Win THIS!

So, last night, when I was hanging out with a New York Times best-selling author....

Mwah-ha-ha-ha! That's fun to say.

Of course, it's only true if you consider being part of a crowd of thirty fans waiting to get their books signed as "hanging out," but....whatevs.

I went to get my copy of Mistborn 3 signed by Brandon Sanderson at my local Barnes and Noble last night. I stuck around and listened to the Q&A with him and David Farland. I love hearing writers talk about writing.

Sadly, though, the only thing I could think was, "Should I have brought the cookies? I should have brought the cookies. Dang. No, it's best I didn't." Because I made a bunch of baked stuff for my son's school's bake sale today and I had some great chocolate chip cookies and I thought those guys might get tired of being at the store all night and they might like some cookies so I was going to bring some.

But then I thought, these guys are fantasy writers which means they have hyperactive imaginations and much like my older son, might wonder why a complete stranger is giving them treats because my son tells me the same story every Halloween about people who inject trick-or-treat candy bars with microscopic needles full of poison. And yet it doesn't deter him from the sugar. So anyway, who knows what these guys would have thought of some random girl bringing them a plate full of homemade cookies? At best, "How sad that she doesn't have a life," and at worst, "I'm not eating those poison cookies."



Anyway...



I didn't bring the cookies, but I did get a picture:



And a book signed, which I'm giving away! It's freshly autographed and all hard-covery and shiny and stuff.

And since Brandon Sanderson might read my blog today, please enter to win so he doesn't think I'm a loser.


Too late.

Well, maybe he'll think I'm a loser with some people who read my blog.

Here's how you enter. I'm essentially a selfish person and so I'm going to get a little sumpin'-sumpin' out of this today. Leave me a comment where you tell me a book, that if you knew I hadn't read it, you'd say, "You have to read this book." Because I'm always looking for new books. Any genre.

If you haven't read the first two in Brandon's trilogy, enter anyway, because this will make a nice gift for a friend, or you can check out the first two from the library to read them and have this one on tap at your leisure. Because trust me, I rarely read fantasy but I really enjoyed this series. Oh, and you can read my (short) reviews of those books here (and here, for good measure).

And some time next week if I remember, I'll explain while you'll rarely see my teeth in photos.


Seriously, now. Enter! I'll pick a winner on Sunday.