Read In Bed!

It’s from my cousin’s bachelorette party.

Haha, no blue hair!

M

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OMG moments…

First, the fabulous one.

I’m sitting here in my local Barnes and Noble drinking coffee and thinking about writing – should I pound out pages or should I plot, and plotting is winning because I don’t really know what to write…

I’m sitting here and a woman comes up to me and says “Excuse me, is your name Megan?”

“Yes.”

“Megan Hart?”

*cautious* “Yeeeesss?”

“I met you at a book signing a few months ago. You signed Dirty for me. I wanted to tell you I read Broken and I just bawled. I hope you don’t mind me coming over to tell you.”

Umm…no way! Cue me almost crying because a stranger came up to me in a bookstore!! to tell me that she loved my book(s)!

THANK YOU, TRUDY!

That was truly an OMG moment. She said she recognized me by the hair. Thank you, purple hair. ☺

The other OMG moment is when I went to lunch with my dad and he told the waitress I write romance novels, “really spicy ones,” and the waitress said, “And are you her inspiration?”

EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

What’s really disturbing about that is the fact I’m now old enough to be mistaken for my father’s wife. GAWD.

Which is worse, do you think? Having your husband mistaken for your father? Or having your father mistaken for your husband? Gawd, that was just…ewww…and let me say that I don’t care if my dad reads my books, I’m not squicked out by the thought of him reading about sex, or anything like that. Just, you know. That anyone would assume I’m his wife!!! (Considering his wife and my husband are the same age I know it’s not necessarily a crazy thought, but just…ew!)

So I’m working on SWITCH and I have a number of pages written and I feel great about what I want to happen. What I don’t feel so great about is how I’m going to get there. And this is because I haven’t really done any plotting. I have thought about it and I’ve talked about it, but I haven’t written down any plot. Not even a plot I know is going to change. So I think I need to do that today. Just write a list of things I need to use. I got word my contract for it came which means I’ll now have an official deadline, but that’s fine. It should be ample time. This is going to be a complicated, complex book and it has the potential to be my best or my worst, depending.

I don’t feel that way about every book. I don’t have that polarizing emotion every time. With Second Verse I just wrote the story I needed to tell. I’m pleased with how it came out. I think it’s good work. But it’s not like with Broken, when I wrote it thinking, I’ll never pull this off.

I feel that way about Switch. I’ll never pull it off. And I still don’t know about the ending; after all that’s going to happen, how can it have HEA? Then again, how can it not? But that doesn’t mean it’s a romance. And I know people will be reading it thinking it’s supposed to be romance.

But I can’t help that; I can’t help how they market the books or where they put them. I can only write the stories I feel compelled to tell. Sometimes those are romances and sometimes they are not. Switch is a love story, in the end, and the ending will be the right one.

But why am I worried about the ending when I haven’t even figured out the middle, and my beginning is shite?

Risky Business on the other hand, is going to be a romance, no doubt about it. I thought originally it wouldn’t but after finding the characters, there’s no way it can’t be. Guh.

And one last thing before I actually come down off my OMG moment high – Shia LeBoef, mmm mmm mmm. I’ve liked him for a long time in various projects but he’s always been a kid. Saw him in Disturbia last night and…whoa. He’s still a kid, of course, but golly he’s a good actor. And tonight we’re watching Transformers so I wonder how I’ll like that!

Disturbia gave me an awesome idea for a screenplay, though. Not terrifically original, but super scary and freaky, and I wish I wrote screenplays so I could write it. Oh…or an episode of Supernatural. Better yet, a Supernatural MOVIEEEEE!!!!

Except I never want to write for Supernatural because I want to enjoy it, never go behind the scenes and see how they pull the strings. (I’d like to write a SPN tie-in novel, though, because that would kick ass. Alas, not sure how one goes about pitching such a thing and doubt I’d get picked to do one anyway…besides, mine would have too much sex and angst in it, along with the killing and scary stuff…hey, I think it would be great.)

So that’s it for now. My right hand hurts and I hope it’s not something oogy like carpal tunnel. It’s my wrist, actually. Now that I think about it, it’s my whole right side, which is the same side which has the deformed thumb and birthmark in the shape of the United States and part of Mexico. My right side is possessed!!!

Clearly I’ve had too much coffee today!

M

PS – there is this ULTRACUTE boy sitting by the window and he’s wearing a newsie’s cap and I want to sing and dance on the table just like Christian Bale. Well. I don’t want to. I’d like it if ultracute boy did, though. He’s very earnestly discussing something with the man sitting at his table and drinking something from a coffee cup. Seriously, who can pull off a newsboy cap like that without looking like a fool? ULTRA.CUTE.

PPS– I figured out what I need to do with SWITCH.

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A few days ago:

Today:

Got to match the Impala, don’t I?

And this is neat, too: (me being number one and all) (it’s hard to see though)

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For the first time in…I don’t know how long, I have hair that is all one color. And it is a normal color.

You can see by my expression how thrilled I am by this.

It’s a nice color, don’t get me wrong. But I look in the mirror and it doesn’t really look like me. Which is weird because before I started going blue and purple, I was usually red.

Anyway.

Thought the world should know.

M

PS– going to the beach to help my sister celebrate her birthday. Prepare for the debauchery!

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Last week was pretty much a loss due to stomach flu, but I did manage to color my hair which is always a good time. I got smart this time and wore clothes into the shower when I rinsed so I didn’t end up with blue/purple legs and feet (and other parts.) It worked out really well! I’ll have to remember to do that next time. I probably won’t do it again until after the summer, though, since it’s just not worth it during the summer when I’m out in the sun and it bleaches everything out.

I also did a lot of reading. My books from RT finally came a while ago and I now am the proud owner of a TBR pile.

I devoured Lois Greiman’s Taming the Barbarian and really enjoyed it. I mean…hello, brawny Scottish warrior from the past? Yeah, ok. I’m there. This was my first read from Greiman, and I really like her voice. She’s got some really delightful dialogue and the love scene…grrrrowl! Keep in mind that I write really, really graphic stuff, so when I can get tingly from something that’s less graphic, I’m always happy! I also picked up her Tempting the Wolf which I haven’t finished yet but have liked so far. I liked the hero even MORE than in TTB, for one thing. I can’t wait to find out what happens! But I misplaced it and started a new book (I read more than one book at a time, anyone else do that?) so I will finish this one this week.

I also read Joey Hill’s Natural Law …jaysus. GAWD what a good book. I was looking for something with femdom in it…what I’ve read in my travels has left a distinct hole in that place inside that’s looking for some really really good, satisfying feminine domination fiction. Well, Hill gave it to me and tenfold with Natural Law. Not only did she give me exquisite prose and immensely satisfying femdom fiction, she gave me a sweet and tender love story AND a serial killer!!! MAN, oh, man oh man. For those who aren’t comfortable with BDSM, this book won’t be for you. All in all, this book was a fantastic read and I’m so glad I picked it up. It gave my stilletto-shoed, whip-cracking little heart palpitations. :)

I also finished Jackie Kessler’s Hell’s Belles . Oh, what fun! What a great, fast-paced and sexy read! I laughed aloud at some of the demon Jezebel’s antics, I really did. Looking forward to the next one.

I finished Sena Jetar Naslund’s Abundance . It was a freebie I picked up at RT at one of the parties (traded LD for it, in fact, I think). I’d read her Ahab’s Wife previously and liked it well enough, but it’s not a book I’d have picked up in the store. Yet I really liked it and I’m glad I got it!

I started reading My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding but so far…meh. It’s not holding my attention. Could be I’ve got lots of other stuff to get to, could be that I just am not into the the book’s theme, or whatever. Not sure. But I’ll keep it on hand for when I need a quick story fix.

I still have TONS of books on my pile, but that’s fine since I’m going on vacation twice this summer and plan to do mucho reading.

Also:

Went to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily Circus. We go every year and this year, yay! Bello was back! Oh, I do love Bello!

Hmm…what else?

Oh, yeah. We saw POTC 3. Yeah, three hours of my life I’ll never get back and yeah, yeah, whatever I know that will make me unpopular with my friends, but sweet knobbly pete…seriously. No love there from me. I didn’t hate it. I was left so meh about it I can’t even be bothered to hate it. I can’t even be bothered to dissect it. Watching POTC was like eating oatmeal. It was okay while I was doing it, but I’m not really hankering for more.

Then today we went to a picnic where the entertainment was Chris Ivey …can I just tell you how much I think he rocks? This is the third time I’ve seen his show. He’s great. He’s faaaabulous!

Oh, yeah, and I had my book signing, can’t forget that!

On the writing front, not much going on. Waiting to hear back on a few projects. I’ve only got a few more days before school releases my spawn and I go back and forth between getting started on something new and just catching up on stuff around the house. I mean…it’s not like I’ll finish anything before they’re home and the whole plan was to NOT have anything on the plate over the summer. But I think tomorrow I’ll hit the coffee shop just because I haven’t been there in forever and I have to go to the post office anyway, and I’ll finish up This is What I Want.
Because I want to. :)

And then at the end of this week it’s off to NYC for the Book Expo, woo hoo!

And summer’s coming! woo hoo woo hoo!

M

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I went with more red this time.

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In preparation for RT, and just because I like to…

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Hair update!
–TODAY — In February, when I was, apparently, in the Matrix…

It’s time to color again! :)

M

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