Coffee Klatch Monday - Down the Toilet

Hello to all my lovelies out there!

This week begins my back to my regular work and hours--finally no more night driving. And winter has finally come to our area, and will bring us all sorts of crap our way through the week--so, it's all going to go into the crapper from here. Right? I, along with my fellow transit drivers at NIU, will have to avoid the bad drivers, but also the 28,000 students who walk to class, see a bus and have this inexplicable need to walk out in front of us. Fun times.

Anyway, I may not have time to do many posts, but when I do I'll plop something interesting down here.

As of yesterday, I was still having problems with either making comments or bringing in people's blogs (Shelly Arkon and James Garcia Jr.'s blogs are among those I can't even see!) so hopefully any of you who can comment here, do so, so I know you're still out there and still love me. (^;

Thank you to those who are new followers--also I can't see who is following me, so if you're new, please leave a comment so  I know who you are, otherwise I can't visit you--and until this other thing clears up I won't be able to comment either. We may have to resort to facebook--which isn't a bad idea. At least that's working for me.

Have a great week and see you around!

LORELEI'S BIRTHDAY BASH & GIVE AWAY!!!!

Hello! You made it! Welcome! Join us in the celebration! Here's a party hat and we're about to cut the cake. Mingle and make yourself comfortable.

As you all know by now, today is my birthday. And I'm excited! Why? Because very soon my second book in the series will be out, Vampire's Trill, and I hope to gain more readers, and to do so, I have to get you all reading the first book, Vampire Ascending. And sometimes the only way to stir up some excitement is to have a give away. So, if you want to win an AUTOGRAPHED COPY of Vampire Ascending

Here are the rules:

1). Leave comment / happy birthday wishes here on this post, and leave your contact information as well, so that if you are a winner I can contact you.

2). Help spread the word and announce it somehow on your blog.

3). Become a follower of Lorelei's Muse.

That's it! This contest will continue until September 1st, so you all have plenty of time to get over here and have some fun.

Oh, wait, there's one more thing. . .

Now, I'm going to throw this out there, and it's all up to you guys. I have 60 followers as of now as I write this. If I get over 20 responses/80 followers on Lorelei's Muse I will throw in one more autographed copy of my book, Vampire Ascending to a second winner.

Now is that exciting or what?

Let the party begin . . . music please . . . Oh, it's the Beatles' "Paperback Writer". Yes, and followed by "Lorelei" by Styx.

This is gonna be fun!

Lorelei Bell is author of the can't-put-it down
Urban Fantasy, Vampire Ascending

RANT: I Can't Leave Comments At My Favorite Blogs!!!

Yesterday, I went to T.C. McKee's blog, and wanted to leave a comment that I loved her new writing space. I would have made a nice comment, say some encouraging words and so forth.

But NOOOOOOoooo!

I can't leave comments any more on places I used to come to. The only way I can is to use the Anonymous button, and leave my name inside the comment. If there is no Anonymous button, I can't leave any comment. This is very frustrating. This has been on-going for more than a month now.

Not only that, but I can't FOLLOW anyone new. I also can't SEE my own followers. So, I don't know who you are. I've waited for a few months and this hasn't straightened out at all. I'm just frustrated that I can't leave comments mostly.

So, if you wonder what happened to me, why I haven't been by and you actually miss me, I'll leave a comment to your post weekly, HERE and try to do it on Thursday. I'll place your name or name of your blog in the label list below.

T.C. McKee: I wanted to tell you that I love your new writing space. That desk is great. I don't know what to do about the dog, however. it was funny about the slobber trails.

Carole Gill of Bloody Good Vampires: I'm sorry I have not been able to make any comments over on your blog any more. I think I agree with you pretty much all the time on your rants. I just can't comment. I feel like I'm looking in on a party going on and no one is able to let me in. ]=

Ranting about this problem hopefully will get every ones attention, because there are other people I used to leave comments on their blogs, and they probably think I'm just no longer stopping by. I can't think of all of them, but as the weeks pass I'll write my comments right here and post them and put your blog/name in the label line.