Playing dress-up, Tapper Style

The Dancer found her Halloween costume at the back of the closet (where I keep them to avoid Halloween fervor in July) and wanted, no scratch that- needed- to play dress up.
Since I've been so busy with writing deadlines I try to make up for it with added enthusiasm.
She experienced transports of delirious joy when I asked if she wanted to get out her make-up kit and make it official.
So this is how we play dress-up Tapper-style:

1. get out the Halloween costume you've been saving all year so you can break off a piece and stain it before Halloween ever arrives.

2. Pick the most impossibly garish eye shadow colors and slather them generously

3. text the following picture to your little sis who will then text back and ask:

Why do you have a full-fledged Cleopatra outfit?
I replied and told her I can't believe she doesn't. What does she wear on dress-like-a-historical-figure family night?
Desdemona is overdone and Boudicca is just tacky...

;)

Free Kindle Touch Giveaway

I love spreading the love! Because my friends and readers and complete, total strangers took the time to read and vote for On Little Wings in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, I want to give back.
How can I thank you for supporting my literary efforts? How about I give you a way to carry around thousands of your favorite books in the palm of your hand?
I'm giving away a Kindle Touch!
But this really isn't about me being nice- It's about me being completely incapable of paying you back for your kindness to me.
Consider this a very inadequate thank you!

-Tapper


How to Enter:

• Scroll down to the box below and log in with Facebook or email address
• For 1 entry follow the link to like Regina Sirois, author on Facebook (if you already have don't forget to click anyway to qualify for a free entry)
• For an additional entry follow @ReginaSirois on Twitter and input your twitter username
• For 2 bonus entries (each day between now and the close of the contest) use the link below to submit your tweet
• update 7/21 If you follow this link to pre-order my hardcover you get ten bonus entries! Viking is giving a great deal on hardcover pre-orders right now! Huge sale. Thank you Penguin/Viking!

 This contest is open to anyone in the U.S.A or to international entries willing to cover international shipping.


If you are nervous about pre-ordering OLW, Amazon offers a price guarantee. If it goes on sale for a better price before it is released, you get the lowest price.
As Little would say- "You're gonna do it eventually, so you might as well get it over with!"

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Note: You can tweet once per day for additional chances to win!

Congratulations to Jane!

The winner of the $25 kindle gift card is Jane!
Thank you to everyone who participated in this giveaway and please come back on Monday when I will begin the giveaway for a Free Kindle Touch!
I know- free stuff is awesome.
Expensive free stuff is awesomer!
See you on Monday!

Sharing the love- Free Summer Reads

It is time for my next sharing the love giveaway.
Today it is a $25 kindle gift card so you can refuel your kindle or kindle app with all kinds of great summer reads. And we are just warming up. Next week the giveaway is big, big, big!
Just go to my comments and tell me if you follow me on my blog, twitter, or facebook. That's it! You do not have to leave an email- a first name or user name is fine. Just enough so you will recognize yourself if I say you are the winner. I will announce the winner on Friday so check back!!!

If you haven't connected with me yet, my twitter, blog and facebook buttons are just to the right. See? Right there.
 Tiny little buttons that require one click. We like to keep it simple around here.

Good luck!

Oatmeal brain

I am in the middle of a editing deadline and my brain is producing words at roughly the same rate that oatmeal reproduces.
Symptoms of this strange attack are: glassy stares, fatigue, repetitive answers like "yes, yes, fine, fine" when asked if we can adopt a mountain gorilla.
Causes include excessive heat, water and noise.
I know how I developed this brain condition.
The problem isn't a virus. The problem is this:

And this:

It is summer and we are having lots and lots of togetherness. Coloring with chalk, riding bikes, going swimming, losing teeth, hanging out at the barn, messing up the house (a lot) and escaping the heat at bad children's movies. (Not talking about Brave- that was fun)

So I have hired a sitter to take my children far away and leave me to the quiet of my keyboard, just a couple of hours a day.

Last night the Artist saw my state of advanced wilting and oatmeal brain, took pity on me and took the girls for a five mile bike ride to get ice cream. 

He sent me this picture.

It made me laugh out loud.

And helped me feel less like oatmeal.

And made me realize that they aren't the problem at all.

They give me oatmeal brain. They plunder and pillage my home. They make life really hard.

And then they do this and I laugh until I forget all those things.

What a face!!!

The Winner Is...

According to the gods at Random.org, the winner of the Downeast giveaway is entrant number 39, Beth @ sand to pearl, who loved the Vintage Find dress. (One of my favorites!)

Congratulations!

Just send me an email in the next 48 hours (writeme@reginasirois.com) and I will get your address and have your beautiful dress shipped to you!