Kate Rothwell's Blog, page 48

The hypochondriacal brain at work

Is there a disease in which a symptom is hearing the same song over and over?

How about one where some layer below your skin itches? Scratching does nothing.

And then there's another serious issue: you know you have to do things but just don't do them? A serious avoidance must mean some kind of pathological syndrome.

And then there's this symptom: heading down Route 91 when you need Route 84. More than once you do this. Two days in a row you find yourself on the wrong highway. Two days in a...

why, hello.....

I'm sulking because I'm not going to RT but the reason I'm sulking has little to do with drinks or cover models or sessions to learn about craft.*** No, my sulk is sillier and more selfish than that.

I'm in a snit because the party goes on with out me. No one is wearing black armbands because Kate's not there. My name shouldn't come up except with maybe one of those "where is she now?" things.

Those sorts of snits are just useless. I used to say "have fun, but not too much fun." as in I wanted ...

grumbly lack of SBD

I'd post a review of this Iris Johansen book but I'm too grouchy.

I checked amazon and saw that other people who've read the book grouse about the over-fiesty heroine, but she was all right. Tough doesn't bother me. Other readers complain that she and the hero do a lot of bickering. Hey, yeah, didn't feel like sexy tension, but, still, that didn't get on my last nerve. The plot was all right.

It's that INFO-DUMPING dialogue--"How can I be happy with my wife and two young children when you're st...

reboot REBOOOT

I can't be bothered to post all those great reviews? Mrs Giggles, Speaks its name, and a few others so you can all see how great I am (correction: how great Bonnie and I are together). But it turns out, no, these glowing reviews are not being reposted. It's not happening. What a slacker I am!

Hey, but listen, the computer is trying to kill itself so I have to be careful with my time on here. The once perfect Toshiba tries to turn itself off often every few hours, and sometimes it succeeds

Then...

I want to see the spammer's hand book

Crystal sexy lingerie, who told you it was a good idea to post 18 comments saying the same thing over and over and over in a blog?

And why, if you're going to do that, do you post in the same post over and over and over when you're the only poster?

Yeah, really---why in god's name do you do it in a thread where you're the only commenter? I mean it sort of makes sense when there's other people babbling and a spammer add his worthless crap. At least everyone who signed on to see additional commen...

Time again to preen

A woman could get used to this. Yessirree.

Bonnie has yet another cowritten book out today, so she's moved along to promoting that one (she wrote it with Marie Treanor, who's another autobuy author for me.** It's a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin.) I don't have any releases of any sort lined up so I'm still hunting around for reviews of our last one, The Gentleman and the Rogue.

They're nearly all thumbs up.

The other nice thing? There are a lot of these "this is a fabu book!" reviews. I have to ge...

one week later

A week? Why didn't I post during the whole week?

Nothing to say hasn't ever slowed me down. Maybe it's because I don't visit other blogs much and so don't get inspired.

But now it's SBD and I have to report in.
Reading this week was almost all Books on Tape. That's so I can multi-task---I can't just sit around and read a book. I have to do other stuff, like ummm.....ummmmmmm....clean the house? Naw. Cook? Sometimes. Wander aimlessly around the house? Frequently.

I listened to a Victoria Dahl cont...

SBD Julie and Romeo again

I got the first book from the library and now I have the second. All the things I liked about the first are here. Great voice and humor, sweet but not too winsome. Just enough gentle snark to work without being over-the-top New York nasty. Kind of chick lit for older women. I love Jeanne Ray and wish she had more books out.

BUT there's just one tiny thing wrong and it's like a sore toe--ruins the whole walk.

The daughters are essentially rotten to Julie. I don't mean they steal her car or take ...

bah, hum...oh, never mind

I did not like April Fool's day for two reasons: I'm extremely gullible and I have boy children.

This means I end up feeling like the perpetually grumpy-because-of-constant-mockery Jamie on Mythbusters.

Just because it's easy to do, doesn't mean you should do it over and over and over, boys.

Except every April first for the last few years there have been fine contributions to the holiday culture by and SMART BITCHES (along with fellow smartassbitch, dearauthor) This means that now I have...

ahhhhhh, yay.

This is our first formal Gentleman and the Rogue review and I've checked it a few times. I like it THAT MUCH. It's gotten a lot of hits, I notice.

Many were me.

I hope I never get used to people loving my/our books. I hope I also get a chance to really find out if it's possible to get jaded by positive attention.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction, jmc!