The scream heard 'round the world

Talk about ignoring signs and being given a second chance. My poor little laptop, which has been working overtime these last few months, finally went kaput the other day. Earlier in the week, though, I had heard a little grinding noise inside of it. Yeah, the rest of you know what I'm talking about. I just hoped the poor thing had the hiccups. So after leaving it alone over night, I turn it on the next morning to find nothing! And I mean nothing. I freaked. I panicked. I had my nearly completed manuscript for Fascination Street on my hard drive. Let that be a lesson for you kiddies. Always back your stuff up! So after cursing, crying and praying (although I'm sure God was going, "Who is that on my Caller I.D.? I don't recognize that number.") I was given a reprieve the next day when for some strange reason, my computer worked. So, you guessed it, I backed everything up and took as much as I could off of my hard drive. Good thing. The next day it really crashed. No amount of sweet-talking or cursing was going to bring it back to life either.

So I buckled down and went to Comp USA, the devil's playground, and got myself a hard drive and had it installed. I've been spending most of my day loading all of my favorites and other software back onto my computer. Another lesson for you munchins. Don't rely on a computer! Yeah, I say this with a book on e-book and another slated to come out in July or August. I'm a slave to the circuitry. What can I say?

But on the upside, I managed to secure a spot for a booksigning for myself, Laura Bacchi and Leigh Ellwood for July 16th. The spot: The Pink Banana Boutique, a fine adult toy store. I'm excited. There's so much I need to do to get ready for that day.

Just needed to share that before I get back to work. Enjoy your day. Sorry I kept you all up with my screaming and crying...and not the good kind either.

Stay sexy,
BridgeT

Tagged for migrating purposes!

That darn Laura Bacchi! She tagged me with a blog tag. I have to answer 5 of these things from this list and pass it on to someone else.

If I could be a scientist...
If I could be a farmer...
If I could be a musician...
If I could be a doctor...
If I could be a painter...
If I could be a gardener...
If I could be a missionary...
If I could be a chef...
If I could be an architect...
If I could be a linguist...
If I could be a psychologist...
If I could be a librarian...
If I could be an athlete...
If I could be a lawyer...
If I could be an innkeeper...
If I could be a professor...
If I could be a writer...
If I could be a backup dancer...
If I could be a llama-rider...
If I could be a bonnie pirate...
If I could be a midget stripper...
If I could be a proctologist...
If I could be a TV-Chat Show host...
If I could be an actor...
If I could be a judge...
If I could be a Jedi...
If I could be a mob boss...
If I could be a backup singer...
If I could be a CEO...
If I could be a movie reviewer....

If I could be a scientist I would find that female scientist who blinded that guy who's always screaming "She blinded me with science!" and ask her why she did it. (Okay, so I'm a product of the eighties. Go listen to Wham UK! and kiss my behind!)

If I could be a farmer I would grow plenty of fruits and vegetables to keep my community fed, happy and healthy. Then I would grow pot to keep those teenagers eating! It's the circle of life, folks.

If I could be a missionary my knees wouldn't hurt so much when I'm on top and...wait, it said if I could be a missionary and not if I was in the missionary position. Whoops! Moving on.

If I could be a chef I would compete on "The Iron Chef" and would hope to get a secret ingredient like an octopus or a live shark or maybe Newt Gingrinch. Hey, he's been asking for it for a long time! Time to make rump roast out of the man!

If I could be a mob boss I would have someone in my group named Big Dick instead of Big Pussy like on "The Sopranos"...and he'd better live up to his name too!

Okay, I think I'm done. Did you learn anything about me that you didn't already know? That's what I thought. I guess now I'll pass this on to my fellow Phaze author, Leigh Ellwood.

Stay sexy,
BridgeT

It's official!

I have crossed over into that well-known but sometimes dreaded world of running a *gasp* contest! What I'm hoping is to at least get one person to do it. All I'm asking is for people to sign my guest book. I feel like a geeky teenager in high school trying to get the cool kids to sign my yearbook. "Sign my yearbook, please." "Please, be my best friend!" Okay, so not that sad and pathetic but close enough.

I just want to make the contest fun and exciting...okay, and generate some sales. Is that a bad thing? Meanwhile, I still have some work to do. Those words and characters just don't appear in my laptop on their own. I have to put them there.

Okay, enough playing. Time to get down to business. Hope I get a lot of responses for my site. If not, I'll be jumping off of the Empire State Building on June 3rd.

Stay sexy,
BridgeT

Biting nails and promotion ideas

Last night I sent the editor of Phaze.com the first three chapters of Fascination Street, an erotica I've been working on since about mid-February. What am I saying? You all know that if you've been on my website and looked at my calendar, right? *waiting for the sounds of crickets to die down before moving on*

Anyway, I reread and sent them in like good little soldiers. "Fight my battle, honey! Bring me a head on a stick!" Whoops! Wrong battle. Cross your fingers for me, you all, that she digs it and digs the idea of the 4 spinoff stories. Can we say 'securing a steady job'? I knew you could!

I feel so scatterbrained. Did I mention that Erotique Press dug my novella, "Chances"? The editor there asked if I could change a couple of things and if so I could be published with them by July or August of this year. Not bad, huh? Wished my mainstream work went this fast! But that's another story and a whole different persona.

There are a couple of contests coming up and I really need to get my butt in gear and start entering. I can't become a famous author by sitting back and waiting for things to happen.

So that leads me nicely into my next point: promotion. I've been joining sites and begging to be promoted on them. Promoting myself is harder than writing the damn book! But that's my cross to bear, folks. You just have to sit back and enjoy my work.

Okay, not a lot of time on my lunch break so I have to go.

Stay sexy!
BridgeT

What happens in St. Louis stays in St. Louis!

Well as you can well imagine, I am having a wonderful time in good ol' St. Louis, home of the Cardinals (so I've been told) and the rap star, Nelly. Do you know they actually have his picture in their St. Louis magazine as an attraction to their fine city? I guess that's when you know that you've arrived when you make it in your city's attraction magazine.

So my first booksigning. Hmm, what can I say? It was great! I came in with 15 discs. (Okay, so I'm no Laurell K. Hamilton, Christine Feehan or Heather Graham but I'm working my way up to it.) But I sold 14 of them! Whoo! Hooo! How cool is that? And since a friend of mine back home asked to buy one, technically I sold all of them. Considering "Adam and E-V-E" was released this past Monday, March 25th, I thought selling more than what I sold to my sister was a bonus! Apparently it was enough to impress my publisher. That's what REALLY counts!

I met some great authors and attended some really worthwhile workshops. Today I'll spend the entire day siteseeing. The Arc has been outside of our hotel this whole time and I have yet to go out and really take a good look at it. I'm trying to convince my sister (site owner for www.ThunderandRoses.com) to do our last dinner at the restaurant on the top floor that spins around. How cool would that be?

Okay, two more fun events for today and then I'm heading home tomorrow. But as my first RT experience, this did not disappoint me. Very laid back and fun. And watching all of the manmeat didn't bother me either. *LOL*

Stay sexy!
BridgeT