It's Come To This

caissiesthing: Today’s the day. I started this Tumblr just over a year ago, because I wrote a funny little YA vampire book and my agent (still feels weird to say that) told me to announce it somewhere, and here is where I did. Now the book is here! Today! I kinda feel like I did when I was a YA. Like, when I was waiting to “become” a “woman.” I kept checking and checking and waiting and wishing. I just knew it was gonna change everything. And when it finally happened, life wasn’t really all that different except my stomach hurt and my pants didn’t feel right. Still, I knew and I’m sure I walked around with a dumb look on my face. Déjà vu! I’ve said this a million times, but this whole deal never would have happened without the help of my Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and real life friends. If it weren’t for you people telling me, “Hey, that’s a good idea!” and “Why don’t you try doing that!” I would have just continued watching Dr. Oz at 11 and 3, with an episode of Nancy Grace’s Swift Justice in between, then wondering where the heck my day went. Thank you for cheering me on every step of the way! I realize that I also need to thank you for buying this book, because I know you’re the ones who are. I was looking over my contract (weird!) and crunching the numbers, and as near as I can tell, I need to sell something like 36,724 copies to not be a total embarrassment. Because of all of you, I have a good start, AND if each of you were to convince four or five highly impressionable twelve-year-olds to buy it too, it will be embarrassment averted!  I don’t call this a pyramid scheme. I call this a PYRAMID SUCCESS!!! Besides flat out strong-arming ‘tweens, there are other ways you can help. If you bought the book and read it and liked it, leaving a short review on Amazon.com or on Goodreads.com is a huge deal in terms of selling the book to people I don’t actually know. Heck, you can leave a review even if you didn’t enjoy it, and that’ll learn me to write a book you might like better in the future! Of course, I’d never ask you to do me multiple favors without offering something in return. I am doing a cool little drawing on my book blog and you can enter to win here: www.CaisBook.com I’m not sure if I believe in omens, but today happens to be the 9th anniversary of the day I published one of my most favorite works. That guy up there. So, I’m probably going to close my laptop, start thinking about cakes and balloons and let this whole book thing take care of itself for a while. But do I feel lucky. Buy Caissie’s book!  http://tinyurl.com/453txhw

caissiesthing:

Today’s the day. I started this Tumblr just over a year ago, because I wrote a funny little YA vampire book and my agent (still feels weird to say that) told me to announce it somewhere, and here is where I did. Now the book is here! Today! I kinda feel like I did when I was a YA. Like, when I was waiting to “become” a “woman.” I kept checking and checking and waiting and wishing. I just knew it was gonna change everything. And when it finally happened, life wasn’t really all that different except my stomach hurt and my pants didn’t feel right. Still, I knew and I’m sure I walked around with a dumb look on my face. Déjà vu!

I’ve said this a million times, but this whole deal never would have happened without the help of my Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and real life friends. If it weren’t for you people telling me, “Hey, that’s a good idea!” and “Why don’t you try doing that!” I would have just continued watching Dr. Oz at 11 and 3, with an episode of Nancy Grace’s Swift Justice in between, then wondering where the heck my day went. Thank you for cheering me on every step of the way!

I realize that I also need to thank you for buying this book, because I know you’re the ones who are. I was looking over my contract (weird!) and crunching the numbers, and as near as I can tell, I need to sell something like 36,724 copies to not be a total embarrassment. Because of all of you, I have a good start, AND if each of you were to convince four or five highly impressionable twelve-year-olds to buy it too, it will be embarrassment averted!  I don’t call this a pyramid scheme. I call this a PYRAMID SUCCESS!!!

Besides flat out strong-arming ‘tweens, there are other ways you can help. If you bought the book and read it and liked it, leaving a short review on Amazon.com or on Goodreads.com is a huge deal in terms of selling the book to people I don’t actually know. Heck, you can leave a review even if you didn’t enjoy it, and that’ll learn me to write a book you might like better in the future!

Of course, I’d never ask you to do me multiple favors without offering something in return. I am doing a cool little drawing on my book blog and you can enter to win here: www.CaisBook.com

I’m not sure if I believe in omens, but today happens to be the 9th anniversary of the day I published one of my most favorite works. That guy up there. So, I’m probably going to close my laptop, start thinking about cakes and balloons and let this whole book thing take care of itself for a while. But do I feel lucky.

Buy Caissie’s book!  http://tinyurl.com/453txhw

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