Julia Barrett's World

Recs!  I love reading reviews – sometimes I find a gem in a genre that isn’t exactly my cup of tea, like Steampunk and YA.  I just bought a used copy of Kathleen Givens’ Historical set in 13th century Scotland, Rivals for the Throne.  Historicals aren’t among my usual suspects, but this book was highly recommended by a book blogger and her readers – I bought it before I left and it was waiting for me on my porch when I returned.  I wish I could remember which blogger featured the book…sorry!

Interaction!  Book bloggers like to…well…let me qualify that…many book bloggers like to interact with authors.  They are happy to read and review our books, and feature interviews, guest blogs and givaways.  They make me feel welcome!  It’s a quid pro quo kind of thing – very participatory and I love that!  Susi over at Book Lovers Inc. gave my coming sci fi book, Daughters of Persephone, a plug in her new releases post – I believe she plans to post her interview with me today or tomorrow as the book comes out tomorrow…fingers crossed!  http://book-lovers-inc.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-releases-week-of-july-12-18-2010.html

Hilarity!  Jessica over at Read React Review and her ROTFLMAO review, or rather, nuview, of Passion, by Lisa Valdez.  I just about peed my pants reading her post!  http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/07/06/review-passion-by-lisa-valdez/#comments

Education!  Rebecca, at Dirty Sexy Books, Jessica at Read React Review, Chris at Stumbling Over Chaos, Kelly at Five Agents and a Funeral, and everybody at Dear Author – are all really smart as opposed to snark.  They manage to enlighten without insulting. I’m likely to come away from one of their posts with a new perspective on an author or a genre or the publishing industry in general.  Thanks, ladies!

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Still waiting for blood tests.  In the meantime, my boy is doing his best to hang in here. Thank you all for your good wishes.

News…

The very busy and lovely author Stacey Espino will be a guest on my blog later this month.  Her menage, Saving Grace, will be released over at Siren-Bookstrand on June 16th.  Gorgeous cover!

There are a few new blogs I’ve been following:  Read React Review:  http://www.readreactreview.com/ Jessica is so damn smart, she’s scary and addictive at the same time!  She just introduced her readers to Rosario of Rosario’s Reading Journal:  http://rosario.blogspot.com/ Just reviews – Who woulda thunk it?  Rosario has some great stuff on her site.

Rebecca over at Dirty Sexy Books has a new WordPress site:  http://dirtysexybooks.com/ Go WordPress!  Her site is not quite as downhome as her old site, but she’s working on it.  Rebecca is one of my daily visits.  She is wonderful about reading comments and responding.  There’s a group of very funny and friendly bloggers, Chris at Stumbling Over Chaos, Susi at The Geeky Bookworm, Larissa at Larissa’s Bookish Life,  Mrs. K. Khan and K.C. of Smokin’ Hot Books, Janna at E-Romance Reader and Anna over at her site, Chronic Bookaholic-Strictly Happy Endings – who go out of their way to make you feel welcome when you drop by.

Let me see…sliced two fingers today cutting up chicken for the dog.  The vet told me to give him pizza if I have to, in order to get him to eat.  I’m not allowed to cut with sharp knives – and don’t give me that bologna (baloney) about how sharp knives are safer than not-so-sharp knives.  That’s a crock.  A number of years ago, I sliced the tip of my middle finger off while cutting ginger and lemons – with a very sharp knife.  Damn, that stung!  I dropped my fingertip in a plastic bag filled with ice and headed to the doctor’s office.  When I pulled the baggie out of my purse, he laughed and he could not reattach it.  Right now I have cotton balls taped to my fingers with Scotch Magic Tape.  Couldn’t find any bandaids.  My guy ate the chicken.  So it’s all good.  What’s a little blood between best friends?

I actually managed to work a bit on my paranormal this afternoon.  Tonight I think I’ll spend some time writing Rescued, the sequel to Captured, featuring Ekkatt’s brother Tirrit.  Be patient.  It will happen.  Lots to distract me right now.

I’m slowly reading Cutting for Stone, all 658 pages.  It’s beautiful and brilliant, but probably because I’m so distracted, my brain cells just aren’t embracing the book in the same way they did the amazing Under Heaven.  Under other circumstances…

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This transcript makes for interesting reading

but nothing those of us in the epub world haven’t already thought about and discussed.

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=126196977

For me, probably the most significant segment of the interview is when Mr. Auletta discusses Amazon’s 80% market share and then goes on to talk about the arrangement publishing houses made with Steve Jobs before the release of the iPad, to allow them to set what’s called an agency model – essentially allowing them to set the price points – which are higher than Amazon’s.  Here’s a quote from Mr. Auletta:

“Steve Jobs will go along with that for at least one year, and obviously there’s a question whether he will continue beyond a year at that pricing. But that pricing is going to be, instead of $9.99 as Amazon was doing, it’s going to range between 12 and $15, let’s say.

And what happened is that Amazon did not want to go along, but five of the six major publishers, who publish 60 percent of all the hardcover books, squeezed Amazon, and with the backing of Apple, and with the coming backing of Google Google said that they would go along with the so-called agency model as well Amazon was forced to surrender and agree to that as well.”

My opinion?  Consumers of ebooks will be unwilling to pay that higher price.  I suspect higher prices will encourage pirate sites and file sharing…not in anyone’s best interest.  I also suspect the inflated prices will go by the wayside in a year or so.

***Interesting stuff:  Rebecca over at her site, Dirty Sexy Books, responded to requests to follow up her posts regarding what authors do wrong on their websites by writing a funny, insightful post about what book bloggers do wrong on their websites!  This makes for very entertaining reading!  Rebecca and the hilarious ladies over at Smokin’ Hot Books have become my go-to sites when it comes to new books, old books and what’s going on around the blogosphere.  Why?  Because these women are funny, responsive and informative.  They come across as regular human beings who love to read, and their sites are easy on the eyes.

http://www.dirtysexybooks.com/Dirty_Sexy_Books/Home/Entries/2010/4/27_The_Good%2C_The_Bad%2C_The_Ugly__A_Discussion_of_the_Best_and_Worst_Things_We_Bloggers_Do.html

http://smokinhotbooks.com/blog/

***The Romantic Times Convention starts tomorrow in Ohio.  Quite a few authors I know will be there.  Hopefully they will have loads of fun and if they have specific goals…success!  I’ll be attending next year when the convention is in L.A.  Waaaay closer than Ohio!

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Don’t you wonder about people who do the above?  I have a neutered male German shepherd.  He may be neutered, but he still considers himself Mr. Testosterone and he’s not about to ignore a female dog in heat.  Yesterday was the second time in a month I’ve run into an idiot…I mean, who else but an idiot walks a dog in heat at a dog park where uncut males run free…and my dog gets yelled at for doing what comes naturally – humping the female.   What would you do?  I mean, what if you were a paranormal wolf shifter?  Hmmm?  It’s just not right.

Many thanks to Larissa for posting my interview yesterday.  She surprised me with the questions a few weeks ago and I wasn’t even certain when it would be up.  She’s a sweetheart who just moved from Israel back to her home country of Brazil.  I sent her a copy of Captured for review because my heroine, Mari, is Jewish.  After all, how many romance stories out there feature Jewish heroines?

So, on to Dirty Sexy Books.  Rebecca has come up with a couple great posts about the things authors do wrong with their/our websites.  In a polite kind of way, she pretty much issued a challenge to us to improve our sites.  Here’s a link to her latest post on the subject and you can check the archives for her first:

http://www.dirtysexybooks.com/Dirty_Sexy_Books/Home/Entries/2010/4/8_The_Ten_Biggest_Mistakes_Authors_Make_on_Their_Websites…_And_Counting….html

My response.   In my view, there are two main reasons why authors struggle to maintain a website -

1.  Age.  Most romance authors are over thirty and those who are tech savvy are few and far between.  You find the occasional author who not only knows how to use all sorts of techy-type thingies, but is even willing to assist other authors who are tech-hopeless or technophobes.  All of which means we have to either hire someone and pay beaucoup bucks, or we have to know someone who will help us for free or maybe for a gratuity, or…we have to take a class.  Google sites aren’t so bad to figure out.  WordPress is idiosyncratic and gives me fits at times.  I happen to be a bit of a technophobe.  Once something is set up for me or explained to me, I’m competent, but not genius.  I think I do pretty well for someone who wasn’t born with a keyboard beneath my fingertips.  I learned along with my kids – but they learned a ba-zillion times faster.  You know…softer brains soak up the info like a sponge.  On the other hand, having grown up hearing several languages spoken, I soak up languages like a sponge – yay!  I do something better than my kids!

2.  Time.  As I told my friend, fellow author Mia Watts yesterday, time is of the veriest essence. There just ain’t enough of it.  We have books to write, edits to complete, deadlines to meet, virtual tours to hit, interviews, promos, contests, conferences to attend…there are only so many hours in the day and in my case, I refuse to be a slave to my computer – though some days it seems as if I am.  I still hike, bike, work out on my elliptical, shop, cook, clean my house, do my laundry, hang with my kids and sex up my husband.  Plus I have to throw in taking a shower, getting a hair cut, going to S.F. Giants games, helping out my parents and my sisters…you know…all the little stuff everybody does every day.  Oh, and the biggie?  Most of us work a day job too and a lot of authors are single parents.

So, something’s gotta give.  Usually that’s sleep and/or the website.  I think a lot of us go without sleep in order to meet all the demands on our time.  Do you struggle with a daily post and website maintenance?  Do you hire someone or plug along on your own?  Your thoughts?

LOL!  julia

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There is no place as iconic as Disneyland.  I swear.  It’s more American than apple pie.  For a kid, it’s the ultimate in ultimate.  I love Disneyland and I got to ride my fill of Indiana Jones, Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain, The Haunted House, Pirates of the Caribbean and Peter Pan – which may be the most beautiful ride in the park.

But I have to wonder if Walt is rolling over in his grave.  Tomorrow Land needs, uh, futuristic-type updating?  Maybe a major makeover?  The only thing there worth riding or even visiting is Space Mountain.  The rest of T.L. is flat out depressing.  Critter Country should be bulldozed – it’s where all those extra homeless animatronic characters – the Small World rejects – go to die.  It’s just scary.  Frontier Land has Thunder Mountain – a great ride, but that’s all.  New Orleans Square still has it going on and Fantasy Land continues to be every child’s favorite place in the park.

The weird thing was that we arrived at 8:30 a.m. and we’d achieved all our goals and were heading back to the new Rhode Island-sized parking structure by 3 p.m.  That’s another thing – the parking garage they put in to make room for California Adventures.  You no longer have the opportunity to experience that heart-pounding anticipation and excitement as you approach Disneyland – even the Matterhorn is mostly obscured by the parking structure – a megalithic monstrosity that winds you around and around and around via a nonsensical, circuitous, maze-like route that I can only assume is designed to thwart potential evil-doers.  The tram from the parking garage to the front gate drops you off at the new Disney Downtown where you are greeted by…surprise…gift shops.

But hey…there were no lines.  We walked right on all the rides.  And the churros are still good.  It’s funny – the prices in the park seem reasonable, especially compared to what you pay for food at a baseball game, you know, where we pay at least $5.50 for a bottle of water, $8 for a hot dog, $10 for nachos.

Since the occasion was also a reunion for my husband’s family, as you can imagine, we were very busy and didn’t sleep a whole lot.  Got home last night pretty beat and found the poor birdie, who seemed to be doing better when we left, on the bottom of the cage.  As of this morning, little Alstie is no longer with us.  We’re very sad.  I ran out and bought a new companion for our parrot since she’s been quite upset about her poor friend.  She immediately took the baby parakeet under her wing and began grooming her.  Tibby is remarkably gentle for a parrot – at least with other birds.

Tomorrow – why us authors struggle with our websites – a nice answer to Rebecca’s question over at Dirty Sexy Books.

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I read a lot, IRL and around the blogosphere and I’ve decided my free-form blog needs a catchphrase.

You know, like, D’oh!

But since my brain is one big free-form, stream of consciousness, blurt-o-thon I don’t know what sort of catchphrase I’d assign myself.  Maybe catchphrase isn’t the right word, maybe what I need is an overall tone, you know like Karen Knows Best is snarky, Mandi at Smexy Books is open minded and sweet and seeks the positive, Katiebabs is sensitive, emotional and wears her heart on her sleeve, Dirty Sexy Books presents a logical progression of ideas, Stumbling Over Chaos is…well, stumbling over chaos.  Some of my author friends write the sexiest stuff on their blogs – I wish I was more like them – I’m so envious of their way with words – in a good, non-hating and rather loving and supportive kind of way.

What to do?  I’m a fly by the seat of my pants kind of woman, an anarchist, don’t do well with rules and regulations and if someone tells me I can’t do something, well then, I must do it.  You know, like sticking my tongue on a lamp post in sub-zero weather and running with sharp sticks.

Here’s what I know – Katiebabs recently wrote a sad, significant and thoughtful post on bullying – very topical.  Check it out.  http://kbgbabbles.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-bullying-kills.html

Rebecca at Dirty Sexy Books is really, really smart and savvy – and insightful and I totally envy her sense of organization.  http://www.dirtysexybooks.com/Dirty_Sexy_Books/Home/Home.html

Chris, at Stumbling Over Chaos is supportive as hell, generous with her time and her site, and she loves animals.  http://www.stumblingoverchaos.com/

From what I’ve observed, Mandi, at Smexy Books, pays attention and has a kind heart.  http://www.smexybooks.com/

Karen, at Karen Knows Best, scares the shit out of me and I’d love to interview her.  http://karenknowsbest.com/

Here’s what’s new – I’m meeting with fellow author Donna George Storey, who by the way also writes a killer blog (see below), to go on a foodie tour of the San Francisco Ferry Building Farmer’s Market!  Yay!  Yummo!  We’re also gonna go to this cool bakery to buy French macaroons – we share a passionate love of French macaroons, among other things.  It is so amazing to meet with an author face to face after you’ve spoken with her on line.  I was lucky enough to meet Anny Cook on a trip to the East Coast last October and we had a great time together.

http://www.donnageorgestorey.com/

Book World:  I will finish up my first menage/multiple this week – draft one, at least.  The challenge has been…challenging, but I think the story is good and the sex scenes are well-choreographed.  I won’t tell you the title because you’ll laugh out loud.

Reading:  Willie Mays * The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch.

***A must read blog – I found it thanks to Donna George Storey.  http://nakedi.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/when-i-was-twenty-five-it-was-a-very-bad-year/

Tomorrow – either my foodie tour and Donna or my E kit in case of a natural and/or man-made disaster!  Oh yeah, taking Rebecca’s advice and as soon as I get this first draft done, I’m posting reviews on my freshly added review page!

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Anna Paquin opens up!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2133643001?bctid=75433647001

Search it out – the link is available for uploading – wish I was better at uploading videos!

Brave celebrities using their celebrity to do good.  That’s what I like to see.

Not much new – working, sleeping, hiking – smelled a mountain lion yesterday but couldn’t see anything – it smells like the lion cage at the zoo – just like a giant dura in Captured!

I am without reading material so I think I’ll take a suggestion from Rebecca at Dirty Sexy Books and pre-order a copy of Guy Gavriel Kay’s newest release, Under Heaven.  His prose is glorious!

I’m also glad to hear that George R.R. Martin may finally release the next book in his mammoth, brilliant and once missed the mark series – A Song of Fire and Ice.  I had despaired of ever learning what happened to my favorite few surviving characters.

Personal tragedy – I have this parrot, and she has a buddy, a little parakeet we rescued from a wilderness park – snatched her right out of the claws of a hawk.  We call her Alstie.  Anyway, Alstie and my parrot are best friends and true companions.  They love each other.  We keep our house pretty cool so I have this heat lamp – off the cage and it’s low voltage and I check it all the time to make sure it’s not too hot.  Anyway, somehow Alstie got her wing caught in the heat lamp on Monday when I was at work and burned off her tail, part of her wing and a relatively large area on her back.  Since I cannot catch her, she’s totally untamed, I can’t medicated her or clean the area – as a nurse who once worked on a burn unit, I know how bad burns can be – bad stuff is likely to happen after the initial injury.  I’ve been feeling so awful because I can tell she’s in pain and I’ve been waiting for her to get septic and die and that thought makes me really sad.  But!  She’s rallied!  I figured if she could survive the first week, she had a chance.  She’s eating, moving and talking a bit.  Where there’s life there’s hope!  Wish her luck!

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Are You Over The Hill?

Rebecca over at Dirty Sexy Books, http://www.dirtysexybooks.com/Dirty_Sexy_Books/Home/Home.html posed a couple of interesting questions to her readers yesterday – Why are most romance heroines in their twenties and is thirty-five over the hill?  Here’s a direct link to the post:

http://www.dirtysexybooks.com/Dirty_Sexy_Books/Home/Entries/2010/3/30_The_Importance_of_Age.html

I thought about this question all night, and I’m kinda pissed because I had this really great post written and then my damn computer shut itself off to update some POS and I lost the post – so here I go again!

I’ve come up with some answers.  I’ll discuss them in no particular order.  First, the no-brainer…

1.  Because it sells.  Readers seem to want to read about twenty-something heroines with thirty-something heroes.  The truth is, women mature faster than men, so in my mind, there is not a great deal of difference between, say, a twenty-eight year old woman and a thirty-six year old man.

2.  Guilty as charged.  Most of my heroines tend to be between the ages of twenty-five and twenty-nine, except for Kate in You Might Just Get It, who is a forty-one year old confident, cute, sexy nurse dating a twenty-nine year old chef.  (The Cougar Book)  I looked deep into my heart and asked myself, why is this?  Well…

3.  Because in our twenties, we are not set in stone.  We are still malleable and we are risk takers.  At least some of us are – certainly our heroines are, even if they are reluctant risk takers.  In our thirties, less so.  In our thirties, most of the time we’ve discovered a pathway, a career path, a family path, a marriage path, and we are reluctant to put any of those things at risk.  I look back on my twenties and wonder how in the hell I ever survived that decade.  Jesus, I took risks, risks that I would never have taken in my thirties when I had so much to lose!

4.  As a writer, I can spin a woman in her twenties any way I want.  She is a blank slate.  I can give my heroine what I wished for myself in that decade – actually what I ended up getting at the age of twenty-seven – my hero, my true love – and my life was pretty damn dysfunctional up until then.  Maybe notorious would be a better word.  I can’t do that quite as well with a woman in her thirties because a woman in her thirties is not a blank slate.  She is full of history, mystery and in possession of a much deeper, more complex back story.

5.  I can write a story about a woman in her twenties from the perspective of what I had learned by the time I was in my mid-thirties – which is why my heroines tend to be tough survivors and unusually mature.  Most romance writers are over thirty.  My favorite writers allow their maturity to trickle down over their characters – occasionally you find the brilliant twenty-something putting out a really compelling story – usually paranormal or urban fiction/fantasy – but my favorite writers in all genres (not just Romance) tend to be old enough to have lived a little, gained some perspective and learned some valuable life lessons.

6.  Perhaps the reason romance readers enjoy stories involving young heroines is that we want to re-envision that decade for ourselves, romanticize it, so to speak.  Make it over into a period of  time when we didn’t fuck up quite so much.

In any case, I do plan to write a work for Rebecca and myself involving a thirty-six year old heroine.  First I have to finish with three other WIPs – damn it!

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Yeah, some days it’s like that!

Rebecca at Dirty Sexy Books wrote a genius piece back on February 23 entitled -

The Ten Biggest Mistakes Authors Make On Their Websites.

You can check it out here:  (and I asked her permission to quote her, thanks Rebecca!)

http://www.dirtysexybooks.com/Dirty_Sexy_Books/Home/Entries/2010/2/23_The_Ten_Biggest_Mistakes_Authors_Make_on_Their_Websites.html

The first mistake she mentions is the lack of a website.  I have to agree.  In this internet age I’m shocked when I try to find information about an author and her books and google turns up bupkiss!

The second mistake?  No blog.  She’s right – every single day isn’t necessary but a once a week would be nice.  I do get frustrated when I hope to hear what other authors are up to and they have a site, but the last post was a year ago.  Where are you, my friend?

Uh-oh, the third mistake is to bury our stuff under a nest of links.  Guilty as charged?  I try to keep my links to the side but sometimes I wonder if I have too many – but I love those links!  Each one means something to me.  I’ll try to keep in mind, simplify and minimize!

Fourth – link bait for bloggers – Ladies, we need a hook so bloggers find us interesting, you know, like a freebie, a short story that ties into our upcoming release, a freebie for readers and fans.  Okay – workin’ on it!

Five – ignoring your website – that kind of ties in with Mistake Number Two.

Six?  A picture of myself?  Are you effin’ crazy?  I have deep and abiding personal reasons for NOT having a photo.  I do have an icon.  I know it’s not exactly me, but my icon is a smiling redhead, like me!  If you read Captured, you know what I look like and you know what kind of potty mouth I have.

Seven is very important, IMO.  Mistake Seven – They don’t promote anyone but themselves.    This one is of such significance that I think I’ll quote it in its entirety:

Your website is one of your best marketing tools, and so this statement might seem counterproductive, but don’t always talk about yourself.  That’s right, talk about other books, places, and people too.  It’s uncomfortable to visit a site that sells itself too hard, so to avoid that trap, spend some time promoting your favorite authors.  I love to visit Charlaine Harris’s website because she blogs about what she’s reading every few weeks.  Maybe you’re wondering, what if I read something that stinks like a road-kill skunk?  Then preserve your reputation and don’t mention it (let an asshole like me stomp on it), but be sure to give props to the books that you DO like.

Mistake number Eight – We forget to mention and/or link to the reviewers who review our books.  Rebecca suggests a separate review page that contains links to all our book reviews.  Again – workin’ on it!

Number Nine – Author’s don’t interact with their fans.  Well, I do and most authors I know do.  My fans are precious to me.  If they take the time to comment or email me, I will reply.  I’ve been on the non-receiving end.  I’ve written to authors to tell them how much I enjoyed their books and I never hear, so…their books come to mean less to me.  On the other hand, when an author responds, his/her books come to mean a great deal more.

Last but not least – Number Ten – We don’t offer a high-resolution image of the cover.  Sorry, my website won’t always support a high res cover image and I suck at sizing.  Some authors are really savvy.  They know exactly how to fix these things and they are on my most admired list.

I am terrible when it comes to taking advice – stubborn, headstrong, impulsive, but Rebecca has made some excellent points.  I’m trying to learn how to learn when it comes to this blogging stuff.  Thanks!

In other news – Beauty and the Feast - waiting for your recipes and go visit with the delightfully irreverent Chris and her kitties at Stumbling Over Chaos to see how to win a copy.  http://www.stumblingoverchaos.com/

Brynn Paulin is hosting me over at Wednesday Wonder Writers:  http://brynnpaulin.blogspot.com/

Stop by!

Author Donna George Storey has a great little novella in The Cougar Book – Comfort Food.  I have a copy of the book to give away, signed by me cuz I have a story in there too – great minds think alike!  Speaking of websites, here’s hers -

http://www.donnageorgestorey.com/

Okay, done for the day!  Julia

P.S.  Just finished:  Game Change.  Just started:  The Lady in the Tower.

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Today has been the day from hell

and when I experience the day from hell, especially when I haven’t time to eat a single thing, I must have potato chips.  Fortunately hell days don’t come around all that often, but lately, work IRL has been the essence of HELL.  I’ve managed to avoid the potato chip trip until today.

I bought two bags because, you know, you gotta have two flavors – Balsamic Sweet Onion and Jalapeno – a handful from each bag and I feel so much better.  It’s like – eat two handfuls of potato chips and call me in the morning – ‘cuz tomorrow and Sunday are shaping up to be an instant replay.

Here’s the caveat:

Dirty Sexy Books reviewed Captured!  Yee-hah!  Thank you thank you thank you!

http://www.dirtysexybooks.com/Dirty_Sexy_Books/Reviews/Reviews.html

Here it is – made me weep!

“It’s not often that I agree to review romantic erotica, not because I don’t like it, but because I view it like dessert. It’s a rare treat, and I don’t like to overindulge. What persuaded me to try Captured is that it’s also a science fiction story, and it’s getting harder and harder for me to pass those up.
Captured was presented to me as an erotic romance, but I will respectfully disagree. I am more inclined to call it a science fiction romance novella because the romance was the focus of the story all the way. Don’t get me wrong, the sex scenes were good, but they were on par with a SFR novel. For an erotica they’d probably be considered mild.
The way the relationship between Mari and Ekkatt developed was surprisingly robust. So were the sci-fi world-building elements. Personally, I think this story would make a great addition to a SFR anthology.”

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