The blog tour continues with Sarah Eve Kelly -- we discuss historical research and how those can possibly fit into a romance (they do!). Remember to leave a comment to be entered in to the Holly Root query critique contest!
It's also my day over at Odd Shots. I go totally juvenile and talk about farts and elevators. High brow, I know! But that's just how I roll.
I'm behind on a few things, but am going to try and catch up over the weekend. Scouts' honor!
Someone found my website by searching for "Why do plastic forks have an expiration date?"
To that person - I do not know. But if you find the answer, do let me know.
To the person that typed in "What can I ride?" and found my website...I have no answers for you either.
Oh! And for those following my LJ, I had my husband draw me another icon to use. Poor artist - he thought it was going to be so easy to be married to a writer. Little did he know I'd demand that he draw my characters. Repeatedly.
And now I go sleep.
(And a big thank you to everyone that has bought a copy, sent me a picture, or is following the blog tour. I appreciate it far more than these small, random blog posts can communicate.)
It's Christmas! It's Christmas! And it's a white Christmas, even in Texas! Whodathunk?
I have a holiday post up at Odd Shots, eggnog in my coffee, a stocking cap on my head, presents wrapped, a book to read, and the rest of the weekend off of work.
Joyeux noel!
And I'm starting to feel a little impatient. It's like I'm in a car, sitting in traffic. I can see the light I need to get to up ahead, but in front of me is an endless line of crawling cars. And all I want to do is STOMP ON THE GAS AND GET MOVING.
Yeah, publishing is like that sometimes.
In the meantime, there's plenty of cool stuff going on to keep me mentally busy. I just spent all morning wrapping Christmas presents and going through my bookshelves. I have a few old favorites that I've pulled out to re-read: Julie Garwood, Judith Mcnaught, Johanna Lindsay, Jude Deveraux and Donald Maass (HEH - which one of these does not belong, eh?). Work is bound to be slammed this week since it will be a short week. Survivor Finale tonight (Go Foa Foa!) and that Christmas thing should be popping up this weekend too...
Except it has nothing to do with books and everything to do with a dayjob. Sorry for the silence. I am trying to keep up, but for some reason there are only 24 hours in the day. Go figure. 
I bring you two lovely reviews of my upcoming books here and here. Did you know that book 1 comes out in 2 weeks? I can't seem to forget about that.
I'll be blogging on Fresh Fiction later this week, and another website which I'll announce as soon as I get the official word. Check this space!
I also bring you two phrases people used to find my website today:
"Free your breasts"
"Little smokies past expiration date"
Yessir, bringing the romance around here.
Just deleted the last post, sorry. Wasn't comfortable with the comment train.
Will blog more later tonight!
Have you guys seen the new Lady Gaga video? It's freaking amazing. Go on and watch - I'll wait.
We good? Good. Anyhow, I just love that video because it inspired a roundabout scene in my current book. No one shows up at a bath-house to be auctioned off to shirtless male models, mind you, but inspiration is a weird thing and steals tidbits here and there.
My schedule continues to get a little hairy with the book release and such. I've spent part of the weekend prepping blog posts for guest spots. It feels a little dumb to think that far ahead, but on the other hand, there's nothing worse than waking up and realizing you should have posted something 3 hours ago. Oh, and be funny!
I'm working on a teensy seekrit project that might turn into something, might turn into nothing. My goal is to keep it under 5k (3k would be ideal) so we'll see how it turns out. I might hate it and then just scrap the entire thing.
No writing on the novel this week. I'm afraid that it's going to be intermittant until both books come out and something on my schedule lets up.
Snuggiewatch 2009: Still no Snuggie.
My friends, I have passed the rite of passage known as 'being Klausnered'. And I am appropriately charmed.
I also got a 'Recommended Read' from Fallen Angel Reviews -- they loved GENTLEMEN PREFER SUCCUBI: Fallen Angel Reviews -- Recommended Read
(Isn't that cool? Okay, enough promo on this side.)
Anyhoo, that was a cool thing to find in my inbox! You know what else is in my inbox? A BILLION EMAILS. Emails for promo, emails for advertising, emails from the publicist -- and it all has to be done, like, yesterday. The obsessive micromanager in me is dying a slow and painful death over all the small things I have to get done over the next six weeks. To appease it a little, I'm making a calendar for myself. So not joking. I wish I was.
It's also heading into the busy period at the payroll dayjob (also known as 'fun' in a very sarcastic voice). So if you see me randomly sobbing on Twitter or wailing about my lot in life, it's not a permanent sort of thing. It's a December/January sort of thing and it happens to me every year for the 9 years that I've been doing payroll and accounting. Please do not be alarmed - I assure you it's quite normal.
I should have some cool stuff coming up a bit later in this month, so I'm going to try and blog more often (hahahaha) because you know we are only TWENTY FIVE DAYS OUT. Holy cow. I think I need to go lay down.
Was Doritos and Little Smokies. Yes, I'm lazy. Why do you ask?
So I bought a box of plastic forks at the store the other day, because I've been bringing my lunch lately and what's the thing I never have? Forks. Planning ahead, that's me. Except I cracked the box open yesterday, and noticed on the back...there's an expiration date. Of last month.
Plastic forks...expire? Um. Okay. Kind of shows you what sort of week I've had though.
I went on a Nano frenzy last weekend and ended up writing like 9k in about 24 hours. Which was really awesome but then I messed up my arm. Sad. I have what I like to refer to as 'mousing arm'. Where you use the mouse to scroll so much that you end up aggravating a nerve.
It sounds really stupid, but there you go. So I'm wearing a dorky wrist-brace and generally trying to be careful. Which is harder than it sounds - you don't realize how much you're on the internet!
At any rate, my Nano project is up to 15k, but I plan on catching up again this weekend - with my arm at a more pleasant angle and using my alpha smart (thus taking mousing out of the scenario).
And...um...that's about it for me lately. Been going to bed early because if I can't type, WHAT GOOD AM I??? And things like that. I keep thinking of things I need to blog about, but when I sit down to blog, they fly out of my head.
