Kate Rothwell's Blog, page 49

see this stuff?It's what you buy when you have the frizzi...

see this stuff?


It's what you buy when you have the frizzies. Instructions for use are: Dispense 2-3 drops into palm, then spread between hands to form a thin layer. Gently smooth over hair surface.

Nowhere on the bottle does it say "shampoo."

NOWHERE.


See this person?

What several things strike you about her? Here are the correct answers:

1. She has a lot of hair

2. She's not wearing her goddamn reading glasses.

3. She looks like the sort of person who'd be confounded by simple things.

When this p...

interview with the bod

me: okay, I've given you some coffee, bowing to your need for decaf, let's go sit and have a talk.

body:

me: I think you need to decide which physical imperfection you want. Your current forays into two extremes is just unfair. You can't have it both ways.

body: huh?

me: Pick one. Dry, wrinkled skin or pimples. Not both.

body:

me: And the hair. Frizzy, fly away or greasy. Not both.

body:

me: And you can have either PMS or hot flashes. Irritability or ..... irritability. Okay, maybe that one doesn'...

about that cant. . .

We have gotten a couple of reviews for The Gentleman and The Rogue and one person wondered if the slang we used was real.

Yup.

I fished all the phrases from this great book.

I recently also bought these volumes online. The good thing about this slang dictionary is that it has the dates of usage listed. Trouble is as pointed out, you have to know the phrase you're looking. Can't go looking for a common word (something like"leg") and find its various...

The fabulous cheesy** ad featuring my middle boy

He's the one with the mustache and top hat. Not a bad guy so much as misunderstood.


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**cheesy and it's for an ice cream store. ha...? get it?

Puppy Love

You know one of my favorite things about parenting? And, for the record before we begin, I'm not being snarky.

It's that you can be utterly proud and heart-warmed by something you KNOW is not just worthy of your huge response. OR that if one of your friends went on and on about that same sort of thing (and they will) your first urge (before you remember) is to roll your eyes.

But it doesn't matter. At all. Because we're not talking about thinking here. This is pure emotion.

When that kid first...

sbd hunger games

I got this as an audiobook from the library. I listened non-stop over the weekend, on bright sunny days working in my garden, cleaning up the house, so I don't know if I was operating in the proper sort of atmosphere to have the story work right. Anyway, the horrific situation the main characters were in didn't grabbed me by the throat any more than a reality show does, which is, of course, ironic, since that's what their lives were.

Basic premise: you got 12 Districts under the control of a ...

here's what I am worried about

I'm slogging through a story, 25K words into it and it's not coming together. I had a brief rant over it yesterday and one of my two crit partners who've been complaining about the meh story suggested I take a break and write the book of my heart.

I have no book of my heart.

At the moment I don't seem to have any particular books at all--not even of the liver or brain or kneecaps. I sit down and write because that's what I'm supposed to do. Then I end up with a slog, apparently. Soggy slog, a b...

about the errors.

Someone sent a sympathetic note saying tough luck about the mistakes so it must sound like I'm upset.

Nope. Not at all. Stuff happens and compared to what I did to my garden yesterday (sorry, strawberries) this is nada. I haven't lost a minute's sleep. I haven't lost ten seconds sleep.

I'm really mostly interested in how to address that sort of situation. Truly there should be a protocol.

And also? Getting huffy would be ridiculous because those are exactly the kinds of mistake I'd make -- that...

Oh, oops

So let's say you have a blurb/back copy for a book and a kind reader points out that there are glaring historical issues with the copy. (and really, a very kind reader since he/she didn't blast it all over the internets.)

The issues are only with the blurb, not the book. Trouble is you've put those particular paragraphs all over the webs. Every. Where. You. Can.

Do you.
1. Go back and change the very few places you can change....very quietly. Don't say anything and post correct info hencefort...

New BOOK! and other stuff

Bonnie and I have a new e-book out today! Yay! I like the characters in this one, particularly Jem. And that Anne Cain cover. Nice, eh?


You can find the book here.

and an excerpt here.

blurb:

A lad from the streets meets a lord of the manor...

When Crimean war veteran Sir Alan Watleigh goes searching for sex, he never imagines the street rat he brings home for one last bit of pleasure in his darkest hour will be the man who hauls him back from the edge of the grave.

A night of meaningless...