This past week has been just plain awesome.  I'm receiving lots of positive feedback on "Murder At Castle Rock" (can't wait for reviews to start coming in!), and I've even had several people send me pictures of themselves with their copy when it arrived in the mail.  If you ordered a copy and want to submit a picture of yourself with the book, feel free to shoot me an email (annemarie@amstoddardbooks.com) with the picture attached, and I'll create a photo gallery on the site and include your picture :)

To celebrate on launch day, I went out for Trivia night and drinks with a few friends.  By a pretty awesome coincidence, a "Castle Rock" question was asked during trivia:  What Rob Reiner company gets its name from a fictional town in a Stephen King novel?  Answer: Castle Rock, of course.  How...appropriate :) The day after the launch, I flew to Las Vegas with my sister, brother, and sister-in-law to visit my best friend and unofficial "Gchat editor," Stella. With the ties to Vegas in the book (I won't spoil it for you if you haven't read yet!), there couldn't have been a more perfect place for me to go to celebrate.  What an awesome weekend!

I won't bore you with my vacation stories any longer, though--let's move on to the real point of this post.  Now that I'm back in Atlanta, I'm helping a new site spread the word about their launch.  Momma Says Read!  Momma Says Read is a site dedicated to connecting authors to readers, and they also offer several great services for authors--for FREE! 

If you're a bookworm looking for your next fix, MSR has tons of great book recommendations and listings for book bargains and even free book offers.  If you're an author, MSR is offering you free book reviews, author interviews, book blog tours, and more.   It's a great site with a lot to offer any book lover.

To help kick off Momma Says Read, I'm not only giving away a copy of "Murder At Castle Rock" on their site (giveaway will be posted soon!), but I'm also co-sponsoring their Kindle Fire giveaway!  Head on over to the site here to enter for your chance to win a free Kindle Fire--and while you're there, look around at all of the great books that are already listed on the site--you might find your next favorite author!

For the next month, Momma Says Read is throwing their Big Launch Giveaway Blitz, so be sure to follow Momma on Twitter and Facebook for chances to win daily book giveaways!

Happy Sunday, and Happy Reading!