Snowmageddon 2021 & More!

(NOT an exact transcript!!)

Hey everybody! I hope everyone is recovering from Snowmageddon 2021. We did well here at Maison Mac - just lost power for about an hour on Tuesday morning - but that was our only drama. We had our pipe warmers and gas stoves going; I'd already bought groceries for the week so we had plenty of food and we did just fine. I rotated through all of my long johns, including my military grade Arkansas Air National Guard set my dad gave me all the way back in the early 80s, which was basically my wardrobe throughout the entire 8th grade when I dressed like Henry Thomas in ET every day.

The Free Promotion went well through the 15th so thank you to those who took advantage of that - I really appreciate it! I want to thank Dianna McEmfinger once again for her great review. 10000 Lovers is back to its regular price of 2.99 for the Kindle version and Rockin' Heaven Down Volume 1 is 4.99. Both books are also still available in paperback form.

I was at home all week and did some work remotely, which I'm a big fan of, so it was almost like we were back in quarantine. I got some reading done and we did some TV watching:

We watched Bridgerton all the way through and I didn't realize this series was based on books by Julia Quinn. The early 1800s is not one of my favorite time periods and the show is somewhat historically inaccurate but extremely entertaining. I'd hate to think that someone's whole existence depended on a gossip column. One of the things I noticed right away was the music, of course, that in the first episode the chamber group was playing a rhythm that was not one that would be played in the early 19th century. So of course I go to look this up and discovered they were creating chamber music versions of current pop songs. I see what you did there, Netflix. Very clever...

And the waltz in the last episode is not a waltz - it's a pepped up version of Vivaldi's Spring, first movement - but that's okay.

Also watched The Sinner - I like the second season better than the first. I watched a great movie called The Map of Tiny Perfect Things - Highly recommend it - nice little feel good movie after all of the post-apocalyptic and redneck cabin-in-the-woods movies we've been watching lately.

Bookwise - I finished Demolition Angel by Robert Crais. I thought it was one of the Elvis Cole stories but it's not, and I ended up liking it anyway. I finally finished The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice, which I started in October when I only read scary books, but this one didn't grab me as much as Interview with the Vampire and Feast Of All Saints (which I love), so I skipped through most of this one. I didn't realize Lestat was such a whiner. I've started reading Jonathon Kellerman's Private Eyes - I'm a big fan of the Alex Delaware series - and I'm reading a lot of crime novels lately in preparation for the new series I'm working on and I will have an announcement and cover reveal for that coming up in Mid-March. I'm really excited about it.

Before I go, I wanted to show off the hats and gloves I've made for all of my girls. And since I do know how to do sew and knit and crochet and whatnot...

This week has also made me realize (again) that we probably need to learn to be more prepared for...stuff. I was this close to buying a Prepper magazine at Dollar General last week.

Even though it was a nightmare for some, I really enjoyed the snow and the icicles, but now it's over and that's always a little sad as everything melts. I can hear the water melting out on my front porch. Every so often today I'd hear "SPLOOSH" like asteroids hitting the back yard.

But it looks like we made it! Until next time - have a great week!