In addition to the excellent card I got from Lizzie and Drew today, I also got the following package in the mail:


Yes -- Advance Reading Copies of MY FIRST NOVEL (well, Julia C. Porter's at least). They look awesome. And the book now has its own Amazon.com page for pre-ordering. It's all becoming quite real now.

So of course we had to do the Goofy Author Fondling New Books photo:


Sweet! Drew says: "Dad, you don't look like a Julia, no siree!"


Yay! Much happiness here on V-Day in the Jasper household (finally, one of the many, many things we've been waiting for has arrived)!