Author Archives: Yvonne Heidt

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Day 10, my friends, and the livin’ is cray! Jove and I always tell people that the Hootenanny is seriously big. It’s big giveaways. 30-50 books a day. And they don’t believe us. There’s always this kind of skeptical expression. And we say we get over a hundred authors…

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You made it! Day 9! But guess what? WE ARE STILL GOING STRONG UP IN HERE. That’s right. This party DOES NOT STOP FOR TWELVE DAYS. The elves don’t suddenly decide to have a bit of a lie-down around this time and oh, la-di-da we’re just going to lounge…

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Well, lookit you, my little merry chestnuts! Still hanging out with us, are you? I hope you’ve adopted the merry elf diet, because that’s pretty much what we’re all subsisting on here. We maybe got a little too crazy on Saturday, as we forgot to post yesterday’s on schedule.…

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DAY SEVEN of the festivities! How are you, my little cherry pop-tarts? I assume you’re still trucking right along with us and as predicted, things are cray-cray! But that ALWAYS happens during the Hootenanny, so we just shake our heads and go about our business. About this time we…

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WELCOME to the halfway point of the Women and Words Hootenanny! I know some of you have glazed-over eyes and you’re all, WTF with all these books omg I can’t even and then you pick up your coffee and you get right back to it. Heh. I know. Meanwhile,…

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So I have it on good authority that we are giving, like, at least 50 books a day away. I tend not to count because I’m lost in the shuffle and just trying to find a place to sit down. It’s usually about this time that readers’ eyes glaze…

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HA HA HAHAHAAAAAAAA! Y’all thought we were funnin’. And teasin’. And just pretending that we weren’t going to give away a major giant crazy huge WTF stack of books n’ swag. NEVER! MUAH HA HA!!! Tucker is shopping for later (that BETTER be later…) I can say with certainty…

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Well. What did you think about Day 1, my little shivering sugarplums? Uh-huh. You thought we were making it all up, about all the books we’re giving away and blah blah blah…NO! WE DO NOT MAKE THIS UP! I mean, the merry elves sometimes make stuff up and right…

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WELL, HELLO THERE! OMG HERE WE GO THIS IS IT THE CRAZY IS UPON US NO WAY IT’S ANOTHER DECEMBER HOOTENANNY AND HOLY CRAP WE ARE  UP TO OUR HAIR ROOTS IN BOOKS AND SWAG!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to Hootenanny 2016 right here with all the Women and Wordsters, all the…