I never really got the whole Jane Austen thing. They were amusing books, sure, and well written, but I could take or leave them. I admit that I’d heard of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies several weeks ago. I thought it was a stupid joke. Then I thought it sounded silly. I mean, come on, […]
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Now that GW line edits are back safely with my editor, I also have an official “first week of June” turn-in date for book 2, so it’s time to polish it up. Working on getting through the stalled line edits on Black Desert now so I can get it out to first readers by March
I haven’t been proud to be an American in over 10 years. I’m still, not, particularly, but I have hope that someday soon I will be.
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My God, James McAvoy is hot. The pictures just don’t capture it. He’s pretty and all, but he goes from nice-looking to hot really quickly on camera. The first few scenes I’m like, “Huh, yeah, generic lead.” Then he starts warming up and I fall for him hard. He gets hotter every damn time I
Editor’s line edits are done. There are a few all-over book edits from the editorial letter that I need to squeeze into the narrative now, and the best way to do that is to read what I’ve got currently and adjust accordingly. This is my last big chance to get everything into the book that
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I love how absolutely dazed and perplexed he looks in this video, like he has no idea he did something completely rude and inappropriate. This is what got me about the whole boobgate thing. I realize that we, as women, are taught to make nice. We’re taught to just smile and take it. “Ha ha,
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From Babylon: “We don’t get prizes in Nasheen for being pretty,” Nyx said.
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A first reader of God’s War argued that there must be a better term for the wraps/cloth one uses to bind one’s breasts other than, “breast binding.” I finally sat down and did some research tonight, and I’m telling you: I still can’t find a better term. The closest I came to finding a less
I’m watching Obama’s Denver speech about the stimulus bill. I’ve read the pros and cons. I’ve listened to the GOP arguments (largely summed up by, “Soooooooooociiiaaaaaaaaliiiiiiiiiissssssssm!”). I understand everybody’s fears. Yet we happily invested trillions of dollars into foreign wars over the last eight years while our own country failed. Wars that killed tens of
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It’s an indicator of how male-dominated our society is that the fact that women have diminishing libidos and don’t seem to care that much about it is treated as the problem, when in fact it’s merely the symptom of a larger problem–that women feel overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, understimulated, and shamed about their bodies. If we