Time Flies When You're Havin' Fun!

Well, I guess it's been a few days since I last posted anything here, but time just flies by when you're doing all those exciting things like working and paying the bills. Actually, it's been a relatively easy week for me. I only had to work four and half days this week and was out one of those days fighting a lingering bronchial infection that's become very attached to me. The only exciting thing I've really done all week was create a video trailer for another book. If you get a chance wander over to YouTube and search for Ruth Sims. The book is entitled The Phoenix and it's a great story. I had a lot of fun putting the video together and hope it gets the response the author is looking for. You know, that's the bad thing about being published by a small press. Those houses put out some damn good books, but because of budgetary problems, they often don't have the funds for heavy duty promotion. So if the videos help these authors out, then I'm one happy little camper. If you're really interested do a search for badcock24 and check out all the videos I've made. I think there are about fifteen right now and I've had a whale of a good time with each one.

My partner and I had a good weekend getting a few things done around the house. We managed to purchase a new coffee table and two new recliners for our living room. We've been working on a lot of renovations to our old house and hopefully by the time I retire in a few years it will just be our little palace on the prairie. We bought a new grill for the patio and tonight I didn't have to cook, which only goes to show there is method to my madness. We staked out Tiki torches to ward off mosquitoes and fired up the chiminia to ward off the evening chill. All-in-all it was a very peaceful weekend and we needed that to re-energize before returning to work tomorrow.

I haven't had the energy to write much the last couple of weeks, but am planning to write tomorrow evening. I have a sequel about half finished and really do need to work on that. For now it's shower time and then reading time before I go to sleep. Take care and as Arnold said, "I'll be back!"

A Truly Dangerous Thing

I'm a writer by avocation. It's not how I earn a living, but serves as a way to maintain my sanity most of the time. I enjoy writing and always have. Ask anyone who knows me or corresponds with me and they will likely tell you that I write sometimes extremely rambling emails and almost always have something to say. I have strong opinions and usually manage tick people off with them, but at this point in my life I'm too old to care what other people think. I'm way past to point of attempting to impress anyone. With age I have found a kind of liberation I wish I had known as a young woman and intend to enjoy it as much as possible. I prefer to think I am not in my waning years, but in the prime of my life when it belongs pretty much to me alone. This should give you an indication of the type of rambling I often do.

It can be a dangerous thing to allow someone a venue such as this to expound their thoughts. I'll try not to get carried away and cannot promise that this will be a daily trek, but I will attempt to post something on a regular basis. Not that I think a herd of folks will read anything I am writing here, but just as a way to dump the crap from my mind.

I am the author of three novels, Pipeline, Reiko's Garden, and Redress of Grievances. I'm proud to say I will have two new novels released in 2009; The Sea Hawk in January and Tunnel Vision in July. My partner and I are the more or less proud parents of four grown children, all married now and someone else's problem. Our only responsibilities now are the two dogs and three cats that generally believe we could not sleep a single night without the company of all of them in our bed. We live in Texas, although neither of us is from ehre originally, where it is just God-awful hot in the summer and we endure two weeks of winter every year whether we want to or not.

I have a number of writer friends and because they never cease to amaze me with the stories and characters they create, I will undoubtedly be mentioning them from time to time. After all, I've been told it never hurts to advertise. Of course, that probably depends on whether what you are advertising is legal or not.

This has been rather fun for a first try, but it's been a long day and I do have to get up for work in the morning.