Guest blogging

Woohoo! Got some guest blogging going on! Going to be at Book in it Reviews on September 1st!

Down and Dirty

Kids are both at college, and my wrist is mostly healed from surgery, so it' time to get down and dirty. And when I'm done scrubbing the floors I'll get some serious writing done!

Where Does the Time Go?

Summer is flying by. Just took my youngest to college. I'm done crying (for now anyway) and ready to dive in and get some serious writing done!

Summer Lazy Summer

Weather has been great! I recommend that everyone get surgery so you can lie around all summer. I've been working on a contemporary, not erotic, romance, and taking a little time each afternoon to lie in the sun and read. I haven't felt this free since the summer after high school, which I spent reading, daydreaming and working on my tan. My parents were in no hurry to push us out of the nest and I took my time easing into adulthood. My goal was to get married, have four kids, stay home with them, write novels and become rich and famous.

Turns out, everyone has the rich and famous dream. Imagine if we all succeeded? There would be paparrazzi on every corner. Or is it their dream too? They'd have to turn the cameras on each other. What craziness that would be. And there wouldn't be any room left on the grocery store shelves for food; it would all be tabloids. We'd spend our time reading about each and arguing over who is the most famous.

 

I hate having my picture taken.

 

Sigh...I guess I'll just settle for writing a good novel, and hope people want to read it.

Borders, We'll Miss You!

Sad to hear that it's official. All the Borders stores will be closing their doors. I've been meeting my writers group at a Borders for more than ten years now. I'm sure we'll find a new place to meet, but it will never be the same. The changes that are taking place in the publishing world are pretty scary, but I believe that good storytelling will endure. It's only the medium that is changing. It has to. Someday this time in history will be referred to as 'before and after the Internet.'
As for enduring, once upon a time stories were told around the campfire, harrowing tales of Uncle Bunga nearly being trampled by an angry mastodon, but using his wits to outsmart the beast and living to tell, and embellish, the tale. We all know that the publishing industry is a dinosaur. It can't stick around forever. While some book publishers, like Tricerotops and Tyranosouras, are destined for extinction, others, think fish, lizards and birds, will stick around forever in some form or another. I did read that some in the book industry fear that paper books will vanish and we'll stop reading altogether. If that were true I would have stopped listening to music when cassette tapes died out, and stopped watching movies when DVDs replaced VHS. Get real people. We will adapt. Stories and we who write them are here to stay, we just look different. And on a positive note: electronic books can't be burned! That's especially good news for those of us who write erotica. 

Link to Betty Being Bad

http://www.eredsage.com/store/BettyBeingBad.html

Ouch!

Numbness wore off. Thank science for percocet.

So, Stephen King admits in his book, On Writing, that he wrote Cujo while drunk. Does this mean that instead of reading/dozing all day I should have been whipping out pages with my good hand? I've been told that I spend too much time overthinking and overanalyzing everything (thanks mom) so maybe drugs are the solution. I'll just let loose and see what comes out. Rabid dogs and psycho clowns? Oh wait that's been done. I know, I'll write a teen romance about a hot vampire, and throw in a werewolf for conflict! Hmmm, that feels sort of familiar too. Wizards and Witches anyone?

Maybe I should stick to what comes naturally to me. That other writer who lives in my mind, the one who focuses on plot more than sex, is currently working on a romantic suspense. She was very excited about it until she heard from those who went to the RWA conference that Romantic Suspense is dead!

What I want to know is who killed it? Another sub genre bites the dust--- and it's not vampires, or demons or shapeshifters---but my current genre of choice. Figures.

What Now?

Back to the clown? Beneath the rainbow wig and the painted on smile, is a well endowed, steaming hot vampire who just escaped from Shawshank prison and is searching for his life mate; a shape shifting hermaphrodite werewolf, who is on the run from a blond bounty hunter named Dog, who is distracted by a black cat who then shifts into Halle Barry...

...maybe I better wait til I'm off the pain meds.