Hostage Situation

My old friends, The Panics, came to see me this morning. They never call. They never write. The just pop in like bad relatives and make themselves at home, so I can spend a lot of time obsessing about how…

The Gallagher Girls have got to get their acts together, sequel-wise.

My throat is sore which means I’m approximately 36 hours from a really bad, cough-until-your-lungs-come-out-your-nose, cold.

The weather is getting cool again which means I will soon have to go through the dreaded “will my off-season clothes still fit me” ritual.

I’ve recently discovered John Green’s blog, and he sounds way smarter than me. (And yes, I know that by the use of phrases such as ‘way smarter’ I’m not helping my case. Sue me.)

I’ve figured out how I’m going to encrypt the title for GG2, and it’s cool. Really cool. But what if it's too hard and no one gets it? What if it’s too easy and nine million people email at the exact same time with the right answer?. Or…what if no one guesses? What if no one cares…

And the big reason the panics came to call: LEARNING TO PLAY GIN will be out in November. What if no one buys it? I can’t make them buy it, can I?

I wish I had some sort of bargaining chip…like buy this book or else!

But then I realized that I do! I have entire books full of people I can hold hostage.

So listen up, people! I have Josh Abrams here and if you don’t do as I say very bad things will happen to him in the next Gallagher Girls book! That’s right. He’s a cute, sweet boy, but I’m not above making him a philandering idiot and/or dead if that means helping LEARNING TO PLAY GIN fly off the shelves.

These are my demands. If they aren’t met, then Josh will pay…

--Ally

ps...by the way, I just posted an audio excerpt of yours truly reading the first chapter of Learning to Play Gin. It's the first look anywhere of the book itself, so you may want to go listen so you'll know what you have to buy to save Josh!