Category Archives: slice of life

Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!

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Tech geek was able to recover my files!!!! Sure the laptop is still floating around on the west coast, but soon the lost pages will be back in my hands. Rejoice! The writing gods are kind!

On another side note, I’ve been noticing an upswing in searches for Asian romance or Asian historicals hitting my site. By upswing, I mean maybe 2 a day. Okay, it’s not much, but I dream of the day…

And finally to cheer myself up, I deposited my signing payment — which is only part of the advance. You get the rest when the final manuscript is finished with edits and accepted. I withdrew a single dollar to frame. So here’s the first dollar I earned writing. Am I goofball or what?


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That sound that you just heard…

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That screeching, ear-splitting, heartrending wail heard across the inter-webs was me crying over my dead laptop.

In addiction terminology, I’m what you would consider a super heavy user.

My husbands first words: “Have you backed up? What about your story?” (I love him, by the way)

Me: *sniff* Last Saturday. I’ve only lost about twelve to fifteen pages from this week.

Hubby: Well now this just makes this whole bad week go away.

Me: *incoherent bawling*

Already I miss the good times we had together. How everything was set up just right for me and all my little programs were installed on it. I knew it wasn’t feeling well, but I never thought it would end so soon. Just this morning, I’d typed a steamy make-out scene on it.

I blame that darn Window that popped up saying that updates had been installed and did I want to restart my computer now or later? I hit “Now” and went to workout and that was the last I’d see of it.