Please Stand By
What is it they always say–underpromise and overdeliver? Yeah, I get that now. I was going to post my first book trailer here, but for some reason, my QuickTime movie and YouTube are fighting like RWA and Harlequin and I haven’t been able to upload my trailer.
I’m hoping to have it up sometime this week (see, I’m underpromising now, but I’ve also learned I should have done that at the beginning…) and will shriek and holler as soon as it’s working. Thanks for your patience and here’s to a fabulous week!
Gratitude and Giblets
Hello and Happy (U.S.) Thanksgiving! I apologize for the title–in my zest for alliteration, I alluded to giblets being happy, tasty things, and they’re the first things I toss after unwrapping the turkey. Let’s be honest–I just learned to like mushrooms a few years ago. I think giblets would kill me.
Anyhoozles, I just wanted to say hello to everybody and thank you for your support in my most recent writing project. I’m around 27,000 words and I couldn’t be happier. Your cheering, be it here or on Facebook, Twitter, or one of the other sites I visit, has been tremendously helpful and I thank you from the bottom of my sweet potato heart. (Sorry–another Thanksgiving meal reference, only this time I will admit to liking sweet potatoes!)
And for you, my lovely, faithful, delightful blog readers, I’m letting you know I’m having a grand unveiling here Sunday night. Yes, you’re getting the sneak preview because you are all awesome and deserve a little treat for your awesomeness. Plus, what better way to usher in the return of the full work week than with something exciting to look forward to?
Okay, it’s about time for me to put the bird in the oven, and hopefully get a few more words written before it’s time for dinner. I wish all of you and yours a wonderful and safe holiday, and for my lovely international friends, enjoy the weekend and upcoming holiday season.
I haz a song
I have several songs, actually–the luck of music being such a large part of my life and DNA. These songs mean something to me and resonate in such a way they could bring me to tears. But this particular song I wanted to share with you at this time. I discovered about 2 weeks ago on the (wonderful!) Glee soundtrack and have since worn out my iPod listening to it. It’s called Defying Gravity, and here is the Glee version:
I love the lyrics, I love the Rachel and Kurt duet, I love the music and the harmonies–I just fell head-over-heels in love with this song. How could I, as a writer, not fell something that basically said “I’m not following your rules, I’m making my own.” Sheer bliss.
And after the first few times I’d listened to it, I found out it was originally from the musical Wicked. So, one visit to YouTube later and I found this:
Yes, I love it. Not quite as much as the Glee version, but boy-oh-boy it’s up there. Plus, it’s got Kristin Chenoweth in it, and I’m becoming more and more of a fangirl of hers. In the spirit of fairness (certainly not indecisiveness!), I decided to share them both. I hope you enjoy them and they get your week off to a kick-ass start.
Like the song says, Everyone deserves the chance to fly.
Goodreading in the USA
So in between some of my writing sprints recently (10,454 words to date), I finally signed up for a Goodreads account. I weighed the differences between Goodreads and Shelfari, asked some trusted friends, and came up with a winner. I’m still a little unsure of adding yet another networking/social e-site to my list, but I said that about Twitter, and now I’m having a ball tweeting, so I know better than to never say meh. However, it wouldn’t be me if I accepted the rules as stated, so let me tell you how I’m using Goodreads:
- If it goes on my account, it gets 5 stars. I was a little squeamish about giving average or poor ratings to the books I’d read (or not finished), but as I thought about it, this person wrote a book and got it published. That alone gives it a 5 stars in my eyes.
- I’m taking this slow. I had the choice of either going through my library and listing every freaking book in there, or doing this on a book by book basis from this point on. I mean, a little over a week ago when I was fighting this awful cold, I re-read Fearless Fourteen and Finger Lickin’ Fifteen in the Stephanie Plum series (by Janet Evanovich, but you knew that), so I added them to my virtual bookshelf. So then I had the choice of entering all of the Stephanie Plum series, or doing it as I re-read them. Ditto Laurell K. Hamilton. Ditto Jim Butcher. Ditto the rest of my favorite authors. So, books don’t get entered until I’ve read 0r re-read them as of the last week in October or so. (Unless I’m bored and start entering books like crazy. Like I said, I don’t do rules well, even my own.)
- I don’t have this account linked to anything yet (another reason I chose Goodreads–it links to your Facebook account), but will soon. As mentioned above, I’m taking this slow. And since nobody has busted down my virtual door screaming to be linked to my Goodreads account, I figure I have a little leeway. Once I get it up and going, you wonderful people will be the second to know. (Let’s face it–if it’s a one-button push to add to my Facebook page, I’ll do that first. In addition to not doing rules, I’m also lazy.)
Great Hera! I just discovered Goodreads is cool enough to have comic books/graphic novels. Why didn’t somebody tell me that weeks ago?
Now I can really get my geek read on!
Pamela Cayne 