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July 20, 2008 | about me
On Wednesday, 23 July, USA Today-bestselling paranormal romance author Kathy Love, romantic suspense author Anna Louise Lucia, and I will be appearing at the Public Library in Rumford, Maine, from 6.30-8 pm. We’ll be talking, reading, and signing our latest books, so if you’re in the area, please come by and see us!
July 20, 2008 | about me
Sorry for being bad blogger. I’m in the bosom of my family, and all things internet are pretty slow here in this bosom as we only have dial-up.
Anyway, the flight was fine if tiring. I was pretty peeved on arrival; although the airline staff in the UK had assured me that I could get my pushchair on the gate in the US, in fact they put it in the hold and it came out with the baggage, which meant that I had to carry a cranky 30-lb toddler and two bags through the entire airport and through passport control, with no help.
But all aggravation was worth it, and we’re happily here now and Fecklet is having a brilliant time running around everywhere yelling “Go! Go! Go!”
July 4, 2008 | about me
Happy fourth of July!
Husband, Fecklet and I are going to a farm park to see the animals and ride on a tractor, that is if it doesn’t rain. Fecklet, being half American and half British, will be celebrating the independence of one half of his heritage from the other half. Husband, being a typical British male over-fond of loudness and big pretty things exploding, will not be allowed to play with fireworks because the last time he did he sent a rocket zooming past my ear and straight into the house.
Hope you have a great day whether you’re celebrating or not.
July 3, 2008 | about me
I have finally got around to posting an account of what happened a month ago, when a crack Romantic Novelists’ Association team took on the Eggheads on BBC2’s quiz show. Check it out on my news page, here:
http://www.julie-cohen.com/news/
It was an extremely exciting and fun day. I’ll be sure to let you all know when it’s being aired…as soon as we find out!
Now, I am going back to my brand-new Chapter One, Version Three. I have Prince William on the first page. Hopefully he won’t mind guest starring in one of my novels.
Tags: Eggheads, Prince William, Romantic Novelists' Association
June 13, 2008 | about me, social life?
Last night I went to the launch party of Titania Woods’s Glitterwings Academy series. They’re magical little books about a fairy school, published by Bloomsbury.
Titania is actually my good friend Lee Weatherly, and the launch was held in the garden pavilion of a lovely red-brick country hotel. As the dress code stipulated that “fairy wings are a must!” the guests were all very colourful and ethereal. Titania’s wings were things of beauty, purple and pink and glittery and flowery, made specially for her. Here’s a pic of the two of us:
The books’ illustrator, Smiljana Coh, had come all the way from Croatia to be at the launch and (poor woman) I grilled her about using Photoshop in illustration. And I met all sorts of children’s writers. The interesting difference between children’s writers and romance writers is that when romance writers get together and talk about work, they say “I’m doing sexy vampires” or “I’m doing a Greek tycoon” or “I’ve got a marriage of convenience.” Children’s writers say “I’m doing ice-skating princesses” or “I’m doing dragons in World War I.”
I can heartily recommend an evening in the company of fairies!
June 8, 2008 | about me
Thank you so much to everyone who left a message, or who emailed me in response to my post below about my grandmother.
I felt every hug, believe me.
June 3, 2008 | about me
My Grams passed away yesterday morning, peacefully in her sleep, surrounded by her family.
This is a picture of her feeding the Fecklet, last summer when we were all together. I’m so glad I got to see her again one last time, when I visited last month.
May 26, 2008 | about me
I did an interview recently, over the phone whilst at the park with the Fecklet. I answered questions whilst pulling him out of flower beds, preventing him from launching himself into the scummy fountain, confiscating his collection of cigarette butts, etc.
“What are your hobbies?” the interviewer asked.
I laughed aloud. “Hobbies? I have a seventeen-month-old son, a husband who’s on tour most of the year, and I write two 90,000-word books a year. I don’t have time for any hobbies.”
“Yes, but what do you do in your spare time?” she persisted.
“What’s spare time?” I asked, snagging the Fecklet before he plunged headfirst into a rosebush.
However, for the past few days I have been experiencing this odd “spare time” phenomenon. No phone call from agent means I don’t have to do any work. I actually read the Sunday paper yesterday. Bliss!
And I took the Fecklet to one of his father’s gigs, where he got to play the drums, strum the bass and sing in the microphone!
May 22, 2008 | about me
Ohhhh I have been such a bad blogger.
I’ve been very busy, and very tired. Mostly, I’ve finished up my first round of revisions for Girl from Mars and sent the whole thing off to my agent, who will probably get in touch today to tell me what she thinks. Am I scared? Well, yeah. Of course I’m scared.
I went through several stages of crows with this ms. When I’d finished it, I was convinced it was complete and utter crap. I left it while I went to the States, and then I came back and changed the ending a bit, and I read it over and suddenly, I was totally in love with it.
I’m not sure if this is a dangerous thing or not. Am I correct in loving it, or am I instead utterly, utterly blind?
Anyway, I expect revisions–I always get revisions. There’s one place I’m not convinced I handled the best way I could, and I’m looking forward to feedback about how to do that better.
While waiting, I’ve taken out and beaten all the rugs, mopped all the floors, hoovered up every single cobweb and cleaned the former disaster area of my back passage, which is what we call the covered-in area off the kitchen where we keep the refrigerator, washing machine, and tonnes of assorted crap. You have never seen so many spiders.
I’ve also done some reading, which I will blog about in a bit. And my creative writing session at the library went really well, which as always was down to the great group who did all I asked them with nary a complaint.
Now I will go back to biting my nails and waiting for the phone to ring.
May 6, 2008 | about me
And I have spent the last 13 hours sleeping as I didn’t get a lot of sleep while I was there. How I wish I could say that was because I was partying all night, but it had more to do with jetlag, sharing a bed and with helping with the night shift looking after my grandmother.
For my mother and my aunt, and all those who care for the terminally or chronically ill: I salute you. It’s a hard job, every minute of every day.
I’m spending today reading over my draft of Girl from Mars and hopefully my brain will be de-fuzzed enough to be able to figure out what I need to do for revisions.
April 29, 2008 | All Work and No Play, about me
I’ve sort of finished my first draft. And tomorrow morning I’m flying to the US to see a family member who is ill.
I’ll be back next week–see you then.
Meanwhile, here is a link to really excellent review of Mistress In Private (aka All Work and No Play…) in French. It’s out there next month as Une Passione Anglaise.
Thanks to Callixta and to Marnie!
April 28, 2008 | about me
You know, when I was a teenager, I was quite embarrassingly besotted with the music of Air Supply.
