Para, yay for being loved!
Cindy, what Maryn said.
My ads are all boring, too. What does this say about me? That's going to bother me now.
PSA: if you use Wordpress and the font uploader plugin on your website, DON'T upgrade the plugin, because it will erase all your fonts. I learned this the hard way last night. Had to reinstall it and put them all back. Ugh.
Hope everyone's Monday was good. We spent five hours at Chuck 3. Ch33se with the kids and the in-laws, but we were almost the only people there, and it was really surprisingly fun.
Then I got home to a comment from another author who was asking for an ARC because she'd read the first chapter of FPF already. Get this
: "Loved the first chapter, because you write tight. I mean there was NO wasted space. Action, action, action. And very sophisticated sentence structure. (Does that even make sense?) You have a verb-tense thing on PAGE ONE that is like Master's Degree stuff. (I'd be too scared. I'd dumb it down for MYSELF!)"
I emailed her the ARC and asked what verb she was talking about because I had NO idea, and she told me, then proceeded to tell me she'd sent the line to her agent, who explained to her (she sent me the text of the email) the convoluted reason why it was so complicated and why I'd done it right. I laughed, mainly because I didn't know most of that stuff on a conscious level. I just knew it looked right the way I had it. And that line is one of just a few that have survived from the very first draft. So I haz a warm fuzzy.
I also have a book that needs to be finished. Should go write for a while. Hugs and high fives to any news I missed.
Aside: why must the children jump off the furniture upstairs? It sounds like the sky is falling.