bitterblue @ first novels club!

Hey friends. A quick hello to say, Hey! You could win a signed copy of BITTERBLUE, by Kristin Cashore, over at First Novels Club!

Gracious knows, I need all the chances I can get to not pay for books. My poor husband.

[[Tidbit: FNC was my conduit to YA and blogging, just so you know. I'm kind of here, doing this, because if what I saw them doing, over there. Good to know, huh?]]

More from me soon, I hope!

hurry scurry road trip wednesday, brought to you by thursday morning.

A brief post to finally participate in RTW (or anything at all) again:

What IRL friends can you talk YA with? (that's the paraphrased version.)

Funny, because I just figured out today that IRL = in real life. Why must that be abbreviated, internet? It's not like it's hard to type, or over-used. Is it? I don't even know.

Believe it or not, a surprising number of my real-life friends are into YA, or are at least aware and/or respectful of it. I have a whopping THREE real-life friends (from three completely different circles) that have been writing YA for years. Three! And I didn't know about any of them until I came out as a YA-writing girl, myself. Like we'd all been keeping THE BIG YA SECRET without knowing it.

As far as YA-reading friends go, well... there are a bunch of those, as well. Some have come out of the woodwork and surprised me, while others have been there the whole time. I really am lucky, I guess.

But I still don't bring up YA around certain people. It's not everyone's cup of tea.

Or maybe I'm just shy.

Happy road tripping... yesterday!