From Twitter 07-26-2010

• 09:10:41: Hello Payday! Preordered @StaciaKane's City of Ghosts, bought Red Hot Fury by Kasey MacKenzie and Twice Bitten by Kalayna Price
  
• 09:17:34: Contemplating treating myself to some BPAL perfume too
  
• 09:21:00: Oh, but I also have to pay for the She-Wolf conference in Manchester and buy train tickets... Perfume v career advancement. Who will win?
  
• 09:46:39: @janjonesauthor Those are secondary concerns to perfume, books, and werewolves!
  
• 09:53:27: @janjonesauthor I can probably forage for food in the local parks if I get too hungry
  
• 10:55:01: @cherose228 There are so many writers I wish I could write like...It's hard not to get bogged down by it sometimes!
  
• 11:30:05: A professor just told me not to die. I'm not sure if I feel cared for or threatened
  
• 11:36:13: @MarkRHunter I think I'm going to be lucky enough this month to have all three, if I don't go crazy on the perfume or books!
  
• 11:40:43: @Scarimonious I do feel more likely to live forever than I used to
  
• 11:50:58: @unamccormack Maybe. If so, I'm winning so far - 20 minutes and still not dead!
  
• 13:29:40: @kazmahoney Yay for you! I preordered my copy already ^_^ Looking forward to Feb 2011!
  
• 13:49:36: @kazmahoney Aw, well hopefully that means the perfect place is still waiting for you to find!
  
• 14:00:00: @smexybooks I agree! I'm always a bit turned off by posts and comments like that - it's like people who "collect" friends on Facebook...
  
• 14:00:19: @smexybooks ...Not really reflective of anything, and very false in terms of the impression it creates!
  
• 14:51:14: RT @QueeredFiction: Blood Fruit? http://bit.ly/9kCgSc
  
• 18:14:13: There's nothing worse than your mp3 player dying halfway through a Meatloaf song
  
• 18:16:16: It leaves me incredibly unfulfilled, and now I have to listen to crying babies instead, which lacks a lot of the melodrama
  
• 18:36:01: http://is.gd/dKiRz Neighbour Cat caught in the act
  
• 18:39:05: @janjonesauthor I think next time I will. Bus rides are better with sing-a-longs
  
• 19:46:13: http://is.gd/dKri5 Neighbour Cat smells delicious food
  
• 21:29:23: If I can figure out how to end this chapter, I will go to bed happy
  
• 21:31:27: @thetheoryof Nah, that's more of an Ethan thing
  
• 21:33:30: @thetheoryof I think that's the kind of statement one can only quantify with a pie chart, frankly
  
• 21:48:04: Okay, not entirely the best chapter ending ever, but ended nonetheless. Now for sleep
  
• 21:53:09: RT @QueeredFiction: TA Moore:It wasn’t Peter’s beauty that attracted Sol,rather his cruelty. Blood Fruit http://bit.ly/9kCgSc
  

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Dear Gyrokinetic-Space Plasma Professors II

Obviously my plea yesterday fell on deaf ears. This means war.

Love,
Nome

Manchester, here I come!

I've booked my place on the She-Wolf conference in September. Yay! I'm very much excited at the prospect of spending two days talking about werewolves and shapeshifters, and this will sort of make up for not being able to go to the RNA conference this year (next year, dammit).

I'm especially excited about this talk:

Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores University): Supernatural Hierarchies: The Place of Werewolves in the Paranormal Romance and Contemporary Urban Fantasy

I went to John Moores, so I really hope I get a chance to talk to Nickianne Moody after her talk. Now I feel like there's a million things I need to do before September, like get my hair cut, prepare myself for meeting Kyle's family (we'll be staying with them), finish BLOOD HUNT so I can turn this into a "reward for being a good girl and working hard" trip, re-read lots of Angela Carter, and watch every single werewolf film I own in preparation. I might have to take some time off work for that.

"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose" - Stephen King

Look at me! I wrote 2k today! I had a bit of a freak-out yesterday that I was basically writing a travelogue of Paris with werewolves in, and decided the best remedy for this was to have Ayla and Shannon... visit a museum... But it's okay, because it's a fictional Museum of Werewolf History, and there was in fact a clue there. Not too obvious a clue, I hope, since I'm still a few chapters away from revealing too much about my sewer monster. I'm really not sure about the pacing of this novel. I can't tell yet if I'm going too fast or not fast enough.

Anyway, in the mean time, someone has just thrown a brick at Ayla, and the only person they know with a first aid kit is another werewolf who Shannon may or may not be noticing a bit too much, if you know what I mean. And on that note, I'm going to bed.

24033 / 70000 words. 34% done!