by Charlene Teglia | May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
The May kickoff from Walk on the Wild Side continues with Saskia Walker’s Minding Amy. A quick romance read with a hot bodyguard sounds like a good time to me!
I know it’s been a week since I blogged. This is a wrap-up period for lots of things around here. The end of school, the end of a book, the end of pregnancy, it’s all going on. That’s kind of consuming my mental bandwidth.
And honestly, when life is like that, that’s when I want most to go get lost in somebody else’s book, specifically one with love and hope and a happy ending. Hooray for romance writers and the wealth of reading that’s out there.
by Charlene Teglia | May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last week brought you Men of Action. This week, Portia Da Costa brings you Glint!
by Charlene Teglia | May 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Happy Mother’s Day! And for handy reference, a list of 5 things moms want.
1. Sleep. No, really.
2. A good book and time to read it. (Or a good movie and time to watch it.)
3. Angelic children. Okay, I take that back. Angelic children kick mom imaginations into overdrive, trying to figure out what they’re up to/hiding THIS time and hoping to stop it before somebody loses an eye.
4. No surprises. See above. The word surprise makes my eye twitch.
5. Cake.
May your Mother’s Day bring cake and no surprises!
by Charlene Teglia | May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yes, I know, no blogging since Sunday. It’s been busy around here. For instance, I saw a submission call with a short turnaround time that a. I wanted to do and b. meant I had to jump, so I jumped. Polishing the finished story today.
On the reading front, I discovered that Lynn Viehl’s After Midnight was available immediately when I bought it for the Kindle app and it promptly downloaded instead of a week or so in the future. I decided the universe was telling me to ignore everything and read for the next eight hours, and who am I to thwart the universe? It was time well spent, too. Get your copy, it’s got romance and mystery and fantasy and horses. Plus surprises. Even if you aren’t a YA fan, I think any adult romance/fantasy reader will find a lot to love in this book.
Reading with kids: on our last bookstore visit, the oldest kid wanted the Harry Potter books, and I had to remind her that I already have all of them and now that she’s old enough, she can read them. So bedtime now includes a nightly chapter of Harry Potter and that’s going to keep us busy for a LONG time. It’s so fun to enjoy them all over again with kids who are new to Harry and his adventures. One of the best parts of loving a book is getting to share it with somebody else who loves it, too.
There was a new episode of Castle Monday night. Since I can’t stay awake until 11:00 to watch these things as they air, it’s a good thing we live in the future where TV episodes are available for instant watch the next day. And it was fabulous, as Castle consistently is. The writing for this show is terrific.
And I’m following my favorite show-that-doesn’t-exist, Shadow Unit, the brainchild of some of the best fantasy writers on the planet. New to Shadow Unit? Go get acquainted and begin reading. This is an entirely reader-supported project. I donate annually.
by Charlene Teglia | May 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
1. This weekend, the annual Children’s Festival of Arts took place and mad creativity ensued. I didn’t take pictures of wooden boat building, dueling, fairy houses, pottery wheels, etc. because there was only so much time. But a good time was had by all, and the Queen of Arts cleared my head from creative cobwebs, which is as good if you’re a writer as getting your bike blessed if you’re in the Hell’s Angels.
2. Still Alive is ridiculously singable, and the trailers for Portal 2 look and sound like mental crack. I should probably not buy
Portal 2 if I want to write any more books this year.
3.The official coldest April in recorded Seattle history is over. Which is good because I refused to buy a maternity coat on the grounds that I didn’t need one in the PNW and would never wear it again.
4. I keep picking hikes I want to do out of our Olympic Trail Guide (and we’ve gone through a lot of this book in the years we’ve owned it) and then cross-checking to see how far we’d be from a hospital, and then saying “next year”. Which is why we’re not currently hiking the Olympic wilderness to see
petroglyphs.
5. Recently read Lynn Viehl’s wonderful free novella
Dark of Heart, which takes place alongside her YA debut on sale in May. Can’t wait for that release!
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