I love libraries

 I'm a library kid.

Practically lived in one as a child. Spent every summer in one for years until I turned sixteen and worked as a shelver for two years.

Then back to it, right around eighteen years later, to start as a shelver for three months and then hire on full-time in Circulation. Worked for sixteen years.

Books are everything to me.

When I took early retirement, I knew I would miss my coworkers. Complete no-brainer. But the stacks. THE STACKS! To walk through and run my finger down hundreds of spines. Look at the new books. Smell the old books. Find new authors. Reread old series. Look at covers. Read blurbs. Admire. Feel. Immerse.

Libraries are timeless treasures that hold timeless treasures.

When I found out Chimera is available in libraries in at least six states and Canada, I nearly hyperventilated.

THIS IS PART OF MY DREAM! I want readers from all over the world to be able to read my books. And libraries, those beautiful, venerable, and cherished institutions, are helping my dream. 💖

Much love to my libraries and librarians! I see you! You'll always be my home away from home. 😊😌

Always writing*

...and reading...

I'm a sponge

I love being a sponge. Of course, sometimes I forget what month or day it is, but I DO know scorpions are biofluorescent. 

Anyway.

One of my favorite things about meetings and conferences is learning things I don't know and can use. If we're only going over things I already know, I give twitchy an entire new definition. But if you hook my ear with the talk of new knowledge? I am yours to the bitter end. 

The Romance Conference had a company, Draft2Digital, speak. I'd never heard of them. The COO? CEO? The C something or other gave a presentation. And it was amazing. Wide distribution in multiple formats with great customer service.

You've seen my IS posts about trying to fix my book covers and their customer service. 😣

I had enough. I emailed IS and told them to delete my account. Then went on to explain a few things of how I felt about their service. I'm sure they will be glad to delete me now. And I published both "Canary" and "Chimera" at D2D, less than ten minutes each.

LOVE learning new stuff. And I always come around to using it for something or other. 

Always writing*

...or publishing

My dance card is full

Mid-July through mid-August has been quite hectic.  Watching grandbabies.  Having everyone up for a BBQ (except the oldest 😞).  Attending the awesome RomanceLahoma conference.  Appointments and all the like.  Tomorrow, my baby child is having a same-day procedure that's not really simple.  And fibro.  

I'm ready to exhale.  

Except...I've about one week I can before September ramps up, and I'm spinning again.

We have three of the five granddaughter bdays in September.  And the Honey's.  October is all my kid's bdays--3.  Thanksgiving.  Christmas.  🤯

What the what?

I'm squeezing in Canary:  Dark Descent, second book in the Canary series, and I'd like to either finish Incantation, 4th book in the Rivers Sisters series, or my Erotic Romance.

That's what's happening here.  Will I still be writing?  Did Eminem give Elton John cock rings for a wedding present?

Yes and yes.  😁

Always writing*

...and sharing weird factoids...don't get me started on the carnivorous caterpillar...it's like a bad Grimm Bros fairytale...