My why I chose the Victorian Era podcast is finally available. Not sure why this one took so long to get uploaded, but it did.

Tune in to http://www.melanierobertson-king.com/podcastgen1.3/ to listen to it.

I hope you enjoy it.

So far so good. The laptop’s side of the cooling mat is definitely working and from what I’m feeling right now, my lap is much cooler, too. Time will really tell. So far it’s only been a wee while. But me thinks it’s going to work a charm.

After almost a month and no podcasts created, I’ve rectified that today with my Who are my favourite authors? Why? podcast.

Tune in to http://www.melanierobertson-king.com/podcastgen1.3/ to listen.

Hope you enjoy it.

In celebration of our 25th anniversary, in collaboration with Algonquin College, please join us on September 25, 2010 for Story Mastery by Michael Hauge. This day-long seminar with one of the most respected experts in the industry will help you with your story-telling abilities no matter your target audience or stage of your writing career.

Detailed information, including registration forms and fees, can be obtained at the Ottawa Romance Writer’s website…
http://www.ottawaromancewriters.com/events/workshops/michaelhauge.html

For information on Michael Hauge, visit his website at
http://www.screenplaymastery.com

Hope you’ll come out and join us!

Yesterday turned out to be a very productive day… not on the writing front but on the “fun stuff” for my website front. Jigsaw puzzles and word search puzzles lots of them to choose from! Best of all they’re linked through the main page of my website now.

Hmm… wonder what I can get up to today that doesn’t involve writing???

After sweltering on Sunday working on my laptop computer in a non-air conditioned environment, I decided it was time to buy a cooling mat for my laptop and hopefully one that would keep me cool, too.

My local computer shop had one of the thermal varieties on display so had me sit on it. Within moments, my bum was cooling off rather nicely. The beauty of this type is it doesn’t require power to run the fans which cuts down on your battery life big time. It’s light and will fit easily into my laptop case.  It didn’t take much convincing after I’d done the “sit on it” test. I purchased it and now can’t wait to use it!

Here’s the link to the cooling pad I bought.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1135&ID=1599

I’ve come to the conclusion after doing this one myself, that it’s just a wee bit too big. 66 words is just a bit much when the border on the puzzle remains the same size. The first one I did, had 55 or 56 words which seems to be a bit better. I tested the new one today and have decided on a few things…

1. fewer words

2. sort the list into alphabetical order before creating and uploading the puzzle, although I just loaded wordsearch1 and I don’t think the word list is in the same order as earlier… hmmm…

And as I was testing the puzzle, printed and done on paper rather than the screen, I realized I’d left a good portion of the early parts of the book this one is based on out of it.

Oh well, I’m flying by the seat of my pants so what can I say? I’m certain the more of them I create, the better they’ll get. At least I hope it turns out that way.

Well, my scanner isn’t dying after all. Somehow it got set in the locked position. Now that the mystery has been solved, it’s unlocked and ready to go.

I created and uploaded another wordsearch puzzle this morning. This one is based on my manuscript “The Anniversary”.

http://www.melanierobertson-king.com/wordsearch1.html

I think my scanner is dying. It’s flashing a red light… not a good thing… You can unplug it and plug it back in and briefly get the green light and the scanner initializes but almost as quickly, it goes back to the flashing red light.

Wonder if it’s jealous because I got a new front loading wash machine AND a new car?

Dunno…