Laundry: 3 loads down, 3 loads to go (not including folding, grrrr!)
I didn't accomplish nearly what I set out to do yesterday. In fact, I only crossed
three measly items of off the colossal TO DO list, all of which had to do with completing the lastest edition of romANTICS, the newsletter of the
TRW. Lots of loose-end stuff once the issue is finished. The pain-in-the-butt, were's-my-damn-secretary kind of nonsense. I enjoy doing the newsletter, but it's taking more time than I intended it to. The articles, announcements, lastest-release covers, quotes, etc,... make putting it together like assemblying a 16 page jigsaw puzzle. I fiddle, re-place, re-align, fill, fight for white space, balance text vs pics, and most-likely make it more difficult than it should be! On the upside, I have access to every other article that goes into the
RWA chapters newsletters all over Canada and the US. I can't read them ALL, but having access to the plethora of knowledge-based articles is like doing an on-line course, daily! I won't be giving up this volunteer job anytime soon!!
During the madness that was my weekend, I got the first round of edits for Destiny by Design from
EC. I'm excited to begin work, but with this chest cold still plagueing me, the pages of information my editor gave me is making my head spin. I know that if I take it one step at a time, everything will flow smoothly, but I haven't had enough coffee yet this morning to cope with it all. Most of the info has to do with EC style and formatting -- rules, rules, rules! Of course, this is a good thing and their strict policies on form is what makes them the best in their field.
AND - this is childishly exciting - if you go the EC's website and do an author search, I'm in there!! Not my book, yet, but
my bio!! Cool, eh?
Finally - an amusing note: Following TL's lead, I hooked up to sitemeter so I could track hits and find out how people stumble upon my blog. Seems the post about
Bratz Dolls with the word 'feminism' in the title has brought me LOADS of visitors. The pic itself is often a searched item and my blog comes up high on the google search along with various big-named toy stores and Mattel. The reference to 'feminism' most often comes from educational isp's (if that's the correct word).
But the funniest reference came from a blogger with a, shall we say, religious agenda, who was ranting about Bratz Dolls looking like whores -- She did a search for a picture and found
my rant. Church Lady went on to say that she found it head-shaking ironic that a 'writer of erotic fiction' should also find these dolls whorish.
I thought this hilarious!! Like
I sell smutty literature to children!! *shrug* Whatever.
Peace
Photo 1 - first view of the studio as we entered. There were 7 teams participating: Romance Writers (hello!), College students - fraternities and sororities, Word Puzzlers, English Teachers, Comedians, Ad Writers, and a small group of celebrities.
Photo 3 - our team, seated and ready for the action to begin. That's me in the front row - the empty seat. All teams had props to wave around. We got fake roses...
