Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone Blog Tour: Guest Post & Giveaway

Mod Podge Blog Tours kicks off with Gabrielle Carolina's favorite debut of 2012, Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield.

7/9- Kick-off & Giveaway at The Mod Podge Bookshelf
7/10- Interview at Rescue Reads 
7/12- Review at The Story Siren
7/13- Guest Blog at author Kelsey Sutton's Blog
7/15- Debut Author Spotlight Interview & Giveaway at Page Turners Blog
7/16- Guest Blog at 365 Days of Reading
7/17- Guest Blog at Magnet For Books
7/18- Interview at Steph Su Reads
7/19- Giveaway at YA Bliss
7/20- Interview & Giveaway at Reading or Breathing
7/21- Review at The Mod Podge Bookshelf
7/22- Giveaway at Midnight Garden
7/23- Guest Blog and Giveaway at Reading Away the Days
7/24- Giveaway at Books to Consider
7/25- Guest Blog at Words Like Silver
7/26- Review at Making the Grade
7/27- Interview at Book Chic
7/28- Guest Blog at The Mod Podge Bookshelf 

For more info on future tours, as well as author info for being hosted on MPB, please check out the new Mod Podge Blog Tour Page on The Mod Podge Bookshelf.

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When Megan asked me to guest blog about my writing preferences and peculiarities as part of the AMELIA ANNE IS DEAD AND GONE tour, I thought, "Peculiarities? PSH. I don't have peculiarities! I have charming idiosyncrasies and an artistic temperament!"... after which I spent several hours dancing down the street to the Rocky soundtrack while eating macaroni and cheese out of a football helmet.

Okay, not really. And actually, when it comes to the when, where, and how of my working habits, it's all business as usual. Like most writers, I have a few tried-and -true habits for working effectively. For instance:

I take deadlines seriously.

Not that this stops me from completing all my work in the final three seconds before said deadlines arrive. (You call it procrastination; I call it Quiet Do-Nothing Thinky Time.)

I watch my diet.

The more deeply involved I am in a project, the less I forget to eat. During the height of my first major rewrite of AMELIA, my lunch consisted of licking the plastic liner from inside a box of Cheez-Its more than once.

I'm always ready when inspiration strikes.

I used to keep a notepad and pen by my bed so that I could write down any brilliant ideas I woke up with in the middle of the night. This lasted as long as it took me to try it once, wake up the next morning, and discover that what had seemed like a great idea at 3am was actually just a poorly-articulated plot summary of "Austin Powers 3: Goldmember".

I take breaks.

I have a charming medical condition known as chronic urticaria (this is fancy medical-speak for Giant Itchy Hives Everywhere, All The Time); my writing schedule requires a day-long nap every 2-3 weeks because the pills I take for it turn my brain into soup. At this point, I just kind of go with it.

I dress appropriately.

Fifty percent of my work is written without the aid of pants.

...Okay, eighty.

...Okay, all of it. I'm pantsless as I write this. Sorry I'm not sorry.

Thank you Kat for the great post and to Gabrielle for setting up this tour!

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