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!
Posted by Leslie on July 21st, 2008 | No Comments
Sorry if it’s TMI, but my rear is killing me. I drove for over six hours yesterday while taking my kids to sleep-away camp. My sister and nephew came along, so we first stopped at Skyline Caverns and spent a few hours there. Then it was a lovely, winding road trip down to central Virginia, all the while one of my kids moaning from car sickness. Greeeaaat! Once they were safely dumped, errr, dropped off at camp, sister and nephew and I drove the 2.5 hours back home. Left the house at 9 am and back home at 7:30 pm. Whew. So now I have about nine days to prepare for my trip out to San Francisco and the RWA conference. I’ve barely thought that far! Still working on the revisions to MONSTER, but I’m excited by the pitches I have lined up. It should be a fun, laid-back conference this time!
The image is of Anthrodites — so far found only in this one cavern — that radiate spike formations resembling flowers. They are estimated to grow one inch every seven thousand years!!
Posted by Leslie on July 18th, 2008 | No Comments
You must go watch this. Now. (click the image)
Posted by Leslie on July 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’ll make up for it with TWENTY Things Not Learned in Hebrew School… (No, I didn’t make these up, they were emailed to me as a joke!) 1. The High Holidays have absolutely nothing to do with marijuana. 2. Where there’s smoke, there may be salmon. 3. No meal is complete without leftovers. 4. According to Jewish dietary law, pork and shellfish may be eaten only in Chinese restaurants. 5. A shmata is a dress that your husband’s ex is wearing. 6. You need ten men for a minion, but only four in polyester pants and white shoes for pinochle. 7. One mitzvah can change the world; two will just make you tired. 8. After the destruction of the Second temple, God created Nordstrom’s. 9. Anything worth saying is worth repeating a thousand times. 10. Never take a front row seat at a Bris. 11. Next year in Jerusalem. The year after that, how about a nice cruise? 12. Never leave a restaurant empty-handed. 13. Spring ahead, fall back, winters in Boca. 14. WASP’s leave and never say good bye; Jews say good bye and never leave. 15. Always whisper the names of diseases. 16. If it tastes good, it’s probably not kosher. 17. The important Jewish holidays are the ones on which alternate-side of the street parking is suspended 18. Without Jewish mothers, who would need therapy? 19. If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it. But if you can afford it, make sure to tell everybody what you paid. 20. Laugh now, but one day you’ll be driving a Lexus and eating dinner at 4:00 PM in Florida.
Posted by Leslie on July 9th, 2008 | No Comments
Men and women in their early seventies are having sex more often. As older adults have more sex, rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) may be on the rise.
