Go Me!

So I was feeling rather blue about the fact that I had read "Magic in the Blood" by Devon Monk and I couldn't get the other three. My library only had the first one, which I thought was rather odd. I mean, there are four (soon to be six) books in the series and the first one was damn good.

So I decided to send them a request email. I had done that once before to see if they could get Jessa Slade's books. They couldn't and now I'm counting my pennies until I can actually afford to buy them. It sucks being poor!

Anyway, I read the first book and...wow! I wasn't sure about the premise at first but several hours later I was so glad I took a chance. So my next step is to order the remain ones that are out (cause I'm such a series junkie). Aaaaagh! There are no others.

I thought, surely, it must be a mistake. How can you have one but not the others? Easily. Obviously they didn't think anyone else would ask for them. Well dammit!

So I did a little research to find out how many books my library lacked. Well, all but the first of the series is discovered. So I went about giving my plea. It basically went something like this:

Can you please order the remaining books in the Magic... series? (I listed all of them) I have read the first one and it was really good (not sure if I went into greater detail since there was a limit on word count). If for whatever reason you don't have the resources to purchase these books would you mind if I donated them to you? (They must have heard the "poor-ness" in me).

In any event, I've been checking my email for the last two weeks. Last time it only took them a few days to reject my request.

Well, I received an email today telling me that three of the books are waiting for me to pick them up. Can you say "Hell yeah!"? I'm so happy now.

Of course all this reading is going to be hard to do since I'm supposed to be editing and getting ready for school this fall (and all my workshops). Still, I worked hard on this (well not really...)and I'm going to enjoy my perk.

Think I should offer to buy Jessa's books this time around. Maybe that's the trigger...