Look at the word count worm...

... HALFWAY!!!


And SOME things are taking shape :)

Look at the word count worm...

... HALFWAY!!!


And SOME things are taking shape :)

Middle-of-the-book-itis...

...has hit. It's all awful. How ever will I fix it. What on earth are my characters going to say/do next (even tho I have a plan, they don't want to stick to it)...

sigh...

the only way thru, is to keep on writing...

Just a quickie...

...because I'm back on a mad rough-draft-dash and thinking of nought much else other than plot and WHY my characters can't be getting it together just yet...

so um, yeah,. I've nothing interesting to say. So why not go here and celebrate with Kate Hardy!!!

Happy Days...

Mme Editor phoned last night which was v exciting. We talked through Zach (now Dan - I'm forever changing my heroes names) - I think he's going to be out in the UK in Feb 08 :)
And we talked through future plans.
When I got off the phone hubby handed me a drink and some chocolate and said in an appalling American accent - 'better enjoy it tonight honey, cos for the rest of the year yo' gonna be writing yo' ass off'
- funny but happily true.

Meanwhile, its birthday party central for the 'big kids' - we have one a week for the next week while - cue hours of 'is it time for XXX's party yet???!!!'
But it is SUCH fun :)

Book 3 has been accepted...

:) :) :)

Details to follow.


AND twin 1 is SITTING!!! (finally some progress!)


AND I had bagel and cream cheese, two hot black current drinks and two biscotti SG... jeez I know, I have the most dynamic and dangerous social life...

I am having a drink tonight tho!
;)

Eating chocolate and watching YouTube...

... yep. Sad aren't I? I blame Trish Wylie for blogging about YouTube on the Pink Heart Society yesterday.
Ah well. All in the name of research! ;)
Just watched Patrick Dempsey (aka McDreamy) discussing the loss of his virginity.
Hee hee.
I have my monthly meeting with the Christchurch rabble from the Romance Writers of NZ tomorrow night and I am SO looking forward to it! (And its not all because we go to this fab cafe where they serve the most incredible custard squares...). We have a cool little group - quite diverse - and all sorts of exciting things are happening in our wee corner. It will be nice to catch up!

An Agatha Christie week...

... sometimes when I'm really knackered (even more than usual) I find I have to escape and my favourite escape (funnily enough) is to a book. So I sit there and abandon everything while I read an old fave for the forty-millionth time... Sparkling Cyanide it was tonight.
What fun.
Ruth Lessing. Great name eh?
And Agatha has hilarious little jokes... like...

"Now then, funny, don't be like the heroines of third-rate thrillers who start in the very first chapter by having something they can't possibly tell for no real reason except to gum up the hero and make the book spin itself out for another fifty thousand words."

I deeply, darkly appreciate that. I really do.

And I confess to skimming over the fave parts of 2 Mary Stewarts and 4 Georgette Heyers this week too...

... it's like that, that's the way it is.

Good News!!!!

... but its not my good news to announce... but let me say this, Jude and baby are doing well... isn't that so exciting?! They've waited a long time for that baby and it is just the most exciting time for all of them...

Meanwhile, the word count is slowly starting to crawl up again... and I'm wishing for a day where I could just sit and type ALL DAY... instead of wiping the kazillion snotty noses... I have the feeling this is going to be one VERY LONG winter as we can't seem to shake the coughs and colds... every few days another one is down with it even worse... from bad to worse and bad again... oh for BETTER!!!

Thank goodness Rhys is in summer in a warm country - heaven to escape to! ;)

Waiting...

... and wondering how Jude is getting on!!!

Golly. can't think much beyond that I'm afraid! Here's hoping an email lands while I'm snoozling....<

Phew!!!

..another Sunday night cook-a-thon is over and I'm about to drag my sorry self to bed... but we have several containers of chicken casserole, beef casserole, fish pie, macaroni cheese (and spare cups of cheese sauce) and beef mince bolognaise sauce all slowly freezing in the freezer.... enough food to last the kids and co for a fortnight.... baby stuff next weekend (I'm on a fortnightly rota - one week big kids, one week babies etc etc).

And what's veggie Nat going to eat??? (Other than macaroni cheese?)
Well no more damn chocolate that's for sure!!!! Had a ton recently.... never mind. It was nice! ;)

Meanwhile, I've finally finished judging the first chapter entries and will send away tomorrow, so am now finally free to get Rhys going again tomorrow night - poor lad, he's getting pretty desperate!

Thinking of you Jude!!!

References...

SG - you will have to wait and see - but there are a couple of asides in that book that I *think* you'll find kinda funny...
EOR - Canada sounds like fun but I do have to 'know' the setting - even if large chunks of the book may take place in... an apartment say ;)
- but I'm thinking NZ is too small for Brock. Actually I'm thinking Australia is too small too so I might be headed back to London for that one.

Still not in the cold store but things are heating up.
All the kids have colds (AGAIN). Long, long days with no kindy etc all week.
Sigh.

Wonder if that baby has started its arrival... Jude??? JUDE??!?!?!
- I know you said you were going offline... but hey......... are you out there really?!?!?! ;)

The Cold Store...

... actually I haven't gotten Rhys into it yet, let alone out of it... but we have made some progress so that's a Good Thing.
Exciting development today - I found All Night with the Boss on Amazon.com - a January 08 US release. So cool. Of course, I can't get the link to work right now but hey...
OK. Back to it!!!!

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaack!!!!

... but it seems Jude has gone offline - oooooh, hoping everything is going ok in baby-delivery-land. Can't wait for the news!
So, I've been busy, eating lots of chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate. Then some chips and then more chocolate. Tellya, revisions do nothing for my 'diet'. Still, they do make me feel better about my book - can only hope my Ed agrees. You know, I live in permament fear of my Ed going on holiday. I'm terror-struck every time I send her an email - I hit the old send/receive a few times for minutes after in case I get one pinging back saying she's away the day - or worse, even longer.
Editors aren't allowed to take holidays.
Anyway, let's forget about Zach again for a while and go back to Rhys. I'm desperate to get Rhys out of my head now because you know what? BROCK has landed. And Brock has landed with quite a lot of style. Yep, once Rhys is out there then Brock wants his woman - and I can tell you, what the man wants, the man gets. (He just doesn't realise that the one he wants is going to turn around and bite him on the butt - hard).
So exciting!
I love it when a character appears, boots and all, shouting around the town.
She's not going to make it easy for him though. Ah yes, she's going to make him suffer (rightly so I might add).
Trouble is, I have no idea what her name is. And I have no idea where in the world they are.
Plenty of time for that to come tho - because I have to get Rhys out of that cold store first...

Go Jude!!!!!!

My fab CP Judy Jarvie is impatiently waiting the birth of her baby (relax Jude, it WILL happen!)... but last night she was up for the Joan Hessayon prize for New Writers at the Romance Novelist Association's Summer Party in London. While she didn't win (that honour went to Phillipa Ashley), this is what the judges had to say about her book 'Taking the Leap':

This is a delightful love story. We both thought that it had a particularly touching and plausible love scene. The medical background is believable drawn and not intrusive. The book has a nice sense of place, all very Scottish and fab scenery. The add-ons were lovely characterisation of the small boy, and a spine-tingling sense of the horrors of falling out of a plane - made Catherine, the only woman in the Army who refused to Jump, blench at the memory. So that's an A for empathy then.

Great huh! And I can assure you the book is fabulous - so go to Moonlit now and get yourself a copy!!!