RT BookLovers Convention 2009

Consider this a late entry.  

I’ve been to a few conventions in my time – but the best of the best is RT.

This year I roomied with my friend Arial Burnz.
(Sorry – Arial made me remove the beautiful pic of her and her HAND MADE butterfly mask.)
We are crazy together. She and I can talk for HOURS! I was afraid we’d never get any sleep.

 This is Arial at the Faery Ball – she’d just had a crash-landing. Hear her saying, “AAAAAAW.”

 Night owl that I am, I hung out with Cathy and Courtney at the bar, “Gatorville,” where we giggled well into to wee hours.

Here they are at the Faery Ball – Cathy’s wings were so huge!:

 

During RT, I signed mock-up covers of my first ebook release. Here are my girls Cathy and Courtney at my signing:

 

Here is my friend Trish Albright (roomie from RT ‘08) and her awesome (and very lucky, I might add) boyfriend (her roomie for RT ‘09 – LOL) Andrew:

 
Here are my friends, Christine London (romance author) and her hubby Larry, who sat across from us at the Faery Ball:

I shall finish up with two of the three “Lust in Time” gals, Kristi Astor/Kristina Cook and Amanda McIntyre and me. For some reason, I can’t remember which dinner we were at. Must be the WAY too many Rum Punches and the Butterscotch Martini (courtesy of Jimmy Gaskin. Thanks for the candy, J-man!)

 
We had a BLAST! I hope you all can join us next year (April 28 – May 2, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.) Just FYI – April 30 is my birthday – I’m not expecting presents, but I’d love to see you there! Your presence would be the best present ever.

(((GREAT BIG HUGS)))

G.

Internet Radio Interview – May 12, 8:40 AM, PT

I wanted to let you know that I have an internet

radio interview about my book, “Remember Me” on:

 

www.healthylife.net 

 

My segment starts around 8:40 AM PACIFIC TIME (after a few commercials) and will be about 8 minutes long, so don’t miss it!

 

Leave a message below that you heard the broadcast and what part of the interview you enjoyed the most, and if 10 or more people leave comments about it (by May 15th, 2009, before 12:00 Noon, PT) I’ll be drawing a name of some lucky poster who will win a little goody from my Cafe Press Store!

 

I hope you “tune in!”

 

Blessings!

G.

Dance (and sing) Macabre –

If your darker side peeks through more oft than naught like mine does, you may find this interesting. While doing research with another author for period music (mid to late Victorian) I ran across this English translation of a poem which inspired the French composer, Camille Saint-Saens to write one of my favorite pieces of music, ”Danse Macabre”:

Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence,

Striking a tomb with his heel,

Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,

Zig, zig, zag, on his violin.

The winter wind blows, and the night is dark;

Moans are heard in the linden trees.

White skeletons pass through the gloom,

Running and leaping in their shrouds.

Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking,

You can hear the cracking of the bones of the dancers.

A lustful couple sits on the moss

So as to taste long lost delights.

Zig zig, zig, Death continues

The unending scraping on his instrument.

A veil has fallen! The dancer is naked.

Her partner grasps her amorously.

The lady, it’s said, is a marchioness or baroness

And her green gallant, a poor cartwright.

Horror! Look how she gives herself to him,

Like the rustic was a baron.

Zig, zig, zig. What a saraband!

They all hold hands and dance in circles.

Zig, zig, zag. You can see in the crowd

The king dancing among the peasants.

But hist! All of a sudden, they leave the dance,

They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.

Oh what a beautiful night for the poor world!

Long live death and equality!

 

Ah, the seduction of the dark side -

G.