no WAY! Am I really FIRST!

I hope that I am "the first" to congratulate you!! We are all SO EXCITED that our purl gets a book deal!!!

OK - I may or may not be first, but HOLY MOLEY!

YEA LAURIE!!!! That roar you hear in the background in the cheering of all your internets friends and stalkers. We is MUY happy.

Now - the question of the day - if I send you a copy of this book (or eleventy hundred), all with return postage paid, WILL YOU AUTOGRAPH???

Am sooo proud. As if I helped. As if...

so instead of basking in the joy that is me to be knowing (aka internet stalky into personal life with invite), I shall just have to order the book. Over and over again.

congrads. Way to sit on the secret. When is the book tour??
:)

Congratulations!!! What an awesome accomplishment! I can't wait to read it :)

Oh, I meant to ask, Do you own shoes like that?

OMG! I so can't wait to read this book!

I'm very happy for you... You ROCK! :)

I will indeed sign it, Suzi, in fact send me all your books! I will sign anything! Better yet I will just come to NC, less postage LOL.

Congratulations, I have been waiting for you to write a book! I look forward to reading it later this year.

That is so exciting! I'm preordering it today. Do you get to go on a book tour? I'll totally come if you tour anywhere in the Midwest.

Wow, my comment sounded gross, but I meant, I'll come to your signing. :-) I want a signed copy if you're not touring where I can get one in person.

thank goodness. please please do a book tour I am dying to hear if your voice sounds like the one in my head when I am reading! I's orderign today as well!! congratulations for looking your fears in the face!

OK - if you come to NC, we will put you up in nice beach house on Okracoke island (which is so very funky and fun to visit) and you can enjoy the outter banks and knit and or drink and walk on the beach.

:)
Seriously, just ordered FIVE copies. I will send them to you (at some point when I get them I will need your PO box address) and I will give you instructions on who to address each copy to, and OH MY GOD I'M ALMOST FAMOUS BECAUSE I HAVE AN INTERNET FRIEND WHO IS PUBLISHED!!!!!

See how I make it all about me? Yeah. hmm.

Anyway, thanks so much!!! And I'm SO excited. a whole BOOK. That's like finding CrazyAuntPurl.com for the first time and starting with the archives.... sigh. Good times.
:)

I have shoes similar to that (bought them for a date, alas) you don't think I have to wear them on a book tour if I have one, do you? I mean they are pretty but OH MY GOD so uncomfortable. Definitely 5-minute shoes.

Congratulations!!!!!

Wow!! I can't remember whether I have ever actually commented here, but if I haven't, I am officially de-lurking to say CONGRATULATIONS!! I love, love, LOVE your blog, and I can't wait to read your book. One night soon will see me holed up in my room with a glass of wine trying to read it over my cat as he attempts to sit on my head!

Congratulations again, Laurie!!

Thank you so much everyone! I hope you like it!

Congratulations! Who designed the cover?

OMG! This is awesome! I can't wait to buy the book!

btw... is there a book tour? If yes, please come to DC. We have really cool yarn stores! You cannot resist the call of the yarn stores!

I have been lurking, reading, reading your blog almost forever, making no comments,,,,,,(Note the commas)!!!!!!!! It is time come out of the shadows, to tell you CONGRATS!!!
I was thinking just last week,,,,,,,"Why doesn't she write a book?" I am on my way to order,,,,,,,,,,,

Way to go Purl!!

You have definitely made some sweet lemonade (or maybe sweet lemon tea!) out of all those lemons that have been thrown your way!!

So. very. proud. of. you!!

Oh, WOW! Make them send you to Houston on your book tour. Maybe I could then meet you and Drew all at the same time. How fun would that be? I'll be putting in a pre-order today.

An artist named Andrea Brower designed the cover :)

I almost forgot,,,,,,,,on your whirlwind tour,,,you must make some midwest stops,,I own a yarnshop........

Congratulations, CAP! You listened to the demands of the Internets and wrote the book we all knew you had in you! As president of the local SnB and Friends of the Library in Franklin, VA, I hereby invite you and your entourage (you ARE traveling with an entourage, n'est-ce pas?) to bring your book tour to southeastern NC and make a talk!

What wonderful news! I read your blog all the time but never commented because I'd be like #174 on the list and I figured you'd be tired of reading the comments by then, and I could never think of anything to say that hadn't already been said. If you go on a book tour and get to Mississippi I'll take you yarn shopping at the WalMart and the Hobby Lobby. They have yarn AND coupons.

So wonderful for you. Yay !!

Another newbie lurker jumping out to say "wow"!!! Congrats. on living out your dream....you must feel on top of the world right now....enjoy the view! =)

Pennie

I KNEW it. I kept wondering when you'd spill about a book deal. Your writing is too funny for publishers to overlook. Congratulations!

Huge congratulations!

If it is any consolation, the author blurb in my book contains huge lies, all cooked up by my publoisher. Where do they get these things?

And after I corrected all their lies, they went ahead and printed 'em anyway!

OMG, I am *so* excited for you!!!!! Every single time I read your blog, I think: this chick needs to write a book. You bring such a unique voice to everything - hilarious and insightful at the same time. I can't wait for the book!

Go you! And congrats!

Yay!! Congratulations!
Frankie is cuter than that cat.

Congratulations - I can't wait to read the book!

oh, My, GOD!!!!!! I am so happy for you, and my pre-order is already in.

D-I-V-O-R-C-E: A whole lot of money
Cat Care: A whole lot of money
Merlot and Cheetos: Not as much money, but still...

Personal growth and finding yourself: PRICELESS

W. :)

Congratulations, Laurie!!!

I, too, want an autographed copy. But I live across the pond! *sniff*

Wow, you go girl! They picked the picture because you are one smiling, gorgeous, happy looking woman. Can't wait to read the book.

OMG I just peed myself I was so excited for you! [Did I just tell the Internets THAT?]

This will definitely be the one book I get FOR SURE this year!

YOU RAWK!

You sneak! Congratulations! Is 8 AM too early to toast to your success?

Yeehaw. I knew, just knew, you had it in you! I can't wait for my copy. I will hold it up to all my friends and say I knew her back when...

Now I just have to find it in me.

That is so wonderful! Thank you for some good news on a Monday morning! Just think, when you are rich and famous, your darling cats will bask in really expensive cat litter and Mr. X. will not benefit at ALL!!! Sorry, I'm petty and vindictive!

Seriously, CAP. Great job! I'm so happy for you! Can't wait to read the book! More important than the Harry Potter #7, you are!!

Laurie-

I was on a plane this weekend and in the boring i-am-the-magazine-in-the-back-of-the-chair-in-front-of-you-magazine there was an article about craft and it said you were writing a book. I was going to email you and be all sneaky-like and I don't know you but hooray for writing ab ook! but now I can tell everyone! congradulations, dear!

I am so glad you have a book! What a great goal to finally reach! I wish I didn't have to wait until October to read it!!!! My story is similar to yours, except for the divorce thing, but still took six years of my life, and I started cutting up fabric as therapy ... well I did therapy too, but still cut up fabric. Thank you for being so brave to write such a great blog!!!

I am so glad you have a book! What a great goal to finally reach! I wish I didn't have to wait until October to read it!!!! My story is similar to yours, except for the divorce thing, but still took six years of my life, and I started cutting up fabric as therapy ... well I did therapy too, but still cut up fabric. Thank you for being so brave to write such a great blog!!!

Like some other commenters, I don't think I've commented b/c I'm always number 3085+. But I read every day and love how you write! Rarely does a knitting blog make me laugh out loud! This book deal couldn't have happened to a funnier, more deserving person!

Hey, Laurie -

Grey hair isn't so scary-crazy-lady - just look at the pic on my blog.

On second thoughts, which aisle is the Clairol in??

Congrats on the book; I did wonder where all the knitting content had gone :)

Congrats! I cannot wait to read it!!!

That's wonderful news. Congratulations! I think you need to come to the East coast for a book tour.

well, I'll be! I am so pre ordering this book!
I am also an acolyte of the gray hair and non diet school. Life is just too g-dammed short!

I can't wait to get it! I'll even pay Amazon's extortionate international delivery charges!! (I love exclamation points, too!!!) ;-)

Very, very cool! I knew you should write a book. I'm glad the publishers felt the same way.

BTW, spell check is over-rated. I've met the a@@ that wrote the first one and he did it simply because he can't spell anything correctly.

Please, please come to the bay area on your book signing tour!

Congrats again---you deserve it!

p.s. Guess who got the creativity after the divorce?

It's all been said before, but you are so incredibly inspirational. I understand what you mean about the crippling fear that comes with thinking you may not live up to someone's expectations. But Laurie...YOU PUBLISHED A BOOK. Savor every moment of this incredible achievement...and the wonderful experiences that are going to come with it. You must be absolutely bursting with joy. Congratulations! Even though I don't *know* you, I am truly, deeply proud of you.

I was thinking this before, if ANYONE should be published it's you, with your humor and writers gift- just, congratulations.

Can't wait!

Laurie, I'm so happy for you!!! Tears-in-my-eyes kind of happy. Yay!!!!

Mega-congrats Laurie!!! Threw in some extra exclamations just for you! I would love to hear about how you went about getting the deal (are my aspirations of being published showing?). Also, Canada loves you too, if you do a book tour don't forget to drop by. Especially Halifax. Will you sign my cats?

Have pre-order your book and I can't wait!

I check in with your blog now and then and enjoy the good read - I'm happy to hear about your book! Best wishes!

I am SO excited for you! This is precisely the sort of book I want to read, and then prolly re-read, and most likely afterwards read some more. Wonderful!
Congratulations, many many time!

This is FABULOUS news! I'm so happy for you and all of us who get to read your book! I wanted you to write one and you were sneakily doing it all along! Yayyyy!!!!!

Congrats!
Have it saved will buy it on payday!
Again congrats.

Wow! Congratulations! I can't wait to pick it up!

I'm so very proud of you and a big 'wooo hooo' on your book. It's going to be a long wait until October to get my copy.

I start my work day with you -- can't wait check in on your blog to see what my favorite 'Southern Gal' is up to and all the news about the cats.

You all have a good week and give those kitties a hug from your fan in OKC, OK !!

Now how totally awesome is that?!? (You don't have to answer this one.) Congratulations on it - and maybe eventually Amazon will get their shit together and get a real book blurb up there for you. Woot!

Are you going to sell it yourself?

If I mail a copy (with retun envelope & postage) can you sign my copy?

I always knew the book was only a matter of time. Congrats!

That's great. And there's a certain irony in this wonderful news. Someone needed to get divorced so they could 'find their creativity' or some such nonsense.
And although it's been a hard row to hoe, YOU'VE come out of the experience all personal-growthy, creativity-enhanced, with fans/friends/internet stalkers all over the country (the world!), and now you've written a book.
Go you.

Eeeeee! Congratulations, hardworking writer lady! I've got it sitting on my Wish List, which functions as my quick 'n' dirty list of Stuff To Remember I Want To Buy When I Get Paid Every Two Weeks.

Squeal! Squeal! Squeal! Mazol tov, Laurie!

Writer's fear - know all about that, and the word "fear" doesn't even do it justice. But look at you, all booby and gorgeous on your cover shot! Love the title, and I can't wait to read the book.

If you can add that interpretive dance bit to the book signing tour ... how many million hits on YouTube would that get? :-)

CONGRATS!!! first of all, i cant believe you didnt let us in on the secret! and that is so awesome you wrote a book.

are you gonna do a book tour? come to Michigan!

This is so exciting and wonderful! I am so happy for you and very, very proud. I feel like we've been through thick and thin (because I indentify with you so much) and this is a great moment in your life I'm so happy to share in. . .in a small way via "innernet stalking".

I am de-lurking to say: YAY!!!! I read your blog every single day and every single day I wish that you would write a book. Hallelujah! My prayers have been answered! You are so inspirational and funny and heart-warming. I can't WAIT to read your book.

Wow! That is awesome.

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!! I prebought the book! My wish is that you will be nekkid rolling in money $$$. Congratulations - with my whole heart.

I've been lurking for a really long time now on your site, and I just have to say how wonderful I think this is for you! You've got balls of steel lady! I can only think of the phrase "the best revenge is looking good." I think you got revenge in spades on the jerk that left you. Not only that, but you grew as a person. A lovely, wonderful person. Good for you! I know that some miserable woman out there, going through the same hard time that you did, is going to pick up your book and get a new outlook on life. Congratulations!

How exciting, congratulations Laurie!

Wooo Hooo!!!!!!!!

Congrats to you! I'm so proud. And going right now to pre-order!

Truly wonderful news, congratulations!!!!!! You bring sunshine to AR every morning and make me so homesick for my San Fernando Valley. Can't wait to read the book.

You rock!

Congratulations, tears of joy for you!

Congratulations! On the book, on keeping a secret and keeping going on throughout your fears! YAY!

Congrats, Laurie! Mississippi loves you!

We maybe even can muster up enough literate people to read your book. ;-)

Yeah Laurie!!! I can't wait to read it! Congratulations!!! (I can use exclamation points too!)

All I can say is.. You done good GIRL! Said from one southern Oklahoma gal, now living in Seoul, Korea, to another transplanted southerner in California.

Hey, if you come over here-- I can take you to the yarn market.. It's a huge, huge place full of wonderful yarns imported from: Japan, Turkey, Italy, England, Spain, and several other countries to numerous to name. *Plus, about 1/2 price of USA yarns. I'm not kidding it is a 5 story building-- full of yarn, fabrics and everything of that nature. (2 connected buildings) You even get 'free bamboo knitting needles' with yarn purchase.. NOW, if that doesn't temp you to come over here.. I don't know what would? :D

All I can say is.. ahhh.. you put my favorite kind of cat on the cover.. the black and white kind!

Congratulations, my dear! I wish you the best!

Congratulations! I look forward to reading your book. I hope it will be as helpful to me as reading your blog has been. (No, that was not sarcasm.) (No that was not an emoticon, it is simple punctuation.) I'll be quiet now.

OMG. That is awesome news! Sneaky little devil, you.

Yay! You wrote a book!
You just sold your first copy in Germany... actually, not. You're going to sell it as soon as it's on the market, I just pre-ordered it - this is the first book I ever pre-ordered, cos I knew I'm going to like it after having read your blog. I only wish I didn't have to wait until late October (that's when your book is going to be published here)!

Bravo Laurie! Congrats!

Congratulations! That's really awesome - a book!

Forgot to add- I did order the book- so, one has been purchased for Seoul, South Korea. *I'll figure out a way to get your autograph. :D

Congratulations! You rock!!! I'm ordering my copy right now. I hope Frankie isn't bummed that she's not on the cover.

PS. When does Soba's book come out?

I am completely and utterly not suprised by your news. In fact, I think it was my idea that you write a book. ;) You were quite wise to take my advice - and I hope it sells bajillions and I'm going to go pre-order it RIGHT NOW.

How cool is that!?! Congrats girl, I hope you sell eleventy-billion of 'em!

Well done!!!! Whuh whuh whuh!!! (Imagine me in brown and white polka dots and with Julia Roberts' bod at a polo match)

That is wonderful news and I was always hoping you'd write a book. There are millions of women out there who will relate so much to your stories, whether they knit or not. Congrats. By the by, do you own any shoes that look like those on the cover? ;-)

Goddamn, woman! It's about time! Although, most of us suspected something like this was up with you...

CONGRATULATIONS!

Way to go Laurie!! I am so proud you of!

Laurie that is awesome! Good for you and how AMAZING that you kept that secret. WOW!

So when's the tour?

Comment no. 8,543 to say: SQUEEE!! YAY!!! I am so happy for you that you wrote your first book, and happy for the rest of us who get to read it! You notice I said your FIRST book...

And LOL to the poster who said that YOU were the one who "found your creativity" in the divorce. You were always the creative one, I suspect.

Congratulations again, you so deserve this!

This is the BEST news - way to go, Laurie!!! Not to bring you down or anything, BUT with all this good news, surely you are just waiting for something to go wrong?! What happens if Francisco comes back and meets your new gardener? Think of the material you would be able to collect for the sequel! PS: Laurie is a boy's name here (UK). Tally ho!

OOH, I just thought of a question. Does amazon tell you how many pre-orders you have in already?

Wow, what fantastic news! Congratulations!

I am curious how the whole book deal got started in the first place. Did you initiate the process? Or did a loyal reader who also happened to be in the biz approach you with the idea? (My fiance has been after me to write a book for months now, but I think what's holding me back from actually doing it is that I'm convinced it'd never get published because I don't have any connections in the publishing world.)

Yay!!!!! Congratulations! How exciting! Can't wait to read it.

Congratulations! I love the picture of you selected for the book. I am so impressed that you could work full time, write this book, knit, take care of the cats, and keep up with this blog! Congratulations!

Absolutely fantastic! I suspected you might have been writing a book. If you have a tour make sure it stops in Cincinnati! I'm so happy for you.

Congratulations! You are obviously not human if you were able to keep a book deal a secret for almost a year. I am surprised you did not explode all over your keyboard only to have your cats lick up your remains.

Well, hey, isn't that great news! I pre-ordered as soon as I read your post. My estimated ship date is October 23rd, 2007. There's nothing like the speed of modern life, is there?

Congratulations! I too am a closet writer who hopes the opus I am now struggling with will someday actually deserve the title of 'book'.
I hope that you have a signing someone hwere in the Valley so I can meet you have it signed! Excellent work!

THAT'S AWESOME!!! Yay you! I'm so excited! (hmm, clearly the exclamation points are contagious)

I pre-ordered, but have to wait till OCT! Oh well, by the time it comes, it'll be a surprise so I'll get another dose of excitement!

Congratulations!!! Someone as fun to read as you are deserves this!

Congratulations! Felicidades! And the same sentiment in every other language as well! I'm very proud of you! Exclamation point!

Congratulations. I had a feeling you were up to something sneaky like that. Perhaps you can get Reese Witherspoon to option it since she is a divorced southerner now too.

YAY!! Great job keeping the secret ... I never would have been able to! I am going to go preorder! What could be better than an entire BOOK of crazy aunt purl?!?!?!?!?!?

YAY!!

OMG...congratulations on the book!!

Another lurker who always thought you should publish a book.

Congratulations!!!!!

Congrats on the book! It looks awesome! :)

Oh, and one more thing besides the spellcheck. My southern Aunt corrected me and says, "Y'all is singular. A'll Y'all is plural."

*wink*

I have ordered a copy for the library where I work. Can't wait for it to be published. Congratulations.

OMG! Congratulations! This is so fabulous! I'm so happy for you!

This is even better than getting a new gardener...

Laurie, I just wanted to say that in the two years I've been reading your blog, you never cease to amaze me with your personal growth, your comma splices, your catties, your stories and your fearlessness. I am so very impressed that you actually DID what you wanted to do! While I know that the "race is only with yourself", I'm pretty sure Mr. I-Need-My-Creativity-Back hasn't been anywhere near as creative as you since he foolishly cut you out of his life.

I'm going to pre-order the book today (hope Amazone.ca will ship it up to the Great White North). You really are something special.

leslie

Please please come to Fayetteville, Arkansas! I'll make you a batch of homemade fried okra! Congratulations Laurie!

Wow! Yay!!!! Congratulations! Pretty soon you'll have your own cabana boy posse!

WOW! I LOVE your blog -- you writing is so funny and insightful. Thanks for writing a book for us too. Congratulations!

It's about time!!!

OMG YOU MIGHT GET TO MEET LETTERMAN AND CRAIG FERGUSON! IN THE FLESH!

[I am so jealous!]

I'm having a hawaiian punch and vodka and so celebrating for you!

Woo hoo! BOOK tour! BOOK tour! BOOK tour!

Great job Laurie, it has been a joy visiting with you and now I can add your book to my own book collection. I feel like a proud Mama and can't wait to get my copy. Cheers to you Crazy Aunt Purl!!!!!

Really, truly congratulations. Funny that when anyone would comment you should write a book lately I had a feeling you would, just didn't know you had.

Hooray! Congratulations! Can't hardly wait to read it, extra commas and all!

Wow - amazing Secret-Keeping-Abilities! Very impressive. Especially when so many of us have been begging you to write a book!!

Please go on tour! PLEASE!!!

Congrats! I cannot WAIT to read it. Gotta run to amazon now....

Darned you! Tears on happy days too? I keep a box of Kleenex next to my computer just for CAP-time. Never fails. I am sooo happy!!! You have inspired so many of us crazy cat ladies through your writing and now you are spreading your message of wine to the world! All my friends, family and the man in my life know you and make fun of my CAP-isms! Snakes on a Plane! Innernets! Eleventy! Heading over to Amazon right now! Thank you, Laurie. You are the bestest! Love you in a friendly innernet not weird way.

Halleulija! (See I don't have spellchecker either.)

This is the best Monday morning I've had in years. I will order your book on May 1, when my little pile of "mad money" replensihes itself with the next paycheck. Viva la budget. Viva la CAP.

Congrats, Laurie! Wow, you really CAN keep a secret! All the time I've been reading your blog I've been wondering why some publisher hadn't snapped you up. Hah! Wishing you lots of success!

Congratulations!!!!! You are SO good at keeping secrets. All this time, we were telling you that you should be writing a book. I'll definitely be reading it!

And you're a Perry, from the South? Me, too!!!

Congratulations!! Wow, you really can keep a secret. Super mad props on your newest victory!!!

WOW-EE!!!! I am so happy for you! I love reading your blog and I will definitely buy your book! You go girl!!!

Book tour. Book tour. Book tour. To Toronto ...... in the winter(we all know how you love to go to cold weather), And you could get a sexy new parka, you'd look great, you should come and do a reading and we'll get all liquered up at a lettuce knit SnB. poetry, wine,dancing in the snow. You need to do a book tour for stories for the next book, Crazy Aunt Purl goes a travelling.

,,,,did I use enough commas ,,,

Come up and play ,,,I mean Go on tour.

Congrats! As for your writing and self-helping abilities, JUST this morning, I was about to email a friend of mine and recommend your website to her for its self-helpfulness. Now I'll just tell her to buy the book!

Yay for you!

OMG! Fantastic! Congratulations :-)
I can't believe you managed to keep the whole thing such a secret! (I know I couldn't have)

Now we have to wait til October! Keep on writin'! I love the laughs! Amazon isn't going to know what happened to it's pre-order department. An avalanche of us knitting crazy cat ladies has landed on them!
I am so happy for you.

This is soo great! Rock n' Roll! I can't wait.

This is an entry from my blog, I thought you might want to read it :D

"Thursday, April 19

Thank you Aunt Purl

So, I was reading one of the 3 blogs that I keep up with the best I can, and I thought, how wierd and wonderful this all is. To put your inner most thoughts and feelings out in the world... the WHOLE world. That is what the www is after all, the world wide web!!

That people we don't even know could be reading our "diary" and finding comfort and hope, and feel a little less alone. We are all in this together after all aren't we. How wonderful.

And, its a 2 way street! GREAT! Not only can we read about others, learn from their insight, but we can also put our thoughts out there! Any little thought or feeling.. just put it right on out there! We can just look right on inside and with out fear of being judged or being wrong, we can just freely let it flow, get it out, get it off our chests, and hopefully even come to conclusions about ourselves, "find" ourselves if you will.

I don't know if the same feeling comes from keeping the little pink diary with a key under your pillow, I never was the "diary" type, or if it only comes from thinking that maybe someone, somewhere has stumbled across my little page and maybe they have made similar observations about life or themselves, or maybe something I say here may help someone see things in a new light like other's blogs have done for me?.. Someone that I'll never know, never converse with, not even know they were here.

Hmmm I like it."

I wish you lots of luck, and can not wait to read your book :D
Margie

FANTASTIC NEWS!!!
I think i will start knitting a leopard covered kleenex box to deliver to you when you make it to Boston for the book tour! Now you HAVE to do the tour!

I'm a lurker, but I must delurk to wish you huge CONGRATULATIONS!!!! With excessive use of exclamation points & everything!

Outstanding news. I am definitely a buyer. Your words have lifted my heart on so many dark days - thank you. Thank you thank you. I wish you all the best - you deserve every success. I really cannot say enough good about your writing.

Oh my dog! If'n you do a book tour, you gotta come to Vermit. The crazy girls here (Norma, me, and others) could show you a gooood time. bwahaha!

Congratulations!!! And thank YOU for writing this blog and your book. I'm going to order it as soon as possible, and an extra copy for my sister as well. October is sooo distant. As other have already commented, many of us have thought after each new posting: "Laurie really should write a book". Way to go!

YAY YAY YAY!!!!!

I have been telling everyone I know that you need to write a book, that you are so UTTERLY TALENTED!!, and you have!!!

YAY YAY YAY!!!!

I knew it!!! And here you were, chuckling wickedly to yourself all the while you were told at least ten times a day in your comments to write a book. I just knew this would be your year! YAY, 2007!!! Yay, Laurie!!! :-)

Be sure to come east on the book tour. Lots of fans this side of the Mississippi. :-)

WOW! I am so freakin impressed, but not surprised. I totally love your writing style. I also was able to appreciate the arc of your life story when I was unemployed, and read all of your archives because I was so bored and depressed. I'm totally ordering the book right now. At my new job. So I can read it when I'm fired... No, really. I can't wait to read it, and then read it out loud to my boyfriend. Congratulations!! I'm soo happy for you.

I've been lurking for a long, long time, but today seems like the perfect day for me to say, "Congratulations!"

I can't wait to read your book!

Yay! I'm so excited that you finally followed your dream and wrote us a damn book! I'm so overwhelmed right now, that I could be so happy and teary and proud all at the same time for someone I've never even met. Then again, I've been reading the blog for so long that when I read, I swear I hear your voice. Congratulations, Aunt Purl, you are an inspiration to all of us to follow our dreams, they really can come true!

Congratulations, Laurie! I can't think of anyone who deserves this more.

I have to wait until OCTOBER?? That's ok - I'll just keep reading your blog for my doses of laughs and tears and laughing tears and being so very dang proud of you.

You walked away from that divorce a winner, Laurie. He's a looser who lost the best woman he could have had -- oh wait a minute! You became a better woman that he lost because of all the personal growth you've done since the looser lost you. He, on the other hand, has only gained in the looser department and is a bigger looser than he was before, because he lost the opportunity to be married to a published author. Bet he still hasn't done anything creative since he left!

If/when you go on book tour (a leave from Guys With Ties or just a few vacation days taken around holidays and weekends?) please come to Massachusetts (Webs in Northampton isn't too far from me).

Wooohooo this is great! This is the morning of my 50th birthday as i write this and guess what i'ma gonna pre-order my wise old self? :P
Hey maybe you'll get to go on tours with the Yarn Harlot!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

How excellent! Can't wait to read it!

Congratulations! I hope you are very proud of yourself. I know I'm proud of you. I don't know why I am, but there you have it.

You're due to come into your own, Darling Laurie. You go!!!

Congratulations! I'm so happy for you.

My questions are: was this before or after I wrote you an outline? (I like to think I might have nudged you a millimeter or two. Humor me.) When is your book tour? (You HAVE to do a book tour. Oh yes you do.) And, most important, what kind of wine is your totally most favorite kind? (I know it's red. I am clueless about red: I don't drink red. More for you.)

Congratulations! We just knew it was only a matter of time--so good to see the publishing world can recognize a winner. I am really happy for you. This proves what I always say: everything happens for a reason, just keep believing. Can't help thinking that all you went through was leading you to this wonderful event! So impressed that you kept the secret, kept up the blog, and got it done! Superstar, you! yay, exclamations!!! I predict big sales.

Congratulations, Laurie! Everytime I read your blog, I always wonder, why doesn't she write a book already? Count me in to read it!

OMG Laurie! That's so great! You big secret-keeper, you! I'll be pre-ordering, oh yes I will. ;)

Congratulungkins! And a big 'ol can of "Take THAT!" to your skunky ex-husband!

OMG I think your me! I've been reading your blog for about 6 months and you make me laugh hysterically, as well as touch on some subjects that make me wonder if your looking into my life. Can't wait to get your book..(Its something I always wanted to do but just never went through with it.

OMG I think your me! I've been reading your blog for about 6 months and you make me laugh hysterically, as well as touch on some subjects that make me wonder if your looking into my life. Can't wait to get your book..(Its something I always wanted to do but just never went through with it.

Congratulations, Laurie! Everytime I read your blog, I always wonder, why doesn't she write a book already? Count me in to read it!

AMAZING!!!! Congratulations! I cannot wait to read it.

Congratulations! I'm so excited for you, and for those of us who have been wanting you to write a book! How in the world did you ever keep it a secret, especially when people like me kept leaving comments, tell you that you should write one?

I have a question: how did it happen? Did you get an agent, or did someone just phone one day and ask you to write a book?

Congratulations! And well done in the secret-kepping department. I look forward to your book, just like I look forward to a new Crazy Aunt Purl blog post.

Whoo hoo! A book! That's great!

Congrats, baby! And what a secret it was...

Laurie thats so awesome. Very very happy for you girly.

I can't wait to get the book! Then, when I finish it, in like, two hours, I can start forcing my near and dear ones to read it, too. As it is, they all kind of look at each other when I laugh and talk about something you wrote like I know you, and I'm not just an obsessive reader trying not to sound dangerous when I comment. Love You! Love this blog and all the commenters! Love that we all read you EVERY DAY, and you were still worried that anybody would read your book, even though we've been BEGGING you to! Love your kitties, who want their own coffeetable book of cuteness and witticisms! Love the run-on sentences, and commas,,,,, and exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY! Love the cover, love the concept. Love your lack of spellcheck and comma abuse. Rock on, gallie!

Congratulations, Laurie! Everytime I read your blog, I always wonder, why doesn't she write a book already? Count me in to read it!

Congratulations!! I've been reading your blog since you started it. I loved the way you wrote.
I told myself, she should be a writer. Lo and behold-look what happened. I've turned my non-knitting friends onto you and they love your humorous writing. Salute!!

Yeah for you! You'll have to post your iternary for your book tour! I can hardly wait to read your book!!!
Enjoy this time throughly!

JUST ORDERED MINE!!!!! YAY!!!

Yer gonna get writer's cramp from signing all our purchases.

Woo!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

My hat is off and my heart is full for my "favorite" daughter. I couldn't be more proud for you and of you!!

I never had a doubt about your creativity or your talent. Since you were three years old you wanted to write a book....I just didn't think you would evere have to go through so much heatache to get there.

I love you and will always be there for you.

Dad

Oops!!!That was heartache...apparently my spell check doesn't work either!

OMG!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that!!! I ordered, and I guess I'll just have to wait until Oct. to read! GOOD FOR YOU!!! (I like exclamation points, too!!!!!)

Hi Dad!!!!

This is SOOO on my wishlist! Can't wait to read it. Congratulations!!!

Oh Laurie I could hug you, and not in the weird get off me, i dont know you kind of way. Im just so happy this happened for you.
I will definitly be buying your book, and because it sounds great, not just because i read your blog!
Yay You!

How freakin awesome! I'm super excited for you, and yay, I will get to read so much more Crazy Aunt Purl!

I am a usual lurker, but a faithful reader and just had to write and tell you how excited I am for you!!

Will there be a book tour? (I'm sorry if this has already been asked and answered, I suck at reading everyone's comments.)

Girl, your day has finally come! Bring out the kleenex and pasa the bubbley. I couldn't be more proud of the woman you have grown into. You deserve it all. Love you!!!!!

LAURIE!!!!!!!! I'm so dang happy for you I actually have tears in eyes......YOU ARE DA' BOMB BABY :-) Okay I carried it a step too far. I have a tight nit group of friends (4 to be exact) who I refer to as my 'committee' :-) Every member of the committe is getting a copy for Christmas.....my brother and mum too!!! I can't wait til you hit Portland - I'll be there :-) I'm sooooo happy for you Laurie, lots of hugs and love!!!

Brava!!! Author Author! I can't wait to get my hands on your book and add it to my knitting library.

Does that still make you all tingly ... to hear someone say "YOUR book"?!?

Holy crap, your dad is making my eyes all watery!

Good for you! I've been reading the blog since nearly day one - it's great when good things happen to good people. And the best part??? Mr. X left you to "get his creativity back" and here you are - you're the one that's got the creativity and undoubtedly accomplishing far more on the creative front than him. So good things can also come out of bad experiences!

So excited to read your book. CONGRATUATIONS!!!
You have a book, published, with your name on it..on Amazon...yay for you!! So excited for you!

Fucking Awesome. So Fucking Awesome. I am so happy for you. Just pre-ordered it too. *grin*

So you do realize you're ass is coming to Reno for a book signing? Just Sayin'. ;^)

High fives and merlot all around! Congrats!

that is ALL KINDS of awesome!

Oh I have tears in my eyes after reading what your dad posted. *sniff*

You are an inspiration Laurie.

And I don't understand commas either. That's why there are editors!

YOU GO GIRL!

Hooooooray! I'm so happy for you!!!

that's the coolest thing i've ever heard! i love your blog and have sent a number of non-knitting folks here because you're just so funny and honest and such a good writer. plus the kitty pics don't hurt.

many many congrats! now i got to go buy me some!

Wow! That's amazing and wonderful and totally deserved! Congratulations, Laurie!

Awesome! Congrats!

You so totally ROCK!! :-)

And please make sure your book tour includes the mid Atlantic. ;-)

Congratulations!

CONGRATULAMATIONS!

Congratulations on the book, Laurie!!! Finally! I pre-ordered mine. This is so exciting! I may have to use up my yearly quote of exclamation points!

You sneak! All of this time we would comment that you should write a book and you were!!!! Girl, you are verrrrrry good at keeping secrets. CONGRATS on the book! You must make a book tour stop in Dallas! Margaritas and Tex-Mex! Mmmmmmm.

Can't wait until October!!

That book will be coming all the way to Scotland just as soon as it's released. Fabulous Laurie! Get working on the follow up so you can do that nekkit rolling in money thing.

First off, congratulations in the biggest, baddest way you can imagine! I started reading your blog last year and immediately had to backtrack. Your writing captivated me - helped me get through some long work days, served as a reward for completing some tedious stuff and made me snicker madly when i was feeling blah.
I'm truly happy this made your dream come true, but beyond that, I know it's gonna uplift anyone who picks it up. First copy is going to my sister (next copy's mine).

WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!! (Yep. An exclamation point & comma lovin', ellipses-over-using person here, too. [g]) Congratulations, Laurie, and waytago! May it be a best-seller. Honestly, how could it not be? It'll go like hotcakes.

So ok, when on your book tour will you be dropping by Portland and bookreaders' Heaven On Earth, Powell's City of Books, huh? We do have hot weather without rain here during summer. No, really. You, too, could enjoy 100+ muggy days in late July and August. (We don't have that much A/C in non-business locations, because builders apparently *never expect the heat*. Fortunately, our hotels aren't that stupid.) Just don't let 'em schedule you for mid-Oct to May, 'cause *that's* the rainy season. [vbg]

PS - *love* that title. One of the. Best. Ever.

So! Excited! I've always wondered when you were going to write a book.
And the comment above from your dad....that is so sweet!

Congratulations!!! Can't wait to read it! :)

I am so happy for you - I got chills reading your post. Your blog has touched me in many ways - I'm looking forward to reading your book.

Yeeeessss! SO excited...this means a book tour and this means personal appearances and this means autographs...Have you been practicing? How about a book launch at Unwind Yarn...though that might be to small for the throngs of fans...

Congratulations.

I hope it is a best seller!!!!

Man, Laurie....are you feeling the love?!?! How great is it to have this many devoted friends? It is because you are so damn likeable and easy to relate to.
Loved the messages from your folks too. Congrats again...

I've been a lurker on your site for several months now, I kept coming back as I could relate to you so well-I also have a Cheeto and Merlot problem,(and incidentally I'm currently owned by FIVE cats) Actually, I have two, the other three are just squatters. I am so thrilled about your book, I didn't hesitate one second and pre-ordered me my very own copy. I'm just about to start my own blog- still deciding on what to call it. All I can say is congrats and thank you- your humor and wit is very uplifting and I can't wait to read more.

Oh, Laurie - CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Wow.
:-)

All I can say is wow! and congratulations! I read your blog every day, and although I don't always comment, I have come to look forward to reading your little piece of the internet. I am always amazed at how you and I are alike - the way we see the world is sometimes earily similar. (The inappropriate hugging especially!!) Well - here's an inappropriate hug across the web from me to you - congrats!!

Laurie,

I am so happy for you I could cry. I may cry later, when I am toasting you with a glass of wine. I am so proud of you. You GO girl!!!

OMG! You are gonna be MAD rich YO!

Much love and tacos,

Christina in San Antonio TEXAS!

Congratulations Laurie! So excited for you, and I'm looking forward to the book!

I am soooo incredibly excited. I've been saying 'I hope she writes a book' since I first started reading your blog.

I'm so proud of you Laurie! Thank you so very, very much!!!

Tickled pink,
Kay

congrats! i think it's great that mr. x left & YOU got YOUR creativity back. can't wait to read your book!

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I join in the collective cry for a book tour! Come to the midwest! When's the big party for the book launch? How are the cats responding to living with such an august personality - a PUBLISHED author?

Came across your blog via The Crochet Dude and would like to say CONGRATULATIONS!!! Although I'm not a knitter... your books sounds interesting and hilarious.

Congratulations, Laurie! I've been reading your blog for a few years now and enjoy every word. Somehow I knew that a book deal would be in your future - and look at you now! I'm looking forward to reading it.

Wanted to be the first to say "Wahey" but it looks like 219 people beat me to it!!!!

It's on order baby!

Congratulations CAP! I so look forward to reading your blog, every. single. day. Sometimes I just feel like a weirdo (sp?) hoping you have posted. Your writing so speaks my heart and deepens my compassion for myself and others and just gets the lead out of my soul.

And NOW...you've gone and written your first book (note I said 'first'). Oh Bravo and lots of congratulations.

Yeah, I guess there would have been high-tensions in Chez Furball if only one cat had been chosen for the cover...

As others have said, I don't really know you, but I'm so proud that you've done this with your life. Gee, how did you fit all that in - your mind is amazing...bravo again.

Laurie! I'm so excited for you, my pre-order is already in. (I'm pretty sure that's a comma splice, but who knows/cares!)

Please Please come up to Canada for the book tour!

Delurking to say WoooooooHooooooo! Congrats!! Couldn't happen to a nicer gal!

WOO!! HOO!!

Congratulations!! I'm headed over to pre-order right now!!

Way to keep a secret!

YAY! Purl Book! Yay!

And those are some FANTASTIC shoes your cover-self has on.

you rock lady, great job and contrats. Now I'm off to pre-order.

we all love ya!

I meant to say earlier that I am a wee bit disappointed that the real live Insane Kitty Posse isn't on the cover. Sometimes it takes a little Roy and Soba pic just to make it through the afternoon. Oh, and - your dad. What a gem.

i haven't read the post yet...but i needed to comment before the number of comments reached the stratosphere....

but it's about friggin' time!!! congratulations girl! i can hardly wait! i never pre-order but i may have to. also, i want a signed copy. so you'll definitely have to do a book signing back east.

i'm proud of you!!!

no i'm going to go read the post.

Congratulations! Every time I read your writing, I think you should write a book - and I'm right! Good for you for being such a good secret-keeper. Can't wait to buy and read your book!

As a member of the minority readers of your column (aka I'm a guy), I'd also like to say congrats, and to tell you that I just ordered a copy as well. Today, I'm going to contact a couple of university librarians, and see if they want to update their knitting sections - most seem fixated in 1957.

You really do need to get an agent, Laurie, and hook up with a good speaker's bureau. Wine and cheese are usually considered staples at such events....

Woohoo - congratulations! I knew this was going to happen and have on occasion wondered if it was already in the works. I'm really looking forward to reading it!

Way to go, Crazy Aunt Purl! You have faced all your biggest fears and CONQUERED them and shared them in PUBLIC, too! What's next?

Just when I was sitting here marveling at the fact that I'm all goose-bumpy and heart-palpitate-y for your triumph when I've never even met you (even though I've "known" you for nearly two years), and waiting to finish scanning the comments to add my own, danged if your dad didn't swoop in and make me tear all up.

I'll wager he's beyond gratified to have beheld, over the years, how much genuine affection streams your way every day. And there's undoubtedly much more that doesn't get posted.

Also, I truly hope "they" didn't edit away the essence of your style, which is as much in your quirky punctuation and charming verbosity as it is in the King's English, if not more.

Love and a victory dance to you.....

Oh Laurie. How do we love you? Let us count the ways...

...whole big bunches. :) Congratulations! And yay me - I get to have a book by Crazy Aunt Laurie Purl ON MY BOOKSHELF!

Thank goodness! Congrats I'm ordering mine now, and your dad is making me all misty too :)

Best to you and when you come to Minneapolis for a book signing you are welcome to stay at my house, and I know a great place to have some (or perhaps a lot of) wine.

ok i just read the post, and now i'm getting misty. i'm really proud of you! yay!

by the way, i hear you're meeting my other very favorite author ms.mcyarnpants next week. dont' have too much fun without me. i'll be very jealous.

Hey Girl!!

I just got back to Denver last night and I'm back at work, and thought I should take a little break, come see your blog and post a comment about how much fun I had meeting you and Mr. Frank ... and look at you! I'm so excited! When are you posting your book tour schedule? You must (must!) come to Denver!

Words cannot express the joy I felt when I read that you have written a book! I'm a relatively new reader (6 months or so) of your delightful, insightful and always amusing blog and I can't tell you how many times I'd read a post and think "This woman needs to write a book!" October can't get here soon enough. Congratulations!

Holy Cow!!! Congratulations!! This is gonna be awesome...I'm pre-ordering!

Also, holy crap, I see you've broken into Amazon's Top-500 in less than four hours! Oprah, Schmoprah. ;)

(just kidding - send her my best when her booking agent calls you tomorrow!)

Ooooooooooh, you're a sneaky one!!! This was long-coming though, and may I chime in and give a huge congratulations!!! (Look, I can abuse exclamation marks as well, hehe).

I've been reading your blog for like, EVER and have been waiting for the day this post came out. I'm sooooo getting my copy forwarded to you so you can AUTOGRAPH IT!!!! I "know" an author over the innernets, how cool is that?!

Sooooo happy for you, Laurie!

I've been sitting here for the past year muttering, "That girl needs to write a book." I'm pre-ordering it now! Yay for you!

GOOD FOR YOU! and BIG congratulations! What wonderful news to read on a Monday morning :)

I *totally* vote for a Crazy Aunt Purl Book Tour/Pub-and-Yarn Crawl.

WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!

Another lurker emerging from the shadows to say congratulations! You've worked hard for this success and deserve to enjoy every minute of it.

Re Amazon: ask your publisher to update the offending Amazon description, or pester them to show you how to do it yourself. It's easy for publishers to change book descriptions on Amazon--I work in publishing, and have done this many times. Good luck!

Wow, what fantabulous news! I can't wait to read the book; I'd buy it for the title alone.

Now you can tell all your blind dates that you're a published author! Oh wait, maybe you want to save that info for the second or third date ... in case you just have to blog about them the next morning!

Congratulations, I'm so happy for you!

AWESOME!!! I am off to steal the husband's credit card and pre-order me a copy!

Way to go and I can't wait to read it seeing as I love your website already.

OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!! I can't believe it!! I'm SO ordering/reserving one RIGHT NOW! And October is a perfect month, it'll be like a birthday present. Oh, I'm so proud of you! You wonderful lady you!

many comments. must be short. daily reader. first time commenter. But...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Not only on your book but on the improvements on your life. Thank you for taking the time to share and uplift us all.

well. blow. me. over.

could i be any happier for someone i never met? i don't think so!

you are very impressive, and have dished out a lot of inspiration to a lot of people out here in the internets.

also: who are these people who COMMENT BEFORE 5:30 AYEM?

are you coming to pdx? pretty please?

Congratulations!!!! And aren't you the sneaky one? There's no way I'd have been able to keep that secret, I'd have exploded long ago.

Liza {who's off to make sure her local bookstores order this!}

OMG! I don't know who I am more excited for ... you for having authored a book ... or me for getting to read it!! Whoo hoooo! And now I will get to stalk you in Portland when you come up here on your booktour! (there WILL be a booktour, right??).

Hey! That is WONDERFUL!

But you had already given me faith that things get better. For real. And they are.

So thanks.

Hey! I'm just going to talk like we've known eachother forever, even though we don't, even though I've been reading your blog for a couple of years now, and you have no idea who I am. I'm SO PROUD of you for writing a book! Every time I'd read one of your entries, I'd wipe the laugh-tears from offa my face and say to myself, "Dang, Aunt Purl really needs to write a book!". And now you did... and I'm so going to buy it!

And you want to know another thing? I thought about you the other day in the grocery store - yep me, the person you don't know from Adam. Anyway, I noticed that my store started stocking okra pickles. Okra pickles! My grandmother is from Texas, and instilled all of her grandchildren with a great love and respect for okra, especially fried. So, I was standing there marveling at this jar of okra pickles and wondered if Crazy Aunt Purl ever had okra pickles. And then I wondered how your okra seedlings were doing. Wierd huh?

Anyway, thumbs up on the book!!!!

Congratulations! I can not wait to get your book into my hot little hand. Amazon sucks and screws up a lot of descriptions so don't feel to bad. So are you going to send a copy to Mr X and gloat? I think you should.

Hi Laurie -- CONGRATULATIONS! I ran, didn't walk, (okay, typed really fast) to pre-order the book! Your weblog has always been one of my favorites and I'm so happy that this wonderful thing has happened for you!!!

Yayy!!!! I am SO buying this book!! I might even go ahead and embarass myself by reading it on my flight home. I know you'll make me laugh my ass off.

I had no doubt that a book would be written by you "someday," I just had no idea it would be today! I enjoy your blog so much and I quite literally can't wait to read the book! Congratulations Laurie! :o)

HUGE congrats to you on your first book (notice I say "first," cuz I know there's more stuff hidin in there than you could put in just one book...).

I love your blog, and I know I'll love your book! Please come to Seattle on your book tour, because I absolutely have to meet the only other woman I have (not) met that got told she was gettin' left by a rotten husband over dinner, besides me! :p

Congratulations! I will definitely buy your book, the title alone slays me!

Cho......You have grown from a scared little girl into a magnificent young woman. You had a period of hitting rock bottom, but without that, you would not be the beautiful woman that you are today. I stand and applaud you. You are an angel from above. Hold your head high! You have made your dream come true.You have no where else to go but up. I am so very proud of you! I love you.

Aunt Pam

Holy s**t!!!! Congrats!!!!! I. Cannot. Wait. To. Get. Your. Book.!!!!!
Is it here yet?
Please, Please come to Idaho for your tour!!!
Can you tell me how you found a publisher and all that?
sigh, catch in throat, you are an inspiration.
Diane

Okay, I had to close my office door and go into the ugly cry. Thank you so much for the comments, for the LURVE. thank you. I need a leopard kleenex cozy for my much-needed kleenex.

YAY! LAURIE!

That is so freakin' cool!

And it's about time.

and HOW DArE you keep a secret from us??!! LOL!!

Way to go, girl.

yeah! I'm so happy and proud to be your post office box neighbor! My book club is soooo reading this book and I can't wait for the tour!
It has been said before, but you are an inspiration and a joy. congratulations. congratulations. congratulations.
PS I hope Soba never sees that cat on the cover.....I can't imagine the pain she'll inflict.

Congrats Laurie, that's such exciting news! Is there a book tour in your future? ;)

You're the next Bridget Jones!

I knew you had a book in you! Anytime I ever told anyone about your site, the first thing they said was that you should write a book. Now that the first one's finished, when are the next eleventy coming?!!? No pressure! What a great gift to yourself to sign your book contract on your birthday! And it's coming out just 9 days before my birthday! Thanks; I know what I'll be asking for! I was born in 1971 too and it makes my heart full to know that if someone my age can do what she has always dreamed about, I can too!!

Congratulations!

And more congratulations from across the pond. Please add Aberdeen (the original one in Scotland) to the book tour list. Been following the blog for the last 2 years and have cried and laughed so many times while reading it. Myself and a friend have appropriated many a CAPism and can't wait until the book comes out. And reading your Dad's comments just made me cry buckets. It's not Merlot that will be getting popped on the book tour but some vintage Bollinger. You deserve the best and have helped me through some really hard times better than any self-help book you'll find on the shelf of a bookshop spouting forth the same rubbish. Your experience is real and heartfelt and loads of us have been on the ride with you. Can't wait to see where it's heading next. Huge hugs XX

Laurie,
Lovely, just lovely that you have written a book!
Now all the world can enjoy your humor(my fav part of your writing). When is the book tour!!!??? I live in Florida.
Love ya.

Oh! My! Gosh! I can't wait to read it!!! That is so cool Laurie! Congrats!!!!!

Congratulations! :)
Fabulous author photo, by the way.

Could I BE more proud of you??? I am crying happy tears for you right now; the book is going to be a HUGE success!! When's the book tour??

Please tell Mr. Biodome to kiss it (in Macy's window, too!) Have you informed the cats that their mother is famous now?? That should be worth at least a small decrease in poopage. Out of respect, of course.

I love you!!! Let's celebrate!!!! :O)

CONGRATULATIONS!! I love reading what you have to say EVERYDAY! I'm looking forward to your book and will definately contribute to you "roll nekkid in money" dream! So, how does this work? You decide you would like to write a book and knock on a few doors? Do people 'lurk' the blogs and come after you? Please share the story of writing your first book, as I'm sure there's a few tales (or tails) there!!
I'm very happy for you...Enjoy!
Lynn

Ooooh! I can't wait to get the book!!!

I hope you are planning a tour stop in the Bay Area cause I will SO BE THERE!

I just have to post again, because this is such awesome news. I just cannot, believe it. I'm so happy and excited! Oh Laurie, please tell me in your gre