I’m at my in-laws’ lakehouse for an extended holiday weekend, and I’m not getting much time on the computer. I have to sneak up while my boys (and their father) are doing other things besides computer games. But I’m doing my 100 words on my AlphaSmart, and it’s going pretty well.

My mother-in-law, as I’ve mentioned before, is my biggest fan (as an author). She raves about my book, buys it for all her friends, encourages complete strangers to buy it, and demands that they remember my name when my next release finally makes an appearance. So…as you can imagine, I occasionally hear a few stories.

Many have wondered if it was based on my life (i.e. the sex scene specifically), and whether my husband truly is ‘that good’. But I haven’t heard anything like the one she told me Friday night over dinner. Evidently she encouraged a woman to read my book, and the lady loved it. LOVED it. Right up until page three hundred eighty-something. When she discovered the aforementioned sex scene. Then she was shocked and slightly disturbed. Not by any questionable content in the scene, but the scene itself.

She somehow got it into her head that she was reading a Christian/inspiration romance. How on earth she did, I have no idea. The front cover doesn’t hint at that; neither does the back blurb. And I assure you my mother-in-law would NEVER have given her that idea. But that’s what she thought.

When she mentioned her mistaking it for a Christian romance, my MIL said, “Christians have sex.” and the lady said, “Of course. You need to to have babies.” Hmmm…maybe the romance genre is not so much for her…

Okay, okay…I’ll give a thumbs-shot some thought. I have to consider whether I’d want them to show up all over the web as the target for all genetically engineered thumbs of the future. Hee-hee.

Anyway, today I want to post about yesterday. (On Thursday I just leave the whole day wide open for Thursday 13 stragglers–I figure it’s a blog freebie day). Yesterday we were busy, and by the time we found our way back home at 3-ish, I had sort of a headache and knew I wouldn’t have much time to write because my son had a game at 6:00. So I blog-bounced for a little with a Dr. Pepper for company and gradually started feeling a little more up to the task of writing. (I did have to get my 100 words in afterall). So I started and it was going fine: my heroine was doing an Internet search, so I did the search to see what I came up with and make it sorta legit. Anyway…long story for another time…I found that her search is now foreshadowing for the climax scene of the book. How cool is that?! In a rather unbelievable coincidence, several of the details in the book are now all linked up. I’m so psyched! I had to explain the whole thing to my husband last night even though he doesn’t really know what’s going on the book, just because I was so excited. He was very impressed. So yesterday was a good writing day after all.

And check this out…on Wednesday, we were lucky enough to be invited to go ‘Behind the Scenes’ at the Houston Downtown Aquarium. This is Nero…
He was right there!