I saw an article online today listing the TV series that have been canceled for next year. I have an abysmal record of liking shows that end up getting canceled, so it wasn’t a surprise that I watched nine shows on the list:

Moonlight (the one I’m mourning the most)
Men in Trees (I’m just going to firmly believe that Patrick and Annie would have gotten back together.)
Jericho
Back to You (I thought Kelsey Grammar and Patricia Heaton were funny, but I guess not enough other people did.)
K-Ville  (no more Cole Hauser, sniff)
New Amsterdam
Life is Wild
Bionic Woman (Poor Will Yun Lee keeps getting cast in shows I like but which are canceled; he was in Witchblade too.)
Journeyman

This list didn’t even include Blood Ties (which I’m also mourning; come on, leave me ONE vampire show), which had been previously canceled.

I wonder which new shows in the fall I’ll like and thus be the kiss of death for.

As this year’s shows wind down with finales, my TiVo’s to-do list was getting pretty short. (I think the only things still on it are LOST, Battlestar Galactica, Deadliest Catch and The Alaska Experiment.) So I went through today and scheduled some movies I hadn’t seen. Maybe I’ll have time to watch them after I meet my YA outline deadline the first week of June. I still haven’t gone to see Prince Caspian either. Maybe I’ll do that on my birthday or as a treat after I meet my deadline.

Luckily my choice in friends is more successful than my choice in shows, including the fabulous Beth Pattillo. She’s guesting over at the Romance Bandits today in celebration of the release of her new book, The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society, this week. Swing by and say, “Hi.” She’s giving away a copy of the book to one lucky person.

The winner of the following books from last week’s drawing is Jane. Congratulations! Contact me via the Contact page on this site with your full name and mailing address, and I’ll get these books out to you.

Rogue Soldier by Dana Marton
The Wastrel by Margaret Moore
The Wicked Truth by Lyn Stone

The books up for grabs this week are:

Pratt’s Landing by Martha Kirkland
Another Woman’s Son by Anna Adams
Please Remember This by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

All you have to do to be in the running is comment on a blog post this week.

Anyone out there watching the new show, New Amsterdam? I’ve seen all three episodes that have aired and like the mixture of detective show with a paranormal element (a hero who can’t die until he meets the one woman whose soul is meant to be with his). Considering I like Moonlight and Blood Ties, it’s not really a surprise that I’m a fan of the paranormal detective show. I like how John Amsterdam has flashbacks to scenes in his rather extensive past, to occurrences that somehow fit in with whatever he’s going through in the present day. And I think it’s funny that he’s always telling his partner, Eva, how he did this or that 300 years ago or how he stormed the beach at Normandy and of course she doesn’t believe him. Personally, I like the theory that Eva is the one and he won’t figure that out for a good long time.

No shock here, but my life of revisions continues. I got through three chapters over the weekend and three chapters today. Six to go, then I need to do a complete read-through to make sure I’ve not missed anything in my editor’s revision letter and that I don’t have any continuity problems because of changes I made. All before Saturday!