Publishing with Create Space

Hey guys!
Sorry I haven't posted in a half a million years, but here I am now!
So, I won NaNoWriMo (National November Writing Month, happens every November) in 2012.  I won that with my novel--The Pirate Sisters!  I got about halfway with I think about 24,000 words, and then I stopped.  Throughout the year I have been have writing it, so I got up to about 32,000.

Well, when you win NaNo, they give you a free publishing code which you can use to get FIVE FREE PAPERBACK COPIES.  Yeah!!!!!!!!!  So, in June, I went nuts and wrote about 30,000 words more on the  Pirate Sisters.  I finished the entire novel in about two weeks, leaving me with about 64,000 words.  :D  That is a little bigger than Brandon Mull's Fablehaven!
I edited the thing in two days (so it wasn't perfect at all) and on June 30, the deadline, Mom and I got on to publish it with the little deal.  Well....you see, I stayed up till ten o'clock (super late, I know ;) Eastern time...the thing I learned from this is don't procrastinate and get it published at least two days before the deadline.  I suppose the deadline ended somewhere in Asia instead of my time, which means no free book sadly.

But it was a great experience!  :)  And I learned that you can publish on Createspace, you just have to pay to get your book in print.  So I will edit the Pirate Sisters better and the publish. So I had my little adventure.

July I had no idea what I did, and ditto with August.  We went camping and my grandpa retired, we saw monster trucks, I went to the Lion King on Broadway and went to the Melting Pot!  :D  I was spoiled, but more on that later.

BYE!
-Maddie