F³A: Multi-tasking

I have been multi-tasking for some time now.  Between my day job, my writing (including research), editing when needed, my video work, and co-presiding over the Class of 2k12 including making the trailer, the lines get blurred. It's not pretty.  I've got papers strewn all over my office, notes scribbled everywhere.  Sticky notes plastered on everything.  This is how I do it.  And somehow it all comes together.  I like to call it organized chaos.  Aside from that, I have crap sitting all over the place that I have to review for Amazon Vine, papers that need to go into recycling, CD's with pictures and video for different projects I'm working on, and for some reason there is two packs of confetti on my desk.  Sometimes it amazes me that I get it all done.

So, how do you do it.  How do you get it done when it seems like pandemonium and disharmony.

By the way.  I have a new Facebook Fan Page, yes, I'm pimping myself out.  If you want to "like" me even more than you do, click here.  If you're sick of me and just want to wish me away, don't click there.

Also, only six more to my 100th follower.  Prizes will come to that 200th person.  It could be you.

Okay, not for the Friday Nibbles.

Random iPod Shuffle Song: Train, If It's Love

Book of the Week: The Year We Were Famous.  Went to Carole Esty Dagg's book release.  She's adorable and I can't wait to start the book.

Movie of the Week: Burlesque, loves me a musical, and Christina Aguilera has the best voice on the face of the earth.

Quote of the Week: Multi-tasking - Screwing everything up simultaneously.
-- Anon

That is all.  Happy Friday

Best
~Megan

Tooting the horn Tuesday: Celebrating Book Birthdays

I want to congratulate Amy Holder, author of The Lipstick Laws and Carole Dagg Estby, author of The Year We Were Famous for the releases of their debut novels yesterday.

Also, Gae Polisner, dear friend and author of The Pull of Gravity (releases May 10) has a blog tour happening right now.  Click here for info.

And please don't forget about the Write Hope auction to help Japan.  There are a variety of items that have been donated by writers and artists.  Please check it out.

And I'm eight followers away from giving away a gift card of your choice, amazon, barnes and noble, or itunes.  If you're my 100th, you win. (and if anyone referred you, they win too.  So spread the word.

Oh, yeah, and if I didn't already mention it, Never Eighteen is available for reviewers on NetGalley.com and for pre-order on Amazon.

Have a great Tuesday everyone.

Best,
~Megan

Thought Provoking Thursday: Living in Shadows

I know you've all HAD to feel that way at one time or another.  That you're living in someone else's shadow?  I think as a writer, a sibling, and friend, a co worker, whatever our circles and relationships, we can't help these feelings sometimes.  We feel unworthy or inferior to those around us.

Point?  I guess I've been feeling a little like this.  And it's not fun.  Luckily, I have people around me that remind me that I've got some good stuff going on.  That we can't live under the shadow of someone else because their paths, though they may be similar, are unique.

And then of course there's Walt Whitman.  His quote, "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you," really struck a chord with me yesterday.  And it's true.  I think I may be a natural pessimist.  I need to look toward the sun more often.  After all, I am solar powered.

Sorry, just some random musings from my warped mind. :)

A couple more things.  Mrs. Andersen at the Y.A. Love book blog featured for her Book Trailer Thursday, the trailer I made for Carole Estby Dagg's novel, The Year We Were Famous.

Also, I want to wish good luck to all those entered in ABNA.  Just remember, if you don't make it past this phase, it's not over.  Here is a list to prove it.  It's all the novels that have been entered in ABNA that have been or are going to published since.  It grows all the time.  So don't lose faith.

And never walk in someone else's shadow.  Cast your own. :)


~Megan

Tooting the Horn Tuesday

So, the ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award) contest closed yesterday, so I want to wish some good luck to those entered.

My friend Gae (The Pull of Gravity) got an awesome review from another friend of mine Becky Kyle.  Read it here.  Think about following Becky.  She's a cool cat and her reviews read like butter.

My friend Tami Snow is adorable and has a video series, Lyrical Lip Service, in which she reads and talks books and writing.  Check her out.

Did I mention that I have a book cover?  You can see it on yesterdays blog.  It's crisp and simple and I'm loving it.  Not only did I get a book cover, 2k11er Trinity Faegen did also for her novel the Mephisto Covenant.  You should check out her website.  She's a hell of a gal.

Another 2k11er Carole Dagg received a great review from Publisher's Weekly for her novel, The Year We Were Famous.  If you're looking for some YA historical fiction, check it out.

I suppose that's enough Tooting today. er.

Peace out,

~Megan