Birthday-palooza

I've been quoted over at iLive, iLaugh, iLove Books today: http://leecheeeee813.blogspot.com/2011/08/birthday-palooza-guest-post-kate-kaynak.html

I love being quoted. I feels like my ego is blowing out the candles.

Seriously, though, check out the giveaways that Lucia has over there--books and SWAG galore!

Zombie Smurfs

Welcome to Disgruntled Bear! I post five times weekly about writing, reading, editing, and promoting YA paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy books. And when I run out of interesting things to say about those topics, I usually put up a funny video, link, or picture:

http://www.myspace.com/damon71124

If you're just jogging through, your next stop is Charmaine Gordon at: http://authorcharmainegordon.xanga.com/. If you get lost in the links, you can always follow the breadcrumbs back to http://blogjogday.blogspot.com.

So, we're having a giveaway here at the Bear this weekend:

The Body Finder (hardcover), Accused (signed paperback), and a SWAG pack of Spencer Hill Press bookmarks, cards, stickers, and the ever-popular Half-Blood guitar pick

To enter, just follow this blog and leave me a comment before midnight (EDT) on Thursday, August 11th. Your comment can be about anything: your favorite type of cheese, whether you believe Neil Patrick Harris can make the new Smurf movie watchable, a tip for surviving a zombie apocalypse, etc. Or just say, "hi." I'll use random.org to pick the winner and ship the above-pictured prize pack to a U.S. mailing address.

Happy Blog Jog!

Geek Reference That Makes Me Smile

And a non-geeky video montage here that'll give you major wanderlust:
http://gizmodo.com/5827842/what-traveling-around-the-world-looks-like-in-1-minute-hint-awesome/gallery/1

Check back here Sunday for the start of the BLOG JOG. Blog Jog--woohoo! Tons of freebies and other cool stuff.

Happy Weekend!

Fangirl Goes SQUEEEEE!

OMG, have you all seen this? It's an e-book short story from Link's POV that takes place after Beautiful Darkness.

What Not to Do

http://whisperedwritings.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/10-ways-to-kill-your-writing-career-using-social-media/

Logo

Hi folks,

Our distributor is redesigning the sales interface for its website, and they are very proud of the fact that they will display the logos of their publishing partners.

My first thought: "Uh-oh. We don't have a logo."

Well, we have a mockup for one now. What do you think?

Please leave a comment; this is just a mockup, and we still can tweak, change or discard at this point. Basically, we want something simple and non-cheesy that will look good on letterhead, bookplates, book spines, websites, and the like. Does this do it?

Good Stuff

Congrats to Ednah Walters on the launch of Betrayed today. You still have a few hours left to win a bunch of goodies: http://ednahwalters.blogspot.com/2011/07/betrayed-party-goodies.html

And this makes me feel like humans don't suck: