Sommer Marsden's Blog, page 138

down and out and gumballs

My mother once insisted on knowing how I could write day in and day out. I didn't really know how to explain it. It's sort of hard to explain writing to non-writers sometimes. Like the question: where so your ideas come from? How the hell do I know? They just come. They simple show up and say, howdy, how about you do something about me or I won't go away...

My best analogy for explanation to my mom was my mind is a gumball machine. And I truly do sort of see it that way. A gumball is always l...

Base Nature

NOR reviewed Base Nature and gave it a 3.5 My initial perfectionist reaction to this is doom and gloom. But it got me thinking and then I undoomed and ungloomed myself. Because it's not a bad review, LOL. But there's more on this topic I'd like to express to readers and fellow writers (and to say out loud to self so it sinks in). I just don't have time to type it out today. I'll be blogging about reviews and reactions to them very soon.

If you want to see my non-doom and non-gloom review from ...

Winners!

were sent their prizes but I still need email addresses for t'Sade and Anne. I have a shiny new pdf of Coupling for you. So if you can shoot me the right address to hot4sommer[at:]yahoo[dot:]com I'll send it out.



Now it is boy child's birthday weekend so I'm off. It started last night and it'll go on till tomorrow (or beyond). We sure do milk the birthday dealio around here. heh.

XOXO
Sommer

Out, out, out! (and a giveaway too)

Coupling is out today! Woohoo! I love this dirty, couple-geared anthology stuffed full of some of my favorite writers today:

These stories are steeped in succulent pain and tender couplings, because in the world of long-time commitment - the hotter the fire, the longer it burns.Includes works from Alison Tyler, Jeremy Edwards, P.S. Haven, Craig Sorensen, Benjamin Eliot, Alison Seay and others!

Coming v.v. soon to print (once Amazon um...gets it up) and Kindle (ditto) and all over the place at y...

also...

I'm guest blogging at Excessica today on world building. Pop in if you get a chance and weigh in (on world building not a scale. Whew)

XOXO
Sommer

sah-weeeeet!

Another great review for Smoking Hot. Click here to see the 4.5 star review from Manic Readers. Also another "too short". I love it. If that's the worst thing you have to say about a piece of work...I owe you a kiss! Thanks to Claudia at MR for taking the time to review me.

XOXOSommer

and here it is...

that yahoo! list i mentioned. join me and pop in whenever you like. with your coffee. on your lunch break. after dinner. come whenever you like, just come...um...yeah. whether i get one person or one thousand, the door's always open...

Good fortune and Epsom salt...

Yay! I finished a story this morning that makes me happy. It started a bit stiffish (heh, dirty reference there) but after a few paragraphs I found my rhythm (heh again) and then it just took off like a shot and did it's own thing. Love, love, love it. I have high hopes. My little red friend to the left is a nod in the direction of one of my characters. He represents good luck, by the way.

Also, today, I have a boy child home. He had an ingrown toe nail taken out yesterday and he's home...

Use as many characters as you like... or Done Done Done

Okay, I've given myself time to ponder this today. I took a run this morning--and hey, as an aside, I lengthened my stride to see how I'd do--I fully expect that tomorrow my chorus of "ow ow ow"'s will be kept company by some "ooh, ooh, ooh!"'s every time I stand, walk, move or sit. Beyond running I puttered around the house. I made onion jam. I sat quietly with the problem as my grandmother would have said. My mom stopped by and I gave her a brief rundown. I gave myself time to think and...

Okay!

so I bought these today! (Tan). My name is Sommer and I'm a bootaholic. I also ran for the first time in months, feared I'd barf in the middle of the street whilst pushing myself, came home to runner's high, basked in the glow of my athletic awesomeness (*snort*). I cleaned the bathroom--which means the whole house is officially clean at once, huzzah! Cause I also made offspring clean their caves...I mean rooms. I feared a virus on my computer because it did that weird thing where you type...