Happy Easter

To all my friends who celebrate



I'll be making an Easter feast for one...

Writerly Ways

Actually you can find the bulk of the post over here on Jana's today where I talk a little bit about making your character into a complete idiot in order to achieve the exciting, danger fraught ending.

All paperbacks at Dreamspinner Press are on sale 50% off That's right, click on that link and you can get my novel in paperback for under 8$. What a deal! I like this because I had been really disappointed in how paperbacks were handled. Yes, I get that they aren't the big sellers e-books are (It's easier to hide your erotica on your Nook than it is carrying it around in your hand) but it was disappointing that they only got about 20 books for a new author and a few more for better known ones and if they sold out, the sales had to go through B&N or Amazon which means much less money to the author. This way I get nearly 50% of the haul. It's a better deal. So support your authors by buying direct from the publishers.

Especially those invisible ones. Sorry, feeling a bit tender now. I've been noticing just how invisible I am on Facebook. I feel like I'm back in high school. I have the same news as others (lookee here, I've got a new contract) and no one comments and others get people falling over them. Sigh. Story of my life. You can help. Promote stuff around and give reviews (several of you have been so good about that!)

Camp Nano Blood Red Roulette -

4178 / 10000
(41.78%)

Yearly Word Count -

22836 / 110000
(20.76%)

Goals - To keep working on Blood Red Roulette and any edits that come in (still waiting on that short story and to hear back on my series questions).

Felt much better today

I cooked Easter dinner. Gnocchi soup (a passing imitation of Olive Garden's), rotkraut (i.e. red cabbage & apples), roasted golden beets with balsemic-mustard vinegarette & goat cheese, carmelized ham steak with charred pineapple relish & candied peppers and for dessert raspberry-balsemic marinated strawberries with black pepper. There's even Tykvenitsa millet porridge for breakfast tomorrow in the crockpot (not pictured). When I cook, I really cook.



I also harvested my eggs out of their respective dyes. The blue is from boiling red cabbage (the aforementioned rotkraut). It's very easy to do. Boil cabbage, reserve for eating, decant necessary amount of blue water, add vinegar (I eyeball it) and toss in hardboiled eggs.

The tumeric was even easier. Take tumeric powder, water and vinegar. Mix. Add eggs. They came out a nice yellow. However, tumeric is a bit pricey to be wasting on this (A Hindu friend gave me a shit-ton when she moved so...)



Not really a good thing for kids though because this isn't as fun and splashy as making multicolored eggs and it takes about 12 hours to color. For some reason (I suspect drugs/alcohol/too much family time) evil_little_dog thought I might possess the patience to do galaxy eggs. After living with me for 3 years you'd think she'd know better. THey are super cool though.

And there was a link in the tumeric stuff that said tumeric is used throughout India as a face rejuvenator and is good for the skin. My brain goes hey, you have a lot of tumeric paste in this bowl because you over did it. Why let it go to waste? What my brain should have said was hey isn't this the shit they use to color yellow mustard that never comes out? So I slather my face. It felt cooling and good...and left my skin stained the color of mustard. I considered briefly just leaving it and calling in jaundiced tomorrow but instead jump into the shower with one of those exfoliating scrubs and removed a layer of skin. Did it help my skin be beautiful? No clue since yeah, exfoliation.

Kanda says the eggs are mine. You're too dumb to have them Easter-face



( 100 things #33 Roasted Beet Salad )

( 100 things #34 Rotkraut )

declutter day 340 item tossed-Two old glucose testing fluids why kept-For my glucometer why tossed-Never used, too old