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Daniel: Toni:Consider doing a novel with another author just like James Patterson does.
Juliean: Toni..you found me on twitter and so glad you did. Your advice page is a goddess-send. Thanks fo this. I did NaNoWrite last year fo rthe first time so neophyte here, but seriously serious about writing a good story, published or not.Slainte'jools
Paul Collins: Hello, Toni,I just found in my twitter account. Here is my booktrailerhttp://www.bookcandystudios.com/pcollins-mystery.html . Looks like you have a nice website. All the best!Paul Collinsauthor orMystery of Everyman's Waywww.myspace.com/authorpaulcollins
Honor: I love your blog, it has such wonderful information in it. Thank you!
secret shopper, Dori: Can't say I'm the greatest writer, but I do enjoy it, and Nora Roberts is right about the "blank page."
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Kerri: I was just exploring and thought I'd say Hi and congrats on winning JotW. I read several of your past posts - the one on oatmeal was very interesting. I am going to have to find some of this to try now.
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tami: i LOVED 'beg for mercy" i just started and finished it today, i totally enjoyed it!
Acacia Koa: Oned of my clients set me up with a neighbor last Saturday. I'd call him the day before to set up the meeting and he talked non-stop without taking a breath. I thought, "Okay, he's nervous. I'll give him a chance." We met the next day at a local restaurant. He saw me and judged me not up to his expectations in 1/2 second. We went in for tea and dessert. He never asked one question about me, but continued to talk non-stop about himself. It stung to be rejected so sumarily, but in the end
Acacia Koa: Hi. Was in the middle of your "Snow Blind" from "A Red Hot New Year" when I came to the second paragraph on page 220. "The line of fur (FIR) trees -- Aspen..." Somebody wasn't paying attention during editing. Fir are evergreen and Aspen are deciduous. Sorry to be so picky, but it stopped me in my cross-country ski tracks. Other than that, lovin' the story.
Vivianight: Hello Toni, I like your style. Would you like to exchange links? Cheers
Toni Andrews: Just wanted to say hi, and well, it's kinda wierd talking to someone who has the same name as me :) and just for the record: Toni's rule! LOL
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Lisa Manuel: Have a very Merry Christmas in your new home!!
Nienke: Well??? I guess you don't have your computer set up yet. I'm wondering how it's going in the new place.
Lisa Manuel: Hey Toni, two thumbs up for WITCH'S KNIGHT!! Thanks for a lusty, lovable, rip-roaring Medieval tale!!
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Thursday, December 4th 2008

9:32 AM

Up To My Ass in Alligators

Over twenty years ago, a business associate from Texas apologized for not returning my call and explained that he’d been “…busier than a one-legged kitty tryin’ to bury a turd.” 

I don’t remember his name or even the reason for the call, but the expression has stuck with me.  And it’s a fair description of what’s been going on with me lately.  Even my sister and my friend Maria have given up chastising me for not posting blogs in a timely fashion.  In my own defense, I am….

     -Writing a novel

     - Preparing a proposal for the next three books in the Mercy series

     - Producing a television show

     - Taking a course in field production (thankfully over)

     - Video taping environmental events and editing them for television

     - Judging a contest

     - Preparing for a series of book signings around New England in December

     - Working at a temporary part-time job

The last item is because the others either earn no money, or won’t earn any for a long time, and I need to buy a plane ticket to Florida (for the Cruise With Your Muse conference—see the link on the left) and a Christmas gift or two.

By far the biggest time suck is the TV show.  Don’t get me wrong—I love doing it.  But I have to contact guests and book time, read their books so we can chat intelligently, schedule camera and sound people, contact television stations to arrange to get the show on the air, shoot the show, edit the tape (takes 4-6 hours to edit a half hour show!), make copies of the DVDs and mail them to the other stations that are airing the show…

And the people at my temporary job loooooove me (And why wouldn’t they? I embody the word “overqualified.”) and keep asking me to work more hours.  My twenty-hour-a-week job will take up 32 hours this week.  Which would be excellent, if I wasn’t getting paid approximately one quarter of the hourly wage I received with my last “real” job.

Also, my “business casual” wardrobe disappeared with my last big tag sale.  So, if I can’t work a trip to the Laundromat into my schedule somehow, I’m going to be wearing a Hefty bag to work on Monday.

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