They're here. They're early. I'm freaking out.

Okay. Deep breaths.

I'm finally back from the marathon conference tour, and..well...I gave in.

I had a hunch I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU might be in stores, so I did the big author, please let me see my book and get recognized and mobbed by fans demanding autographs tour.

Well, let me relieve the suspense, there were no screaming fans.

I did however push open the doors of the big Borders and see this....



Can you see it? Yep. That's my book right on the front tables, sticking out like a sore thumb--in a good way.

Does it look awesome? I think it looks awesome!

Then I went in search of more books, because three books on the front table are great, but I'm greedy.

That's when I saw this...


See, that's my book's funky plaid spine right there--on the same shelf as the new Meg Cabot and almost directly above the new Sarah Dessen.

Cool company, huh?

Then the good people at Borders helped me track down all the copies of Cheating at Solitaire and the four Love You Kill Yous, so I could sign them.

And by the way, would you LOOK at that stack of Soitaires?



Now, when I first saw it I freaked because I'd been to this store back last January and signed about twenty copies of Solitaire, and I just knew that those were the same copies...aka unsold copies. But then I opened them and no signature. So, do the math with me folks, the signed copies had sold and they'd ordered more!!!! (which are now signed.)

Did you see the stack? Isn't the stack impressive?

But then I got worried that the Love You Kill Yous would get intimidated by the big stack of Solitaires--what with them being new and all--but then the wonderful Borders manager told me that they'd had several more copies of Love You Kill You, but they'd already sold!!!!

The book isn't even officially out yet!!!

But people are buying it--hopefully lots and lots of people.

More later,
Ally