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May 13, 2009
Pink mug giveaway!
In belated honor of Mother's Day, as well as this great review for THE GHOST DOWNSTAIRS ("just what a light-hearted ghost story should be. It’s delightful, funny, and intriguing, with just enough chills to give you goose bumps"), I'll do a different type of contest/giveaway this week.
Your prize: a pink matte pastel bistro mug, 16-ounce, with the Wild Rose Press logo - looks like this. I have one and it's a great mug--holds plenty of tea, has a nice smooth feel to it, and is an attractive rosy pi
Your prize: a pink matte pastel bistro mug, 16-ounce, with the Wild Rose Press logo - looks like this. I have one and it's a great mug--holds plenty of tea, has a nice smooth feel to it, and is an attractive rosy pi
May 7, 2009
You call yourselves pervy fangirls and fanboys, yet...
...none of you posted about Robert Pattinson kissing another man and doing gay sex scenes for an upcoming movie. It's called Little Ashes, and (making matters substantially odder) he plays a young Salvador Dali, and I bet I'll be able to keep from snickering right up to the moment when he starts wearing the crazy up-swooped mustache. But in that kiss photo linked above, at least, and thus presumably in some of the film, he's clean-shaven.
I just have to chuckle, since a role like that is such a p
I just have to chuckle, since a role like that is such a p
May 3, 2009
Fan film: The Hunt for Gollum
Released today online and free:
http://thehuntforgollum.com/
LOTR fans, go watch! This is a short film, slightly over 30 minutes, made entirely by volunteer fans on a non-profit basis. And given the shoestring budget, I must say it looks, sounds, and feels amazing. If it weren't for the different cast, I'd believe it was a long extra sequence from Peter Jackson's extended DVDs. And actually, the guy who plays Gandalf looks so much like Ian McKellen that I might not have noticed the difference ther
http://thehuntforgollum.com/
LOTR fans, go watch! This is a short film, slightly over 30 minutes, made entirely by volunteer fans on a non-profit basis. And given the shoestring budget, I must say it looks, sounds, and feels amazing. If it weren't for the different cast, I'd believe it was a long extra sequence from Peter Jackson's extended DVDs. And actually, the guy who plays Gandalf looks so much like Ian McKellen that I might not have noticed the difference ther
May 1, 2009
A few rules for the third trimester
These can be applied to anytime during pregnancy, really, as no two women ever experience the same torturous miraculous process.
1. Drink three times as much water as you think you need. Just do it; you'll feel better.
2. Any of the following now count as exercise and entitle you to sit down and rest a while after doing them:
a. Unloading the dishwasher
b. Folding and putting away laundry
c. Carrying groceries from car to house
d. Walking one block to put something in mailbox
3. Given strenuous
1. Drink three times as much water as you think you need. Just do it; you'll feel better.
2. Any of the following now count as exercise and entitle you to sit down and rest a while after doing them:
a. Unloading the dishwasher
b. Folding and putting away laundry
c. Carrying groceries from car to house
d. Walking one block to put something in mailbox
3. Given strenuous
April 22, 2009
Tolkien & me at Fictionwise. Also, stupid shorts.
FYI, the online ebook superstore Fictionwise has now added THE GHOST DOWNSTAIRS to their catalog:
http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook86349.htm?cache
And since it's a "new" book in their system, it's 15% off for the time being. Get it while it's hot!
I'm honored to share the New Book At Fictionwise category with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, which also is out this week for the first time as an official ebook. :)
If you have a Kindle reader, Amazon.com now carries my title in that format
http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook86349.htm?cache
And since it's a "new" book in their system, it's 15% off for the time being. Get it while it's hot!
I'm honored to share the New Book At Fictionwise category with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, which also is out this week for the first time as an official ebook. :)
If you have a Kindle reader, Amazon.com now carries my title in that format
April 21, 2009
Child quote (and Buffy)
I watched the Buffy episode "The Prom" (season 3) during breakfast this morning, while playing with my son. When Angel has his dream sequence about marrying Buffy, my son looked at her in her big poofy veil and low-cut wedding dress, and said grinning, "She's not dressed yet! She's just got a towel on her head."
As a side note, I get misty when the Class of '99 presents her with the Class Protector award. And how odd is it that it's Jonathan who presents it? Guess he has a tough few years between
As a side note, I get misty when the Class of '99 presents her with the Class Protector award. And how odd is it that it's Jonathan who presents it? Guess he has a tough few years between
April 20, 2009
Perfume giveaway: Ortigia Acqua di Colonia: Ambra Nera
It's...return of the perfume giveaway!
Today's offering: Ambra Nera, by Ortigia Acqua di Colonia. As before, it's a little 1 ml sample vial from The Perfumed Court, tested but mostly full.
Description: From a Sicilian line of fragrances, Ambra Nera features notes of spicy exotic woods, vetiver, patchouli, and cedar over an amber base of labdanum, oak musk, galbanum and resins.
If you like dark, mysterious, incensey amber, this one may be for you. I'm not sure of the concentration, but it's definite
Today's offering: Ambra Nera, by Ortigia Acqua di Colonia. As before, it's a little 1 ml sample vial from The Perfumed Court, tested but mostly full.
Description: From a Sicilian line of fragrances, Ambra Nera features notes of spicy exotic woods, vetiver, patchouli, and cedar over an amber base of labdanum, oak musk, galbanum and resins.
If you like dark, mysterious, incensey amber, this one may be for you. I'm not sure of the concentration, but it's definite
April 11, 2009
Time to ramble about Buffy
Despite Saturday attendance at LJ being historically low, I feel like posting a Buffy ramble. Been too long, right?
I'm rewatching the series slowly, and just saw "Enemies" from Season 3. Though it's an excellent episode, I think it has some of those typical Joss "please ignore that illogical bit" plot points. The mayor hires the blue-shrouded demon with glowing eyes to steal Angel's soul, but at the end we find out blue guy was actually in Giles's employ and thus on "our" side. Fine, and of cour
I'm rewatching the series slowly, and just saw "Enemies" from Season 3. Though it's an excellent episode, I think it has some of those typical Joss "please ignore that illogical bit" plot points. The mayor hires the blue-shrouded demon with glowing eyes to steal Angel's soul, but at the end we find out blue guy was actually in Giles's employ and thus on "our" side. Fine, and of cour
April 10, 2009
Win an ebook for Easter
Drawing time!
From now till Easter Sunday, leave a comment here to enter yourself into the running for a free PDF copy of The Ghost Downstairs. (Non-LiveJournalers, just leave an email address where I can reach you if you win.) There's a touch of an Easter theme in it, just briefly at the end, so it's fitting. Of course, it's an even more fitting story for a Halloween giveaway, which I'll probably do in October as well.
Anyway--enter away! And remember you can read the first chapter on my site if
From now till Easter Sunday, leave a comment here to enter yourself into the running for a free PDF copy of The Ghost Downstairs. (Non-LiveJournalers, just leave an email address where I can reach you if you win.) There's a touch of an Easter theme in it, just briefly at the end, so it's fitting. Of course, it's an even more fitting story for a Halloween giveaway, which I'll probably do in October as well.
Anyway--enter away! And remember you can read the first chapter on my site if
April 8, 2009
Week 29, finally taking photos
Just starting the third trimester (eek!), and have gotten around to a sort-of belly pic. Plus Z in his stylin' purple pants made by Grams.
Since I definitely have gained more, sooner, this pregnancy than the first one, Steve and I like to make remarks about how similar I'm looking to a sea mammal. When I appear on the beach, local blogs take photos. Authorities remind everyone to be whale-wise and keep 200 yards away. If I wear black and white I am an orca, Molly of M Pod. And so on.
But anyway. C
