Julia Barrett's World

Beauty and the Feast is hot on Fictionwise and All Romance Ebooks. That scares me. Yeah, I guess I’ve paid my dues in a sense, but the way we see things in my family, any success whatsoever attracts the evil eye. Wooooooooo. It’s like when my husband says - Gee, my car is running great! - and I slap my hand over his mouth and knock on wood - I remind him that speaking of good things is a surefire way to guarantee an immediate blown head gasket!

To make a long story short…thank you for buying my books and please keep buying them. Maybe one of these days I’ll be PAN Eligible. I don’t want to talk dollars and cents so if you are wondering what that is, feel free to look it up.

I think my newsletter will be out today or tomorrow - for those of you who don’t receive the newsletter, I have a new contract with Siren for my very first menage - All Four One. This is a futuristic work of science fiction - the story takes place maybe 150 years from now in the Pacific Northwest. I do love sci fi. My husband says that erotic sci fi is a bit of a contradiction in terms but I find it heavenly to write.

Many thanks to Chris from Stumbling Over Chaos for her sci fi recommendation, Babel-17, by Samuel R. Delany, an unknown-to-me author and work published back in 1966. I told her the story is like a cross between Ringworld, Albert Einstein and The Left Hand of Darkness. The premise of the book is that language influences thought and perceived reality - not the meaning, but the words themselves. Deep stuff! http://www.stumblingoverchaos.com/

Many thanks to Susi over at The Geeky Bookworm who asked me to guest post this past week. If you want to win one of my books, leave a comment - she’s extended her contest for a couple days due to her school schedule. http://thegeekybookworm.blogspot.com/

Today is Memorial Day - my dad and all my uncles served in various branches of the Armed Forces so thank you, men and women, who put your lives on the line for us everyday! You are never forgotten.

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I really want to draw a sign that says: Eli Whiteside One-Woman Fan Club - and Andres Torres and Jonathan Sanchez. And I want to post it right here!

But I don’t have an ‘effin’ clue how to draw online! I”m tired and goofy and happy my team won. Yay for my baseball team!

Don’t you wonder how God chooses sides? I mean, whenever you watch a football movie whichever team is featured is always praying that God will be on their side and I want to know why, exactly, should God choose your team…let’s call them The Tall Guys, over say…that team over there…let’s call them The Wide Guys? Really? God gets involved in who wins a football game? Maybe if it’s the Superbowl, but that’s a pretty big if and I don’t think God has paid much attention since The Superbowl Shuffle. Well, maybe He kinda likes Pittsburgh…

My husband and I have these great aisle seats right above first base on the field level. They are OUR seats. Really. OUR seats. A couple squeezed in next to us and I heard the guy say to the girl in a loud Homer Simpson-esque whisper - I think they’re sitting in our seats…Remember that episode when the Simpsons entered the Witness Protection Program and they became The Sampsons? And the guy kept saying, now when I say, hello Mr. Sampson, you say, hello. When I say, hello Mr. Sampson and stomp on your foot, you say, hello. And Homer turns to the other Witness Protection guy and whispers, loudly, I think he’s talking to you…

Uh, no, I said, these are OUR seats. Anyway, the woman spent the entire game talking to someone on the other side of her husband/date/brother/whatever and when that person left early, she spent the remainder of the game texting. In the bottom of the eighth inning, when MY team was up eight to one, she looked up from her vigorous texting and asked no one in particular…Who’s winning? Where’s that damn line drive foul ball when you need it?!?

I got to see Buster Posey’s debut! Rising star. He may look like a choirboy, but man, is he a beast when he slides into second to break up that double play!

Sorry guys, I’m a bit of a sports’ freak and I live with sports’ freaks. Forgive me?

***Oh yeah - I love it when you sign up for my newsletters, totally love it. Please remember to confirm so that I will have your email address. If you haven’t received the confirmation thingy, check your Spam folder and if it’s still not there, email me at Julia@JuliaRachelBarrett.net and I will try to get you on the list. Thank you so much!

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