It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s an Internet sensation. It’s … I Can Has Cheezburger?
This site has fun with animal pictures (mostly cats) and photo captions. My significant other is totally addicted to the site. He’s a huge cat person. The folks over at Dear Author also use lots of pictures from the site to great effect.
Anyway, go check it out. Enjoy. Laugh. :ww:
So, this weekend I buckled down and finished revisions on my assassin book, Gin on the Rocks.
It’s about an assassin who can control the elements of ice and stone (the other two are fire and air in my world). My assassin, Gin, goes to do a job and gets double-crossed and almost dead. Soon, she’s on the run from the cops, a Fire elemental who wants her dead, and lots of other people.
This book is a little grittier than what I usually write, and there’s lots of blood. Seriously. Gin kills something like ten guys in the first ten chapters. The girl is really handy with knives. 😉
It’s also set in the South and has a nice regional flavor to it. There are barbecue restaurants and fried chicken and Southern movie references. I even mention Dr. Enuf at one point. That’s a soft drink, for all you Yankees out there. Tastes like a weak version of Sprite, but it’s really good.
I’m always amazed at how right my agent is when it comes to revisions. She sent me some suggestions, and we talked about some other things on the phone. As I went through the book, I saw how much sense her ideas made. I’m really excited about the book now — I think it’s one of the best things I’ve written. And I’m really looking forward to writing Assassin 2, after I do some page proofs and other stuff.
I got such a high when I finished the revisions last night. I’m still smiling this morning. Good times. :bub:
Now, we’ll see if the book sells. Fingers crossed!
What about you? What did you do this weekend?
According to an Associated Press story I saw, the title for the next James Bond film is … drumroll please … Quantum of Solace.
According to the AP story, the title is the name of a Bond short story written by Ian Fleming.
Interesting, but that doesn’t make it suck any less. Quantum of Solace? What is that even supposed to mean?
Titles are important, especially when it comes to books and movies. Catchy titles make people want to read the book or watch the movie.
Most of the Bond titles are awesome — The Spy who Loved Me, Casino Royale, The World is not Enough, You Only Live Twice, From Russia, With Love.
Some are merely average — License to Kill, The Living Daylights, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
And some make no sense at all — Thunderball, Moonraker, Goldfinger, Octopussy.
But Quantum of Solace? I think that’s one of the worst titles I’ve ever heard. It’s hard to just say. It definitely doesn’t trip lightly off the tongue. And I’d be very interested in knowing how a musician can work those words into the theme song. Have you ever heard the word solace in a song?Â
I really, really, really hope the producers change the title. How about something like Cold Solace? Or something, anything but Quantum of Solace. Ugh.
On the bright side, the movie is set for a Nov. 7 release. Less than 10 months away. Yeah! 😎
What about you? What do you think of the title?
So, I did something I shouldn’t have this weekend. I went to Mr. K’s, a used bookstore — and brought home an armful of books.
I shouldn’t have done this for several reasons. First of all, I already had about 10 books at home in my TBR pile. Not counting all the Buffy, Angel, and Wonder Woman comics I need to read.
But there’s just something about used bookstores. IÂ love wandering through the stacks looking for books. Hidden treasures! Bargains! Cool covers! Authors I’ve always wanted to read!
It’s a sweet, sweet siren’s song. I just can’t resist. Besides, I had trade credit I needed to use up anyway. That makes it okay, right? Right?!? 🙄
So, what did I come home with? Here are some of the titles:
1) Eye of Heaven and Soul Song by Marjorie M. Liu (books from her Dirk & Steele paranormal romance series)
2) Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (the first one in her Women of the Otherworld series, which I’ve heard lots of folks raving about)
3) Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughn (the first in her paranormal romance trilogy)
4) Lord of the Fading Lands by C.L. Wilson (the first in a fantasy romance series)
5) Quiver by Kevin Smith (a graphic novel about the comic book character Green Arrow, whom I’ve never read about before)
6) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (one of the most admired graphic novels out there, which I’ve always wanted to read)
So now I have like 20 books in my TBR pile. Sigh.
Something funny that happened was the checkout guy said something about the graphic novels belonging to my significant other. I corrected him. No, dude, those are mine. Chicks read comics, too.
What about you? Do used bookstores make you lose control, too?
The Smart Bitches and Diana Peterfreund have some interesting posts up regarding a letter a journalist from the Washington Post sent to a group of romance writers asking for information for a Valentine’s Day piece. Go read it for yourself.
As a professional journalist, I would never, ever send anyone a letter like that. I don’t even know that I’d send my friends a letter like that.
As a journalist, you don’t try to be funny. Professional? Yes. Respectful? Yes. Funny? No. You tell people what you’re doing and then ask them for their input, even if it ends up being no comment.
Geez. To the person who wrote that letter: you work at the Post. You should know better.
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