A Professional Dilettante

If you wish to communicate with me via email, you will have to use something other than a Hotmail address.

Everything coming to my email account with a Hotmail address is being automatically deleted for the forseeable future.

I am damned tired of the porn coming to me via Hotmail addresses.

If you wish to communicate with me via a Hotmail address, you will have to get Hotmail to deal with their porn problem first, and prove to me that the problem has been fixed.

I apologize for any inconvenience.

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]

At least in part. 1017 words.



Well into Chapter 7, with a very difficult letter to write.

The migraine's gone, but my back still hurts some, esp. when I first get up in the morning.

Well, yay. Converse All-Stars weren't invented until 1908, and did not achieve an appearance we would recognize now until the 1920s.

This is good. But what's really cool?

One of their nicknames is "Chucks" for the man who developed them.

I am charmed. Serendipity strikes again!

Meg Mims had some fun questions to ask me: http://www.double-crossing.com/?p=2653

All of my FL who are in Hurricane Sandy's path, and I know there are many of you, please stay safe, and post when it's over/you get your electricity back and let us know you're all right!

Well, that was one long sucker of a chapter. 4166 words, and it still has to be gone through one more time, which usually adds a few more.



Only (only [g]) 665 words today, but it seemed like a good idea to stop at the end of the chapter.

Also, True Gold is available on Barnes and Noble now, too!!!

Taking the weekends off doesn't seem to be hurting things so far...



1123 words today.

James is getting very close to learning something it's going to take him a very long time to believe.

Not quite yesterday's totals (or speed, or sheer odd joy zone, for lack of a better description, but still good), although 706 words is nothing to sneeze at, esp. when it means a complete Chapter 4 and a good start on Chapter 5.

Teddy has finally learned to leap. Unfortunately his first choice for landing place is the kitchen counter. Which he's done several times.

Time for some serious negative reinforcement, I guess.

On the bright side, he's a fly-eater like his predecessor Morgan.