Yes, it was one of those days today. Actually, it wasn’t really a bad day, but it started off looking like it was going to be one. I woke up and discovered that Cricket had managed to unscrew the cap from a full tube of Desitin. Evidently, he thought it would make a wonderful styling accessory because his hair was full of it. I guess he also thought it would make great make-up, because his face was covered in it, too. Naturally, it was all over his hands. He got it in his bedding, on his feet, on his door. It was a mess.
Category: A bit of fun
Interviewed once more!
The questions have been flying once again. Yep, folks, that’s right – I’ve been interviewed! All thanks go to Tricia Drammeh this time (again, actually). Head on over to her Authors to Watch site and join the conversation!
Big things are going on in my neck of the woods, but that’s another post for another time. In the meantime, I’ll be starting a Photo Friday feature this coming week. I meant to start it yesterday, but housework beckoned and I’m pretty sure Seymour was ecstatic that I heeded the call to clean instead of the call to blog. 🙂
And now, back to Mt. Laundry. I’ve nearly reached the summit – I can’t stop now!
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Related articles
- Authors to Watch and more (suddenlytheyalldied.com)
- Escapism at its best! (sophieetallis.wordpress.com)
- YA Author Spotlight interviews Will Macmillan Jones and the Mystic Accountants (safkhetpublishing.wordpress.com)
Build the Enterprise!
First things first – I read an awesome article on msnbc.com about the possibility of building a spaceship like the USS Enterprise from Star Trek with today’s technology. Serious. Cool. There were a number of other interesting links at the end of the article, as well as a link to BuildTheEnterprise.org, the project’s homepage. This is so many shades of awesome that I don’t even know where to start. Seymour shared this with me last night and we were both as giddy as could be. The geek is strong with us. 🙂
Scenes from home
Apparently my kids need to be educated. The following conversation took place this morning as we were about to walk out the door:
• M: Tom, why are you only wearing one glove?
•T: Because I lent the other one to RaShaun.
•M: Okay, well, either you need to wear both gloves or neither of them. Michael Jackson couldn’t pull off the one-glove look and neither can you.
•T: Who’s Michael Jackson?
•R: Didn’t we look him up at your First Communion?
•M: *facepalm* No, that was Michael Jordan. Different guy. Do you know the song “Thriller?”
•T: No.
•M: *epic facepalm*
Clearly tonight’s soundtrack must feature Michael Jackson. I’m not even all that wild about his music, but at least I know who he is. And while I realize that for the course of their lives he hasn’t been the most popular singer, I still can’t believe they don’t know who he is. It reminds me of another aspect of their education that is sadly lacking: the ability to alphabetize.
•M: Rachael, will you get out [random movie whose title I can’t recall]?
•R: It’s not here.
•M: Yes, it is. All the movies are in alphabetical order; just look under [appropriate letter – I think it was L or M].
•R: It’s not here, I’m telling you.
•M: I know we have it. *pulls movie off of shelf* See? It’s right where I said it was!
•G: Hold on a minute. Maybe they don’t know how to alphabetize.
•M: Do you kids know how to alphabetize?
•K: (in unison)No!
•M: *facepalm*
Evidently they don’t teach kids how to alphabetize things in school anymore. This useful skill must have fallen by the wayside when they did away with media center as a class. Now that everything is available online, who needs to know about the Dewey Decimal System or how to use a card catalog? (Please to note the sarcasm.) Alphabetizing is for the ancients, much like legible cursive or heck, even legible printing. My kids’ inability to alphabetize was quickly remedied. I’ve not tested it yet, but I do hope they were paying attention. After all, stranger things have happened.
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Dickens
So I entered the text of my story into I Write Like the other day. Evidently I write like Charles Dickens. I find that flattering, because Dickens was a genius, but I really don’t think I write like him. Then again, I do love the classics… 🙂
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2012 Book List
My book list, to be updated regularly (I hope):
Books I’m currently reading:
- Vortex: Return of the Effra by Lindsey J. Parsons
Books I’ve finished:
- The Hair-Raising Joys of Raising Boys by Dave Meurer
- 1001 Things it Means to be a Mom: The Good, the Bad, and the Smelly by Harry H. Harrison, Jr.
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilheim Grimm and edited by Justin Eisinger
- Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi
- The Banned Underground: The Amulet of Kings by Will Macmillan Jones
- The Myth of Mr. Mom edited by Jeremy Rodden
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Clifford’s First Halloween by Norman Bridwell and more behind the cut!
*squee*
The e-book version of Tuesday Daydreams is now available for Kindle! You can find it here or by searching for it in the Kindle store. Right now this is as far as I’ll go with the e-book version, but maybe next weekend when I will hopefully have more peace and quiet, I can get it formatted for other e-readers as well. Gretchen, any pointers would be much appreciated! Oh, yeah – I still have to read the Smashwords Style Guide I downloaded. That would probably help. 🙂
Between my excitement over having finally released a title and my fatigue from driving all over two counties today and my frustration with my oldest son, I’m a bit all over the place at the moment. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I see an adult beverage and a scotcheroo with my name on them. Happy weekend!
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Authors to Watch and more
Ah, authors to watch. There must be a jillion of them. I, however, am referring to ten certain authors who were featured yesterday in an interview by Tricia Drammeh. She asked the question, “Why do you write fantasy?” and received some great answers from some great authors, including yours truly (although I make no claims as to my greatness). Check it out! Each interviewee provided links to a variety of sites at which you can check out their work and/or learn more about them.
In other news, rumor has it that the release of Promises, the second Timeless Series novel, will be delayed. Fans of Lisa Wiedmeier’s fantasy series will now have to wait till the end of May to continue following Cheyenne’s adventures.
I’ve almost finished the Kindle version of Tuesday Daydreams. Learning the formatting stuff was easy enough for the most part, but I still have a couple of glitches to work out here and there. I hope to have the Kindle version available for purchase by the end of the week (by which I mean the end of the calendar week, not tomorrow). I had Chinese for lunch today and ate my fortune cookie on the way back to work. I had to chuckle as I read my fortune:Channel your energy into something positive. I’d say all this work on my writing is definitely something positive. 🙂
Last but not least, the rain has come at long last and everything is turning a lovely shade of green. I adore spring. ♥
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Related articles
- Young Adult Author Spotlight interviews Will MacMillan Jones and the Banned Underground (safkhetpublishing.wordpress.com)
- Save the Hobbit and other odds and ends (suddenlytheyalldied.com)
Writer talk
Easy reading is damn hard writing. -Nathaniel Hawthorn
I hadn’t really intended to post three times today – heck, I hadn’t really intended to post twice today! – but then I read a post by S.Z. Wordsmith and I just had to share it. She talks about her difficulty coming up with things to say in conversation, while she has no problem writing awesomely witty things. That’s what I took away from it, anyway, and it reminded me so much of myself that it was a bit scary. I can’t tell a story to save my soul, but I can write them like nobody’s business (or at least I like to think I can :)). Anyway, I hope you’ll pop on over and give the post a read. Show some blog love, guys!
Happy Friday! 🙂
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Save the Hobbit and other odds and ends
Once again, America’s overly-litigious nature has reared its ugly head. The target this time is a small pub in Southampton called The Hobbit.
Lawyers representing the filmmakers in charge of the movie The Hobbit are suing a pub in Southampton that has been known as The Hobbit for the last two decades. Evidently they’re concerned that said pub will infringe on their rights or something. I think it’s ridiculous that they’re trying to force the pub to change its name. For the full story, check out the pub’s Facebook page, Save the Hobbit, Southampton, and show your support of the pub by liking the page.
In other news, my good friend Lisa Wiedmeier wrote a guest post over at Aaron Patterson’s blog about the recent Amazon success of her novel, Cheyenne. It’s a great article and one I highly recommend checking out if you’re interested in self-publishing. Her next book, Promises, is due out in May and I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.
And finally, if you’re looking for a bit of fun on this lovely Friday afternoon, head on over to Rachelle Gardner’s blog and check out her St. Patrick’s Day haiku contest. You can find my entry in her comments section.
That’s all for me today! Time to call it quits and enjoy the afternoon. 🙂
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 