Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I was watching Pirates yesterday and I started thinking what a sweet and simple pleasure it is to watch a beautiful man. It may sound silly but I really mean it. Like sitting in a field of daisies or something. I mean, my interest in Orlando Bloom is purely academic. Even if I had a chance to meet him I wouldn't because he doesn't interest me as a person (although I'm sure he's perfectly nice) but I do love to look at him. Like going to a beautiful man museum. It just makes me happy and I'm sure the same can be said of beautiful women if I knew what I was looking for. But I don't.

The movie itself, ehhh. I could take or leave it. But boy is it pretty. In so many ways.

Song of the Day-- I want Candy-Bow Wow. Does that count for eye candy as well?

Quote of the Day--

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? - Jean Kerr

Amber

None of your business

I have been getting a business degree which I will, thank the Heaven's, be done with in August. I will have a degree in business administration with which I plan to do...nothing. I am going on to get another degree in criminal justice but for right now I have to finish these business classes. I have this business law class which is marginally interesting but extremely high maintenance. Then I have this incredibly boring, absolutely hideous business communications class.

Now my point, and I do have one, (aside from the fact that I must have been smoking crack when I chose to major in business) is that we have this massive group project due. Now, as a rule, I can't stand group projects. Everyone in my group generally lacks focus and usually group projects bring down my average. This business communications class is the worst. I have not heard from one person in my group and it is due on Saturday. I am supposed to be doing this book in a week thing for RWA but I don't think there's any chance of finishing so much as a chapter in a week with this stupid group project. Grrr....I hate business school


Song of the Day--How To Succeed In Business Without Even Trying, From the musical of the same name. I wish. That's all I have to say.


Quote of the Day-- Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
-Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)


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Empty Nest

My baby left for New York on Monday, all alone to make its way in the world. Excuse me while I dab a little tear at the image of my baby shoved into the room with a million other manuscripts trying to rise to the top in the city that never sleeps. So sad.

I sent Awaken the Devil to Heather Osborn, the editor of romantic suspense at Tor, the other day. It was hard to let it go. But actually it was less so since I had already sent Digging Up Bones off to the other publisher. It gets easier every time right?

I am trying to decide what to write next and I am thinking I will go ahead with the story that I took the research trip to Oklahoma for. I had my doubts for a few days but then my much loved crit partner picked it out of like four dozen stories as the one she thought I should be working on without any prodding from me at all. See, it's meant to be.

Bye bye, Awaken the Devil. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. ;)

Quote of the Day--Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. -- William Dement

Song of the day--New York, New York. Because I mentioned it twice in this post.

Amber

My inspiration

Look how cute his back is...How can that not be an inspiration to a romance writer? That's all I have to say today. I love him.

Amber

fast pitch

I did two live pitches today. One for Tor and one for Five Star or specifically Tekno. Even though I was nervous on the first one and lost my train of thought (at one point I said, "along the way more girls die" Now that's fine writing right there) they both went fairly well. But here's the exciting part...They both asked for FULL MANUSCRIPTS! I am so excited. Of course it may turn out to be nothing but I'm still really excited. Especially about Awaken the Devil because there's no way it could be published by one of the easy publishers like Harlequin because for one it is too long but for two you couldn't get much farther from category if you tried. It is so dark and Chandler is such a dark hero and there are so many deaths that Harlequin wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole but Tor is interested. The other book Digging Up Bones I know is good and will eventually be published but I was nervous about Awaken the Devil because I didn't know what to do with it. Most houses that would publish something like that don't take unsolicited manuscripts so I was sort of between a rock and a hard place but this is a great development. Just wanted to share.

Quote of the day: "Yes, Doug can read."-D.B . Sweeney, The Cutting Edge. That line doesn't really mean anything but it's been in my head all day so I shared.

Song of the day: Past the Point of Rescue, Hal Ketchum. Very edgy and stirring and soulful. A deeply tortured guy singing a deeply tortured song.


Amber