I have no illusions about life in Charleston. I hate the heat and humidity, the backwards politics, the overt and subtle racism. And yet I am steering my car straight into the belly of the beast.
Date: March 8, 2009
Time: 2:15 or 3:15 am (still a little disoriented because of the time change. And no matter what Janice says, it’s not psychological)
OK, everyone knows how the rubber band/cussing experiment went. By Wednesday, I had to take the damn thing off because the inside of my left wrist was so bruised. Seriously. The bruise is purple and green right now. It wasn’t because I was snapping the rubber band so hard, it’s because I was snapping it so often. Let’s just call this experiment a wash.
Work sucked …
My series, Claire’s People, starts tomorrow. Claire, a popular writer, finds herself returning to Charleston after 20 years of living it up in Chicago. She’s successful and happy, and yet longing for home.
A busy body mother, an eccentric neighbor, a long distance boyfriend, and the big brother who never grew up are just a few of Claire’s people.
I hope you enjoy.
(Claire’s People is only available to paid subscribers.)
In other business, the Diva of The Spring Chronicles is continuing to do her thing. Her next journal entry …
Overview from booksamillion:
In this first book of a new series, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been marked by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling with special powers.
My soon-to-be 14 year old has been insisting that I read this teen vampire series for months. She kept saying that she knew I was going to love it. And she was pretty close.
A teen has …
