Monday, May 20, 2013

Guest Post & Giveaway: Here's How (Not) Smart I Am by Megan Derr (Backwoods Tour)


So as anyone who has to put up with me long enough knows, I am largely the loud, obnoxious face of LT3. My informal titles are "Marketing Crap That Sasha & Samantha Hate More So I Do It" and "Operations", both of which have loose interpretations. Not to say the business is run anywhere near as vague as that sounds, it's not. A successful business relies like hell on being organized, and we are that, but this doesn't mean we have strict roles and never shall our paths collide.

To get on with this already rambling post, lately I have started organizing blog tours for authors, especially the new ones who have not yet built up much of a fanbase and such. I generally try to schedule them a couple of months ahead of time so they have plenty of time to write, or plenty of time to cancel if they wind up not able. What this means is that I fall into a rhythm. I pull the stories/authors getting published, I add them to my blog spreadsheet, then I email the sites still tolerating my harassment (such as Darien :3) and schedule them. Unfortunately I get so into the rhythm of doing this that I don't comprehend all that I am reading.

Which means that I totally managed not to notice that one of the books up for May scheduling was in fact my own (even though I'd been babbling about it incessantly just a few days before) and I just accidentally scheduled a tour for myself. I had not wanted to do one; I'm busy enough doing other stuff that I did not really have time to write posts and track them and such (it's fun to do, I just don't have time).

So, yes. I accidentally gave myself a blog tour. It's sad how long it took me to notice what I'd done. You'd think one would notice her own freaking name on the spreadsheet, but I definitely did not until I'd already scheduled three days. I could have canceled them, but it seemed more fun to go ahead with it. I think all my brains go into the fiction.

The book responsible for these shenanigans:


Skylar is used to the way people think of him as frightening, mean, and dangerous. Snakes are not the most popular shifters around and the fact he grew up wild doesn't help. He knows the way he's chosen to live alone in the woods only makes things worse, but he didn't think it meant people thought him capable of killing a couple of wolf puppies.

Determined to find the real monster who left them to die, Skylar calls up the only wolf he knows, a man he always wished would see him as more than a snake …

Pre-order at LT3





GIVEAWAY

If you would like a chance at winning a copy of the book responsible for this accidental tour, leave a comment (with email). Bonus points if you tell me a favorite 'did I just really?' moment :3

Winner will be drawn next Monday, May 27th, using random.org

I hope everyone is surviving this Monday, and that your week goes well ^__^

Much love to Darien for having me, she has the best No Pants Zone on the internet


Megan is a long time resident of m/m fiction, and keeps herself busy reading, writing, and publishing it. She is often accused of fluff and nonsense. When she's not involved in writing, she likes to cook, harass her cats, or watch movies (especially all things James Bond). She loves to hear from readers, and can be found all around the internet.


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20 comments:

  1. Oh my God...I am so forgetful its not even funny. My kids shake their head at me all the time. My experience happened in a high school art class. One thing you have to understand about me is I hate being the center of attention, and people staring at me. So that in mind I told this teacher I wouldn't mind teach a student or two how to knit for a protect they had. So I completely forgot about it, and then I ended up teaching 30 kids to knit all the while blushing and stammering, it was great.
    Please count me in. Thank you, (dbfield22@msn.com)
    Seiran

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    1. I am trying not to think about all the panels I'm going to be on at RainbowCon next year, b/c I HATE being the center of attention and I will muck up every other sentence I swear.

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  2. I have this lovely book, I just wish it was 4000000000 pages longer. I'm glad you scheduled a book tour four yourself!

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    1. ::laugh:: I think that many pages would break me! ;)

      Me too, it's fun getting to talk to people the way I used to when I had more time! ^_^

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    2. *clears throat* Jealous. *nods*

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  3. Would love to win this book! Work was so busy that I got two of my non-oral prescriptions refilled twice with new prescriptions by accident.

    strive4bst(At) yahoo(Dot) com

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    1. I am 101% certain that if I had to take more than one prescip for a long period of time, I would manage to screw them up in some horrible, humiliating fashion. Like, turn myself bright green or something.

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  5. Don't count me in...I've already pre-ordered (2 more days!!!) But I will give you a "did I just really" moment. :) I am 120% klutz. Always have been, always will be. About a month ago, I was mowing my front yard because lord knows it needed it. There's this little section that is between the sidewalk and the street that is also bordered by the slope of my driveway...well, when I stepped onto the slope of the driveway to turn the mower around, I twisted my ankle, skinned my knee and rolled into the street. *nods* klutz...my pride was more hurt than anything (and that's saying something because my ankle was sprained)...luckily I don't think any of my neighbors saw me...if they did they sat in their houses and laughed. The jerks. :)

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    1. My nickname growing up was 'Crash' because I was so clumsy I dropped/broke everything. My record was an entire set of glass pots and pans inside of a month.

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  6. I would love to win this book, as I am a huge fan of Megan and have most of her other books. My klutz moment: I dropped my brother off at the hospital for knee replacement surgery early in the morning, then proceeded to get ready for work. As I am walking down my steps to my garage, I turned my ankle and broke both bones, so now I too needed orthopedic surgery. (His healed faster than mine.)

    skadlec1@yahoo.com

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    1. I am honestly impressed I've never broken a bone. I'm pretty certain I'm going to break all of them at the same time when I'm 80.

      My roommate, however, has the mad skillz. She once broke her toe getting out of bed. She has never lived this down ;)

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  7. I am really getting into your books and would love this. I am a huger verbal klutz. I can write exactly what I want to say but when I speak I interchange works and just make stuff up. Drive the DH nuts.

    cojazzchick AT yahoo DOT com

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    1. Thank you! ^__^

      Aha, that is exactly what happens to me!

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  8. I think I tend to conveniently forget my "Did I just really" moments, lol. Probably much better than remembering my stupid moments ^_^

    penumbrareads(at)gmail(dot)com

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  9. Count me in.

    Let's see, my oops moment. I forgot my office has glass windows when I adjusted my bra strap. And my students were watching ...

    inosha_w@yahoo.com

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  10. The old "dress hem tucked into the back of my pantyhose" disaster happened to me right after my brother's wedding. Someone kindly told me, but not before someone else LAUGHED AT ME and wouldn't say why!

    vitajex(at)aol(dot)com

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  11. Eeeek!! omg, I hope I win this! There aren't many snake shifter books and I LOVE 'EM!! <3 <3 <3

    Buwahaha... boy do i got one of those moments.. jezus... how I lived past that day is a mystery! LOL.
    This one time we were at the zoo with my family, and I mean... I was young, but.. not that young I was probably in middle school or something, perhaps freshman in High School, but we had been at the zoo for a while and it was hot and I was sweaty and tired, and I remember we were leaving the bird enclosure and... I mean, We'd been walking a lot, It's what you do at a zoo, LOL, but added with the heat and my frustration ugh... So, I said it out loud, "Ugh! I've got a major wedgie!"
    ........
    I swear even the birds stopped chirping. LOL!! I swear I did NOT mean to say it that loud but I was just frustrated and tired and I thought I was just gonna say it in my normal tone but I didn't... It came out loud and my sister was just like "Judi!!"
    good god, then this guy walks by in front of us with his hand over his mouth trying not to laugh. ughh... It was just so... so.. embarrassing and an "omfg, What the hell did I just say out loud?!" thing... ugh... I have never lived it down. My sisters constantly bring it up at family gathering. LOL...
    Needless to say.. After that I didn't go to the zoo again for a few years. LOL!!

    Thanks again for the contest!

    Judi
    arella3173_loveless@yahoo(dot)com

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  12. Would love to read this book.
    cvsimpkins@msn.com

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  13. Would love to be entered, if it's still possible.

    My "did I just " moment happened when I drove 3 hours north and the temperature dropped 30 degrees. I got to my destination freezing (wearing a tank top and shorts), my boyfriend, now husband, asked why I didn't just turn on the heat in my car. It never even dawned on me to turn it on. He's never let me live it down.

    Debbie

    darose28@gmail.com

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