http://blog.allyblue.com News, observations and random non sequiturs from gay romance author Ally Blue Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:44:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The family and I are headed out this morning for a week at the beach. Y'all, I need this vacation so badly I can't even tell you. Oy. So. On to the Fireworks *g* All of us at the Fiction With Friction blog will be posting short stories with a fireworks theme ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/06/28/its-fireworks-for-the-fourth/ Er, well, kind of. I politely (and with minimal fangirling, I swear!) requested MySpace friendship from Ghost Hunters stars Steve, Tango, Jason, and Grant, as well as Grant's piano (he's very, very good, just listen). I wanted to ask Kris Williams too, but her profile was set to private so I didn't ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/06/22/omg-im-friends-with-taps/ Pardon the Marvin moment, but yeah. Feeling kind of down today. Don't know why, though my instinct is to blame the EDJ. Stupid EDJ, taking my time away from important things like reading, writing and running.  **kicks EDJ in the balls** So I've been listening to Bright Eyes "Lover I Don't Have ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/06/19/i-think-you-ought-to-know-im-feeling-very-depressed/ ... when the local news runs a whole five minutes story about how a big celebrity has been spotted in a small town a few miles away, talks to a bunch of people who've seen him, lists the places where he's been seen, then closes the story with "Please, everyone, ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/06/16/hypocrisy-is/ [/gratuitous Massive Attack lyric, because it kinda fits] So. Here it is, two weeks before we head off for the beach, and I am feeling bloated, tired and totally out of shape. Sigh. This always happens to me, vacation sneaks up on me while I'm busy with Life & Its Consequences ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/06/14/inertia-creeps/ Anne Cain does it again! This is the cover for my upcoming Samhain novel The Happy Onion. Ain't it purty??? I tell ya, she ONCE AGAIN captured the flavor of the story perfectly. I swear she can read my mind. The book is kind of lighthearted, kind of funny, and full ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/06/12/cover-art-goodness/ Writing: Got one really loooong chapter of An Inner Darkness finished (though it's not very good and needs serious tweakage) and about half of the next chapter (which is pretty good so far, I think). I need to get at least another 2K today. Oy. Actually did a bit of promo on ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/05/31/allys-week-in-review/ Getting behind the wheel turns perfectly ordinary people into potential ax murderers. Some people take the attempts of others to merge into traffic personally. Nothing is quite as amusing as watching the person who's been weaving in and out of traffic at ninety miles an hour start to pass a relatively slow ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/05/27/lessons-learned-while-driving-250-miles-a-week/ Okay, so sometimes I like to surf fanfic when I ought to be writing. Only when I'm stuck though! Honest! erm... yeah. Anyway. The other day I found this weird and disturbingly amusing little ficlet in the LOTR fanfic archive Library of Moria. Honest to FSM, I thought I'd seen everything ... http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/05/22/something-wrong-something-right/ That's right, you can now get my gay lurve angst-fest Easy in actual paperback, from the hot new gay publisher ManLoveRomance Press! Woooooo-hoo!!!!! Order from Barnes & Noble or Amazon. Yay! I'm so excited!!! http://blog.allyblue.com/2008/05/04/easy-now-available-in-print/