Years ago, I was driving to work and started to sing out loud. This was shortly before Thanksgiving, and my commute isn't more than ten minutes, so it wasn't exactly inspired, but I had fun coming up with it. Please join me:
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
LOVE MY TURKEY YES I DO
LOVE MY YAMS, MARSHMALLOWS TOO
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
LOVE MY TURKEY YES I DO
LOVE MY MASHED POTATO TOO
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
LOVE MY TURKEY YES I DO
LOVE MY GREEN BEAN CASSEROO
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
LOVE MY TURKEY YES I DO
LOVE THOSE TASTY BISCUITS TOO
Or
LOVE MY PARKER ROLLS I DO
SOFT AND FLUFFY, CHEWY TOO
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
LOVE MY TURKEY YES I DO
LOVE MY DRESSING CHESTNUTS TOO
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
LOVE MY PUMPKIN PIE I DO
LOVE MY APPLE CHERRY TOO
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
LOVE MY TURKEY YES I DO
BUT MOSTLY THANKFUL FOR YOU AND YOU
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY DAY
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
The Riddle of Ryu: Coming soon to Amazon!
Okay, I just spent the last couple of hours finding out how to convert and putting The Riddle of Ryu up at Amazon. Not hard, but definitely nerve-wracking, since I have a long history of technology disasters, many of which I made use of for my upcoming YA book.
Anyway, Ryu should be available for the Kindle in the next day or so. Only $1.99. And find out why he's wearing a bedsheet from Ralph Lauren (can't see it with the cover, but he is)!
Anyway, Ryu should be available for the Kindle in the next day or so. Only $1.99. And find out why he's wearing a bedsheet from Ralph Lauren (can't see it with the cover, but he is)!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
I've been lucky with my covers in general
And that streak of good luck continues with the cover I got for my young-adult novel STATIC SHOCK! I don't have a release date yet, but Crescent Moon Press sure came through with this rockin' cover!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Riddle of Ryu: the details
As I was saying (in small bits, since my hands aren't happy if I try to do it in large bits), Riddle of Ryu is a novella that was written for an anthology that didn't come to pass, but I still wanted to find it a nice home. It wasn't easy, so I figured I would do it myself, joining the indie revolution at Smashwords.com! Here's the story (but his name's not Brady):The Stars Have Always Been There For Her…For lonely UFO hunter Ginevra Kincaid, the stars have always been her friends. She’s always been sure she would one day have a close encounter of the third kind—until one strange night, she arrives at the site of a meteor crash and meets…an alien? He might be, or maybe not…he can’t remember anything about himself, except his name: Ryu. But he’s being pursued by men in black, who claim he’s not who she thinks he is.
Can Ryu and Ginevra escape the men in black, and recover Ryu’s memories as well?
The Riddle Of Ryu By Eilis Flynn
Smashwords.com
$1.99
Sunday, August 14, 2011
It's been a while
It's been a while since I posted (thanks, carpal tunnel), but here I am and here's my latest ... a foray into indie publishing, the start of a new series! Cover by Dar Dixon:http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/81227
Whee!
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Happy Interdependence Day! It's been 26 years
For those of us in the US, today is Independence Day, celebrating the day we as a nation decided not to be ruled by another nation. In other parts of the world, though, it's just July 4. But wherever we are, no matter what culture we're currently in, today is Interdependence Day for my husband and me, because it's
our anniversary.
We got married on July 4 in Brooklyn, NY, 26 years ago, and had our reception in the restaurant in the tallest building in Bay Ridge. We chose that spot because that's where we lived; we loved the area (the southernmost tip of Brooklyn, right before the Verrazano Bridge, which leads you to Staten Island), and by having our reception in that building, we could see the fireworks over in Manhattan. It was one day that we knew most everyone we wanted to invite would have off, and surprisingly, neither the church nor the restaurant were booked. It was a lovely, sunny day (okay, it was summer in New York: It was scorching, the church wasn't air-conditioned, but the sky was a beautiful blue), and we remember it fondly still.
Eventually, we moved away -- across the country, even, to Washington state -- but we had the opportunity to go back to New York a few years ago, just in time for our anniversary. We had dinner at the restaurant at the top of that same building, and watched the fireworks over in Manhattan again. We remember that fondly, too.
How is any of this relevant? Well, I write romances. And our wedding was
romantic. And it's Interdependence Day. So Happy Interdependence Day, one and all!
our anniversary.
We got married on July 4 in Brooklyn, NY, 26 years ago, and had our reception in the restaurant in the tallest building in Bay Ridge. We chose that spot because that's where we lived; we loved the area (the southernmost tip of Brooklyn, right before the Verrazano Bridge, which leads you to Staten Island), and by having our reception in that building, we could see the fireworks over in Manhattan. It was one day that we knew most everyone we wanted to invite would have off, and surprisingly, neither the church nor the restaurant were booked. It was a lovely, sunny day (okay, it was summer in New York: It was scorching, the church wasn't air-conditioned, but the sky was a beautiful blue), and we remember it fondly still.
Eventually, we moved away -- across the country, even, to Washington state -- but we had the opportunity to go back to New York a few years ago, just in time for our anniversary. We had dinner at the restaurant at the top of that same building, and watched the fireworks over in Manhattan again. We remember that fondly, too.
How is any of this relevant? Well, I write romances. And our wedding was
romantic. And it's Interdependence Day. So Happy Interdependence Day, one and all!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
How multitasking is not a good thing sometimes
Everyone thinks that they can multitask. Everytime you see someone on the phone as they drive, texting as they drive, texting as they cross the street (and sometimes blithely STOP in the middle of the street as they do so), work on the computer as they chat with someone either on the phone or over the cubicle wall or outside the office — anyway, you get my point. Multitasking is part of our lives.
But it’s not necessarily something we should be doing. Note the rising number of accidents because drivers are chatting or texting and not paying attention to the traffic. Or, in my case, trying to podcast as I’m trying to make dinner. This morning I have a lovely wound at the tip of my thumb because I was chopping carrots and managed to scrape off the epidermis into my curry mixture. To my credit, I didn’t scream; I did keep talking and wadded a paper towel onto my thumb, chatting away as I lost blood.
That’s not so bad, you think. It was fun times, I tell you. I sliced off a bit of my thumb, but then the coffee I was trying to make kept not getting made and I didn’t notice, only to discover that my cup had a hairline fracture, so the water went all over — and I kept pouring water in, not realizing I had already prepared it, only noticing after the podcast that water was everywhere. I just kept thinking I hadn’t done it because I was chatting and bleeding all over the place.
And there’s more: my cellphone battery kept beeping, telling me it was almost dead, so when it did die (during a Q&A), I had to grab another phone and log in again.
And that was all during one podcast. So multitasking is a lovely theory, but I’ve known for some time that it’s not for me, or at least not most of the time. Think about this the next time you think you can do more than one thing, or even two things, at a time. Maybe you can … and maybe you can’t.
Eilis Flynn
INTRODUCING SONIKA and ECHOES OF PASSION (both are available at CerridwenPress.com and on Kindle, incidentally)
But it’s not necessarily something we should be doing. Note the rising number of accidents because drivers are chatting or texting and not paying attention to the traffic. Or, in my case, trying to podcast as I’m trying to make dinner. This morning I have a lovely wound at the tip of my thumb because I was chopping carrots and managed to scrape off the epidermis into my curry mixture. To my credit, I didn’t scream; I did keep talking and wadded a paper towel onto my thumb, chatting away as I lost blood.
That’s not so bad, you think. It was fun times, I tell you. I sliced off a bit of my thumb, but then the coffee I was trying to make kept not getting made and I didn’t notice, only to discover that my cup had a hairline fracture, so the water went all over — and I kept pouring water in, not realizing I had already prepared it, only noticing after the podcast that water was everywhere. I just kept thinking I hadn’t done it because I was chatting and bleeding all over the place.
And there’s more: my cellphone battery kept beeping, telling me it was almost dead, so when it did die (during a Q&A), I had to grab another phone and log in again.
And that was all during one podcast. So multitasking is a lovely theory, but I’ve known for some time that it’s not for me, or at least not most of the time. Think about this the next time you think you can do more than one thing, or even two things, at a time. Maybe you can … and maybe you can’t.
Eilis Flynn
INTRODUCING SONIKA and ECHOES OF PASSION (both are available at CerridwenPress.com and on Kindle, incidentally)
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