I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Captain’s Log, Stardate 04.22.2006
Blog book giveaway:
My Monday (well, really Tuesday) book giveaway is the Flanagans series (4 books) by Marta Perry.
My Thursday book giveaway is A BABY FOR DRY CREEK by Janet Tronstad.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Monday, I'll draw the winner for the Flanagans series and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned.
Continued from Mount Hermon recap, part 5:
In the coffee lounge, Sarah had to leave to teach her Night Owl class, and so Chip left, too. I joined some other friends gabbing, and then I went to the dining hall to get hot tea.
There weren’t many people in there chatting, so I zeroed in on the caffeine. Then I heard a voice, “Camy!”
Chip sat at a round table with three other women, one of them Laura Christianson (my blogging buddy and classmate in the Media Mania class). I met Jenn Doucette, who is a long-time friend of Chip’s, and Karen Kennedy. All of them were from the Seattle, WA area.
(BTW, Jenn just started a blog called Chatter Matters: blogging with hope, humor, and author Jenn Doucette.)
Chip waved at me to sit down. I did. (What can I say, I’m a lemming.) He introduced the women.
“Camy here just signed a 3-book deal with Zondervan.”
Wow, Chip MacGregor just tooted my horn for me. That’s kind of cool.
The three women offered congratulations and ask what the books are about. I told them. Chip started teasing me again about Asian chick-lit. It was rather weird because I’ve only ever seen him tease Steve Laube and Randy Ingermanson like that, and I only met him an hour ago.
Well, heck. If he’s going to dish it out, I can, too.
I turned to the women. “Let me tell you what happened in the coffee lounge when Chip first heard about my 3-book deal...”
I described the “revolted jerk” reaction quite nicely, complete with demonstration. The women found it quite amusing. People turned to stare at the cackling and whooping.
Chip protested, “I didn’t do that.”
“No, maybe it was more like a nauseated shudder.” I gave another accurate demonstration.
More snickers from the peanut gallery.
Chip laughed.
So, despite my laughing-and-pointing, Chip can handle teasing. Good thing for me, huh? Since I’m not smart enough to be respectful to an editor.
Tuesday: Some marketing news I learned.
Blog book giveaway:
My Monday (well, really Tuesday) book giveaway is the Flanagans series (4 books) by Marta Perry.
My Thursday book giveaway is A BABY FOR DRY CREEK by Janet Tronstad.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Monday, I'll draw the winner for the Flanagans series and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned.
Continued from Mount Hermon recap, part 5:
In the coffee lounge, Sarah had to leave to teach her Night Owl class, and so Chip left, too. I joined some other friends gabbing, and then I went to the dining hall to get hot tea.
There weren’t many people in there chatting, so I zeroed in on the caffeine. Then I heard a voice, “Camy!”
Chip sat at a round table with three other women, one of them Laura Christianson (my blogging buddy and classmate in the Media Mania class). I met Jenn Doucette, who is a long-time friend of Chip’s, and Karen Kennedy. All of them were from the Seattle, WA area.
(BTW, Jenn just started a blog called Chatter Matters: blogging with hope, humor, and author Jenn Doucette.)
Chip waved at me to sit down. I did. (What can I say, I’m a lemming.) He introduced the women.
“Camy here just signed a 3-book deal with Zondervan.”
Wow, Chip MacGregor just tooted my horn for me. That’s kind of cool.
The three women offered congratulations and ask what the books are about. I told them. Chip started teasing me again about Asian chick-lit. It was rather weird because I’ve only ever seen him tease Steve Laube and Randy Ingermanson like that, and I only met him an hour ago.
Well, heck. If he’s going to dish it out, I can, too.
I turned to the women. “Let me tell you what happened in the coffee lounge when Chip first heard about my 3-book deal...”
I described the “revolted jerk” reaction quite nicely, complete with demonstration. The women found it quite amusing. People turned to stare at the cackling and whooping.Chip protested, “I didn’t do that.”
“No, maybe it was more like a nauseated shudder.” I gave another accurate demonstration.
More snickers from the peanut gallery.
Chip laughed.
So, despite my laughing-and-pointing, Chip can handle teasing. Good thing for me, huh? Since I’m not smart enough to be respectful to an editor.
Tuesday: Some marketing news I learned.
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(If only he'd take it a little more often, then maybe he'd quit dishing it out so often.)
(Did I just say that?)
(Yes, I do believe I did.)
: )
donna