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Doing the Happy Dance

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Alisha Marie Klapheke
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Post by Alisha Marie Klapheke » Wed March 9th, 2011, 4:36 am

Congratulations, EC! I made a request on this novel at my local library and asked them to buy several more of your awesome creations! Yay!

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Post by Ash » Wed March 9th, 2011, 4:49 am

Congrats! Well deserved award!

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Vanessa
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Post by Vanessa » Wed March 9th, 2011, 9:55 am

ImageCongratulations, EC! An award well deserved.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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Post by LoveHistory » Wed March 9th, 2011, 5:51 pm

That's fantabulous (to steal a word from my mother). I'm going to mention this to our local bookstore owners too and see if I can persuade them about HF.

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Post by Elysium » Wed March 9th, 2011, 8:27 pm

Congratulations! That's great news!

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Post by annis » Thu March 10th, 2011, 6:21 am

Terrific! Congratulations, EC :)

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Post by parthianbow » Thu March 10th, 2011, 7:58 am

Wow, that's brilliant, EC! Many,many congratulations!

(I was late to the party because I didn't look at the thread previously - I assumed that the happy dance was some video on YouTube!)
Ben Kane
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Spartacus - UK release 19 Jan. 2012. US release June 2012.

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Madeleine
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Post by Madeleine » Thu March 10th, 2011, 2:43 pm

Well done EC, great news! I posted on the "author" thread too as, like Ben, I didn't see this thread earlier.
Currently reading "The Winter Garden" by Heidi Swain

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Post by fljustice » Thu March 10th, 2011, 4:06 pm

Way to go, EC! Well deserved.
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Post by cw gortner » Thu March 10th, 2011, 7:31 pm

I Facebooked you holding your award. Congrats!! Very well deserved.
THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN


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