So I may have mentioned before, that Badass Bookie has chosen yours truly as one of her 2012 Debs. I'm in good company. The other debs are:
Veronica Rossi ( Under the Never Sky)
Jill Hathaway ( Slide)
Leah Bobet ( Above)
Elisa Ludwig ( Pretty Crooked)
Robin Bridges ( The Gathering Storm)
Kristen Simmons ( Article 5)
Brodi Aston ( Everneath)
Jodi Meadows ( Incarnate)
Jessica Spotwood ( Born Wicked)
Robin Mellom ( Ditched: A Love Story)
Miranda Kenneally ( Catching Jordan)
Badass Bookie is giving away lots of prize packs and books. So you should definitely check it out if you like to win stuff.
Watch for our guests posts, Debutante dresses and who we've chosen as our dates. (You may or may not be able to guess who mine is).
These are going to be some fun posts running from December 1st - 25th. Hope you check it out.
I could not help but share this video for Money Madness Monday. My friend Donna posted it to my Facebook last week and every time I watch it, I crack up.
Had a very busy weekend. Lots of soccer. Met my Harbingers of Doom for coffee at Elliott Bay Books. Met my friend Jarucia for appetizers and drinks.
Other stuff happened, but I think that's better suited for a vlog.
Worked on my rewrite of Sliced. The name is very apropos for what I'm doing to this novel. I think I'm going to have to do another revision after the rewrite, I'm not sure how the flow is working with all the hacking I'm doing. I think it will be an interesting novel when I'm finished though.
I'm still not able to comment on your blogs, so I'm sorry. I'm reading them, I promise.
I've repeatedly gone to blogs around the netverse, read them, and tried to respond. For some reason, Blogger has refused to post me under my google account.
So I tried my wordpress account.
No.
So I tried my Name/URL, which worked a couple times. Today? No.
I even tried to post as anonymous.
No.
And I don't have those other thingies, LiveJournal, AIM, whatever, whatever
Anyone else having this problem? It's driving me mad!!! I'm trying to be a good fellow blogger, but BLOGGER ISN'T LETTING ME!!
I think sometimes it's easy to forget that. Freedom isn't free. I'm not a proponent of war, but I also am not naive to the fact that certain battles have allowed us certain freedoms. A necessary evil, if you will.
And the people that fight those battles, whether they're behind the scenes or in the trenches have all sacrificed for us. They've sacrificed their families, their bodies, some of them their souls, their lives.
No matter if I agree with the fight at hand or not, I always feel for, appreciate and respect those out there serving, taking risks to protect the freedoms we've become so accustomed to having. not only them, but their spouses, their children, their parents, because they've sacrificed too.
I've seen firsthand a soldier's battle scars, both physical and emotional. I would never for an instant step into their shoes, to do what they've done, to see what they've seen.
It takes a certain type of person to do battle for others. It takes valor, selflessness, and conviction to put yourself out there, to risk your life for even the tiniest shred of freedom.
Thank a veteran today.
Let's choose today's scribbles in honor of veterans Day.
Song of the week: Man, it took me like an hour to find the right song. I like this one. Dear Avery by the Decemberists. Colin Meloy, the singer told spin magazine that this track is about the Iraq War and how parents are affected when their children are shipped off to battle. "I imagine it being a letter sent from a mother to a solider," he said. "I was reading a lot about soldiers and the war and their parents back home — having a kid myself, it just made me really mindful of that relationship."
Netflix of the week: Again, a hard pick, but Saving Private Ryan kind of encapsulates not only what soldiers have to do, but the grief of those they leave behind.
book of the Week: I'm going to pick A Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen. Had a debate about this book awhile back. A sad but very real story about war and what it can do to the mind and soul.
Quotes of the Week:
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." -Michel de Montaigne
"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." -Cynthia Ozick
I have a date tonight. A real date (do not ask what that means) It's been awhile. A very LOOOONNNGGG while.
He's a chef and he's coming over to cook me dinner. Whenever I'm going to have company, I go into panic mode.
I've been up since four. Cleaning. Yep, panic cleaning. After I cleaned for about an hour I showered and tried to lay down and sleep again, but my mind was racing. Not just about tonight, but about my rewrite I'm doing, and a book store gig I have in March, and, and, and.
I fear I'm going to be a lousy date because of my lack of sleep. And it's not just today. I haven't slept well all week, and I hope it doesn't all catch up with me tonight and I fall asleep at the dinner table, my face in a plate full of Gnocchi. That would be bad. Very.
But if I do, at least i'll know my house was clean.
