back to school

...and just in time. I went on Tuesday and had an in class assignment then on Thursday, we went over the study guides for a test the next Tuesday. The teacher said it would be the hardest test all semester and I was crossing my fingers for a 'C'.

Nope, did a little better than that
~*~*~Happy dance~*~*~It helps that the teacher uses a sliding scale and dropped one of the questions completely (didn't discuss in class - most of us got it wrong) but I still got 62 out of 74.


Got to run, still have math homework to do.....



oh, wait.... have a

HAPPY THURSDAY

Gina

70 Days of Sweat

Wow, 70 days already. Did I complete my goals? No. Am I satisfied? Mostly. I had a wonderful family vacation, had the computer crash, started school & got sick. Yep, a very busy 70 days!

The first ms I started was Sara's Jewels and I've stalled at 16K. I put it on the back burner when I started the next ms because of a deadline for subbing. This was the info given in my first post for Sven.

1) book title: don’t know yet
2) Hero: Tom Freeman / cabinetmaker
3) Heroine: Ginny Rockwood / author
4) setting: small town America (valley)
5) length: 18K


1) Sara’s Jewels
2) Dave Hoffman / webmaster
& Alex (still working on it) / horse trainer
3) Sara Phillips / works at a horse breeder
4) Southern California
5) 75K


A great big thank you to the sponsors of this challenge: Alison Kent, Larissa Ione, Stephanie Tyler, Jo Leigh, and HelenKay Dimon.

~*~*~*~

Second ms progress:
* I have a title, "Let the World Go Away".
* Ginny's name is now Lisa.
* I hit 13+k on this one but my current doc says 7115 so it looks like I'll be retyping. Now I'm REALLY glad I write longhand first. (Actually, I had lots of scene docs and did one last printout after I put it all together. I'll be retying but it will be from a print not handwriting - whew)
* I'll be back into it this next weekend (I've got a psychology test next week)
* I'm five scenes away from being complete, from first kiss (short) to the wedding/honeymoon (long)
* I've had a published author do a read through for me & received some helpful tips.


First ms progress:
* I haven't looked at this one in too long. I have no idea where I'm at!


Third ms progress:
* That's right, I started a third while between classes last week. It's still longhand so I don't know how many words, maybe 1k.
* PLUS, I've got an idea kicking around for a FOURTH - this one will be f/f! I found a couple that "would love to talk to you".


Have a great weekend.

Author dies

Robert Jordan died Sunday at the age of 58 from a rare blood disease. One fan said it best "The Great Lord of the Dark has won. There will be no Last Battle."

According to Associated Press:

In a 2004 online chat on the USA Today Web site, Jordan said he hoped to finish the main "Wheel" series in two more books. Book 11, "Knife of Dreams," came out in 2005. He was working on book 12 at the time of his death.

Links:

Obituaries in the News by the Associated Press, scroll down.

The New Zealand Herald

The UK SF Book News Network

The Kansas City Star had a short (and I mean short!) notice, scroll down

www.cinemablend.com has a poll about ending this series, & others, unfinished or having someone else pick up the reins.

The Red State even has something about RJ Forget Politics for a moment with comments enabled.


Prayers and Hugs to the family.

I feel like a Nyquil commercial

The new semester started and I'm already ill. Usually there is some buildup of not feeling well but this time it hit me fast. Stuffy one night and down for the count the next morning.

I've got two classes this semester and I like both teachers. One I had before in an online class so it's really interesting to actually be in class with her - lots of energy.

I've done a lot of reading, little to no writing.

Worked out Monday with a friend, hope I can make it tomorrow.

Babysat three kids on Saturday. A cousin from out of state came here for a football game. I watched the kids (5, 2, 9mos) because, for some reason, they didn't want to take them to the game ;) Oh, man, I hope they're not sick now....

I'm off to bed, hoping I can get son to go to the store for juice.

Happy Tuesday

gone for a bit...

want to keep the previous post up for a while. I'm spending most of the day over at LiteraryNymphsChat. School starts tomorrow but I hope to be back Friday.

All Romance eBooks & MySpace

I received an important email, and while I know I'm not widely read, I want to to my part. Here's a link. Here's the email:


*************Permission to re-post granted**************

I'm asking for your help to get the word out that folks need to "re-friend" us on MySpace and I'm asking that you "friend" us if you have an account.

Most of you know that ARe has been using MySpace to communicate with readers about The eBookclub. We opened our MySpace page for that purpose and in 2 months we'd managed to accumulate close to 6000 friends.

Apparently that's too tempting for some hackers. MySpace and Scrapfairy Designs have been quick to respond and our page is back up at the same address but with only 1 friend, Tom.

ARe--The eBookclub is featuring a wonderful read for the month of September and our second eBookblub meeting is going to be in a couple weeks. We have a great fall season planned and are determined to get back on our feet as quickly as possible.

Please repost this to reader an! d author forums, loops, and on your MySpace page if you have one. Sending a bulletin to your friends asking that they do the same would be a huge help to us. We're relying on the power of social networking and the good will of our affiliates, readers, and authors to help us. We don't want our bookclub members to think that we've wavered in our commitment to this project or that All Romance eBooks *gasp* deleted them. Here's the address:

http://www.myspace.com/allromanceebooks

Lori James
COO
All Romance eBooks, LLC

P.S. For those of you who don't know....ARe--The eBookclub is a on-line Bookclub specific to romance eBooks. Each month we select a new release to feature. We advance purchase copies from the publisher and give them away to the first fifty members that attempt download. We also promote the book with special Behind the Scenes features, excerpts, and interviews, and host an on-line chat (usually with the author) at The Romance Ga! lleria. This is a great way for people that love romance to get intro duced to eBooks and for people from all around the world that already are fans of romance eBooks to meet and share the experience of a fabulous read.