Feb
10

Boatload of Mystery

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You know, I’m checking my blog stats today and I can’t help but notice that this site seems to be linked to from another blog: https://cjsecretgarden.blogspot.com. Which is fine, except it’s a closed blog so I don’t really know who they are. Which is also fine. (Hell, I don’t know who a lot of people are.) The irony? The last visit from there that’s linked to me is https://cjsecretgarden.blogspot.com/2010/02/boatload-of-shit.html *scratching my head* There’s a part of me that would really like to know *which* boatload of shit I’m being compared to. A sloop? A catamaran? Perhaps it’s all about schooners packed to the poop deck with horse manure? Although honestly, I’m not sure my ego could handle anything smaller than at least a good-sized Yacht. Ah well. It’s anchors a-weigh for lobotomy bay!… Read more
Feb
3

Hello Kitty Fail – Every Click a Sexy Experience!

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I am always on the search for a new Hello Kitty mouse. They break, frequently, and yet I cannot help my most shameful addiction. However, Sanrio-licensed mice are pretty expensive – especially given they don’t usually last for more than a few months. Even so, I’ve paid anywhere between $24 to $50 for the real thing. Given their propensity for destruction, this has led to a fair amount of trolling on ebay for the cheapest Sanrio knockoff I can find. ($6 from Hong Kong? *SOLD*!) Lucy decided to help out with the photo of the latest one there, hence the feet. I got it in the mail this morning, and on first look it’s about standard for a knock-off. HK looks good…but a little off, which I can live with. Certainly, nothing about this mouse screams “sexy” to me. Unless I’m just not looking at it hard enough. But, no!… Read more
Feb
2

Sunshine, Lollypops & Rainbows

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Well okay, then. Still can’t give details about the “deal.” Which is fine. I’ve had to push off a few requests for blog interviews until that point, but otherwise I don’t think there’s anything new on that particular front that I can talk about. It is interesting, though. I think a lot of aspiring authors have this feeling that once they have a deal in hand, everything will be perfect. “I can quit my job and write full time!” for example. Which, okay – maybe if you get some massive 6 figure deal, you *can*. But even so, it’s a good thing to keep in mind no matter what sort of deal you cut that 1) You won’t be getting all that money up front – it will be spread out to you in chunks as dependent upon the stipulations of your contract. 2) Your agent gets his/her well-deserved cut… Read more
Jan
30

Hello Kidney…

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This is terribly appropriate for me on sooo many levels. Buy the T-shirt here -> wrongtees.com >_<… Read more
Jan
28

It’s Called Fiction For a Reason

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An interesting topic came up the other day when I was talking to my aunt. I had sent her my ms a few weeks ago, just to get a feel for what she thought of it – we read a lot of the same sorts of books, after all.I’d love for her to love it, but if she doesn’t, that’s okay too.  And at the same time, there’s a *lot* of me in this book – the average person might not see it, but knowing me as well as she does, she’s already been able to pick out quite a bit. I feel a little more exposed than I thought I would and that makes me leery about having other family members read it. Which of course, they can do as they like. I’m just not sure I want to *know* what they think. (But then, I’ve always been a… Read more