Archive for February, 2008

T minus Ten, Nine…

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Its all starting to happen. In less than ten days (March 4th), Compromised is going to be in stores. Its going to be shipped to my brother-in-law and my best friend Vicki, who pre-ordered the minute the Amazon posting was active. (Thanks! Love you guys!) Some reviews are already being posted. It’s something I’ve been anticipating since I got the Call-with-a-captial-C over a year ago, and working towards for a couple before that, and now…

…now its all so calm. Weirdly calm. Where’s my overwhelming stage fright? Where’s my champagne? Where’s my massive book release party like Carrie Bradshaw had where Ron Livingston showed up and you knew she was pregnant that season because she was wearing all those no-waist flowy dresses. Granted, I would look like hell in one of those dresses, but I wouldn’t mind Ron Livingston stopping by. (note: I know Carrie Bradshaw is fictional. Its one of the main problems I have with that show). But I digress…

Don’t get me wrong, part of me is jumping out of my skin. When I got an advance copy of the book in the mail the other day, I skipped around my apartment like a five year old. But the other part of me, the much larger, more practical part, has to do the laundry. And my taxes. And go to work on Monday. And think of plot twists for my next effort. So any giddy nervousness I may have falls away. Which is unfortunate. Because you only get to have your first novel published once, and I want to enjoy every last hyper, silly, adrenaline fueled bout of stomach butterflies I get. T minus ten, nine, eight…

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Valentine’s Day Blog

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Happy Valentine’s day! I hope you are spending it with someone special. I will be spending it with… my television. No, no! Don’t pity me! I have a very special relationship with my television. And this V-Day, I’m going to be indulging in one of my guilty pleasures: horror movies. And I find that they are especially appropriate on Valentine’s Day. Think about it: generally there’s love involved, and a heck of a lot of adversity to get to that love in the end. Deeper, more challenged love than any rom-com with Matthew McConnahey could possible manage. The Shining? Shelly Duvall loves her son, and she sacrifices a lot to get him to safety. The Exorcist? That priest sacrificed himself to save Linda Blair. I Know What You Did Last Summer? Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt end up together — even after the second one! My absolute favorite horror movie to watch on Valetine’s day is surprisingly, not the eponymous Valentine, starring the lovely David Boreanaz, but instead, the Omen. The real one from the 70s, not the odd remake with Live Schrieber and Julia Stiles, but the one with Gregory! Peck! And there’s love there. He loves his wife. And he’s torn, at the end, having to kill the child he raised as his son whom he discovered is the child of the devil. So I’m going to settle back, light a candle, eat some chocolate, and watch Gregory Peck dig up graves and be chased by dogs and ancient prophecy.

Ah, love.

Well, what do you guys do?

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The Commitments

Friday, February 1st, 2008

I have kept a diary for most of my life. Or, at least, since the age when keeping a diary was important to a growing girl with more imagination than social skills. But keeping a blog, I have a feeling, will be much different.

While a diary can be unstructured, unfettered, a blog has to have topics and themes. I can ’t just keep a log of events. Darn it all, I have to think about what I want to say! So, time to choose a topic. And I’ve chosen…Commitment.

Commitment is a vital part of being a writer. You can have all the talent in the world and voice that sings like Whitney Houston, but if you don’t have the commitment to set your words on the page, day after day after day, then you’re not a writer.

My typical day goes something like this: Get up early, write, go to my day job (yes, I have one. One day I’ll achieve my goal of being able to give it up) gym, dinner, reality TV, more writing, bed. When deadlines loom, writing takes up a bigger and bigger part of the day. First the gym membership will get dusty, but that’s ok, because I’ll have given up eating regularly, so it all evens out. Reality TV goes eventually – I have to have something to look forward to, don’t I? The point is, if it’s important, and if you’re committed to it, you’ll find the time – ala Tim Gunn, you make it work.

Ok, so that was my first blog. Pretty rocky, right? Well, when learning something new, it takes me a little while to get into the flow. But I’m committed. And I’m excited. So, stick with me kids, it can only get better.

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