Band Geeked Out, the sequel to Band Geek Love, is officially up on Amazon for pre-order and I am very excited to share the cover.
BEHOLD:
Hi! I’m Ellie and I am FREAKING OUT.
I think it captures the essence of the story quite well (which is pretty cool, considering it was designed before I had even fully finished it) and, did you notice? It’s the same girl! That’s some awesome continuity, and major props to the fine designers at Flux (who just received a well-deserved shout-out in Publishers Weekly!) Thanks for the lovely cover.
Also, I sort of want that girl’s hair. And her lipstick.
While I was fleeing from bears in the Upper Peninsula, I missed out on a very important marching band event that took place here in the town I live. The Drum Corps International World Championship! Bad timing, because I totally would have gone to bask in the band geekiness and general awesomeness.
Fortunately, a friend of mine took a whole bunch of lovely photos and collected the eyewitness quote “It’s marching band on steroids”. Looking at the pictures, I think I’d have to agree!
Drum Corps International World Championship Pictures
I have returned from the wilds of northern Michigan! It was a great trip, and the fact that my email took at least five minutes to load made it a little easier to concentrate on revising Band Geeked Out (a draft of which I sent it yesterday! Huzzah!).
Things that didn’t make it easier to concentrate on revising included playing Apples to Apples with my extended family, eating pesto, kayaking, singing folk songs, walking out to the lighthouse and…hmm…there was something else. Oh, that’s right -
BEING TERRORIZED BY A BEAR!
Hard to tell from this picture, but the bear was, like, two seconds from eating our faces off.
Well, technically the bear was not much bigger than a large dog. And it was in the water, scared out of its mind. And we were in a sizable boat 15 feet away. But that still counts as being terrorized, right? RIGHT? (The bear was okay, by the way…it swam across the channel and jumped right out of the water and ran into the woods.)
Other than that, though, it was a relaxing vacation. I’m glad to be back to my precious internet and the Olympics and some downtime to read a few books off the top of my reading pile. And, of course, there are always new books to write…
