I’m slowly starting to get things from Barbour that are making me excited about what I might receive from them next.

Last week, I received some “Meet the Author” book signing posters for the multi-author event I’m participating in December 13 with the other MTCW authors. In the same delivery (I’m getting to know my UPS guy, and he’s a cutie!) I received my 500 Stand-In Groom bookmarks. I’ve already started giving some of them away too—I actually need to take more of them to my friend Lori who works at David Lipscomb University. She gave away about fifteen or twenty of them last Friday and says she knows a bunch more people she wants to give them to.

Yesterday, I received this via e-mail from Shalyn, the Senior Trade Marketing Manager at Barbour:

These are the promo pieces that the marketing/sales staff at Barbour use when they go talk to booksellers about their upcoming new releases.

I know I should be receiving a few cover flats, and I hope that I’ll get a copy of the ARC when those go out to reviewers. I just know I’m going to make an idiot of myself, though, when my UPS guy brings me a big box from Barbour that has my copies of the book, which I’m hoping to receive before I leave to go to Arkansas for Christmas (I’m going early—because I can!). Believe me, everyone in my neighborhood will hear when that arrives!

In addition to the book signing on December 13 (where I’ll be signing book plates for people who pre-order Stand-In Groom through the B&N where we’re signing), I have an interview with ChristanBooks.com on December 4.

I know I’ve already agreed to a couple of blog interviews/guest blogs—Keli Gwyn on January 5, and I’ll be guest-judging Tracy Ruckman‘s regularly featured contest on her blog the week of January 12. And Lena Nelson Dooley interviewed me a couple of months ago to feature me on her blog some time in January, I believe.

If I’ve arranged with you for an interview or guest blog piece or if you’d like to set one up, please let me know. I’d like to get as much scheduled as I can now, before the madness of the holidays hits.