Brain Squishage
So I’m in Reno at the RWA conference because I finally realized that the bestest/easiest (yes, that second word is full of snark and sarcasm and irony in all 53 flavors) place to get the sort of thing I have fun writing published is in the Chick Lit world. The other stuff I love to write but which is less fun and potentially more psychologically damaging/therapeutic involves ex-Harley enforcers, dead porn stars, and exploding coffins in Santa Monica Bay by way of modern Viking funerals. So it’s Chick Lit for now, which is why I’m currently hiding in my hotel room avoiding the majority of the cigarette smoke oozing out of the casino level and attempting to convince my lungs that they do not need a quart of Albuterol. I had three cups of coffee this morning with a friend, and promptly went back to sleep for three more hours, which speaks volumes about a) how overstimulating this place is, b) how overtired I am, and c) how much caffiene I’ve been sucking down since I got here in a more-or-less futile attempt to stay awake. The casino downstairs… oh jaysus. Maybe I’ve watched too much Buffy/Angel, but I keep expecting green-skinned, red-horned demons to come flouncing out of the tops of the brightly lit clangly money-sucking monsters and eat my face. It’s a wonder none of the folks at the dollar slots haven’t shriveled into nothingness. Grr. Argh.
On a happier note, the earrings I made for Jennifer Crusie’s fan club, The Cherries (of which I am one), have gone over very well, and I’ve been handing my business card out left and right. Everybody I’ve met, particularly The Cherries, are wonderful and sweet and funny and smart and fun to drink… um, hang out with. Oh, did I not mention that I started a jewelry business a few months ago? It’s become my right-brain Zen thang - enormously therapeutic and a wonderful excuse to play with pretties and indulge my inner magpie. The fledgling website is up at http://www.thepomegranatetree.com, and my online store is hosted at Ruby Lane, so appears at http://www.rubylane.com/shops/pomegranatetree if any of three of you need pretties for decoration or bribery. I take custom requests too. /shameless plug
I’m gonna go suck down some more useless caffeine and shower the current layer of ciggy smoke out of my head fur and stagger downstairs seeking further writerly enlightenment. TTFN.