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Refer to my Smoke on the Water post from last week.

This weekend, My Liege and I went away for some lake cottage R&R. Unfortunately, that fire I mentioned last week that filled our neighborhood sky with smoke? It came back with a vengeance. Just a few days ago, the people who'd been evacuated from their homes were allowed to move back in. On Saturday night, however, after a peaceful but very hot day on the lake, the fire blazed up anew. A second evacuation alert went into effect, and the road was

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And it needs refilling!

I worked incredibly hard on My Liege's website last week, all over last weekend, and into the beginning of this week. I worked until my shoulders ached and my eyes crossed. And then I worked some more. I love web design, but I seem to lack the capacity to REMEMBER how to go about it. What's up with that? So every time I attempt a massive update, or, heaven forbid, a re-design of one of my sites, I suffer massive aggravation. Sooner or later, when I'm having problems, it da

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My fellow 007 GH finalist sister, Trish Milburn, has just opened Healthy Writer, a blog devoted to encouraging sedentary individuals to get in shape (you know, those of us who sit in front of a computer all day). What a great idea, Trish. Check it out!

I admit, I am pretty sedentary in nature. Look under Athlete in the dictionary and you won't find a picture of moi, that's for sure. I walk every day, sometimes twice a day, thanks to my dog, however. I don't know if I'd adhere to my schedule witho

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Fire in the sky…

Anyone remember that Deep Purple song?

It's not as much fun when you're living it.

We've had forest fires in the area. This was the sky outside my house on the worst day last week:

Note: It's about 10:30 a.m. NONE of that is cloud cover. It's all smoke! Behind it sat blue sky, mocking me.

My flowers weren't impressed. I call this one Ashy Petunia, and it doesn't look that bad, actually:

There was a big fire in the town next to us, but this smoke and the ash on the petunias was from a

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REUNITED…AND IT FEELS SO GOOD

Thanks so much to Cindy for having me here today!

Okay, first off, I'd like to say, "Hi, my name is Elisabeth, and I have a confession to make…"

I. Love. Reunion. Stories.

There. I said it. I'm a big ol' sucker for second chances. Some of my favorite reunion stories include Judith McNaught's Paradise, Nora Robert's Birthright, and Elizabeth Lowell's Eden Burning. Why do I love reunion stories so much? I'm not entirely sure, but I think maybe it's because it's nice to kn

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My regular visitors know what a slacker blogger I've been lately. So I'm thrilled to welcome my fellow Golden Heart 2007 finalist sister, Elisabeth Naughton, to the blog tomorrow! Eli's blogging about reunion stories and is giving away the winner's choice of her new release, STOLEN HEAT, or STOLEN FURY (Dec. 08), the first in her Stolen trilogy.

About STOLEN HEAT:

His past tore them apart. Her lies thrust them back together. Now a killer's out for revenge, but the biggest threat for both may just

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I'm a very bad blogger. I should be smacked. I can't help it, though. I'm way too busy right now to blog. Will be working on My Liege's massive website update the entire week. Now that I've accepted that, I know I can't expect to get to the revisions on my cindypk ST until next week. But that's okay. I need to do what I need to do, need to be where I need to be.

How are you dealing with summer writing? Summer blogging?

By the way, my next guest blogger is Elisabeth Naughton, July 28th. I'm looking

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How is it that I didn't attend conference and yet I feel as exhausted as if I had? I realized this while trying to catch the RITA announcements via Twitter Saturday evening. Despite that I didn't travel to the other side of the continent, despite that I didn't spend my days tromping from workshop to workshop, from appointment to appointment, from party to party, by Saturday night I was toast.

It's been a busy week.

On Monday I discovered the fate of my 2007 Golden Heart finalist manuscript. As I'd

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I'm going on blogiday! With the RWA National conference in Washington, D.C. occurring this week, it's the perfect time for me to take a break. I'm not attending the conference, so theoretically I could still blog. But it's summer, my BFF just moved home for six months and I want to catch up with her, I'm still recovering from the parties and BBQs I attended on the weekend, plus I can use the time to catch up on writing goals I didn't quite make last week.

Penny has drafted the entirety of her new

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I won't name names (I'm guessing I'll get in trouble posting this picture as it is…if they find out), but let's just say I'm related to the two people below. Let's just say I'm older than both of them, so tormenting them is my right. Let's add on that they are both cuter than spit in this picture! Let's not quibble that spit ain't that cute.

Let's say I'm taking the shorter one to lunch today, because it's her birthday. Happy birthday, LP!

Let's say I'm attending a big family party tomorrow, becau

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