STARTING TOMORROW!!! A whole week of Authors on Parade!! Yay! I've been so excited about this next week's contests, you just don't know. LOL! Each day of this week will be a different amazing author giving away a signed copy of one of their books! A random commenter will be chosen each day to win fabulous books, and I can't wait to get started!! So, are you ready? Here's the star-studded line up.... * * * * * * * * * Mon 3/26: Kristina McMorris's women's fiction, BRIDGE OF SCARLET LEAVES Tue 3/27: Roni Loren's erotic romance CRASH INTO YOU Wed 3/28: Donna ... Read More
Do You Dream??
It's a hit or miss question, and I thought I'd throw it out there for a Sunday because my daughter and I talk about this all the time. She swears she doesn't dream, or at least doesn't remember them. I happen to know she does because she talks/walks/has crazy conversations in her sleep and if that isn't the product of a dream then I'm a little worried. :-) I've told her that she's just dreaming in a deeper state, instead of the rest of us who dream in the beginning of sleep or right before we wake up. I, for one, must do alot of going to sleep and waking up, because I dream ... Read More
“Wordisms” at Women Unplugged!
I'm over at Women Unplugged today, with a funny take on how we mangle words. Come tell us your "Wordisms"!! ... Read More
When you think of “Texas”…
What do you envision? I had to laugh today. It wasn't new, I've pretty much heard it my whole life, but when I told someone out of state online that I write stories set in small southern towns, usually Texas.... the response was a familiar one. "Oh I love Texas stories, love the cowboy flavor." Ummmmm...no. I've lived in Texas most of my 44 years (shhhh), and I can honestly say that any "cowboys" I might have seen dressed up on purpose to look that way. My brother sometimes wears boots, but that's because regular shoes tend to hurt him. We don't ride horses, rope cattle (is that ... Read More
Keep it real…
It's 2012. Can you believe it? And no, I don't believe that we're all going to disappear in December just because the Mayans predicted it. My theory is that they had to stop somewhere, and it could have just as easily been 2020 or 2018. So, that being said, I'm counting on a full year of productivity and life and the chaos that is my world. Last time I posted about goals for the year, but I think that's too big. Back in the RWAWF group I'm in, the PRO liaison is accounting for monthly goals instead. Yanno...baby steps. I think that's so much easier to visualize and reach. We can have ... Read More
Fun book giveaway contest at BookEnds!
Well, I'm officially back from hiatus...and I'd love to say I completed book two...but no. I am, however, on a better momentum with it, so I have hopes to finish by the end of the year. That sounds better than the end of this next month, which is the same thing. Today I want to announce a fun game/contest my agent Jessica Faust is putting on over at the BookEnds blog. She did this last year as well, for any of you who might have participated then. It is a spin on the Twelve Days of Christmas, called "The Twelve Days of Bookmas Giveaway" and involves a daily question posted by one of the ... Read More
Happy Turkey Day!!
Popping in to wish you all a very blessed Thanksgiving Day!! So....while we all celebrate this holiday in different ways....some with turkey, some with gumbo, some with lasagna... (my table does NOT look like the above, by the way...) the basic idea is the same. To reflect on the year, and the blessings you've been given. For me... there are the things I'm always thankful for. My family, my amazing supportive and loving husband, my kids who almost aren't kids anymore. They are 21 and just short of 17. My old lady dog, Ruby. The 21 cockatiels in our backyard aviary that are enjoying a ... Read More
Going under till Turkey Day! Slap me if you see me!
If I go a little awol for the next month, just letting you know that I'm going deep into the bat cave to get back on track. :-) I'm a bit behind on hitting my deadline for book two...there have been a couple of derailments knocking me off course, and so I'm unplugging. (gasp!) I will still do my every other Wednesday post over at Women Unplugged, our group blog, because that's not a big time pull. But I'm not planning to blog here till Thanksgiving. That's my goal. By Thanksgiving, I want to be hot on the heels of completion. Oh dear Lord, please hear that. I won't lie...I will ... Read More
Not the normal girl…
I have a very close friend who loves to go to the grocery store. She loves to cook, and therefore browses the store with love, looking for that next culinary adventure. I have more than a few friends like that, actually. I do love to eat, and I do love amazing food. But it doesn't come from me. I dig out a post it note with absolute disgust when the fridge gets pathetically skinny, knowing that I need to go to that place with the carts and the aisles and the endless cans and packages. I go out of guilt, because you can only stop for Sonic and Dairy Queen so many times before your family ... Read More
Paying It Forward!
In the spirit of linky-love today, I'd like to direct your attention to my "Links" page. Over there is a long list of wonderful places I'd love to visit every day but there isn't enough of me or hours to go around. I do make a point of picking five random ones each day to visit and comment on, and I highly recommend them all! Go check out the page, and if you feel so moved, pick five of your own to visit! And to further the spirit... leave me a comment below with a new link of your favorite blog to visit. Because...yanno...even though I already have too many places to go, I'm always ... Read More
What’s Your Creative Process?
I mentioned a couple of days ago how my writing process works when all the stars line up in a perfect world. Because--that's what we all have, right? :-) Being a character-driven writer, I don't come up with the story first and then fill in with characters. I let the characters find me, and the story will come. I should have known my latest attempt was all back-ass-wards when I spent most of a day on name databases looking for the perfect name for my mc. That should have been the first clue! Because yesterday, as I sat on my front porch bench at home, staring across the street at my ... Read More
Revisions, dreams, and potato chips
Finished editor revisions this weekend...YAY!!!! HAPPY DANCE! Well...maybe it's too soon for the happy dance. I finished them, I sent them, with a note that I took out all 543 "glances" and 88 "eyerolls'. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but truly, once I did a search on those, it was scary. Editor Extraordinaire (EE) thought so too, as she pointed out many of them (hence, my curiosity to search). But as I was saying, the revisions may be sent, but until EE does the sign of the cross on them, they aren't final. And I'm playing with a new character the last few days. From a distance...she ... Read More
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