Marianna Roberg's Blog
June 2, 2014
Catch-up Post
I’ve put this post off a while, mostly because, surprise surprise, I’ve been in ill health. I had sinus surgery at the end of last month, and once again ended up hospitalized for pneumonia, this time with the added joy of a partially collapsed lung. But I’m home from the hospital, the nasal splint are […]
May 3, 2014
“Toasted” update, and book 3 news!
As of this evening, “Toasted” has finished second-draft edits and is mostly done with third-draft edits. I finished going through the paper copy of the manuscript with a red pencil, marking up things. Luckily, I’ve only found typos and a few little things to change. There’s also one really amusing (at least to me) unintentional […]
December 26, 2013
Toasted is FINISHED!
I am absolutely delighted to say that I have FINISHED the first draft of “Toasted”. It’s taken way longer than I would have liked, but it’s DONE! Done done done! It’s also just before 6 AM and no one is awake to celebrate with me. Ah, well. I’ll bug them when they’re up. Now begins […]
December 18, 2013
Still here!
I’m still here, still plugging away. It’s been difficult to concentrate on writing with my neck problems, and that’s frustrating me. However, I am very amused by the spam comments I get on the blog here. The latest one consisted of, and I quote, “uk erectile dysfunction”. That’s it. No links to anything. Just that. […]
October 28, 2013
A brief update
I know I haven’t posted in a while. I haven’t really had much to say. I’ve been hard at work on “Toasted”, when I haven’t felt too sick to write. I found out recently that a major cause for the headaches I’ve been having is that my cervical vertebrae, two of my thoracic vertebrae, and […]
July 4, 2013
Happy Independence Day!
Okay, that’s a little odd to write, considering that half of the TV shows I’m into are British in origin, but whatever. Today is the 237th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. A lot of people use this holiday as an excuse to fry meat, drink beer, and blow things up. While [...]
June 3, 2013
Copyright and Pirates
Just a quick post. I’ve spent the early part of this evening dealing with the piracy of one of my books. I’ve had to file DMCA notices with a couple of websites I’m really not pleased that this happened, and I’m not flattered. I don’t take kindly to “At least they thought it was good [...]
May 10, 2013
Generic Title #1138
There was a Star Wars reference on Supernatural Wednesday night (it’s now 1:30 AM on Friday morning, so I can’t precisely say “last night”). The Winchesters found a case numbered 1138. I laughed. I just read a post from Allie Brosh at Hyperbole And A Half. She’s funny and her blog is all kinds of [...]
May 4, 2013
Woe is Me
April was not a good month for my family. In the space of those four weeks, my stepfather had his appendix out; the very next day 45-year-old aunt was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer that had spread to her lungs, liver, and brain; I got a sinus infection the same week that required a [...]
April 26, 2013
Insomnia Strikes Again
There are a lot of things I should be doing right now, most of all sleeping, but I’m not. I’ve had a sinus infection for a while now, diagnosed only yesterday (I’m not showing typical signs, i.e. cold symptoms, but the symptoms I have displayed apparently made them think it was a brain tumour, so [...]
