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Hi Friends! I'm excited to announce that my latest novel, Jane's Melody, will be available everywhere on June 18.

What boundaries would you cross for love?

That’s the question a grieving mother must answer when she takes in her dead daughter’s young boyfriend and finds herself falling for him. A to... Read more of this blog post »

Readers of fan fiction are gobsmacked that Amazon is introducing Kindle Worlds, a place where fan fiction can reign supreme.

http://mashable.com/2013/05/22/amazon...

The first licensing agreement is with Alloy Entertainment, a division of Warner Brothers dedicated to making metallurgy a field of en... Read more of this blog post »

I just finished a short story. “Finished” in this case means I finished one draft, let it sit for awhile, then revised the heck out of it. It will probably go through at least one more of these, since it’s getting workshopped this week. But in the meantime… I spend a lot of time talking about “re...

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May is Blogger Appreciation Month! Every day of May a different blog will be featured.

Come back daily to get to know these bloggers and enter to win a different prize every day!

All prizes will be drawn at the end of the month.

Today’s Prize is a $10 Olive Garden gift card!

Our Feature Today is...

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Would like to let everyone know that my first book is now available on Barnes and Noble, the link is

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/978-0...

Sex. So natural. So instinctive. Something most adults on the planet have tried at least once… so why is it so damned hard to write?

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Check out my guest post on Silken Sheets & Seduction:

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In dreams, an opiate coats everything with some harmless beautiful essence. I know it is the real world and I will wake and miss it. I always try to fix the saddest ones. I go right in, sprinkles and stardust and even yes, I`ll be broken with you and we can fix together. I still don`t know what t... Read more of this blog post »

Hey there! I have a short excerpt posted on my books page. The hero and heroine of Freefall are park ranger Hope Banning and reclusive rock climber Sam Rutherford. Hope’s sister Faith and dangerous fugitive Javier Del Norte also play a large role in the story. But don’t worry about cliffhangers!...

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Oh, Show. You’re such a tease. You spend a season making me bash my head on the wall and just when I’m about to lose consciousness you manage to pull things together.

I think my favorite thing about the season finale of The Vampire Diaries is that the goddamn Cure has finally been dealt with and w...

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Or… 5 conventions/8 weeks. Now it would be tempting to bitch at my personal assistant CJ as to my hellacious schedule over the next few weeks, but it’s not CJ’s fault. I do my own scheduling so I’m the idiot individual who decided I should do two back-to-back conventions (one set of which is on [ Read more of this blog post »

I’m too busy writing this week to give much thought to finding new hotties. But here are a few to make your hump day its humpiest. I hope I haven’t shared these yet!… Read More → Read more of this blog post »

Just about every Christian has memorized the closing verses of Galatians and Paul's description of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. This is the character of the man or woman who has been justified by grace throughfait...

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Taken Doubly

A LONE STRIKER
Or, Without Prejudice to Industry
TWO TRAMPS IN MUD TIME
Or, A Full-Time Interest
THE WHITE-TAILED HORNET
Or, The Revision of Theories
A BLUE RIBBON AT AMESBURY
Or, Small Plans Gratefully Heard Of
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
Or, Be Sure to Locate
THE GOLD HESPERIDEE
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And we are LIVE! Stop by and check out Genevieve Scholl on WWInterview today as she speaks about her novel Love Claus and her upcoming releases for this year! Don't miss out on your chance to WIN a FREE copy of her wonderful book!!!
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At nearly every stop on my current blog tour and at various other blogs, I have giveaways. Four giveaways in all. You can find each link to each giveaway on my blog.

http://adventuresoflifeandliterature....

Don't forget to enter the Goodreads giveaway of 5 paperbacks. Tell your friends!!!

Happy Rea... Read more of this blog post »

Today I'm blogging about Sue Perkins' fabulous middle grade novels that will have kids reading long after their bedtime.

http://suzannesthoughtsfortheday.blog...

I hate to ask this (as I do think it's a bit of a cheek from an author) but if anyone has read the UK versions of my Pendragon's Banner Trilogy could I ask for a few comments to be added onto Amazon (good, bad, or indifferent but good would be good :-)

Reason I'm asking is that Amazon keeps messin... Read more of this blog post »

My novella In the Broken Birdcage of Kathleen Fairis now available to buy as an eBook from Amazon (UK, US, Canada, and France). Here be a blurb...
'Escaping the birdcage in which she's imprisoned is only the beginning of Kathleen's journey; on the other side of the mirror she'll have to evade the... Read more of this blog post »

Have you ever planned a trip to a specific destination and while there you had the opportunity to visit another site that made your trip even more appealing? That’s what happened to me a few weeks ago when I went to St. Louis with Steph Whitson and Nancy Moser. Our destination was the St. Louis... Read more of this blog post »

A recent survey of teenage reading habits has suggested that young people are opting for easier reads, rather than "more challenging classics." Should we be concerned, or simply pleased that teenagers are reading at all?

There have probably been literary snobs for as long as there has been literat... Read more of this blog post »

We are engulfed in a headlong plunge that may well lead to the end of the world, as we know it. Religious fanaticism among the three major religions is resulting in thousands of deaths and destroying any chance of unity among nations.

Service to country, the enrichment andimprovement of the live...

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What did Soren Kierkegaard say about life and understanding the WHY's? Stop by...
http://www.lisathomsonlive.com/quote-...

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been discussing a great new If you read this blog regularly, you know I’ve questionedwhether narrative nonfiction really deserves all the attention and praise that has been lavished on it in the last few years. Sure, there are some great narrative nonfiction boo... Read more of this blog post »

Steve, Zombie, Herobrine, Skeleton, Creeper, Spider, Enderman, Priest Villager, Librarian Villager, Dog, Cat, two diamond swords and a diamond pickaxe! plus Iron Golem!

(plus JarJar!)

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UPDATED 5/21: Big news! After years of circling and being circled by Hollywood, my husband, Steven Barnes, and I have written our first short film, Danger Word , based on our characters from our YA post-apocalyptic novelDevil's Wake.We're also co-producing it with director Luchina Fisher! The sho... Read more of this blog post »

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Today we’re having a birthday party for my daughter, who is turning two. TWO. Half of me is in complete denial about this; the other half is self-medicating with chocolate and sugar.

My daughter is opinionated and shy and fierce and funny (so funny) and verbal and stubborn. She’s a lot like me, an...

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Amazon just announced a new program called Kindle Worlds that allows writers to sign up for no-mess licenses for established fictional worlds to self-publish stories in them. In essence, they’re letting fan-fic writers (amateurs who write such stories for fun) make money off their work. As a writ...

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تَحْزَنِي وَتغْضَبِي بَعد حَنْثِ الوَعد، حَزّينةٌ عَلىَ حَالِك! أم حَزينةٌ لأَجْلِه!
هُوَ لم يَكّتَرِثُ لِوجُودِك يَوُماً وتَعْلَمينَ هَذّا..
إنْتَظّرتِي وَخَذّلَكِ الإِنْتظَار، تَنَازلتِي فَقَسّمِ التَنَازُل ظَهرَكِ..
تَنْصُبِينَ شَوّادِر الحُزن فِي عَيْنك، إِسّتَهلكتي كُل الدَمع حَتّىَ جَف..
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The last few weeks as I’ve waited for edits, I’ve gone a cleaning spree in my home. No clutter was safe from the garage to the den. The funny thing about cleaning is I usually find things I thought were lost forever. This time was no different, but it’s good news for you.

I found SIX advanced read...

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Check out my new website www.booksbysnook.com

Joe and I loved the first Martha and the Bunny Brothers book, I Heart School, so I was thrilled to receive this one from the publisher for review. When I showed Joe, he said, “I got a card from her!” He did, for his birthday in January; I was so pleased he remembered.

We both loved this book just...

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“It’s not just the $.99-$2.99 price point and Free e-book specials that have the traditional publishing establishment worried. It’s the .99 cent e-book with the terrible cover and the typos, grammatical errors, and poor story development that have them concerned. If readers are willing to buy t...

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Since I don’t have a cover for the next Her Angel romance series book, HER WICKED ANGEL, and won’t have one for a while, I’m sticking with using one of my warning signs. I did make this one with Asmodeus in mind.

I’ve had a rough time with this book so far because the release of Unleash meant tha...

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Okay, guys. Some of you might remember that Emma (of Yours To Keep) was pregnant when she and Sean visited Whitford for a family wedding in All He Ever Desired. With two new baby girls in the family, I’ve decided there’s a new little guy running amok with the Kowalskis.

But I’m running out of time...

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Help the families of Oklahoma rebuild... and win one of dozens of signed books (including Bedeviled)... with KidLit Cares for Oklahoma!

http://www.katemessner.com/lets-help-kidlitcares-for-oklahoma/

This is what it says:


To be entered in the KidLitCares for Oklahoma Book Giveaway:Click here and make... Read more of this blog post »

OpenSky is calling out to cool, small businesses. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

“You should get more of this,” my daughter, almost 18, said, chewing on some of SlantShack grass-fed beefJerky. “It’s really good.”

Never mind her phrasing (would have been nice? “Beloved father, I would be eternally...

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