and learning to communicate. Set to a background of rock music, beer, and magic eight balls, Seth McCoy is a modern day Lloyd Dobbler without Lloyd's creep-factor.

Man, do I love that!  :-)

'Splosions of Cuteness

I've received more photos FREEFALL bookmarks being used for exciting, fun, and always useful purposes!

Today, I present you with an orgy of kitties courtesy of my friend Amy and Melanie at The Reclusive Bibliophile:

Can you even handle all the cuteness???  Thanks, ladies, for sharing these photos with me!  ♥

As always, if anyone out there has FREEFALL bookmarks and would like to share a picture of how you use them, please email me your pics at mindirochelle AT Gmail DOT com.  And if you don't have bookmarks and would like me to mail a few, feel free to ask!

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Goodreads... again!

I like to post the Goodreads happenings.  So here's another one:

Today I noticed that someone had added another rating for FREEFALL by Mindi Scott.  

I clicked.

I saw. . . ONE STAR!

I gasped (literally) and exclaimed, "One star?!"

I mean, not that one star is unimaginable to me. Some people are going to like my book; some people aren't.  I know that and I'm totally okay with that.  (I really am!)  But I will admit that seeing the first one-star rating after receiving a couple of great reviews and emails over the past couple of days was a little bit jarring.

I investigated further to determine whether there was any clue as to why the reviewer didn't like it.  There wasn't a text review, a link to a website, nada.  That's when I noticed that the category in which FREEFALL was marked was "to-be read."  Ah!  That was perplexing, but reassuring.  Perhaps somehow in adding it to the list, the reviewer clicked the star on accident?  But THEN I saw that most of the books on her list are also marked as "to-be read" and they have ratings attached to them that are all across the board.  Meaning . . . what?  I don't know!

Anywayyyyyy.  I received my first one-star rating on Goodreads today!  It might or might have been intentional and the reviewer might or might not have read the book.  But you know what?  Either way, I can handle it!

Busy summer!

I have family visiting from Florida for a couple of weeks AND I'm leaving for the weekend for a wedding in Canada tomorrow.  Busy busy busy!

But before I go, I want to leave you with photos of how my friend   uses her FREEFALL bookmarks!

Freefall sponsors Major League Soccer:

AWESOME, right?   I especially like how he's holding a few so he can pass them out to all of his friends!  :-D

Have a great week/weekend, everyone!