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June 11, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Whacky wonderful Wednesday (A bit of alliteration is fun on occasion) The chest muscle -- well, all right, okay, here it is. I overdid yesterday, wasn't paying attention every single frigging moment, and have a little setback, but only say to 75% -- so yep, the gym today, but no upper body (well, the right arm is happy and powerful and eager to pump iron, so do you get lopsided if you only work out one side for say 3 different workouts?
So, can each of you scratch the title storage spot on your lovely heads and come up with some more title ideas? The book's about terrorists and mad psychics (very powerful) -- Remember, like my other titles, okay?
This is interesting -- at least to me. The book for next summer (the one that desperately needs a title) -- I began at the beginning on Monday to get back into it and naturally edited, but you want to know what? THERE IS VERY LITTLE EDITING -- this is wonderful and amazing and I sure hope it keeps up -- I'll finish going through the pages I've already done, finish up probably tomorrow. It's reading really exciting, chew your toe-nails kind of exciting --
So, can each of you scratch the title storage spot on your lovely heads and come up with some more title ideas? The book's about terrorists and mad psychics (very powerful) -- Remember, like my other titles, okay?
This is interesting -- at least to me. The book for next summer (the one that desperately needs a title) -- I began at the beginning on Monday to get back into it and naturally edited, but you want to know what? THERE IS VERY LITTLE EDITING -- this is wonderful and amazing and I sure hope it keeps up -- I'll finish going through the pages I've already done, finish up probably tomorrow. It's reading really exciting, chew your toe-nails kind of exciting --
May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014
Friday, 30th -- My random act of kindness yesterday -- a young mom with two little kids was struggling with packages at Nordstroms. I took them out to her car for her -- not as wonderful as what Denise Rowe did, but a little something -- The kids screamed the whole time.
This is it, winding up everything to leave tomorrow morning for the Outer Banks. The drill is San Francisco to Atlanta to Norfolk, spend night in Norfolk, then drive rental car 1 1/2 hours to the Outer Banks, or as we cool folk say, the OBX Sunday morning -- Stop at Walmart (HUGE) for a small fan and lots of paper goods (There'll be 5 of us running around) then the grocery store to stock up -- Sunday will be a wild day, in the three hours by 4:00, hopefully.
Are there any more book titles out there? Please, scratch your heads and lay 'em on me --
This is it, winding up everything to leave tomorrow morning for the Outer Banks. The drill is San Francisco to Atlanta to Norfolk, spend night in Norfolk, then drive rental car 1 1/2 hours to the Outer Banks, or as we cool folk say, the OBX Sunday morning -- Stop at Walmart (HUGE) for a small fan and lots of paper goods (There'll be 5 of us running around) then the grocery store to stock up -- Sunday will be a wild day, in the three hours by 4:00, hopefully.
Are there any more book titles out there? Please, scratch your heads and lay 'em on me --
May 29, 2014
May 29, 2014
The 29th -- Brave Thursday, a day that's shoved aside, ignored, wished it would simply go away, get over with, MOVE ON to wonderful glorious Friday. Okay, gotta stop thinking like that. Thursday -- everyone do something special today, just a little something, something you've never done before -- now there's always work -- can you think of something very cool to do at work today? Maybe a surprise favor for a co-worker? Maybe engage someone you're not terribly fond of in a nice conversation? Give your boss a compliment on his/her clothes? Think about this -- What will I do? do you know, I haven't a clue but it is only 7:00 a.m. in the morning and believe me, I will think of something that will make me smile and think of you guys --
May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014
Gorgeous Wednesday, 28th May -- I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to wake up and it's not pitch black, nope, it's sort of dim but day is just about to burst through the window. I really don't think, though, that the cats really care -- their focus is entirely on breakfast the minute my feet hit the floor.
Thank you for all the titles -- I'm still thinking: I hope you are too -- There were some I liked -- Vision, Psych Out, Fever Pitch -- so scratch those heads, whistle (that always helps goose the brain) and while you're walking your mile (with your dog or your other half) toss around title ideas.
Oh yes, just heard from the publisher that Power Play is up 100% over Bombshell (last year) in terms of ebook pre-orders. Amazing -- but on the other hand, I think people are switching from the beautiful hardcovers to the ebooks since it's so much easier. If you haven't yet pre-ordered Power Play and The Lost Key, do so and blow my publisher's mind -- (mine too)
Thank you for all the titles -- I'm still thinking: I hope you are too -- There were some I liked -- Vision, Psych Out, Fever Pitch -- so scratch those heads, whistle (that always helps goose the brain) and while you're walking your mile (with your dog or your other half) toss around title ideas.
Oh yes, just heard from the publisher that Power Play is up 100% over Bombshell (last year) in terms of ebook pre-orders. Amazing -- but on the other hand, I think people are switching from the beautiful hardcovers to the ebooks since it's so much easier. If you haven't yet pre-ordered Power Play and The Lost Key, do so and blow my publisher's mind -- (mine too)
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014
May 27th -- Tuesday -- I'm still drooling over the thought of marshmallows turning black over a fire (the very best is outside, a fire, a gnarly stick. But if you don't have the outdoor fire then Denise says use a candle, turn off the lights, give everyone forks and go at it --
My publisher thinks SECOND SIGHT is overused (alas, and it's perfect). They want me to come up with a new title (this is for the FBI, 2015). So if you've got something good, send me your title suggestion -- ( no more than TWO, please) If I pick yours I'll send you an autographed book -- please consider my other FBI titles: (you'll see I don't have any FBI titles like Midnight Bayou or Sunset Bullets or Murder Madness -- you get the idea,) SO, GO! Thank you in advance for thinking about this for me -- Two mysteries in the book, one of them is a psychic tangle with Dracul (My name for Stefan Dalco, a real bad ass psychic) The other is a terrorist deal --- very exciting -- and guess what, the plots come together --
My publisher thinks SECOND SIGHT is overused (alas, and it's perfect). They want me to come up with a new title (this is for the FBI, 2015). So if you've got something good, send me your title suggestion -- ( no more than TWO, please) If I pick yours I'll send you an autographed book -- please consider my other FBI titles: (you'll see I don't have any FBI titles like Midnight Bayou or Sunset Bullets or Murder Madness -- you get the idea,) SO, GO! Thank you in advance for thinking about this for me -- Two mysteries in the book, one of them is a psychic tangle with Dracul (My name for Stefan Dalco, a real bad ass psychic) The other is a terrorist deal --- very exciting -- and guess what, the plots come together --
May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014
Friday, the 23rd -- I won't say it again, well, yes, I have to: Wasn't it Friday only yesterday? Well, whatever, Friday is back again and tomorrow is sleep-in day, except for the critters who, for some weird reason, simply do not recognize the weekend as being this special two days when the alarm clock doesn't go off.
Glad you like the cypress and roses -- they're all very happy and I thought you'd like to see them in their fine plummage. The roses will go dormant for a couple of months, then burst forth, like right now, no rhyme nor reason.
Everyone likes to sleep in the cold -- How about if you lived before AC? Say in Arizona? Goodness, you'd never get any sleep, too busy wiping the sweat off your brow -- And all those long skirts and and guys in wool pants -- nope, not going to think about it, but maybe, just maybe, that's why people in all those old sepia photographs from the 19th century DO NOT look happy.
Glad you like the cypress and roses -- they're all very happy and I thought you'd like to see them in their fine plummage. The roses will go dormant for a couple of months, then burst forth, like right now, no rhyme nor reason.
Everyone likes to sleep in the cold -- How about if you lived before AC? Say in Arizona? Goodness, you'd never get any sleep, too busy wiping the sweat off your brow -- And all those long skirts and and guys in wool pants -- nope, not going to think about it, but maybe, just maybe, that's why people in all those old sepia photographs from the 19th century DO NOT look happy.
May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014
Big Chilly Thursday: One great thing about living on San Francisco Bay is the summer doesn't equate to HOT. Nope, the weather can change on a dime -- you stand on the balcony and watch the fog can come in and feel the temperature plummet. It's very chilly (heater chilly) this a.m. -- and that is so very nice. Do you sleep better when it's cooler? You know, you have the covers to your nose and if you stick your bare arm out you know it'll get nipped with cold air? That's really got to be the best. Well, for me, at least.
Everyone seems to have been to the Outer Banks (OBX -- isn't that cute? I wonder who came up with it when?) The thing is though, there was simply nothing there until it started going in the 80's and every year there, more construction, more businesses. Today, it's crammed with rental homes and stores and more traffic than you can imagine, all on a two way small road, that's it. I love that place -- I know all the merchants, always go in and chat, (yes, and always stimulate their economy), see how their business is doing. Since we're there at the beginning of the season the traffic isn't horrendous yet, but by July, you'd best be up and about very very early -- I still can't believe it hasn't been wiped out by hurricanes. Some have hit over the years, some damage, but not all-out destruction like you see in other places. If you've never been to the OBX, make it a vacation destination. Truly, there are rental houses or every size, at every price --
Everyone seems to have been to the Outer Banks (OBX -- isn't that cute? I wonder who came up with it when?) The thing is though, there was simply nothing there until it started going in the 80's and every year there, more construction, more businesses. Today, it's crammed with rental homes and stores and more traffic than you can imagine, all on a two way small road, that's it. I love that place -- I know all the merchants, always go in and chat, (yes, and always stimulate their economy), see how their business is doing. Since we're there at the beginning of the season the traffic isn't horrendous yet, but by July, you'd best be up and about very very early -- I still can't believe it hasn't been wiped out by hurricanes. Some have hit over the years, some damage, but not all-out destruction like you see in other places. If you've never been to the OBX, make it a vacation destination. Truly, there are rental houses or every size, at every price --
May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014
21st May --- HUMP DAY! Isn't that a wonderful commercial and look what it spawned -- it's now in the English language. I even bought a couple of blue HUMP DAY tee-shirts for the birthday guys at the Outer Banks -- Can you believe it, another week and a half and it's family and food and fun to the eyeballs.
So what are you doing on Hump Day? At work on Wednesdays, is there usually some joking around? Is someone assigned camel of the day to walk the office talking? Asking what day it is?
Work on Second Sight today -- Back with Savich in a hypnosis session with Dr. Hicks at Quantico -- and you won't believe what our hynotee says -- It'd be nice to hear what the publisher thinks of the title --
So what are you doing on Hump Day? At work on Wednesdays, is there usually some joking around? Is someone assigned camel of the day to walk the office talking? Asking what day it is?
Work on Second Sight today -- Back with Savich in a hypnosis session with Dr. Hicks at Quantico -- and you won't believe what our hynotee says -- It'd be nice to hear what the publisher thinks of the title --
May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014
May the 20th -- Tuesday -- You know when you're in a lovely dream -- exciting, or scary -- doesn't matter, and all of a sudden there's this fire alarm or a national security beep beep beep piercing right into your brain core and you're ripped from your dream by the fricking alarm. And your first thought? No, no, please, five more minutes, okay, four minutes then, please, please -- but no go. You drag yourself out of bed to see the critters are wildly alert, probably rose straight off the bed, ready to EAT and now they're racing to the feeding station and where are you? Oh please, please, five more minutes, but it's not to be. You talk to them, pet them, tell them they're beautiful but most important, YOU GET THE FOOD DOWN. It's only when you're making up the bed that you realize you're now wide awake and moving smartly around and are happy to see that it's daylight and that means it's not WINTER and you're rearing to go -- until tomorrow when the siren goes off and you're blasted out of a sound wonderful perfect sleep --
May 16, 2014
May newsletter
Vol. 448 No. 881
Happy May you be happy:
I love Hump Day. Now, forget the camel for a moment: something really cool you want to LOOK AT right this minute: Go to this web site now: http://brendanovak.auctionanything.com You can bid to have lunch with me in Sausalito (Yep, I'm only paying for lunch, forget the private jet, that's a myth), you can bid to have a lunch with J.T. Ellison and me in San Antonio (again, no jet, probably Mexican) on July 26th and you can bid on my books as well as others and get them autographed. Plus, there's a gazillion other great things you can bid on and ALL proceeds go to support juvenile diabetes research. So you can get stuff you really like and you earn both virtue and non-sucky karma points.
Other News: You can pre-order both Power Play (FBI, out July 8th) and The Lost Key (Drummond, out September 30th). Power Play brings back Special Agent Davis Sullivan, a tough fun guy who saves the Ambassador to the UK. Throw in Blessed Backman (remember what he can do -- KnockOut) and he's back for revenge, and you've got a page turner to make you miss at least two meals but who cares? you can simply drink.
The Lost Key is a fricking hair-on-fire crazy wild Drummond/Caine adventure and you know very well that I am never guilty of exaggeration. (Haven't I assured you of this a million times?) It's Drummond's first day at the New York Field Office and he immediately gets called to a bizarre murder.
In addition to all the pulse-pounding fun in the above two offerings, you can also pre-order Bombshell, paperback (out June 24th) and The Final Cut paperback (out September 2nd). Madam Zarenska says: Hmmm, I see lots of really excellent books in your future.
We're boiling in the volcano crater here in San Francisco. Naturally there's very little AC since usually the hot weather only hits once a year, normally in September. This is the THIRD hot spell for us this year. I know, you're thinking we've done some evil things out here, but I swear, no more than usual, so why are we getting cooked? Oh lookee there, the fog's starting to creep in through the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe we've been absolved of our sins.
June is on a landing approach and that means The Outer Banks with 35 to 40 family members (usually very little drama) for a week and an indecent amount of food. Too, we now have costume night -- I'm going to be Wilma Flintstone -- red wig and the white rock balls necklace and my husband (Fred) will sleep with Dino. WILMA!
P.S. Don't forget -- come to Facebook.com/catherinecoulterbooks -- Madam Zarenska says: Difficult to calculate the karma points.
Happy May you be happy:
I love Hump Day. Now, forget the camel for a moment: something really cool you want to LOOK AT right this minute: Go to this web site now: http://brendanovak.auctionanything.com You can bid to have lunch with me in Sausalito (Yep, I'm only paying for lunch, forget the private jet, that's a myth), you can bid to have a lunch with J.T. Ellison and me in San Antonio (again, no jet, probably Mexican) on July 26th and you can bid on my books as well as others and get them autographed. Plus, there's a gazillion other great things you can bid on and ALL proceeds go to support juvenile diabetes research. So you can get stuff you really like and you earn both virtue and non-sucky karma points.
Other News: You can pre-order both Power Play (FBI, out July 8th) and The Lost Key (Drummond, out September 30th). Power Play brings back Special Agent Davis Sullivan, a tough fun guy who saves the Ambassador to the UK. Throw in Blessed Backman (remember what he can do -- KnockOut) and he's back for revenge, and you've got a page turner to make you miss at least two meals but who cares? you can simply drink.
The Lost Key is a fricking hair-on-fire crazy wild Drummond/Caine adventure and you know very well that I am never guilty of exaggeration. (Haven't I assured you of this a million times?) It's Drummond's first day at the New York Field Office and he immediately gets called to a bizarre murder.
In addition to all the pulse-pounding fun in the above two offerings, you can also pre-order Bombshell, paperback (out June 24th) and The Final Cut paperback (out September 2nd). Madam Zarenska says: Hmmm, I see lots of really excellent books in your future.
We're boiling in the volcano crater here in San Francisco. Naturally there's very little AC since usually the hot weather only hits once a year, normally in September. This is the THIRD hot spell for us this year. I know, you're thinking we've done some evil things out here, but I swear, no more than usual, so why are we getting cooked? Oh lookee there, the fog's starting to creep in through the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe we've been absolved of our sins.
June is on a landing approach and that means The Outer Banks with 35 to 40 family members (usually very little drama) for a week and an indecent amount of food. Too, we now have costume night -- I'm going to be Wilma Flintstone -- red wig and the white rock balls necklace and my husband (Fred) will sleep with Dino. WILMA!
P.S. Don't forget -- come to Facebook.com/catherinecoulterbooks -- Madam Zarenska says: Difficult to calculate the karma points.
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