Everyone I Ever Was and Everyone I Ever Will Be

Because I had fun yesterday, I went to a different dollmaker this afternoon.

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Also, have a Kaylee doll.

This is a neat idea.

And this time I can blame awritersfantasy for my utter lack of productivity today. ;-) Go here to make some of your own.




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What a rainy weekend. That's why I haven't updated in the past couple of days; every time I wanted to get online it was storming, and the couple of times I did get online it was storming again within ten minutes.

Anyway, the book signing went really well. I was terrified, but it went well. :-) Sold six books, two of the first one and four of the sequel. I still have several copies left, so I'll think about it and decide whether that's enough for the arts and crafts fair or whether I should buy a few more of each before June/July. (I can never remember what month the fair is in. lol) And someone asked about the book covers (they said they especially liked the one for Unexpected!), so I got to talk a bit about Warsheep Productions.

And, to celebrate our refund from the IRS, Chris and I got some DVDs from amazon.com. (with the refinancing sometime next week, we'll be able to pay off the credit card, which means we can actually freely use it again! 'Freely' meaning 'completely responsibly and no I will not buy 244 character portraits at once, honest'. ;-))

We bought the DVD of Long Way Round. Watched all seven episodes yesterday, and the special features are on the list for sometime today. That is seriously what 'reality' TV should be like. Far too many favorite moments to list them all, I just know that I need to watch it again. Soon. Then maybe I'll be capable of a more coherent review.

We also got a couple of other things. A TV show, and a certain movie that follows said TV show. Kath, Debi, three guesses and the last two don't count. *G*

Just got off the phone with one of the workers at the college library-- the staff there want me to come in sometime in April to give a local-author presentation.

I agreed (of course) but I'm already getting butterflies. It's weird; I shouldn't get nervous about speaking to a room full of people. And I'm not, really, when I'm in a show and reading someone else's words. But when they're my own, I get jittery.

Things to do:

1) Find out if this is more of a 'chat with a local author' thing or a book signing or both
2) If the latter, get some more copies of Unexpected to sell
3) Pick a section from Unexpected to read
4) Check and see if anyone on eBay is selling confidence yet

Guess who got another rejection slip in the mail yesterday?

I was over at my parents telling them about it, and I said, "Well, apparently the book's 'an interesting manuscript with a lot of potentially interesting details, just not right for us at this time, but good luck and I hope you keep us in mind for future submissions'", and Chris said, "You know, the scary thing is she only read that once." And I grinned and said, "I've read it a bunch of times."

I think that's an author's rite of passage or something. Get through the twenty million rejection letters, and maybe you've got a chance.

But, in the spirit of getting back up on the horse after it's tossed you into a thorn bush, I'm going to

1) get some work done on my website
2) gather some new material to post after I've gotten a paid lj account (for those of you interested in reading the first chapters of We Were Strangers and Unexpected, some background stories for a few Karavan characters, and a horror story I wrote a couple of years back-- you're in luck) ;-)
3) after that's done, look through a directory of agents that Kath sent me a while back and start in with the query letters.

The sequel to We Were Strangers is now available at iUniverse.com, the Barnes and Noble website, and amazon.com.

I'll be spending part of the day putting up promotional buttons all over my website and in my lj user info, and then sometime next week I'm going to buy an ad in the local paper. :-)

I'm feeling particularly useless today. LOL I was trying to figure out what book to edit when dad called and told me there was a TV movie based on one of Ed McBain's books on at noon, so of course I watched it . . . and then another one in the series was on right after it.

So, now late afternoon. Maybe I'll write some notes or something while I'm waiting for Kath.

I want to see Serenity, and A History of Violence. So guess which two movies are not playing at our theater. :-P Maybe they'll come in next Friday. *fingers crossed*

Dunno. Just feeling spacey. Probably need to go fix something to eat. Finished the first draft of my latest novel a couple of days ago, and I always feel kindof 'now what?' after that. Not going to go back and work on it again for a little while, because it was really dark and nasty and freaky. So, something more cheerful up next.

Found a letter from the credit card people, the one asking for photocopies of ID and whatnot so they could process our application . . . dated August 22. After they got the ID, they said, it'd take about a month to come up with an answer, so any day now. I'm checking mail religiously, because either way I want to publish Unexpected and order character portraits and go on amazon.com and do bad, bad things. lol

Anyway. Food. Yeah.