two things make a post

And one of them has me bouncing off the ceiling. I received my very first review in a newspaper today!!! In the Tacoma Weekly.

And it's a really good review -- the headline calls it "gripping" and the reviewer describes Karin's adventures as "struggles in a “man’s world” with a strength that can best be described as Norwegian girl power."

"The details of this romance-and-adventure story prove the historical research paid off and paint a word picture so vivid that readers can see the story play out in their minds as they endure the stares of the prospectors or the chill of the Klondike air through Myre’s telling of her tale."

What more could I ask for???

Oh, and only 358 words today, but that's okay. Only [g]. When I was writing Repeating History I'd have thought that a good day. James has me spoiled. I've hit an event horizon, though, so I need to do some plotting work over the weekend before I move on.



[beam] He liked it, he really liked it! [/beam]

and on a completely different note

All of a sudden I'm getting pornographic emails -- some of them attempting to fake being from some of my mailing lists, and some just showing up on their own recognizance. At least half a dozen in the last three days.

This wouldn't be such a big deal, except they've got pictures, which has never happened before, at least not to me.

It's disgusting. How do I get my ISP's supposedly super-fantastic spam filter (which has always blocked this sort of nasty stuff before) to do its bloody job?!?!