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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Styx Sister's Trailer

Words of the day:

"What's that on your forehead?" Britney asked.
"Band-Aid."
"You fall down drunk or something?"
"Something."
"You in a fight?"
"No. it's an employment-related fork wound."
"A what?"
"A flipped fork flicked my forehead."
Alliteration seems to offend people. Her expression soured.
-Dean Koontz Odd Thomas.



My sister made her first YouTube video and it was this wonderful trailer for my book. I love it! Whenever I feel like the writing just isn't going well and I get tempted to scrap the whole thing I watch this trailer and it reminds me yes, I have a good hook, yes, I love my characters, and yes, I need to try and get this book published because it is wonderfully fun to read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isla32nmniY




XOXO
T

Friday, May 1, 2009

I'd rather be Spelunking




Hello World.
If my bestest friend Kaycee has time to blog, gosh darn it, I can do it too! (But that doesn't necessarily mean that if she has another baby I can do that too, I do have limits :) So here it is. Tracy's blog. There are three main important things in my life right now. My family, my writing, and gymnastics. So here we go. Family: I love Veronica Mars (TV series) and I was watching her the other night and she made a joke that she would rather be spelunking than talking to Logan...I would rather be spelunking with Logan but that's just me. I had no idea what Spelunking was but I love words and had to look it up. Anyhow, I was later talking to Ryan, my husband, and used that line. I waited for him to ask me what spelunking was but he didn't. My brow furrowed, I scratched my head. "Don't you want to know what Spelunking is?" I asked. He told me that it was exploring caves, of course. I broke down into uncontrollable laughter, because seriously?! Who uses that word? Alaskans, I guess.

Number two Writing: Aprilynne Pike's debut novel comes out May 2nd. It's called Wings. Go and read it. I'm going to. I'd rather read dark urban fantasy than faeries but I have been following her through the whole found an agent, got published phase and I am interested to see how her book does. (She had over one hundred rejections before she found an agent.)

Okay gymnastics season, Here in Utah it is always gymnastics season. I am a gymnastics judge and the compulsory season runs from September thru December. College and Optional season is January through April. And then Spring Compulsory season is April through June. That leaves me exactly 4 weekends in July and three weekends in August off the entire year. Seriously! Let's just say I'd rather be Spelunking.

All right, I am going to try and write in this thing once a week because you all know how very not good I am at keeping up with Face Book and MySpace. Sorry. I promise to mend my ways and try to be better. Here is your assignment for the day. My sister Sammy came and stayed with me for the week, love that girl, and she has turned me into a complete and utterly hopeless Mitchell Davis fan. So click on the link. Watch Mitchell. He will make you laugh. He makes me laugh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7iOwRySwY And have a fabulous day.

T