Megan Hart

also, this:

— photo taken by my friend Scott Church.

And this makes me smile.

Well, I cleaned off my desk today, and let me tell you something. It always takes a really long time. I also did laundry, and that takes a long time, too! Which makes my eyes all squinty, the laundry and the cleaning.

I also edited a Spice Brief called The Experiment and sent that off to my editor; so that’s what I do instead of watching The Super Bowl. I work. Oh, I did play some Sims 3 earlier today, but I don’t really count it since I was actually editing while I just let my Sim lady go about her business.

She discovered a star.

I know, right? Who knew they even could? Left to her business, she will play her guitar a lot and flirt with people. She also apparently likes to discover stars. And she found some seeds, but I don’t think she’ll plant them. Well, maybe she will, I don’t know.

Tomorrow I aim to get up at a good time (instead of letting the alarm just go off, then again, then again later…) which means I intend to get to bed very shortly. Which is also what I’m doing instead of watching the Super Bowl. Going to be early. I believe I shall read. Now, I just finished Under the Dome which was a doorstop of a book, my God, over 1000 pages, really? REALLY?! And I think I’m going to read The Lightning Thief or possibly The Dead and Gone next. Because I feel like it.

On the other hand, if I’m going to dive back into Collide tomorrow, I really should read through it to refresh my memory. So maybe I’ll take that to bed with me instead, and go over it.

See, that’s what I do instead of watching football.

I work!

M

I wish I still watched LOST so I could be all excited about it and screaming and running around my basement saying OMG NO WAY!

But…I haven’t watched since season three? Four, maybe? I keep meaning to get caught up on DVD (because the first season of lost, and even into the second, I LOVED it!!! LOOOOOOOVED.) But I just don’t. Too much else to watch I haven’t caught up on, and I just don’t care.

I miss the experience of loving LOST. Not the show itself. I miss the excitement and thrill and OMG NO WAY bits of it. I don’t really miss the plot, the characters or anything like that.

Still. I’m sort of sad I’m not watching it.

M

So this past weekend was spent in Gallifrey, only this time instead of relaxin’, chillin’ and general loungin’, it was work, work, work. Yeah, we had a writing retreat.

Not that it wasn’t fun, you know — when we all get together it usual leads to some sort of mayhem. I’m not posting the video of the Lady Gaga dance party. But check out the pictures of snow at the beach — it started snowing Saturday and dropped about 10 inches — more snow than Bethany’s had since the 70s, according to one source. All’s I can say is, snow on the beach is pretty darned cool!

Everyone worked really hard, well, except for me. I slept. I did do some writing, some editing, but I was the slacker for the weekend. Really, it’s okay. I needed to catch up on my napping.

M

First off, I have the great pleasure of announcing that my spec fic novel, EXIT LIGHT, has been acquired by Carina Press (no word on release date or anything like that, but I’ll post updates as I find out more.) Exit Light is not romance, not erotic…it deals with the dream world and I’m very excited that it will get some readers!

For those of you who like my Spice books, you can look forward to another three over the next…gosh…I dunno how many years. Three more in addition to the two that aren’t out yet. Just found out yesterday, so that’s super exciting news, too! Hooray!

Hooray!

Haven’t done a lick of writing work today, nor did I watch a movie that I wanted to, so where did the time go? Oh, and I HAVE TO MISS SUPERNATURAL TONIGHT. This is a tragedy of epic proportions, believe me, I can’t really believe it.

M

Line by line. Word by word. Letter by letter.

Oooh, it’s painstaking. My eyes are blurry. My stomach’s rumbling. I’m behind schedule because I’m procrastinating!

*writhes*

Must. Push. Through…!!!

M

So, if you don’t really like books with lots of sex in them and consider them “porn” maybe it would be better if you didn’t…um…read them? And complaining about the fact that an erotic novel has a lot of sex in it really makes you look sort of…well…not even sort of…just plain silly.

So, you know, if erotic ain’t ya flavah, why not read something else?

So far’s I know, none of us are holding you down and forcing your eyes open like they did to little Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

M

So, Thursday I finished the rough draft of my extra project — 78,000 words in 13 days, thank you very much. Yesterday, I cleaned my house. Tonight I have plans later, so after I finish this entry I’m going to play the SIMS. Yes. Thank God. I need it. I want it.

Then next week, it’s revise/revise/revise because this book has to be finished by the end of this month or DIRE THINGS WILL HAPPEN. I can’t reveal to you what those dire things are, but they involve a wet noodle. And possibly a ruler.

But today, I’m going to play the Sims and then I’m probably going to do some cleaning because mysteriously, though I cleaned the house yesterday, parts of it are dirty again.

Before I go, I’m going to pass this along. One of my favorite musicians, Christopher Dallman, is taking part in a benefit to raise money for a woman named Jennifer who has MS.

And also, this, from another of my favorite musicians…Jason Manns. He says at his blog about his new movie, RockSlyde “It will be available on Video on Demand, starting in April,more details to follow, and the general DVD release will be in May… That is the good news, and now for the request. Please get on your NetFlix account and request Rock Slyde! And if you don’t have a Netflix account, please repost this anywhere you can think of. The more requests we get the better obviously, and it will tremendously help our little movie! ”

Also, yesterday I was a guest at Beth Kery’s blog, and though I thought I put up a post saying so, I clearly did not…*headdesk*. So check out Beth’s blog!

Also, I started reading Under the Dome.

Also. Supernatural? I love you.

M

OH! And a big P.S. to my friend WESTON WALLS…check out his blog, and his new show! Weston’s going to be producing a great new web show and you can be a part of it!