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Thank you for everyone who voted in the Curran vs Zsadist poll. Curran lost by 6 votes, but we’re totally excited anyway. JR Ward is a talented writer and she has a huge following, so it was really cool that we were so close. I declare it a victory anyway! Because our readers are l33t!
Update; the poll is still open. Heh, spoke too soon. Here is a link: http://vampirebookclub.net/alpha-showdown-round-5-zsadist-vs-curran/
Whichever alpha you vote for, we think you’re awesome anyway. 
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Bridemaids
The movie was hysterical. Go see. Don’t take small children.
Teens
Please tell me it gets easier when they get older, because last night one scared me half to death and the other was told to stop critiquing every parenting decision we make and is now pouting in her room in self-imposed exile with her black-furred familiar by her side.
They are both cool kids. But I’m now pondering if I should make another hair appointment before the signing to take out the extra grey that popped up overnight.
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Book
Don’t ask. Am behind. It’s not going well. Writing 3K a day worked great for the first 2 weeks and then I dried up to 500 words a day for a week. Next year less novels, more self-pub work so we can play around a little bit. I feel like we’re always behind and live our lives in a state of constant emergency.
I’m picking up the pace – I think my comfortable pace is about 1,500 words a day, but I have to backtrack and fix some of the crappier moments. An interesting thing happens: when I get really tired or stressed, that stress bleeds right into the characters. Guys get grimmer and act like robots and women get hysterical and cry a lot. Which is weird, because I am not that weepy by nature. So now I have to go back and replace robot male dialog with funnies and crying with butt kicking. So if you come across a scene where someone’s head explodes or some major butt kicking occurs, it probably corresponds to me trying to find a document or stressing out about deadline.
Gordon and Ilona Andrews: making heads explode since 2007. I should put it on a business card.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could be a psychic and really put it on a business card… Note to self: stop thinking about psychics. You have no time to write about it.
Business
I hate US Census Bureau. They want information about how much the business earns. I send it in. They want it again. I send it in. They send a nasty letter about not getting stuff. I get fussy and throw the letter into recycling, because I sent it in already. Now they sent a certified. It’s waiting at the post office. ARGH.
Ebook winner prizes had been sent out this morning. Ok, why can’t Nook users gift ebooks like Amazon users can? BN, why no love? Like we’re some kind of red-headed stepchildren. I have both, but my Kindle is charged and used often. My nook – not so much.
Trying to organize promo items for the signing: oy. We found something really awesome online, but the question is, can they do it in time. Why did I wait so long, I don’t know. Because my brains are fried that’s why. And Gordon reminded me about five or six times, too.
Well, it’s nine and I must go and make some sort of un-weepy words happen.
voted for Curran!!!
Curran=Awesome
When I voted, Curran was at 64%. Pretty sure it’s in the bag.
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Curran is so set to win after your post, lol. Never underestimate the power of your blog! Just because everyone doesn’t comment, doesn’t mean we aren’t here. ;] I think most of us are lurkers. x.x
Voted for Curran!!
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Nas D
Curran is over 400 points ahead. Someone needs to get Zsadist a shovel. He’s buried.
Yep, we did good!
woot Curran 1109 Z 610 – Can’t beat the Beast Lord!!!!
The teens do not get a whole lot better. My 26yr old daughter still critiques my parenting skills. Luckily for me, she is a month away from having her 1st child so we shall see how wonderful her parenting skills turn out to be. I tell my children that I have a sprinkling of grey all over due to my age but I have this one area where it is really concentrated. I have informed them this spot is all due to them. Bridesmaids was a hoot.
“Gordon and Ilona Andrews: making heads explode since 2007. I should put it on a business card.”
LOL just almost spat water on my laptop from laughing out loud while reading your post. Thank you for sharing random thought funnies. Now I feel the need to update my business card.
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Curran’s got almost double the votes!!!
I don’t think it matters who wins so much just that Curran get’s as close to the final as we can get him so that his name is out there and fans of the other series in the competition get a clue and read our fave kate daniels and see why we love curran so much. I have already checked out the Karen Marie books on amazon to see what the fuss is about and I’m sure team Andrews can generate more sales in the same manner.
KMM’s Fever series is a journey. I have read both them and the highlander series…Though both series ‘interconnect’ you don’t need to read the highlander series to love the Fever one. The highlander is more ‘typical’ PNR while the Fever is more UF. The best explaination of the Fever is that it is the tale of what happens tw one of the people at the centerpoint when the world changes (immagine being one of the first people to deal with the very first magic wave when Tech died the first time in the Kate Daniels universe). It is also the personal journey of the main character from silly young woman, to a woman who is above all things a survivor. You may not like Mac when you first meet her…but she had a dramatic character arc and is a different person at the end of Shadowfever and yet remains true to her inner core.
Voted for Curran and Kate will definitely get my vote next!
by the time I voted… out of 1,804 people, 1,183 voted for Curran! XD
Your blog must have a LOt of lurkers that don’t comment often (like me) or at all!
Whew… Last time I went to the poll Curran was down at 30% or so. Now he’s kicking Zsadist’s ass like I always knew he would at 66%.
OMG Curran has 66% of the votes! GO LION KING!!!
Interesting – Curran vs Zsadist poll has the highest ‘Total’ votes so far at 1851.
Barrons vs Dorian total is 1728.
When Curran meets up with Barrons it will be a tough one, but I’m Curran all the way. Tomorrow it’s Kate vs Rose(Vampire Academy).
Curran is PWNING Zsadist. Which is awesome, because I love Zsadist, but I love Curran more. XD
P.s. I grew out of the moping teen stage around 18. Sorry for the news. :-p
We are way ahead now! Way to go Kate and Curran Fans!
but whats going to happen if Kate and Curran go against each other?
Curran is still up, with 66%. Honestly, if it had been one of the other brothers, not sure if Curran would have gotten my vote.
*Scoots off*
FINALLY! The poll is closed. Curran – 1,318. Z – 655.
I say Z got his clock cleaned!
OK, Ilona, time to change that post heading!!!
Hehe, Curran won
hugs about the rest
Wow, maybe the finals will be Curran, Raphael and Bones. What a choice!!!
Okay, Curran vs Barrons…I am really torn on this one. Sorry people, if there was any other Alpha around I would pick our Beastlord, but Barrons…whew…I am going to have to reread all the Fever books (I just finished my reread of the Kate Daniels in prep for the new release). Raphael is wooping some Vampire bottom right now, so if Kate wins her prelim bout Monday it will be her against the Archangel, and Curran against Barrons. I think Barrons will take that one, but it will be close. Raphael and Barrons? That would be a Raphael, because well he is an Archangel. That is why I think Kate might have problems with him as well. I am trying to think who would win in a battle, and we don’t know all Kate’s abilities yet. (I really hate it when my favorite characters are put against each other…I mean Bones and Cat? Come on, really?)
HOO-RAY CURRAN!!!
He won! I knew he would:) You sound so much like me with the stress. I pretty much go into a place I call Denial Land when things get too stressful. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Teens– I’m right there with you on my imaginary island where I am the Empress of All I Survey, and my teens love my advice, never talk back and bow down at my awesomeness:)
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Wow, and here I was actually looking forward to the teen years because anything has to be better than the terrible twos. Said two year old keyed my brand new car with a garden hoe. When I threw the hoe down the hill, he stomped his foot and said “Give me back my ho!” which would have been hysterical if I hadn’t been crying.
Anyuone other than me think that Kate is an alpha too. They should put her up against someone and we can tear up the score board.
Kate poll is up now – Kate v Rose Hathaway. It’s early yet (poll has another 24 hours, yes?), but Kate is winning 732 to 391. Go Kate go!!
Kate won, of course. And Rose Hathaway? Seriously there’s no comparison. Rose might be kick-ass but she doesn’t even have a sword *shakes head sadly*