Uh oh

So I was just looking at Jennifer's page. Forty comments under one author's profile. Twenty-nine for another.

I got four? (Thanks, Sam)

For pity's sake, people, go on! Go say something about the weather. Describe your daughter's birthday party. Talk about the worst book you read, as long as it's not one of mine.

You can also win some fun stuff.

You know you don't want me to launch into yet another self-pity party. You tell yourself, no problem--you can just avoid MY blog, but don't forget I can still come and whine over to yours. I know where many of you live.

I'm on the edge, dudes. Two more rejections pushed me close, closer, closest to the Edge of Whine. Yet another full-out whiny rant. Save yourself.

Comments

  1. Jennifer Y.2:32 PM

    HUGS!!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Mich11:12 PM

    Kate - to add some cheer, I will tell you what I am doing. I am in Portland (OR) at an instructional technology conference in which I have just spent the last hour and a half in the dark and cold trying to Geocache.

    Ok, it was fun, and the whole time we were out there, I was picturing a scene in my head as a "what if" the Port Authority Police vroomed up to us in their white pickup trucks, shining those really bright flashlights in our eyes and demanding to know (none too politely) why we are roaming the security fence between the Sheraton parking lot and an AIRPORT RUNWAY- in the shrubbery (insert Monty Python joke here)... While the United Shuttle takes off behind us, I can just imagine our innocent explanations -- "um sorry officer, but have you seen a little blue Tupperware container with some tickets in it? We're trying to win a GPS unit."

    The officer, of course, would not be amused by this explanation, and would shoo us away from the area, due to, you know, National Security Concerns. (Teacher Geeks Gone Wild! News at 11!)

    ;-) There...did I get a smile?

    Back home tomorrow, maybe with a newly won GPS system!


    Michelle in OR

    ReplyDelete
  3. Kate11:37 PM

    Aw, thanks, Jennifer. Snivel, sniff. You're a doll.

    Fingers crossed on the GPS system, Michelle. You'll play that GPS game my ten-year-old friend is into all the time. She got a device over christmas signed onto some club on the internet and is stuffing notes into strange boxes all over town. It's a lot of fun.
    GEEK ON, DUDETTE!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Mich11:45 PM

    Update - Well, I didn't win the GPS (Or the laptop, or the Ipod, or the ...) but another gal from my group won a laptop AND 2 Portland Trailblazers tickets. Jeez, this WAS her lucky day :-)

    Michelle

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

more fun and hi-jinks at RWA.

To the Board of Directors of the Romance Writers of America: It has been brought to our attention, by several of our romance authors, that your organization no longer considers Medallion Press, Inc. a legitimate publisher according to your guidelines. We were surprised we did not receive official notification directly, but instead discovered it was posted on several RWA internet loops. Accordingly, we request this letter be published in its entirety in the RWR Report so all members may understand the nature of the process that eliminated Medallion as an RWA approved publisher. We will also send copies of this letter to all our own RWA member authors. We are dismayed you declared Medallion Press no longer a legitimate publisher. In July of 2004 we met all of your qualifications without incident by showing sales of 5000+ copies of USA Today Bestselling author Nan Ryan's The Last Dance. Several months prior to Book Expo America 2005, we received a call from your office alerting us to
Read more

No snark. Bad puppy. No. (Review stuff.)

A two star Amazon review on His American Detective: "Bodice ripper about gay men by a woman." and I'm longing to comment "don't you mean a waistcoat ripper?" God, no. Stop me. The reviews rarely rattle me any longer -- except when I spot a truth in a bad one. When that happens, I actually lose sleep. This means I still care about writing.  Speaking of reviewers and writers: A couple of days ago, a writer said she was tired of getting white ladies writing reviews of her books. She had an excellent point in the long run: her stories are meant for a particular audience and she wants them to resonate with those people and get more reviews from them.  But that first line was just....horribly obnoxious. I say this from my POV of course. Not a white lady who writes reviews -- but as a review grubber.   Anyone who disses any reader (especially ones that give honest reviews) deserves to be cast into the pit of being ignored.  
Read more