Not that there's anything wrong with that!

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:45:00 +0100

... but man, I sure know how to pick 'em.

Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell sat with the UK's Telegraph for a lengthy interview. Generally private, the best-selling author opened up about her 2005 wedding to Dr. Staci Gruber:

"Like Scarpetta [Cornwell's protagonist], I finally feel rooted somewhere. I feel a sense of responsibility and stability that I didn't have before. I hadn't been in a long-term relationship since I got divorced in 1988 and it's hard to live that way. Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life."

The rest of Cornwell's statement on her marriage is here.

For some reason I am more "shocked" than I was when I found out about the Indigo Girls. With them it was more like "well, DUH!". Then again my gaydar has always went off where Cornwell is concerned, too, but like with Sarah Bettens from K's Choice there was never any confirmation anywhere to be found, so I figured I must be wrong (Sarah has come out by now, too, so maybe there's nothing wrong with my gaydar after all ).

Oh and on a non-gossipy note:
go and read the Scarpetta series. At least up to "The Last Precinct". It's excellent. However from "Blow Fly" on the narrative style changes to third-person which makes it less attrative to readers who are used to reading the cases completely from Scarpetta's point of view as previously the books have been written with Kay as the first person narrator.

PS: for anyone who can't place the title of this post, here's the origin of that phrase

breaking the 4th wall - 2nd wall

Not that there's anything wrong with that!