Friday I’m in Love

Well, the big announcement has gone out to the newsletter folks. If you’re not on the newsletter, too bad for you, wait until Monday.

Interesting evening tonight. I was supposed to get all kinds of work done, but we had a minor crisis here at home which was, thank all relevent deities and saints, averted. To celebrate, Sailor Boy and I went out to dinner, where he totally came up with a brilliant plan for my book that is going to make it super super better and will unfortunately take a bit of rewriting. And then I cam home and promptly fell asleep. Note to self: beer and heavy Irish food makes one sleepy at the end of a long week. So even though I *told* my editor that I was going work tonight, I didn’t, and I hope she forgives me.

Next week, aside from sharing the awesome news you would have received early as a newsletter subscriber, I’m also going to have a guest blogger to die for, a serious discussion about genre, a couple of anniversaries, and a tag or two…

Meanwhile, to direct you to some really interesting discussions taking place about the blogosphere:

Justine Larbalestier carries on a debate with some industry heavyweights about self promo here. (My epic response — #46 — is part of the reason my personal blog is so anemic today. I’m all wore out.)

Alison Kent questions the advisability of the Great Blog Voice Experiment, and we sortakindanotreally agree to disagree about the issue here. (I should really stop playing comment slut on other people’s blogs. It means i neglect my own plus I end up sounding like more of a blowhard than usual.)

Shanna Swendson nails the “secret seekers” here, defining the two types more brilliantly htan I’ve ever seen done, and encouraging both in a much more polite manner than I could to just cut it out already. (I rant too much, perhaps.)

Half a dozen of my regular reads are hawking (sp?) my agent Deidre Knight‘s debut paranormal romance Parallel Attraction. (I read it this week; gotta love a time travel.) Another half a dozen are talking about Jill Monroe‘s newest, Share the Darkness (in my bloated TBR pile.)

Miss Snark is continuing her vocab-word story posts. Does anyone find them entertaining after the first dozen or so? I feel like 112 (at last count) is overkill. I was very conscious of that during the blog experiment, obsessively checking my stats the whole time it was going on. The hits began to fall off on the last day, so I guess it’s good that they ended when they did.

I think I caused a little trouble on Melissa Marsh‘s blog after she posted about talent vs. craft. But what can I say? I love that topic. Check in as the conversation develops.

And finally, props to Kelly Parra, who sold her first YA this week, Graffitti Girl, to MTV Books; to Marianne Mancusi, whose long awaited vamp YA Boys that Bite is now out in stores; to my agent (see above) whose book Parallel Attraction is also out; to Justine Larbalestier, who has been basking in the aftereffects of being boingled; to drinking bud Kresley Cole, who made the USA Today Bestseller list with her vamp-meets-Valkyrie-meets-werewolf tale A Hunger Like No Other, and to fellow Starfish Christine Feehan, whose Dark Demon is number 2 on the USA Today Bestseller List! Congrats, Chris! We’re all so proud.

Talk about some good news to start your weekend…