Sunday, September 9, 2007

I'm back

How lovely to come back to your birthday greetings and well wishes for Pat's surgery. Thank you.

I've been away at Keji (Kejimkujik National Park) for the annual "Not-Back-to-School" camping trip and at the hospital with Pat who had arthroscopy on Friday. Yesterday was a veg day although my son and I caught a short play at the Fringe Festival in the afternoon. His play-writing teacher was directing This is a Play and it was hilarious. Daniel McIvor write the 30-minute play that treats audiences to the inner dialogue of the actors onstage: their petty criticisms of each other, their flubbed lines, their self-congratulations. It was quiet entertaining.

For now, I must get to work. I have a number of short stories to comment on for my writing group tomorrow.

I hope you are all well and have ordered your copies of Maya Reynolds' Bad Girl. (It's your opportunity to pay-it-forward because someday it'll be your book being released.) I read my copy on Thursday night and oh la la! it was most definitely spicy. The story literally races along from the first line and the tension builds to the frightening climax (no pun intended) when the plucky heroine... oh, I'm not going to spoil it for you... you'll have to read it yourself.

Congratulations to Maya on what I hope is the first of many successful novels.

Colleen

4 comments:

Stephen Parrish said...

When do we get the whole interview?

Colleen said...

We're aiming for Friday, if Maya's schedule permits.

Tempest in a Teapot said...

Glad you had fun at the Fringe Fest— it sounds fabulous. How was Keji? You couldn't have asked for a better weekend, weather-wise....

Colleen said...

Keji was gorgeous. We froze at night, but woke up to a yoga lesson and a swim! How great is that?