5 Ways To Save Time On Book Release Day

This day has been coming for a long time for me. I have felt happy, nervous, excited and so many other emotions that they have melded together in a hard lump that has been lodged in my throat for the last month straight. Since my fellow Vixens already surprised me with the best book release party earlier this week, I decided to do something different for today.

In anticipation of the craziness of release day—the blog appearances and interviews, fielding phone calls from Colin Farrell’s people and flower delivery guys from the Fox Network—I have attempted wherever possible to eliminate extraneous time wasters, and so I share with you five tips for making the most of your big day, whatever it may be:

5. Sleep is overrated. It’s for babies and cats. You can sleep when you’re dead. Until then, four hours is more than enough to keep you upright and seem coherent to your peers, and even that is a horrible waste unless you can hook yourself up to a dream machine and record all the fabulous story ideas that come to you in sleep but which inevitably fall away when you wake up.

4. Meals are shaken, not stirred. Don’t underestimate the value of a good protein drink for that burst of energy without the need for timely preparation of any actual food. For added nutrition...Flinstones chewable vitamins.

3. Clothing can be your downfall. If you must dress, keep it simple. Black is your friend. Anything else requires matching and guesswork that could take hours to figure out, especially if you grew up anywhere near the 1980s, since then you're also dealing with the debilitating and painful flashbacks of neon colours, polyester and leg warmers every time you brave the closet door.

2. Children are precious. They deserve attention, age appropriate activities, and a qualified babysitting service. Therefore preparation in advance is required to be sure they have a steady supply of Pop Tarts and juice boxes, and that you have obtained all available episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. [Note: girl children may prefer the linguistic talents of Dora the Explorer or the high-pitched vocal stylings of Barbie Dancing Princess]

1. The family will understand when you don’t show up for breakfast, lunch or dinner (see item 4, above). After all, over the last several months they have learned to accept the strange mumbling monster who resides in the computer room and have even grown to like the soothing white noise of computer keys clacking away through the darkest hours of the night. They may have a harder time with the mountain of dirty laundry and the layer of dust sitting thick on grandma’s antique buffet, but they’ll get over it next week when things go back to normal...with the help of bribes in the form of a new X-Box and a set of season tickets to the TFC.

So what do you do to save time?

Oh, and congratulations to Hellion who has won an e-copy of My Immortal from our contest last week!

Since today is release day, we of course have another book to give away, and so one lucky commenter will receive a free Print copy of My Immortal!

Tiff's note--Purchase your copy here: http://www.lindenbayromance.com/product-myimmortal-7174-139.html