Sincerely, Everyone Who Actually Read It

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books, facebook, fiction, Frankenstein, funny, John Donne, literature, Mary Shelley, movies, Nathaniel Hawthorne, quotes, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, The Scarlet Letter

I found this image on Facebook, which sparked this:

I realize the play by Peggy Webling used “Frankenstein” to refer to the monster before the movie, but I’m choosing to overlook that minor detail.  ;)

-Eliabeth Hawthorne

What other movie adaptations have gotten unsuspecting students in trouble?  Were you caught by any?  Our English teacher actually let us get away with watching original The Scarlet Letter.

Storybook cupcakes

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books, cupcakes, facebook, funny

Now that’s a treat worthy of a book release party!

-Eliabeth

Source: Penguin Books Australia on Facebook

How much money have we wasted on virtual goods?

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Castleville, facebook, Farmville, Gary Vanderchuck, social media, Sorority Life, The Thank You Economy

As part of my job for CardLab, I’m reading The Thank You Economy which talks about the right way to promote yourself and your brand across social media platforms.  If you’re an author or budding author and you haven’t read this book you need to.  You’re going to need to jump on the social media bandwagon just like the bigger businesses, but I’ll save that discussion for a review of the book.

At one point, the author Gary Vanderchuck talks about people spending money to tend a virtual farm and I scoffed until I realized that I’ve done the same thing, just not on Farmville.  I’ve had to have the latest gown on Sorority Life and though I don’t tend a virtual farm, I’m playing the medieval spin-off CastleVille.  I guess you could budget it under entertainment.  Instead of going to see a movie, you spend money on a game just like any other game (Maple Story being one of the ones I was VERY into for a while).

Have you paid for virtual goods?  Did you feel it was justified as entertainment or did you regret it later?  Have you tended a virtual farm?

Blind Sight on Facebook

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Blind Sight, facebook, GoodReads

I’ve just created a Facebook page for Blind Sight.  Would you guys do me a huge favor and go click “like” so that I can customize the URL? (requires 25+ fans)

If any of you have author pages, leave the link on the most recent status update and I’ll like your page back.

Thank you very much!
-Eliabeth

edit: Also on GoodReads! Aniela/Leocardo

Response to the gaudy Christmas neighbor

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Christmas lights win, Ditto, facebook, The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Does your neighbor go all out on Christmas lights? Are your displays inferior by comparison no matter how much you spend? No longer!

I found this on Facebook. Originally posted on The Ellen DeGeneres Show fan page.
Located here: http://www.facebook.com/ellentv

-Eliabeth

50-2500-50; Celebration and Contest!

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art, Blind Sight, contest, drawing, facebook, gallery, photography, Twitter, writing

50+ “likes” on our FB page
2500+ views on our blog
50+ followers on Twitter

Time to celebrate and thank you guys for your support and encouragement.

We are inviting artists, photographers, and anyone else to post images of one of our Blind Sight characters to go in a gallery on the blog and on Facebook.  One submission has the potential to be printed on a t-shirt.

Odette Reyes is the main character whose story spans both volumes of the first book. Blind from birth, her ability to draw is abnormal even for the magical world of Edaion where she and her brother find themselves after mysteriously ripped from their life in Spain. Our first gallery is going to be dedicated to her.

The contest:
Odette is a sixteen year old with straight medium brown hair that falls just past her shoulders. Freckles cross her nose and cheeks on an olive skin tone and we would like her blindfolded.  Abstract images and photography are encouraged as much as realism. For an optional challenge, you may draw eyes over the blindfold as if embroidered or printed on the fabric.  Your submission may be in any medium and does not need to be in color.  Submissions for the contest end November 5th but submissions for the galleries will always be welcome.  All submissions will be posted to the blog and Facebook galleries and one winner will have the option of having their design on Blind Sight merchandise.

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community, contact, ermilia, facebook, friends, support, writing

Yes we ARE on facebook!

Like us to support our Edaion series, new writers striving to make it in the writing community or simply because there’s a button to click! It’s tempting, you know you want to.

Ermilia has a page. Eliabeth Hawthorne and Ermisenda Alvarez can be added as friends.