Okay everyone, we're going to have a little contest to celebrate the release of NO SAFE HAVEN. From today until April 15th - you can enter as many times as you want, but every entry must have ALL the answers and your special word :)- we're going to host a little scavenger hunt. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND THE RULES TO ENTER.
The PRIZES:
A brand new WiFI Kindle. (value - $139)
An Alaskan Gift Basket. (value of $65)
Signed copies of No Safe Haven, Welcome Home, Pearl Girls AND two of Kim's CDs.
(One Grand Prize winner will receive all of the above, 3 others will receive the signed books and CDs)
Now here's the QUESTIONS:
1. In Welcome Home - why did the TSA suspect Kim of being dangerous?
2. In No Safe Haven - what kind of plane does Jenna Tikaani-Gray own?
3. In Welcome Home - how does Kim re-define normal? (full definition required)
4. In No Safe Haven - what mountain means "The Wife"? - original native name is required here - you may search on the internet for the answer if you haven't read the whole book.
5. In No Safe Haven - what does Jenna have of Marc's at the beginning of the story?
6. In No Safe Haven - what happened to the radio on the plane?
7. In No Safe Haven - what is VFR?
8. In No Safe Haven - what is the call sign of their plane?
9. In No Safe Haven - they are returning to Alaska from where?
10. In No Safe Haven and Welcome Home - what is the name of the condition that Kayla and Andie share.
Here are the RULES:
1) You must comment on the post for each entry using a word/phrase that is used in Alaska or about Alaska. (Examples: Denali is the tallest mountain in North America and is in Alaska. Or a nickname for Alaska is The Land of the Midnight Sun. Or the Iditarod, huskies, native Alaskan words, city names, etc. This should be fun, we have tons of cool words/phrases in No Safe Haven, but you can also look online.) Your comment must contain your name and the date along with your word or phrase.
2) Then send an email to: info at kimberleywoodhouse dot com with ALL the answers to the questions, placing your name and date and the word/phrase you used in your comment in the subject line of the email.
PLEASE FOLLOW ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS OR YOUR ENTRY WILL NOT COUNT.
3) You may enter as many times as you would like. BUT Each comment must use a DIFFERENT word/phrase than your other entries (or it will not be counted), and all email entries with the answers to the questions must have your name, date, and your Alaskan word. :)
4) Winners will be drawn randomly in a controlled environment. Winner will be posted on our blogs. If you do not comment on the winning blog post within 24 hours - you forfeit your chance at the prize(s) and another winner will be chosen. If you are chosen as the winner - Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery of prizes won.
5) Of course, we'd love everyone to purchase the books to be able to find the answers, but you may also look online. :) There are several places that have the beginnings of both books posted, so there is no purchase necessary to win.
Happy Hunting! And we hope you enjoy No Safe Haven! Thank you for celebrating the release of our new book with us!
PLEASE tell all your friends so they can have the chance to win as well. :)
***
Example of how to enter:
You MUST Comment in the comment section with a word/phrase. click on comments on any of the contest posts on any of our blogs. Enter your name and date and your Alaskan word or phrase - example: Kim, March 12, 2011, Iditarod
THEN - you MUST send an email to info at kimberleywoodhouse dot com
in the body of the email answer all the questions. Make sure your answer corresponds with the correct number. In the SUBJECT line of the email you must have your name, date, and word/phrase that you posted in the comment - example: Kim, March 12, 2011 Iditarod - should appear in the subject line.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Jenny B. Jones - The Queen of making Kim and Kayla laugh
All right, readers. After 500 years and 50 bazillion emails from you all... (well, okay, I exaggerated a little.) It looks like we finally get to post this amazing interview with Jenny B. Jones. Believe me, if you haven't read her books - go buy them now! Just Between You and Me was the first book I ever read of Jenny's and I couldn't put it down. Seriously. And she made me laugh. A lot. Since then, I've read all her books. And as I type this, I'm seriously-on-the-edge-of-my-seat-oh-so-patiently waiting for Save the Date to arrive. It's killing me people. And my mailman. I may not make it. The mailman may just have me committed before then.
Can you tell I'm a fan?
Read and see for yourself. I proudly present to you:
Jenny B. Jones
K&KW:
How old are you? Seriously. You are so stinkin’ cute, barely look over eighteen, and make the rest of us adults feel like we’ve passed the century mark. Just sayin’.
JBJ:
Wow. Why thank you. We should talk more often! Maybe it’s just the power of really good lighting and some PhotoShop. I think I look every bit my 30 plus years and then some.
K&KW:
Tell us a little more about your obsession with Ben and Jerry. When did it start? Do you own stock? New York Super Fudge Chunk is Kim’s personal fav and Cookie Dough is Kayla’s. How about you?
JBJ:
The weird thing is I never was a big ice cream fan until adulthood. And it’s a fairly recent obsession. I keep hoping if I mention Ben and Jerry’s enough, they’ll offer me a job as a taste tester. That’s the true motivation behind the books. My deep, dark secret and the reason I write. But so far Ben and Jerry keep ignoring me. My favorite for a few years was the chocolate fudge brownie (or something like that—it doesn’t have a cool name), but now it’s strawberry cheesecake. I love it. I’m supposed to avoid gluten, so I don’t get that one anymore. It’s a sad, sad thing. They make a flourless chocolate cake ltd edition flavor that tastes just like the chocolate fudge brownie flavor though. It’s awesome. I’ll have to try the NY Super Fudge Chunk. And as much as I love cookie, I’ve NEVER understood why I don’t like cookie dough ice cream, but I don’t. (I hope we can still be friends, Kayla.)
K&KW:
Every one of your books has made me laugh. A lot. In fact, I always make sure I use the little girls’ room before I pick up one of your books…. Anyway, are you always this funny? Or do you have a secret, dark side where you plot out evil plans?
JBJ:
Thank you so much. It’s my joy to make someone else laugh. I don’t really consider myself funny. I like to laugh. I like to make other people laugh. I see comedy in just about everything, but I don’t know that it makes me funny. And we all have a dark side. Mine involves midnight flights in a bat costume and Gotham City, but I can’t discuss it.
K&KW:
I have to say, it was ingenious to plop a NYC teen into rural Oklahoma with pigs and cows and shag carpet. So, where did your inspiration come from?
JBJ:
The inspiration for A Charmed Life series came from a few different things. I was teaching in a junior high at the time, and I was shocked to see seventh graders CONSUMING books that I thought were a little bit much for them, like the Gossip Girls. I decided to read one for myself, and the content shocked me. And I’m kinda hard to shock. But clearly there was some allure there for our teen girls, and I didn’t think it was solely the rated R stuff. Also about this time, one of my favorite shows went off the air, Veronica Mars, a series about a high school super sleuth. I remember talking to another YA writer and saying, “I have this idea for a series—a Gossip Girl type who solves mysteries and gets dropped into a small, rural town.” And the author was like, “That’s nuts. No thanks.” I didn’t write mysteries, so I didn’t think I could do it. But the idea wouldn’t go away, so I decided to go for it. And to mix it up even more, I added a little WWE to it as well. Spandex and body slams go with everything!
K&KW:
On a serious note, will you give us your testimony?
JBJ:
I have such a boring testimony. I was raised in church, but we were Sunday Christians. I was one of those obnoxious kids who went forward at every children’s church invitation. We have no idea which one stuck. Ha. My family fell apart a bit, and church kind of became an after-thought. Then when I was a teenager, I started going and sitting with my grandma. (It was a small church. She and I were basically the youth group.) And at 21 I got convicted that I needed to get baptized and make a public statement to seal the deal, so I did. I talked to the pastor privately, let him know I was not a fan of being front and center for anything, and he assured me we’d do the baptism as low-key as possible. In fact, he suggested I come to the first service, where fewer people attended. So I did. And it was like a random, record-breaking day for attendance. And that’s it! So when I work with elementary kids at church, I tend to be kind to the repeat offenders during invitation time. : )
K&KW:
What new projects do you have coming up?
JBJ:
Save the Date is a women’s romantic comedy, and it hits the shelves February first. It’s a book about Alex Sinclair, a former NFL star and Lucy, a woman who runs a home for girls who’ve graduated from the foster care system. Alex is a man who has it all–except the votes he needs to win his bid for Congress. Despite their mutual dislike, Alex makes Lucy a proposition: pose as his fiancee in return for the money she desperately needs to keep her girls home afloat. As Lucy is forced into South Carolina high society, she discovers the very people she wanted to stay away from are the ones who know secrets about her past. Bound to a man who isn’t quite what he seems, Lucy will find her heart on the line as she helps Alex in his campaign, knowing when it’s over she will have to walk away. But when God asks Alex and Lucy to scrap their playbook and follow his rules, will they finally say, “I do”? You’ll have to stay tuned to find out!
K&KW:
And where, oh where, can we find the amazing Jenny B. Jones online?
JBJ:
I’m all over the place! I’m at jennybjones.com, where I also blog three times a week. And of course, I’m on Facebook and Twitter. You can find those links on my site and blog as well. I spend too much time online, so it’s an easy place to find me! Thanks so much for letting me stop by! I can’t wait to read the new book by Kim and Kayla. It’s gonna be awesome.
Thanks, Jenny, YOU are awesome.
Now all the rest of you get out there and read Jenny's books. I dare you not to laugh.
Can you tell I'm a fan?
Read and see for yourself. I proudly present to you:
Jenny B. Jones
K&KW:
How old are you? Seriously. You are so stinkin’ cute, barely look over eighteen, and make the rest of us adults feel like we’ve passed the century mark. Just sayin’.
JBJ:
Wow. Why thank you. We should talk more often! Maybe it’s just the power of really good lighting and some PhotoShop. I think I look every bit my 30 plus years and then some.
K&KW:
Tell us a little more about your obsession with Ben and Jerry. When did it start? Do you own stock? New York Super Fudge Chunk is Kim’s personal fav and Cookie Dough is Kayla’s. How about you?
JBJ:
The weird thing is I never was a big ice cream fan until adulthood. And it’s a fairly recent obsession. I keep hoping if I mention Ben and Jerry’s enough, they’ll offer me a job as a taste tester. That’s the true motivation behind the books. My deep, dark secret and the reason I write. But so far Ben and Jerry keep ignoring me. My favorite for a few years was the chocolate fudge brownie (or something like that—it doesn’t have a cool name), but now it’s strawberry cheesecake. I love it. I’m supposed to avoid gluten, so I don’t get that one anymore. It’s a sad, sad thing. They make a flourless chocolate cake ltd edition flavor that tastes just like the chocolate fudge brownie flavor though. It’s awesome. I’ll have to try the NY Super Fudge Chunk. And as much as I love cookie, I’ve NEVER understood why I don’t like cookie dough ice cream, but I don’t. (I hope we can still be friends, Kayla.)
K&KW:
Every one of your books has made me laugh. A lot. In fact, I always make sure I use the little girls’ room before I pick up one of your books…
JBJ:
Thank you so much. It’s my joy to make someone else laugh. I don’t really consider myself funny. I like to laugh. I like to make other people laugh. I see comedy in just about everything, but I don’t know that it makes me funny. And we all have a dark side. Mine involves midnight flights in a bat costume and Gotham City, but I can’t discuss it.
K&KW:
I have to say, it was ingenious to plop a NYC teen into rural Oklahoma with pigs and cows and shag carpet. So, where did your inspiration come from?
JBJ:
The inspiration for A Charmed Life series came from a few different things. I was teaching in a junior high at the time, and I was shocked to see seventh graders CONSUMING books that I thought were a little bit much for them, like the Gossip Girls. I decided to read one for myself, and the content shocked me. And I’m kinda hard to shock. But clearly there was some allure there for our teen girls, and I didn’t think it was solely the rated R stuff. Also about this time, one of my favorite shows went off the air, Veronica Mars, a series about a high school super sleuth. I remember talking to another YA writer and saying, “I have this idea for a series—a Gossip Girl type who solves mysteries and gets dropped into a small, rural town.” And the author was like, “That’s nuts. No thanks.” I didn’t write mysteries, so I didn’t think I could do it. But the idea wouldn’t go away, so I decided to go for it. And to mix it up even more, I added a little WWE to it as well. Spandex and body slams go with everything!
K&KW:
On a serious note, will you give us your testimony?
JBJ:
I have such a boring testimony. I was raised in church, but we were Sunday Christians. I was one of those obnoxious kids who went forward at every children’s church invitation. We have no idea which one stuck. Ha. My family fell apart a bit, and church kind of became an after-thought. Then when I was a teenager, I started going and sitting with my grandma. (It was a small church. She and I were basically the youth group.) And at 21 I got convicted that I needed to get baptized and make a public statement to seal the deal, so I did. I talked to the pastor privately, let him know I was not a fan of being front and center for anything, and he assured me we’d do the baptism as low-key as possible. In fact, he suggested I come to the first service, where fewer people attended. So I did. And it was like a random, record-breaking day for attendance. And that’s it! So when I work with elementary kids at church, I tend to be kind to the repeat offenders during invitation time. : )
K&KW:
What new projects do you have coming up?
JBJ:
Save the Date is a women’s romantic comedy, and it hits the shelves February first. It’s a book about Alex Sinclair, a former NFL star and Lucy, a woman who runs a home for girls who’ve graduated from the foster care system. Alex is a man who has it all–except the votes he needs to win his bid for Congress. Despite their mutual dislike, Alex makes Lucy a proposition: pose as his fiancee in return for the money she desperately needs to keep her girls home afloat. As Lucy is forced into South Carolina high society, she discovers the very people she wanted to stay away from are the ones who know secrets about her past. Bound to a man who isn’t quite what he seems, Lucy will find her heart on the line as she helps Alex in his campaign, knowing when it’s over she will have to walk away. But when God asks Alex and Lucy to scrap their playbook and follow his rules, will they finally say, “I do”? You’ll have to stay tuned to find out!
K&KW:
And where, oh where, can we find the amazing Jenny B. Jones online?
JBJ:
I’m all over the place! I’m at jennybjones.com, where I also blog three times a week. And of course, I’m on Facebook and Twitter. You can find those links on my site and blog as well. I spend too much time online, so it’s an easy place to find me! Thanks so much for letting me stop by! I can’t wait to read the new book by Kim and Kayla. It’s gonna be awesome.
Thanks, Jenny, YOU are awesome.
Now all the rest of you get out there and read Jenny's books. I dare you not to laugh.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Cover for RACE AGAINST TIME!!
Here it is peeps:
The cover for book #2 - Race Against Time! Isn't it beautiful?
The cover for book #2 - Race Against Time! Isn't it beautiful?
Monday, December 27, 2010
Don't Try This At Home...
***This post has nothing to do with writing, our writing careers, or really anything important at all. BUT, since we'd had such trouble with blogs, and now that they are finally back up - I figured I'd post this one here too :) ***
The Sunday before Christmas, I attempted a feat only I would dare try.
Skiing down the stairs.
On my shin.
It didn't work. And it hurt.
Thus, the title of this blog...
Anyway, the REAL story is this (albeit much less glamorous) :
Sunday night after church, my friend (loyal and true) Carrie came over. I was still in my dressy outfit from the cantata that night. (Mistake #1)
After we caught up and had a good ol' heart-to-heart, I asked if she wanted to see how we'd rearranged all the rooms in the basement. (Mistake #2 - not that asking her was a mistake, I love Carrie dearly, but it was definitely too late at night and my pants were entirely too dressy...)
At the top of the stairs, I realized a dilemma. I normally wore four-inch heels with these particular pants. Why? Well, One - the incredibly cute and dressy pants demand that kind of footwear, and Two - my legs are just too stinkin' short. Anyway, back to the story - Carrie headed down the stairs first, and me and my big mouth and dressy, dressy pants started our descent. I said, "Watch me trip on my pants and fall down the stairs..." (Mistake #3)
Truer words have never been spoken.
And I fell.
It wasn't glamorous. It wasn't graceful. It wasn't even pretty.
But Carrie's football stance at the bottom of the stairs was all of the above. I wish I had a picture of her face. It was priceless.
And I treasure her even more as a friend. Carrie is no frail chick who danced around saying, "oh my goodess!" - she didn't even try to save her own skin and jump out of the way of "skiing Kim" as I hurtled down the wood stairs - no, this girl stuck out her own neck, ready to take the blow so she could stop my momemtum-building fall.
That's a friend, people. Just sayin'.
And me? Well, my leg is grotesque to put it mildly. The bruising and coloring just get better and better each day. :)
Sweet hubby has patched up the wall-(oh, by the way, did I mention that my knee punched a large hole in the sheet rock?), and I've learned valuable lessons. Things like:
-wear shin guards every time I head down the stairs
-never, NEVER say I'm going to fall-Even if I'm joking
-never wear the cute, dressy pants without the appropriate footwear
-grow longer legs
And for all of you who demanded a picture - well, here it is. This is three days after. I almost took another one today, but I'm afraid of scaring small children... and the elderly... So... just imagine it about ten times worse - That's what it looks like now. Hopefully in about a month, maybe it will be gone.
The Sunday before Christmas, I attempted a feat only I would dare try.
Skiing down the stairs.
On my shin.
It didn't work. And it hurt.
Thus, the title of this blog...
Anyway, the REAL story is this (albeit much less glamorous) :
Sunday night after church, my friend (loyal and true) Carrie came over. I was still in my dressy outfit from the cantata that night. (Mistake #1)
After we caught up and had a good ol' heart-to-heart, I asked if she wanted to see how we'd rearranged all the rooms in the basement. (Mistake #2 - not that asking her was a mistake, I love Carrie dearly, but it was definitely too late at night and my pants were entirely too dressy...)
At the top of the stairs, I realized a dilemma. I normally wore four-inch heels with these particular pants. Why? Well, One - the incredibly cute and dressy pants demand that kind of footwear, and Two - my legs are just too stinkin' short. Anyway, back to the story - Carrie headed down the stairs first, and me and my big mouth and dressy, dressy pants started our descent. I said, "Watch me trip on my pants and fall down the stairs..." (Mistake #3)
Truer words have never been spoken.
And I fell.
It wasn't glamorous. It wasn't graceful. It wasn't even pretty.
But Carrie's football stance at the bottom of the stairs was all of the above. I wish I had a picture of her face. It was priceless.
And I treasure her even more as a friend. Carrie is no frail chick who danced around saying, "oh my goodess!" - she didn't even try to save her own skin and jump out of the way of "skiing Kim" as I hurtled down the wood stairs - no, this girl stuck out her own neck, ready to take the blow so she could stop my momemtum-building fall.
That's a friend, people. Just sayin'.
And me? Well, my leg is grotesque to put it mildly. The bruising and coloring just get better and better each day. :)
Sweet hubby has patched up the wall-(oh, by the way, did I mention that my knee punched a large hole in the sheet rock?), and I've learned valuable lessons. Things like:
-wear shin guards every time I head down the stairs
-never, NEVER say I'm going to fall-Even if I'm joking
-never wear the cute, dressy pants without the appropriate footwear
-grow longer legs
And for all of you who demanded a picture - well, here it is. This is three days after. I almost took another one today, but I'm afraid of scaring small children... and the elderly... So... just imagine it about ten times worse - That's what it looks like now. Hopefully in about a month, maybe it will be gone.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Computer Crash... Stay Tuned
Well...
After months of craziness, we finally discovered all our glitches. Our main computer system had a time-bomb virus. (if you don't know what that is - don't ask. It's scary. I'm freaked out every time I think about it. Yuck. Ugh.) It fried the mother-board and operating system, and sent trojans to the other computers on the network.
We haven't been able to post on blogs correctly for MONTHS - and not at all for quite some time - as you can see :)
We haven't been able to receive and send email properly for months...
And, we've lost a lot of data.
BUT - we believe - that it is all functioning properly now. (At least the computers that are still alive.)
So... Thanks for your patience and keep watching. We hope to get it all back to schedule this week and next.
After months of craziness, we finally discovered all our glitches. Our main computer system had a time-bomb virus. (if you don't know what that is - don't ask. It's scary. I'm freaked out every time I think about it. Yuck. Ugh.) It fried the mother-board and operating system, and sent trojans to the other computers on the network.
We haven't been able to post on blogs correctly for MONTHS - and not at all for quite some time - as you can see :)
We haven't been able to receive and send email properly for months...
And, we've lost a lot of data.
BUT - we believe - that it is all functioning properly now. (At least the computers that are still alive.)
So... Thanks for your patience and keep watching. We hope to get it all back to schedule this week and next.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
New Website, Need Influencers, and Great Interview Next Week!
It's official - the new "website" is up and running. And for the most part, I haven't totally killed it, rearranged it, or messed it up. (I know, I know, just wait, right?) LOL
Anyway, so please tell your friends that they can go to any of the following:
kimwoodhouse.com
kimberleywoodhouse.com
kimberleyandkaylawoodhouse.com
kaylawoodhouse.com
and they will all take you to our new streamlined (hopefully), easy to navigate (prayerfully) site :)
Kayla and I would love to have your thoughts on the new site, tabs, and info that is up. We'd also love your suggestions!
NEXT - we need influencers for our upcoming release NO SAFE HAVEN - if you'd like to be someone to read it, blog about it, and talk it up - please let us know ASAP. Either commment here - or send an email through the contact tab on our website.
AND NOW - that everything is up and running smoothly (finally, whew!) be watching for a great interview we have with Jenny B. Jones next week! She's totally amazing, hysterical, and one of my favorite people of all time.
Stay tuned!
Love you all :)
Anyway, so please tell your friends that they can go to any of the following:
kimwoodhouse.com
kimberleywoodhouse.com
kimberleyandkaylawoodhouse.com
kaylawoodhouse.com
and they will all take you to our new streamlined (hopefully), easy to navigate (prayerfully) site :)
Kayla and I would love to have your thoughts on the new site, tabs, and info that is up. We'd also love your suggestions!
NEXT - we need influencers for our upcoming release NO SAFE HAVEN - if you'd like to be someone to read it, blog about it, and talk it up - please let us know ASAP. Either commment here - or send an email through the contact tab on our website.
AND NOW - that everything is up and running smoothly (finally, whew!) be watching for a great interview we have with Jenny B. Jones next week! She's totally amazing, hysterical, and one of my favorite people of all time.
Stay tuned!
Love you all :)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Word Count
For those of you who are (or who have hung around) a writer at any point in time, you've probably heard the terms "word count."
We are always striving for that elusive number. Be it a daily goal or the completion of a manuscript, we wordsmiths sure do seem to place a lot of importance on numbers.
And a lot of writers will admit that they hate numbers. Many of them hate math in general. So what is it with this obsession we have with numbers?
After much pondering (not really), I've decided to share my thoughts (or lack thereof) on this subject.
1. We need numbers. Life, and thus our stories, would be boring without numbers. (Who would be interested if the reader doesn't know how old our characters are, what year they live in, or how many half-decaf-caramel-lattes they drink each day?)
2. Numbers help you exaggerate in order to make your point more meaningful. (She rewrote the scene for the 5-trillionth time.)
3. Numbers help us with deadlines and parameters. (You'll never have a publisher ask you to deliver a manuscript of unlimited word count whenever you feel like it.)
So now that I have shared my abundance of wisdom on this matter of numbers, I must get back to my own word count after teaching my kids that "yes, you still have to do math even if you want to be a writer."
We are always striving for that elusive number. Be it a daily goal or the completion of a manuscript, we wordsmiths sure do seem to place a lot of importance on numbers.
And a lot of writers will admit that they hate numbers. Many of them hate math in general. So what is it with this obsession we have with numbers?
After much pondering (not really), I've decided to share my thoughts (or lack thereof) on this subject.
1. We need numbers. Life, and thus our stories, would be boring without numbers. (Who would be interested if the reader doesn't know how old our characters are, what year they live in, or how many half-decaf-caramel-lattes they drink each day?)
2. Numbers help you exaggerate in order to make your point more meaningful. (She rewrote the scene for the 5-trillionth time.)
3. Numbers help us with deadlines and parameters. (You'll never have a publisher ask you to deliver a manuscript of unlimited word count whenever you feel like it.)
So now that I have shared my abundance of wisdom on this matter of numbers, I must get back to my own word count after teaching my kids that "yes, you still have to do math even if you want to be a writer."
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