hey! hey!

No, I didn't know that!

My novel Gold Digger is merely months away from being in my hot little hand, and as excited as I am, I'm still willing to share some of that excitement with you and give you the link to where you will find it!

Homecoming- Cathy Kelly

'What do you think happened? Why do you think I'm smoking? So I had something to do with my hands to stop myself grabbing you.'

Freelance writing update!

I had 8 articles to write this week, I've managed to get 4 done so far and probably do another 2 today with 2 left for tomorrow! Other than that I managed to land a virtual assistant job that will involve me updating social medias and writing some articles for a website/blog. I've also applied for a few other jobs that I am waiting to hear back about! 

Making books cool again!

Life Happens

I watched life happens last night and I'm glad I did. Not only was there an epic music line up, the actual music was a total classic. And by classic I mean fucking fabulous. The one liners and random moments made this a laugh out loud 2 hours.

One of my favorite actresses Krysten Ritter who stars in Don't Trust The Bitch in Apartment 23, is all time and I would even go so far to say she is a comic genius. The only thing that pissed me off was the fucking 'Aussie Surfer' character. His Australian accent was so bad that I was embarrassed for him, the producer and especially the casting director who was obviously not in his right mind the day he said 'yeah lets give this guy a go!' How the casting director thought his poorly formed words  in any way resemble our wonderful lilt is beyond me. If your going to get someone to play an Australian - get an Aussie, no-one can do that accent better!

How do I get up there?

Firstly, make sure you have clean hands - that's just whats right!
Secondly - you have to work your butt off! In my case, other than 'normal' work, which if you have read previous blogs posts you would know that consists of me writing a huge amount of articles for freelance writing jobs. I promote my new book Gold Digger all over the net on many different social medias for at least 10 hours per week, and try to do promo (interviews) and filling out random questionnaires and answer emails for my publishing company. I also write a lot of random blog posts for this here blog, which takes up another 10 hours a week. Other than that I've been working on another book - Ally in Disguise - which I would like to dedicate some more time too. I read at least 1 book a week and watch a wide variety of TV shows in many different genres and lots of E News. I also watch at least 5-6 movies a week.
You might be all like how is that work - but I am here to tell you that everything mentioned in this blog post is what I do for a living - staying abreast of all things current makes me a better writer - gives me ideas, information and ammunition for everything that I do. Reading books and watching things, looking at things all over the net makes me a better writer and well informed about whats happening in the world. So if you want to be 'up there' this would be a good start!

Deadly Little Secrets

As you know I am always on the lookout for fresh authors, new authors and authors of interest.
I stumbled upon Marla Miller who is doing some amazing work and creating a buzz and awarness around the controversial topic of AIDS. She has written a book amoung other things and I would like to help her get the word out!

Deadly Little Secrets, a novel, zooms in on the early years of the AIDS epidemic when more than a few folks in this country believed it was their God's answer to sin. The novel is in solid form. In 2000, my literary agent liked it. However, she wouldn't take it on because she believed 'AIDS is passe' - her exact words. Though she was wrong, our country's politics at that time probably fed into this view. I'm revising portions of the story that features a 'big mouth' school nurse, activist teenagers, angry parents, an ambitious school board member seeking higher office, shady business dealings involving the Camen Islands and a physician who does not do the right thing.

About Marla Miller ~

Author, Freelancer, Teacher & Founder of Marketing The Muse

Marla says;
As I traverse down my own road to continuing publication, I appreciate just how hard it is to not only write well but well enough to get published. It’s tough out here. More than ever, writers need each other. In these changing times in publishing, it does take a village.
Some history:
I worked as a psychiatric nurse practitioner/teacher until my 3rd daughter arrived. One of a fortunate few, I was able to full-time mother my children. My writing career shifted from professional journal writing to freelance writing during these years.
For several years, I wrote for The Writer Magazine. My first series featured notable authors’ early years, the second zoomed in on query letters that hooked literary agents. My latest series, a video column called Critique My Query ran from 2010 until the magazine sold in 2012. During my years as Assistant Director of Santa Barbara Writers Conference, 2005-2008, I MC’ed many literary agent panels. Their denial of ‘change coming’ always astounded me. Did they think the web was just going to go away? Besides teaching at Santa Barbara Writers Conference, my favorite place to teach MarketingtheMuse workshops is at the Southern California Writers Conference. Executive Director, Michael Steven Gregory (MSG) & Wes Albers, Director, always have writers’ backs.


More BIO from Marla:
Marla Miller’s Marketing the Muse Quick Query Critique video mini-workshops offered FREE at www.MarlaMiller.com receives high marks from authors on the road to publication. She’s a Simon & Schuster author and for 16 years, wrote for Orange County Register’s lifestyle magazine before becoming founding editor-in-chief of a quarterly Southern California coastal lifestyle magazine. Marla’s latest book, The Booty Bible, is written with a fitness model/celebrity. Click here to read Marla’s Amazon profile. Promotion of The Booty Bible continues online at FitPOP.com where Miller’s Ageless Fitness column appears whenever she has useful information to share about health, wellness and fitness at any age. In late spring 2012, Marla’s 2nd ‘indie’ book about health care pricing, Decode The Black Box of Group Health Insurance debuted. Marla is ‘with author’ and her co-author is a high ranking executive in the health care pricing field. In addition to her longstanding association with The Writer, Miller has written for MORE Magazine, Writer’s Digest, Los Angeles Times & Oxygen.com. For 8 years, she co-hosted a radio talk show on an NPR affiliate and interviewed many notable writers and public personalities including Ray Bradbury, Barnaby Conrad and Joe Wambaugh.


Marla is currently readying a novel for publication, Deadly Little Secrets, a Kickstarter project that has been lucky enough to have reached its funding goal. Click here to review the project on Kickstarter.

This drinks so strong it's an Orangutan!!!!

For fucks sake - half vodka and half mixer does not a good drink make. Get yourself a nice tall glass, 4 ice cubes, a shot or two of vodka and a generous helping of your choice of mixers and enjoy! Don't worry, you'll still get drunk eventually, but you might manage to have a decent conversation in the mean time!

What if I violate those terms?

Cause let's face it I'm a bit of a violater! History indicates I will more than likely violate any terms put forth in moments of rationality when alcohol passes my lips! It's just fact!

You like a good story, don't you Tom !

That's why you should buy my book Gold Digger @ my author website

http://www.golddiggernovel.com

I'm only afraid of one thing in this world, and since you aren't Steven Segals ponytail it isn't you!!!!

Haters gunna hate - but it only makes me realise how much you want to be like me! That's why your so jealous! I'm not afraid of you or what you represent, which if I was to take a guess wouldn't be much!  I'm amazing, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!

Pecker

I haven't watched this movie in years so I decided to take it for another spin, and I'm glad I did. 

The photo fanatic Baltimore teen, Pecker played by Edward Furlong, has just the right amount of quirky and weirdoness to keep me interested! Shelley his girlfriend played by Christina Ricci, is just as strange if not stranger than him, and between the two of them and a list of colourful culturally challenged characters, makes this movie a cult classic with a twist. 

I love twisted, strange, weird and quirky > thank god for Indie movies!!!!

Sexy and sensual

http://youtu.be/ZKXzzYkCFxg

Sympathy for Delicious.

Today I watched Sympathy for Delicious, about a homeless wheelchair bound ex DJ who had fallen from grace and had found himself living in his car on skid row. As the story unfolds he meets a women who remembers who he used to be and she asks him to join her band of misfits doped up to the eyeballs on qualudes and hard drugs. Meanwhile the priest who has been trying to help old mate DJ get his life together discovers the DJ has been given the gift of healing by god when DJ Delicious  D heals a women's eyesore by touching her head, he is also unaware he has been bestowed with such powers. With the help of the priest he starts healing all the homeless people on the streets. He feels scammed when he discovered a rich man and his daughter where prepared to pay the church 250 grand for the heeling and leaves the priest and goes into business with his band healing people on a smoking darkened stage to the drugged out rock they like to call music. Shit turns for the worst when old love who is in the band OD's on stage and dies. Delicious D can't heal her - um maybe because she's dead! He ends up in jail for manslaughter but somehow because he heals the one guy he never wanted to heal because he was ins wheelchair like him and he couldn't heal himself he didn't want old mate walking and not him. He ends up out of jail and I think that's the sympathy! 

Very strange movie - but I kind of like that!

Of all the gin joints in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.

Fate, do you believe in it? Is it something you consider when you go about your life? I believe in a lot of stuff, and I think things can happen for a reason. I do not however let it rule my life or let it cross my mind all that often. Sometimes I do catch myself thinking about certain events and think the reason these things happen is because I went there instead of doing something different. 

Temptation is a form of fate I think, and people can be tempted by certain things, people and events that could totally change the course of their lives. The term tempt fate is used because people choose their fate, but by tempting fate they are in fact changing their destiny!

Ditto

I love that word - it explains so much whilst saying so little!

Cathy Kelly

I've just started reading Homecoming by Cathy Kelly. I've read a few of Cathy's books now, and was lucky enough to attend a ladies luncheon where she talked about her life, writing, and her best selling books. The food was yummy and thanks to my dad who was the manager of the award winning venue Babilou a restaurant here in Australia, I was personally introduced to her and got the opportunity to discuss my writing with her and ask a few choice questions. I even got a big hug. She is definitely one special lady and an amazing author and when I walked away with the flash of the camera still in my eyes, holding  my first signed copy I was glad to have met her!

Shopping

Today I'm shopping because lately I have had no time to myself. Have a great weekend I know I will xx

Shiiiit

Omg one and a half articles to go! I'm going ftw!!!!!

4 to go

I have four more articles to write by tomorrow night. I have managed to get four done today which was fairly hectic but exhilarating at the same time. Then I have nine more to do for another job plus I was just offered a job to write a review for a blues gig this coming Tuesday night that I'm looking forward to seeing. Then I just received an email about being the main writer for a popular website that I have to submit sample articles for. Oh and I have a book that is about to be released!

 Fast times at Ridgemont high!!!!!

2 down 6 to go

Ahhhhhh I need a break from this freelance stuff! 6 more to do and then I am giving myself a long weekend off! I totally deserve it and plan to let my hair down in a big way ;-)

Bubble baths.

I woke up this morning and all I could think about was a bubble bath! I love a good bubble bath, all stretched out reading a book soaking in the delux smelling froth! I actually had a bath at 12:15am the other night! Yes  totes addicted

Omg what am I doing?

How do I get myself into these precarious situations? Why am I always right? I know stuff! Lol

Insomnia

Girl in progress

Today I'm watching Girl in Progress with Eva Mendez and it got me thinking that I'm definitely a girl in progress. So many things happening for me professionally right now it's crazy. I'm juggling everything that I can and trying to make it all work... Sometimes things don't always go to plan and there is always one idiot trying to ruin everything or make me doubt how truly amazing I am and the great things I am about to achieve. So lucky to have great friends and distractions that make the nonsense all worth it. 

Taking over my life?

Today I spent 3 hours researching and writing and typing up articles for more freelance jobs that I have to do. I had 27 to complete in 3 weeks. I've managed to write 8 so far and am halfway through another. Looks like its going to be another long night! 

Midnight writing

It's 12:59pm and I think it might be time to stop writing and go to bed. I've managed to write two articles tonight for an ongoing freelance job I am doing and research another one that I will have to write tomorrow. I just don't have anything left to give at this point. I have 23 still to write  but there is no possible way I can write anymore tonight! Hope you all have a great weekend xx

Creativity

Babe Tip

Gold Digger Novel

Have you seen my author website? Check it out @ http://www.golddiggernovel.com

The light just went on...

Lets play doctors!

So I went for an appointment last year to see about getting a breast augmentation (no I haven't done it yet) anyway sitting in the waiting room nervously anticipated my name being called, and trust my life a really hot doctor comes out, and introduces himself, and accompanies me to his office with my sister who has come along for moral support.
After discussing details, he says 'okay, time for the examination!' I giggle nervously and stand up and go over to where he is standing. He is so hot running over and over in my head. Now I have to take my shirt off and stand semi nude in front of this 'god' and have him check me out... 'm nervous and thinking I need a shot of dutch courage to get through this. So in true Tara form I say;

'So, do you want me to take all my clothes off?'

 

His eyes crinkle, a smile playing on his lips he replies;

 

'Just your top and Bra will be fine thanks!'

 

Shiiiiiiiit! Did I actually just say that? My sister is hysterical in the corner - I feel like sinking into the floor, 'Oh...um okay' I say as I remove my top and bra and stand before him. What the fuck?

The rest of the appointment went fine but I couldn't help be totally embarrassed and was wondering what he was thinking.

 

So the other day, my friend Jodie was getting her teeth x-rayed for a root canal she has to get and something similar happened to her.

Cute doctor asks if she's pregnant, she says no, he says 'can you take your sunglasses off your head' she does, and replies 'do you want me to take anything else off?' Doctor has his back to her at this stage. He turns smiling and shakes his head and says 'NO.'

 

What it is about cute doctors and girls subconsciously thinking this stuff without even knowing it and then spewing out random sexual connotations. Is it just us or do all girls get a bit hot and bothered without even thinking about it.....

Dizzy

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Hair tutorial gone wrong!

This made me nearly pee my pants!

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=372036386244873

Amazing Dog

 

Check out this awesome video that my friend Jodie found!

 

 

 

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