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The Applause at the End
2007-06-19 17:03:00
(No, no, I'm not going anywhere!)Sorry for my recent absences, and my lack of post yesterday. I was hard at work, finishing my EC Torrid Tarot novel The Eighth Wand. I told my fantastic editor that she'd have it by the end of this week, but hey, I was inspired. (And luckily I'd already edited the rest of it, so had only to write the last scene.) Now let's just hope she likes it.Also, the sd is here, which means my evenings are taken up with what the hubs and I like to think of as our Summer "Real Film Education" Program. At home it seems she's rarely exposed to such classics as Jaws and Die Hard. (I believe I wrote earlier about the fun of showing her Die Hard for the first time, didn't I?) Anyway. So we watched Jaws on Sunday. I love Jaws. And last night, we watched Speed, another film I love. I love it for its cheesiness, for the cast of stereotypes, for the sheer pleasurable cliche factor ("Pop quiz, hotshot." Yay!)Sd loved Speed. Which is cool. But it got me thinking, when...
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Happy Father's Day!
2007-06-17 19:11:00
I know I have a few Dads who read here, so I hope you guys are having a great day!And if my own Dad, who I've been trying to call, or my brother who owes me an email, happen to stop by here...happy Fath er's Day to you, and I love you both.
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Life intrudes
2007-06-15 11:29:00
Yeah, I know. I was supposed to come back on Wednesday and post but I didn't get to. And yesterday I spent the day doing one of three things:1. Humoring the Faerie when she insisted on sitting in my lap;2. Baing peanut butter cakes (I promise I'll put the recipe on the Overflow blog this weekend);3. Hunting for 1300 words of a story that somehow disappeared or got saved in a temporary file or I-don't-know-the-fuck-what, but it wasn't at the end of the story like it was supposed to be. GAHR!! Bleh. Not fun.Yes, Mercury Retorgrade is upon us again. I know in a lot of ways astrology is a bunch of shit. I check my horoscope at Astrology Zone every month. I even read my rising sign's forecast, too. But it's almost never accurate. I was supposed to be having a great, lucky, and wonderful month; instead...Well, instead I feel a little shitty. I feel isolated and like people are whispering about me or avoiding me. I feel like people are ascribing motives or thoughts to me that aren't...
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Hmmm...
2007-06-13 15:53:00
Well, I have a couple of cool things to post about (although my funny title for this post will no longer work, so instead you get Hmmm. Better than my last untitled post, I guess. I totally forgot to title it.)Blood Will Tell is up on EC's Coming Soon page!! Squee! Of course, when I first saw it a minor error had occurred and it was credited to my friend Sherrill Quinn, not me. Which was going to be the title of this post..."Blood Will Tell, by, um, Sherrill Quinn..."But they fixed it, so I am robbed of the chance to make fun of my bad luck.Second, Anna J and I have a release date for our X-rated EC book, Demon's Triad. It will be out on January 16th, 2008. A bit of a wait, sadly, but hopefully people will consider a long, hot paranormal which features m/m, brief scenes of f/f, m/f/m, and...well, that one very dark part, to be just what they need to beat the post-holiday blues. Third, in honor of my appearance on the Coming Soon page, I am doing a contest. To enter, all you need t...

So the hubs and I were discussing tattoos last nig...
2007-06-11 14:36:00
So the hubs and I were discussing tattoos last night.It's actually something we've discussed quite a few times. I have two tats already, but got the last one about twelve years ago. The urge to get more just didn't really return...at least not until a couple of years ago, at which point I couldn't afford one. (In large part I moved away from them because I got mine a year or so before everyone started getting them, which made it unappealing.)Not to mention, after the one on my ankle which I no longer like, I want to be very, very certain before I get another.Hubs doesn't have any tattoos. He's been talking pretty much since we got together about getting one, but like me he doesn't know what. My suggestion of having my name tattooed on his ass don't seem to be going anywhere (they're tongue-in-cheek anyway. Ba dump bum.)Right now he's thinking of getting a hula girl of some kind (he's a little obsessed with the whole tiki thing). We found one on this site last night that h...
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Bored and Hungry
2007-06-08 17:45:00
I'm bored.I'm not really sure why I'm bored, but I am just the same. It may be the heat. Despite my pleasure in the end of a very long winter, I'm not pleased that the weather is getting so warm, so fast. Because there's no air conditioning here, and no screens on the windows which makes it hard for those of us who don't appreciate having insects in our homes to get some cooler air.I was thinking today about body hair. (I know, what segway?) Because we have it, and its ostensible evolutionary purpose is to keep us warm. But why do we still need it? Especially when it's just so yucky (in general)?I'm not really talking about men here, because in general I don't care much if a man is hairy (well, okay, that's not exactly true. I've noticed as I get older that my aversion to hairy chests has lessened, and I even like a little stomach hair now, but I still shudder at the memory of a man who came into the movie theatre where I worked in high school. He was wearing a tank top a...
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Stupid sore throat
2007-06-06 13:01:00
Ugh. I'm not sick. I haven't really been sick, but for the last week and a half now it's felt like I'm coming down with something--probably the same something that kept my hubby home last Friday to lounge on the couch and interrupt my working schedule.And now my throat is tremendously sore.And I've been working a lot in the last week or so too.All of which explains why I've been rather scarce. And, uh, why this post is actually just blathering about a movie and not much of a real post.Hubs and I went into Barnstaple at the weekend to have a little wander-around--there are only two towns near us big enough to have any decent shopping, and by decent I mean "really not very good at all but barely adequate". While there we stopped in at a new store which seels mostly DVDs and CDs. Decent prices, too, which is unusual.So I smiled my prettiest little smile at the hubs and got him to buy me The Libertine, a film I've been dying to see for some time now. Partly because I love the Res...
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New Year's Res Book
2007-06-03 17:23:00
Okay, it took me a while to get to this one...but boy am I glad I did!You guys know, because I've blogged about it before, that I've grown rather weary of "sassy" first-person female voices in urban fantasy. So, although I was excited to read this one, I was apprehensive as well. Thankfully, any similarity between Jezebel (the heroine) and any of the other hundreds of first-person heroines in UF these days ends with the letter I. Jezebel is not sassy, not by a long shot. She's witty. She'd devious. She's crisp and funny and sharp, and this book is a hell of a lot of fun.Remember fun? Jackie Kessler does, and she's provided it in spades. I actually laughed out loud when reading it, more than once, and when I wasn't laughing I was being blown away by the sheer cleverness and the voice as sharp as gin-cracked ice. Lines like (in referring to a group of strippers) "...some of these gals scored so deeply with their barbed words that the floor should have been tacky with their bloo...
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Me and Jenna Jameson
2007-05-31 21:17:00
What do we have in common? (Aside from the obvious, lol.)We're both, apparently, X rated.That's right. It looks like the second book Anna J. Evans and I cowrote together, Demon's Triad, is going to get an X rating from Ellora's Cave. Because we are just. That. Baaaad.EC has several thousand titles, I believe. Less than twenty are X rated.This is EC's sex rating system (taken from EC's web site and of course, copyright Ellora's Cave):Ellora?s Cave Publishing offers three levels of Romantica® reading entertainment: S (S-ensuous), E (E-rotic), and X (X-treme).S-ensuous love scenes are explicit and leave nothing to the imagination.E-rotic love scenes are explicit, leave nothing to the imagination, and are high in volume per the overall word count. E-rated titles might contain material that some readers find objectionable?in other words, almost anything goes, sexually. E-rated titles are the most graphic titles we carry in terms of both sexual language and descriptiveness in these...
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Lazy, lazy, lazy
2007-05-29 09:33:00
Yep, that's me. I have been a lazy lazybones this weekend.Well, not entirely. Actually I've been fairly active, I just haven't been blogging.Saturday we went antiquing, which was really cool. The antique shop we went to is one of those cavernous warren-like places, with lots of little rooms and, unlike antique stores in Florida, actual antiques. Including an entire carved wall panel, about 50 feet long, with a mantel and door set into it. It was amazing. Plus several staircases. Antique fireplaces, furniture, an entire wall of stuffed dead animal heads...It was most atmospheric, too. Lots of narrow little aisles made entirely of musty dressers and wardrobes. Lovely.Sunday we went to Bristol. Yesterday we went grocery shopping. Nothing too exciting, but we certainly filled the time.And now the long weekend is over, and the hubs is going back to work, and it's just me and the girls here alone for the rest of the week (it's Princess's half-term break.)And I started the Blood Will...
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What's in a Name...
2007-05-24 11:34:00
(First, three quick things. First, my faboo cp/wp Anna J. Evans had a release yesterday, her Naught Nuptial quickie (short story) with EC. Check it out here. I loved this story when I read it, so you will too.Second, my friend Annie, as you all know, just got a great deal with Ace books!Third, my friend Bam made herself a sweet sale to Liquid Silver Books!Congrats to my awesome friends.)Okay. Now.I'm pretty sure all of you know that "December Quinn" is not my real name. Because it's not. I love it, I answer to it, I'm used by now to being called it. But it's not my real name, it's a name I created specifically for my erotic books. For a number of reasons which I'm sure I don't need to detail, I decided that keeping my identity rather more secret while writing primarily about people having sex in a variety of positions, places, and orifices, no matter how romantic the story may ultimately be, was a good idea. My real name has other distinct disadvantages. I've never particula...

Friday notes
2007-05-18 22:18:00
So I have a real New year's book to blog about (Hell'e Belles by Jackie Kessler) but I wanted to mention this one, because I'm rereading it, and every time I read it I love it more.I'm a huge fan of Sharon Kay Penman anyway, but the mysteries--of which The Queen's Man is the first--are seriously almost an obsession. And in true December fashion, it's because the hero, Justin de Quincy, is just...he's just so hot. I can't even explain why he's so, so sexy. He's not like a super alpha or a strong, silent type, he's not a reckless bad boy, he's just...so hot.In fact, he is so hot he inspired what I believe is the only gushy fangirl email I ever sent, which I admittedly thought was going to, like, Sharon Kay Penman's PA or something but in fact was sent right to her. In which I said something about how Justin was my favorite hero ever and I am so in love with him I want to cry, or something equally dorky, thinking a fellow fan would see it. And of course I got an email back...
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Now Hiring Rabid Fangirls
2007-05-17 20:59:00
Okay.So with the internets going all crazy everywhere and all this stuff about loyalty and all this jumping to people's defense and blah blah blah, something has occurred to me.Something...shocking.I have, at this moment, NO rabid fangirls. How is this possible? If someone were to, say, start attacking me personally on a reader blog, I don't think anyone would leap to my defense, creating sock puppets and littering the comments with bad spellingz and "1"s instead of exclamation points. WHERE ARE TEH FANGURLS, YO?Am I not worthy of fangirls? Do I not deserve them? C'mon, people! Not even one! Not one person?Look. Become my fangirl, and you can buy this t-shirt. See that? Who wouldn't want that?Here's the image closer up:You think I'm joking. I'm not.(Yeah, okay, of course I totally am.Mostly.)
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Oh so many things
2007-05-16 12:24:00
Wow, I do not know where these last few days have gone. I've been working my little fingers to the bone, trying to finish one story and write a synopsis for another, and doing some big reworks of The Black Dragon in anticipation of taking it elsewhere. Selling a book as a reissue is always tricky; I figure if there's a decent amount of new material and changes to the old that can only help. Plus it's amazingly fun for me, because there were a few character issues I was dying to explore but left out of the original version. See, I actually wrote that book about five years ago now, and romance has actually changed considerably in that time. Thing s that might now be daring or interesting wouldn't fly then. So it's been lots of fun to add it back in, although I've felt terrible for my poor hero because of it. He was fucked-up enough to begin with, now he's got even more issues. And if all goes well you'll all have a chance to see just what I've done.Also, the hubs and I were, a...

An Important Announcement
2007-05-12 21:21:00
Per my request, as of May 11th Triskelion Publishing returned all rights to The Black Dragon to me!! I am no longer associated in any way with Triskelion Publishing!This is excellent news for me and I couldn't be more pleased. While I certainly wish Triskelion and all of its authors the best in future, the company was not a good fit for me and I am thrilled to be able to take my book elsewhere.Break out the champagne!! YEEEAAAAAH!!!
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Friday notes
2007-05-11 13:48:00
I got a little carried away discussing favorite men's body parts over at the Deliciously Naughty blog, so go check it out and let me know what you think while I take a cold shower.I will be away this weekend. We're going to the Bristol Comic Expo and so, while I'll be able to check in in the evening, I will be basically incommunicado all day both days.We went to see Spider-Man 3 last night. Despite the less-than-stellar reviews it's been getting I really liked it...except one thing at the end. I won't post a spoiler, but I will say that James Franco could do a movie where all he did was sit in front of a camera and talk about pH levels in soil and I would watch in rapt attention, because he is just so gorgeous I can't stand it. Seriously. I will buy the movie about dirt.Wouldn't you?
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The turning of the worm
2007-05-10 17:10:00
It's official. Old Project is now my huckleberry again, and New Project, for a number of reasons, has lost my interest. I still think it's a great idea, I'm just not desperate to work on it at the moment. It's not, you know, finished and edited the way OP is.Plus, I had occasion to re-read OP the other day and still really like it. So there. Let's hope I'm not the only one.Not to mention I have so many projects on my plate right now it's not even funny. BUT, that's not the point of this post. The point here is about Rex Harrison, and irritating heroines, and why they're irritating.I mentioned the big old vacuous bitch heroine I wrote. Did I mention the plot of that story? It's a vampire "My Fair Lady", but she's Professor Higgins.Yeah. Turn s out, persnickety, rude, arrogant women aren't nearly as sexy or interesting as Rex Harrison. In a man, that sort of commanding presence is waaay attractive. In a lady? Not so much. (BTW, I know I've been using "ladies" a lot lately....
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Tagged!
2007-05-08 17:49:00
Here are the rules:1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.4. Don?t forget to leave them a comment telling them they?re tagged, and to read your blog.OK - 8 Random Facts/Habits About Me:1. I cut and dye my own hair. Haven't had it professionally done in like 4 years.2. I desperately want to go home.3. I secretly want to write horror and mysteries, but no matter how hard I try romance keeps sneaking in there. And how do you write a book without a sex scene?4. I'm rather vain about my hands and my pretty nails.5. I only use two or three fingers when I type. I type about 50 wpm on average (I've never tested myself, but I can do 2-3k words an hour easy if the story is really flowing.)6. If I could afford it I would totally have plastic surgery. So it's vain; so ...
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On to the the next geekfest
2007-05-07 13:06:00
The hubs and I finished out X-Files marathon yesterday. We watched all the way through Season 5 and then the movie. Which, not that great. It was bad enough after watching the episodes all in a row night after night. I can't imagine what my fury would have been if, after watching the show faithfully for five years, I'd gone to see a movie that promised a Mulder/Scully kiss and got no freaking kiss. I remember the press. I remember them saying there would be a kiss. Screw you people!So now we are on to the next level of geekitude, and have started watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Or, as we refer to it, Star Trek for ladies.Which is a good thing. DS9 is my favorite, and I think is a lot of womens' favorite, simply because it is rather more soap-opera-y than the others. There's more romance. There's a war, which kicks ass. There's interpersonal relationships and everyone hangs out in a bar and there's all sorts of sexual innuendo (or as The Todd would say on Scrubs, "in-her-...
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You can tell by the way I use my walk...
2007-05-04 17:12:00
And everybody here knows the rest, right?Thassright. Because "Staying Alive" is one of the greatest songs ever written."But it's disco!" you cry. (Or okay, maybe you don't, but for my purposes you do.) "And December, you're into stuff like the Stones and the Devil Dogs! How can you think a Bee Gees song is so great!"It doesn't matter how or why. It just is, baby. It just is. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. I know who The Seeds and The Sonics are, and I own a copy of The Great Twenty-Eight, which if you don't have one you're missing out on some of the best rock n roll ever created. Who can honestly listen to Staying Alive--with lyrics like "Well now, I get low and I get high/And if I can't get either I really try", or "Life goin' nowhere/Somebody help me/Somebody help me, yeah" and not be totally overwhelmed with a sense of emotions and thoughts beneath the surface? The way the beat and that guitar line drives the whole thing and makes your blood race? That's what ...
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Vive le Romance Blogger!
2007-05-02 12:55:00
Well, as much as I hate to put up a new post, thus moving my lovely cover and release date stuff down, I suppose I must.So. One quick thing first. I've posted a new recipe at the Overflow blog, if anyone cares, for slow-roasted pork. This is fast becoming my favorite dinner, because not only is it really delicious (and pork is quite inexpensive over here, which is a big plus), the amount of effort I put in to it is about on a par with the amount of effort I put in tracking down the latest Lindsay Lohan gossip. Which would be none. I rub some herbs on a pork roast and put it in the oven, that's it. And it makes the house smell good for ages.There's a new kerfuffle in town. This post at Dear Author is probably the best overview, but reading Karen S.'s review and the comments (linked to in the DA post) is worth your time as well (if you're interested.)I'm sure you can all imagine what I think about it. Without commenting on the letter purporting to be from the head of RT Magazine...
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Blood Will Tell--July 11
2007-04-30 01:31:00
Not only does Blood Will Tell have a gorgeous cover, it has a real, official release date! ***July 11, 2007***And here's a little excerpt from the very beginning:The shadows moved.Cecelia Barnes quickened her pace through the dark parking lot. There?s nothing there. It?s just your imagination.But the night was closing in on her, airless and fetid like a tomb. Her car was only fifty feet or so away. It seemed an impossible distance.Why had she let her assistant, Doug, go home? He?d left only half an hour ago. Her work could have waited. Hell, he could have waited.Then she wouldn?t be alone now, her breath unnaturally loud in her ears and her heart beginning to pound.Something clanked, metal against cement, to her left. She turned quickly, gasping, the South Florida heat searing her lungs, the sweat on her brow turning ice-cold.The hubcap on the pavement still vibrated in the foggy steam of the night, as if someone had moved it to climb into the sewer?or out of it.Running ...

Some Friday Thoughts
2007-04-27 15:14:00
I finished final edits on Blood Will Tell yesterday, and got a look at the cover. Color me waaay excited, I'm hoping to be able to post the cover and release date in the next week!This was hands-down the most fun editing process ever. I love my new editor (I loved the old one, too--I never got to actually edit with her, sadly, but she was a cool chica.) I had great fun adding some hot new stuff to the book, too, and trimming a few other bits--editing, in other words. Duh.So now, in addition to trying to finish another project--which I've been unable to touch this week because I have a two-year-old who refuses to be off my lap for more than twenty minutes a day (another reason why I haven't been commenting on blogs as much--I'm reading, but typing with one hand is such a pain in the ass)--I'm thinking of what I plan to do with the other characters in the book.One of the fun things about writing vampires is they live forever. So while I have at least two, and possibly three or mo...
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What I Am Not, and Never Have Been
2007-04-24 14:09:00
I am not now, and have never been, a "pre-published" writer. Or rather, I guess I was, in the sense that I had contracted work that had not yet been published, but I never called myself pre-published.I hate the term, for a number of reasons.Or maybe just one, now that I think of it. I hate it because of the silly, smiley, happy-dappy implication of it. The implication that of course you'll be published one day, it just hasn't happened yet! You'll be published because you deserve to be, because everybody who writes a book deserves to be, because there's no such thing as a good or bad book! All books are equally worthy and good! Huh?This attitude is crap.People who have special skills deserve recognition for them. Are you really going to tell me that To Kill A Mockingbird or The Scarlet Letter or even Bag of Bones deserve to be placed on the same miserable, low level as the badly punctuated, cliched, and dull ramblings of some basement dweller with the intellectual capacity of a g...
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It Sucks Being Nearsighted
2007-04-23 12:11:00
Oh yes it does.My prescription (last time I got one), for those of you who are also nearsighted and so find such things as fascinating as new moms find baby weights and poop, was a -9.But it's been, oh, four years or so since I had an eye exam, and my eyes keep getting worse.For the last few weeks I thought they were getting a lot worse, worryingly so, before I finally took out my contacts (I know in the world of responsible people, "extended wear" does not mean "wear without removing for months". But that ain't my world, friends) and realized why my vision was so cloudy all the time. Because the lenses were yucky and cloudy and smudgy. Pretty awful.So now I'm on my last pair (actually not yet, I'm doing one of my repentant wear-glasses-for-a-week things), so I'm going to have to go get another exam soon, and since I'm not in Florida I can't go to my best friend's brother, who is a great optomotrist or opthalmologist or whichever it is who does my eye exams for free because ...
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Feedback and stuff
2007-04-22 10:46:00
So first thanks again to everyone who offered thoughts and suggestions re: the website. On Sam's suggestion, I checked out Moonfruit.com and started playing around there last night.So. This is my old site.This is the one I'm playing around with. I'm going to add the "Books" page, with clickable images of all my covers, which send you to the book's individual page with reviews and excerpts and buy links, which I couldn't figure out how to do really well on the old site. It's very, very easy to import images and put them wherever you want on the Moonfruit template.The biggest problem with the new site is, I can't import my rose tile background from the old one (I can't import any graphic backgrounds to Moonfruit, as far as I can tell) and I can't import the cool background from the site to my blog here (can't get an html code for it.) Moonfruit does a blog but I like blogger (despite the &%@$! with Beta) and don't want to switch. So essentially, I need to either switch to a...
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Website Thoughts
2007-04-18 13:57:00
Okay, so I've been thinking. (What a shock, I know.)I've been thinking about my website. I really like the colors of the site. I like the rose-prtal background (as you can see, because I imported it here to my blog. Although the blog still doesn't look as nice as I'd hope, which kind of creates a problem given the topic of this post.) Which is, I'd like to change my website.See, when I originally planned the site, there were a lot of sites out there that looked a lot like it. Now the emphasis seems to be on graphic headers and having individual pages for each book, which I would love to have.I think my site is a little difficult to navigate, and since I have three things already lined up to release this year (and I'm still waiting for news on a few other things, and the year is still young!), I do really need the site to be cleaned up. I'd like to redesign it.But, as you can see from some of the more clumsy aspects of the blog, I'm not really a good webdesigner. Plus, as I s...
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Give 'em what they want
2007-04-16 15:32:00
Should I?Should any writer?I'm starting edits on Blood Will Tell with my faboo editor, and so I'm also planning what other books I want to do with some of the secndary characters, or do I want to do books with secondary characters, and if so, what kinds of books?I'd love to do a series. I almost always think of ways I can use the characters again, or do books with other characters in that world, or whatever. Because I think series are fun. As a reader I love them. I love to get to know a set of characters, to be familiar with their pasts and their possible futures. It adds another dimension of enjoyment to my reading experience.But that's what makes me wary.My reading fun has been spoiled one too many times of late, with series that take a turn for the worse and just keep going down. I'll leave out the obvious example (LKH who?) and head for Kay Scarpetta territory. The last three of four Scarpetta books have been...monstrous disappointments, putting it mildly.And I know we're...
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Quickie
2007-04-13 15:38:00
I've blogged about Friday the 13th over at the Deliciously Naughty Writers blog, so go check that out, because it's all about superstitions and stuff.Remember when you were a kid, and Friday the 13th seemed like such a big deal? I miss that.Anyway. I shall probably do another post later, and I have a rather interesting week planned for next week as well.(BTW, I've had another thought about Vonnegut. It seems so many people are talking about how they read him in high school and how much it meant to them. I've even seen one or two comments about how they read him again later but his work was so much a part of that time it didn't work.I never read him in high school. Maybe that's why he leaves me mostly cold? Admiring the skill and cleverness, but not really enjoying the stories or the sentiment behind them? Just a thought.)
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I'm a Smartie with a Sore Tummy
2007-04-12 09:38:00
I had intended to post something yesterday, but my body decided it would rather spend the day throwing up and huddling, shaking, on the couch. I still managed to pop around to some blogs and say hi, and get a little work done, but nothing like what I'd hoped.I also talked to my Mommy. I miss my Mommy. I miss Gatorade. It isn't until a time like this when you're sick that you realize how much you miss home (not entirely true, as I've been missing home for a while now, but still). When you have a cold and can't find NyQuil on the shelves, or Gatorade. When your baby needs Pediatlite and you look for the big bottles of bubblegum flavor she always liked and all you can get is packets of blackcurrant D'oralite powder to mix with water. Which is so not the same thing. (A good NyQuil equivalent is Night Nurse, though, so if you're an American in the UK and don't know about it, ask the pharmacist. They keep it behind the counter. Makes sense because OTC meds here stink.)And the hubs...