Becca Wilhite » exerpt http://www.beccawilhite.com/blog Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:09:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Post # 250. No Kidding. http://www.beccawilhite.com/blog/2009/11/10/post-250-no-kidding/ http://www.beccawilhite.com/blog/2009/11/10/post-250-no-kidding/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:16:00 +0000 becca http://www.beccawilhite.com/blog/?p=251 In honor of the fact that this is my 250th post, I am absolutely not going to tell you 250 possibly interesting (or possibly not) things. I am not going to give away 250 random items I have sitting around my house. I am not going to spam 250 people and ask them to read my blog (because I don’t know how). I am not going to do any of that. I am going to give you… (drumroll, please) another RRO mini-excerpt.

Mom pulls her new toy, a talking GPS directions-thingie up close to her eyes. “Turn right here. No, here. Sarah, you missed it. Now Mildred’s recalibrating.” I swear if I hear the polite British GPS voice, which, yes – Mom named, tell me one more time that she’s recalibrating, I’ll chuck her right out the window.
“It’s okay, Mom. There’s another entrance to the parking lot.” I point ahead half a block and turn into the lot between two huge trees. It’s almost over, I tell myself. And then somehow you’ll miss this.
 Try me, I respond.

“My Ridiculous Romantic Obsessions” Chapter 1


I know, right? We can hardly wait. So, I have some good news about that. The Lovely Editor (whom we shall call Lids because I have a small typing handicap and it feels so much like Lisa – she understands and so should you) has recently let me know that My Ridiculous Romantic Obsessions is at press this week. THIS WEEK, people.

I know.

So it looks like we might have an earlier-than-expected release date, too. Yip!

Also, 19,000 words as of today. Yip, yip!
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“After reading a couple hundred of those books, you know, hypothetically speaking, you start to see that there’s not that much difference between a romance and an epic fantasy. You’ve got your quest, sometimes involving a ring, and your hero who will stop at nothing to do what he has to.”

- RRO
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In other news, galley proofing is moving along nicely. And as a little treat for you, my friends, a Ridiculous Romantic Obsessions mini-exerpt*:
“Can teeth sweat?”
– RRO
*Ally Carter does this, and I think it’s fun. So now I do it. See how that works? We call it “sharing.”
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