This morning I woke up (with a painful neck cramp that still hasn’t gone away 
) and determined to write all day.
I went down to the kitchen, got my mega-jumbo cup of coffee and went back up to the loft to work on my story. While I drank my coffee I checked my mail, visited some other author blogs and… (yep, you guessed it!) got distracted! I stopped by Alison Kent’s blog and in the process of replying to her entry I went to her message board for the first time. There I saw that she used the same meassage board program I did but her board matches her site! That was my number one complaint about mine was that it didn’t match my beautifully designed site.(Thanks again, Genevieve!) So I sat down and determined to fix the problem. It’s done now, check it out here, and I like it (finally!) but it took a big chunk of my day.
As for my Johanna Lindsey book, Fires of Winter, I started last night… I have to say my tastes have changed. I remembered loving the book back when I first read it but last night I just couldn’t get into it. I read the first few chapters, then skipped to the middle, then jumped to the end. The book is 362 pages of small type. The protagonists are at odds until page 357! Good grief! I don’t have that much patience! :crazy:
Hopefully my B&N order will arrive today. I ordered Gaelen Foley’s Devil Takes a Bride. I’ve never read Gaelen before, never even heard of her until I stumbled across her one day on a link from another author’s site. I liked the title. Liked the excerpt. Ordered the book. Apparently this book is the latest in a multi-book series and the heroine was featured prominently in another book, but I only ordered Devil Takes a Bride. Maybe I’ve found a new author. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Excerpts. So important. I’ve bought many a book simply because I enjoyed the excerpt I found at the author’s site. In fact, of the four books I ordered from B&N three of them, Sasha White’s Handling Amanda in Wicked Words 9, MaryJanice Davidson’s Undercover and Devil Take’s a Bride, were purcahsed because of author website excerpts.
Ah, author websites…
But that’s another blog. Right now I have to get back to work!
Whoo Hooo! It’s nice to know my website got me (and Black Lace) a new reader! I hope you enjoy it!
I think I’ll go check out your message board now!
on July 14th, 2004 at 12:43 pm