A Complete Lunatic

BrickWarriors Publishing is so close to launching! I’m 99% sure The Curse of the Moira will be released in November.  I was hoping it would be this month, but there were a few unexpected delays.  Cough…laziness…cough.  But I’m super motivated now.  One of the last things I’m working on is the author bio, and it’s quite a hassle.  When you pull a book off the shelf, the author bios are just full of bragging.  I don’t want mine to be that way.  I want it to be authentic and funny.  The problem is that it’s very hard not to sound like a complete lunatic when you write a funny author bio.  It’s a work in progress, but here mine is:

Despite having blue eyes and red hair, Saxa Taylor does have ears. She lives in Delaware with her fiancé, and spends her days figuring out how to grow her toy business and how to convince said fiancé to let her have a kitten. The Curse of the Moira is the first book in a series.  You can find her online at brickwarriors.com.

Yeah…that’s not going to work.

Distractions are Good

So I had a friend look through my book to do some light editing (I say “light” because it’s already been edited a lot by myself and others, and I assumed I was close to my final copy, if not there). Well, my book has been butchered.  Taken out back and viciously slaughtered!  There’s blood everywhere. Such a mess.

Anyway, I don’t feel like going through all the gobbledygook right now. I’m going to stay in my “happy I’m almost done my book” mood a little longer.  Which brings me to distractions.  As part of my holiday marketing campaign for BrickWarriors, I decided I wanted to start doing YouTube ads.  Specifically, how cool would it be to have an ad go viral?  Cha-ching cool!  Obviously, you can’t control what goes viral, but we decided there are things that might help boost share-ability.  So we’ve been working on a somewhat inappropriate ad targeted toward adult Lego fans.  And I’m the leading lady!

I know that filming a YouTube ad for a legitimate reason isn’t a distraction per se, but it did successfully divert my attention away from all that blood on my book. Anyway, I’m hoping this distraction will be good for business.  Well, let’s see what you think.  Click on the picture below to watch our ad:

BrickWarriors: Not Just for Kids

Weddings Make me Sick

They really do make me sick…literally and figuratively speaking. Over the weekend I attended my fiancé’s step brother’s wedding.   I think working from home has subjected me to a weaker immune system or something, because whenever I’m in large groups of people I seem to get sick 70% of the time now.  So I attended this wedding and I’ve been sick ever since.  Which isn’t that bad because it’s fall and I’m drinking lots of tea and reading lots of books.  I’m a happy camper, minus my unforgiving runny nose.  Excuse me while I get a tissue.  So this wedding made me physically sick, but also everything about it made me hate weddings.  I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of planning my own wedding.  I have now been engaged for almost a year and a half and there are zero plans finalized let alone semi-decided.   Every day I plan stuff for our business and then every night I’d rather do anything beside plan something else.

It’s not that I don’t want to get married or don’t value the idea of marriage. The thing is, we’ve been acting like a married couple for years.  My fiancé and I just click.  The paper work is all that we’re missing.  Weddings are ridiculously expensive and pretty much all the same.  It’s boring.  It’s outdated.  It’s a waste of $20,000.  Geeze that’s a lot of money!  And no matter what everyone says, it’s all about the guests.  Everyone has something to complain about or something to suggest.  You’re putting on a party for people when you should be solely focused on celebrating your relationship.  The romance that should be the center focus has been sucked out of these ridiculous cookie cutter weddings.  Elton John wants to know if you can you feel the love tonight?  Not at weddings you can’t!  Eloping looks so good right now!  Somewhere warm and sunny, and away from everyone else would be a dream wedding to me.  I’m just sick of thinking about weddings.