Oh, very nice, Deb!
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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Deena - Sep 01, 2004 8:53:29 am PDT #6320 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Steph L. - Sep 01, 2004 8:53:57 am PDT #6321 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Deb, that ROCKS!!!
deborah grabien - Sep 01, 2004 9:01:24 am PDT #6322 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I've often wondered, after years of reading reviews of my own books, if there's some sort of regulation that makes certain a book reviewer will get at least three facts wrong.
In this one? The ghost isn't Eleanor, it's her mother Agnès. The "recent performance" was eleven years earlier. And David Harkins isn't an investor, he's the senior actor in her troupe.
Still, I will so very much take this one.
Ginger - Sep 01, 2004 9:05:12 am PDT #6323 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's cool, Deb. The reviewer liked it and she spelled your name right. That's about all you can ask for.
ChiKat - Sep 01, 2004 9:07:04 am PDT #6324 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Okay, I'm a little late to the game. Just emailed you the Kirkus Review!
Woot!
deborah grabien - Sep 01, 2004 9:07:35 am PDT #6325 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Heh. Ginger, s/he did better than that; she referenced "Weaver" in the text of the review. Ought to be good for a sales bounce.
deborah grabien - Sep 01, 2004 9:08:02 am PDT #6326 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(lovin' the ChiKat)
Susan W. - Sep 01, 2004 9:09:25 am PDT #6327 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Hooray, Deb!
Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2004 9:34:12 am PDT #6328 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Deb's a rock star.
deborah grabien - Sep 01, 2004 9:37:13 am PDT #6329 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
ChiKat also sent me a review of "Weaver" I didn't know existed. From the Tampa Tribune, back in March:
Mysteries are being written within all kinds of genres these days. Grabien's little book weaves a ghostly romantic murder mystery around an old folk song and comes up with a spooky ghost story told in a gripping narrative. Ringan Laine is a British folk musician who accidentally becomes a tenant of an old cottage on a country estate in Somerset. He soon learns why the cottage has remained empty for so many years when right away he is confronted with ghostly occurrences in the house and the nearby barn. When his longtime lover, Penny, joins him, together they try to find out what has kept these unhappy spirits tied to the house for so long. The investigation eventually leads them to a double murder committed in 1817 - the subject of a folk song familiar to Ringan, since he had performed it with his group many times. He calls in his friends to help exorcise the murdered lovers, thereby engaging them all in an exciting, haunted confrontation that involves history, music and danger. The chilling encounters with the ghosts are especially well-written.
It would have been nice to have found this one at the time. I really have to check Lexis more often....