Cumber At Chat Last Night

This is just a partial transcript of the very mini chat I held at Writerspace last night. It was supposed to be about The Protector. Guess who showed up? ;-)

Gennita Low: Yes, I'm here, eating icecream

CUMBER joined the room.

CUMBER: Well, where's everyone?

Gennita Low: They didn't show up, I guess.

CUMBER: Why not? I'm here. Where the babes?

Gennita Low: Cumber, it's just you and me tonight. How are you?

CUMBER: Would be better if there were babes in here.

Gennita Low: Excuse me, chop suey here or what?

CUMBER: Pardon me, ma'am. You're the Queen Babe.

Gennita Low: Much better.

Gennita Low I'm sorry it's not much of a chat, but can you tell me what's coming in terms of scenes for me? Many readers are missing your presence, Cumber.

CUMBER: Hey, I don't blame them. I'm a memorable guy, what can I say. I think you'll see me--I mean several of us--in what's coming up. You know, the next book.

Gennita Low: Really? Virtually One? No kidding? That would make the thing too damn crowded, what with the commandos and all.

CUMBER: Well, writing isn't my job, ma'am. That's yours. You figure it out.

Gennita Low: Hey, you're supposed to help me out here...not get all cumbersome.

CUMBER: Cumbersome. Ha. I like you.

Gennita Low: You better cooperate or I'm putting you in another opera scene.

CUMBER: ---, no. I mean, freaken no. Am I allowed to say freaken on this board?

Md joined the room.

Gennita Low: Obviously not. Well, they censored that first word. :D Amusing.

CUMBER: What a stupid place. They censored me? Cumber?

Md: Hi Genn. How are things going for you? I have to tell you, I am a Florida fan.

Gennita Low: Well, you think about it...Do you want to be an opera scene or be cooperative?

Gennita Low: Hi MD!

Gennita Low: Umm, sorry about the small turnout here.

Md: Having 'puter problems or net problems?

CUMBER: I'll cooperate. Will you get me a girl soon, boss?

Gennita Low: No...I think everyone is busy tonight, MD ;-). So I'm here talking to Cumber all by myself. Weird, I know, but what I can I say? A chat is a chat.

Md: I am really happy that you have found another publisher.

Gennita Low: Cumber, the way you talk so big, no girl's gonna want you.

Md: How's the old boy doin'? Don't imagine he is getting much action these days. Has he got any news to share?

Gennita Low: Md, Samhain is great. The second book has been written for so long I'm just happy to get back into it.

CUMBER: Hey, who're you calling an old boy? Me??

Md: Will Samhain also do the third book in the series?

CUMBER: And for your information, big is very popular among romance readers, I hear.

Md: Yeah, you Cumber, you old son of a gun.

Gennita Low: Md, yes, Virtually One is contracted too!

Md: It's not what you got, Cumber ole boy, it's how you use it.

CUMBER: Md, sweetheart, I'm never too old for ladies.

Md: What are you thinking of doing after V One?

CUMBER: And I use mine well.

Md: Cumber, I hate to disillusion you, but lady I ain't. Broad is probaby a better description.

Gennita Low: MD, I've several ongoing projects that I'm doing at the same time, even though my first focus is on VHers right now and then VOne.

CUMBER: Md baby, I loooooove broads. //puts on sunglasses.

Gennita Low: Right now, I've been writing an urban fantasy tentatively titled Viking Dude And His Big Sword.

Md: How about doing something paranormal. The V books are a start, but why not pull out all the stops. Cumber, I do believe you are flirting with me.

CUMBER: Viking Dude? That's a good role for me in Hollywood. I've got a big sword.

Gennita Low: Viking Dude is paranormal/urban fantasy.

Md: I'm old enough to be your mother -- maybe even grandmother.

CUMBER: Md, I'm not married and over 18.

Gennita Low sigh. Cumber, behave. He's a flirt, Md, ignore him.

Md: I am married and well beyond 18.

CUMBER: dammit, why are they always married? Md, you're a lovely married lady.

Gennita Low: charmer, isn't he. Anyway that's my work in progress.

Fortunately, a few other chatters joined in and we had a pretty good time after that, although we didn't really discuss about The Protector, like we usually do with our book chats. Next session, I promise. All your questions about Jazz and Vivi and the SEAL gang.

Just wanted to see whether you got that hint about VOne that Cumber told us....*grin*

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Writerspace Tonight

Come join me at Writerspace for a discussion of INTO DANGER at 9pm EST tonight.

Yup, all about Stash and Marlena and any of the SEALs. Bring your own favorite drink ;-).

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Big Bad Wolf Ch. 15

Remember, CHAT tonight. 9pm EST.

Click on LINK and then choose the Chat Room link. If you have any problems, just post here or email me. I'll be online and will check both places for messages.

Check out what Lady Zannah sent me:

She's good at this button thing, isn't she? ;-) Thank you, Lady Zannah, she-who-hates-the-McNeils....

Oh, one more surprise...here is a short chapter that should give you many questions and thoughts for tonight's chat!

BIG BAD WOLF CH. 15 (link no longer works)


For those who aren't reading the e-book but still want to make it to chat, please join us. We're talking about all things GLow and all things romance, with plenty of cyber chocolate and margaritas. I'd love to have you at the chatroom.

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Short Morning Announcement

You're invited to chat on Writerspace this coming Friday around 9pm EST. It's a fun get-together, with lots of cyber chocolate and margaritas.

Please go to http://www.writerspace.com/ and click on chatrooms. There will be three. You can see the names of people in each room, so you can't miss where we're at. Make a name for yourself, choose a color outfit, and come on in! Sometimes you even get to smack a commando ;-).

See you there.

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Post #2: A Bit Off Today

Sorry I couldn't get a chapter up but I've been running around transporting the Mutant Pom from clinic to vet to specialist to home. Amazing how I scheduled an entire day around one furry child.

For those who sent prayers and private emails, thank you so much. I appreciate the healing thoughts and cyber hugs. Mira is doing better, no longer panting like she's been running ten miles. She was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, like her sweet brother, and I hope my catching the symptoms early was early enough. So, she's home and she's breathing normal but not acting quite as perky as the old Mira. Not eating, so I had to baby-feed her a couple of crumbs. But she's alert and can walk slowly. I'll take that as a good sign. The vet again tomorrow because the results of tests will be in and we can compare blood tests vs EKG vs X-Rays. I swear I know more about a canine's body and drugs for which sickness than a human's.

So, anyway, thank you again. Hopefully, a new BBW chapter tomorrow.

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CHAT ANNOUNCEMENT

I thought, as we get closer to the end of Big Bad Wolf, we can have our usual chat on WRITERSPACE chat forum like we had several times. The tentative agreed-upon time (suggested by the members of my Yahoogroup) is a Friday night--19th Sept. 2008. We usually start around 9 or 10pm Eastern Standard Time.

It's always fun. I answer questions and then we all relax, eat chocolate, drink margaritas and talk books.

I'll reconfirm the time as I hear back from readers here and early next week, with instructions of how to get to the site.

All dates subject to Hurricane Technical Difficulties, of course, it being that time of the year here, you know ;-).

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Last item. The new TV season has started!

As y'all know, I'm crazymad about Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles, of which Season Two just started tonight. There are many new shows coming up too.

What returning show are you looking forward to? And which new one is your most anticipated?

Isn't J.J. Abrams starting another one of his mindbenders at Fox later this year? I've seen the previews but have no idea what it's about. As you can see, the futuristic shows always catch my interest first.

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Chat Tonight

Tonight, I'll be a Writerspace Chatroom from 9pm EST for hours and hours of chattery and funnation.

Please drop by if you can.

URL: www.writerspace.com

Click on the chatroom icon/link on the top. Then you will see three rooms. I'll be at the Chatters Lounge. If not, just look at the guest list and check for GENNITA. That's me, you know, unless it's someone posing as me. Enter chatroom after giving yourself a name and dressing in any color gown you want. No coming in nekkid.

We'll have fun! We'll even have a visit from Jed. :::Gasp!::: Shades of J.R. Ward. But hey, why let only one author's characters escape into reality? Mine can so be real too! Jed will come in. Nekkid. Or not ;-). He really doesn't care. He does want to kiss Lady Zannah, though. Now, for that alone, y'all need to show up at the chat. Bwahaha.

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Uber Nursemaid and Being Called Names

REMINDER:

CHATTY CHAT TONIGHT AT WRITERSPACE at 9pm

The instructions to go to that website is in the post below (yesterday's).

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Today is the big day of the knee surgery. So if you can send some reader love and sympathy, I'd appreciate it. For me. FOR ME! Because I'm the one who's going to deal with the male pain and carting around of the male in pain AND...and a host of other things. Like, I put a sock on for a grown man the other day. It was a lot harder task than it sounded.

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Yesterday, on the job, while talking about hospitals and illness, of course, the roofer with the extraordinary vocabulary chimed in with a tale.

"My girlfriend's mother--grandma, we call her," he said, "is going through that thing where you forget everything at once, what do you call it--I forget..."

"Dementia?" I asked helpfully.

Remember, he's also deaf. "Oh yeah, that's right," he agreed, nodding. "She's dimensional, very demensional. Can't remember a thing."

"No," The Walrus said, "you're dimensional. In fact, you're not even here sometimes."

"That's what I mean. She's not even here. All the time. She's dimensional. I know where I am so I'm not dimensional."

Sigh. Changing socks, talking to sock puppets, what's the difference right?

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I'm naming five books off the top of my head for this year's Great Reads for me.

No order:
1. C. L. Lewis' Lord of the Fading Lands (strong worldbuilding and a mixture of fairytale and fantasy that made me forget about the Magic Vajayjay theme)
2. Lilith Saintcrow's The Devil's Right Hand (oh, man, she gets better and better!)
3. Elizabeth Hoyt's The Raven Prince (made all the elements that usually make me cringe worked)
4. Keri Arthur's Full Moon Rising (started me on a glom, but I was disappointed after the fourth book...warning: rape galore)
5. Nora Robert's Born In Death (Roarke and Eve so good together)

Your turn. Don't think. The first five books you enjoyed this year that come to your mind.

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Time, WriterSpace, and Cat Hair

Sorry I haven't been posting on the other blogs more frequently. I know you all love Intermundia very much, checking it almost everyday. The personal life has suddenly been consumed by lots of extra work, including doing the chores of two people.

Quoting my favorite book, Animal Farm, the old horse mutters, "I will work harder..."

;-P

Give me a few days to get used to my new schedule. Sigh. There will be no more fun till after Christmas, I tell you.

However, we're still CHATTING ON THURSDAY 9PM

Instructions: Go to http://www.writerspace.com/
On top, you will see a link to the chatrooms.
Click on it, and you will see three rooms: Readers, Chatters, and Authors. I'll be in the Authors' Forum, unless someone is already scheduled there. Then I'll be in one of the other rooms. You will see an update HERE.

If you haven't been to Writerspace before, try going there now and look at the page and click on the link to familiarize.

Can't wait to talk to y'all!

And now, for the love of sweet plastic baby Jesus stuck in a field of Christmas lights, do not buy these for Christmas presents. Your cats will hate you. Forever and ever:

Kitty Wigs (Courtesy of John Scalzi, the author who feeds me all I know about obscure scary stuff)

Sample pics:

:::dies laughing:::

Poor kitty cats. Those wigs aren't cheap either.

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