The Glock and the laptop

I'm seeing a coffee table in front of a pale blue leather couch, across the room a dark haired man sits at his desk, typing at his computer.
Back to the coffee table. A laptop sits, open. On the screen an IM chat window. The names of the participants barely visible. Galileo and Otherwisecat.

Next to the laptop lies a Glock 17. Beside that a badge in a black wallet.

All we can see are slender fingers typing on the laptop keyboard, the screen, Glock, and badge.

I think this is my cover. From Ellie's point of view.

It was five - now it's seven. Where'd the last two hours go?

My day started a little earlier than I expected this morning. Breezy woke up at five and announced it was "Good morning time". Didn't much feel like it behind my eyelids!

Somehow it's now just gone seven. Can't think of what I did for two hours, but obviously it was something.

I did spend sometime hunting for a photograph that I can't find. Typical really. I had an email from my publisher (saying that never gets old) and she asked for an author pic for the site. Am going to have to go with the one that appears in most places... but not the one on here. Upside down lying on the floor, just seems wrong for a publishers website.

Maybe this weekend I could attempt to get Chris to take a decent picture, ha ha ha. For all that he was once a photographer (in another life) he hasn't taken a decent picture of me in years... he says its the subject... I don't think so! (Josh can take good pics, my web cam can take good pics... hmmm, can't be the subject. lol)

I must say I rather like my new blog. Seems Bravejournal did me a favor but having a meltdown. Maybe it was an angelic intervention via Google.

I have gathered some of my FBI emails together, finally. Something I've been meaning to do for a long time. An interesting story came through the other day about FBI medics. As I one of my lesser characters is an FBI doctor and another one a field medic, I found the story really interesting, and it confirmed what I already knew. Now the most interesting stories are sitting in a word document. No more wading through emails looking for information. Now I can paddle in a Word.doc.

Regarding my cover: After extensive searching (for the last few days) I have been unable to locate a few pictures I remember Gali and I playing with years ago. I know we had some actual pics of messenger windows and chat rooms. With the required names in them. As in the conversation was between Galileo and Otherwisecat.
I have this image in my head of a chat window over a scene. Transparently over laid. It's just the scene beneath I'm not sure about. Should it be cops standing around a car in the cafe parking lot? A laptop and Glock on a coffee table? A blood washed kitchen? A body in a tree? A body in a bath? A sticky note poem smeared with blood? Poor Abigail flapping wildly against the back door? A head under the hood of a car?

Tricky isn't it?

On that note... comments should work. I know I have heard from a few people that they don't. But I've checked and they should! :)

What a thing to wake up to!!!

This morning I woke to an email telling me my blog on Bravenet was blocked! True enough it was, although I suspect most of bravenet blogs met the same fate. Google blocked the blog saying it was malicious. I can assure you it was not. My account wasn't hacked, nor was my blog dumping crap on anyone computer. I do know however that a wee while back I was getting spammed big time by another few bravenet blogs on my blog... this forced me to stop people commenting.

This morning...

I destroyed my blog, killed the link and now am in the process of creating a new one. I need more coffee before tackling the formatting etc. I don't even know how to format this one, so that should be interesting. I lost all my links so will have to gather them again.

Meanwhile, here is my last blog post from Bravenet.

Jan 26^th 2009

Rebel rebel by David Bowie (and the cover version by The Bay City Rollers), He's a Rebel by the Crystals, Rebel Yell by Billy Idol... all firm favorites of mine.

Then there is Rebel without a cause... its hard not to like the brooding tortured darkness of James Dean. (although that's only an on screen thing - in real life I don't need that sulky bullshit thanks very much!)

Well done for spotting the pattern.

This morning I signed with Rebel e Publishers.

My crime thriller novel KILLERBYTE has a home and one that I believe will do it justice.

This was no ordinary Monday morning.

I popped outside to share the news with my neighbor this morning. Who was delighted. (He read KB last week and has been telling everyone about it ever since...) I even managed to text everyone and tell them... and Michelle even text me back! (insert stunned smiley here) And asked how I would like to celebrate... my reply was, I think we should drink ourselves silly in the weekend.

In all fairness that won't take long, we're cheap drunks. Have invited neighbor over. It's a quick leap over the fence for him!

Right now I'm trying to think about my cover, because Joan asked me to give it some thought. There are so many great scenes that would make an awesome cover... but I think there should be an chat room over the top pf whatever scene is chosen. Almost like a watermark.

And I think if i go poking through some old files.. I think Gali made me something similar years ago. I hope I have the files.

well that's about it for now... I'm off to grin like an idiot some more.