Sommer Marsden's Blog, page 96

I am ready for this...

A nice boring fall day. Leaves and sunshine. Jeans and boots and maybe a cozy sweater. Sitting and shooting the shit with someone I love talking to. Absolutely zero brain aneurysms, emergency surgeries or storms that include marble sized hail. No breaking out in hives due to anxiety and no antibiotics due to broken toes. NO EARTHQUAKES and no (even more severe) storms that bring lightning so damn close to your home you're pretty sure you just felt your tongue catch fire. NO mystery broken glass all along my street and no leaking water main in my neighbor's yard (a neighbor too stubborn to do anything about it until he knows who has to pay). And absolutely, positutely NO HURRICANES.



Now if you will excuse me, I must bake a birthday cake, make appetizers, fill bottles with filtered water and other bottles with water for the um...restroom. And find batteries. And write a novella. Assess the candle situation. And drop girl child off at a sleep over and...um...drink.



And we're not even getting hit as hard as some folks along the Eastern seaboard. So I am thinking good things for all of you folks who are/will have it worse than us.



Happy freaking Friday.



XOXO

Sommer

p.s. I had something else important to say and zip-bam-zoom! right out of my head. I'll come back and update when it comes back to me. Which should be right around the time I hit PUBLISH POST.

Good morning...I think

It might be the end of the world. Jeesh. Thunderstorms were/are insane. Dog was going insane. Then one big flash of lightning and a huge rumble of thunder (and a downed internet router) and then here come two kids. About three or more hours earlier than the norm!



So...I will power through this day and work on this novella and do all the crap on my list (that is currently missing). But it's all good.



And speaking of good, I totally missed this review of Dirty or Die. Awesome.



I'm not sure what is better in Dirty Or Die, the sexy scenes or the ghost story. But it is defiantly worth the read!



For the full review go her to SHBR.



XOXO

Sommer

well, hell...

I just realized I never did a proper coming out for Automagically. So here is the sexy cover and the blurb:

It was her sisters' fault, really. Their idea that Evie use studly coffee slinger Caleb Mahoney for sex to get over her ex. It was supposed to be simple. Spell him into wanting her, get down and dirty with him, release all her pent-up sexual energy, and then do a simple forgetful spell. Easy magic for three sister witches. No biggie. Right?

Wrong. Every time Evie decides to come clean, well…they do it again. And again! It's not her fault…at least, she's pretty sure. Something niggles and itches deep in her brain every time she starts to confess.

Is it chemistry or bad magic? Has their simple bang-yourself-happy-again spell gone out of control? Is it amping up automagically? Or is it because the huge, shorn, loveable man—whoda thunk it?—is really good in bed? And the van…and the shower…and the… You get the picture.

And an excerpt can be had here.



Also, bonus! Base Nature has been pulled from the vault and re-released this week at a new lower price. Only 1.99. That, my friend, is what the call a steal!



There. I am done blogging for today now. I swear. No really...



XOXO

Sommer

And it is...

submitted. Fingers crossed! One 77,000+ word novel, completed, proofed, polished and sent. Ta and fucking da.



Now I'll go make dinner and then later start that novella that's been sneaking around in my head. I might only write one page but I will have started it by gum! (whatever by gum means. hunh. What does it mean? anyone know?)



Happy...what day is it? Wednesday? Happy hump day!



XOXO

Sommer

p.s. this is my sorta kinda mental setting for the book that just flew off to be considered. Nice, hunh?

Out of the woods...

She is! Doing well and probably home by the weekend. Thank you all--on the blog, on Twitter, on Facebook and behind the scenes--for your good thoughts and prayers. I truly believed they helped and I sincerely appreciate it more than I can ever say.



I have been working a lot during all this waiting and worrying. So I have a book to send off soon sometime this week and a novella to finish. In other news I am taking my SIL's kids, my niece and nephew, duh...and MY two kids (do the math, that's FOUR teenagers) to get school supplies today or tomorrow. Now...everyone think good things for me! And wish me luck :)



XOXO

S

p.s. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR SHORTS FOR THE BELOW CONTEST! I know some of you have them finished and I never called it off. Please post away! Don't leave me hanging. xoxo

Perspective

I have some.



Yesterday was the day from hell starting with multiple doctor's visits and an odd phone call. I was going between boy child's doc appt and mine for a broken icky infected toe. Could I be on emergency kid duty should a problem arise with niece and nephews. Sister-in-law was at the hospital.



Nutshell it: After hours and hours and hours of testing at one of the best hospitals in the world, she has an extremely rare brain aneurysm. And she got a warning sign. In her eye.



I can't even describe what that feels like to find out that one of your best friends--someone who has been your sister for the past 16 years--could die.



So, I'm taking a few days off. She's stable and we are all awaiting the return of her husband who'd been deployed. It will be a good thing for her to go into this surgery with him home. And we've been told her odds are very good.



Now, I am not religious. In fact, I have a large grudge against the God I was brought up to believe in. We don't see eye to eye, the two of us. But I do believe in energy and the power of intention and good thought. I believe, maybe foolishly or otherwise, that even total strangers can hold a positive thought for her and all of us in this family and that it can help.



Last week I was worried that my ass was too fat in vacation pictures and my eyes looked too squinty in that shot and my hair looked funny in that one. I actually cried because someone did not like my book and someone else thought it was just okay.



Like I said--perspective--I have it. My ass is fine, my eyes are fine, my hair is fine. An okay rating or even a bad one is just a fucking opinion and as my mother has said if given enough adult beverages:



Opinions are like assholes...everybody has one.



Right now all that matters in the world to me is my family. All that matters is that a wonderful, (and yes, God fearing church going) mother of three who has given the military her husband more than once and is always, always ALWAYS there to help anyone who needs it...is okay. Heals. Lives. Stays with us for many, many more years.



So if you can spare her a thought and a whisper to whatever energy/Deity/God you believe in, I'd appreciate it.



XOXO

Sommer

Got vamps?

And an evil family? I do. I'm blogging at gee/k/ink today. Go see~~~~>

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Let's play a game...

It's called: Tell me a story...



I guess I'll leave this up until the end of month? Does that sound good? Here is a picture I took on vacation (click it, it gets bigger). I love this image for some reason. So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write me no more than 500 words on this image. Make it sweet, sexy, dirty, full-on nasty...all of the above. Whatever you want. But don't go over 500 words.



Post your content (abiding by all the standards, no underage, no chickens, no dead folks etc) and at the end we'll vote. Not genre specific. Got vamps? Fine. Historical? Fine. Contemporary...fine!



The winner gets a print copy of Gritty and something else. Not sure what the something else is just yet. Probably something local. Spice, coffee, candy...something!



Winner also will stay posted in my sidebar for a bit. So folks can come see how pretty you are.



How's that sound?



So the nutshell:



abide by the standard no-no's

no more than 500 words

post your content to me by 8/31/11

and good luck!



XOXO

Sommer

Quest to make the best Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie...

Test batch #1



Good but not what I wanted. Needs a touch of salt, less soda and Xantham gum. Not what I was shooting for but still yummy and they are disappearing (despite their coaster sized circumference) at an alarming rate! So they must be tasty!



XOXO

S

more trip shots...

Highlights were homemade chips at The Pub and Restaurant on the square. The rooftop pool at the Gettysburg Hotel where we stayed. Finding a dedication brick with the man's grandfather's name on it. The thunderstorms that came during our auto tour of the battlefields. Boy child eating Amish-made cherry pie with a piece of Styrofoam because we had pies from the farmer's market but no plastic utensils and he couldn't wait. Finding gluten free cookies at the farmer's market on the square (good eye girl child!) and of course being disconnected from electronics and fully connected with each other for three days.



Priceless. Well worth the eleven year wait. Next year, I'm thinking cabin somewhere...



XOXO

Sommer