Life is Happening

Well, I had planned to post a blog at least every other day but as you can see, that's not been happening. For some reason the past week just flew by. Then on Thursday, I over did it with appointments and running around town taking care of stuff. I had gotten up at 3:45am. After my appointments and some personal stuff, I was exhausted but couldn't get to sleep until midnight. Needless to say I've spent the last couple of days as a zombie. Oooo, I like zombies but don't like feeling like one. So I am taking today off. No chores!!

Lazy Sundays

Well maybe not so lazy. The hubby and I are making our biannual batch of chili. We usually end up using two or three stock pots but a friend of mine made a wonderful suggestion. I have an 18 quart oven I bake turkeys or very large roasts in and that's what we made the chili in. Can you believe it?, 18 quarts of chili. Maybe we won't need to make it again for 3 years. It sure smells good though. The best part, we made it together. I sliced and diced and he did the browning and put it all together.
Hope everyone is doing well.

The Kindlegraphs have arrived!!

Since I found out about this cool feature, I've been dying to try it out.  I sent kindlegraph requests to two authors whose books I have.  The kindlegraphs came back within a couple of days and I'm in awe.
It comes into your kindle as a document so you have to add the kindlegraph address so your Fire will accept the document.
It took me a few minutes to figure out how to actually get them on my Kindle (have I mentioned I'm inept in electronic gadgets).
Once I got them, I was so surprised at the quality of the book cover flat and then each author wrote a personal little note and signed the paper book flat.
So, I guess now we just need to get more and more authors to sign on for this project.

Afterthought

I know I am technologically challenged and I accept this but am frustrated by it.  Most of the time I stumble upon new things accidentally.  I was way behind on the pinterest craze and had to have lessons from my sister-in-law.  By no means am I addicted but I enjoy it well enough.  I love most of my little gadgets but they are probably not being used to their full capacity.  I have my iPhone, my 2 Kindles and a desktop computer.  I know, everyone has a laptop but I'd never move off the couch if I had a laptop; besides between the Kindle Fire and my iPhone, I don't have to actually get on the computer unless I want some true speed and need the exercise.

Yes, there's a point to all this.  When I do accidentally come across new things, I like to share (and if you already know about the neat things I find, just humor me please ; ' )

I'm on twitter and I learn a bunch of stuff from other people's posts.  Just recently, Shiloh Walker made a comment in a tweet about a website called Kindlegraph.  Not knowing what that was, (I'm extremely nosey, er, curious), I googled it and found a very cool website.  I've always thought it was a shame with the advent of the e-readers that I was missing out on some of my favorite authors' autographs.  Well, now I or you don't have to.  Kindlegraph is a website where you can contact a favorite author and if they so desire, they can send you an autograph back as a document.  The autograph is on a cover flat and can even be personalized.  I thought this was fantastic.  I was ready to send off a slew of requests especially to my favorite indie authors.

Um, well, even though the website boasts partnering with over 1200 authors, only a few of "my" authors had signed up for the service.  From what I can gather from the website, the authors can sign up for free but in some instances the recipient of the autograph might have to pay a small fee for the document download.  Not sure how that will work.  I think I'm going to try it out and get back to you on it. 

The whole point of this ramble, er, post was to see if we as readers could get more authors on board so we can benefit in the autograph department.  So that's my discovery for the day.  Interested, let your favorite authors know.  Here's the link:  http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors

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Afterthought

I just realized, I have a follower, my hubby and my very first subscriber!!  Welcome Arabella!!

An Exciting Day!!

So much happened today but it was really awesome.  It just happens to concern mostly book stuff.  I had three blogs appear on Pure Textuality today.  The first was my personal thoughts previously posted here, A Reader's Dream.  The second, my interview with the fantastic Ms Connie Suttle, author of one of my favorite series, Blood Destiny Series. The third, the review of Connie's forthcoming release, Bumble.  Can't wait to read it again in Kindle format.  The ARC about destroyed my eyes but that's my fault as I was not working the Kindle right.
I was so worried about everything coming together for Connie's interview and new release and yet it went without a hitch.  I just didn't want to let Connie down.  Jena at Pure Textuality is a wonder.
Now the pressure is off for a while and I can read and review all I want, of course, in between having a life.  LOL, YAY!!