TSS: Survived the First Week of School! |

I did it! I survived my boys’ first week of school, despite initial concerns that I would lose my mind. My oldest started middle school, a completely different world! My youngest started first grade; his first year without his older brother at the same school. Thankfully, both are doing well and are excited to be at school again.

September is a pretty exciting month, a particularly bookish one in the DC area. In one month alone, we have Fall for the Book, National Book Festival, and Baltimore Book Festival. I’m still deciding which events to attend, but a wonderfully bookish time will be guaranteed.

Additionally, for the month of September, I’m participating in a pretty unique event hosted by one of my favorite horror authors, Scott Nicholson, called “Be Nicholson’s Agent”. In the month of September, Scott will be giving away 15% of his ebook income! Bloggers participating in this event get five percent of that book’s income for the month, I will be giving it away in the form of a gift card. The remaining 10 percent would be given away randomly through all the blogs and elsewhere as gift cards for various tasks, such as Facebook likes, tweets, etc.

The book I’m “repping” is Nicholson’s DRUMMER BOY:

On a Blue Ridge Mountain peak, three boys hear the rattling of a snare drum deep inside a cave known as “The Jangling Hole,” and the wind carries a whispered name. An old man at the foot of the mountain believes something inside the Hole has been disturbed by a developer’s bulldozers. A local reporter is determined to solve the supernatural mysteries that have been shared for generations. Sheriff Frank Littlefield, haunted by past failures, must stand against a public enemy that has no fear of bullets, bars, or justice. On the eve of a Civil War re-enactment, the town of Titusville prepares for a staged battle, but the weekend warriors aren’t aware they will soon be fighting an elusive army. A troop of Civil War deserters, trapped in the Hole by a long-ago avalanche, is rising from a dark slumber, and the war is far from over. And one misfit kid is all that stands between a town and the cold mouth of hell…

Stay tuned for more on this project!

In case you missed it, following are the posts that appeared on my blog this past week:

I plan on spending the remainder of my Labor Day weekend curled up with a book or two. How about you? What do you have planned?