And spent some time under the party tree at Hobbiton.
[pictures to that are securely tucked under lock and key though so you'll just have to miss out on that]
But of course now it's back to work. Enter the giveaway below and keep your eyes pealed for some new First Page Shooter posts going up later this week.
Welcome home. I'm so envious. One of my daughters was there for a month this winter and loved it. It's one of the places in the world I'd love to visit.
Welcome back Suzie, love the photos! I had a holiday there paid for once, but had to cancel at the last minute :( And I've never made it back, even though it's just a quick plane trip away.
Can't wait for more First Page Shooters, they're such a great help :)
My husband and I spent two weeks on the south island in 2008. It is truly one of the most beautiful places we have ever been. And the people are lovely.
Ah...If I could journey to Middle Earth would I come back? I'd be dragged back that's for sure -- by my husband! Good thing dreams are free! I'm glad you had a good time and actually was able to come back by your own free will! You are made out of sterner stuff than I!
I've moved agencies. I'm now a full time agent at Nancy Coffey Literary , and I couldn't be happier. Feel free to check out my b...
Five Random Things About Suzie
1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.
2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.
3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.
4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.
5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?
"An intense, bittersweet novel about how people come together and how they break apart, set over four summers. A powerful story that will stay with you." --Jennifer Hubbard, author of The Secret Year
"Engrossing, messy, complex, and real. Moskowitz's writing is raw and so right." –Lauren Strasnick, author of Nothing Like You
“…this unique twist on zombie stories will engage readers who are looking for contemporary fiction sprinkled with a dash of the morbid.”--School Library Journal
“Moskowitz deftly swerves between comedy, pathos, and even terror, and makes it look so effortless readers won’t think twice about the strangeness of the mix.”--Booklist
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quotes
金不一定閃 流浪者不都迷路
"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane I think I made you up inside my head I fancied you'd return the way you said But I grow old and I forget your name I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost
"Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY
"For deadly secrets strike when understood and lucky stars all exit on the run: never try to knock on rotten wood, never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"
"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power." William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain
“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND
"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY
"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY
"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet. Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete
27 comments:
Welcome back! Looks like you had a lovely time.
omg Cheetahs purr???
Good to hear you're back!
Yes! They're the only big cats that can purr but not roar.
I hope you enjoyed my fair country. I think you picked a period of both the best and the worst weather NZ has to offer...
*dies of envy*
One of my MUST VISIT places before I die. Great pics!
Aww, take me with you next time. It looks incredible there.
Glad you enjoyed our beautiful country :) As Kate said it was the best & worst time weather wise.. but we've always been rather 4 seasons in a day ;p
I'll bet that was a fantastic and refreshing experience!
Welcome back to "Zealand of news that will make your head spin."
I take it you missed the whole Senator Weiner fiasco.
As I said, I'll bet that was a fantastic and refreshing experience!
I'm jealous.
Oh my goodness, I'm so jealous! I must visit Middle Earth one day. I'd prefer to live there, of course :P
Welcome back!
I will try and rein in my jealousy over the pictures. :-P
Two weeks in New Zealand?
I'm beyond envious. Welcome back.
I am soo jealous… glad you made it back safely.
NZ is beautiful and home for me. I always smile when I hear that accent. I used to sound like that? Nau mai ki te wā kāinga - welcome home.
I'm incredibly jealous. Of all the places I've visited, NZ is my hands-down favorite. I can't believe you petted a cheeta! That's beyond cool.
Welcome home. I'm so envious. One of my daughters was there for a month this winter and loved it. It's one of the places in the world I'd love to visit.
Wow! Welcome home! I'm going to need you to sell a bunch more of my books now, so I can go there, too! ;)
*runs off to write commercial blockbusters*
Welcome back Suzie, love the photos! I had a holiday there paid for once, but had to cancel at the last minute :( And I've never made it back, even though it's just a quick plane trip away.
Can't wait for more First Page Shooters, they're such a great help :)
Rach
Welcome back! Oh mans. SOMEDAY I swear I will get out to New Zealand.
Also, I know it's crazy but after hearing that purr? I want a cheetah for a pet.
One does not simply pet a cheetah...
Wow. Fantastic. I'm going to New Z this winter - is there anything I should think about?
My husband and I spent two weeks on the south island in 2008. It is truly one of the most beautiful places we have ever been. And the people are lovely.
Welcome back from Middle Earth. Mabye I should go while I'm in the East. It's not that far from Japan...
Absolutely gorgeous!
Totally jealous about the cheetah. Looks like you had a great time. Welcome back!
Ah...If I could journey to Middle Earth would I come back? I'd be dragged back that's for sure -- by my husband! Good thing dreams are free! I'm glad you had a good time and actually was able to come back by your own free will! You are made out of sterner stuff than I!
Great photos! And the cheetah, wow. So awesome!
So jealous. I petted my dog today. Well not really. It ran by me and I think my hand brushed it's back.
Welcome home!
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