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Life with baby Anna

posted by Kate Hewitt at 6:17 AM 1 Comments

Progress

I'm at 43,000 words for my latest book, which is pretty muc on track--one week to finish it, one week to polish and revise. Of course, that second week is also the week of Thanksgiving--kids off school, and we're travelling to my brother's. But never mind. That is what laptops are for.

Meanwhile I've discovered that my rugby-themed book, The Sheikh's Love-Child, will be out in July, and my novella, part of an Italian Summer anthology, will be out summer 2009 as well.

And while I'm finishing this up book, I'm also thinking of the next one which is due right around the corner--February 15! Eek!

But I'll leave you with an exchange my husband had with my four year old son a few days ago:

Son: Daddy my pants are wet.

Husband: How id they get wet?

Son: I wiped my hand on them.

Husband: How did your hand get wet?

Son: I stuck it in the toilet.

Husband: What! Why did you do that??

Son: To get the toothpaste. It fell in.

Husband: Ugh...

Son: It was your toothpaste. [pause] Don't use it.

posted by Kate Hewitt at 5:27 AM 0 Comments

Thanks everyone

For the suggestions regarding my shoulder injury. I really laid off carrying anything as much as possible (including Anna, poor thing) and slept on my back and kept icing it and now it is a lot better. I'm also starting to exercise (amazing for me) which helps. And meanwhile I have to be diligent about the writing. 3,000 words today to keep on track, and most of that will be typed one handed while nursing. Unfortunately my h key has given up the ghost and needs to be pressed about 3 times before it works, so this slows things down even more.

I have some foreign releases coming out, which is exciting. The Greek Tycoon's Convenient Bride is out this month in Harlequin Bianca, retitled Enchantment Under The Sea! Makes me think of The Little Mermaid :) It's also coming out in Germany, and Holland is putting it out in a few months, and I even get to be highlighted as their author of the month! Then in March Ruthless Boss, Hired Wife is coming out in Harlequin Bianca as Cruel Love. I love these titles, they remind me of the old Mills & Boon Titles of the 60s and 70s.

Has anyone got a favourite title of a romance or any book at all? One of my favourite book titles (even though the book infuriated me!) is Atlas Shrugged. That's so evocative, and you have to think to get it, which I like. I just read the book You're Not You and I have to admit that title bugged me a bit--it doesn't sound grammatically correct somehow, even if it is (is it?). A title of a book (mainstream) that I'm working on in my spare moments (that is, I'm thinking about it while on the bus) is called What's Left Behind, which is a title I really like for some inexplicable reason.

Do titles ever make you pick up a book--or keep you from picking it up? What are some of your least favourite titles?

posted by Kate Hewitt at 5:34 AM 1 Comments

Help needed

So I am writing this book. Slowly. A sentence here, a paragraph there, sometimes a page or more, almost all typed one handed as I hold and/or nurse a baby. The only problem with this really is that I have wrenched my shoulder in the process and it KILLS. All the time. I've tried icy hot ointment, long hot showers, plenty of tylenol and advil, alternating ice packs and a heating pad. I sleep flat on my back at night except when I'm nursing Anna, and still! The pain. OUCH. So does anyone have any miracle cures for me? What's been your trick with bad shoulder/back pain? Somebody have a suggestion, please!!!

posted by Kate Hewitt at 12:41 PM 3 Comments