Julia London's Blog, page 97

Happy Labor Day!

After having spent the weekend laboring (writing diligently), I am planning on spending today the same way. Labor Day came to be to celebrate the laborer, and in remembrance of those who had actually died due to workplace issues (1894, this was long before OSHA ever came to be). Today, most workplaces are fairly hum-dum and not going to cause any deaths, but instead we use the holiday to mark the end of summer. The beginning of school, the end of vacations. Days are getting cooler (60...

Long Summer Nights

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Question of the Week: What's Your Reading Pleasure?

I had been reading a lot of angsty, dysfunctional family type books (The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand being the most recent) but won a book by Phillipa Gregory, so I am reading The White Queen and will follow it with The Red Queen.  These two books are about the War of the Roses in fifteenth century England.

It has been so long since I read an historical novel, I forgot how much I enjoy them.  These are the type of books I gravitate toward–sweeping historical sagas, or dysfunctional...

Fashion Friday: Emmy 2010

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Basic, but not boring. Great color on Jane Lynch.

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In hieroglyphics, Tina's dress says "should have stuck to basic black."

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Love the yellow, and the way Sofia Vergara dressed her curves.

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Love the purple, but not so loving the way Christina Hendricks dressed her curves. She has looked better.

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Desperately in need of curves, Lea Michelle. Was she always this thin?

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Julia Ormond, Jacquie and I will probably agree that she needs to do something with her hair.

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Mr. Right is...

WRITER'S CORNER–WHAT AM I DOING?

I hate doing laundry.  I hate cleaning the kitchen.  I hate going to the supermarket.  I hate going to the dentist.  But there is one particular time when I love doing those four things I hate.

When I'm on deadline.

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If we all became nudists, we'd never have to do laundry again.

 Why?  Because basically, I'd rather be doing ANYTHING than planting my butt in the chair and writing during deadline time.  Yet that is a total paradox because if I didn't have the deadline, the book would never...

Wednesday Whine: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Classic Kathleen Givens, first published on 2/11/09 [image error] Well, isn't this fun, to have so many liars to talk about?  There's the owner of the Peanut Corporation of America, Stewart Parnell, who refused to testify to Congress today, but whose company has been caught red-handed selling infected food.  Six hundred people made ill and nine deaths and he's taking the Fifth.  And there's A-Rod, adored by millions of little kids and big kids alike, who swore to Katie Couric that he never used steroids...

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

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The crazy wheel keeps on turning...

So many changes right about now. The biggest is my new name (how's THAT for a subtle reference to the fact that it's release day for When Blood Calls by J.K. Beck?).

But there's other stuff, too. We're selling our house (which I love, but am happy to sell because we've outgrown it), and we're buying a new one (that we're building … or we're having built).

It's a lot further along now, but I'm SO excited to no longer have a galley kitchen!

My kids ...

When Blood Calls

Dangerous Desires

As the demolitions expert for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Tyler Hanson has two great loves: literature and explosives. She lives by the motto "duty first" and doesn't have time for personal attachments . . . until a steamy one-night stand turns into a professional partnership.

BURNED BY BETRAYAL

When Tyler meets Owen Wakefield, a handsome British operative, she seduces him with no intention of ever seeing him again. But then the sexy Brit is brought into...

And the Emmy Goes to…

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So this year like every year, I watched the Emmys.  And like every year, there were shows (and actors who bring them to life) that won that I've never seen (we gave up pay television ages ago).  Shows I sampled and then abandoned (meaning I have no idea why they won).  Shows that won that had better shows in their category (clearly my shows were robbed).  And shows and/or their actors that I adore and did win.  (Go Modern Family and Glee).   

There were ugly outfits and lovely ones.  There...