Yup. I did it. I released the novel finally. Woohoo! Ahem. Got my first feedback yesterday. My friend read it and loved it. Yay! At least one person doesn’t think I’m warped. Here is my first unofficial review from her: “I loved it! I loved all the sarcasm!” Hehe. She also found a huge gaping flaw with the story that I didn’t notice until my last proofread or so, but it was too late at that point! Then I pointed out to her another big flaw. Silence. I said, “Did you notice that?” She said, “Noo.” Ha! Yes, I ruined my book for someone. No, she loved it anyway. NICE. And now more than 2 people have downloaded it, so I’m happy.

I still have a lot more to do for the book, though. I have to upload it to all the free document sites I found. About 10. And Google Books, and…. I forget. I have a list. And I also have to finish uploading all my music videos to YouTube, cuz I said I would! I will get back to that tomorrow. Today is all about babbling in the blog. Yesterday I tried to work on book stuff and I just shut down. I had to go take a nap. I just couldn’t do it anymore. Gah! I spent Friday and Saturday, all day, working on the book. Formatting ebooks, yada yada. I forget what else. Each day felt like a week. I couldn’t believe it was only 2 days. Yesterday I added all my books to Goodreads, and then had my little shut down with the nap. Goofy. Soooo much work. I have to change my poetry book information on Goodreads. They spelled the title of one book wrong and I got an account and corrected the spelling. Ha! Yeah, I’m a geek like that.

There’s a link somewhere to the right (to Goodreads). I’m too tired to copy and paste. Ow. I just nuked a muffin in the microwave and it burned me! I need to let it cool. It was frozen a minute ago. Science! I am a dork today. I had much more to say when I was at work writing this blog entry in my head. Today I got home from work and looked in the mailbox and there was a box in there that was too big to get out. ?? Yes. They open the front of the whole mail thing, cram everybody’s mail in there, then close the front, and there just happens to be enough of a… lip? A something, so I couldn’t get the package out. I thought of leaving them a note for tomorrow. “Please turn this” or something. But I decided to go for it! I ripped the box open while it was still inside my mailbox and took out what was in it, then I yanked the empty box out of the mailbox. Score! Ha! My neighbor walked by while I was doing this, “Hi!” She didn’t bat an eye. Funny. I made a small mess, but I’m in that Monday kind of mood. ANGRY. I’m not angry, just impatient. Something. Grr. I’m actually pretty mellow. Compared to this weekend going back to work was relaxing. But, yes, still impatient. Grrrrrr…!

Let’s talk about the book. Okay! It’s a thriller, and looking at the other thriller novels here, I noticed I am one of 2 or 3 women who have written one. The rest are men. Hmm. This makes me wonder if anyone will…. I don’t know what, but I have a unisex name anyway. I’m afraid people will go, “Oh, girly thriller, pass.” Lol. I guess I’m over that now. It’s a really cool novel. I mean, wow, aren’t I modest? Hehe. Also, it has a female main character. How often do you see that in action/thriller/suspense stories? You know? I think it’s cool! All my main characters are women. Cuz I’m a woman. I don’t know why that strikes me as funny. I sometimes feel I should be writing traditional action/thrillers with a man as the main character. But then I think, “Why would I?” Maybe I don’t watch enough movies, but I can only think of female action heroes on the small screen. Yes, I spaced out for a moment pondering it. Serenity! I knew there was one. Yeehee! Anyway. Buffy and Dark Angel were the TV shows I was thinking about… Scully’s pretty cool…. Okay, I can’t think of any more, but my brain’s not completely functioning right now. And I swear my eyes are computer burned!

I wasn’t gonna be so deep and philosophical in here. Or if I was I was gonna do it better! I guess work really does fry my brain a little. Eight hours of that. Ummmm…. I’m still thinking seriously of writing romance novels. Strange but true. My first book was accidentally one. I didn’t realize it was ’til I went to categorize it on link sites. Wow! It’s funny how that shocked me. Lol. I thought I was just writing about life and whatnot. Lord. Anyway! Most of the things I have to say are mystery/suspense/sci-fi/action stuff. BUT I’ll never get to where I want to be writing only that. And I can write paranormal mystery kind of romances. So I wouldn’t be totally wandering off the path. It’s just weird that there are pretty much rules like you have to have a happy ending. Etc., etc. I don’t usually like rules. But if it means possibly writing full time and quitting the day job, I can definitely follow a few simple rules. DUH. Why did this not occur to me before? Well, there are reasons. Anyway, I can still write my sci-fi dark weird stuff for me. And you! If you like that sort of thing. Cuz no day job means more time for writing. All kinds of writing! But mostly romance. Which I am not entirely averse to! I mean, I used to read romance novels for fun. I did! Now I read them for torture. I’m kidding! I don’t read anything now. I don’t have time. That’s one of the things that had to be given up in order to find time to write. Ironic, no? It’s weird that I’m being so businessy about this. Practical. Well, I’m trying to speed things along. I’ve been a starving artist for long enough, thank you. I am craving ramen noodles right now… Seriously! It’s so hard to find vegetarian ones. I’m gonna have to go back through this blog entry and erase a lot of the exclamation points.

You know what was going through my head all morning? “I said ‘brr’… it’s cold in here… there must be some Clovers in the atmosphere…” That’s right. A cheer from Bring It On. Which I saw a few weeks ago. I was even typing to the beat of it. Very weird. I think it was keeping me awake. So not used to getting up early to go to work! Four day weekend. Thanksgiving. You remember. Now it’s in my head again. But this time it’s lulling me to sleep. Ahhhh!!!….. zzzzzzzzz. Wake up! My friend was talking to me about my characters on the phone and I said, “Who?” It was so weird hearing their names out loud. I have been alone with them for about 8 months. I think I’d never heard their names spoken. Wow. Weird.

God, I have Cousin It hair. It’s attacking me right now. Snarly and strange. I need a hair cut! My mother just had some photos developed from the 80s and my sister’s hair in some of them is so funny! Christmas morning crazy long thick bed hair. She had to tie it back or it would strangle her in the night. Lol. In one picture it looks like a crazy wig, but it’s actually her hair. That picture stayed undeveloped for 20 years! Shit, we’re old! @#!$@#@!! Take that spellchecker.

Argh. I should probably shut up now. I’m just babbling away. In metapad, where it is so quiet my unspoken words create an echo. Hahaha. God, I’m a dork. “Brr, it’s cold in here, there must be some Clovers in the atmosphere…” It’s ongoing. The cheer. My wrists hurt from typing! Okay, time to go extract the extra exclamation points. God, I didn’t even do that alliteration on purpose. I’m in some weird zone! The Twilight zone, lol. (Ha!) I will have to rent that movie someday and see why everyone is so nutso about it. I don’t get it. But then I haven’t seen it, or read the book. Hmm.

I’m getting hungry. So, I shall go now. Wow, you’d think I could be more clever. Wait. It’s “cleverer”. Despite how stupid that sounds. Ugh. Editing. Going now. Later.