Happy New Year everyone! Hope your head doesn’t hurt too much from all the celebrating. I was reading Yahoo’s tips on avoiding a hangover, and they forgot the easiest one – don’t drink!

I’m over at The Debs today, looking for book recommendations. Feel free to share your own here too.

I’m very excited to announce that The Bookologist has extended her Putnam Pre-order contest all the way until June! That means you can win stuff every month.

Also, look for a very exciting week over at The Undercover Book Lover next week, when she features Putnam writers (and yours truly). I’ll have more links to that next Friday.

For those of you keeping tabs on me, I did NOT finish my first draft of THE RIGHT & THE REAL by midnight on Dec. 31st, but the good news is, I read what I have so far, and it’s better than I’d hoped! I should be able to wrap up this draft by the end of next week. Knock on wood!

Oh, and just in case you forgot, Restoring Harmony comes out THIS YEAR!