Filed at 3:24 pm under Books by meljean
So, I’m all packed and almost ready to go (the flight is tomorrow at 9). I just have to throw in the (tons of) makeup/hairstuff-for-my-thin-limp-locks I’ll use tomorrow morning, and be off. Oh, and my cell phone. (Anyone want to take bets on me forgetting that?) I actually don’t have enough stuff (I only need pjs and one change of clothes) so a padded backpack is going in on top of all of this so that it doesn’t shuffle around too much while I haul it about.
Despite appearances, I’m not taking a lot of underwear. Those are my bookmarks.
Also, the 3-1-1 quart bag thing is a joke. Even travel-sized stuff, I have way more soaps/lotions/eyestuff/hairjunk than that.
Book news: my sister stole CRY WOLF and MY WICKED ENEMY, both of which she says are really, really good (two reallys). Hopefully I will see Carolyn Jewel in SF, but because my sister is a thief, I won’t have her book to sign. But that is probably good — I was going to take a book to read on the plane, but now I will probably be taking my WIP instead (printed out, so that I can do handwritten work — I’m not taking my computer to SF).
India Grey’s MISTRESS: HIRED FOR THE BILLIONAIRE’S PLEASURE was totally worth the shipping/exchange rate. I am such a ridiculous fangirl. Even as I’m scrunching up my eyebrows over some parts (esp. the lack of resolution with Carlos), I’m loving every second of having my heart turned into a Twizzler. I liked Chelsea Cain’s HEARTSICK (although I did think it would be more suspensful — but the characters are so, so worth it), and look forward to the sequel (and like Keishon, I wonder why Amazon is letting advance reviews on it?)
Filed at 6:37 pm under Books and Dorkery and First Blood by meljean
So, I went looking for a dress for the Berkley party on Friday night. Didn’t find one. Hated them all, and when sleeves make my arms look like stuffed sausages, there be problems. Also, I hate my knees, and most of the dresses were knee-length or just above. I finally settled on trousers and a frilly shirt.
I also started twittering, which is kind of fun. I will probably forget to do it half the time, though.
I have, so far, found THE WILD ROAD, MY WICKED ENEMY, HEARTSICK, DELICIOUS, CRY WOLF, and THE MILLIONAIRE’S INEXPERIENCED LOVE-SLAVE. Still several more July 29 books to go.
***********CRAZY WRITER STUFF FOLLOWS***************
******DON’T READ IF YOU DON’T LIKE KNOWING WHAT REAL-LIFE PERSON IS IN AN AUTHOR’S HEAD WHEN SHE THINKS OF HER CHARACTERS********
I was also charged with picking out a new cologne for my husband. I got Davidoff’s “Adventure,” partially because it smelled good, and partially because — as soon as I walked into Macy’s — I saw this on a giant display: Read more »
Filed at 8:46 pm under Movies and TV by meljean
Despite all of the terrible reviews I’ve been seeing, I want to believe, I want to believe, I want to believe.
Also, has Scully ever looked better? When I grow up, I’m going to be her.
Filed at 9:31 pm under Movies and TV and POW! by meljean
Holy crap! It’s the Watchmen teaser trailer!
I’m speechless. My heart is beating fast.
Also
Dr. Horrible Act III is up. And … Yeah, I loved the end.
Also
The teaser for Terminator: Salvation. Which I thought was awesome until I saw the Watchmen trailer. I didn’t realize Thea at the Book Smugglers had linked to it after her awesome review of The Dark Knight until I went back and looked at the comments again. And, OMG! Rorschach’s voice!!
Filed at 7:53 pm under Books and Excerpts and First Blood and Signings by meljean
Just to clarify: I will be at RWA, but not at the literacy signing. I will be at the Berkley signing at 3pm on Friday — which is only, I believe, for conference attendees. I’ll update my main page with the conference room number of the signing as soon as I find it.
First Blood releases in a little over two weeks, on August 5. That night, I’ll be at Borders off Cedar Hills in Beaverton … but not because I’m signing my book. Nope, I’m going to see Teresa Medeiros and Suzanne Enoch, and bother them. Teresa Medeiros I’m just going to fawn over, because I’ve been a fangirl for a way long time (Fairest of Them All started me on the path, and A Breath of Magic sealed the deal). She’s one of those authors that I don’t love love everything they write, but everything is consistently a good read for me, and some are just keepers forever and ever (especially because she was writing paranormal/historicals back when they were hard, hard, hard to find.) And with Enoch, I really, really want to know when Bram’s book is going to be out.
First Blood features Susan Sizemore, Erin McCarthy, and Chris Marie Green. After the cut is the second half of Chapter One of “Thicker Than Blood,” my novella. It follows the excerpt that’s up on the book info page. It is my favorite novella so far (although the current one (hellhounds!) might knock it out of first place … we’ll see.) Read more »
Filed at 12:05 pm under Argh! by meljean
Why are there not more hours in a day???
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That is all.
Filed at 9:49 pm under Books by meljean
You pay 2.99 UK + 4 UK for shipping (fully aware of the current exchange rate) to get a M&B Modern August release, instead of waiting until it’s reprinted in the US.
Mills & Boon, please: eBooks.
*What? You thought this was going to be about Batman? Pshaw.
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OMG SQUEE I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE MOVIE TO BE OUT!!!!!!
And then X-Files!
My heart runneth over.
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X-Files/Batman would be an awesome crossover. Especially if there’s a Batman + Scully + Mulder lurve scene. Mulder feels all threatened when billionaire Bruce Wayne shows an interest in his enigmatic partner … but little does he realize that the mysterious Dark Knight is interested in a mutual investigation and exploring extreme possibilities …
And this is why I don’t write fanfic anymore.
Filed at 10:16 am under Dorkery by meljean
Is being released by HP: The Millionaire’s Inexperienced Love-Slave*. In honor of the event, I’ve re-titled all of my books to fit the same format:
DEMON ANGEL: The Virgin Professor’s Mistress’s Devilish Bargain
DEMON MOON: Bedded By The Bloodsucking British Billionaire
DEMON NIGHT: The Vengeful Guardian’s Convenient Mistress
DEMON BOUND: Blackmailed: The Creepy Guardian’s Inexperienced Novice
*There is, of course, absolutely no doubt that I’ll be reading it.
Filed at 9:42 pm under The Genre and Writing by meljean
So, obviously, it takes me a while to get around to anything lately. I’ve been thinking about this since I read a comment by Nora Roberts at Dear Author (in response to Jane Litte’s article Let’s Talk About Sex (and Love, and then Sex Again) which posed the question of how/why/what it’ll take for romance to be accepted in the same way as a show like Bones, where the sexual tension and romantic subplots aren’t belittled):
when writers and readers talk about the hawt, hawt, hawt, then it becomes about the hawt–and not about the sex within the context of the story. It’s that the detractors and the media will jump on, while they disregard all the rest.
I don’t want to be known as a writer of hawt books. I want to be known as a good writer–whose books contain well written love scenes as well as good characterization, strong dialogue, a solid story, etc.
And my reaction was kind of like: nod, frown, nod, frown, nod, frown. Because I agree: to talk about how hawt books are when speaking with someone unfamiliar with the genre moves the focus completely onto the hawtness. But within the genre — hell, even on this blog — I like using “hawt” and to mention the heat level. The term “hawt,” IMO, has become a shorthand for “explicit” that also distances me, as a person/author/reader, from the eroticism of the novel.
I probably have to explain that. (Long post coming up after the cut.) Read more »
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