Just got word - The Envoy has approval! Now it goes to owner and a contract should arrive in a couple days!!!

Well lets start with health issues - nothing new since the broken toe, except got my seasonal flu shot and got put on cholesterol meds. Hubby is having numbness in his hands and we're going to the neurologist to find out why he keeps losing feeling in his left hand. They did nerve induction studies Wed - we'll find out Monday. Dad - fell Sometime Friday night, we found him around 4 Saturday morning when I got up to go to the bathroom. No broken bones but he did bruise a rib - he's fallen a couple times since then and now his ankles are swelling.

Writing - Black Velvet released and sales are GREAT! Finally finished Envoy and submitted it. So that's now 2 I'm waiting to hear back on.

VA - Nothing new there.

I've been gearing up for NaNo - doing something unusual this year... preliminary planning. BUT then this year I'm trying my hand at a Paranormal Romantic Suspense which meant some planning and researching. I even did a cover image...

OK was watching ABC tonight - and ALL hype like they show an ad for this new show... Aliens come to earth, can't say anything that could be negative about them - I'm looking at it going - uhhh this looks familiar... then they slap on the title - a big red V

EYEROLL

I remember watching the first incarnation - won't watch the second version...


PSSST - Read no further if you don't want to know...

Reptilian Aliens come to Earth for FOOD - guess what humans are?

OK - watched the first ep of the new Inuyasha. It was good - but I never really got into it like I used to. I'll give it a few eps to see if that changes but other than watch a few eps - probably not going to follow it religiously.

Is 29 days away. I'm still trying to decide which story to work on. But at least this year I can dictate the story. Have a couple options -

A Post Apocalyptic book - If it turns out how I see it and the length it's going to be my first attempt at breaching the NY publishing establishment.

OR

TDC 2 - have folks asking for that one.

OR

I dunno - but I'm sure something will hit me.

So who else is doing NaNo this year?

Surprisingly it was much better than I thought it would be. But the Lea Michele - Rachel - kept bugging me. She looked like someone - I finally figured out who.

She reminds me of my favorite Elphaba - Idina Menzel. See for yourself behind the the cut.
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I was checking all the sites my book is on - and checked Fictionwise.com under publisher for Red Rose Publishing - (that eliminated all the BIG NY boys - ha I'm nowhere NEAR competing with Brenda Joyce) Anyway...

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Why am I thinking of that - well just looked at a recipie for Coca Cola Cake - a friend wanted it. It made me think back to the early 80s when I tried to make it with New Coke - it was a disaster. Which naturally led to thinking about the best marketing strategy ever!

Come on! Come out with a new recipie for Coke - stop making the original recipie for about a year - then rename the original recipie Coca Cola Classic and bring it back out - then phase out New Coke? Brilliant!

1st - All ebooks at Red Rose Publishing are half off today to celebrate the owners birthday. So if you haven't gotten a copy today is the day to pick up Sarah's Story - http://tinyurl.com/sarahsstory

2nd - Black Velvet's release date is now firm for November 2nd (I don't consider it firm till it's on the coming soon page.)

3rd - I've submitted another book and waiting to hear back.

4th - I finally got past the fights in Envoy now just to write the HEA and edit then I can submit it.

5th - What the hell I'm going to keep the paid account.

BUT it's been a crazy three weeks!

Line Edits for Black Velvet. Finishing and Submitting Demons Begone. Dad going in the hospital for a week. Nothing serious - just blood pressure problems. Good news on that they cut his meds in half so less expensive. I'm trying to finish Envoy - I keep procrastinating on the final fight scene.

Oh, don't know if I mentioned it here - but I broke my right big toe about 2 months ago... FINALLY got out of the stupid Boot and into shoes. The toenail came off the other night, that helped the pain level a LOT. Go tomorrow for new Xrays to see how it's healing.

That's about it for now.

I've been playing off and on with discontinuing the paid account here on LJ. Finally decided that while it's not that much - I'm not utilizing LJ enough to justify the expense when I can get almost the same benefits by having a plus account that's free. I'm keeping the account - just not going to pay for it anymore - I use Twitter more.

Cover for Black Velvet my November release! YAY! Cover Gods smiled!

Noticed a lot of folks had stopped friending - so returned the favor. I know the reason for it - that's their choice so hope life treats them kind. Strangely, I'm not even upset. Don't worry I'm not going friends only or going to post a huge diatripe on it. Some of you know what happened, some don't and that's the way it will remain.

Well the cast iron pole has been replaced with a steel one... the roof had sagged 3 inches. Construction worker said the other support on that side kept the carport from collapsing.

Hubby and I talked about it - and we're going to get the other 3 supports replaced too... soon as things with the VA finish up.

I like my ortho. I really do. He's good and tells me straight up what's going on.

Seems that my big toe isn't just broken lengthwise of the bone - it is also broken across - BASICALLY the fracture makes a lovely cross right under my nail. He also said I was extremely lucky I hadn't sheered off the tip of my toe. Then he drilled two holes in my toe nail to release the pressure.

Started at 8AM Saturday when hubby woke me up to tell me that one of the roof supports on the carport had fallen and asking me to come help him try and fix it. Ten minutes later I determined it was going to take a professional. That's when things went wrong... I let go of the 8 foot cast iron support and hubby - who was up on a ladder - shouldered the roof. Yup pole fell... right on my right big toe. Cue screaming, crying, cursing and a trip to the ER.  Broke the big toe - LENGTHWISE from the tip of the bone almost to the joint.  It's a lovely mix of black and purple all around.

I've spent the weekend doped up on Lortab... some of you know my history with the med so you realize I'm not real happy about taking them... BUT an Ultram wouldn't help at all.

It's going through my f-list like wild fire - Inuyasha is back or will be. To be honest, I don't know how I feel about it - there are some issues of the manga that I want to see animated and others were like WTF is she doing? Will I watch? Most likely morbid curiousity will get me watching. Heck watched the final ep of ER and I'd stopped watching it when Mark Greene Died.

Now the funniest thing is following the post on Anime News Network - and the amount of people who didn't READ the manga... oh wait - most people don't read... it's too hard. Takes to long. Is boring. Isn't cool. Or whatever the lame ass excuse they have is. It's a freakin comic book - not Moby Dick.

Yeah, yeah, Del is in a surly mood.... but I already see the drama coming the Manga purist getting offended because they change/delete something, the anime only folks getting upset over some damn thing, and the reignition of the Kikyou/Kagome or Sess/Inuyasha debate or 100 other petty little arguments that surround this series when someone doesn't get the pairing they thought they would.

Oh well - like I said.... I'll watch but it'll be a when I think of it thing.

Well this week has been busy - and it's only Wed - I won't get a break till Friday!

Sat & Sunday spent doing lessons for my InDesign course - really happy made a 95 on the test... This first part is an overview of Graphic Design - I'm learning a LOT! After I do this weekends lessons I'm on to an overview of Typography... then the program.

Monday - took hubby to the dentist - he needs a full set of dentures and the oral surgeon the dentist wanted him to see didn't have anything open till the 30th! Luckily the oral surgeon who removed 3 of my wisdom teeth could see him yesterday and do the extractions today - which is good since he was in so much pain last night.

Today - the oral surgeon and round 3 of Copy Edits for Black Velvet - minor stuff - repeated words, clarifying some things..  But finished.

Tomorrow Hubby has a VA appointment at 9:30 and then Dad has an appointment with the Cardiologist at 1:20... going to be a fun day. PLUS his home health nurse is scheduled to come.

Friday is an easy day for me - as the aide comes to give Dad his bath... and NO doctors appointments.

I was also fighting a bad crick in my neck on the left side over the weekend but that's gone now. Getting old SUCKS!

Nancy is helping me locate research material for TDC 2... She even recommended a few movies.

With LoudTorrent DOA I guess I'll have to remember to update here more frequently. OH and I joined Romance Writers of America... signed up for an online workshop... Being a writer is hard work - never worked so hard at a 40 hour a week job... but I love every minute of it - so it's all good.

So today started EARLY! 6:30AM. Had to take Dad to the dermatologist... GOOD NEWS! No Skin Cancers this visit! YAY!!! That's a first.

Then watched the Michael Jackson Memorial. I'm not a rabid fan of his, but he did have some damn good music back in the 80s. Brooke Shields, MJ's brother, and Usher had me getting weepy eyed. But his daughter Paris - her grief was so real and powerful... she had me in tears.

Then went to the eye doctor. Exam and $500.00 later I am the proud owner of a pair of bifocals and new computer glasses. I got the bifocals because it is a pain in the ass when I'm out to switch glasses and I can't read a damn thing without them anyway.

Now going to do a couple more things on the computer and shut down for the night. I need SLEEP!