Friday, February 28, 2003Linda Dominique Grosvenor will be the
Writer to Writer chat guest on Friday, Feb. 28
from 9-10 PM ET
log onto: http://chat.iuniverse.com/default/default.asp?channel=Writer_to_Writer
Linda Dominique Grosvenor is a budding filmmaker and the best-selling author of several high profile titles including Fever and Like Boogie On Tuesday, which is being adapted into a major motion picture. She is the author of an acclaimed collection of poetry, Love Lingers as well as a forthcoming collection of Caribbean love stories titled Island Girl. She lives in North Carolina with her husband John. Her next novel is titled Spanish Lullaby and you can visit her website at: www.lindadominiquegrosvenor.com
Netera & Curatus
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Thursday, February 27, 2003There are a million and one stories on the internet. It is truly the city that never sleeps. And like all cities, it has it's share of prostitues and con men, saints and artists.
My name is Cindy Lynn Speer.
I'm a freelancer.
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I did that because I'm in a loopy mood. Not because I'm in any way supporting the new version of Dragnet. ::shudder::
Anyway, according to this:
http://quizilla.com/users/tanaise/quizzes/What%20SF%20writer%20will%20you%20marry?#
I am going to marry China Mieville when I grow up. Too bad he's already taken. And, you know, since he's always running for some political office in Britian, he may have to give up being Prime Minister to be with me. It's a surprise...I thought I would have, given my past, married poor Neil Gaiman. I'm sorry Neil.
Well, at least he's British. Not Neil. I mean, yes, Neil's British. I meant China. See, we couldn't have me break from my long time cliche of being especally fond of Briitsh men, now can we? I mean, we wouldn't want me to choose someone *attainable*. :D
The only one for you is China Mieville!
Ooh. Tempest will kill you if you try anything.
What SF writer will you marry?
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Tuesday, February 25, 2003Idle thought 2000...for some reason, changing the computer colors does a lot for my mood...it's almost like I have all new software.
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I'll definately be there tonight...of you're on AOL, please come and say hi...it would be truly cool to meet you.
Karen Whiddon, author of Shadow Magic,
will be Writer's Realm special guest tonight (Feb. 25)!!
I hope you'll attend and bring several romance readers to meet with her from 9-10 PM ET in The Printed Word chat room.
As early as the age of eleven, Karen Whiddon spun fanciful tales for her younger brothers. Growing up in the Catskill Mountains of New York, then the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, she found enough magic in the rugged peaks to keep her imagination fueled for years.
Now making her home in North Texas, she shares her life with her herolike husband, her Texas Aggie daughter, and three doting dogs.
About her latest book -- March 2003:
Shadow Magic
When the golden stranger appears before her, Deirdre is not afraid. She has spent many nights dreaming of this man on his white charger, this errant Faerie prince. He is everything she is not: light where she is dark. He burns like the fiery sun she is forbidden to see, that she longs to feel on her skin. Will his touch be like flame, searing her instantly into dusty ash—or sensual like sunrays warming the morning air? Yet Deirdre knows true joy does not come just from emerging from the darkness to feel the sun. There is more. Like love and passion, light and darkness are two halves of a whole. In their joining is the magic she seeks.
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Monday, February 24, 2003Here are my idle thoughts for the day. First, a friend of mine from the Write List is doing this wonderful thing for authors, linking to us through his page, writing these really sweet little promos. Our little place can be found there. I'll let him speak for himself (and, in a couple of days, you'll b able to find these words at the clubs and hang outs page)
At the conclusion of "Annie Hall," Woody Allen tells this joke:
Two fellows are talking. The first one says, "My brother-in-law thinks he's a chicken."
"Oh?" says the second. "Did you take him to a psychiatrist?"
"Nope," says the first.
"Why not?" asks the second.
And the first fellow says, "Because we need the eggs."
Writing is a lot like that. There is great satisfaction in taking something that doesn't exist and making it real enough for others to believe.
But, the greater satisfaction is internal; we write because we are compelled to write. It is a ceaseless drum beat, and if ignored, it becomes deafening. I spent 30 years refusing to listen while I pursued other interests. But eventually, that loud, steady beat overwhelmed me. The result is my first novel, a crime fiction, titled, The Y2Kaper. You can read Chapter One by clicking here: http://jimcohn.com/chapter1.html . I hope you enjoy it.
As of this writing, the novel is unpublished. No matter. I'm working on a another. Why, you ask? Because I need the eggs.
Jim Cohn, author of The Y2Kaper. Visit jimcohn.com. More than 700 links and resources for writers and others.
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Major no-no of the day:
Every once in awhile I get a book to review where the author wants me to mail back the arc. Oh, dear. I really think this is a bad thing. Why, you wonder. Am I not on the side of the author? Don't I know how expensive it is to send out arcs? Yes, yes, and for extra credit, yes. But, you're going to the expense of mailing a book out to someone...don't you want the best possible review possible? Sending a sase with a book is like saying, "Not only do I want you to read my book, and like it, and give me a good review, I want you to do it for nothing." Most places don't pay for reviews...all reviewers get are the copy of the book. It is, in fact, the main inducement most sites give to would be book reviewers. Now, yes, you shouldn't have to pay for a book review (in fact, I refuse to work for a place that arranges for people to pay for book reviews...that's not fair, and it really smacks of unethical practices.) but there's just something that just doesn't feel right bout making people send back the book. (and also, arcs look banged up pretty soon...especially bound arcs with no covers...I feel like I'm going to have to read this book very carefully, so it's in decent condition when she gets it back, but no matter how careful, it's not going to be in the condition to send to someone else.)
Is there a point to this blathering rant? Yes. Don't send an SASE with your review copy because if it annoys me, then it will likely seriously peeve off someone else.
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Started training on a new job today. Am nervous...it's a online teaching job, that's gone from being a one on one tutor of people who are stuck to teaching whole classes online. Ok, am more than nervous, am seriously terrified. ::screams, runs and hides under her virtual desk while her virtual students throw virtual erasers and spit balls at her:: Anyway, the people I've dealt with seem very nice, and I am hoping to collect some good job experience...I mean, there is a small chance that I won't become the next Neil Gaiman or Jennifer roberson or Barbara Hambly, isn't there?
Nah. But it will help me pay for my bills and buy the rest of those Sharpe viddies. I am so on a Sean Bean kick. I almost bought the first collection cheap a year or so back, but I bought a Neil Gaiman video instead. No regrets, trust me. Listening o Neil read his stuff is one of those odd, inspirational things. I'll sit there and listen for awhile, and sometimes hear the candances of his voice when I'm writing something, and even though it has no relationship to something that has/would have come out of his head, somehow it just resonates right.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2003Durnit. Lost another post. You know...and I know...how simple control a, control copy is. I don't even need to paste it, yet I still, filled with optimism, click post and publish without thought.
Let's see...I talked about what I did Sunday. I said that you know life is boring when your big acheivement is to change all the event sounds on your computer...I went with a Sharpe theme (Sharpe being the wonderful BBC movie series, starring Sean (Bormomir from Lord of the Rings) Bean, and is about a solider working himself up through the ranks during the war with Napolean, using a great deal of honor, bravery and the ability to charm the skirts off of any female) this time. Life is good when Sean Bean says "Good night your ladyship." when you shut down your computer.
I spent yesterday doing what all good freelancers do...look for work. I prowled the boards, looking for books to edit, articles to write. I discovered that the CIA is actively recruiting (Sidney Bristow, eat your heart out!) and that another company is looking for an..ahem..."Voice Actress" to work from home, using your own phone, 50-100 bucks an hour. I condiered it, you know...it could be completely innocent. Perhaps rich people hire voice actresses to read books to their kids. Perhaps they're asking for female voices because that's what children find more comforting.
Right.
Anyway, as you can see, the archives are now appearing, but are not fixed. I talked to blogger, and they helped...to a point. They seem to consider the matter closed now, so maybe I'm just missing some simple thing. But we're getting closer.
I am also getting a new guestbook. I find the banner add on my current one quite embarrasing.
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Writer's Realm welcomes
Connie Crow on Feb. 18
from 9-10 PM ET
In the Book Community
Keyword: books, boards & chats, chats, The Printed
Word chatroom
Daughter of the Dragon
A kidnapped baby, a ruthless killer, and the undercover jade trade weave a web of intrigue around Sun Lee Chaikov and Captain Noah Stewart as Gold Fever grips Florence, Idaho in 1867.
Another great gold rush and people have come from all over the world, ruthless men, scheming women, and people on the run. Sun Lee fights to save her home and her life, when her Russian-born father disappears and one of those ruthless men claims their property and her. Noah comes from San Francisco to find his sister and finds Sun Lee instead. Their instant attraction ignites into wanton passion, pulling them together when logic threatens to tear them apart. As they search for answers, they discover a secret society, a past war, and an undercover trade more precious than gold.
Noah and Sun Lee find their past has been inexorably linked, without their knowledge or plan, pulling them together for this fateful meeting. They must work together to defeat the ruthless killer who kidnaps little Daniel and threatens them all. Noah must make his peace with his past and Sun Lee must learn to trust someone other than herself in order to claim this overwhelming love as they move in the Shadow of the Dragon.
Moonlight Fire
Corinna McGinnis joins an Army column as a laundress to earn the land bonus offered, to have a place of her own. Her world collides with that of Captain Geoffrey Humbolt, from a very old, aristocratic family, who is smarting from being rejected by a fickle fiancée.
Their instant attraction pulls them together against all odds. They overcome class prejudice and betrayal to build a life together, defying the "social rule" that laundresses never marry officers.
HOST RL Maren
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Happy Vilentines day!
Friday, February 14, 2003And those who know me know that is, for once, not a typo. But, I have decided to give you a present. I have dug through my 1977 edition of Webster's Colligate, and am about to present you the most obscure words I can find, off hand.
V -- Vug : small, unfilled cavity in a lode or in a rock.
A -- Anserine: of, relating to, or resembling a goose.
L -- Lovesome: Winsome, Lovely, also Amourous.
E -- Entresol: Mezzanine
N -- Negus: A beverage of wine, hot water, sugar, lemon juice and nutmeg.
T -- Tergiversate: 1. to become a renegade, 2. to use subterfuge
I -- Intrados : The interior curve of an arch.
N -- Nodus: complication, difficulty
E -- Effulgence: To shine, radiant splendor
May you have a lovely and peaceful day
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The hosts of the Writer to Writer chat welcome Jennifer Colt,
the author of The Butcher of Beverly Hills
on Friday, Feb. 14, from 9-10 PM ET
in the iUniverse chatroom:
http://chat.iuniverse.com/default/default.asp?channel=Writer_to_Writer
or log on to gottawritenetwork.com
click on "chat" and then Writer to Writer "chat now."
Jennifer Colt is a former screenwriter of schlocky horror films and semi-adult fare, who decided (finally!) to write a novel worthy of her prodigious talents. The result is THE BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS, a mystery set on the mean streets of 90210.
This ground-breaking new novel is a gritty, realistic portrayal of the debauchery, the degradation, the senseless brutality that exists in the seamy underbelly of America's most glamorous city. Author Jennifer Colt is fearless in her expose of the corruption eating away like heartworms at the coronary muscle of Beverly Hills, USA.
The book stars twin investigators Kerry and Terry McAfee--bright, articulate, yet clueless female protagonists who are an amalgam of the world's most memorable literary heroines: the Bobbsey twins and Pippi Longstocking. The McAfees bumble and brazen and bullsh-t their way through a case involving high-society blackmail, botched plastic surgery, prescription drug-running, the Russian mob, and a purloined painting by modern artist Francis Bacon.
THE BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS is full of heart-pounding, page-turning, disbelief-suspending action. (Or it's pretty funny, depending on your point of view.)
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2003 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS
Thursday, February 13, 2003When ever I find something some writer mugght be interested in, I'll try and post it here.
** IPPY Winners in the News **
http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipaward.lasso
The seventh annual Independent Publisher Book Awards, honoring the year's
best independently published titles, will accept entries until April 15, 2003.
NEW THIS YEAR - SECURE ONLINE REGISTRATION:
https://www.brightbridge.net/secure/jgi/cprocess/entry.htm
All independent, university, small press, and self-publishers in North
America are eligible to enter books published with a 2002 copyright or that
were released in 2002. New categories this year: Aging/Death & Dying;
Historical/Military Fiction; Psychology/Mental Health.
Read about the *IPPYs* in this month's issue of INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER
ONLINE. Fiction category winner PEACE LIKE A RIVER has become the choice of
reading groups around the U.S., including the entire State of Iowa. In THE
IPPY EFFECT, we profile the lesser-known winners of Gay/Lesbian and
Erotica/Sexuality categories, and learn how Awards impact their sales and
visibility.
http://www.independentpublisher.com
Visit the Independent Publisher Book Awards site for FAQ, guidelines, entry
form, and a complete listing of last year's winners. ** GOOD LUCK **
http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipaward.lasso
Questions? Contact Jim Barnes
Phone: 1-800-706-4636 x1011
email: jimb@bookpublishing.com
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003To be honest, I know exactly enough about computers to get me in trouble, and can usually figure out things if I play with them long enough. Some thing still elude me, however...
I wonder if my new commenting thing works?
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So this is my day thus far:
Along the road, holding up the front bank of my property, is a part stone, part cement retaining wall. The cement part was built by the WPA during the great depression. Because this has been such a heavy (not heh-vy, as in weighty, by hee-vy, as in ground shifty) winter, two sizable chunks of it fell along the road. Not on the road, but still, in a very unconveinant place for drivers. So I managed to get into the Blacksmith shop to get a sledge hammer, and my father and I went down to the road to break these slabs into small enough peices for me to carry off. It was amazing to see the inside of these slabs...the cement in some places had been mixed with sand and coal dust, and so some of the peices now had aged to the point where they looked like sandstone with a star map sprinking of coal. As my father pounded the conglomeration apart, rocks, long ago smoothed into perfect ovals as big as my fist were revealed, like the fossils of some ancheint beast. As I picked up pieces from the black muck of the road, a combination of slush and new snow, salt and cinders and general road filth, I admired one in particular, the two halves of the cement had broken apart to reveal a perfect concave on one side, on the other, a dusty red egg shape. I wondered if I had found something special, the philospher's stone, a mundane egg. Something that a man, half starved, worried about his future and wanting to end the temptation of selling his treasure and having it end up in less than pure hands buried it in a wall in front of a lonely house on a lonely road.
I also found an old article in my filing cabinet, and wanted a friend to read it. So I looked it up, just to see if this 1983 article happened to be online. Voila...it is. So, go and read about the time "When Life Reeked With Joy" You'll get a good giggle.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/General_Audience/
When%20Life%20Reeked%20With%20Joy.html
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Sunday, February 09, 2003So, anyway....you know that when you switch from a computer that used, for example, Word Perfect to a new one that used Works, that you have to go through everything, make sure the formatting is correct. We all know that. And you save it in Rich Text Format -- .rtf -- because that's the best and only way to send an attachment. But, did you know that after you have all this saved up, that if you *then* install Microsoft Office, it'll make all you rtf's word docs? And then your formatting will be messed up again? And then when you submit your work to a magazine it'll be all messed up and you'll feel *this* tall, professional and smart?
This, my fellow writers, is this week's lesson.
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Now I'm off to lick my wounds. Fortunately I realized it right away, shot off an apologetitc letter, and now I'm going to go through all my short stories and fix the @#*%!! formatting. Again.
I moved my radio nearer to the computer so that I'd stop wearing out my cd's, and listen to the substantial tape collection I have...rediscovering things I'd forgotten that I owned. R.E.M.'s New Adventures in High Fi is now playing. ("I don't know what I'm hungry for, I don't know what I want anymore.")
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Seal Press Call for Submissions
Friday, February 07, 2003I decided these gl's were just too long for my skimpy three column layout...so I'll give you the gist, and you can check them out at the url www.sealpress.com ....thank you!!!
Balanced Parenting
Balanced Parenting is a nonfiction anthology of stories by dual-career parents about how they manage to "balance" parenting, their relationship and work, while still maintaining some semblance of sanity. We are looking for true stories focusing on the joys and frustrations of parenting while working, as well as tips and tricks for keeping it all in balance. Stories should be about your experiences as a dual-parent, working couple and written in a style which is honest and open - the way you wish you could be with your friends, family and coworkers.
We welcome submissions from working couples of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, parents of both sexes and sexual orientations, married and unmarried couples who both work by choice or necessity. Both parents can work outside of the home, or at home, or one of each. Topics At site.
Without a Net
Contributions wanted for Without a Net, an anthology of writing by females & transpeople who grew up poor or working-class, to be published by Seal Press in January of 2004. First-person narratives that read like short stories preferred over academic-style theories or essays.
Some Soul to Keep: Young African-American Women on Love, Relationships, Sex and the Search for Mr. Right
I am seeking essays by African-American women between the ages of 22-37 that explore the complexities of romantic, heterosexual relationships between African-American men and women.This anthology will be a collection of essays that candidly describes the complex waters we must navigate when seeking to establish long-term, monogamous, relationships with black men. These essays will detail and hopefully deconstruct many of the outside influences that lead to strain, breakdown, and failure of our relationships with black men. We have found ourselves at a pivotal moment in African-American history. The relationships we have with one another are at a crossroads and this book with explore the ways we got here, and perhaps even give us an idea of where we’re going. At the very least, this book will provide a way for us to talk TO each other instead of ABOUT one another.
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Tonight's Writer to Writer chat will focus on an exciting new anthology featuring novellas by four compelling new voices in Fantasy and Science Fiction: Jeanne Allen, Shannah Biondine, Sheri McGathy and Jeanine Berry. It's now available as an e-book and a paperback from Double Dragon (http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/scifi.html)
We'll meet from 9-10 PM ET in the Writer to Writer chat room.
Access through: http://chat.iuniverse.com/default/default.asp?channel=Writer_to_Writer
Twilight ... a time when reality blurs and a universe of infinite possibilities seems to shimmer before our betwitched eyes.
Twilight Crossings .. four novellas that will transport you to dazzling new worlds ...
... ISADORA by Jeanne Allen: On an earth where nuclear war destroyed the old world, Isadora must fight for the freedom to explore truth.
... TWIN STAR by Jeanine Berry: Forced to marry against her will, Sonneret must hide the secret powers of her race from a man she is beginning to love ... a man who may destroy her people if he learns the truth.
... EIDOLON by Shannah Biondine: An unusual stranger comes to town in this fun tale about the old wild west with a devilish twist of humor...
...THIEF OF DREAMS by Sheri McGathy: Nerys found the man she could love with all her heart, only to lose him when he falls into a faery ring ... those who fall into the ring can never return to our world ... or can they?
About the authors:
Jeanne Allen has drawn from her interest in science and nature to write thought-provoking stories that intertwine the genres of science fiction and romance. Jeanne is a member of the writers' group EPIC (Electronically Published Internet Connection). Her science fiction romance novel, The Most Daring Dreams, was released in 2000 by New Concepts Publishing. Jeanne resides with her husband and border collie mix, Ursula, in the North Woods of Minnesota. Visit Jeanne's Web site
About Jeanine Berry
One of the blackest moments of Jeanine's life was when she realized she would never live long enough to read all the books in the library. So why is she writing more? Because she can't resist a good fantasy story and there are too many of them teeming in her brain. Jeanine is the author of two fantasy novels, Dayspring Dawning and Dayspring Destiny, and a science fiction novel of the near future, The Sex Gates,, which she co-wrote with Darrell Bain. Dayspring Dawning is a 2003 Eppie finalist for best fantasy novel. The Sex Gates has been named by Knowbetter.com to the Best of 2002 list as the SF novel they would most like to see become reality. Jeanine was also named as a finalist for Best New Author for 2002 for the PEARL award.
About Shannah Biondine
Shannah Biondine is an avid fiction reader and the author of several novels. Her published works are available at LTDBooks, New Concepts Publishing, and Puff Adder Books. She's a member of RWA, EPPRO, AEPRA, and the Authors Den. Shannah lives in Ventura County in Southern California with her husband, two children, three dogs, and a very contrary calico cat. Her LTDBooks title, SHADOW IN STARLIGHT, won the 2002 Eppie for Best Fantasy/Paranormal Romance and is a 2002 PRISM Finalist. You may visit Shannah on the web at www.homestead.com/biondine.
About Sheri L. McGathy
"Born a buckeye, I was uprooted in 1971 and replanted amongst sunflowers, tornadoes and college football. It's a good life." ~ Sheri L. McGathy
Sheri is married and has one grown son. She works in prepress in a graphic design department as a Graphic Arts Proofer/Copy Editor. When not working, she enjoys reading, writing, drawing and spoiling her three dogs, Hanna, Brenna and Hershey. Sheri is a member of The Kansas Writer's Association and IFWA - Internet Fantasy Writers Association. She is the author of the fantasy novel, ELFEN GOLD, published by New Concepts Publishing. Visit her Web site: http://www.sherilmcgathy.com.
-- Netera and Curatus
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For Sale: One Bookreviewer
Thursday, February 06, 2003Slightly used. Reads very fast. Works for a couple of other places. Has diverse tastes.
Cheap.
I tried to get a position with a for pay book review place, and they give me one of those luke warm comments followed by weeks of silence.
Come on. You can reject me. hell, I'm used to it. I've been rejected more times than a guy in a polyester leisure suit at a preppy bar. Just get it over with.
Oh well. Am still working on The Pilgrims of Night, followed by breif forays into figuring out how Zachary (YAY! My charcater has a name!) and Gabby are doing in The Queen of Werewolves. The Queen of Werewolves is actually a story I started ages ago. It was called the Werequeen, and it was about a woman who travels to another world. Well, we all know those fantasy book where the girl leaves our everyday life to go to triumph in a fantasy world are a dime a dozen, so I'm combining the cool elements from there with the dark fantasy pre-industrial world that the current book is set in.
I wrote six reviews this week, but they need second drafted (tomorrow) so I feel like I'm doing ok.
Did an email interview with Sara Douglass (Hades Daughter, the Wayfarer Redemption) yesterday, and got the answers back toay. She's splendid. I'll let you know when that goes up...she says some really interesting things about writing and using history.
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Tonight was very cold and very clear...I could look up into the vault of heaven forver, I could see past the stars, past the planets, past everything...I stared until I felt my eyes burn, and when I closed my eyes, the stars were still there, imprinted on my eyelids, reminding me of when I was small, before I needed glasses, when at night I could see chains of dust in the air, and how odd I thought it was, all these floating dots of color, and how almost comforting the blurriness was, when it came, although it came so slow I did not know it was there until I was told.
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Wednesday, February 05, 2003So, the question right now is, again, where my posts are dissapearing to.
Change isn't much fun, sometimes.....it takes so long. You'd be shocked at how long this simple on the surface thing is taking.
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Welcome to my new page!!!!
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Almost done!! Tra la, Tra la, Tra la!!
All I need to do is finish updating my "works" section, upload it, and (heh, yeah, right) fix my achives, whipe some smudges here and there, then go and tell all the people who have my old page listed....
This is kind of fun!
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Our special guest tonight is Paranormal & Historical Romance author Anne Lawrence.
Time: 9-10 PM ET
Place: The Printed Word chat room.
Keyword: books, book community, chats, The Printed Word.
Ann Lawrence writes both paranormal and historical romance. Her stories take the reader from the pageantry of medieval England to the fantasy world of a virtual reality game. Her current release, LORD OF THE HUNT, follows a woman who commands the castle hunting hounds and a man who is determined to regain his family's honor. Her latest honor is a PEARL Nomination for Best Fantasy of 2002 for her book, VIRTUAL WARRIOR. Whether writing historical or fantasy romance, Ann likes to put something of her own family in her tales, so LORD OF THE HUNT is set near Portsmouth, England, where Ann's dad grew up. When not dreaming up romances, Ann teaches full-time.
RL Maren
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Scary picture of the day: my internet isp has a welcome page....like all do, I spose, with headlines, and weather...etc. Under the health section there's the headline: Tired of being sleepy? With a pciture of a guy in scrubs yawning.
So comforting.
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Sunday, February 02, 2003So, yesterday...was a hard and tragic day, and I have no idea what to say...sometimes you don't really feel like you have the right to greif, because you never touched their lives, they would not have been able to pick you out from a crowd, and to be very openly upset in some ways is almost disrespectful to the families and friends, who are the ones who truly have the right to feel the devestation of this...I pray for the families, and yesterday I was glued to the TV, hoping against hope that somehow they had survived. Someone mentioned that they all wore parachutes, and that when the cabin was in freefall, they could jump out. So I prayed, and hoped. And that's all I have to say, I guess.
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My friend Arlette told me that "Where have all the Flowers Gone" is really an old French song, "Que Sont Devenues Les Fluers" Isn't that pretty?
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Notebooks will stab you in the heart. I found an old stack of notebooks, and scribbled something on one without looking at what else was wirrten on the page. When I went back to it, I saw much older notes, of a painful conversation I had over the phone while I took notes, listening to his advice and putting my life into neat columns and rows, trying to see some future, some path. I thought I'd gotten rid of all the evidence long since, but you never do.
Next time I will burn all the notebooks. Start off with the true cleaness that exists after the fire, not the false cleaness of ripped out pages. They decieve you, notebooks do....no matter how you search and tear away, there are always hidden things, places where people who no longer have the right have written themselves into your life, grocery lists, bits of poetry. Things that wait and jump out at you when your the least ready to deal with them.
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