Author Blogs

I had no clue there were so many!

Do you visit author blogs?
Who is your can’t be missed?
Link me baby!

As a rule I really don’t visit many author blogs, mainly because of time. I had a handful listed on my sidebar but as more and more (and hopefully more) readers get blogs, the list is getting huge.

So I decided to do three groups: Author Blogs, Reader Blogs and Group Blogs. Then link at the side bar. If that would work ;). And looks like it did, lil more of a pain than just looking and clicking but easier than going through my faves. I really need to sign up for blogline or that other thing.

{long ass history or why there are so few… aka it would say read here if I had time to figure out why I can’t get angiew’s nifty cut thingy to work}
Yesterday I spent around two, sadly maybe even three hours, doing the author blog hop. I had no clue there were so many. And then after I had over 50 listed, as I was only listing authors I read, want to read or looked interesting to read one day when I can buy books again, internet explorer shut the fuck down.

Now I try to be good and save a draft every once in a while. That way when my computer, I love because it does still work and I can’t afford a new one, shuts down, blue screens or IE fucks up - I can find something of what I was doing. Sure you know where this is going… didn’t do that yesterday.

So after cussing lots and lots I put back a few so I could test to see if it would even work as I wanted since I am seriously computer and blog stupid. Before I get sucked back into the author blog searching, since omg it is the end of the month and I must get these reviews out to AAR and the others up (even though that whole grammar thing has made me not want to - and no, nothing to do with the grand person who emailed me). And there is this huge time suck of real life shit I must deal with coupled with some other rl shit I don’t want to do because it is going to depress me and I am in a good mood right now (or this could just be panic).

I figured I would just ask for rec’s ;).

Stand back, everybody! This is a Test!

I’m testing something new for Miss Sybil.

Thiang
To prove we’re not barbarians
They dress us up like savages!
To prove we’re not barbarians
We wear a funny skirt!
Ah……………h!

Wives
To prove we’re not barbarians
They dress us up like savages!
To prove we’re not barbarians
We wear a funny skirt!

Thiang
Western People Funny,
Western People Funny,
Western People Funny,
Of that there is no doubt,
They feel so sentimental
About the Oriental,
They always try to turn us
Inside down down and upside out!

Wives
Upside out and inside down!

Thiang
To bruise and pinch our little toes-
Our feet are cramped in leather shoes-
They’d break if we had brittle toes,
But now they only hurt!
Ah……………h!

Wives
To bruise and pinch our little toes
Our feet are cramped in leather shoes,
They’d break if we had brittle toes,
But now they only hurt!
Western People Funny!
Western People Funny!
Western People Funny!
Too funny to be true!

Thiang Thiang
They think they civilise us Ah…..
Whenever they advise us
To learn to make the same mistake
That they are making too!
………….h!

All
THEY MAKE QUITE A FEW!

Taken from The King and I soundtrack

Contest: Deep Breath by Alison Kent

Alison Kent is running another interesting contest for her newest novel Deep Breath. This hits stands April 1 and will be number 7 in the SG-5 series.

This time it is on her blog. Go check it out.

How sad am I…

to be excited I found the AP stylebook for 4bucks…

How sad am I…

to be excited I found the AP stylebook for 4bucks…

Karen is the EVOL!

I was so good, didn’t respond to the post. Only snarked a lil bit on tara’s blog.

I was good, it was done, we moved on until next week when someone plays the same tune again.

But oh no…. karen had to go bring it up again.

le sigh…

more blog questions

1. Is it better to have a blog archive every week or month?

2. Any suggestions on my comment phrase? I am tired of book whores pimpin’. But can’t think of anything that amuses me… might do duckies quackin.

3. Can I delete pics off my computer after uploading to blogger? And it there a limit to how many I can upload? Like where the hell are these pics being saved? heeeee cuz I really really like..

4. I made this. If I can catch maili, jay or cw to help me put up my header pic and change the colors. IS there any reason I would rather use this blog than the one I currently use? And if there is, how much harder is wordpress than blogger?

5. Would it be easy to make it where my template lets me put info on the left and right of the blog post? Or would that take redoing the whole thing? Because I love my colors, font and pic - thank you maili ;).

Tags: 2006, February 2006, Sybil, TEH blog it hates me

Some Like It Sinful by Deborah Raleigh

Some Like It Sinful by Deborah Raleigh

No news on her new trilogy but thanks to D. for the heads up on the new cover. Cuz look purple!

I keep telling myself I shouldn’t like this cover but really the purple is great, the font nice and it keeps the theme from the first book. So all in all it is pretty, or it could just be that is it purple!

She has an excerpt up. Don’t recall if it was up there in Jan or not. I haven’t read it but hey I have the first book still tbr.

Autumn in Scotland by Karen Ranney

grumpy was ever so nice to ask at the Avon Board for info on this book…

And Karen Ranney was every so nice to answer:

Well, since you asked, here’s the “stuff” about Autumn in Scotland:

Setting: Scotland, 1833

Charlotte MacKinnon is an English heiress who knew she had to wed, and agrees to marry a penurious Scot by the name of George MacKinnon, Earl of Marne. Her father wanted a title in the family, and George needed a fortune. But when George disappears after a week of marriage, enough is enough. Charlotte goes to Scotland, and decides to remain there. She will do what other Scotswomen have done - divorce her husband for desertion. (Loved the research on the Scottish marital laws - women in Scotland had so much more freedom than other women in the Empire.)

Unfortunately, her husband appears five years later, after her divorce is declined by the court because they can’t find George to establish his residency. Not only has George returned at the worst possible moment, but his appearance could ruin everything Charlotte has worked for in the last five years.

Everyone at the Caledonia School for the Advancement of Females thinks he’s delightfully charming. In addition, a group of very odd women has decided to adopt Charlotte as a cause. They urge her to seduce George, and have him remain as a husband. She doesn’t want to have anything to do with the perfidious wretch. Never mind that he’s handsome, and much more personable than he’s ever been.

In fact, he’s so different that she wonders why she didn’t see the real man all those years ago.

(You knew this was coming…) The fact is, George isn’t George, but his cousin, so alike in appearance that they were mistaken for brothers when they were children. Dixon has been living in Penang, and after a tragedy of his own, decided to return home to Scotland. Not only is everything different and a girl’s school has taken over the castle he knew as a boy, but everyone thinks he’s George, who has evidently disappeared.

He needs to find George, not only for Charlotte’s sake but for his own. The sooner he gets away from her, the better. She’s proving to be too attractive and too alluring. His anger toward George grows as the mystery deepens, a treasure beckons, and he falls in love with Charlotte. Add in Matthew Mark Luke and John - a secondary character with issues of his own - a group of older women absolutely fascinated with the “carnal arts”, and other assorted characters, and you have Autumn in Scotland.

I’ll post an excerpt on my website in a few weeks.

Warm fuzzies!

Karen

Sounds good, I was afraid she was going to say he had been off being a spy or something. hmmm which I guess he could still be off being a spy since he isn’t George. Guess we will have to wait and see ;).

Book Donations

Jay has a post up with details of how you can donate books to The New Orleans Library.

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