Day in the Life of an Idiot

Two seconds ago (almost literally) I got an email from my agent regarding the German publisher's plans to rename the first two books in Tate's series. The first one, which was originally TALL, DARK & DEAD will be NICHT SCHON WIEDER EIN VAMPIR (Not Another Vampire) and the second, originally DEAD SEXY will become, BEISS NOCH EINMAL MIT GEFUEHL (Bite Once More, With Feeling).

Tell me what you think! Especially you German-speakers out there.

I have to say that for my part, I love NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE. I think it works on a lot of levels. It plays with the current glut of vampire novels out there, it nicely refers to Garnet's penchant for vampire lovers (first Parrish, then Sebastian) *and* the fact that Sebastian is not your average vampire. Lovely!

The other one is just cute. (Also if I've mis-transcribed the German, it's my dyslexia, not the German publishers fault.)

Also, my friend and fellow author naomikritzer sent me a link to an article in the Guardian that says that angels are the new vampires according to Anne Rice. Angels the New Vampires. I can only hope she's right and my publisher will not only want back the rights to my previous books, but also that I could propose an urban fantasy involving angels, which would be fun as heck (or perhaps HELL) for me (and might get some of you guys to read my Tate Hallaway books!)

Also I have to shout out to Eleanor's partner Patrick Wood for the permanent loan of a new-to-me Mac laptop so I can finish out the revisions for Tate's last Garnet book without having to strain my neck at this big computer. It's really spiffy and Patrick put a lot of work into it to make it user friendly for me. Do I have awesome friends or what?

Speaking of which, I must eat lunch and hit the notebook. I want to get those revisions turned in tonight so I can get going on all the OTHER crap I need to do this year.