Category: Maya’s Older Posts

Just a few minutes to UFC 79 :rockthefuckon:

Have munchies, drinks and am parked in front of the 47 inch flat screen TV :woot:

It’s a total kickass card and I can’t wait. :sumo:

for my trip to Vegas. But omg I can’t wait for it anyway.

Yesterday I put Into the Mist to bed. I got the line edits for it a good bit ago but had to put it on the “to do” pile because I was busting ass on Be With Me. So I did the little revising I wanted to do and then did a line edit myself and then it goes back to my editor who does another line edit and then it comes back to me and I do yet another line edit. Heh. Think me and my editor are anal much when it comes to putting out the best possible product?

So anyway, today’s task is to crack open Be With Me and tackle my revision notes. I usually don’t have a whole lot of revising when I finish a book because I edit as I go (sometimes obsessively) but in this case, and especially since Be With Me was such a long book, I just made a few notes along the way of things I wanted to address later. I don’t have a LOT but there’s a thread I want to take out, one I want to refine and then of course there’s the whole polish and obsess over word choices and imagery.

I have three days to do this because I have a couple of people I’ll send the book out to while Im off in Vegas having more fun than a human being should be allowed.

I have two shorter stories I need to finish by mid January and then I have a 60kish book and a single title that will probably go into bohemoth length, just because I don’t know the meaning of coming in UNDER a word count projection.

2008 is going to be a busy year, however, I’m going to kick it off ON VACATION wooo!

I’m actually sad about it because I loved this book so much and loved the characters. It’s my longest book to date and that’s saying something since my historicals are usually bohemoths. But then For Her Pleasure came in at 470 pages. Let’s just say that Be With Me is longer lol.

I already miss writing it. It was a book I truly enjoyed writing. I have edits to do on another book this week and then I have to go back and do a read over and tackle my to do list in edits.

I love finishing a book so far ahead of deadline because there’s no sense of panic. I have plenty of time to put the book aside and take my time getting it right.

Of course now I’ve got to get in the zone for Stay With me. And then Mistress. And then Sweet Persuasion…

This only allowing myself to think about one book at a time is probably a good thing.

over the *^$&@#$ Ebookwise I got for Christmas. :cursesign:

Sweet Jesus, WHY must everything be so complicated?

Someone could make a bloody killing if they’d make an updated ebook reader (you know with current memory capability, current technology and a non proprietary format)

Hubby and I both have cursed a blue streak and decided ebooks are of the devil plain and simple.

but I’m actually approaching a point when I can take it guilt free! I’m set to finish Be With Me TODAY. :whoo:

I pounded out 8000 words yesterday and I only have three scenes to write today, two shorter ones and one longer one. Unfortunately I can’t sit and write uninterrupted because I have my daughter’s Christmas party at 10:45, early release for all three kids at 1:00, and a hair appointment at 5:00.

So it’ll be writing in fits and starts today but Im hoping to type THE END tonight before I go to bed.

This has been a mammoth book in the making!

I’ll be squeeing just as soon as I type that last word. :banana:

for a vacation. :kap:

Hubby’s been gone all week on a hunting trip. If kids weren’t in school and I didn’t have so much work piled up to do, I would have gone with, but oh well, too much crap to get done.

I’m pushing hard to get this book done by the end of next week. I have some minor revising to do on another book that has to be done ASAP and I have a novella to finish that I’d like to have done early in January.

But I’m missing hubby and really, really, REALLY looking forward to our vacation to Vegas after Christmas. As in cannot wait, desperately need the downtime.

On the upside, Im really, really loving Be With Me. I don’t always love a book when I’m writing it. One of my editors teases me relentlessly about my manic love/hate fest that I have with books as I’m writing them. As in one day love, next day hate and so forth. I haven’t hit a hate point with this book, and I don’t expect to. It’s nice not to have to deal with the I need Prozac hysterics that sometimes accompanies writing a book. Really, really nice….

I’m 75 percent finished with Be With Me which means I’ll finish ahead of schedule as hoped. :whoo:

I should also be getting a cover soon since the conference was scheduled a week or so ago. I’m chewing fingernails over this one :pray:

I do have back cover copy. I’ve actually had it for a good while now but it’s early days yet so I’ll post it sometime after the first of the year. Maybe when I get the cover :woot:

None. Eharlequin has all ebooks half price today. I believe I’ve mentioned that with my insane writing schedule, I’ve not been by to purchase ebooks in the last two months.

That all changed today :lol2:

42 ebooks 49 ebooks later 55 ebooks *sigh* (I’m no longer saying what my total is up to lol) I’m done with my shopping. I have no self control. I haven’t had this much fun in ages.

No, I don’t have time to read them right now, but just knowing I have so many lovely ebooks added to the already enormous pile I’ve stockpiled from the summer (yes, it’s been that long since I got to read for any length of time) on my harddrive just makes me giddy. :rockthefuckon:

I’m so going on a binge reading spree when I finish this damn book. Oh wait, after I finish the next book…shutting up now.

First the yays. We have two Office Depots “in town” as in the place south of my little hole in the wall town. I love going in and looking at their clearance section. There is always something cool to be had there. At my regular location a week or so back, they had the reams of the Office Depot brand of high quality paper with 650 pages to each ream instead of 500 on clearance for two bucks a ream. TWO dollars. OMG. I about had a heart attack and promptly bought everything.

Over the weekend I went into the other location (more on that in the woes section of this post) and found envelopes in their clearance section. Not just any envelopes either. They had the bubble, padded plastic large sized envelopes, the kind that a trade size book fits SO nicely into. Now usually these suckers run .97 cents a piece and that’s at Walmart. They’re more expensive at other places. Office Depot had them in packages of 10 clearance for ONE DOLLAR. I was grabbing packages in absolutely glee. I threw them at my kids as fast as I could pick them up.

Office supplies make me happy :lol2:

Now the entire reason I was in Office Depot over the weekend *sigh* I just bought a new Dell printer. Not that my old Dell printer was that old but I’m pretty hard on them and this one had lasted awhile so I gave in and ordered a new one after it quit on me. Now the problem with this is that I’m printing promo stuff that I need to send out THIS week so of course that’s when the old one quits. :cursesign:

Anyway, I ordered a new one, it came in last week. Now this new printer was supposed to come with a 6000 page ink cartridge. I know because I checked because I never buy anything less than 6000 because I go through them too quickly and it’s a pain in the ass to spend all my time ordering new ones. So I get to about page 850 and get a low toner warning. WTF?

I get online to “chat” with Dell because I really don’t want to spend an hour on the phone unable to understand a thing the “representative” is trying to say to me because my call has been routed to Freaking India. *sigh* So I wait forever, get a customer service chick who tells me I need Tech support. Wait forever to get tech support who tells me I need customer service. I scream and pick up the phone ready to froth at the mouth. Finally get someone who says they’ll send me a new cartridge.

I get said cartridge on Friday. I start printing over the weekend. I’m frustrated with the printer itself because it is only printing 10 pages a minute. This is a laser printer that is supposed to print 30 pages a minute. I timed it because it was so God Awful SLOW. And it wouldn’t let me specify to print more than one copy of a document. If I told it to print anything other than 1 copy, it would print 13 pages and get vaporlocked, throw an error message and shut down. And if that weren’t enough, it would pick 2-3 pages at random in the middle of the document to just arbitrarily fuck up and print jibberish on before it would resume printing the regular document.

The icing on the cake? I get to about page 1200 on this nice new 6000 page toner cartridge? ANd I get low toner warning.

I made hubby call them and tell them to expect the printer back on their doorstep as soon as they’d send me a return label and I could get it packed up.

So I was at Office Depot shopping for a new printer. Which I need right now.

I’m going back to HP for my computers and printers from now on. Dell is not good for my blood pressure.

or part of it. The bottom half lol. Completely decorated by the kidlets. Which is what makes it so fun. The tree never looks the same from year to year though we have the same ornaments. They placed most of the red balls toward the top and covered the bottom with the gold. And most of all the other ornaments are things they’ve made themselves whether at home or in school. Oh and there’s the coveted (by me) White House ornaments that my bestest gal pal in Washington sends me every Christmas :worthy: