Posted by Leslie on October 6th, 2008 | No Comments
I have to take a trip to NYC just to see this store! There’s some really cool pictures of it here! Hey, how many places can you find penis bones???
Posted by Leslie on October 2nd, 2008 | No Comments
since I’m too lazy tired overworked stressed uninspired distracted preoccupied busy to blog much these days, I offer you the following giggles:
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Posted by Leslie on September 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments
No, I haven’t become a philosopher or scientist recently, I’ve just discovered more time. Now before someone gets me awarded the Nobel Prize (although I will take a Pulitzer, thankyouverymuch), I’ve just realized that I can’t use the excuse “I don’t have time to write.” Since I started my little pet hobby of beading about a month ago (maybe less?), I’ve created over fifty pieces. Earrings. Bracelets. Watch bands. Zipper pulls. Cell phone straps. Necklaces. I do it when I get home from work. When my husband is sleeping. When the kids are standing next to me, driving me crazy. I do it the morning as I put my make-up on or at night when I’m taking the make-up off. On average, I create four pieces per day. What if I wrote four pages a day? That’s 120 a month. In three months I could have a complete book!! Before I get myself too depressed, I have to admit to why beading and writing aren’t like comparing apples to apples. 1) Beading is visual. It just takes looking at colors and shapes to work the creative mind. Writing is internal brain — dialogue, characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution, etc. 2) Writing requires (for me) a computer. Sometimes getting a working computer is not always easy in my house. Kids are on it, it’s broken, I can’t get a good signal, etc. And I can’t write pen to paper…my hands just aren’t cut out for it anymore. For beading I just need a desk or table and the materials. 4) Beading gives you a finished product almost instantly. Within minutes I can have a new pair of earrings in my hand. I may have a few new written pages, but it’ll take me a loooong time to have a completed book. 5) Selling the finished product is entirely different. I can sell a keyring or bracelet to my neighbor, sister, coworker, or at a show. I can choose my price. Selling a book??!!! Don’t get me started on THAT process. And based on the royalties from my book sales, I’ll probably make more money with my jewelry. So it’s true that time can be found to do something you love to do. But there are also various factors to consider when looking at what’s gotten accomplished. For me, I’m just trusting that my Muse is working secretly as she “oohs” and “ahhs” over the pretty, shiny things I’m creating.
My “writing” desk has been overtaken lately….
3) Beading doesn’t require too much concentration. Once I know what I want to do, I can put it all together while the kids are yapping at me or constantly interrupting me. I can’t write with them hanging around. The voices in my head desert me in a flash when I’m constantly interrupted.
Posted by Leslie on September 9th, 2008 | No Comments
I’ve not been good at keeping up this blog. I know. Call it life. So here’s a hodgepodge of various things going on in my life and some interesting links or whatever! I submitted the revised MARK OF THE MONSTER to 3 Seas Literary Agency. Cross your fingers for me. However, I’ve been MUCHO slacking on printing out my full manuscript and sending it to Kensington. Sigh. Slacker! I’ve been spending my “free time” on something other than writing. But I’ll blog more about that at Writers At Play tomorrow. If you’re good with numbers, it’s in your genes! (Which means my genes are quite lacking!) Water Bears truly are indescructible! The question is — how does one actually die then?? And, as if we didn’t already know, there really are differences in the male and female brain! And best quote from an article I’ve read: The superfast evolution of the male dung beetle’s penis to wildly differing sizes in the same species could mean that new species appear within a few years rather than over millennia.
Posted by Leslie on September 3rd, 2008 | No Comments
In my so-called real life, I work for Marriott International at their headquarters. The company is still run by the Marriott family. Mr. Marriott has an office right upstairs and is often seen eating in our cafeteria. I knew he’d been blogging for a while now, although I hadn’t followed it much. But he’s now urging the presidential candidates to do it as a way to connect and communicate. Apparently, he’s also knowledgable on Tweeting, as seen here: If blogging takes too much time, my friend Blake Little, who helps me with my blog, suggested that McCain try micro blogging - something called Twitter where people write quick “Tweets” about what they’re doing or thinking. Blake told me more than 70,000 people follow Barack Obama and his campaign on Twitter. We’re even testing Twitter with our own Marriott site. Just can’t get away from that new-fangled technology, can we?
Posted by Leslie on August 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment
from my bestest pal and critique partner, Lisa. Her rendering of Gerry Seinfeild’s face on a romance novel got a “grape snort” from Smart Bitches, who started the whole thing with their snark for clinche covers. Who says romance novels and sitcom TV don’t mix?
Posted by Leslie on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments
Why write a Thursday Thirteen post or one about the conference or one about my few days in San Francisco and Montery Bay or one about all of the people I met last week or one about the EIGHT hours I spent in the emergency room with my daughter? Who cares about any of that when I can write about a 110 year old lizard who finally got laid. Good old Henry is a tuatara, a lizard-like creature descended straight from dinosaurs (looks like a iguana to me). There are only a small colony of them left in New Zealand’s offshore islands. But Henry didn’t want to do his job for four decades. And then a tumor was discovered near his groin. Once that bad boy was removed, Henry had a renewed interest in the fairer sex. He mated with Mildred, a 70+ year old tuatara and she laid twelve eggs. He’s got plenty of time to make up for those years of missed sex. At over a century old, he’s only lived half his life span. See - now wasn’t that more interesting than the other boring stuff I mentioned?
Posted by Leslie on July 29th, 2008 | No Comments
Yes, my blogging has slacked off considerably. Maybe I’m just not interesting anymore or maybe I only have time to write a quick line of what’s going on. Regardless, I’m heading out to San Fran tomorrow for the RWA Conference and then spending a few days with a girlfriend to sightsee. My plan is to update Twitter with some posts throughout the day, so if you are still interested in me and my life (and, let’s face it, who isn’t? ) then check the “Tweets” page on my site. I’m also going to attempt to put the code into a blog post and so you’ll see my twitter updates within this blog too. We’ll see how and if that works!
Posted by Leslie on July 24th, 2008 | No Comments
I just created a new page on Facebook. Instead of a regular page with all of the applications and goofy stuff, where you would sign up to be my “friend,” you can sign up as a fan. Who knows how often I’ll use this page for promotion or updating. But it’s just one more place/way people can find me!
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