Mrs. Giggles

Mrs. Giggles was kind enough to review The Light in the Darkness and rate it a keeper:

The Light In The Darkness is a debut effort by Ellen Fisher and it's a most impressive one. It's not because the plot is breathtakingly original, to be honest, because there are plenty of clichés here given the cartoon-like overblown treatment. It's a very impressive read because this is one story where I find that the raw emotions - the anguish, the misery, the melodramatic love, oh, the pathos of it all - pretty much leap off the pages and grab a hold of me. That is why I find this book very good - it's impossible to put down because what the characters are experiencing feel so real that I cannot help but to find myself emotionally invested in their story.

In other news, my other colonial romance, Love Remembered, is on the "Last Chance" shelf at NCP, and the ebook is available at a reduced price. It'll be unavailable very soon.

I'm expensive!

I looked up Never Love a Stranger on Amazon the other day. It's no longer being sold directly by Amazon, but it's being sold through a number of sellers, ranging from $42 to $88. Wow... that's a lot of money for a paperback, especially when you consider the ebook version is still available.

Oddly, Love Remembered is going for around $9, and Tripping Through the Universe can be had for a mere $5.11. I'm not quite sure what makes the sellers think Stranger is worth so much more than my other books. Weird!

My new baby

I know you all want to see my beautiful little boy. This is Hero, our blue merle Australian shepherd. This is how he looked when we first met him (pictures courtesy of Rocky Top Farm):
And this is how he looked a couple of weeks before we took him home:

He's four months old now, and much bigger and fluffier, but I haven't gotten around to downloading new pictures of him yet. Soon, I hope!

More entries on NCP

JERR blog

Michele Lee

Writers Chatroom

Desiree Erotique (March 30 entry)

More NCP

More blogs and info on NCP:

Maria Harte

Erotic Romance Writers

JERR article on editing

Cum Hither Global

Another Karen Knows Best entry

Ann Bruce

Absolute Write Water Cooler

Desiree Erotique (March 14 entry)

Novelspot

Layne Blacque

Blogs on NCP

Here are links to everything I've seen posted so far on the recent NCP kerfluffle:

Karen Scott's blog 1

Karen Scott's blog 2

Karen Scott's blog 3

Karen Scott's blog 4

Karen Scott's blog 5

Karen Scott's blog 6

Karen Scott's blog 7

Karen Scott's blog 8

Dear Author 1

Dear Author 2

Bitch Envy 1

Bitch Envy 2

Bitch Envy 3

Mrs. Giggles 1

Mrs. Giggles 2

Ellen Ashe's blog

Layne Blacque

Marianne LaCroix's blog

Maya Reynolds' blog

Hello, hello

So it's been a busy summer, and not in a good way. On top of dealing with my husband's death, my father (who's ninety) had his first major health crisis. He developed congestive heart failure. They decided he needed a pacemaker, but before that operation could be done, he came very close to death. They managed to stabilize him, and put in the pacemaker, and then he nearly died again. He wound up spending a lot of time in the cardiac ICU, and I was told by the doctors that he probably wouldn't ever be able to live on his own again.

Ha. The doctors failed to take into account my father's extreme determination and intense dislike of nursing homes. When he was eventually put into a rehab facility, he dedicated himself to improving his physical condition, amazing his physical therapists. I spent a great deal of time running back and forth to see him in the summer and early fall, but the upshot is, he's now back in his own house, living on his own, healthy and happy.

Of course, the downside to this is that I haven't gotten much writing done. I got a note from an editor today asking me where the heck my book for her was. I assured her I'm working on it, and asked if I could deliver the book in January. Hopefully she'll be okay with that. And hopefully I can avoid any further family crises this year, and get myself back to serious writing!

Toddler talk

Listening to a toddler learn to talk amuses me. My youngest (now two and a half) is really working hard on conversation now. He often walks up to me, stares earnestly into my eyes, and utters long, complex sentences, some of which are perfectly comprehensible and some of which sound like complete gibberish to me.

He comes up with funny words, too. For example, for weeks a convertible was a "dragon." I have no idea where this word came from, but when he saw a convertible, he invariably got very excited and shouted, "Look! A dragon!" Now he calls them "converpipples." A convertible with its top raised is called a "ragtop," and he has not yet figured out that what he calls a "converpipple" is simply a ragtop with its top down. To him, they are two entirely different categories of automobile.

He is developing quite a vocabulary, but I often have to strain to understand him. He loves it when we pass construction sites and his big brother tells him the correct words for the machinery. He took to yelling "Bo-bozer!" and "weewoder" when we passed construction sites, somewhat to my puzzlement. His brother had to explain to me he meant "bulldozer" and "wheel loader."

And since he's two, his favorite word is naturally very simple and straightforward: "NO!!!!!"