tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16626501726532951572024-02-07T15:16:40.787-05:00 Me-anders me. differently.KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01040357134406372080noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-8376485993107706382014-11-30T18:55:00.004-05:002014-11-30T18:55:58.820-05:00I MADE IT! YAY!
There it is, kids. I got my fifty-thou' in just now and am going to promptly dunk my hands into a bucket of bengay. This is, for those of you keeping track, my third go at this.
The first was The Victorian
Followed by my story about ARBUX
and now this is a collection of short stories and contents of my brain.
I feel good. I'm glad I made it. I did NOT think I was Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-54935903534369302012014-11-02T09:33:00.001-05:002014-11-02T09:33:41.256-05:00This Just In: It's Happening Again!Got a super slow start - have prepared NOTHING - but after last night (and being unable to sleep for the thoughts and stories clawing at the backs of my eyeballs) I have decided to go for it again. This time? Short stories. A marathon of sprints. I can forsee MANY new hurdles as well as some powerful hand-cramps.
Let's see what happens this year. If I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-33095190187562406092014-09-21T15:55:00.001-04:002014-09-21T15:55:34.373-04:00Newsflash: I did not chicken out.Book Lovers Bazaar (you know that thing you're sick to death of reading about in here?) it happened, it's over, and it was great.
I sold some books. I made some friends. I went home and slept for three hours. Huzzah!
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-63777929941025513572014-08-17T12:52:00.001-04:002014-08-17T12:52:28.595-04:00Publicity Stunt: Change of VenueAs you may have noticed on my page for The Victorian, I'll be participating in a little book-y love in public this year!
You can find me here on September 20th. They're still working out some of the finer details but good golly it's so on! I'll be at a table of my very own, signing copies (and yes, fear not, I have loads) as well as moderating a panel discussion about self publishingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-6721783812730141582014-07-27T20:00:00.000-04:002014-07-27T20:02:12.190-04:00A Podcast? Seriously?Oh yes, noble readers. I was a guest on a podcast.
I dare not spoil it for you. If you have a chance, do check out The Nerd Burger Show.
I am episode 70.
It is a vortex of all things nerdy, silly, and wonderful. I'd like to thank my hosts for being so charming, so funny, and for instantly putting shy and delicate little me (PAH!) at ease for the duration of our chat.
Keep itAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-53569746265002258092014-07-27T19:46:00.002-04:002014-07-27T19:46:56.608-04:00GOING OUT IN PUBLIC! Book signing day!
Huzzzah!
So the good news is that I finished writing my second novel. We're down to a few quick plot checks and some spelling/punctuation reviews. Once I have my illustrator (love you mom) turn in the few sketches we need for the insides, we'll be ready to pull the trigger on that bad boy.
Then we can ALLL LOVE ARBUX together!
In the mean time, stalkers and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-82236726474738028932014-05-31T11:53:00.002-04:002014-05-31T11:58:13.082-04:00PhotobookFear not, noble stalkers. While I've been off the radar I can assure you that things have been going very well indeed. Here's a little photobook I made for our most recent vacation over the Memorial Day holiday - remembering the sacrifice by celebrating the soil the sacrifice was made for.
Click here to view this photo book larger
You'll love award-winning Shutterfly photoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-11073890477118770952013-12-20T10:36:00.004-05:002013-12-20T10:36:54.363-05:00Celebrate
Happy Holidays.
However you may celebrate at this time of year, I encourage you to do so with your whole heart and soul.
Keep the Christ in Christmas with a happy heart as you wrap lights around that gorgeous christmas tree and decorate it with things like pickles and mushrooms and perchance a sheaf of wheat or three.
Love your family. It's the one you're stuck with.
Love your friends. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-41033991750492930852013-12-05T19:43:00.001-05:002013-12-05T19:44:24.240-05:00Mandela. Were it not for Johnny Clegg in my teen ears, I'd have known precious little about Mandela.
Or at least, what I learned in High School would not have stuck.
So now, I share with you what I know.
Asimbonanga--------------------(we have not seen him)
Asimbonang' umandela thina-----(we have not seen mandela)
Laph'ekhona--------------------(in the place where he is)
Laph'ehleli khona-------Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-40125459672824063492013-11-02T15:59:00.000-04:002013-11-02T16:00:41.230-04:00A holiday storyWell, we all know that I am not a Christian and that I hold to the Pagan faith of my ancestors.
So about this time of year, I get a lot of questions about what it means to live "without a moral compass" and "what do you celebrate at Christmas" and stuff. I reply kindly, that I DO have a moral compass and that I DO celebrate Christmas as a holiday of inspiration, peace, forgiveness and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-70987547681186109222013-10-20T15:49:00.001-04:002013-10-20T15:49:52.706-04:00Brain. Melted. I'm telling you, the autumness of the east coast is just mind blowing! The weather out here? Fuggetaboutit.
The sunlight and sweatery-snuggled breezes? Fuh-gettaboutit.
The food? Holy shit you guys, the food....
Yup. My brain is a fall colored puddle of happy.
Allow me to share:
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-5831683507978821232013-10-01T19:18:00.003-04:002013-10-01T19:33:16.455-04:00Gosh Durnit, where'd she go again?I promise I'm working hard on getting this second book out!
As an idea, and YES I want your feedback (trolls can suck it):
I'm thinking of doing promotional totebags to sell alongside my new book. If I were to do such a thing, which design would you like better?
The name of the new book, work in progress mind you, is "Arbux" which is the name of the giant that must be returned to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-84101220227478344652013-08-14T18:52:00.001-04:002013-08-14T18:52:10.255-04:00Blue MeaniesMy brother, bless him, just posted something on facebook and I'd like to spread it around some.
We all know that we shouldn't text and drive. Right?
I mean, maybe some of us think we "can" because we haven't killed anyone yet or even so much as had a fender-bender while text-fully engaged. Sure, I bet a lot of us actually feel like it's no big deal to take a few seconds on a long Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-48785534734380303612013-08-12T13:04:00.002-04:002013-08-12T13:04:56.677-04:00Happy MondayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-25835742265531722702013-08-06T23:30:00.004-04:002013-08-06T23:30:41.719-04:00Lunch Date
What would you say, he
said, if I told you I was a vampire?
I was eating my lunch at
an outside table for the first time all summer.
It was the first warm day that wasn’t too hot or too humid and I was
finally in the right mood for some people watching. Against my better judgment I caught the eye
of a middle aged man, clearly stuck on hard times, who had been canvassing
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-7546553566936038722013-08-05T14:42:00.001-04:002013-08-05T14:43:30.246-04:00Ghosts Ride The Train TooShe was magnificent.
She was tall in a way that most people aren't. She had that long-boned grace that you get from wearing breezy linen dresses in the sun and eating figs and strong tea on a beach at sunrise. She had very short hair, cropped close to her scalp. She had huge, captivating eyes and a smile that said "you're beautiful".
She asked with a nod if she could sit next Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-57576176392945087312013-08-05T14:31:00.001-04:002013-08-05T14:31:15.809-04:00Where I have beenHeh, where haven't I been?
The answer to Where I have Been is largely the same as you'd expect. Here. I've been here. Mostly. It would appear that I sort of had to fall off the planet there for about a month but as you can see I'm now clawing my way back.
In the last month, it would appear, I did something marvelous. By all accounts and standards, and according to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-24230078870893110282013-07-01T15:34:00.001-04:002013-07-01T15:34:57.400-04:00Turtle NOM
Forgive the shaky quality.
This is a badass turtle, the size of a watermelon. He's chomping away in 90 degree Virginia wetlands heat - which of course includes impossible humidity.
Happy MondayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-90027836482448333712013-06-24T13:59:00.004-04:002013-06-24T14:07:40.783-04:00Should not be a surprise, but there we areAh, ladies and gentlemen, I have FINALLY put on my big girl pants and started to re-read my second manuscript.
It is full of holes, lo, big ones at that.
BUT it is also, I'm proud to say, pretty neat! I'm reading it through here and marking it up and I'm thinking "dang, this ain't half bad!" The surprise of that thought almost offends me, but I'm too interested in the story I wroteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-74369191078064186802013-06-18T23:44:00.000-04:002013-06-18T23:44:44.651-04:00Being HealthyWhen was the last time you really relished your health? Let me guess, it was shortly after you lost it when you caught that nasty cold last spring? Or something similar I bet.
We all have our ways of being mindful of our blessings, and I know I always resent it when people assume I forget to do so myself. So instead of a message that goes "aren't you glad I reminded you" I'm Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-88154334095321735622013-06-15T11:58:00.003-04:002013-06-15T11:59:15.724-04:00Fire Safety VideoMany of you are probably (even if barely) aware that Colorado is kindof all ablaze again this year.
For me, it is really hard to watch the coverage because I'm so far from home and a lot of the talking heads are helpless to say much more then "yup, it's still on fire out here."
When a good piece of information comes along though, I'm encouraged and eager to share it. Not simply Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-76787323398684927942013-06-14T14:17:00.002-04:002013-06-14T14:18:05.412-04:00Real DragonsSince this is my second spring-to-summer transition in this neck of the woods, I feel it's appropriate to tell you of one of my favorite things that happens on the back deck of my apartment. It's the ladybug season. Not the actual ladybugs, mind you, but their larvae.
Last year, I thought it was a fluke. This year, I was torn between treating my plants for their hideous aphid Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-14527776725095802882013-06-12T17:06:00.001-04:002013-06-14T14:18:12.993-04:00Well aint this cute: ManhattanA short video from our latest trip to Manhattan.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-29813317843322773352013-06-12T12:59:00.001-04:002013-06-12T12:59:32.432-04:00Fits
Yes. Another entry about clothes.
So on monday, before I became a plaguerat, I went to the second hand store in the area with my Supergal and we decided to see if we could find some fetching new tops for me. She was also on the lookout for neat stuff for her, so it was a well-primed day to find neat stuff for both of us.
It is, as she has taught me, a numbers game. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662650172653295157.post-65161117263904727492013-06-11T22:59:00.000-04:002013-06-11T22:59:14.112-04:00WhateverCan. NOT. Think of a clever title for this.
Maybe when it's done I'll call it something.
But so anyhow do you ever get that feeling that you've been doing everything right recently? Like you're all "yeah!" and "awrright" as things go smashingly from one task to the next? And then you get that sneaking suspicion that you're living on borrowed time and you're about to do something Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649135276717885771noreply@blogger.com2