Saturday, March 20, 2010
What if Everything They say is good for you, is actually Good for You?
Thou shalt not give up all caffeine and sugar on the same day cold turkey. I wondered why I was getting a headache when I felt sooooo good. I only figured out minutes ago that I’d gone from two to three large cups of strong black tea in the morning to none. But interestingly without the sugar or the caffeine I actually feel more energized, and almost frenetic. I know that caffeine is a downer rather than an upper for me, as it is for my husband, Jon, and our daughter Trinity. We all have some level of ADD, and… Read More
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Bullet: We Have a Cover!
Here is the cover for Bullet, the Anita Blake novel for June 2010. It has only been approved for minutes. Once upon at ime I would have said, it was hot off the presses, but these days it’s cool off the computer screen.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Ghosts
One of my lessons for this year is to learn how to play as hard as I work, or at least play more. The point is to enjoy what I have, what I’ve accomplished, and sometimes I forget that. I make everything a burden instead of a gift. I was raised to think everything was potentially bad. If someone was nice to you, they wanted something. If you were in love, then you’d lose that person eventually. My grandmother was a profoundly unhappy person. I’m not sure she truly enjoyed much of anything. Even when she was happy she was… Read More
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Our Tech is Down
No e-mail. No blog. No Forum. And, I can’t get on Facebook due to some issue with the e-mail. Twitter is up, but that is it. That has been it for three days. We need a tech fix. This blog is actually a test to see if the blog is working. We’ve managed to reach my official website and the last blog posted. If this posts then the blog is up, but e-mail, Facebook, will still be down for us until the techies half-way around the world actually do their jobs correctly. Did that sound bitter; angry? I’m trying not… Read More
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Podcast for March 2010
I just finished doing a new Podcast. Hopefully it will be the start of a trend. I think we’ll try for a podcast about once a month. I answered some questions from my forum. I also answered a question I’d been getting on both Twitter and Facebook. What are copyedits? Answered in the podcast. I talk about Flirt, Bullet, and the book I’ll be working on after that.
One of the things that has prevented me from doing more frequent podcasts is a certain techno-phobia, but I’ve nearly conquered that. The other stumbling block was my perfectionist streak. But… Read More
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Sunday, March 07, 2010
Morning with Hawk, Squirrel, and Musings
I was going to blog about watching “Up” last night, or trying to, but when I opened the drapes on the living room windows this morning I got a surprise. A large hawk was sitting on the ground underneath one of the bird feeders. At first I thought she was a young Red-Tail, because of the size, but it was a Cooper’s Hawk, all streaked with her I’m-a-teenager-feathers. But she is the second young Cooper’s hawk that is frequenting our yard this year that is that big and beefy. I’ve never seen them this big. I expected the hawk to… Read More
Friday, March 05, 2010
The Adventure of the Leather Dress
Part II of Highlights from our out of town visit, or, The Adventure of the Leather Dress:
First, I’m allergic to wool. Yes, that does mean that most of what my friend Wendi knits is “death” to me. She has to sanitize the house for me, but luckily my allergy to wool seems to be contact only. I must touch the stuff, so she just hides most of her yarny goodness in the other guest room and I have to not touch her current project. Though the plaid on the loom is actually cotton so it’s safe for me. Yay!… Read More