in which I cannot think of a good title

Seriously, I cannot. It just wasn't working out in my head. Anyway. Today will be interesting, considering the fact that I may get an answer to what the hell is wrong with my shoulder this afternoon. Everybody cross your fingers, because I'm going to pitch a fit if I have to get another MRI. Or if they say I need another surgery, because, NO. That ruined my summer the first time around and took me out of dance for the summer and fall semester. I refuse to have surgery, absolutely refuse... But I'm kind of getting ahead of myself, they might not even know what's wrong. Blech.

I have been writing now, working on RON when I should probably be working on Rose. Inspiration isn't coming on Rose, however, so I need to work on something else, RON just happens to be that something else. It makes me wish I had stayed in touch with Jacquie, because she was a varsity cheerleader and could help me out with all of this cheerleading stuff. I know absolutely nothing about cheerleaders, so I'm having to do some intense research while I'm writing, which is a little irksome. I like already knowing everything about the characters and what they do before I start writing, but that just isn't happening this time around. Also, I hate changing points of view, but that's what I'm doing. It makes each chapter extra long because it has two parts, and I'm slightly concerned as to how long RON is going to end up being. Definitely over twice the size of Lovely, which I think more readers will like because I've got a lot of emails and reviews saying Lovely was far too short. (jsyk, I agree. But that's all that was coming from the storyline. writing time-traps gets confusing).

The gym is actually becoming a great place for inspiration, now to figure out how to write while on the elliptical. ;P

Love,

Alice

reviews, reviews, reviews

First off, I would like to thank everyone who has read Lovely and rated or reviewed it. The fact that took the time makes me smile. =) Secondly, to the reviewer on itunes who called me the Rebecca Black of publishing, thank you for making me laugh. Seriously, I did nearly die laughing. You know when you don't like a book you can stop reading, right? I am honestly saying, it is okay if you don't like my writing, not everyone (or even a majority) in the world will. You can go read something you do like, you're not obligated to finish. <3<3<3

And now for the serious (pfft) part of this blog... guys, I'm not Alice Hawkings. While we have similarities that an author and their character will inevitably have, we're not the same person. Alice Hawkings doesn't exist, she is a book character. Lovely is a work of fiction.

Love,

Alice (but not that Alice!)

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo..............

Anyone interested it helping me out on the fanpage on the loverly facebook? I need a few more likes on the page to be allowed to give it it's own URL, and thus be able to more easily promote Lovely. Because I may or may not have been falling off the promotion wagon. But I'll get back up on and hopefully will increase the amount of people who read Lovely. =)

And I'm totally having an awesome week now because Evanescence is going into the studio to record the third album. YAY! /random babbling.

Um, anyway, search Allison Liddelle on facebook and click 'like' and you'll be helping in the fight for a kickass url.

Love,

Alice

I swear...

I have not been slacking off writing-wise. It's just a little slow going with all of the schoolwork I have to do (never take 17 hours). Still working diligently on Rose and Dance (more info on those two the closer I get to being done) and if you check my site I have at least one new poem up a week. That's enough to tide you over, right? Right? 

Okay, so fine, it's probably not so I must point you to Lissy's website, where you can find all sorts of writing and art (linkage on the side of this page). I promise it rocks. And to http://www.honeyrockdawn.com, because Shreve also rocks.

Love,

Alice

Lovely

As you all know, I recently published Lovely, which is totally the bestest most awesomest book on the face of like, everything. my first book, or, more accurately, a novella. I was stunned at the sheer amount of people that have wanted to read my book. Like, seriously, today when I looked up the statistics and saw that nearly two hundred people have read my book I almost cried from happiness. This is just amazing. =)

For those of you who want to be extra super awesome, you can direct people to the book's page on smashwords, http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/40188 OR you could totally print out a flyer or two and stick them anywhere you think people would notice them at. flyer!

Love,

Alice

A borderline-morbid thought and shameless self-advertising

Mkay... thought is that even though cutting is very bad, and SI unto itself is an evil, demon, monster, bitchface from hell... it's one demon that's saved my life on multiple occasions

And I only had this thought because I'm doing the formatting for Lovely... whiiiiich, brings me to my shameless self-advertising, because Lovely is coming out very soon as an e-book, through smashwords. Lovely being a novella penned by Allison Liddelle (that's ME!) about exactly what might happen if you were given the chance to relive one moment ten times, for better or worse. What would you do if you could go back and change it all?