Sommer Marsden's Blog, page 106

8 and 9

getting closer to hot male goodness. gasp. I cannot wait until October. :)

XOXO
Sommer

3 is my second lucky number

after 13. We are currently #3 in paid anthologies on ARe. And by 'we' I mean the Gritty crew. Woo and also hoo and happy dance!

You know my morning started with a very nice note from a reader that made me smile all morning. Even when I wanted to punch that condescending woman at the doctor's office. So, more good stuff is totally welcome. I feel very lucky to have worked with the Gritty writers and this just reinforces it. Y'all rock!

XOXO
Sommer

The Wee-Wackey-Woo-Hoo

And today we go to the ends of the earth for girl child's specialist doc. Once a year we go. He's allllll the way down in the city and I always feel like I'm at the beginning of some epic movie journey when we go. Like I should be packing up a camel or some such.

Anyway, I have nothing clever to say. I am barely awake but have to go get ready to leave. So...I'm pasting in a clip to most of one of my favorite Raymond episodes ever. They ran it last night and I stayed up late to watch it. I've seen it probably a dozen times or so and still laugh my ass off. Of course, it is called SEX TALK so...duh.



Off we go!

XOXO
S

Do. Not. Judge. Me.

Yes, yes, I was the woman driving down Harford Rd. with blue hair singing this at the top of her lungs. And yes! Doing a shameful but oh-so-fun seat dance a la Kevin Bacon. Do not judge me. :P

XOXO
Sommer

Blank is back...

Blank has been out for a while, so I always get a fresh new tingle when it scores another good review. Like this super nice one from Coffee Time Romance. Four cups.

Speaking of cups, I'm out of coffee and Aisling Weaver brought me a fancy new press this weekend, so off I go in search of beans. Not the magic kind but...well, they make me coherent in the morning, so I guess they actually are magic, yes?

Have a great Monday. It's hotter than Satan's butt hole here and it's not even 9 am. I anticipate hot, sticky, grumpy children coming home from school early due to heat index.

XOXO
Sommer

Happy Memorial Day

Until June 2nd I've put my short FIRE WOMAN for free on Smashwords if you have the nifty coupon code. How do you get the nifty coupon code? You follow this squiggly arrow~~~~~~~~~~~> VR97K

This story originally appeared in Alison Tyler's PLAYING WITH FIRE. A truly smoking hot book. Heh. See what I did there?

Feel free to spread the word and have a wonderful holiday. Thank a veteran!

XOXO
Sommer

Long weekend addiction...

Boy child and I. Me? Whatever. Like monkeys on crack. We finish one and he says, "May I interest you in another, madame?" So how far up in the seven deadly sins is Sloth anyway?

shunned...still

Well, the fab Crig Sorensen made a suggestion in previous comments, and I gave them a shot. Still shunned by Blogger, though. It still won't let me into my own blog as me. I'll just continue for now to comment w/name and url. And plot my escape to wordpress methinks.

Busy, super weekend. First lunch w/Aisling Weaver (see blog below). Then Saturday more lunch/chat w/Aisling, who then, because she is wunnerful and persuasive got me to go across to Balticon and just say hi to a few folks. I do not know if I am allowed to say who, so I'll just say it was nice. Scary--for the likes of a shy bunny like me (an INFP don't ya know)--but I think I did okay. There were one or two folks at Balticon that I would have liked to meet, beyond those I did, but alas I was an illegal lobby dweller so I didn't push it.

I have written...zero words this weekend. I have not written since Thursday, and that both feels like the apocalypse and oddly freeing. Simultaneous doom and liberty. LOL. I figure today or tomorrow I'll get cracking since I have some deadlines looming, but for the past few days I just enjoyed meeting some new people (thusly conquering a fear I have of meeting people and being disappointing to them) and hanging out with family. Today, I plan to take my crew on a family date for some tasty nibbles and chatter at a local restaurant.

Hope you are having a great weekend, and take a moment to thank a veteran. You'd be amazed at what a simple thank you can do.

XOXO
Sommer

up note, down note

Let's start with the down note. Blogger will apparently let everyone but me comment on my blog. No matter what I do it makes me anonymous and when I say okay fine, shoots me back to log in. So I am getting your super nice comments and THANK YOU!! YOU ROCK!!

Now...up note!



Fabulous lunch with Aisling Weaver today. We had so much fun. Ever meet someone you feel like you've known forever, though you've never met. Yep, that was today. And I use the term 'lunch' loosely. It was four hours of chatter with a few waitress breaks.

I might even go to Balticon next year and there is a rumor of possible Romanticon attendance. Ahem. But we will have to plot. I mean discuss!

XOXO
Sommer

The first official review for WE KILL DEAD THINGS is out...

and it made me v. v. happy. I admit it. Five stars and nice words from Sizzling Hot Book Reviews. What more could a writer want? :)

This is the first book in the Zombie Exterminator Series and I can't wait for book two! I've read a handful of Zombie books and they all seem mostly the same, yet this one is a breath of fresh air.


You can read the full review here.

XOXO
Sommer
p.s. Blogger STILL won't let me comment on my own blog. So to those of you who sent me nice comments yesterday/today etc, thank you! I would say it in comments, but apparently...um, I am not allowed!