I’m in a bit of a quandary today. It’s Q day, and I haven’t found a Q author or even a book that I’ve read that starts with Q. And I guess that’s okay. Because there is no rule that says I have to stick to my theme if I have trouble.

So today I’m going to blog about a book that I won in a giveaway not too long ago.

Etiquette & Espionage

I never win giveaways. But I wanted to win this one really badly – Skye (the lady giving it away) had written a review of it on her blog, and it sounded like a really good book. And it was an ARC – an Advanced Reading Copy. So I used all the entries I could and tweeted Skye often, telling her how much I wanted to win. (Sorry if I annoyed you, Skye!)

I was on Twitter when she announced that she was about to randomly choose the winner. I tweeted her that I was really, really excited to know if I won or not.

After an agonizing five minute wait, she tweeted me. “You wouldn’t happen to know a Brett Jonas, would you?”

Yes, I had won the giveaway. I might have danced around the soaproom a bit, sitting down when I got the tweet that she was emailing me to get my address. And then I had to wait.

And man, it was hard to wait! And I had a bit of pressure too – Mom had declared April a No Reading Month. Basically, we were going to be moving and working on the new place and all that fun stuff, so she decided that it would be easier to get all the work done if we couldn’t run off and read whenever she turned her back.

E&E got to the soaproom on April 1st.

I begged Mom for special permission to read it. Then I asked her what I had to do in order for her to give me special permission. “Help me get the newsletter out.” she said.

Well, I got my special permission! And I can tell you this – it was worth all the work I did to get it. 🙂

I can’t wait for the next one to come out! And I’m still reading this one. 😀