Living Online

Karen tagged me! Fun one. current clothing: navy blue sweat pants, light blue T current hair: brown, pretty long current mood: happy current refreshment: Plain old water! current annoyance: I saw a 3-legged dog yesterday wandering around free and I was recently talking to someone who cried that her dog was actually killed when run over. My annoyance is with irresponsible pet owners. This is a city! There’s traffic. If you want your dog to live, keep it tied up in your yard. current avoidance: dusting the cobwebs (I just found them yesterday and so far I just forgot) current smell: floral smells current thing you ought to be doing: I’ve got a deadline looming for a novella! current thing or things on your wall: A sacred heart cross (Catholic), feather (native), two mirrors, a few cobwebs current IM/person you're talking to: I saw one person on there, but I’m doing pretty good at just this "one" post and I’m going to work this afternoon. current jewelry: none current book:

I found blogs that reminded me of pics I've taken so I was inspired to post again today. I saw Word Trix's Bert & Ernie . Reminded me of the Energizer Bunny Hot Hare Baloon. I don't have a good pic of that one though. So I nabbed a commercial one and put it in the corner. This is why I don't have a good pic. The last time I went to the Great Baloon Race here in Reno, it was for the dawn patrol lift off. This picture below I took only for research purposes. The glare is awful. But I wanted to look up more about the history of these products. I just had to smile when I saw an author posting a pic with cereal boxes on Silver Expressions.

Just in case you were worried. And I know you were! That website had 1 letter wrong, so the heisters were just masking an unused domain, not a domain belonging to the author. It forwarded so quickly, I didn't catch that. Phew, puzzle solved. Other than that... I have company coming in a month. I'm planning a trip to Las Vegas. Maybe. If I can go. I have a deadline looming for the Behind the Muses anthology in a week and not quite ready. So I've been forced to cut back on things like blogs and e-mail. Also, I was talking to a friend long distance and out of the blue... "Yeah, I know another author." 5 years this book has been published and they never told me. It actually sounds pretty interesting. From Amazon.com I see Alyeska Gold is a mystery. It starts in Fairbanks in 1907 during the gold boom up there. I used to live in Fairbanks and have placed one WIP that I could work on when I'm done with that other in this local. That phone call got me missing another

I just saw something interesting. I saw an author's webite in a promo I get via e-mail. (Okay, so I've cut back! But, I'm still reading too much e-mail.) When I clicked through, rather than pull up the erotic romance author's website, I was forwarded to an anti-porn site. Seeing as how the author would want to sell books (which aren't porn, but are erotic romance), I assume this isn't their choice. Has anyone else ever seen this happen? How can a website pirate a link like that?

I surfed a lot lately and I edited about 1/3 of my WIP so that is good. So I'll just show you what grabbed my attention when I should have been editing the other 2/3rds. LOL. Magic Heart Auction at eBay as thanks to Cora Zane -- not on her blog actually, on Romance Divas. I'd be wrong in thinking "the things they'll do for money" because they're only getting a few bucks off this magic heart -- so far. Daisy's ATC Trading Cards . I do all the things required to make ATC's, but never really met anyone who did so I haven't ever worked on one. My W-2 from my old employer came with a huge pile of paperwork that is makes me worry. I think that means I have to file special forms. I think I'll need to concentrate on it is what I think and AAHHAHAH! Not my favorite thing to do. I made a few minor changes to my Web site and future releases of newsletter . I want to start using a theme for each newsletter. I've got the May theme down. March ... not

It's good that I went to check my e-mails today (though I still spent most of this afternoon checking the inbox). But, I found a new review for Lord of the Night from the Relic anthology in the JERR newsletter #68. Below is just part of it though I can't link to the rest for those who don't get the newsletter quite yet because they update the Web site after they release the e-mailed newsletter. I enjoyed this short story so much that I wanted it to continue for another few hundred pages. This story is hot, hot, hot, and left me hoping that Ms. Blysse will come out with a series surrounding this fascinating world. The characters are engaging and distinctive from each other. I truly enjoyed Merrick’s complexities, especially the battle between his love for Camille and his loyalty to his brother. He exhibits a vulnerability that makes him sensitive yet still confident. Likewise, Shad is a spoiled brat that I couldn’t help but become enamored with, especially his strong alph

Every feel like you get too much e-mail? Today I left 1/2 of the newsletters/groups I get in e-mail because I blog more these days. Speaking of blogs... I noticed troubles on a couple blogs over last 24 hours. Comments missing. Posts erased. Those pics in the template on the NCP author blog didn't work and I had to repeat that 3 times. Beggars can't be chosers.