Month: May 2012

Sweet Abduction…I Think

A visitor to my Facebook page told me that the Greek title of BORROWING ALEX loosely translates to something like “Sweet Abduction.” I have an email in to the publisher to verify the translation (somehow it never occurred to me that the book would have a different title, but foreign publishers change the titles all the time, so it makes sense), but if you can verify the title for me, leave a comment on this post or drop me an email.

Here’s the cover, now available on newsstands in Greece from Anubis. “Sweet Abduction” (which makes me think of sit-ups) is part of the Anubis Romance line. There’s also an ebook version available from the publisher (should you know how to read Greek and want to buy it).

Front Cover:

For interest’s sake, here’s the back cover, too:

I don’t think that can be read well enough to translate, but if you want to try, be my guest!

Getting Back Into The Swing of Things

Yes, I’m late (what a surprise) organizing photos of our Galapagos trip. Getting sick the first week home didn’t help. I didn’t really do much of anything last week. Most days I was too dizzy (a weird kind of vertigo) to leave the house. I did manage to begin uploading short videos of the Galapagos Islands to my Facebook page. Pop on over and check them out (look under Photos and then Videos to find them most quickly). While you’re there, go ahead and click “Like.” It’s painless!

I won’t be posting the videos to the blog (most likely) or my website so please visit Facebook if you want to see them. Stories and photos will appear on the blog as promised.

I wanted to get photos from my sister-in-law and brother-in-law (who got some great underwater shots) before beginning organizing. As soon as I have them all done, I’ll start with the blog posts. In the meantime, please know I’m thinking about it. Yes, thinking is requiring a lot of my focus lately. Just sitting here and thinking doesn’t require a lot of energy.

I spent the beginning of this week organizing the household. There’s a lot to do before Eldest Son comes home in a month. Youngest Son is now living at home for two back-to-back co-op work terms. It’s great to have him home, and even greater that he has a job and is gone during the day, because now I have some precious writing time until E.S. and his girlfriend move in.

When I left for South America, I was in the middle of writing an especially hot short story for Penny (see Blog Legend on the right sidebar if you don’t know who Penny is). So it seems like perfect sense to finish the story before E.S. and G-1 return (Girlfriend 1 – no, he doesn’t have two, but he’s the oldest so she’s G-1. Y.S.’s GF is hereforthwithtofor G-2). I don’t know how successful I’ll be, however, because I have two June deadlines for two Cindy projects (which I don’t feel like revealing right now…come back later), and I must get to them first.

While I was in Ecuador, I received my author copies of the Greek BORROWING ALEX. I’ll post the cover and a loose translation of the Greek title tomorrow. It’s so weird to see my book not only in another language but another alphabet. Between the Japanese version of HEAD OVER HEELS and the Greek version of BORROWING ALEX, I’ve yet to see a foreign version published with our alphabet (German, French and Spanish publishers, feel free to contact me to rectify this). (Other languages also and always welcome!)

I always find it takes me a week to get back into the swing of things after I’ve been away. It doesn’t matter if I’ve only been away a few days for a conference or I’ve been 3 weeks in South America. The same amount of stuff seems to pile up. I’m starting to clue in that I might as well always leave for 3 weeks at a time. Alas, our next big adventure likely won’t be until 2014, when we plan to visit the Aussie relatives.

How do you get back into your regular routine after being away? I just want to close my eyes and dream of the Galapagos.

Go Go Galapagos!

Wow, now that was a whirlwind of experience!

My husband and I have just returned from 18 days in Ecuador, two weeks of which were spent in the Galapagos Islands. We had an amazing time, met some incredible people, and discovered a naturalist’s paradise. Now we’re back home, both sick with a cold he caught the last two days of our cruise, trying to recover from 30 hours of travel and get caught up on our “real” lives. I took a million pictures and also some short videos, and I plan to blog about our trip like I did our Peru trip from two years ago. So you can begin looking for the blog posts to appear hopefully by the end of the week. I need to learn how to type again first (feeling constantly dizzy and having blocked ears doesn’t help). Laundry to do, groceries to buy, dog to walk and run. Yes, real life intrudes once again.

I just have to say that my two weeks on board the Cormorant catamaran were totally stress-free and filled with tons of laughter (I began to worry that all I knew how to do was laugh). I didn’t have to cook (yet ate three big meals a day – amazing food), didn’t have to clean the house, and had no deadlines to fret over. I’m not sure blogging about what you experience in the Galapagos Islands can do it justice, but I’ll try. The pictures should speak for themselves.

Over and out until my head stops spinning from this cold. Be back soon.