Blossoming Passion Flowers

To writers and readers of romance....

http://www.yournovel.com/Excerpts.aspx?sku=2

First I read the "wild" excerpt and giggled.

Then, when I considered they probably sell more of those personalized romance novels than ever sold of my books, I cried like a baby.

Okay, so I'm exaggerating.

I didn't cry.

I haven't been writing for the better part of a year. After I got busy with life, I haven't gotten back into that groove.

Something always coming up. Right now living in the earthquake zone keeps me sleepless in Reno and being sleepless saps my creative abilities.

And a little day job stuff...

I've been sounding tonge-tied at work on the phones at my debt collection job lately. Not getting good sleep for months is really messing up my mental powers.

I did have one smart comeback for a moron last week. He had LOTSA debt he's left unpaid on a car loan to BIGBANK.

Moron: I voluntarily turned the car in to BIGBANK, I don't owe them anything.

Me: You didn't borrow a car ... you borrowed money.

He pretty much hung up.

Some people think debt collectors are the devil's spawn. Reminding people they owe money and need to pay it back is, after all, evil.

If that guy had walked into BIGBANK and handed a note to the teller that asked for a fraction of his LOTSA debt, he'd be prisoner number #12345 in Yuma. So, why is that his walking into BIGBANK and signing their paperwork to borrow thousands, then not paying it back, makes him less of a criminal?