The Off Tangent Thoughts Meme is hosted by Charvi @ Not Just Fiction and takes place every first and third Saturday of the month (but you can post anytime between prompts). I joined this meme for the first time a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it, so be prepared to see it on the blog. This post is very nonsensical, but pretty accurate when it comes to all the thoughts I had before and after I got an Anna-Marie McLemore ARC in the mail. Sorry not sorry for the long title. November 16th’s topic:
Thoughts You Have When You Get Approved For An ARC
Is this the first time you got an ARC or just one that you were really looking forward to? Are we talking about e-ARCs or physical ones?
- Bemoan all the times I wished and hoped (and emailed publishers) that I could one day get my hands on an Anna Marie McLemore book. Wish for years. YEARS. With no success
- Email the publisher yet again because there’s got to be at least one time where they will approve me, right?
- What is this? An email from said publisher offering an eARC? Rejoice!
- Feel grateful because this is probably the closest I’m ever going to get to owning an Anna-Marie McLemore ARC
- Another year, another round of begging for an ARC
- But this time I’m feeling reckless, I’m feeling adamant, I’m feeling confident? (not really, but I figure, why they heck not?)
- This time I beg them twice
- Time passes and hopes of receiving an ARC dwindle
- I preorder the book because who cares if it’s still six month away, I know I am going to love it
- More time passes and I think about requesting the newest book from NetGalley, but if I do, would it be giving up?
- Make an off-handed remark on twitter about how desperate I am for an ARC and then…a miracle?
- Anna-Marie McLemore just DMed ME!!!!!!!!!
- Scream internally for about five minutes before responding
- Walk around for several days in a fog, not quite comprehending that Anna-Marie McLemore just hooked me up with an eARC of their next book
- Also they complimented my profile pic
- Embrace this euphoria, think about how being a book blogger has brought me this blessing
- Satisfied, forget I ever requested a print copy of the ARC…but then
- One day, a package from the publisher comes in the mail
- Talk myself out of hoping and slowing open the package
- Inside is an ARC of Anna-Marie McLemore’s newest book Deep and Darkest Red! It’s so beautiful!
- Sit there for a while and soak it in. Touch the cover lovingly. Hug it.
- Almost burst into tears because I never actually ever imagined that a publisher would ever think I was worthy enough to receive one of Anna-Marie McLemore’s ARCs.
- Start thinking about next year when Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia’s novel Meteor is schedule to come out. Wonder if there will be ARCs…
- Plot
Have you ever received or gotten a hold of an ARC by your favorite author? How did it make you feel? Which ARC would you move mountains for? Let’s discuss in the comments!
A Kernel of Nonsense 
Love this post! Thats awesome she Dm’d you, how sweet!
xoxo, tree
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Thank you!
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I literally started screaming when I got an ARC of Girls of Storm and Shadow. I had requested to be on the blogger list months ago. I had been added, but I didn’t think i would receive any unsolicited arcs, as a small bookstagrammer. People in my timeline are getting ARCs. I’m thinking, maybe I can request one? Just maybe I have a chance. I decide I’ll write the email tommorow after school. I go to school, I get home, turn on my computer. My mum comes in “Sasha, there was a package for you” she hands it to me. I am expecting a book, so I open it happily. It is not the book I expect. It’s an ARC of Girls of Storm and Shadow. there, in my hands. I scream. A few days later, and email in my inbox inviting me to the bookstagram tour.
Flash forward to now, I posted and squealed about it on my date, and I’ve been procrastinating finishing it for weeks.
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I can feel the joy radiating through your words and I totally understand not tackling a highly anticipated book right away. I actually haven’t read this one yet even though I got it in September.
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I usually read sporadically but really want to find the time to sit down and finish this one in peace with my candle inspired by it 🙂
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great post btw!! Very jealous. I requested an ARC but bc I’m in the UK, they don’t have the rights here. I’ve looked around and idk who’s publishing it here but I’ll probably preorder it soon!
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How wonderful for you! I haven’t had an ARC experience, but I have had a couple of kind authors email me back when I asked questions about their writing. Enjoy and treasure your new book!
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Thank you!
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This is so cool, especially that they DM’d you! I NEED to read some Anna-Marie McLemore asap and I’m really looking forward to Dark and Deepest Red. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it!
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I hope the author reads and appreciates the post, because I’ve not Googled McLemore to see who this person is…..
Okay, back from Googling. I remember this author because they were talking about the title Blanca & Roja on Twitter. I think they were saying they should maybe use the English title? Perhaps I’m thinking of the wrong author….
I would LOVE an ARC of whatever Sarai Walker’s next book is. Stabbity-stab for it.
I was mega appreciative when Mimi Pond, who wrote the first-ever Simpson’s episode, agreed to do a Meet the Writer interview with me after I read her graphic novel Over Easy. I was so honored!
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Gah, I hope not. Sometimes I like to keep my fangirling kind of a secret. Yes, that’s the author. I hope you get the opportunity to get your hands on that ARC!
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Awww the first time an author I love dmed me is a moment I’ll never forget. It’s like angels singing a chorus right above your head. 😍
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Too accurate.
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I have not, but I can understand your excitement. So far I have not gotten any of my favorite author’s ARCs, even though I buy multiple copies of all her new releases (gotta have it in Kindle and hardback, and sometimes in Spanish too), so they wouldn’t be out a sale by giving me one.
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Wahhh, I love this story! Especially since it’s about Anna-Marie’s new book *-* I’ve not experienced anything this wonderful, but I was Netgalley-approved for two books from a couple authors I similarly adore and that was insanely exciting, so I can only begin to imagine how exciting this would be, haha.
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So awesome that Anna-Marie contacted you too!
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Still haven’t recovered…
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