Manic Monday

Today was definitely manic. After taking two weeks away from everything, today was back to work for both hubby and me. It's nice getting back up on the writing horse now that my creative well has been refilled. However, that giddy feeling was replaced with abject terror when I went looking for what I'd written in the weeks before our trip to Vegas and found the file EMPTY! *cue racing heart and hyperventilating* Thankfully, WriteorDie saves a copy of each session in its own separate folder. *angels start singing* It doesn't have any of my later additions that I made in the word doc, but that's okay because I have the main body of work.

Reading through it, this small snippet made me smile:

"Don't get cocky there, boy. You're still the junior partner here."

"Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and admit it. I'm doing good."

"You are, Vic. Give it ten or fifteen years and you might be as good as Luka when he first started."

"Wounded. I've been grievously wounded to the core!"

"Drama queen."

"Hey now, I may be gay, but I'm definitely not a queen. You see this grease under my nails? It's auto grease, not stage grease."

Manic Monday

On Friday, my agent and I had the following Twitter conversation:

Ana Ramsey

#FF love to my dear agent @BookCannibal. You should follow her because she's my agent and she rocks. :-)

 

Cameron McClure

@anaquana Thanks! When a woman with pink hair in her photo tells me that I rock, that's the kind of compliment I take seriously!

 

Ana Ramsey

@BookCannibal *grins* Well, I hope the fact that the pink is only photoshopped on doesn't make you think less of the compliment. ;-)

@BookCannibal I *am*, however, seriously contemplating dying it purple for Vegas next week. :-D

Cameron McClure

@anaquana Oh no! I do think that somewhat diminishes your rock star cred, and, by association, the credibility of your compliments

 

Ana Ramsey

@BookCannibal Oh dear... Guess I'll have to take some of @ChuckWendig's advice abt how to become a writing rock star. http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/07/27/turning-writers-into-motherfucking-rock-stars/

 

So, yes, dear readers, I have gone and turned myself purple. It took 3 bottles of Splat Lusty Lavender hair dye to get it done, but I now look like a damned Faery. 

 

 

 

Manic Monday

Sorry for such a late posting today. Hubby has today and tomorrow off, so my schedule is all messed up. We spent a good portion of the day ripping up linoleum that had been laid over beautiful hardwood floors. Right now I'm an aching, tired mess so I'm just going to squee a bit because Ghost Story, Book 13 of the Dresden Files, will be out tomorrow.

Also, Old Spice Duel! Even though I'm in complete lust with Isaiah Mustafa, I hate the Old Spice commercials. That said, Kick Fabio's Ass Isaiah!!!

Manic Monday

Due to a miscommunication, my guest post over at http://blackinkwhitepaper.wordpress.com/ was pushed to this Friday.

This round of rewrites have been sent off to the most excellent of agents.

And since this heat has melted my brain, I'm going to leave you all with some Harry Potter themed alcoholic drinks.

Manic Monday

This weekend I realized that the book I had planned as Book #2 in my series is actually Book #3. Lucky for me, I also figured out the plot of the new Book #2. Now to just let the plot bubble away in the cauldron of my brain for a bit.

My friend K.B. Wagers asked me to write a guest blog for Black Ink, White Paper. After looking over the interview questions she sent, I opted to go for a regular blog post instead of just answering questions. So look for that on the Black Ink, White Paper blog this coming Friday, July 15th!

I was lamenting on Facebook today how woefully neglected this blog is and K.B. subtly made the suggestion that I pick one day a week and make a habit of posting on that day. So, I'm going to take her up on that challenge and do my very best to post something every Monday. And if I don't have a new post on Mondays, I give you all permission to threaten me with spiders. :-D