WEDNESDAY, MARCH 05, 2008
First of all I must apologize. I’m on a deadline for final edits of STAND BY YOUR HITMAN so I don’t have much. I know you are expecting some story where I tell you how I was easily outwitted by my girl scouts/children/mailman/cat/the Illuminati/etc. but all my creative energy is going into the book. That is why the title of this blog is longer than the actual blog.
You’d think that with two books under my belt (why do they say that? Who shoves books under their belts? It’s so NOT slenderizing at all) I’d be less of a greenhorn (and how did they come up with that? Did incompetent people in the wild west have green horns growing out of their temples? Someone please look that up). But when my lovely (and she really is lovely!) editor writes “don’t tell us that she thinks he’s intelligent – show us,” all I can think of is how to transcribe a quadratic equation or solve the mystery of cold fusion (I can’t do either – by the way) in dialogue form. Oh well, I’ll figure it out.
I do have this to share, though – one of my favorite fan letters ever. The woman went on and on (yay!) about how much she likes my books and ended with this shimmering spoonfull of wisdom:
“Your words made my day suck a little less.”
I’m thinking of having that stenciled on my office walls.