Feeling the Love

This past Saturday was the release party for my novel, Don't Stop Now.  It was my most well-attended release party ever!  Not only were my mom's FOUR sisters in attendance, as well as their hubbies and even a cousin, but a bunch of my old students came.  That really got me.  Like, REALLY.  Like, if I thought about it too much, I might cry.  Because now that I quit my job as a school librarian officially, I won't have any new past students.  The students are always and will always be the best part of working in a school, and I completely miss the hilarity of that.  My husband keeps reminding me that if I feel the need to (and certainly if I need to for financial reasons) go back to work, I can always get a new job at a new school with new students.  In my mind I always think easier said than done!  But, he is right.  Although that still doesn't make me miss being with the kids any less.  What was I saying?  Oh, yes, the release party!

Robert from the Book Stall introducing me.  He was kind enough to set up some road trip worthy snacks!

Reading from the first chapter.  I didn't sweat like I did at Printers Row.

I made a Don't Stop Now BINGO game!  It worked really well.

Each BINGO square was a location visited by the characters in the book .

I was quite worried my BINGO game wouldn't work.  It's really hard to distribute places evenly on a BINGO board and hope that you didn't just give five people the same layout.  But three people won at different times.  I gave out prizes from the Mars Cheese Castle.  It was awesome.  Thank you again to The Book Stall and to everyone who attended the event!

And don't forget: you have until tomorrow NOON (Central time) to enter the contest to win a signed copy of Don't Stop Now.  All of the rules and stuff are here.  Now it is up to you!