Happy Birthday
I must say that this has been one of the roughest weeks in recent memory.
I lost months of work off my flashdrive and discovered I had not been backing up properly. My wife and son have had several doctors appointments and tests. My wife in particular has spent the last six weeks or so sick and in a lot of pain. And Cleveland water and sewer are trying to kill me off via coronary by each sending bills inflated over twelve times the cost they’ve been for the last two years. That’s well over one thousand dollars for the month of April.
And yet, in the midst of all that unpleasant chaos, some really wonderful things happened. My wife and the kids gave me several special birthday presents.
The Presents:
They gave me The Hides by Kealan Patrick Burke. It’s book two of the Timmy Quinn Series (which means I now own the entire series to date). My wife also hunted down and acquired an out-of-print heretofore impossible-to-find copy of The Girl in the Basement and Other Stories by Ray Garton which I have wanted for a long time.
Finally, the present that totally blindsided me with happiness and joy was The Complete “Little Books” series published by Borderlands Press. A few weeks ago there were only five sets remaining. Now all the complete sets have been sold and you can only get individual little books that haven’t been sold out yet. I am stunned.
Does my wife love me or what?
Finally, as a bit of an extra birthday present, this website received 120 hits according to WordPress.com Stats which is the first time it has gone over 100. That is a really nice gift. I hope you, my visitors are finding the things you’re looking for.
Last but not least — The Contest
Raven Bower donated three eBook copies of her novel Apparitions on CD-ROM to me for this contest. Everybody who left a comment on the website this month went into a hat and I drew three names. John, Mick and another John are the winners. You will be contacted by e-mail tomorrow to arrange delivery of your prize.
Thank you to everyone who left a comment and an extra special thank you to Raven Bower.
Despite the headaches and the panic attacks, this was a really wonderful birthday.
4 comments
Your wife rocks!
Kealan,
That she does!
Not only that, but I forgot to mention that when I was depressed about losing months of work on the flashdrive, my wife let me put in a pre-order for The Turtle Boy: Peregrine’s Tale.
I didn’t want to order it before my birthday in case it was a present but I know that it’s selling fast and I didn’t want to miss out on a complete run of the Timmy Quinn Series.
Placing my order helped lift me out of my blues. It really is excellent therapy.
Thank you gentlemen!
Deena is my wife, for those who don’t know yet.
And she rocks. She also knows me WAY too well.
–Greg
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