Cleolinda everywhere

Firstly: a follow-up on the $500 eBay Werewolf Transformation Spell. YOU GUYS. The vampire one is EVEN BETTER. ( IT IS MOST LIKELY LEGIT )


Secondly, from kellyrfineman: "Today [a day which was before actual today] is the launch of Breaking Waves, an e-book anthology featuring some heavy hitters from the fields of science and science fiction/fantasy, including Ursula Le Guin, Tiffany Trent, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Levine and more (including a poem by me, in the interests of full disclosure). The e-book comes in four formats, and costs $4.99 U.S., 100% of which will go to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund, which is doing a lot to help fishermen & their families, abandoned pets (SPCA) and environmental monitoring down in the Gulf following the BP oil spill."


Thirdly: linkspam!

New Oxford American Dictionary Adds BFF, Bromance, Hockey Mom & LMAO Entries. I'm sure the Oxford English Dictionary is acting like it doesn't even know us right now. ( MOAR )

Internets, I am not feeling so good. Just sinus blarg and a low fever, but I have been sleeping a lot. So that's where I've been.

Two bits of writerly advice:

@victoriastrauss: Agent Andrew Lownie on how to blow your chances in the first line of your email.

@MaryRobinette: Debut Author Lessons: 10 things about signing books.

Linkspam: movie news and your chance to be a werewolf, for really real. ( HOW CAN YOU BEAT THAT VALUE )

Feeling a smidge better. Got a good bit of work done yesterday, even though I was stuck wrangling fussy dogs for eight hours while my parents were on a church orchestra daytrip. (Sam parked himself in front of the door out to the garage once 5 pm rolled around, because that is The Time Mommy and Daddy Come Home, and yet they did not. So he barked at it for two hours.) Today I got up and went straight to work in the den, instead of getting up and faffing around on the computer and/or sleeping on the couch (both also in the den). I'm in there anyway, usually by 7 am, because "I have to keep an eye on the dogs" is a good way to add structure to my day. ANYWAY. I'm starting a new book for my novel research (although, as I noted, there's a point where research is about finding out things, and then there's a point where it's about the fear of not having found out enough, and I've been at that second point for a long, long time now), but I'm also checking Twitter.

@scottEweinberg: This Pattinson kid is on my TV. He looks like a cross between @TheJoeLynch and a Lycan.

O rly?

Ah, the Remember Me publicity circuit has started. I had plenty of time to read my book during commercials, because as American viewers of the Olympics know, NBC is now 85% advertising content.

@cleolinda: Al Roker's outside the Today studio saying Robert Pattinson's name over and over just to hear the girls scream.

@cleolinda: Matt Lauer: "Harry Markopolous!" Herd of fangirls: "... Wooooo?"

( Wonderella refuses to save him; werewolves competed in the Olympics )

ETA: WARNING: Before you run off and buy The Great Big Werewolf Book of Werewolves, I have to warn you--the reviews on Amazon are terrible, and now that I've gotten into the actual encyclopedia-style entries, I'm starting to see why. There's an entire entry about aliens and UFOs, a really sketchy attempt to connect Elizabeth Bathory to lycanthropy (she totes hung out with wizards and vampires and werewolves, you guys!), and the tale of a French guy who was really more of a ghoul than a werewolf, see, but while we're here... And if you can tell me what Charles Manson has to do with lycanthropy, believe me, I'd love to know.