Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Previews Before Bullet
What’s coming your way in the next few weeks:
Blog: What Bullet is, and what it isn’t? Or what are Edward and Olaf doing?
Podcast this week talking about Bullet, the upcoming tour, more sticky notes on the wall, and whatever else makes me go, ooh.
Blog: Why I’m doing two Anita books in a row, or where has Merry gone?
Things I’m thinking about either blogging, or podcasting, but not sure when, or if:
Should I try podcast reading of some of Bullet? If I do, then do I read the first chapter which you can read on my… Read More
Sunday, May 16, 2010
The Kiss
Bullet, the next Anita Blake novel, comes out June 1st. We’re gearing up for tour, but I am also writing the next book after this one in the series. If you guys want a book a year there’s very little lag in the writing schedule. I am in the middle of a Jean-Claude and Anita scene, not a sex scene, you naughty people you, but just a good-bye scene. The good-bye kiss before you send your lover into danger, except in my books it’s the man kissing the girl before she goes off to battle.
I just finished writing the… Read More
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Mother’s Day 2010
What I did for Mother’s Day: Yesterday we, my husband Jon and I, went to the garden store with Meerkat and Chickie, aka Chica. We bought lots of flowers, herbs, and veggies. It was a hard winter here. We lost several roses alone, and strangely, a lot of the cone flowers and black-eyed Susan’s. Since they are wild flowers we were really surprised they didn’t make it even with all the snow and cold. We planted some yesterday and Chickie & I, mostly her, have planted more today. Especially from her and Meerkat I have a Don Juan climbing rose… Read More
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Exercising is the Cure
I’m a writer. That means, for most of us, that we’re moody, or odd, or prone to emotional ups and downs. Most artists are a much milder form of manic depressive. Up when we’re up, and very down when we’re not. I accepted that this was part of the creative process and my life, and then a series of unfortunate events happened that led me to discover that this roller coaster way of life wasn’t necessary to the creative process.
The biggest of those unfortunate events was a badly twisted ankle. I twisted it several times in a two week… Read More
Monday, May 03, 2010
Losing my Virginity - At Rocky Horror
I was visiting with a friend and her family. They made jokes that everyone got, but me. The jokes were movie lines from Rocky Horror. I had no idea what they were talking about.. Her daughter, Mer, said, “You’ve never been to Rocky Horror, ever?”
“No,” I said.
In a fit of generosity she said, “I’ll take you. My friends are going next Friday.”
“Are you sure your friends will be cool with me going?”
“Sure.”
So, we made plans, and then my friend’s daughter started doing the math. A couple of days later she called me, concern in her… Read More
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
What I did today: Short Version
What I did today: The short version
1. listed my blessings, or a list of good things in my life. With Carri’s help I got to 21. It may be a record for one of my grumpier days.
2. looked at pictures of men to find artist references for Stephen who is making his debut in the Anita Blake comics. We’re working on Circus of the Damned now.
3. Worked on editing the wonderful script/lettering that Jess does. It was due today, as was the above reference.
4. Spent a lot of time looking at men, semi-nude, and nude today.… Read More
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
My Day
So many of you want to be writers, or seem to be interested in what I do on a daily basis that I thought I’d tell you. Really tell you, so here goes.
Alarm 6:00 AM -Ouch, because cough from yesterday has persisted. Chest tight, tired, but too full of nervous energy to sleep or even lie in bed. Must get up. Jon, my husband, is up and dressed first to fix breakfast and help do the first morning call to our daughter, Trinity, to rise and shine. I’m a little slow out of the gate this morning. Trinity passes… Read More