Deborah Macgillivray's Blog, page 77

working on my new study

I am doing a new study, and just finished the accent wall behind the desk.
Rather fitting, I think, for an author who writes Medieval romances.

I have always love Accolades by Leighton, so was very thrilled to find
it in a tapestry that just the perfect size to fit the wall.

John Mellancamp speaks out against piracy

John MellencampMusician and Activist


"Tell me where, under today's conditions of de facto indentured servitude, will the new artists come from? If I were a young songwriter today, I would definitely be looking for another way to earn a living. The same would go for the young screenwriter or novelist. And what about the guy who only had one or two hit records 10 or 50 years ago? What happens to this guy who depends on that income to support his family if people are stealing those songs now? Tough luck, right? This is the thread of failure in front of all artists today. Art exclusively as a hobby -- that's the "new model" it seems. And to all you bloggers who have prophesized that this new way is going to somehow provide sustainable careers? Your prophecies did not and will never come true. If there is the occasional sparkle of success, it usually turns out to be nothing more than a novelty, not a new business model. We need to restore intellectual property to its rightful owners and reconstruct the business that has lost thousands and thousands of jobs plus billions of dollars in revenue."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mellencamp/online-piracy-search-engines_b_2018332.html

Read the whole article.

Surviving and moving ahead

Author/Reviewer Jacqueline Lichtenberg reviewed my novel  A Wolf's and Wolf's Clothing (wonderful review by the way) a few months after release.  She enjoyed the book, so I dropped her a note to explain why there were no more releases in the series of late.  First, I had to overcome a series of life-altering incidents, then the publisher -- Dorchester Publishing -- went out of business.  She asked me to write about the fire, how it affected me, how it was eerily like the ending of A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing .  I put it off for a long time.  The events were simply too hard to sit and write about.  But I think she sensed this was a bridge I had to cross in the healing process.  Wise woman.  I traveled that path of healing, an ongoing process, but it's a step I needed to take in my personal life and my evolving as an author.  They say what doesn't break you, makes you.  I have fond that to be truth.

So here is the article:

http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/10/guest-post-by-deborah-macgillivray-wolf.html

I thank Jacqueline for her kindness, her encouragement and special words about my writing.

I also give a big thanks to Montlake/Amazon Publishing for stepping in and buying my series from the defunct Dorchester Publishing and giving my series a new home.

new bookmarks are in!!!

As usual, the bunch at Iconix.biz are such amazing people to work with.  They take my designs and make the stunning bookmarks that are on heavy paper and plastic coated so they last.  And in 1, 2, 3, days they are HERE.  I am so thrilled with this company and cannot recommend them enough!!

I hit the jack pot on Knockout Roses. A lovel...

 

I hit the jack pot on Knockout Roses.  A lovely nursery down the road was selling them for $10.   So Candy Thompson and I rode down last week and picked up a truck load.  The lady who does my yard put in the bed today.  17 reds, 5 yellows in a bed 25 foot long at the very back of the yard.  Next week they will come back with landscape timbers and form around the bed, then fill the bed with red mulch.  I was out watering them this evening and the neighbor came over to tell me how beautiful they looked.

Miss Mouthy's anniversary

Miss Mouthy has been with us for six months now.  Since I took her in that stormy night in spring she hasn't asked to go outside again.  She loves it inside.  She had put on weight, plays, sits in the window and watches the birds in the bird bath, but she is quite delighted at being a pampered indoor baby.

She spends  every afternoon beside me, napping while I write.  I am very lucky she came into my life.

Welcome Autumn in all your glory

New Bookmarks for Sisters series

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Today was International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and boy did it seem like the day is spreading in attention!!  Even on the news they were talking about it.  It really started gaining force with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, but being a pirate seems to really have captured people's imagination.  As you can see by my Snoopy Flag, I celebrate it openly, though my hubby frowned on the Muppets Treasure Island going full blast this morning!

So hope all your scurvy sons of a bilge rat had a rum and toasted our favourite pirate, Cap'n Jack!!!
ARRRRRGHHHHH!!!!

Perfect rose