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June 22, 2022
Working Wednesday, June 22, 2022
I have a guest coming on Saturday, so I’m cleaning. I’m also writing a novel that is moving at breakneck speed which is lovely but a little daunting. But still, working here.
What did you work on this week?
June 21, 2022
Argh Help Needed: Name a Biker Gang
So there’s a biker gang in the Liz trilogy that needs a name. Bob suggested “Bad Crusies.” I suggested we ask you for suggestions. So this is a Rust Belt biker gang, headed by a sociopath and being used by bad guys to threaten local businesses. So not a good biker gang, not like Jill’s biker gang.
Suggestions in comments, please. Bob will probably choose the name since this is part of his plot. (You sort of knew it was his plot already, didn’t you? Not much snappy patter in vicious biker gangs.)
June 19, 2022
Happiness is Starting Something New
On Monday, Bob and I started Rest in Pink.
I’d done 65,000 words on Lavender’s Blue when he joined in, and the draft we have now of Lavender is just under 120,000 with only some of those from the original 65,000. He coped with joining a book in progress and I’m grateful. But now we’re starting from scratch, although with the same characters and setting, and it’s a blast.
In one week we have 20,000 words of rough draft and a million plot ideas.
Starting new things makes me happy. (See my many WiP crochet projects for evidence.). Finishing makes me even happier.
What made you happy this week?
June 17, 2022
Argh Author: Susan B. James’s Irish Magic
Susan B. James (aka Susan Berger), posted this yesterday in the comments:
“My rom com Irish Magic is .99 tomorrow thru Sunday.
The audiobooks for all three of my Susan B James books are on sale at Chirp, Google Books and Barnes and Noble are on sale thru June 30.”
About Irish Magic
:
A romantic comedy with a touch of magic.
What do you do when everything goes wrong?
Make a wish on a four-leaf clover, right?
There’s no other logical way out of it!
But a clover wish is a heart wish. Everyone knows that.
When part leprechaun Bradley Flynn is charged with finding Kate’s true love, he calls on retired matchmaker Essie O’Callaghan who happens to have a mission of her own.
Dr. Michael Walshe had a ring in his pocket when he walked in on his girlfriend sleeping with her costar. He wants no part of Essie’s plan to find him a wife.
Fate—or something more leprechaun-shaped—has Kate and the doctor both heading to Cluhalaugh, home to Ireland’s most famous matchmaking festival. And somehow their paths keep crossing. The more they see of each other the harder it is to resist exploring their reluctant attraction.
Will Kate realize that Michael could be far more than the cure to her writer’s block?
June 16, 2022
This is a Good Book Thursday, June 16, 2022
This week I read Slouch Witch and its two sequels once. And the instructions for a cat tower WHICH WERE NOT HELPFUL several times. And Bob’s revisions on Lavender’s Blue for the millionth time. We really have to move on now, I’m starting to have parts of this memorized.
What did you read at least once this week?
June 15, 2022
Working Wednesday, June 15, 2022
This week I put together a cat thing. It’s one of those seductive multi-part climbing towers with scratch posts and a swingy thingy to belt at and it’s really great but it was a @#$%^&*%$ to put together. I hated it. I suffered. It was worse than writing a sex scene. Which I also had to do. Well, revise.
How did you suffer at work this week?
June 13, 2022
Argh Rerun: The Suitcase Posts
Somebody in the comments mentioned the suitcase posts, so here, have a look at back when I was traveling and had need of a suitcase:
The Starry Night suitcase post was on here:
And the Pig posts are here:
And there were bats:
And now back to Lavender’s Blue, although Bob has just told me to knock it off, I’m overthinking things. And he’s right. So moving on to Rest in Pink . . .
June 12, 2022
Happiness is Finishing a Book
We finished Lavender’s Blue. Well, we finished a discovery draft. The whole thing. No missing scenes. I’m so happy I’m tap dancing.
And we’re already plotting the next one.
What made you tap dance with happiness this week?
June 11, 2022
Admin Update
You may have noticed you’re getting e-mail notifications again. The only thing we’re changing is that we’re turfing about a hundred people who signed up but never open the e-mails. If that’s you and you still want to get them, I think you just sign up again.
And as long as we’re here, let’s do a quick review of what you want from here. Right now you’re getting Working Wednesday, This is a Good Book Thursday, and the Sunday Happiness posts, plus the occasional Argh Author and Questionable, and then whatever random thought crosses my mind. Everything else about the blog has been around forever, so the place could probably use an update. So what other things would you like to see? Did we do something in the past you’d like to see again? Are we doing something now that’s annoying you? Speak up.
Like I had to say that last one with you guys.
June 9, 2022
This is a Good Book Thursday, June 9, 2022
I’m still reading Lavender’s Blue, fixing the plot lines I dropped and the foreshadowing I didn’t know I’d need. Bob says he has notes on about ten things he has to fix. While I was waiting for the master doc to come back to me, I read Loretta Chase’s Difficult Dukes books again. I really want that third one in the trilogy, but Loretta’s blog says she’s having difficulty finishing it. Wonder what that’s like. ARGH.
What did you finish reading this week?
