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Faerie Festival, in which I almost get wings
I promised I’d post pictures of myself from the Faerie Festival. Here is the outfit my amazing friend, Kristy, sewed for me. She is sort of like Martha Stewart but more impressive because she has seven children. One Halloween she…
Continue ReadingWinners!
Mimilee and Bchild, your numbers are up. But in a good way. Send me your real addresses at jrallisonfans at yahoo dot com and I’ll send your ARCs out. All the rest, do not despair. Hopefully I’ll pick up some…
Continue ReadingMy Double Life ARC give-away
I feel bad for making anybody who is just dying to read my next book (I know that’s all of you, right?) wait any longer for the promised ARCs, so I’m doing the giveaway now–but if you didn’t read about…
Continue ReadingFaerie Festival
Next Saturday I’ll be at the Fairy Festival. (Or if you’re highbrow it’s: Faerie) You, like me, might not have even known that the faeries all got together once a year to have a festival, but they do. I’ll be…
Continue ReadingThe Random Number Generator has spoken
I picture it like that scary green floating head in the Wizard of Oz, but maybe that’s just me. Anyway, today the random number generator likes Chelly and Kristi Stevens. Don’t get creeped out about that or anything. So, Chelly…
Continue ReadingMore New, New Dawn Give Away
I know a lot of you Twilight fans wanted to win a copy of this book–well, you’re in luck! Ben Bella books is giving me two more copies to give away. (Because they’re cool like that.) So would you like…
Continue ReadingWhy I have to keep writing
It’s plain and simple, really. If I didn’t keep writing I wouldn’t get invited to fun places like James Dashner’s author dinner last night at the Phoenix Book Company. Here’s a picture of Aprilynne Pike (Wings) James, (Maze Runner) and…
Continue ReadingMy Fair Godmother Trailer
I admit right off that I didn’t make this trailer–but I think it’s absolutely darling, and Andie, the rent-a-teenager I used to make the it, did such a good job of finding the PERFECT upbeat, fun, teen song to go…
Continue ReadingNew, New Dawn book give away
As you die-hard Janette Rallison fans know, (Hi Mom!)a year or so ago I wrote a chapter for the book New Dawn, which is a compilation of essays about the Twilight series. Well, after New Dawn came out, Breaking Dawn…
Continue ReadingMy Journal at 13
Fellow writer and friend, Jill Wolfson, is doing a Dear Diary project on her blog. She’s invinting authors to give her a snippet from their diaries when they were 12-14years-old. It so happens that I’ve kept journals since I was…
Continue ReadingJob satisfaction
I’m the first to admit that being an author has its downsides. It’s a hard field to break into, it often doesn’t pay as well as . . . say, a pizza delivery job, and if you’re lucky and do…
Continue ReadingThe Problem With Wikipedia
Once while I was talking about researching stuff for my novels, I told one of my author friends, Jon Lewis, that my editor made me find a native Italian speaker to look over the Italian phrases I put in How…
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