On Mother’s Day I got all sorts of loots. And everyone helped put together the lawn furniture and then hung out on the patio. So I had a lovely time and I hope yours went as well as mine did. Some announcements. Mia culpa, I messed up. When the publisher and I discussed the ARCs,
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Keyboard Recommendations
I have Advantage Kinesis, which is good for typing but nothing else. Photoshoping is very difficult, and gaming is pretty much impossible because the layout makes it difficult to press WASD keys with any other fingers but the ones the keyboard is designed for. I also have a G910, which I plug in for gaming
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Please Help Us With Our Maths
If h is the difference in height between the two sides of the gap, θ is the angle of the exit’s slope, V is the velocity, and g is the standard acceleration of free fall at 9.8 m/s2, the required velocity would equal to square root of 9.8m/s2 *6m2 divided by 2(h-6tanθ)*cos2θ… We have now gotten
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Peeps
Our agent: “ps- you’ll all just have to o.d on extra Marshmallow Peeps and Cadbury Eggs to power you through… “ Now I want peeps. I have peeps in the pantry, but I can’t have them, because they are pure sugar. Mmm, peeps. I let the diet go in France, because France, and now
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Lessons From France
Things we learned in France. Paris is beautiful. The city is gorgeous. We had a chance to walk around a little, have breakfast in a little quiet cafe, have dinner in a restaurant away from touristy places, and watch people. French people are very nice. Everyone we met was very nice to us. We opened
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Paris RARE, We’re ready & We Hope You Are Too!
Hey guys, Brandi Bolden taking over the blog today because Ilona isn’t feeling super good (don’t worry, it’s just allergies). I wanted to remind you all that on April 6th, you can get a chance to see Ilona Andrews, and so many other exciting writers, at the RARE event in Paris! It’s basically going to
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WCB Day 5
Saturday word count starting: 105, 994 Saturday word count ending: 105, 700. Argh. Had to add things. I have this annoying feeling that I could either combine some scenes or take them out, but there isn’t enough brain power to process it. I R Dumb. So much to do this week. Need to get the
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Love the Grind
Remember when I wrote about loving the daily grind of your work? Nora Roberts loves it. I’m able to produce a lot of books because I work every day. Because I don’t go out to lunch or dinner, or to events, go shopping, have hobbies or socialize all that much. I don’t want to.I like
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WCB Day 3
Wednesday word count starting: 107,142. Wednesday word count ending: 106, 593. The cuts are going to get deeper now, since we’ve reached the middle of the book. But then we have to add more to the finale. Bleah. We’ve received an extremely long email from someone named Bill Turner. His email address is turnerspianos@gmail.com. Mr.
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WCB Day 2
Tuesday word count starting: 108, 273. Tuesday word count ending: 107, 142. Progress. Sadly Sgt. Munoz had to go. I really liked him, too. I wanted to address the censorship brigade that decided to complain about sex in the books. Not sure what possessed you to show your good china in public, but your comments
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WCB Day 1
Word Count Battle continues. Starting word count yesterday: 108, 456. Ending word count yesterday: 108, 131. No huge gains, because yesterday was the use contraction day and frequent word substitution day. You guys are so funny. “They are taking 8,000 words away from us! We’ve been robbed!” Publishers have set standards for their books. It
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Word Count
The edits for SAPPHIRE FLAMES have landed. The good news is that our editor liked the book. The bad news is that it’s 108,000 words and it needs to be closer to 100,000. In the mixed-bag news, there are no obvious places to make a large cut. Typically, the easiest way to make large cuts
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