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Posted on January 13, 2012
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Hi! Yeah, it’s me. I know, I know, I haven’t posted much of anything in ages. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season (no matter what you do or do not celebrate). We had a good Christmas, though poor little Max was sick the entire time (and still can’t get rid of this terrible nasty cough he has…but at least our Kleenex usage has gone down exponentially).

I’m trying to get back into the swing of things, but I’ve had a case of the blahs. I’m working on it. Sometimes the blahs just happen.

In great news, we finally got our stuff from Chicago! It’s SO nice to have our own things again. We did get rid of almost all our furniture but the few pieces we kept we’ve mostly been able to put into our flat here in London (except our massive old hall tree). And Max is SO excited to have a bunch of his old stuff too — stuff he’d forgotten about completely! It was like a second Christmas. I’ve also got my supply of my own books again, so might have to figure out something to do with that. Like I have some hardbacks left and I don’t think you can buy those anymore (just paperbacks in the stores now, from what I understand). So if people are interested, maybe I’ll list ‘em (signed, of course) for sale here. Very limited supply though. We’ll see.

And in EVEN BETTER NEWS, I’ve got two blurbs for CAT GIRL’S DAY OFF now! One from the awesome Saundra Mitchell:

“When I need to read something smart and funny and completely original, I turn to Kimberly Pauley. CAT GIRL’S DAY OFF is a manic, madcap adventure that satisfies from the first page to the last.”—Saundra Mitchell, author of Shadowed Summer and The Vespertine

and one from the equally awesome and lovely Alex Flinn:

“I read and enjoyed Cat Girl’s Day Off and would really like to provide a blurb.  How about “Cat Girl’s Day Off was such a fun, adventurous romp!  I couldn’t stop reading it . . . with my cat.”—Alex Flinn, author of Beastly and Bewitching

I just love that! And, by the way, if you haven’t read any books by either of them yet…what are you waiting for? Love, love, love them which makes getting blurbs from them that much better.

And I also realize that I have not yet posted an (ahem) December Sneak Peek for CAT GIRL’S DAY OFF yet. Er. So I owe you one. And one for this month. But since I’ve been so terrible, I will, in fact, post THREE sneak peeks this month. So stay tuned.

 

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Better than a Lego brick to the eye…

Posted on October 25, 2011
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So, just what have I been up to lately? Hmmmm? Lots of things, O somewhat-ignored blog readers. Big things, even.

For one, I came up with an idea for a new website, talked some of my author peeps into going into it with me and Shazam! made a website and launched it. In like a week and a half. Booyah!

I’d like to invite you to take a gander at Read It and Laugh, a brand spankin’ new website dedicated to funny books, funny authors, and funny readers. I hope you’ll take a look! It’s kinda my response to the whole “O woe is me, all YA books are DARK and EVIL now” thing that’s been going around. And those other authors I talked into going along with me? Some seriously funny people. I ain’t kidding. (Plus, you know me. There’s chances to win stuff. Go check out the Funny List, for one).

Let’s see…other than that…

Well, The Max is off school for two weeks for what they call “half-term” here. So my writing time is kinda shot anyway. And now he’s gone and gotten himself some kind of lovely virus and an evil-wicked temperature (103 F or 39.7 C). So there’s that. The poor Max.

I’m not even gonna mention the spit up that accompanies said illness. Not. Gonna. Do. It.

And I joined a gym. Been trying to get back into shape and people, let me tell you, it’s gonna be a LONG haul. But I’m working on it. The gym has a pool too, so I’ve taken The Max swimming a few times (when he was still well and you couldn’t cook hot dogs on his forehead).

And I finally went to an eye doctor and got my eye checked out. This is where the blog post title comes in. See, about 7 or 8 months ago, The Max accidentally got me with a Lego brick right to the eye. He stuck it out the same time I turned to look at him. No chance to blink. Nothing. Lego straight in the eye. Hurt like…well, hurt like a lotta words I don’t want to use. For like an hour. And almost every morning (and sometimes randomly during the day), when I first open my right eye, I feel like someone is stabbing me with a serrated knife. It’s been so long though and it’s so weird that it’s only in the mornings that I was starting to wonder if I was crazy (not my normal crazy, but crazy-crazy).

Turns out it’s perfectly normal. Apparently I have this huge jagged gash in my cornea from when he got me with that brick. STILL. From like 8 months ago. And overnight it starts to heal and put new cells or whatnot together. Which then sometimes adhere to my eyelid. And then when I first open my eyes in the morning…kabang! I literally rip those shiny new cells right off my cornea. Hence the pain.

And my husband wonders why I hate mornings.

The bad news is that it can take (obviously) a long time to heal. And last night while The Max was thrashing around in a feverish daze, he got me IN THE SAME FREAKING EYE. *sigh* I may start wearing an eye patch. (kidding) (mostly)

In writing-ish news, the copy edit phase is now complete on CAT GIRL’S DAY OFF. Woot! Now it’s the publisher’s turn to go do all their fancy stuff. I’ll get one more look at it in the final proof stage and then…book baby! Probably in April.

Now *that’s* better than a Lego brick to the eye.

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