Posts Tagged ‘George’

Where I’ve Been . . .

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009


Nowhere interesting, believe me.

I’ve been holed up in my office writing George. And writing an article. And creating a Power Point presentation on immigration trails.

George has been the most fun part of my life, which ought to tell you something.

At least I’m not battling him to a standstill the way I did Demetrios. He’s actually turning out to be entertaining — right now — before revisions and deep in the middle of the first draft.

How often does that happen?

Not very, to be honest. But sometimes it does, and so I’m just enjoying it. Nice to go to work every morning for a change.

I’ve done a little Christmas shopping, too. And I’m struck, when I do it, how much of it I do online these days. What about you?

I started doing it online when I was looking for things for the older grandsons when they were little — and I got tired of dragging from store to store to find that what I wanted wasn’t there. Or it was there at a price I couldn’t bring myself to pay.

So I started looking on the internet and, wow, what a time saver. Money saver, too.

Have your shopping habits changed like mine have?

I’ll be back tomorrow when, I hope, George will make it into chapter six, and I will have something new to write about — a reprint or two (well, that’s not new, but it’s exciting). I’m just trying to get the information sorted.

In the meantime, if you see Christo hanging around a bookshelf anywhere, do me a favor and put him up at eye level. He was gone at my Target when I looked last week. I was happy about that.

Also happy about the review on the Pink Heart Society where Julie Bonello said, “Anne McAllister never fails to come up with the goods and One Night Mistress…Convenient Wife is one of her best books yet! Funny but poignant, tender but sensuous and moving and utterly engrossing, One Night Mistress… Convenient Wife is a spellbinding Harlequin Presents novel readers will just devour.

“With a spunky heroine, a gorgeous hero and oodles of love, passion and laughter, One-Night Mistress… Convenient Wife is the perfect book to cuddle up with on a cold autumn’s night!”

How nice is that? If you want, you can read her whole review here. Thank you, Julie.

Me and George

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

I got home from New York last week and threw myself at George.

He threw me back.

He wasn’t ready to talk, even though I’d found him a fantastic brownstone to live in, a good office at Columbia University to work at, and a plot that would get him Sophy in the end.

He was busy, he said. He had experiments to work on. He had things to think about. He couldn’t talk to me now.

So I threw him under a truck.

That’ll teach him.

Now he’s in the hospital recovering. And when he opens his eyes he’s going to find himself staring into Sophy’s big brown ones.

We might have a book here, folks. I’ll see what George thinks tomorrow when I turn up at the computer and open his file.

At least now he knows I mean business.

ps: I’m putting together my Hugh and Dan contest — which I would have had up by now, but battles with George, and piles of laundry and suchlike have kept me from sending the stuff to Heather my webmistress.

But you know what next Monday is, don’t you? Whose birthday it is?

Send me an answer to that question, and I’ll put you in my contest before it even starts.

Charley’s Postcard

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Charley the studly laptop has been recovering from his exertions getting Demetios and Anny finished and sent off to Richmond.

He was heartened in his efforts by the arrival of a postcard from one of his admirers, Scarlet S O’Dell (a very classy red English lass) who was holidaying in Lindos with her family.

Hearing from Scarlet (and heaven only knows what The Powers That Be at Mills & Boon thought of the postcard when it arrived) made Charley’s — and my — day!

We send thanks to Scarlet (and Rach who had to write it for her because Scarlet couldn’t get any connectivity out in the Grecian boondocks apparently) and are very happy to have it. It has pride of place on the bookshelf now. Charley is lobbying for a trophy case in which to put it. This is sort of like a notch on the computer bedpost, I guess.

Next thing you know he’ll be getting postcards from lovely lissome lady laptops all over the world. There will be no end to his preening then.

I am in the process of cleaning my office (a long process) and watching physics lectures by Richard Wolfson (sort of physics for non-believers, er, scientists) which I’m thoroughly enjoying. This is in preparation for George’s book. Fascinating stuff.

The Prof keeps looking at me strangely when I say that. I think he expected me to be bored out of my mind. Not at all. It all makes perfect sense and as long as I filter it through George’s brain — and his relationship with Sophy (whom you will meet in Christo’s book) — has a great deal of relevance to my life.

Well, I suppose the laws of physics have a great deal to do with everyone’s life (gravity among other things), but I just don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it specifically. Nice that George does, though.

Scarlet — and Rach — thank you for making Charley such a happy guy! Hope you had a good time on Lindos!