It's (Almost) My Birthday and I'm Celebrating with a Giveaway!

Happy New Year! I hope you had a fantastic holiday season. I certainly did, courtesy of my parents taking all of their children, children-in-laws, and grandkids on a fun, surprisingly relaxing family vacation.

Great as my break was, I'm really looking forward to the next week. Not only will I be returning to work after two weeks off (which is a good thing, I swear), tomorrow marks the beginning of my second trimester of pregnancy and end of the evil progesterone supplements I've had to take for the last several weeks (and they are, let me tell you, everything that sucks about being pregnant in one convenient daily dose), and Wednesday is not only the beginning of a serial fic I've been looking forward to immensely AND the release of Can Anybody Find Me, my short story in Less Than Three Press' Kiss Me At Midnight collection, but it's also my birthday! This calls for celebration.

<--Please help yourself to the champagne in that glass over there.

Can Anybody Find Me, more than any other story I've ever written, has a definite soundtrack in my head. Queen's Greatest Hits makes it into the story a few times, as you may have guessed from the title, since it's Andrew's favorite album. He's a fan of pop/alt rock with a definite soft spot for the 80's; I suspect he listens to Ludacris when he wants a laugh. Will, on the other hand, is a bit more of a music snob; he listens at one point to his playlist entitled "Regret", which I'm certain features some Death Cab for Cutie (Title and Registration and A Lack of Color at the very least), Janove Ottesen, probably some Pete Yorn, undoubtedly some Gotye, a little Patrick Wolf, and a handful of other acoustic tracks and/or indie artists. But even Will needs a little Freddie Mercury sometimes. ;)

In light of this, my birthday giveaway includes, in addition to a copy of the e-book (a whopping $1.99 value!), a $10 gift certificate to iTunes, Amazon, or whichever vendor the winner prefers for book/music purchasing. To enter, you must leave a comment with some means by which I can contact you if you win AND the name of one (or more) tracks you think belong on a "Happily Ever After" playlist for my two main characters (and between the two of them, pretty much any artist or genre is welcome). What's your favorite song about Twu Wuv? The giveaway will be open until midnight EST January 12. Good luck!

(If you simply can't stand to wait until the giveaway's over and need to read Can Anybody Find Me when it comes out on Wednesday, you can purchase a copy of the book by clicking the cover and following the link. If you do it before Tuesday night, you'll even save 30 cents, which you can use to size up your next latte, buy a gumball, or put in your piggy bank to save up for another book.)