I just opened my e-mail this morning and had this waiting inside.
Just so you all know-Ella Enchanted was my favorite book when I was a kid.
And I was hopelessly mad when they ruined the story to make the movie....
Anyway, I love Gail Carson Levine-she really is one of my hero in the literary world.

I really should talk that advice from the last paragraph. I always, always end up thinking that my writing completely.
( pep talk here )

Yeah, it was a cool view. Not my view, it was my creep boss's but it was cool :D  And one of my fave pics I've ever taken.

So today I'm at work and I get the call: an inspection. And its taking place without the boss.

20 minutes later the most no-nonsense lady comes in, a ginger at that. She breezed in acting like she owned the place. I couldn't get her to cooperate or understand that the owners weren't in. She didn't care. She was crazed.

Clearly as you can see in the second picture, she wasn't happy with what she found. The joint just wasn't up to par. This woman was bossy, she was demanding. She raided our candy and flipped over a chair several times when angered but not provoked.

She then decided that we'd tired her our with our unprofessionalism and the lack of standards, so she promptly laid on the ground and took a nap.

Thank God this lady is not as tough as Pearl.

(this link - and Stranger than Fiction - is the reason I have pledged my undying love and support for Will Ferrell, through good films and bad).

I just wrote this, sprinting like crazy trying to reach the half-way mark today and I instantly fell in love with it. I loved wirting it and I loved the outcome. It'll probably be confussing...not having read the rest of this book or the one before(this is the second book in the series.) But...hopefully you all will like it and all that.
Hopefully my writing doesn't suck all that bad.

( the excerpt is here. )