Okay, I’m just going to say it: I’m not just having a super week, I am having a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week! 
First, of course, is the fact that I am super-psyched about the release of KNOCK ME FOR A LOOP. 
It is just so much fun to have another book out, especially one that I’ve been waiting so long to see hit the shelves. Add to that the wonderful reviews & reader mail I’m already getting, & I may have a smile on my face until next February.
Then there was the Amazon/Macmillan brouhaha that looked like it was going to be a very bad thing for me, given that KNOCK ME FOR A LOOP came out the Tuesday after the you-know-what hit the fan. But…what started out as a crisis soon turned to a blessing when I was interviewed for the Wall Street Journal, even getting my picture right up there next to the article’s headline. (It’s not there anymore, by the way, but it was, I swear. :wink”
Talk about having lemons turned into lemonade. Wow.
And even though I know they mean nothing when it comes to the big picture, when things finally blew over & all the Buy buttons were back up on Amazon, my numbers for KNOCK were really good. 
On top of that, I recently learned that KNOCK ME FOR A LOOP is currently #78 on the BookScan Top 100 Romance Bestsellers List. This is the first time one of the “Chicks with Sticks” has cracked the list, so I’m really…well, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious excited about it! 
Having nothing to do with KNOCK or writing, I have had a month filled with things breaking down on me. You know those people who can never get near electronics because for some reason their very presence blows fuses & destroys appliances? Yeah, well, I was starting to suspect I was turning into one of them! First my TV died…then the remote for my fan died…then my iPod died…& even my brand new computer has had some glitches, crashing a lot more than a new system should. But I swear, I think it’s me!
Anyway, I am happy to report that everything previously broken is working again. Found a place to repair my TV, the fan remote just suddenly works again, & even though I took my iPod in to the computer repair place (my best guess at who might be able to fix it; not like we have an Apple store around here) & they told me it was well & truly dead, it has made a miraculous recovery! I planned to send it back to Apple & see if there was anything they could do to fix it before I bought a new one altogether, but before they would give me the information to do that, they wanted me to run some troubleshooting steps. (Steps I had actually searched for the first day the iPod died, but couldn’t find. 
) So long story short—it worked! It didn’t at first, but the next time I plugged the thing is as a very last ditch effort, it came right on. Whoo-hoo! 
I love my iPod. I use it a lot. And I was very sad to think it was gone, especially since the models they’re making these days are different than the one I have & I just didn’t want to have to replace it if I didn’t have to.
Last but not least, I had my annual physical exam this week & the doctor gave me two big thumbs up. Looks like I shall live another year, at least!
So how about you? What’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in your life this week?
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And just like at AuthorIsland, I offered to give away a copy of one of the first books in the “Chicks with Sticks” trilogy, either 
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an autographed copy of 
Love’s Little Instruction Book
a red, handmade (by yours truly) boa like the ones Jenna is fond of knitting
a Divine dark chocolate fruit & nut bar
