Toast Rat

Amber Austin is on unbound talking about reading and writing in a bad economy because wednesday is ravenous romance day at unbound.
http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/2009/08/ravenous-romance-day-with-amber-austin.html

Awesome time had in London interviewing Andrew (author of Hell Bent on Success) and giggling with him and Stray Taoist who is an old online pal i've never met before.
They were a joy to hang out with and the interview will be posted as an audio file on Un:Bound. In the mean time I typed up some notes here. Excellent choice of pub btw guys. And here is Andrew looking terribly serious with his book.

well Un:Bound is now well past it's 200th post we have done a round up of the interviews we have done in our first year, including a face 2 face with Matt Curran, posted some book trailers and been part of a book tour. Next week (and this is an exclusive) I am heading to London to interview AMP Mills, which I am hoping to post as a podcast.

Pop over to www.unboundblogzine.com to see what we are up to and check out our reviews.

Well, married life is good, actually it's not much different except my name has changed. Work is manic, a lot is changing it's been a tense time in many ways at the office, i'm working on the "it'll all work out in the wash" prinicipal for the moment.

I still blog a little over on typepad http://hageltoast.typepad.com/seeking_xanadu/
but mostly i'm tied up with Un:Bound www.unboundblogzine.com reviewing books and we've done some more interviews, updated the main pages. It's a lot of fun and keeping that up to date, as well as keeping up with everyone else is keeping me busy.

I am also getting involved in Book Blog Con, we are trying to get a convention up and running.
http://bookbloggerconvention.ning.com/

We have now added Dana Fredsti author of Murder for Hire the Peruvian Pigeon to our interviewees and Jennifer Rardin has agreed to be our Halloween interviewee.
http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/
We also got a new logo and look thanks to an awesome Graphic Designer who's details I can pass on to anyone who wants them. :)



Come and visit us, we've got some great reviews.

A few of us have got together to start unbound, a book review blog. It's a bit skewed to sci fi fantasy at the moment, but not entirely. We also have our first author mini interview with K Bannerman author of The Tattooed Wolf.
Come and pay us a visit at
http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/

is slipping away, I get married in four months now! EEEP.
Still blogging away on typepad and book blogging on blogger.
http://hageltoast.typepad.com/seeking_xanadu/
http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/
come and visit.

Life is good!! We are off to see Walsall play footy today. It's for M's bday. Not really a football fan but should be fun today.

Mark and I put our house on the market in January, and found a buyer really quickly (yay) but he's being really slow (boo) and we are stuck in limbo, half our stuff in storage, the house a mess, not knowing when we are going to be moving. It's driving me nuts. It's driving mark nuts too and he is, in turn, adding to my frustration. Such is life.

I have bits of apple between my teeth, no time to do anything, a tonne of homework and about three million pages of map to print out for overtime tommorrow. I badly want chocolate but am resisting.

Well in spite of very clear and helpful help from stray toaster I have completely failed to understand how tyo cross post from Typepad to here, so tuff for all of you that LJ and only LJ. Sorry.

You Are From Mercury

You are talkative, clever, and knowledgeable - and it shows. You probably never leave home without your cell phone! You're witty, expressive, and aware of everything going on around you. You love learning, playing, and taking in all of what life has to offer. Be careful not to talk your friends' ears off, and temper your need to know everything.

starting here, it is not gonna be my main blog that will remain at http://hageltoast.typepad.com/seeking_xanadu/
because i like it there, but it's nice to have somewhere to sneak off to to post things i wouldn't put on the other blog.

For those who know me and my current rattles, Chaos and Stryfe, I have had a breakthrough with Stryfe, he finally started taking food from my fingers this week. He's already a year old, but this is the first time i have been able to approach the cage without him bo.lting for cover. It's very exciting news!! The bunny training is coming on too. Since they both hate being picked up and have discovered if they hop into the hutch when i serve breakfast I will just shut them in and leave them to it, they are now obediantly putting themselves away in the morning. It's making them more handlable, they submit to some light petting when I let them out in the evenings.