Josh’s Comments (group member since Jun 17, 2010)

Josh’s comments from the Q&A with Josh Lanyon group.

I'm so happy to hear this because that is exactly what I want these books to be. Positive and comforting--like a smile from a friend. :-)

Antonella wrote: "Amanda Palmer reading Possibilities by Wislawa Szymborska.


Possibilities by Wislawa Szymborska

I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky...."

I love this.

HOWEVER, I PREFER DOGS.

The Schouwendam 12

https://acorn.tv/schouwendam/

I was really enjoying the twists and turns of this one, but I found the ending disappointing and quite the downer.

Kirsten wrote: "My escapism these days is Schitt's Creek. I'm in the middle of the third season. It's a black comedy about this rich family that goes bankrupt and has to move to a small, small town."

I've watched a couple episodes and thought if was very funny.

KC wrote: "Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (it's on Acorn TV). I was really looking forward to it since I adore the TV mystery series, but...turned out a bit disappointing. It's basically a not very well t..."

I agree. I was disappointed too. I didn't want Miss Fisher to become a female Indy. I wanted a longer and more complex Miss Fisher mystery. But yes, yay for the ending. ;-)

For about two weeks I was listening to what the kidlings used to refer to as THE FUNERAL CHANNEL (AKA Asian Spa Music) while I was working on Skull House.

Needless to say, no playlist came out of that. :-D

SamSpayedPI wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Maybe that was the final destination?"

Hmm; not according to the lyrics. They have a snack in Sausalito before they gas up the car to cross the Golden Gate Bridge into San Franci..."

Well, it's a while since I've been to SF, but maybe they moved Sausalito? :-D

1 - Warm and breezy afternoons that stir the chimes and gently bump the hummingbirds back from the feeders. :-D

2 - Swimming (Thank. God.)

3 - Four little ragged, root-bound plants the SO brought me back from Lowes.

4 - Marlowe and Spenser thundering overhead as they chase each other up and down the stairs, up and down the hallway. :-D

5 - Playing around with cocktail recipes

My room was shadowy with half-light, for it was morning outside when I went back to bed, even though the house appeared to be wrapped in the dark silence which is only sleep.



And here I was complaining about the lack of mood and ambiance. :-D

The best thing about today is it's Sunday and I'm mostly taking it off! YAY for weekends. What a fabulous concept.

Loretta wrote: "My houses pays off today!!"

Wow! Congratulations!

Loretta wrote: "I have the day off! We closed the office for the end of tax season! Ha. This is the weirdest tax season ever. But now I have a three day weekend, and I get to do my favorite thing. Stay home and re..."

:-D :-D :-D

Jordan wrote: "And I just read an article that says the post office could go belly up come June if something isn’t done to help them out. That’s the last thing we need right now."

I believe this is about making voting by mail impossible for November. Trump has already stated he will veto ANY efforts to bail out the Postal Service.

General news.

New book out! YAY. Secret at Skull House is live everywhere but Kobo. I'm not going to bother with Kobo for now. Too many problems with them on numerous fronts.

Everything else is sort of...nebulous. I'm cancelling Bell, Book and Scandal. Well, not cancelling, but pushing back to the fall. I'm still hoping to do Haunted Heart: Spring for June, but I'm not feeling much like writing anything intense or that requires much focus. I just don't have that in me at the moment.

In fact, I'm taking May as a month to regroup and regather. I'm writing, but I'm jumping from project to project with no real goals other than rekindle my creativity.

Ebook sales are up 50% so I'm envious of those who can take advantage of this period, but I'm not feeling that drive. In honesty, I was getting tired of all the deadlines even before this happened, so this was kind of a last straw.

Antonella wrote: "KC wrote: "Hi, everyone, how's the weekend going?
Braved the supermarket yesterday morning..."

I've got the same problem. I really don't feel like shopping even when I need it, because for some ti..."

I feel the same. That is the SO though. He is going crazy being stuck at home. I was able to insist for about three weeks, but now he is pushing more and more against my using Instacart and other services when he *wants* to get out of the house.

He's the one with the myriad health issues, but I'm the one with all the fear. So I'm trying to find compromises for us.

KC wrote: "Hi, everyone, how's the weekend going?
Braved the supermarket yesterday morning (only going grocery-shopping every two weeks atm). It was quite busy for 8am on a Saturday, but people mostly keep th..."

I bet! :-D

Mostly people are being smart around here. We do have the few fools who make a point of violating social distance. Which is very weird to me. It's one thing if you believe it's a hoax and you don't want to take precautions. That's your choice. But when you deliberately push into other people's space, when you deliberately take risks with others? That's sociopathic behavior. YOU DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT.

It's so infuriating.

It will be interesting as things start to open up. I've had offers from service providers to meet with me privately, but I've turned them all down because--sympathetic though I am to their financial situation--the risk is not worth a massage or a hair color or a facial.

We've currently got 422 cases in our community (it's less than 10 cases per 10,000 people) which is good news because the rise has slowed considerably. So a part of me wonders if I'm obsessing over this--which I am prone to do--and a part of me wonders if I'm getting careless now that the initial panic is over.

KC wrote: "Gregory Ashe started today a serialized free novel, a chapter per day, for which you can sign up here: https://bit.ly/qsarchive"

I signed up for this but haven't started reading yet. I'm in a weird place reading-wise. Everything contemporary seems out of sync with what's going on in the world--and yet, I don't want to read about what's going on in the world. So I've gone back to vintage mystery.

I'm currently reading Blood on Her Shoe by Medora Fields. Fields is interesting. She wrote two mysteries and both were made into not very great films. Her ideas are always super strong and her writing is perfectly competent, but she writes in that highly abbreviated genre fiction style of the 1940s where there's really very little attention paid to mood, setting, or even much detail.

And of course a lot of readers prefer it that way, but mood is so much of what makes a scary scene scary. Or a funny scene funny. I love mood and setting as both an author and a reader.

I'm enjoying the book though. That's just an observation on writing style.

Jordan wrote: "B&N isn't paying ebook royalties at the moment...

https://the-digital-reader.com/2020/0..."

It makes sense, given the current situation. I did get my B&N royalties from Smashwords and I did get a notice that royalties were being paid thru B&N direct yesterday, but they've been floundering for a long time and this is liable to be the beginning of the end. :-/

It's very worrying given that Kobo is also in decline.

I'm so glad so many of you responded in this thread. And I'm so relieved to hear that you're mostly healthy and in good spirits. Or at least, calm. :-D

Johanna wrote: "Karen wrote: "Johanna, do you think that your school year will resume? In New Mexico the onsite year is over and teachers are waiting to hear what the State is requiring re testing and standards."
..."

It's not for certain, but I believe California schools will be closed for the remainder of the school year.