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One of the sunset pics I took outside of Cave City, AZ. Pretty, yes?
UTA… crud, I was forgetting something. I just found out that DRAKE made it to the next round of ARe’s SUMMER’S HOTTEST HERO! Thanks so much for all the votes, guys!
Round 3 will open back up tomorrow. 
KindleI got my pics…don’t ask how many. I haven’t counted. But there are many. Many, many.
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Got some great pics of the canyon, too, but the sunset pics in the desert were something I always wanted. (Most of the desert pics were taken around Phoenix.)
KindleSo I can’t sleep. The DH is still in bed, as I type. The kids just woke up and have had poptarts, are bouncing off the walls. I’ll have to do something to entertain them soon.
The time changes have my internal clock all wonky. I woke up before six am. In whatever timezone I’m in. This was okay. I thought I could get a sunrise pic-it wasn’t meant to be, though. It was still too early when I first went out.
I got this. It’s okay.
Then I tried to go back to bed. It was too dim to get much and I was tired. Didn’t sleep. Tossed. Turned.
Maybe forty five minutes later? BRILLIANT light shining through slit in curtains. And lo and behold…
But the camera settings weren’t right-it was so fricking bright out and I didn’t have my sunglasses, I was half-blinded, trying to take the pictures standing behind a wall while my eyes adjusted…I looked like a dork. Image isn’t as good as I’d like. Might work okay in black and white. I dunno. But I’ll try again.
Off in the distance, there was a balloon. That pic wasn’t great, but I kept hearing this whooshing sound while I was snapping pics. I looked up. Saw this.
And I saw this…
This has been the most amazing trip, and so far, all we’ve really done is drive. And stop at a few places so I can sign books and buy some research stuff.
Here’s a picture I took in Texas, too. Palo Duro Canyon, just outside of Amarillo.
I’ve got 200+ pictures already. It’s a 4 gig card. Wonder if I can fill it.
KindleSo on Twitter, you’ll see a hasthag thing on Wednesdays… a #WW one. The hashtags are just used to mark identify certain topics and stuff…like #Fridayreads, or #WW (Writer Wednesdays.) You can use them if you know what how to follow the topics…on Wednesdays, you’ll see the #WW pop up and listings for writer peoples on Twitter.
Which is where I came up for the idea for different sort of Writer Wednesday. Where I grill writers. On my blog.
And the first post will be going up tomorrow, around 9 am, EST.
Some people probably already know who my first vict… guest is. That is, assuming they know how my brain works and the writer I immediately think of when it comes all to things writerly craft and wisdom. She’s also…ah…nice enough to not block my emails, which means… score…
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Just a heads-up, comments are off for this…I’m not looking for strokes or pats or anything, just stating a few things.
I’m tired. I realize after multiple surgeries in a very short period of time and the workload I keep, it’s probably to be expected. But I hate being this tired.
I’m stressed. I’m often cranky. I’ve got too much to do and not of enough of me to do it. I think I’m past the worst of it with edits and stuff for a while, but now I have to catch up. I have to finish a GRIMM short story, I have to finish two books by fall-one by September 1, one by November 1 and I need to start putting together pitches for the next project.
And that’s just the writer part of being a writer-it doesn’t touch the promo that goes along with it, or the blogging stuff. We won’t discuss the non-job related stuff. Again…I’m tired.
I’ve been blogging almost daily for the past few years and I think something I need to do is cut back. I don’t write a blog daily, I tend to batch write three or four posts at a time, sometimes more, but it’s still another thing on an endless list of things I keep up with.
I do want to keep to a fairly regular schedule, but I think what I’m going to focus on doing is having a blog go up on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I’ve got a thing I’m going to start doing on Wednesdays that’s super easy and I’ll probably continue to do the Friday reads. Mondays will be random stuff. When I have news, I’ll definitely make sure it gets posted.
But instead of focusing brain power on what to blog about, I’m going to streamline for a while and focus on catching up and resting some more. If you don’t see blogs up as often, it’s just because I need the break.
I’m leaving on vacation next Monday and I’m not sure if I’ll be blogging while I’m gone or not…if not, I’ll probably settle into my new regular schedule when I get back the second week in July.
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Anybody wanna take a guess at what covers? and… Yes, they are two different covers. :)
KindleOkay.. so it’s an attractive couple. I get that.
But…c’mon.
Let’s retire them already.
The good news is that all are different epubs-one is self pubbed. The bad news… I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this couple elsewhere, too. O.o The image comes from a stock photo site. I’ve actually seen it. I bypassed it when I was shopping for photos because I’ve seen the couple before. You see it too many times? Well…they all start to look the same, those books.
KindleDo you know… this book was supposed to be out about two years ago?
But I wasn’t ready. Because Nessa’s wasn’t ready.
Then it was supposed to be out, I think, a year ago.
But I wasn’t ready. Because she wasn’t ready.
Finally, though, I was ready to write Nessa’s story.
Because she was finally ready.
And now she’s got a cover, too…
KindleUTA/Clarification…Just to clarify… guys, this post isn’t a contest. All contest posts/threads are clearly marked as contest. You’re welcome to guess away but no comments left here will be entered into the drawing. Only the comments left in Tuesday’s (11/16/2010) post will be be entered. Sorry!
Another little piece of the cover from Hunter’s Fall…
“Have you lost your mind?”
She glanced behind her and the wind whipped her hair into her eyes, blinding her. She caught it in her hand, holding it back from her face as she stared at Malachi.
Lifting a brow, she said, “Where the bloody hell did you come from?”
“What in the bloody hell are you doing?” he fired back. “Damn it, you have gone insane.”
Malachi didn’t look too impressed with the view from the top of the skyscraper. “I thought we had already decided on that particular subject, Mal.”
Although he didn’t age, Nessa decided he looked older now than he had a year before. Something akin to guilt tried to stir within her, but she simply didn’t care enough.
She’d tried. Well and truly, she’d tried to settle back into this life that had been thrust upon her, tried to view it as the gift everybody else made it out to be. But then the one thing she had viewed as a gift—Mei-Lin—had been torn from her. That girl…Nessa had loved that girl like a daughter. More than.
She’d loved her and just like Elias, Mei-Lin had been taken away from her.
It was just too much. That precious girl, all of her friends, all dead.
If this was the sort of gift life offered, Nessa wanted none of it.
Malachi, the poor fool, he worried. All of her friends did. Nessa wished she could care.
But she just didn’t.
Looking from Malachi, she cocked her head and stared down at the street. “They are all in such a hurry,” she murmured. She slid Malachi a glance and asked, “Why do you think mortals always rush to and fro, Mal? Don’t they know that all that rushing accomplishes nothing? They’ll still get sick. They’ll still suffer. They’ll still die.”
“Lovely, morbid thoughts there, love.” He blew out a disgusted sigh and edged a little closer. Stretching out his hand, Malachi quietly said, “Come down, Nessa.”
“Hmmmm…” A gust of wind picked up and as she held out her arms, it slapped against her with an intensity that made her clothes flap around her and had her swaying near the edge of one of the tallest buildings in the world.
In the middle of the fucking day. Malachi stared at her and then made the fool mistake of glancing down. While he tried to pretend he wasn’t dizzy, Nessa giggled like a loon and murmured, “It almost makes me feel as though I could fly, Malachi. Truly fly, like a bird.”
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