Cindy Procter-King's Blog

…around the blog, you can blame me! For months now, I've been meaning to edit my blog's style sheet so I wouldn't have to manually left-justify the posts or worry about how long my titles are (they were full justifying, so I always had to shorten them so they wouldn't go onto two lines and look all weird), and so I could make the font for the titles a bit smaller. I managed to do both, but when I saved my changes in Notepad, my nicely spaced style sheet scrunched itself into one huge paragraph,

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I fully intended to blog about something other than nothing today, but we had a storm last night and the lights kept dimming so I shut down my computer (I usually write my blogs in advance and schedule them to appear on a designated day). Also, my father had knee replacement surgery yesterday. Lots of hospital visits are on the schedule until he gets out. Can't have him expiring of boredom.

I had an incredibly busy August. I thought I'd be deep into revisions on my cindypk ST by now, but I consid

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THE MAGIC OF BOOKS

Like most authors, I'm a reader first.  I still remember being about four and asking my dad to read the comics to me.  As I sat on his lap, I recall thinking, "When am I going to be able to read?" 

"When you go to school," was always my mom's reply when I'd ask.  Imagine my disappointment on the first day of kindergarten when I trudged back home to announce with disgust, "I didn't learn to read today.  The teacher said I had to wait until next year."

Even as a small child I knew

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I'm returning from my Universe Dump Hiatus to announce that dark romantic thriller author Kylie Brant will visit the blog tomorrow. Kylie's giving away a copy of her brand new release, WAKING NIGHTMARE. Here's the back cover blurb:

With a serial rapist loose on the streets of Savannah, hot-shot detective Ryne Robel needs all the help he can get for his task force. And he needs it now, before another woman falls victim. But Abbie Phillips isn't what he bargained for. Sent from an exclusive group o

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I'm feeling tons better, and life is slowly getting back under control. So, ta-da, one blog post before the weekend. Watch, now no one will comment because I said I wouldn't be here again until next week.

Not getting any writing done, but on Monday I had a 90-minute long Skype brainstorming session with a former critique partner, and now I have a ton of excellent revision notes for SEX, PIs & PACKING TAPE. Really looking forward to solidifying my approach to the revisions and digging into that bo

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I'm taking a break from blogging this week. The universe decided to dump all over my family over the last few days, and I don't have the wherewithal to draft posts. First, a member of My Liege's immediate family was rushed to hospital for the second time in a week in very serious condition. She spent the weekend in the ICU, and although she's back at home now the details of her condition remain a mystery. We hope to find out more by the end of the month.

The day after that happened, we learned a

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Last week I hinted that I would have some good news to share soon. And here it is!

I am very happy to announce that I've sold the Japanese translation rights to my Amber Quill Press romantic comedy, HEAD OVER HEELS, to Ohzora Publishing in Japan. Ohzora has published a lot of Harlequin novels as manga (Japanese comic) paperbacks, and that's what they'll be doing with my book. I also sold the serialization rights and ebook rights. HEAD OVER HEELS will publish in Japanese manga over cell phones as

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Caught the news yesterday that Angela James, previously of Samhain Publishing, is now with Quartet Press as editorial director. This is great news for Quartet (way to go, Kassia). Angela seems to rock wherever she rolls. It should be an interesting year for Quartet.

I have no idea who's head honcho at Samhain now. Anyone know?

Last week or so, Firebrand Literary closed its doors. Several days before that, Michael Stearns, Danielle Chiotti and others formerly with Firebrand, left to form the new Up

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To achieve your dreams.

Yesterday I blogged at Nobody Writes It Better about my now-deceased grandfather, who lived to 106 and jumped out of an airplane to celebrate his 100th birthday. He's my inspiration. Who's yours? Share your thoughts at Nobody Writes It Better. I'm continuing to drop by today to check the comment trail.

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FIVE AUTHOR TRAITS I ENVY

Thanks Cindy for hosting me today!

I don't spend much of my time envying the success of other authors because it's a waste of imagination. But I do occasionally envy certain traits. Traits I wish I had.

Time Maven. I don't know how some authors have a MySpace page, Facebook, twitter, blog, update their websites, write over three books a year, chat on numerous author loops and attend five conferences a year. Just looking at all they do makes me tired. While I admire their a

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