From Twitter 11-25-2009

• 11:14:57: @yolandasfetsos *hugs* Hope you feel better fast!
  
• 11:49:24: @yolandasfetsos Almost! A few more pages to go and it's done and dusted
  
• 15:01:46: Okay! Afterlife is now officially out of my hands. Time to rock back and forth in the corner whilst ripping my hair out
  
• 15:05:11: Not that I'm at all nervous about my debut novel being released in under a week. Oh no.
  
• 15:14:59: @brian_ohio I will never be calm again
  
• 17:21:15: There are no Twirls in the Institute! Twitter, this will not stand
  
• 17:28:06: @imogenhowson I keep seeing the word "elitist" in reference to this Horizons debacle. It really irritates me
  
• 17:36:55: @imogenhowson It's an argument that totally ignores the slush pile/querying process! Like bestselling authors are grown in a lab somewhere
  
• 18:09:34: Love that "totally real" is an official piece of maths terminology. Makes them sound much cooler and surfer-dude-esque than they really are
  

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Anyway

I'm trying to write a bio for QueeredFiction. I don't know why I feel the need to provide a new one when there's a perfectly serviceable one on my website already, but I do. Possibly this is displacement activity, since if I'm writing a bio, I'm not doing Day Job Stuff. Always a good thing. The problem is, I can't think of anything to say about myself except "Naomi has a deep and unholy fascination with cephalopods, werewolves, and cocktails." Maybe that will do? Maybe I should make up a bunch of lies, like "Naomi travels in a pimped-out Mustang and always keeps a bottle of brandy and a flamethrower close at hand."

Anyway.

(I just copied and pasted the bio from my website, thinking I'd modify it accordingly, and have just deleted everything except the first line. Sigh).

Anyway.

I've also been pondering some more on the zombie/military UF. My ex-military heroine now has a name and a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (got to keep everything clean when you're a plague-bearer, you know). I really, really want to write this book. I just need to settle on a title. I fancied Living Dead Girl, until I read Elizabeth Scott's book of the same name (it's an awesome, heart-wrenching book, you should all read it), and now I feel I can't use that title. Then I thought of Better Off Dead, but that's a bit too generically UF. So, I'm pondering more. I plan to start work properly once the Institute closes for Christmas (other projects allowing), so I'm sure the perfect title will hit me by then. If not, I'll just call it The Incredible and True Tale of the Zombie Plague Bearer and Her Brave Struggle with Hair Loss and leave it at that