1) What I am reading greatly affects my overall mood, mental health, and physical health.  I was reading a book I didn’t care very much for, Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Deadmen Walking.  I expected to love it, but it just wasn’t doing it for me.  I was angry and irritable and it was taking me forever to get through the book.  That led me to watching hours of bad crime television on YouTube.

2) Something big and bad is happening in the publishing industry-especially for paranormal authors.  I’ve been shocked by the news that Laurell K Hamilton won’t be releasing a book this year.  While I fully support her decision to take time to recharge and get to know her new editor, I’m hearing a lot of rumblings.  A lot of readers expressed unhappiness with Crimson Death, the last Anita Blake book by Laurell K. Hamilton and I am putting that onus on the publishers and the editor they assigned to her.  I am hoping that their relationship will improve or that someone will add in anther person in the process who knows Laurell K. Hamilton’s books backward, forward and upside down (other then her significant others) and can discuss whatever Laurell K. Hamilton needs or somehow help the editor get their Laurell K. Hamilton knowledge up to snuff.

3) We have to support our authors.  If authors as important and big time as Laurell K. Hamilton are having trouble what about all our other authors.  I need my books.  They are my coping mechanism and they keep me away from my head exploding from our daily world news.