Julia London's Blog, page 107
August 11, 2009
Jane Sleyre
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters? Mr. Darcy, Vampyre? I have held these variations, twists, and parodies on Austen in high contempt. Don't these people have their own ideas? Their own characters? Must we make Jane's amazing work into something ridiculous and overblown? And yet, I am re-reading Jane Eyre and I begin to see where these ideas start.
I've always felt that Jane Eyre needed to lighten up and wear some color, true. But I never realized how extr
August Sucks
I'm sorry, but it does. It's hot as hell everywhere, and there is no escaping it. Plus, no one is in their office because even though there is no escaping it, they are all out of the office trying to escape it. As for me, I have a book due in about a month, and a book coming out next week. This means I am hot and cranky while I try and write something, and when I get out to go say hi to booksellers and let them know the book is coming, I am hot and cranky and I can't do anything with my hai
August 8, 2009
Technology (sigh)
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My grandfather used to have this exact phone in his office. I loved it. We had touchtone phones at home, but I got to actually use the dial phone at my grandfather's house. Only about twenty years ago (seems like yesterday) did he finally replace it with a touchtone, then a cordless, and now even my 91 year old grandfather (I call him Papa) has a cell phone. I'm stubbornly resistant to call him on it. My mom asks if I called my grandparents and I'll respond that I did, but they weren't home, an
August 6, 2009
John Hughes
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John Hughes movies resembled my youth. Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off… so many more, probably best remembered by checking the John Hughes imdb site. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/
When the movies came out, I was at about the same age as the film characters, and they all seemed fairly realistically drawn, somewhat recognizable in my groups of friends if a little removed from my own reality. I had a friend or two like Ducky from Pretty in Pink.
August 5, 2009
Straight Up
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Paula thinks American Idol producers are cold-hearted snakes for not offering her the kind of money they're paying Cowell and Seacrest, and she has quit! She would have considered being forever their girl for maybe twenty million (still a pittance next to what they pay Seacrest and Cowell), but AI producers countered with $10 million, and Paula's not having it.
I don't blame her. Ten mill is nice and probably realistic, but then why pay the guys so much more? I've no idea what Randy makes. Co
August 4, 2009
Speaking of Mad…
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This is so wrong, and yet so right all at once. Mostly wrong, of course. But I want these women to get a movie deal anyway.
WAUSAU, Wis. — A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead found himself bound, blindfolded and assaulted by a group of women out for revenge, according to court documents. Four women, including his wife, eventually showed up to humiliate the man, who ended up with his penis glued to his stomach in a biz
July 30, 2009
The Whiners Go Mad!
I've been having fun at Madmenyourself.com this morning. I've never watched the show Mad Men, but I love the 50s period clothes and decor and it does look like fun. I mocked up a little Julia, Sherri, and Kathleen for your viewing pleasure:
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Like playing paper dolls! You can use them for your Facebook profile photos. Go out and Madmenyourself.com. Cheers!
July 29, 2009
Sweet 16!
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It was sixteen years ago today, a Thursday, when a quiet morning at home with my husband (he worked nights on alternating weeks) and 26 month old son was interrupted by my realization that I was going into labor. We packed the son off to Grandma's, headed to the hospital, and waited for the petite princess to put in her arrival. When I say princess, I am not kidding. She started holding court moments after birth. She still commands attention, a charge she will deny upon reading and stop speakin
July 27, 2009
Yeah, That Howard Hunt
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I went to see my uncle in New York over the weekend. His health is not good and he spends a lot of time reading. Mysteries, mostly, which he devours. I always bring him a bunch of books, but nothing I brought could top the one he was already reading, HOUSE DICK, by E. Howard Hunt. Yes, that E. Howard Hunt, of Watergate fame. Here's what the publsiher's website says about the author:
"Before he became one of the most controversial figures in modern American history, before he went to
July 23, 2009
Traveling Whiners
We're back! Did you miss us? The Whine Sisters recently met up in Washington D.C. where Julia F. London was attending the Romance Writers of America conference as a RITA-award nominee (for best novella). Kathleen and Sherri were along for the ride, for support, and of course-- to pick up gossip.
Do you think Julia won? Take a guess:
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Authors and fellow nominees Jacquie D'Alessandro and Jean Brashear are pictured with Julia, photograph by friend of Jacquie D'Allesandro (probably Wendy Etherington
