Nadia Lee :: Romance Writer

1. I have Hero Material who reads everything I write and helps me with line edits.
2. I signed with a great agent who gives me fantastic advice.
3. I have a sharp-eyed editor who helped me improve my writing.
4. I have a solid group of beta-readers.
5. My debut novel is coming out next month from Samhain under my other pen name Angelle Trieste.
6. My mom told me I was too smart to be a writer when I first started writing, but now she's very supportive.
7. My dad and brother are totally behind me 100%.
8. Hero Material's mother and sister are very interested in my writing.
9. They're interested enough to pay money to read my books.
10. I make enough money working part-time to support myself.
11. My friends and former roommate sent me messages, congratulating me on my debut ebook and getting an agent.
12. Even my cousins in Korea said they were interested in reading my books, provided that they're translated into Korean.
13. My chief councilor May keeps me grounded.

Lynn tagged me.

The rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. List 6 unspectacular quirks you have.
4. Tag 6 bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each person’s blog to let them know they’ve been tagged.

Six Unspectacular Quirks About Me:

1. I don't make eye contact with anyone unless I want to deal with them directly.
2. I can be absent-minded about real life things when I'm working on the first draft.
3. I have an extreme mottephobia / lepidopterophobia.
4. I usually almost always sleep on my left side. It's near impossible for me to sleep on my back.
5. I'm very sensitive to noise when I'm trying to fall asleep.
6. I love action and/or spy movies. They don't need to make any sense. They just need to have a lot of gratuitous violence.

Tagging: Jennifer, DD, Chelle, Barbara, May, and Portia.

In no particular order:

1. Fly in Singapore Airlines' first-class suite with a double bed.
2. Go mako fishing.
3. Live in France.
4. Speak French and Italian proficiently.
5. Learn how to cook gumbo.
6. Skydiving.
7. Own a nice herb garden.
8. Have a drink with my agent.
9. Visit Egypt.
10. Learn how to fly.
11. Swim with dolphins. (I've done sharks already.)
12. Outsource boring and routine tasks.
13. Learn kendo.

I don't think I've ever used them in my writing, but I like them anyway.

In no particular order:

1. vermicular
2. forlorn
3. mansuetude
4. indurate
5. trichotillomania
6. impuissant
7. subreption
8. attitudinize
9. semelparous
10. deglutition
11. hibernaculum
12. dégringolade
13. apodictic

1. Finish The Last Slayer revision based on my conversation with Agent.
2. Complete Devil Falls edit.
3. Improve my flexibility and mobility (so that I don't feel horrible neck pain).
4. Buy myself a nice box of butter cookies from 7-11
5. Exercise at least fifteen days out of the month.
6. Get more sleep.
7. Stop drinking Coke Zero and Aquarius.
8. Drink more green tea.
9. Read two new-to-me books.
10. Say something nice to Hero Material.
11. Call Mom before the month is over.
12. Send an appreciation note / email to five people who make my life better.
13. Select a gift for Japanese Teacher.