Best Laid Schemes…

Posted by crocodesigns Sep 10 2011, 4:02 am in Anna Campbell, Backlist, Bandita Booty, Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance, writer's life

by Anna Campbell

Welcome to the launch of…

What’s that you say?

NO LAUNCH????

Guys, so very, very sorry but we were meant to have one of the infamous lair launches today (in fact people have started calling the Banditas the ladies who launch).

We had the cabana boys on standby. Extra margaritas. Deck chairs lined up with Sven on duty for massages. We’ll just have to have a party anyway!

Sadly, publication of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF GHOST ROMANCE which I was so looking forward to introducing today has been delayed until late next year. You’ll all have to wait to meet Calista and Miles and Isabella and Josiah. Goodness me, they’ll have to wait for their happy endings too which is MUCH harder on them, I’m sure!

I was all geared up to tell the world about “The Chinese Bed”, my story in the anthology, including a contest on my website (thank you to the people who have entered – you’re already automatically entered in the replacement contest where I’m giving five people their choice from my backlist).

Do you know where the quote “the best-laid schemes” comes from? It’s a poem by Robbie Burns called To a Mouse, on Turning Her up in her Nest with a Plough:

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men
Gang aft agley,
An ‘lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!

Hmm, not sure if the cabana boys count as mice or men – Paolo looks scared most of the time. And after a few margaritas, I’ll feel neither grief nor pain!

Hic!

Actually I think the mouse in the poem has come along to offer her condolences. Either that or Ermingarde hasn’t been undertaking her rat-catching duties the way she’s supposed to. Sheesh, you can’t get good help these days!

I had originally planned on doing a giveaway of the anthology here today (another best-laid scheme that went agley). But hey, why should you suffer? Two commenters today will win their choice from my backlist (which explains the covers illustrating the blog). If you’re not sure which book you’d like, please check out my books page on my website: http://annacampbell.info/books.html

Just tell me about a best-laid scheme of yours that went astray and you’ll go in the draw.

Speaking of best-laid schemes, I’m away at the Brisbane Writers Festival this weekend so I may only be around sporadically (no, not because I’m drowning my sorrows in a barrel of margaritas or a barrel of cabana boys – you guys have SUCH naughty imaginations!). But I WILL get back, promise!

Now, where did that mouse get to?

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