Another Chat: Author Rhonda Stapleton

In order to ensure that the chat machine’s wheels are properly greased and ready to go for the agent chat next week, AQ is hosting an author chat this weekend! Yes! This weekend! I’m proud to announce that I will be moderating a chat with author Rhonda Stapleton. So join us on Agent Query Connect Sunday at 8pm Eastern. It’s free and it’s sure to be informative!

A bit about Rhonda:

Rhonda Stapleton started writing a few years ago to appease the voices in her head. She has a Master’s degree in English and a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing. Rhonda works as an editor for a legal publishing company and enjoys offering editing workshops. Because one writing group is never enough, she belongs to Romance Writers of America, several online and local writing chapters, and Romance Divas. Rhonda lives in Northeast Ohio with her lovely, energetic family, who are more than enough to keep her busy when she’s not writing. In the twelve minutes of free time she has each day, Rhonda enjoys reading, photography, writing poetry, singing in the shower (and in the car, at work, or basically anywhere that provides oxygen), drinking chai tea, and playing on the Internet.

Did she just say chai tea? I may have just found my new best friend! So come on down to AQ and learn about her long, arduous journey to becoming the author of the upcoming trilogy STUPID CUPID, coming out December 2009.

It’s Official: The Chat Is A Go-Go!

Join me, the AQ Crew, other writers and literary agent Tina Wexler of ICM on June 26th at 7pm Eastern time on the Agent Query Connect website. Tina will graciously be answering questions and I will be graciously moderating the chat. Pretty cool, eh? Best part: it’s totally free! (We only ask for your soul and you don’t need that anyway!)

Here is a bit about Tina blatantly taken from the AQ site:

“Tina Wexler is an agent at ICM, representing writers in both the children’s and adult marketplace. Prior to joining ICM, she was with the Ellen Levine Literary Agency/Trident Media and the Karpfinger Agency. She is from southern Maine, holds an MFA in poetry, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband.”

What exactly is she looking for?

“On the adult side, I am looking to acquire narrative nonfiction and up-market commercial fiction. I’m particularly interested in popular science, food (not cookbooks), pop culture, memoir, religion, art history, women’s issues (however defined), and modernized retellings of popular myths and legends. On the children’s side, I’m interested in young adult fiction and middle grade fiction. I love mysteries, adventure stories with boy appeal, coming of age stories, tall tales, and paranormal fiction. Specifically, I am looking for a witty story about an astrophysicist who has troubles finding her Mr. Right–I think his name should start with an ‘M’.”

Okay, you caught me, I added that last sentence.

Come join us online on Thursday June 26th, or visit the post afterwards–I’ve been told the transcript from the chat will be available. Does it get any better than this?

Goddess of Geek–Let’s Rename That to Goddess of Doofuses

I’m cracking code again folks. Such joy in my geekitude. I love it!

I’ve already noticed that I am the ‘odd girl out’ in an online class I’m registered in. Why? Why am I always the odd gal out? Maybe I am just projecting that…

Anyway, please note there are more links in my blogroll and that you can now follow the link on the left to my homepage. That’s where I was making code work for me. Yeah, baby. I’m working it. Wahoo. Doing the stirring the pot dance. Oh yeah, that’s me. I know you wish it was you.

Now, to do a back up and some more fiddling with this site… I may even get into colour stuff again. Or not.

Can you tell the edit section of my brain is fried liked mashed potatoes? Can not think…Can only code…Can only follow steps that have no subjectivity… Mashed potatoes?

Later Note: Yep, thee olde brain really is mashed potatoes because while I was listening to my daughter, I kind of um, deleted something important and now I can’t get it back. Oops. So, in the meantime, enjoy this basic blog theme. I may not even bother trying to get my old one back as I didn’t really like it that much anyway and this gives me an excuse to experiment a bit more. So, hang tight…the geek-who-only-knows-enough-to-get-herself-into-trouble is on it!

Even Later Note: Officially hate WordPress now. Could they make backups and upgrades any more labor intensive? Nevermind…that isn’t important. What is important is that my blog is still here for the moment and I will attend to my blog issues later. It may require lying on a couch with someone with a German accent asking me not to regress, but as usual, I digress…

Still Later Note: Whew! I did it! I fixed it. Damn, I am dumb though. Lesson of the day, don’t try to code or at least remove extraneous code when you are distracted or you just might lose your whole blog. God, where is that Maalox? None? Okay, pass the Vodka then.

Seriously Later Note: Crap! I had everything all nice and my Goddesshood reinstated, but now things are um, vanishing. I was going to quit while I was ahead (new RSS buttons on left), but crap, I still have more to do…

Um? Later Still: Things are where they should be with the exception of the RSS button which thinks it should be in a directory I don’t have. But I can fix that. Or ignore it. Or delete it. Ma-ha-ha!

What Planet Am I On?

Just out of curiosity, anybody know why I would need the weather report for Mars? I’m just curious because apparently that is one more service that Environment Canada is now supplying. Did we claim rights to Mars and it is now Canadian soil or something?

As well, what on earth did spammers sell before Viagra? Oh great, I just put ‘Viagra’ in my post and now I’m going to be deleting spam for this post from now until the cows come home.

And considering I have no cows, that could be a very, very long time.

Pudding and Other Important Items of Mundanity

So, I finally found butterscotch pudding in the grocery store. Butterscotch pudding that you make yourself, that is. It was a bit of a challenge. So, I snatched up a box, wondering at its amazing lack of weight and smaller size than the other flavours we had previously been enjoying and brought that baby home. Butterscotch, at long last, was in the house.

Then I noticed the dreaded words that makes every pudding junkie’s heart sink, “Fat Free” and “Made with Aspartame”. Crap. But it’s butterscotch and its pudding. It must be consumed. So I raged against the machine. I got out my juice jug, poured in the light powder and added my two cups of milk, sealed the lid and shook it for two minutes. How exactly did I rage? I made that bad boy pudding with homo milk (3.25% milk fat). Fat free that you pudding desecrating bastards!

In other news, my husband found the exact centre of the Internet, a place my dad once discovered ages ago when there were approximately six websites in total. Anyway, if you fear not traveling afar, here it is (pack light young grasshopper).

Oh, and in case you are like most curious ten-year-olds in their quest for answers regarding the most intriguing questions regarding poop, then this one is for you.