I've got news. I've been booked to appear on PA Radio 01-17-13, where I can talk Vision of Shadows!
Congrats! Do you have a list of things they're going to ask or are you just going to have to be surprised?
Yes, you hold onto you money, and push and shove, and trying to get at something you want. Angry glares are usually intimidation, because people usually just grab what you have and run off to the register with it.
Do not get a shopping cart, trust me, carrying is better - unless you plan to use it as a battering ram or buy a TV...
The women of my family spend the evening after Thanksgiving dinner with all the various ads and their shopping lists. They figure out how many stores they need to hit and make up lists for each store and exchange money to cover each list.
Then they recruit their teams. Three people to a team, with one preteen or teen preferred. The preteen/teen is the one who goes in and automatically gets in line, since most people don't seem to want to beat up on a respectful kid. The other two scour the store for the things on the list (one with a cart, one for all the pushing and shoving).
Then they test their walkie-talkies to make sure they all still work, figure out call-signs, etc. (this was back before the days of cell phones, mind you--don't know what they do now.)
They make arrangements for who's calling who when to make sure everyone's moving in the wee morning hours, so the teams can assemble, meet at the local all-night Dunkin' Donuts for coffee and last minute checks, and go out.
They're generally not finished until sometime that afternoon--meaning over 12 hours of holiday shopping.
My sisters claim it's the best way to do it, since it gets everything but stocking stuffers out of the way, but I think they're insane. Just watching the prep scared me off ever attempting it, lemme tell you.
I have a question. What do you do when someone has a self published book, they asked you to review it on Amazon & Goodreads and it's really badly written?
Is there
anything positive that you can mention? A decent character, a plot twist, anything? Or is it so horribly written that you can't make out a sentence, let alone anything more?
Personally, I wouldn't ever agree to do that, especially if it's an acquaintance. A friend would know better than to ask me.