Gretchen Stull's Blog, page 8

Bwahahaha

Courtesy of someecards, a hilarious argument for who's really to blame for gay marriage.

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Love this.

Waiting Sucks

The Good News: The wait for True Blood season 4 is officially over!

The Bad News: I don't have HBO.

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What I do have is a shiny new copy of season 3 on Bluray. It will just have to get me through.

I Love New York

It's hard to believe something as basic as equal human rights is still a debated topic in 2011. That said, it's good to celebrate the triumphs.

Congratulations New York on becoming the sixth and most populous state to permit gay marriage! Here's hoping the remaining 44 soon follow suit.


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Alan Rickman is The Man

I adore Alan Rickman. He's played some of my favorite characters, and he really outdid himself with Severus Snape.

Now that the Harry Potter movie franchise is almost at its end, Alan Rickman has written an open letter to JK Rowling. After reading it, I think I adore him even more.

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MCRW's Annual Melody of Love Contest Wants You!

MCRW's annual Melody of Love Contest for unpublished romance manuscripts is now accepting entries for 2011. This is our 13th year for the contest and our first year to include a YA category, so if you know anyone who writes YA romance or YA with romantic elements, feel free to send them our way!

Receipt Date of entries (25 pgs or less): September 1, 2011
Fees: $22 MCRW member fee; $27 RWA member fee; $32 Non-RWA member fee
Eligibility: Not published in category entered (see rules for specifics)

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The Undead are making a pit stop in the Rocket City!

Vampires, werewolves, and angels are popular icons in today's fiction. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks combines them all in her popular Love at Stake series, and now she is bringing them to the annual Romance Readers' Luncheon sponsored by Heart of Dixie, the north Alabama chapter of RWA. Sparks is the featured speaker for this annual event celebrating romance and literacy in the north Alabama community. Registration is open for the 14th Annual Heart of Dixie e...

Eau de Bookshop

Love your ereader but miss the smell of books? Karl Lagerfeld has the solution.

Paper Passion, a perfume that smells like books, is already in conception. Lagerfeld, a book lover, is working on the fragrance with Steidl. Paper Passion will be sold inside a hollowed out hardback book.

Lagerfeld's personal library boasts over 300,000 books
Lagerfeld isn't the only fragrance designer to venture into the world of paper-inspired perfumes. Demeter Fragrance Library offers Paperback,a scent described ...

Happy Easter

I was well into adulthood before I figured out what Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies had to do with the Resurrection (ie - nothing), but I still enjoy decorating eggs. I can't believe I didn't have this idea long, long ago:

ZOMBIE EASTER EGGS




All photos are curteousy of ZOMBIE! To see more zombie Easter Eggs, click here.

I look forward to making monster themed Easter baskets in the future. I wonder if Easter egg vampires turn to dust in the light? Are Easter eggs ghosts just undecorated eggs? Q...

Someday, I'll have disturbed children

The Zombie Pet Shoppe playset from Neatoshop.com.
 Yes, I think there are awesome. And yes, someday I'll be the proud parent of those kids the others parents tell their children to avoid.

Watch For Falling Rocks

Ever have one of those days? How about one of those weeks? One of those months?

I may be having one on those decades.

No, things are not yet that dire. Occasionally, I bite off more than I can chew. Add to this my obsessive-compulsive need for perfection. Know what you get? A grumpy yet accomplished woman in need of sleep. That's where I am at the moment.

And there's still one day left in the work week.

Sigh.

I'm looking forward to the weekend, which brings with it a J.R. Ward booksigning (yay!) a...