So close to the end... and I'm having second thoughts...

Don't you just hate it when you have a jumbled up ball of yarn-looking story pieces, redundant conversations and multiple possible outcomes that you have to sort through and figure out how the story will go?

What? You don't? It's just me? Really? Huh... didn't see that one coming. ;)

Anyways, I spent an hour waiting for a professor to sign a paper for me... he didn't show... I wasted an hour of my life, right? Wrong! Because that hour allowed me to finish up a conversation between Sarah and Pegasus that I was stuck on... Yes, I do have a character named Pegasus... No, that's not his real name...

I think I'm only a couple of chapters away from the epilogue... The aforementioned ball of yarn is the pieces I've written down leading to the epilogue and the conclusion of the first part in this series. Ooops, forgot to say which story I'm talking about: In Dreams.

There's this girl called Sarah, and she gets mixed up in some complicated secret stuff when her parents are assassinated... and I'll wait until I come up with a proper blurb before I try to explain this to anyone without giving away too many spoilers. :)

I am wondering how much of an explanation of what's going on I should put into the epilogue. I don't want it to just be a long list of "and this is what happened" or "so that's why they said that" or whatever. But I also want to have things explained enough in case someone falls asleep while reading. I know I could have used a recap during the last mystery book I read over a few months. When I got to the end, there was a character I could not remember for the life of me...


So, I had to change my counter thinguie for In Dreams over there (look right) because I had gotten past 200 pages already with the draft. I have to confess that I didn't calculate the percentage, I just guessed, but since my guesses are usually more accurate that my actual calculations except when a calculator is involved, I'd say we're okay.

I think I mentioned that I thought I lied about my age, turns out I didn't. I calculated wrong how old I was because I forgot what year we were in... And no, I didn't use 2012 for the calculations. It was worse than that. 2014. :) It sounds so ridiculous when I say it, but it really was funny...
Here's the transcript of the conversation between me and my friend Cassia when I found out I had miscalculated:

Me: How old am I? Because I thought the last candles on my cake said 30, but last night I was counting and I think I might've missed a birthday somewhere along the line...
Slightly-less-insane-friend Cassia: You're 30.
Me: Are you sure?
Cassia: Yeah. 1983 to 2013 is 30.
Me (laughing now): Wait... we're in 2013?

Needless to say I was not asleep at the time. I am just naturally insane. I blame my dad. He started it.
But now it is time to sleep. I hope I got at least a smile out of someone out there. I know I've already laughed myself silly because of this.


Oh, and in real life news, I'll be away from my computer for a month in May, which will probably change nothing for this blog because I rarely post more than once a month anyway. ;)

Hugs to all!

Posted my review for Kathy Garlock's Gone for a Soldier on goodreads and amazon.com... finally

It too me a while... Actually, it took me a very long time, I think...
I read it fairly quickly, mainly because I couldn't stop reading. Couple that with my natural insomnia, and a saw the sun come up a few nights while reading about Lucy's adventures with the First Minnesota.

Gone for a Soldier is a historical fiction, but even if that makes you look at the book with skepticism, I'd suggest you give it a try. I know I really enjoyed it, right down to the seemingly random details that to me added so much color to the whole ensemble...

I know I sound like I'm talking nonsense, but I'm trying to explain how I liked it without describing the stuff I really liked. That's hard.

Here's the goodreads review:

                                     http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/590167652

On another note, real life is mean...
... I stopped staring at the VM KS counter - and if you don't know what that is, you don't watch as much TV as you think you do. :)

And there's less than a month before the family trip...

... and I may have lied without my age without realizing it. Someone asked me my age, I told them, and now I'm thinking I told them the wrong age... Yes, that's totally possible. But in my defense, it was only off by one year and last month I was writing down the date as being Dec 2012, so a little lunacy will be expected, right?

Anyways, I just decided to make sure the blog still let me on here, it's been so long. And what are you doing online? Go read a book. j/k :P

Hugs to all,

I made a form for people who want to hear about promotions!

Well, this has been a weirdly productive week. I say productive because: 

 I got my contact form ready and waiting!! 

It  has a section for getting notified if you want to hear about free promotions, giveaways, new books or just one book in particular... And you can also click on no to everything, because I'm just wacky that way. 

 I showed a friend of mine the form and she said it was clearly written in my own voice... which means I sound like a teenager on a sugar high... But I've known that ever since I actually was a teenager on a sugar high.

It's a little long, but it's the short version. :)

I'm thinking of making a second form just because I feel this one won't annoy people enough... or maybe I'm just hoping I can get a smile out of someone.

As I was saying, productive:

I got Cameras on kindle!!

It looks really nice now that I fixed the chapters. I used the "template" John (thank you sooo much! - again) made me and I got it done in a day after I figured it out. 

I even went back to Grace and added a link or two at the end as well... I'm lying, it was 3 links, but who's counting? :)

Now for the weirdly...

My doors are closed, the windows that are open have screens on them, I haven't been out of the apartment in two days... how do these insects keep getting in?!?

I'm thinking there's some sort of magical vortex in the kitchen, or maybe the insects have evolved into beings capable of passing through walls.... Hey, if my cat could do it, why can't a fly or a mosquito?

Non sequitur moment: I hate non-productive insomnia... Oh well... 

Okay, done with the "weirdly"

Oh, and just because I can ask, what's your opinion on changing arrangements at the last possible moment? Fair, unfair, or just plain mean? Why wait until the last moment? It's like waiting for someone to organize three dozen roses and then saying you should change them to lilies.

No, I'm not saying what I'm talking about, but if you're reading this, it's probably not about you... unless you spy, in which case: shame on you! 

Just kidding about the last part...

Well, the weekend is practically done and tomorrow I get back to my normal schedule, let's see how that goes. :)

Hugs!!

Back to "normal"? So many lists my lists have lists...

Hi there!!

How did February treat everyone? Hopefully it was kinder to you than it was to me. :) Just kidding, a little bit.
 My head's been pounding intermittently for the last two, maybe three weeks. I figure that's not a good thing, I also don't really know how to make it stop unless maybe I stop a bit... Can I sleep now? hehe


Last steps of the things with immediate deadlines. Took my dissertation to be printed and made into a pretty little green thing with golden letters.... and my mind just went to a dragon... hm... I would rather have a dragon than ten copies of my dissertation... The dragon would be cuter. :)

Anyways, I figured I should probably see where I left off on my imaginary worlds. I'm doing some corrections to Cameras - though it is kind of officially done. But I decided to fix the commas (anyone who read Grace knows I have issues with commas) and found a few more repeated words to fix... You know, when you use the same word in consecutive sentences and you don't notice it when you read the thing for the second, third, or even eleventh time? Well, twelve, combined with reading aloud seems to be helping.

I'm thinking of creating a form over at the website for people who'd like to be contacted when another book comes out or there are any promotions or giveaways... I think that would be something some people would like. I know I would. Still thinking that over, and how to let people know that exists would be a problem... Can't really message all of them, can I? No, probably not... I actually stopped to consider it for 3.4 seconds.


Oh! And I got a third review on Amazon!!

  Here it is... 

Also, planning are finally being set in motion for the official launch of Cameras Tell No Lies... I should start to keep track of the gaps in time between my finishing the books and having an actual "launch" party. :) 

Tick tock... Mestre, kkk

Is life really just an infinite number of countdowns? That's what it feels like sometimes....

Anyways,
 Finished my master's, sort of... I can relax now, sort of... I feel a little relieved, but I feel like I shouldn't feel relieved... There's still corrections and printing, and getting everything done by the end of this month so I can get the doctorate started... Can I sleep now?

I was watching Doctor who the other day, an episode where the Master was trying to rule the world - again - and I started laughing every time he said his name was Master... I know, I'm silly that way. :)

Apresentei minha dissertação e mestrado nessa quinta depois do carnaval...

Então, eu tenho 11 dias, aproximadamente, com uma margem de segurança de uns dias pra terminar as correções e entregar as versões finais... Mas realmente me sinto aliviada de ter apresentado, mas não tanto. É uma sensação estranha, e não sei se as outras pessoas se sentem assim também quando chegam nessa etapa (ou qualquer etapa onde se tem um evento de transição de um ponto para o outro). Eu lembro que na apresentação do ESO fiquei mais nervosa, na apresentação da especialização fiquei mais nervosa ainda. Tão nervosa que meu orientador mandou eu ir tomar água e depois voltar... E no mestrado pareceu tudo tão normal, tão automático... Claro, fiquei nervosa, mas não como antes. Será que tô criando resistência? Ou a diferença está no conteúdo? É muito mais fácil falar sobre um assunto que se conhece do que um assunto que se sabe mais ou menos, né?

Bem, eu não queria passar muito tempo sem deixar algo por aqui, mas a parte das histórias anda caminhando meio lentamente nos últimos dias. Também não teria como me dedicar a escrever coisas reais e imaginárias com o mesmo zelo ao mesmo tempo... E por enquanto, a urgência está com as coisas reais.
Por enquanto... ;)

Obrigada a todos que me ajudaram e me aturaram nesse período, e até breve... Afinal, ainda tem o lançamento de Cameras Tell No Lies por vir.

Esta foto foi embaçada pra proteger a identidade dos envolvidos... Brincadeira, painho que não checa o foco, haha

Povos comendo...

Eu e Tortinha, a coisa mais fofa a circular pelos corredores do hospital...

Galera do Labhum (nota-se que Nadyne já tinha saído e Cássia se recusou a vir, kkk)

Interview went up on BookGoodies! And another review on amazon...

  Filled out an interview in BookGoodies last month when I was promoting Grace's free days, and found out the interview went up a few days ago! And I missed it, because, of course, this is when I chose to try and stay away from the internet for a while... Because sleep is needed at some point, you know. Just kidding about the sleep.

Here's the link:

Interview - Marília Bonelli

Also, another review came up on amazon.com. I'm really happy with it, and determined to work on my weaknesses. :) Constructive criticism is always good, especially when it comes coupled with positive impressions and having your book called "unputdownable".

Check out my reviews!

Have a nice weekend - or last hours thereof - and a nice week!

Thanks, everyone!

The second promotion for Grace ended a few days ago over at amazon.com, and I gotta say there were almost 10 times the amount of downloads from the first time.

A belated, but most heartfelt thank you to everyone who downloaded and helped spread the word. And those who clicked on the "like" button as well. :)

I hope at least one person finds it a good read.

Hugs!