Armageddon Release!

It's heeeeeere! Our book has been officially released!

I am so excited to announce the release of Armageddon: Pick Your Plot.
You can find it on Amazon or CreateSpace, and I encourage you to follow our Facebook page for updates and fun tidbits about the book :)

Many, many thanks to everyone who has been so supportive through this process - my friend Ben for his editing awesome'ness, Alison and Chris for their *ahem* technical expertise and patience, and to my fabulous co-author and design guru Dan for dragging me into this. I would choose all of you to be on my Zombie Apocalypse team, any time!

One more day!

One more day till the release of Armageddon!

 If you only had one day left on Earth, how would you spend it?

3 days!

3 days until the release of our book!

We now have a Facebook page that you can follow to get updates and info. Please stop by and like us :)

Grow Your Blog party

Greetings, travelers! And welcome to Naturally Sweet :)

My name is AJ, and this is my little corner of the interwebs. I started Naturally Sweet in college and it has grown from a place to toss thoughts and bits of writing to my favorite way to share dreams and stories about life, work and my professional world. And also! To share news about writing, which has become a more and more important part of life (see my below post about the book coming out this week - hooray!)

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you'll become a follower and visit often.

Many thanks to Vicki at 2 Bags Full for hosting the Grow Your Blog party!

Cover Reveal!

I am very excited to reveal the cover to the book I wrote with my good friend Dan!

It's called Armageddon: Pick Your Plot, and it gives the reader the opportunity to attempt to survive 42 possible catastrophic endings.

Support for Armageddon:
"A wild and witty, thought-provoking adventure... the twists and turns will keep you guessing all the way to the cataclysmic end each time... and even the inevitable may surprise you!" 
- Eve Forward, author of Villains by Necessity

"I always thought I'd go through life without being responsible for ending all life on the planet. I was wrong."
- Ryan North, author of Dinosaur Comics and Co-editor of Machine of Death

We are expecting to release the book within the next week, so stay tuned for updates :)

2012 Recap

Oh man. The holidays happened. We're almost midway through January and I haven't done any kind of 2012 recap! So here goes. Things that happened in 2012, in no particular order:

* Joined Vittoria Ensemble, and sang a duet at our concerts in November.
* Wrote a book with my good friend Dan (to be published soon!).
* Participated in April A-Z, met lots of lovely blogging types. Can't wait for this year's challenge.
* Supervised an Intern which was a cool move forward for me, professionally.
* Had a great first conference season!
* Hiked a 14'er on our first Anniversary.
* Visited my brother and his family in South Korea for two weeks.
* Got 30 raspberries off our new raspberry bushes in the backyard.
* Painted a room for the first time (boy I am full of fail of posting stuff like that on here! Perhaps a house update is in order.)
* Survived the Mayan Apocalypse.

While we don't have too many big plans for 2013 at this point, I am sure it will be another great year. Let's keep this trend going :)