I amost forgot to blog. Eek

I have a chat tonight on Ecataromance and I was trying to get some sleep. It’ll be 1am here and I wanted to give a semblence of being bright eyed and bushy tailed.

Unfortunately I got distracted by Bones and then Boston Legal… Damn Alan Shore! *grin*

Just hope I can keep up!

…to some people, pics from my hols. I made the disastrous decision to buy a digitial camera (it’s the size of a wafer thin mint). It’s disastrous as I took almost 200 pictures. Which is slightly insane, LOL I’m not putting them all up, don’t panic. Just the edited highlights *grin*

The first photo is the infamous Samwise.

(just thought I’d mention – Frodo and Samwise aren’t their real names. As if I’d name my children after fictional characters… *whistles*)

The Castle is Harlech… or as Samwise would insist “Dalek Castle”

Way too much Dr Who for a 2 year old

… The Pact

It’s in issue #4 of Enchanted Ramblings… page 38, I believe 😉

well… here to be exact.

And I have another ISBN for my growing collection. *grin*

Edit: Blogger won’t let me but in the full link *grr*

So the above link will take you to the publisher’s New Releases page. Billionaire is in the bottom left hand corner *grin*

…yes, you guessed it. The Winter Prophecy is going to be one of those stories that I have to write, ie, tonnes of research. Why does science keep pulling me in, LOL? I have degrees in Art and English and I’m so not equiped for Quantum Mechanics.

It will make for a very interesting take on the festival of Samhain though *grin*

Just had a weird doubling up on posts there.

I’m being interviewed this week on Bryn Colvin’s Yahoo Group and of course my laptop is going fritzy. My computer is so not loving me today *sigh*

I am getting an idea of what The Winter Prophecy is about though. So that is very cool *grin*

I thought a holiday was supposed to refresh and rejuvenate you? I think this one just wiped my memory clean… Thank you Jenn for reminding me about the Samhain proposal!

It feels like I’ve been away for months, LOL, not just a short week. And as to replenishing the writing well (or whatever it’s supposed to be 😉 ) I have even less clue than I did before! *grin*

Today, I’m going to sort out what The Winter Prophecy is about. And tomorrow it’s Bone Magician.

That Coris Sword won’t be there forever 😉

Your Brain’s Pattern

You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy. You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts. People may say you’re hard to read, but that’s because you’re so internally focused. But when you do share what you’re thinking, people are impressed with your imagination.

…who is a massive 2 years old today *grin*

He’s in bed now, after his Peppa Pig/Scooby Doo fest of a birthday. He woke up earlier, crying because his birthday was over. The Ent promised him that his presents will still be there in the morning. As will the Peppa Pig DVD – and his present for Frodo: the Star Wars Trilogy LOL

We’ve had that on all day – with neither of them paying attention, but going ballistic if I even attempted to turn the TV off. *sigh*

And I caught the end of Return of the Jedi. *shakes fist at Mr Lucas* …that annoyed me… almost into a Spaced/Simon-Pegg-taking-all-my-Star-Wars-stuff-into-the-garden-and-burning-it moment. Not that I have much Star Wars stuff. Honest…

We made it back from Wales in one piece. Yay!

Frodo burst into floods of tears as we pulled up outside our house. He wanted to go back to the holiday house, LOL. Samwise toddled in and rediscovered his lego and crayons. Frodo went to bed for an hour to get over the trauma of being home.

We had a good time, staying in a place that had no vowels. It would’ve been a nightmare if we’d gotten lost. There was no way either of us could pronouce the village. *grin*

We traipsed around castles – Conwy and Harlech – and I took far too many photographs of stone, turrets, steps, towers and flags. Samwise enjoyed his first beach at Portmerion, happily disappearing into the distance with the comment ‘I’m walking’.

On the last day we went to King Arthur’s Labyrinth at Coris. It’s an old slate mine. You cram into a barge and disappear into the mountain. It’s black, cold and the water is 160 ft deep. Then you’re taken through a maze of tunnels by a cloaked guide and shown scenes from the Mabinogion. Frodo loved it. Samwise wasn’t so sure… But a dragon roared and blew smoke at him on the barge out… so that made up for the cave.

And if Berkley say yes to The Bone Magician’s Daughter, there’s a sword in one of the nearby craft shops with my name on it…