Words You Will or Won’t Find In Our Novels
I read a book recently that had a lot of big words in it, words I’ve never heard of. While it’s great to be literate and have an expansive vocabulary, who talks that way?
Words you won’t find:
Defenestrate – definition: To throw something out of a window. – Can’t the author just say the character threw something out the window?
Farctate – definition: The state of being stuffed with food. – I’d just say I was stuffed. Throw in the towel, maybe defenestrate it.
Gambrinous – definition: To be full of beer. – If I was full of beer, I probably couldn’t remember this word, much less pronounce it.
Grapholagnia – definition: The urge to stare at obscene pictures. – I think my co-author suffers from this. JUST KIDDING!!
Lethologica – definition: The inability to recall a precise word for something. – If I can’t recall the correct word for something, I damn sure won’t be able to recall this one!
Words you will:
Taxidermied – We know it isn’t a real word, but if the dead animals have been stuffed and we need the word to be in past tense, what else do you call it?
Jalopy – I like this word. It’s kinda fun to say.
Mumbo-jumbo – Sometimes there’s just no better way to describe the way characters talk, or the legalese of bicycle renting contracts and mortgage documents.
Oh-shit handle – What else do you call the handle in the car? If you need to grab the handle, you’re probably going to scream, “Oh shit!”
Chupacabra – The elusive, blood-sucking creatures in south Texas and Mexico. Creepy! One creeps into Rocky Mountain Mayhem.
Guest Blogs
Elizabeth S. Craig hosted us as guest bloggers. Writing—It Doesn’t Have To Be Solo (Or Done In Quiet Places)
We were guests on Laura Howard’s blog, Finding Bliss, and spoke about our adventures in publishing the paperback books.
Interview with writer, Beverly Diehl, on her Rock Stars blog. Insight to our methods and madness. Check it out!
Top Ten Reasons I Love Being Divorced
Top ten reasons why I don’t mind being divorced:
- Don’t have to ask permission for ANYTHING!
- I love my kids, but every other weekend is kid-free (as long as you didn’t divorce a dead-beat). I need my me-time.
- Dating do-over. You know exactly what drove you crazy about your ex (chewed on fingernails, couldn’t fix a damn thing, too many extracurricular activities [THAT’S AN UNDERSTATEMENT]), the list goes on and on, and you ask the right questions early on to avoid having the crap bugged out of you. Again.
- Booty calls. They have their place! Don’t knock ’em.
- Only have to be Santa every other year. It’s hard work and I’m busy!
- Get the chance to pick a better lover! (see number 4)
- No more ESPN or sports talk radio. This one makes me really happy.
- If something needs to be done I do it. No longer do I have to wish he would do it because he wouldn’t, which would make me mad because it pointed out what a lazy ass I had married.
- I don’t need a man. Occasionally I want a man (see number 6, then number 4), but I don’t need a man.
- Girlz trips! Duh!
Over and out!
Johnell, the Jo in Joan
Destination Needed
We’re in need of a destination for book 5. We need a trip!
We’ve done thorough research for book 2, Rocky Mountain Mayhem, and we’ve done lots and lots of research for book 3, Big Easy Escapade.
Book 4, Upstate Uproar, has been researched, though I’d love to go back.
Tough job, I know… but where to go for book 5?
It’s difficult not to book a flight to Denver and drive up to Bachelor Gulch. The steam room and outdoor hot tubs at The “Ridge” are calling my name.
It would be my pleasure to go there again.
It’s equally as difficult for me not to book a flight to New Orleans.
Gumbo..
Jazz…
Po boy’s…
I gotta stop or I’ll be on the next plane!
We’ve got take this trip within the next year and we need new and exciting, yet affordable and not too terribly far away by plane.
Belize? You betta Belize we’ll have a trip down there someday, when it’s time take the series back to a beachy destination.
Santa Fe/Taos? Interesting part of the country, but not yet.
Vegas? We’ll never get Johnell out of the casinos.
San Francisco & the wine country? I love it out there, a definite contender.
New York City? There’s so much to do that we may all go in different directions, defeating the purpose of the trip.
Wherever the destination, you can bet:
- We’re gonna have a damn good time.
- We will be loud – hey, it’s a bunch of girls, what else would you expect?
- There will be drinking involved.
- We’ll talk about our significant others, or lack thereof.
- It will wind up in a book, so watch out girlz!
What’s it gonna be girlz? Wine Country Chaos or ???
***UPDATE***
Thanks to a fabulous suggestion, book 5 “research” trip will be on a Dude Ranch in Bandera, TX – the cowboy capital of the world! Yeeeeehhhhhhaaaaaaw!
Over and out!
Robbyn, the Ry in Rylen