BUSY BUSY BUSY (Anne Stuart)

COLD AS ICE is out, and I'm crazy! Running around to bookstores, grabbing people by the lapels and begging them to buy it. I need a chill pill, big time. I don't usually get this crazy when a book comes out, but I'm much too invested in this one. Usually I can let go. I've done everything I can, written the best book I could, and the rest is up to fate.
But right now I'm not so happy with fate. So I'm a basket case. Aiyeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the bright side, my new website is up and it's totally stunning. WWW.anne-stuart.com. I'm such a schizoid personality that I'm hard to capture, but I think the web people did a fabulous job.
And I'm answering questions at http://www.romantictimes.com/home.php, writing guest blogs (I'll be doing an interesting one at http://thelipstickchronicles.typepad.com/ on Thursday October 26th; stop by and see what I have to say).
And worst of all, I bared my soul completely in an interview on All About Romance (http://www.likesbooks.com/annestuart2006.html) because I never learned to be discreet.

But enough about me and my stupid career. Let's talk about what's important. Television!

I'm so damned excited that Jeffrey won Project Runway. More thrilled than if I'd won a RITA. I don't allow myself to get emotionally invested when I'm up for a RITA -- after all, a bunch of my sisters are up for it as well, and it's just a matter of taste, and I can't throw a hissy fit if I lose.
Ah, but Jeffrey. He won my heart from the beginning, with his rock and roll sensibility and his broken little boy bravado. I took his side against Angela's mother (after all, if the woman raised Angela then she must be doing something wrong), and the more I saw of him the more I loved him. Give me a recovering drug addict/alcoholic and I'm their champion, no matter what.

The final episode was harrowing, energizing, the ultimate feel-good show. I tivo'd it and watched if after my husband went to bed, and I wept when he wept, danced around the house in silent glee after he won. He even forgave Laura.

And the cool thing was, everybody won. We'll know Michael will do fabulously well -- he's just young and needs an apprenticeship. Laura and Uli are both wonderful -- their clothes were divine.
Ah, but Jeffrey. Jeffrey rocks!




Song for the week: "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. Put it on your MP3 player and dance like mad.