I’m back from vacation a little worse for wear. My daughter, granddaughter, and I had a great time visiting Monterey last week. We went to the aquarium, spent lots of time at Dennis the Menace Park, did some arts and crafts, and enjoyed the paddle boats and a trip to Revival Ice Cream).
I only have two injuries to report. First, I bruised my tailbone attempting the red roller “slide,” which is made up of hard metal rollers that I think could use some lubricating. It still hurts quite a lot. Second, I wrenched my shoulder nearly out of the socket when the green curvy slide twisted and turned, but my shoulder did not. All in all, though, another fabulous mother/daughter summer trip.
In case you haven’t heard. ;)
Tomorrow is pub day for Take Hart, the second novel in Jaime Parker Stickle’s “Corey in Los Angeles” crime thriller series. Jaime is going to join me tomorrow, August 4th, at 12 p.m. noon Pacific Time, for the first episode of Origin Story, my new livestream interview series about authors and the places they’re from. I hope to see you there!
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This morning’s breakfast was courtesy of a social media ad I saw over the weekend for a meal delivery service. I realized I had everything on hand to make this myself.
Peanut butter protein overnight oats on the bottom. It’s just oatmeal with peanut butter mixed in, which is how I always sweeten it anyway, then chilled in the refrigerator.
A layer of blueberries. The ad used strawberries, but I prefer blueberries for oatmeal or yogurt.
A layer of plain, fat-free yogurt.
A dab of peanut butter on top. This seemed unnecessary, but when I dug my spoon in, it did add some extra flavor.
A sprinkle of granola. This was my own innovation, seeing as I bought a bag of Ad Astra Atelier’s delicious seeded granola while I was in Carmel last week.
Topped with more blueberries.
I love a healthy breakfast that tastes like a dessert.
I know the basics for capitalizing a title: capitalize the names of people and places; capitalize nouns and pronouns; capitalize the big, important words.
Don’t capitalize “little” words like “a,” “an,” “as,” and “the.”
But when I settled on the title for my book, I learned that not all little words are made the same. Some tiny words are important and should be capitalized. “It” is a little word, but “it” is also a pronoun, so … capitalize. “My” is a little word, and it’s only an adjective—you could replace it with a definite or an indefinite article, for goodness’ sake. But for titles, “my” is talking about the author—the me (pronoun) who wrote the story or poem or book—so it’s considered super important—capitalize.
To be safe, I run my titles through this handy little internet tool, Capitalize My Title. When I ran my book’s title through capitalizemytitle.com, it came back with this: California Is an Earthquake. “Is” with a capital “I.” I was flabbergasted.
I’d never capitalized the word “is” in titles, not in my entire life. As far as I can tell, neither do many people—it’s a little word, right? Yes, but it’s a form of the verb “to be,” and apparently being is considered quite important in titles … and in life.
Who knew? (Elizabeth Strout knew (Anything Is Possible, My Name Is Lucy Barton).)
XOXO,
Leanne
P.S. I’m a nervous wreck about my first live tomorrow. On top of the usual stage fright and first-time jitters, I got a bad haircut last week. It is not helping my confidence levels. So tune in for the fun—it’s sure to be a hot mess. Actually, how lucky am I that my first guest is a professional podcast host—Jaime Parker Stickle won’t let me crash and burn. :)
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