The best birthday presents are things you never expected. For example, this very strange birthday link from the lovely and talented Kate R. (a.k.a. Summer Devon) There are also a couple of fortuitous events that just happened to happen on my birthday. The first was the Best.Sale.Ever! It’s like this:…
Between my broken desktop computer and the Cavalcade of Boring that is my life, I was sad as Cinderella sitting at home while the entire Romance world was living it up in fabulous Pittsburgh, PA. Then the blogging started. Reports of groping by greasy men, complaints about the complainer complaining…
After five years together, my great, clunking, 8 year old desktop computer has begun to falter. It’s up, it’s down, it’s frozen. Oh, dear. We’ll try to save it, really we will. A nice new 150 gig hard drive with a 10 gig partition for all the old stuff. So…
There’s a helluva long thread over at Dear Author regarding another author/e-publisher behaving badly. Karen has a few crumbs, too. The whole thing makes me sad–the mudslinging, the back and forth. Some of the alleged behavior is so terribly Jr. High. But the really sad part is, at least when…
Update: I’m now officially unweirded, and just plain grateful. The other Bettie Sharpe has kindly altered her screen name so it won’t show up on Google. Ms Sharpe, you are more than gracious, kinder than kind. I wouldn’t have asked it, but I truly appreciate it. ______________________ How weird. Since…
Hello. I’m back. I was out of town showering a dear friend with baby gifts (ok, loafing at her house, eating her food, and attending a baby shower for her sure-to-be adorable evil spawn). It was a five hour trip each way which means I had ten hours to read!…
