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 Dragon Slayer Released in Print! |
Happy 4′th of July to those who celebrate it! I’m keeping my rear at home in the relative cool, avoiding traffic and the insanity. I’ve spent the weekend unglamorously watching The Tudors Netflix finally brought secons 3+4 to DVD and I couldn’t resists! Anyone else swooning over the Charles Brandon character? I found this video clip – and it’s like a historical romance in 10 minutes:
BUT – the previous Dragon Slayer cover just wasn’t doing it for me and my wonderful publisher Jill Noble at Noble Romance Publishing allowed me to rework it. ( I think I got a little enthusiastic on the yellow fire on the first version) Behold the new and improved cover:) I finally created something I actually like!
I haven’t blogged since October? Holy crap! BTW – handy tip (those of you who hate geek talk please feel free to skip ahead): if you are tearing out your hair trying to log in to your own wordpress website try the following: 1. disable plugins. Access your server through the FTP and rename the plugin folder plungins.hold or something and try it. Odds are one of your lovely plugins are the culprit. 2. Update the user name/password combo in the database – using MD5 for the password. I started with the second option – and several hours and choice Russian curses later tried the first option. I don’t know what worked, but here I am, back at my own f-ing blog, cleaning house and feeling a sense of satisfaction for finally beating down the door. (Grandma would be so proud at my inventive use of my native language)
Yesterday, Virginia Henley friended me on Facebook. THE Virginia Henley. If you guys remember me blogging about my favorite re-reads, her book, The Pirate and The Pagan is one of my favorite re-reads. Adding to the significance of one of my favorite authors friending ME and not the other way around – her book The Falcon and The Flower was the third romance novel I ever read in English. A friend of mine smuggled the book out of her house to our school. I didn’t know how to pronounce breasts, but I had a good idea of what the heck they were! I love how all this modern technology lets you connect to your idols and interact with them! I’ll be posting more – unless WordPress decides to give me another round of brain exercise, but for now you guys can catch me on facebook and Twitter I turn around and its Wed already! WTF happened? Nothing new to report – working away at the second draft of Night Legacy. Turning a pile of cow dung into silk is hard work! Actually I love the way the story is coming together – kickass heroine, brooding hero – the works:) Oh and I finally bit the bullet and joined Facebook. You can check out my page by clicking on it on the left hand sidebar. They finally got me assimilated:)
The candles are “flameless” – so I don’t have to worry about setting the place on fire (I mentioned how I’m OCD right?) My books are loosely grouped into “romance”, “writing”, “writing – to be re-read”, “inDeath series”, Russian Books, “Art Books” and “Misc”. I’m seriously tickled with it:) Now I just have to get my butt down into that chair to write:)
In other news, I’m avidly procrastinating on my second draft of my big mystery project and using packing as an excuse I’ve spent the weekend packing boxes and boxes and boxes of books:) The hubster and I are getting ready to move and there are towers of brown boxes in my living room:) And while its a tossup who has more books – hubby or I – I think I’m the clear winner by virtue of collecting books for all interests. And I got plenty of interests:) Romance Books – Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb dominates:) There’s a good smattering of Linda Howard, Johanna Lindsay and JR Ward (thought I started getting those in Ebook format – Lover Avenged was like a brick! Glad I got that on my Kindle lol) Writing Books – Looks like I went from “plotting” to “character” -… I still have a hard time getting through a lot of the books because I tend to buy them when stuck on a plot point and forget all about them when said plot point is resolved… James N Frey seems to be a consistent author on my shelves – he’s a damn good writing teacher Art Books – lots of drawing and painting and “happy little tree Bob Rossisms”. Plus a smattering of those “paint in a book” kits – those are always fun… I should get back into drawing… Someday. Jazz books – A couple Bill Evans books which I can’t read (I have a hard time reading jazz rhythms) and a couple of Oscar Peterson books (with a CDs yay!). Plus a big stack of photocopied Star Wars soundtrack for the piano… Hubster wouldn’t let me recycle it:) Hubster’s shelves are actually organized by theme/author – he’s got Robert Jordan on one shelve (HUGE books with neat covers!), a whole bunch of Star Trek TNG books (We once bet that he doesn’t have Q In Law in his collection and he took great pride in unearthing it in 10 seconds flat), Dresden books, and a smattering of various other Urban Fantasy books. I gotta say – I love my Kindle, but there’s a certain gluttonous pride of ownership in having a diverse library of books:) How do you guys keep your book collection organized? |
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Now onto my news:
I’m happy to finally show off my writing cave! The boxes are “mostly” unpacked, the chair is comfy, the dry erase boards are set up (except the sticky notes keep falling!), the desk is ready and there’s even a little footstool for the times I require feline supervision.
I saw this over the weekend and had to post it – and my fangirl squeals. Is it wrong for a grown woman to crush on an actor? Can’t wait for this movie to come out! I saw some sort of a whispered protest about prohibiting actors playing both Marvel and DC characters, but I’m just happy to see my boy…Though I do prefer him armed with two katanas…