A New Year - Complete with Resolutions!
Posted by Angela Caperton at 1/5/2008 5:05 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
So it is we come to a New Year and new goals, new ambition, new vim and
vigor to tackle any project, overcome all obstacles! Nothing will turn
me from my ambitions, nothing will distract me! I am Woman and nothing
can stop me! I am steel and velvet, gold and fire! I am determined and
focused!
Ooh, look! Whipped Cream!
Whipped Cream on Peter…
Okay…time to back away from the Seventies' feminine anthems and fantasies
about dairy-covered centerfolds and maybe drop the hype down a floor or
two to the landing where reality resides.
Bummer.
As is so common around this time of year, I found myself evaluating the
past year and looking toward the one before me with a critical eye, one
that has a hunter's gaze upon my writing, but is not ignorant of the
environment in which I live, and all the things that inspire me.
I am satisfied with my work last year. Woman of the Mountain was
published in May 2007, and this past December, was selected as a
finalist in the 2008 EPPIEs.
In just over 2 months, we'll see if WotM has been found worthy of the
title EPPIE Winner. Wish me luck on that one folks, and any
recommendations to help curb nail biting will be gratefully welcomed,
because trust me, come March, there will be wear patterns in the carpet
and the fingernails, unless properly protected, will be consumed down
to the second knuckle.
Also, last year I completed my third story for publication, The Passions
of Pearl, an erotic comedy, and I am thrilled to say that it will be
released in February.
My goals are pretty much the same as those I've had ever since I
embraced the muse and began to write in earnest.
I will write the stories that are in me and give them the total of my
heart and spirit, let them breathe and live and grow, nurture them to
maturity, and when the time has come, I will let them go into the world.
I will do my best to balance my writing life and my personal life – a
juggling act that sometimes has been marked by bobbles and crashes that
have resulted in bruised feelings, tears, and misunderstandings.
I will try diligently not to resent my "day job" that pays the bills. I
like my job, but so often it is the case that when a story is spinning
in my head and heart, it is incredibly hard to wake in the morning, don
proper "business casual" attire, go into the office and then focus on
rates, surcharges, and invoices as opposed to thinking about Rose and
Nathan and the ever increasingly surreal dreams that have stalked them
both and driven them to such heated passionate exchanges! Hell, which
would you rather do all day?!
I will not miss an opportunity to embrace beauty and passion, to explore
my own desires and sexuality, and to hold tight to the one I love and
express my love in every way I know how to.
I've not been idle even in these early days of 2008. I'm working
diligently on an erotic paranormal/fantasy and am also working on my
promotion schedule for 2008. I am also at the beginning of the very
pleasant journey of raising a new baby – a 12-week old kitten named Jet
I adopted from the Humane Society a week before Christmas.
Look for Pearl in February, and stay tuned here for more from me and
from Drake!
The curtain's rising on another year.
Whatever will be behind it…?
vigor to tackle any project, overcome all obstacles! Nothing will turn
me from my ambitions, nothing will distract me! I am Woman and nothing
can stop me! I am steel and velvet, gold and fire! I am determined and
focused!
Ooh, look! Whipped Cream!
Whipped Cream on Peter…
Okay…time to back away from the Seventies' feminine anthems and fantasies
about dairy-covered centerfolds and maybe drop the hype down a floor or
two to the landing where reality resides.
Bummer.
As is so common around this time of year, I found myself evaluating the
past year and looking toward the one before me with a critical eye, one
that has a hunter's gaze upon my writing, but is not ignorant of the
environment in which I live, and all the things that inspire me.
I am satisfied with my work last year. Woman of the Mountain was
published in May 2007, and this past December, was selected as a
finalist in the 2008 EPPIEs.
In just over 2 months, we'll see if WotM has been found worthy of the
title EPPIE Winner. Wish me luck on that one folks, and any
recommendations to help curb nail biting will be gratefully welcomed,
because trust me, come March, there will be wear patterns in the carpet
and the fingernails, unless properly protected, will be consumed down
to the second knuckle.
Also, last year I completed my third story for publication, The Passions
of Pearl, an erotic comedy, and I am thrilled to say that it will be
released in February.
My goals are pretty much the same as those I've had ever since I
embraced the muse and began to write in earnest.
I will write the stories that are in me and give them the total of my
heart and spirit, let them breathe and live and grow, nurture them to
maturity, and when the time has come, I will let them go into the world.
I will do my best to balance my writing life and my personal life – a
juggling act that sometimes has been marked by bobbles and crashes that
have resulted in bruised feelings, tears, and misunderstandings.
I will try diligently not to resent my "day job" that pays the bills. I
like my job, but so often it is the case that when a story is spinning
in my head and heart, it is incredibly hard to wake in the morning, don
proper "business casual" attire, go into the office and then focus on
rates, surcharges, and invoices as opposed to thinking about Rose and
Nathan and the ever increasingly surreal dreams that have stalked them
both and driven them to such heated passionate exchanges! Hell, which
would you rather do all day?!
I will not miss an opportunity to embrace beauty and passion, to explore
my own desires and sexuality, and to hold tight to the one I love and
express my love in every way I know how to.
I've not been idle even in these early days of 2008. I'm working
diligently on an erotic paranormal/fantasy and am also working on my
promotion schedule for 2008. I am also at the beginning of the very
pleasant journey of raising a new baby – a 12-week old kitten named Jet
I adopted from the Humane Society a week before Christmas.
Look for Pearl in February, and stay tuned here for more from me and
from Drake!
The curtain's rising on another year.
Whatever will be behind it…?
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