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I Am Not a Muppet

First and foremost, the winner Stockings and Suspenders from the blog hop is Judith Hulley! Congrats, Judith!
Now, onto the rest of today's post. On Sunday, I made my husband a very happy camper when I said we could go see The Muppets. He's been waiting patiently for me to decide it had been out long enough that it wouldn't be filled with screaming kids (and we still ended up with a lot of talkers in our theater...). We took our kids and went, and... he loved it. The Boy loved it. Mini-Me...

Just Keep Swimming

Every once in a while, I get really excited about a project and impose a timeline on myself that is... less than realistic. (Okay, I do it all the time). This time though, I figured I was on a roll. I finished my 50k for NaNoWriMo on November 23--a week early! So, it seemed perfectly logical that if I continued writing at that speed, I could have the first draft done sometime between Dec. 5-10.
It was a no brainer. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming...
Except, there's one thing people...

The blog has moved…

Because of my ongoing frustration with WordPress (and my tech-idiot status), I've moved the blog to blogger. I'm shutting down comments here. Please follow me at http://selestedelaney.blogspot.com .

Drinking and Thinking…about Books

Last night we went out to dinner and I actually ordered a drink. Now, as much as I enjoy my adult beverages, I don't often order drinks when we're out for dinner. They tend to be over-priced…blah blah blah. But I'd finished a project yesterday and wanted to get something to celebrate. In the spirit of celebration, I perused the menu for something a little different and ordered a mojito–a drink that I enjoy but don't have very often.

For me, picking something like that is sort of like going...

One Lovely Blog

Bea at Bea's Book Nook bestowed upon me another blog award.

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It's very pretty and all, but damn it, I want to get like a badass blogger award or something. So far I'm cute and lovely, but…. okay, yeah, enough bitching.

There are two very simple rules that accompany this award:

1.  Share "7″ facts about yourself and…

2.  Pass this award on to "15″ other deserving blog owners (hahahahahahahaha uh…no)

"7″ Random Facts About Me:
1) When I started college, I was an aerospace engineering major. Turned...

Blues and News

First and foremost (since people have been asking), I'm doing better with the depression. I'm not back to my normal (I use that term loosely) self, but I'm getting there. Thanks for all the *hugs* and happy thoughts and love. Every bit of it helps and is appreciated [image error]

I am a little melancholy today though. It's the first day of school. The Boy is a fourth grader, which means in two short years he's going to be in middle school. I'm pretty sure that means I'm old, but I'm going to try to...

New Cover Alert! Forever Summer Coming Soon!

Okay, I'm a little geeked about this one.

First, other than poetry, I haven't entered a writing contest since I was in elementary school. Second, this story was my first foray into the world of *gulp* contemporary romance. So, to have it chosen as a finalist by the people in charge at One Place for Romance and then to have readers vote for it to win…it's crazy exciting for me.

I don't have a release date yet, but I do have cover art. Fantasia Frog Designs was an absolute joy to work with. She n...

New Cover Alert! GunShy Coming in November!

The good news just keeps coming [image error] And good news means new cover art!

When I started this project, I didn't really know where it was going. It seemed like just a cute little short story, but as I was writing, I realized there was more to it than initially anticipated. Even once the mythological aspect came to me, I saw it as a "one and done" project.

If you know me at all, you know how hard a time I have with stand-alones.

The minute I realized this needed to be a series, I panicked. I don't...

Here's the Long and Short of It

I'm not blogging here this week. Instead:

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How cool is that? I absolutely LOVE Long and Short Reviews, so I'm really geeked to be there. Plus I even compare (soda) pop to sex. That should be worth the price of admission [image error] If you're a regular visitor here, please pop over to the interview on Tuesday, August 16. Here's a handy dandy link and everything:

http://www.longandshortreviews.com/WC/interviews.htm

I'm also going to be at their author chat on Wednesday, so if you have questions or anything f...

Sometimes It Pours

I've been trying to avoid doing a post like this for…pretty much forever. As open as I am online, there are some things that I just don't like to talk about. It isn't that I'm trying to hide them, they just aren't fun subjects so I don't bring them up.

This time, I don't feel like I really have a choice because it's affecting too much of my life.

For those of you who don't know, I suffer from depression. Most of the time, I can keep it under control and when it gets bad, it only gets bad for a ...