Southern Chick Lit

Is there such a portion of the 'chick lit' genre?

Now, there are tons (well, maybe not tons) of "Southern girl goes North" books either on the shelves or in progress: one that comes to mind immediately is Belle in the Big Apple (releasing in 2007); another is Cara Lockwood's Dixieland Sushi.

Which leads to my question of any Southern chick lit books. Comment in the comments.

Rainy Days and Mondays

I know it's Wednesday but, darn it, it feels like Monday! And it's not raining either.

It's felt like Monday since last night at 10:00 pm: whiney child who became a sick child who became a hungry child who became a playful child who became a sleepy child who woke up in a decent mood, and a car accident on the way to work this morning. (I'm okay; a now-quiet child is okay; car, eh, the car is driveable and will live)

Today is one of those days where I'd like to crawl back into bed and pull the covers over my head.

Moving Right Along

{I've been watching The Muppet Movie -- the first movie I ever saw in a theater -- with my toddler because he loves the Muppets and we've exhausted our public library's collection of Sesame Street videos. Needless to say, I'll be singing the soundtrack for weeks.}

I am moving right along in my paranormal. Almost 4,500 words; and my characters are suprising me which always makes the journey a little more exciting.

And Gena, I did enjoy Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris. Harper Connelly, the main character, is quite different from Sookie Stackhouse, but if you keep that in mind, I'm sure you'll like it too. I don't want to spoil the book, but Grave Sight is more of a straight-up mystery (in my opinion) whereas Sookie's books have that tinge of romance and the question of who is better for Sookie: Eric or Bill or any of the other not-completely-human males Sookie encounters (I'm leaning toward Eric myself).

By the way, Ms. Harris will be a guest blogger at Out of the Blogosphere in March so I'm trying to contain my fangirl squeals.

50 Book Pledge

Some of my friends at Live Journal are attempting to read 50 books in 2006. Of the blogs I read, I know Diana Peterfreund and Shannon McKelden have been keeping track of the books they have read thus far so I'm going to play along too.

In 2006, I've read:

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Heart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vadar by James Lucerno
Labyrinth of Evil by James Lucreno
Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson

Tonight, I'll begin Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (thank you, public library!!)

Get To Work!

Seriously, I've got to get my arse in gear!

Romance Divas Mentor Program has begun, and I've been paired with Silma and Jodie. I'm very excited and nervous at the same time! Wish me (us) luck!!

Rolling Right Along

One of my goals this year is to finish a manuscript. In hopes of doing that, last week I started writing 100 words a day.

As it turns out, I don't get diddly-squat written over the weekends so I'm amending my projected word count to 1500 per week. So far, I'm doing pretty good although I didn't write last night as I was absorbed in Rebel Angels by Libba Bray. (Great YA paranormal, by the way; I strongly recommend it!) Here's hoping I'll spend my lunch break writing instead of reading!!