Awww thanks, Heidi! That was sweet and unexpected. Any award coming from my author friend is one that means a lot!

You are more than welcome and more than deserving!

You're published! That is so cool. Now I can say someone famous visited my blog! Cool book cover, by the way.

Thanks, Jen. I think it looks kinda Twilightish, which can only be a good thing. I hope.

Thank you Heidi, you made me smile.

You are more than welcome, Mary!

Congrats and excellent choices! I'm a fan of these blogs and I will also say to everyone reading this,
GO READ THEM, they're great!

You asked how I did that (on the EO). I get help from Kim at Temporary?Insanity-next she'll help me with the kinks because I really have no clue what the heck I'm doing :)

my word verification word is
funient. Gotta love it. It should really be a real word.

Heather, I meant, how do YOU stay looking so good? Silly!

Hahahaha and wheeeee! I love getting awards. Yippee!

And my verification is reona. I took the verification off of my blog but I kind of miss it because every now and then I would do a post where everyone had to define which every security word they got. It was fun. Sometimes I toy with bringing it back just for a day.

And then when I went to navigate away from this page, I got ovens! Weird! You're security words are trying to speak to you, I think.

Heidi this is random...but are you serving punch at your Halloween party?...if so any good recipe ideas? Also...I was reading all the good reviews...and I'm quite excited to read your book!

Ovens, huh? Could it be trying to tell you that I should use mine once in a while? A pretty useless effort on, oh, so many levels. Erin, yes, we are having punch. It is called KOOLAID. It comes in many flavors and we are using a mixture of three exotic flavors called GRAPE, CHERRY and ORANGE with sugar and a very rare ingredient added in, called WATER. This is per the request of the Big Guy who thinks it will look like blood. We'll see. Actually, Granny's punch is the best--a package of koolaid, any flavor you choose, a can of orange concentrate, a can of lime concentrate and a couple of bottles of lemon lime soda. At least I think that's how you make it--anywho, the mixture of lemon lime soda, fruit juice concentrate and koolaid is the key. Your mom-in-law knows how to make it even if I don't. Are you guys having a party? I am glad you are excited to read my book. Do you think you can get your m-i-l to read it? She isn't much into fiction.

First of all, congratulations on your book! It looks lovely, and I'm sure it sounds even more lovely. Or reads more lovely. Or loverly. You know what I mean. Anyhow, I just wanted to let you know that I followed up on my post at Bloggers Annex (about me throwing away the roses) with the beginning of the story. It is on my blog now. You can paste this into your browser to read it. Thanks! (You said you wanted to know more, so that's why I'm telling you). http://howellherald.blogspot.com/2008/10/matt-and-melissa-cautionary-tale.html

Thanks Melissa! That was so thoughtful of you--I will definitely check it out!

Perfect choices!

Thanks Eowyn!

How did I miss this? Thanks so much!!

You are welcome! Maybe if the link to your blog from my blog was working, people would have popped in to your blog with my blog given as a reference and you would have figured it out. Sorry. I really should fix that (only I don't know how or why it doesn't work! Technologies are hard!)

Thank you so much, Heidi - I'm honoured!

Kim and Alyson--you are more than welcome!