I'm over at my other blog today. http://secondhandshoesnovel.blogspot.com/2013/03/free.html

Sir Poops and Hair Ball: Spreading the News and Cheering on the Run Away Bride Give Away, with Shelly Arkon

 

SPAL: Usually we do What’s Your Nosh Tuesday but today we’re celebrating Mummsy’s book.

HB: Yay! Its on Amazon and everyone gets a FREE TREATS for the next three days. Right, Mummsy?

SA: That’s right. Free Ebooks to everyone.

HB: Are you going to tell everyone what a good boy I am, too?

SPAL: No. I’m the good boy. You’re stupid.

HB: Am not. You’re a pansy. I’m the good boy.

SPAL: Not. I am.

SA: Okay. You two. Stop it! This is a party. And I have a few more things to say.

HB: Like what?

SA: Like, I will be doing a drawing for 4 names. Two people will receive 15 dollar amazon cards and two will receive an autographed copy of Secondhand Shoes.

SPAL: What must they do to have their names put into the drawing?

SA: Down in the comment box leave some advice for the run away bride and promise to Tweet and share on Facebook. In fact, I made it easy for everyone. All they have to do is copy and paste. I’m using the good old fashioned honor system here. Rafflecoptors freeze up my computer.

Tweet

FREE BOOKS and prizes @http://secondhandshoesnovel.blogspot.com/, Feb.19,20,& 21st, #FReeBooks#KindleAmazon please retweet

Facebook

FREE KINDLE EBOOK Feb,19th, 20th, and 21st Secondhand Shoeshttp://www.amazon.com/Secondhand-Shoes-ebook/dp/B00B1ZNQAO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361198355&sr=8-2&keywords=shelly+arkon%2C+secondhand+shoesPlease share this with your friends

SPAL: That seems really easy.

HB: Yeah. Can you tell people what your favorite nosh is? And when I can have some?

SPAL: Oh brother! You’re going to bug Mummsy, too.

SA: I’ll give him a treat in a bit. But what I like to snack on the most is dark chocolate. I love the taste of bittersweet. Dove is my favorite because it has a smooth texture against my tongue-almost like a velvet blanket when it begins to melt. However, I stick with one piece a day. I don’t want to get big-butt-syndrome. So I mostly keep carrots, celery, apples, and protein bars around. When I get into writing a scene, I don’t want to have to stop to prepare some huge meal.

HB: I want some chocolate. PLEASE!

SA: No. Its not good for you.

SPAL: Mummsy, tell the nice people how we help you write.

SA: Well, Sir Poops sits to the right of me on his own chair and Hair Ball lays at my feet. They’re really good listeners when I need to read something out loud. They also help me figure out difficult scenes.

HB: Yeah. we do. We’re good boys, but I’m the better more gooder fur peep in all the world.

SPAL: ***shakes his head**** Anyway, nice people, you can find Mummsy’s book on the link below and don’t forget to Tweet, Facebook, and leave some advise for Lila in the comment boxes if you want to be put into her drawing.

HB: Yeah. We’re going to draw the names and announce them next Tuesday. So  all you nice people go get a FREE Ebook. Okay?

 

Click here to get your FREE book

 

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Today, is the last day that you can get Gwen Gardner’s Ebook for Free. Go Here For More Information

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And Mish over at Writer in Transit is having a great contest for her Blog Anniversary. Go Here For More Information

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We’ll see you nice people next week.

Lots of licks,

Sir Poops and Hair Ball

PS Mummsy is pulling a 9 to 5’er today. She’ll be here later to see what’s happening.

Sweetman Says

Today, I thought I’d share on my trip to the Dali Museum. I haven’t gone since their move to the new building.

Its pretty awesome and modern looking. The old building was…well…just an ordinary building. It was the right size to house Dali’s work of art which by the way Sweetman says, “He was one weird dude.”

Sweetman says, “I’d never buy any of his art. But I do like his work 1923 and before.”

Well, I can’t say that I would either. Dali had a tendency to draw or paint enlarged genetalia in the strangest places in his pictures. Subliminal-like. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to share any pictures. The museum doesn’t allow anyone to photograph Dali’s masterpieces.

Dali also had a fascination with Freud, math, and the sciences. I also noticed he had a thing for St. Helena, skeleton keys, and pocket watches. IHe would some how interject them into his paintings. Oh and I can’t forget his mustache. He had a fascination with that, too. The picture below, is a bench shaped like his famous facial hair.

Sweetman and I were a bit disappointed with the entrance fee. It cost us 21 dollars a piece for one whole floor of his work. I so wanted to see his murals that hung in the old building. The ones where you could walk to the right then to the left and then back up. Each movement unveiled a different painting. They weren’t there. ***frowns***

But there was a great labyrinth . It took ten minutes to get through.

Hedges lined a sandy trail.

There were messages on the trail. I accepted it as a for-only-me-message since I’m feeling like I’m going to jump out of my skin with the coming release of my book, Secondhand Shoes. Maybe Dali was directing me to pay attention to the message below. I wouldn’t be surprised if he even felt like giving up on his art at times. His work definitely revealed that he went against the norms of society.

So I stayed on the trail.

I made my way out and found a tree with some interesting paper tassels.

There were also some really great palm trees. Perfect, in fact.

Here are some more pics.

 

The next pic is of me. I’m more of a project in the works.

Anyway, Sweetman says, “I know where all the good things are.” But he also says, “What stinks in the kitchen?” He usually says this when he comes home from work and I’m in the kitchen cooking.

I was surprised that he offered to read Secondhand Shoes after the edits were finished…well, the word and sentence edits. After reading twenty-seven chapters of it he says, “This is good for a chic book.”

Hope everyone has a great weekend. I’ll be hair lopping during most of it.

Tomorrow, I’ll be going to a mini seminar in the morning put on by FWA. it’s a free one since all the issues with my daughter and Glowstick, I won’t be going to the three day event in October. For one day, it’s 200 dollars versus 319 dollars for the weekend which doesn’t include the hotel accommodations.  ***frowns***

Glowstick is getting so big. He’s 9 months now and has 2 toofies.

Have a great weekend and Happy Rosh Shoshanna (Happy Jewish New Year)! I’ll be lurking around.

Hugs and chocolate,

Shelly

NEW Book, too. Norma Beishir's, Alexander’s Empire will be out this weekend on Amazon. Sorry. I don’t have a link. It probably won’t be up until tomorrow or later today.