Read For Free!
Good news! Night Shift, the first Jill Kismet book, is now part of Hachette Book’s Open Book program! (There are other cool books you can read for free, including Jeff Somers’s most excellent Digital Plague, here.) Go, read, enjoy!
I finished the zero draft of the third Strange Angels book last night. It’s bitty, weighing in at about 54K, mostly because there are significant chunks of it that I had to have the ending before I could go back and fill them in. So now the book can rest for a little bit, and I can start (probably in a week or so) at the very beginning and get it into reasonable first-draft shape. Which is the last huge push before I send it off to the editor and start chewing my nails while thinking they’re going to hate it and hate me and oh god oh god oh god!!!!!)
In other words, business as usual.
I really should not have bombed out to the store to get milk and bread before having my coffee today. Not only do I not deal well with the world while I’m precaffeinated, but there was a whole swarm of overentitled people on cell phones–I counted five while driving all the way to Trader Joe’s, seven in the store, three in the parking lot, another two driving to another store closer to home for other stuff, four inside THAT store, and another two on the two-block drive to get back home with my trunk full of perishable purchases. WTF, people? It’s like some sort of disease. PUT THE DAMN CELL PHONE DOWN WHILE YOU DRIVE, MMMKAY? And furthermore, don’t stand blocking a whole grocery aisle while you discuss every. goddamn. item. with. your. significant other. Just don’t do it. And I really don’t need to hear about who got the clap from who at what party. (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.) It is just insane.
All right, I’m going to take my Ranty McRantypants self elsewhere. Which is a huge relief for everyone, I suspect.
Over and out.
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June 25th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Oh, Lili,
Our local Safeway somehow set up a “block” so that cell phones no longer receive a signal inside the store.
Some of the locals are pretty pissed off.
I did a happy dance.
So did the long suffering checkers who no longer have to attempt to check out the groceries of rude morons talking loudly on cell phones without paying any attention to what is going on around themselves.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I really, really wish our grocery stores would do that. I get SO. TIRED. of hearing inane babble into cell phones at top volume. I wouldn’t so much mind that, though, if the people in question didn’t ignore their kids and block aisles while doing it. And ignore the checkers who need their attention to complete transactions. Grrr.