June 26, 2006

While the cat is away…

Written by Jenna Petersen in Jaunty Guests

Heh, it’s official, I have hijacked the Jaunty Blog for a second time. And this time it’s for three whole weeks. Um, okay, it’s for three Mondays since I only have it hijacked on Anne Mallory’s days to post. Anne has gone away for a fabulous European Vacation (Chevy Chase not included) and left me to blog for her.

Heh, heh, heh. Of course that means I have to be clever three whole times, so maybe I’m the one who was had here, not Anne. Yeah, she’s probably off in some delightful place, just laughing her head off at me. That would be SO like her.

But I still must decide what in the world to talk about for three Mondays. I thought to spark some ideas I’d take a pass around some of my favorite blogs and see what everyone else was talking about. At Squawk Radio they’re talking about how boys are weird (especially when it comes to toilets). This is true. Something about the Y chromosome makes you a little… strange. But it gives you many other fine attributes, so we just don’t talk about the toilet thing in romances. It’s sort of like why our characters don’t go to the bathroom and we don’t talk about leg and underarm hair in historicals.

At Romantically Inclined, fellow Avon Author Mary Reed McCall is defining Gamma Heroes. Which is very useful. I think I do write more Gamma than Alpha after all. So now my entire self-image as a writer is smashed. Sigh. See what happens when you blog hop?

At BookEnds, LLC (a literary agent blog), they’re revealing some truly awful query letters. It makes me happy I don’t write these letters anymore. You just don’t realize how many things you do as a writer have nothing to do with writing. Anything I don’t have to do now makes me happy. Of course, I still have to do synopses. If I could work out a way to not do those, I’d be a happy camper. I mean, boiling down your 90,000 word story into 5 pages… yuck!!

My friend Megan Frampton is talking about getting rained on at a wedding. Which made me think of Alanis Morriset’s song “Ironic”. Alanis was college dorm ear food when I was a Sophomore in college (yup, just gave you my age, go do math) and that is an awesome CD. Of course, nothing she lists in the song “Ironic” is actually ironic. As a comedian once said… they’re all UNFORTUNATE, Alanis. Ironic is something else entirely. But I think that song goes to prove that you CAN sacrifice accuracy in some cases as long as the tune is catchy.

And finally, at Stuff on My Cat, people put stuff on their cats. And it’s soooo precious. I mention this just because it’s cute. And who doesn’t need a cute moment on Monday? Or Tuesday? Or at 3pm on a Thursday? You can’t ever get enough cute.

Okay, so that was my cheater post for this week. Give me some ideas of what to talk about next week. Or else you might end up with my long awaited Bryan Adams post. It’s not a threat, but…

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6 Responses to “While the cat is away…”

On June 26th, 2006 at 8:10 am
Shana Says:

Welcome, Jenna! So glad to have you back again I’m kind of interested in the Bryan Adams post myself…
On June 26th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Isabel Says:

Jenna! Good to see you again here at JQ. Thanks for the sneek peeks on the other blogs.

Talk about Bryan Adams, now you have me wondering what that is all about. I confess I used to have a crush on the guy ages ago.

Have a good one ladies, I’ll try to stop by after work
On June 26th, 2006 at 9:51 am
AndreaW Says:

Hi Jenna!!

Hey, I wouldn’t mind you blogging about Bryan Adams. Like Isabel, I used to have a crush on him. That voice… *sigh*

Hmmmm…since “Jagged Little Pill” came out when I was 20 or 21, we must be of a similar age…

Andrea
On June 26th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Jennifer Y. Says:

Welcome Jenna!
On June 26th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Isabel Says:

Thanks to you, Jenna, I’ve bookmarked “Stuff on My Cat” gotta look into submitting pictures of my little angel.

Jagged Little Pill is one of my favorite albums of all time. “Head over Feet” is one of my faves out of that album.
On June 27th, 2006 at 1:33 am
Haven Rich Says:

Isn’t “Stuff On My Cat” just the cutest blog you’ve seen. The draw-back is that I’m on dial-up and it takes forever for all the pics to load but they are sooo cute. Any kitty lover would be a total fan of this one.

Anyhow, so glad your visiting Jenna..I’m sure you’ll come up with some great blog topics.

Have a great Tuesday(now that I’m running late).

June 26, 2006

While the cat is away…

6 Responses to “While the cat is away…”

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