A few quick things...



Amazing when you add complications in Chapter 2 how many pressing issues in Chapter 7 become.... trivial. Had a 3k word day yesterday, and I feel a great deal happier, overall. Still a ways to go.

In the mean time, a couple of links. First gleaned from Monica (which she picked up from Anna ) An article on how literary publicists work and a second article on how writers don't understand . Fascinating stuff. My publicist, Chris, is a great guy, very approachable and helpful. But he's my publicist, which means he deals with publicity which is a different animal than marketing. As a new author, I have limited access to marketing, a limited marketing budget and, well, I don't even know who my marketing people are. Chris, on the other hand, I've met in person, laughed with, talked on the phone to, emailed... And, no, I don't want to be on Oprah. It's silly to think I would since she doesn't do slasher fantasy, which is what I write. Silly. So stop asking.

People do actually ask me when I'm going to be on Oprah. It's a crazy world.

Now, if Elvira still had a show, that I could be on.

Sheila's running a contest to give away copies of Stuart McBride's novel , Cold Granite . by showing him having a bad day. I'm a sucker for a guy with a beard (and I do adore Stuart ) but I had to leap giggling into the fray .

Plus it gave me an excuse to play with PhotoShop, which I haven't done much lately.

In other news, I am somewhat ticked over this news item which Bill mentioned last night at supper.

I was born into a long line of dedicated Iowa liberals... I've done the caucus thing, even been a state Democrat delegate. As I've grown older (and the kid has too) I've drifted toward being a middle of the road moderate and that's not gone over well with my family. If I keep hearing shit like this, that it's okay to just take people's property, their homes, farms and ancestral roots just to put in another damn mall, I'm gonna climb off that fence and become Republican. Then I'll be completely ostracized, instead of mostly ignored, and things could get ugly. Or quieter. But, still, despite the silence, it's just wrong to take people's property like that. Wrong!

Thank you, Sandra Day O'Conner for saying so.

Back to work....

Posted: Fri - June 24, 2005 at 09:15 AM         |

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