Archive for May, 2010

What’s Up

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The “What’s up” is a declarative sentence to be followed by an explantion of where the heck I’ve been for the past nearly 3 weeks.

I’ve been on “mother duty.” Not as a mother, but as a daughter, trying to make sure my mother is in an appropriate living situation as her life changes. What was working two months ago is not working now. So changes are being made.

This means that most days almost all day I’m dealing with something mother-related. It means that I am emphatically NOT writing books. Not any book. Which means I don’t have much to say in my blog because I can’t tell you what’s going on with the book beyond one word: nothing. And I am quite sure you would be bored silly by reading what am I doing instead.

I have mailed off all the books to winners in the Great Book Give-away through the end of April. I am trying to find time to post all of May’s books so you can win them. I hope to get to it this weekend as my mother will be moved (yet again) and this time I think she will be in the right place for however much time she has. Her heart is very uncooperative, and I’m lucky she’s done as well as she has for as long as she has.

So, please bear with me. If I can, I’ll send Demetrios along to blog as his book, The Virgin’s Proposition (Anny propositioned him!), is out now in UK. It will be coming out in late August or thereabouts in North America, though if you are on this side of the pond and desperate for it, bookdepository.co.uk will send you a copy postage paid.

If you’ve already got a copy, let me know what you think of Demetrios and Anny’s story. I hope you enjoy it.

Merry May!

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

It’s snowing.

It has been snowing since, well, frankly I don’t know how long. But it’s snowed every day since I got to Montana last Friday.

I thought today we might have finally turned the corner, caught a break — and a little bit of spring — but apparently I was wrong. It’s snowing like crazy outside the window even as I write.

So I wish you the joy of the season — whichever it is.  I am enjoying the grandkids who are fun in any weather (though they have colds and have generously passed the germs on to me).  Still, it’s been worth the trip.

And it makes me homesick for Elmer, Montana and the Code of the West books I wrote for nearly a decade.  I don’t remember writing books with snow in May, but I could have done it, I suppose.

Once I leave here, I am gearing up to start work on a California book — a coastal California book — where it won’t snow at all.  It will make a nice change.

Don’t forget to send me an email and get in the drawing for the books in the Great Book Give-Away! More books will be posted next week when I’m home — and thawed out.