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Miscellany
Aug. 4th, 2015 01:00 pmI've been meaning to post for a while. I had some really "interesting" customers lately and other odd things happened at work. But as I'm on vacation, I don't want to think about work.
I came across a few websites:
Here's an (NSFW) article about a book (almost an ad) explaining how to be a good top. It had some things I hadn't thought of and might add to the next story I write with on-screen sex in it.
And here a story about three guy who love each other. Two are married and one of them works half the year on a TV show (behind the scenes). The article talks about the trials of being a threesome (from jealousy to getting a hotel room). The author says people ask about sex, but I was wondering more about what they slept on. They are all big men and I was guessing a king would be crowded. Especially when they invite other big men into their bed.
I heard this on the audio book I'm listening to: Young people these days (written and set in the 30s) "actually take refuge in irony, which should be reserved for the middle aged."
It's Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh. I probably wouldn't listened to more if this was the first book I'd listened to. It's got some really stereotyped gay boys in it. I'm not sure how much of the lisp, etc. it the guy reading it. The characters in the story get annoyed by them and Main calls them hothouse boys: one the black orchid and the other the yellow rose. He doesn't come across as the nice guy he seemed in the other two books I listened to (book 6 and 8, this was 4, the woman reading those did a much better job too).
I made a purse on Sunday, but I find I am suddenly unable to post pictures
Front That picture doesn't have the Tree of Life in the bottom corner.
Back
Under flap
and here's the tiny phone sized purse I made last month. It holds my phone, wallet, keys, headphones, and chapstick.
So yesterday was my 24th wedding anniversary, so my husband and I headed into Portland without a plan other than to have a good time together. We rode the north half streetcar loop, ate at a food cart, rode the bus to the Pittock mansion (built and lived in by people who shaped the city), got lost on Forest Park, then rode the Max, WES, and bus home. Google made a slide show but only two of the photos show up on my computer while seventeen show up on my phone.
And I've finally finished my book (business) cards and my web site is working (let me know if you think it needs anything). So now I can hand them out to people I know in real life.
When searching for the link to my book on Amazon, I noted the five reviews. Now if they were on FP or lj, I'd read them in a second whether they liked the story or not. But I'm scared to look. I read an author's blog where a guest author said to embrace reviews. Good one boost you and bad one teach you. But I'm not sure I want to do that to myself.
I came across a few websites:
Here's an (NSFW) article about a book (almost an ad) explaining how to be a good top. It had some things I hadn't thought of and might add to the next story I write with on-screen sex in it.
And here a story about three guy who love each other. Two are married and one of them works half the year on a TV show (behind the scenes). The article talks about the trials of being a threesome (from jealousy to getting a hotel room). The author says people ask about sex, but I was wondering more about what they slept on. They are all big men and I was guessing a king would be crowded. Especially when they invite other big men into their bed.
I heard this on the audio book I'm listening to: Young people these days (written and set in the 30s) "actually take refuge in irony, which should be reserved for the middle aged."
It's Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh. I probably wouldn't listened to more if this was the first book I'd listened to. It's got some really stereotyped gay boys in it. I'm not sure how much of the lisp, etc. it the guy reading it. The characters in the story get annoyed by them and Main calls them hothouse boys: one the black orchid and the other the yellow rose. He doesn't come across as the nice guy he seemed in the other two books I listened to (book 6 and 8, this was 4, the woman reading those did a much better job too).
I made a purse on Sunday, but I find I am suddenly unable to post pictures
Front That picture doesn't have the Tree of Life in the bottom corner.
Back
Under flap
and here's the tiny phone sized purse I made last month. It holds my phone, wallet, keys, headphones, and chapstick.
So yesterday was my 24th wedding anniversary, so my husband and I headed into Portland without a plan other than to have a good time together. We rode the north half streetcar loop, ate at a food cart, rode the bus to the Pittock mansion (built and lived in by people who shaped the city), got lost on Forest Park, then rode the Max, WES, and bus home. Google made a slide show but only two of the photos show up on my computer while seventeen show up on my phone.
And I've finally finished my book (business) cards and my web site is working (let me know if you think it needs anything). So now I can hand them out to people I know in real life.
When searching for the link to my book on Amazon, I noted the five reviews. Now if they were on FP or lj, I'd read them in a second whether they liked the story or not. But I'm scared to look. I read an author's blog where a guest author said to embrace reviews. Good one boost you and bad one teach you. But I'm not sure I want to do that to myself.
