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So... um... if the caramels don't set up, it's because I dropped Angel's digital thermometer into the boiling vat of sugary awesomeness about two degrees before they were done.
Fudge was also accomplished today, with less "OMGOHNOEZ/flail*
At Indiebound!
And at Amazon!
With summary (which are spoilers for book 1, if you haven't read it) behind the cut.
And at Amazon!
With summary (which are spoilers for book 1, if you haven't read it) behind the cut.
Instead of responding to negative reviews:
1) Buy a voodoo doll. Better yet, buy a Voodoo Donut. Jab it full of pins or pretzels, as you wish.
2) Remind yourself that your book will not be to everyone's taste. Also remind yourself that the negative reviewer might possibly be ill-equipped in the manhood region/a chronic bed-wetter/suffering from a rare disease that makes them smell exactly like the sewer treatment plant down the road.
Come on. We could cut Mister Teeny Weenie Pee Sheets Eau de Crap some slack for being cranky, right?
3) Be proactive. Strap on your rubbah gloves and attack the worst of your chores (the bathrooms, the garden, the scum in the fridge) with all that righteous indignation. No one needs to know that we now refer to the green stuff in the fridge as "One-Star Reviewers."
4) Stare at that poster of the kitten dangling from a branch, the one admonishing you to hang in there. TEH KITTEH SAYS HANG IN THERE, DANGIT!
5) Meditate. Trim your Bonsai trees. Contemplate the many Zen-ninja ways you can decapitate your foes with a lotus blossom.
6) After due consideration, add names to the "when I am rich and famous" Hit List.
7) Do as Chaucer (in A Knight's Tale) threatened, and eviscerate them in fiction. He was naked for a day (*wolf whistle/cat call* Call me, Paul! *swoon*) but they will be naked for all eternity.
Disclaimer: I am totally joking and do not actually have a "when I am rich and famous" Hit List. Really! *ahem*
Edit: Disclaimer the second: this was not prompted by anything that happened to me, but by another incident of Authors Behaving Badly over at Amazon.
1) Buy a voodoo doll. Better yet, buy a Voodoo Donut. Jab it full of pins or pretzels, as you wish.
2) Remind yourself that your book will not be to everyone's taste. Also remind yourself that the negative reviewer might possibly be ill-equipped in the manhood region/a chronic bed-wetter/suffering from a rare disease that makes them smell exactly like the sewer treatment plant down the road.
Come on. We could cut Mister Teeny Weenie Pee Sheets Eau de Crap some slack for being cranky, right?
3) Be proactive. Strap on your rubbah gloves and attack the worst of your chores (the bathrooms, the garden, the scum in the fridge) with all that righteous indignation. No one needs to know that we now refer to the green stuff in the fridge as "One-Star Reviewers."
4) Stare at that poster of the kitten dangling from a branch, the one admonishing you to hang in there. TEH KITTEH SAYS HANG IN THERE, DANGIT!
5) Meditate. Trim your Bonsai trees. Contemplate the many Zen-ninja ways you can decapitate your foes with a lotus blossom.
6) After due consideration, add names to the "when I am rich and famous" Hit List.
7) Do as Chaucer (in A Knight's Tale) threatened, and eviscerate them in fiction. He was naked for a day (*wolf whistle/cat call* Call me, Paul! *swoon*) but they will be naked for all eternity.
Disclaimer: I am totally joking and do not actually have a "when I am rich and famous" Hit List. Really! *ahem*
Edit: Disclaimer the second: this was not prompted by anything that happened to me, but by another incident of Authors Behaving Badly over at Amazon.
One ostrich-feather flip at a time. ;)
My loves... I have seen the future (at least a tiny glimpse of the May 2010 bit) and it is glorious.
The art department at F&F is hard at work, putting the title and someone's authorly name atop it right now, and we've agreed to host a bit of silliness here at my blog and the theater website, leading up to the reveal of the cover of Perchance To Dream. There will be guest blogs by the fairies, a contest for guessing who and what will be featured on the cover of book the second, as well as teaser icons and a second interview with Jason Chan, cover artist extraordinaire.
If you have a question for Jason, please leave it here for consideration!
My loves... I have seen the future (at least a tiny glimpse of the May 2010 bit) and it is glorious.
The art department at F&F is hard at work, putting the title and someone's authorly name atop it right now, and we've agreed to host a bit of silliness here at my blog and the theater website, leading up to the reveal of the cover of Perchance To Dream. There will be guest blogs by the fairies, a contest for guessing who and what will be featured on the cover of book the second, as well as teaser icons and a second interview with Jason Chan, cover artist extraordinaire.
If you have a question for Jason, please leave it here for consideration!