Blog of Author Christine d’Abo
You know sometimes when you see a scene in a show or movie, or read something in a book and it hits you hard. I re-found this clip from Battlestar Galactica on YouTube. Even without the context, I think it will give you shivers.
Happy Friday everyone!
I’ve decided that I hate the rain for one reason…I can’t get outside to mow my lawn. The neighbours are about to pound on my door I’m sure. The grass in my backyard is damn near half a foot high. Literally everytime I have five minutes to go out and get it done, the heavens open up, lightning comes, and buckets of water attempt to drown me.
Of course I’m sitting in my office at the moment looking out the window at the sun…cursing…
*pathetic sigh*
I need a coffee.
Hello everyone!
I’m posting over at Six Degrees of Sexy today. I’m rambling on about series and how much I like to write them. Why don’t you all pop over and say hi!
Well now that Nationals are done, I’m trying to get back into the swing of things on the writing front. Despite the fact everyone except me was sick as a dog this weekend, I did manage to get some writing done. I’d been working on book four in my Eternal Bond series, but I’ve seem to have hit a bit of a wall with that one. So I switched gears and started book two in my urban paranormal series. Yes, I know, I haven’t sold book one yet, but I’m hopeful.
The switch did me some good and I managed to get 1000 words written. I’m not sure if the story is starting in the right spot, but we’ll see where it goes. I love the female character in this book, and the hero is French…and we all know I have a soft spot for Frenchmen…
I find I do some of my better writing in the late summer and fall, so I’m hoping that pattern will continue this year. I love it when the temperature turns a bit cool, and the wind picks up. I might actually try doing some writing outside. That is if it stops raining long enough to actually get outside.
On another note, my husband and I have been rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I really love Joss Wheadon’s writing and how he sets the characters up. Knowing what happens through to the end of the show, it’s fun to pick up on all the threads that he laid down in the early episodes. Once we get done this season, I think we’re going to switch over and watch season one of Supernatural.
How was your weekend??
Okay people, I finally got some comic con 2008 pictures up! Here is a link to my Facebook site with the pictures my husband took at the movie premier of Stargate: Continuum. Man is it ever nice to have a press pass!!
I hope you enjoy them!
Oh…my…GOD!!
I’m sorry I haven’t been online since I got back from Nationals. I kind of hit the ground running after San Francisco and I haven’t had a chance to breath since.
I’ve been frantically trying to get a final read through of my urban paranormal done so I can get it sent off for a request. But my evenings have been pretty full. I’m also heading out to Toronto tomorrow for my writer’s meeting, so I don’t have a lot of extra time.
That said this week I got two very nice pieces of information. The first is that The Bond That Consumes Us, book three in my Eternal Bond series (yes, that’s Taber’s story!!) is scheduled to release on Halloween!! And THEN, I got the cover in the mail!!!
Isn’t it BEAUTIFUL!!!! I’m still drooling over this puppy.
*bows down to the cover gods*
What are you up to this weekend??
I don’t normally get hit hard when I hear about a celebrity death. But I have to say, when I read about Heath Lege passing away today, I was shocked. My heart goes out to his family and friends. Someone so young shouldn’t die.
Hello everyone! I’m posting over at Six Degrees of Sexy today for Thursday Thirteen. Please stop by and say hello and see what I got for Christmas.
I’m so happy that one of my favourite shows is starting back up this week. I’m going to miss Stargate: SG1, but at least we still have Stargate: Atlantis to keep us happy! So I thought it might be fun to post thirteen of my favourite Atlantis quotes featuring Rodney McKay. For those of you not familar with the show, Rodney is a brillant scientist, who is a cocky jerk…and Canadian to boot! I hope you enjoy. 
1. Carson Beckett M. D.: He fainted.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh there’s gotta be a better word.
Carson Beckett M. D.: Faint is a proper medical term.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I passed out from… manly hunger!
2. Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m sorry. It’s just… I react to certain doom in a certain way. It’s a bad habit.
3. Dr. Rodney McKay: I built an atomic bomb for my grade six science fair exhibit.
Lt. Aiden Ford, USMC: They let you do that up in Canada?
4. Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m picking up a strange reading from right over there.
Maj. John Sheppard: Define strange.
Dr. Rodney McKay: [pause] You don’t know what strange means?
5. Dr. Rodney McKay: [the team is trying to come up with a solution to a problem while being very short on time] You’re right. If only we had a magical tool that could slow down time. I foolishly left mine on Earth - did you bring yours?
Dr. Zelenka: You know, you’re not pleasant when you’re like this, McKay.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m always like this.
Dr. Zelenka: My point exactly.
6. Dr. Rodney McKay: Seriously, am I the only one creeped out by that guy?
Maj. John Sheppard: They’re politicians, Rodney - they’re all creepy.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Margaret Thatcher wasn’t creepy. OK - well, maybe a little. In fact, she was like an aunt of mine - same hairstyle, facial structure, only my aunt was much taller, and remarkably hirsute. Oddest thing: she had to shave twice a day.
7. Dr. Rodney McKay: Look, the first siege of Atlantis lasted for years. I mean, with only one functioning Zed P.M, we can’t expect to hold on that long.
Col. Steven Caldwell: Can we submerge the city again?
Dr. Rodney McKay: [sighs] It’s a city, not a yo-yo.
8. Dr. Rodney McKay: You’re referring to the ship you just shot down! One that doesn’t stand a hope in hell of ever flying again.
Torrell: The ship that you’re gonna fix, yes.
Dr. Rodney McKay: What am I, MacGyver? Fix it with what?
9. [Sheppard is giving McKay flying lessons, and they get into an argument]
Maj. John Sheppard: This is why parents get someone else to teach their kids how to drive.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m both insulted and touched by that.
10. Carson Beckett M. D.: [sighs] We believe ATA or Ancient Technology Activation is caused by a single gene that’s always on. Instructing various cells in the body to produce a series of proteins and enzymes
[McKay is staring at syringe]
Carson Beckett M. D.: that interact with the skin, the nervous system and the brain. In this case we’re using a mouse retrovirus to deliver the missing gene to your cells.
Dr. Rodney McKay: [Looking worried] A mouse retrovirus?
Carson Beckett M. D.: It’s been deactivated.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, are there any side effects?
Carson Beckett M. D.: Dry mouth, headache, the irresistible urge to run in a small wheel…
11. Dr. Rodney McKay: All I know is that she’s not who she’s pretending to be.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: And you know this because…?
Dr. Rodney McKay: What, I’m not allowed to have intuition?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You? No.
12. [Sheppard and McKay whisper while spying on a Wraith in disguise]
Maj. John Sheppard: That’s her!
Dr. Rodney McKay: That’s the Wraith?
Maj. John Sheppard: Yeah.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Wow… She’s hot! I mean seriously hot!
Maj. John Sheppard: Rodney, you’re drooling over a Wraith!
Dr. Rodney McKay: I know, I… disgust myself sometimes.
13. Carson Beckett M. D.: You have a date, Rodney? With a woman?
Dr. Rodney McKay: It is simply two adults sharing some friendly… Yes, with a woman!
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