YAY! and Help?

I finished the halloween sip!

"Ain't no Easy Run" takes us with Al on the run of a lifetime: hauling damned souls to Hell. But one of the souls doesn't fit into the trailer, and Herm is about change Al's perception of the cosmos, forever.

Anyone have time to do a VERY fast beta read, in addition to telling me if the story is totally lame?

50 book update

Currently reading Abbadon by Elizabeth Donald and The Fever Tree and other stories by Ruth Rendell.

42) Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Excellent. Just excellent. Fat Charlie has been embarassed by his father his whole life. And now his father's death--a heart attack on a karaoke stage--is one more embarassment. But Charlie learns his father was Anansi, the spider-god. And now Charlie's quiet bookkeeping life is turned upside down. Very mytho-poetic, and quite entertaining. (audio)

41) Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Sin was Sumerian fertility god, until Artemis stole his powers. Now Artemis has send Kat, one her hunters, to kill Sin. But Sin is too busy saving the world from the doomsday demons his pantheon created to be killed. So he falls in love instead. This one didn't work for me. The story was compelling enough, but the characterizations were jarring (a Greek goddess coming out with "Yadda yadda yadda"?). The sex was hot, but there was too much repetitive internal monologue of how amazing Kat is and how how Sin has never trusted a woman so, and how gorgeous Sin is and how Kat's never been with a man. It's fine for one scene, but not EVERY time. We get it already. Not to mention a lot of headhopping back and forth in the same scene.

Ms. Kenyon is a lovely woman and I've met her at several conventions. But this just wasn't making it for me.

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A day of much accomplishment

I wrote on several stories.

I went to the library and returned 3 audio books. I checked out Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel.

I washed dishes.

I washed clothes.

I grocery shopped.

I recharged my track-key for work

I got my logs ready to turn in. (will deliver tomorrow)

Dinner is in the oven.

I sent my Halloween sip off to TQ.

I corrected a horrendous continuity error in my Apex contest entry.

I learned there are people in the world who think those hanged at Salem really were witches...
*croggle*

Just an early announcement

I am not doing yuletide.
I am not doing 3_ships.

I work a 10-14 hour day on the truck. I am breathlessly rushing to get 80,000 more words done before Dec 31.

And I couldn't face the sign-up forms.