Alice Audrey

Remember this? I’ll be drawing the names tomorrow night. Do your clicking now.

is Heather! (I didn’t feel like messing with random.org so I had Mr. Al pick a number while he was off in the kitchen doing dishes. He picked five, then he thought HE had won something. Silly man.)

Congrats Heather! Let me dig around and see if I can figure out what I did with your address. This is what I get for not having an address book, and for having moved.

Finally, it’s here! With permission from Susan Helene Gottfried, I’ve started my own version of Win a Book. Susan will continue with the Facebook page, while I do my own thing here..

I’m lazy, so I automated it. The listings section automatically updates itself based on what is submitted. I will check up on it regularly and make sure spa m is removed along with outdated entries, but for the most part I expect it to run itself.

There are already a couple of entries up. I expect, as word gets out, that there will be much more. Since I write Romance, I’ll probably get mostly Romance entries from my fellow authors. Still, you might find all kinds of things posted. Come by and check it out any time you’re in the mood to see what you can win.

Switched out 12/18/11

Best laid plans of rodents and women – my exercise program got washed out by an excess of rain. More about that in a minute. First, let me introduce Win a Book.

If you look at my menu bar, you’ll notice I have a new page up. It’s a new home for Win a Book, that great resource developed by Susan Helene Gottfried. It all became too hard for her to keep on top of, so I made a few changes and set it up over here. She’s still running the one at Facebook, which is where the first two entries came from, but I’m taking responsibility for it over here. I’m hoping you all will find it easy and enjoyable to use.

Now, back to the walk-and-take-pictures exercise program. I still think it’s a good idea, but the fear of ruining my only remaining camera in all the rain we’ve been getting here in Montana actually decreased my efforts, instead of increasing it the way I’d hoped for. I got out for a break between storms on a couple of occasions and got this.

Then Sunday we had skies so clear I thought we might be done with it for a while, and I took these.

But alas, Monday it started up again and I have no idea when I’ll get to get out and about again, and even if it is dry, I’ll probably be out working on the house. So for the time being, this program is set aside. It did keep me moving longer than I would have been inclined to walk on Sunday, though, so I’ll try to revisit it again sometime in the future.

As of Next Wednesday, this space will be used for the weekly Serialist post and also Suzie’s House. I was finding my Friday’s a little too full between Fiction Friday 55, Suzie’s House, and the new meme too. I’m afraid we are going to have to say good bye to Mr. Al’s history posts. He’s gotten so busy writing fiction that he’s not even looking at the book I bought for his next series. I’m not sure what I’ll do if he ever gets around to it, but keeping Wednesdays open for him no longer seems like a good idea.

Thank you for putting up with all the From the Mailbag posts I’ve been doing lately. I find them entertaining, but they really are kind of cheating. Mind you, I still intend to do some on Mondays over the next few weeks.

I’m going to be starting another new meme on Monday, but it will have to wait until I get back from the Galapagos toward the end of July. I’ve got my hands full with Serialist right now anyway.

Come on back next Wednesday to see what the Serialist and Suzie have been up to.