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Cindy Procter-King's Blog

July 30, 2009

Healthy Writer

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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July 29, 2009

Smoke on the Water

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:

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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:

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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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July 28, 2009

Welcome Guest Elisabeth Naughton

REUNITED…AND IT FEELS SO GOODnaughton_pic

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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July 27, 2009

Elisabeth Naughton Visits Tomorrow!

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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July 22, 2009

Writer in Absentia

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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July 20, 2009

Post-Conference Yawning

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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July 13, 2009

Summer Breeze…

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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July 10, 2009

Family Birthdays

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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July 9, 2009

Write or Die

I'm a writing fiend this week. Or, rather, Penny is. Her new (and in fact first) ER "short" is motoring along. I've found it a little challenging focusing on the, ahem, subject matter with my adult/teenage kids and their S.O.'s in the house, but I've managed. I can now see the ending in sight. Yippee!

Now, I'm not the type to impose word limits (by that I mean expectations) on myself, because I usually wind up disappointed, because of the affliction that causes me to revise and edit as I write. W

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July 8, 2009

Welcome Guest Blogger Barbara Freethy

WHY SECONDARY CHARACTERS ARE SO MUCH FUN…freethy_pic1

In my new Angel's Bay series, SUDDENLY ONE SUMMER, I not only had the opportunity to create the fictional town of Angel's Bay but also to develop an entire community filled with interesting characters. While I loved creating the central hero and heroine, Jenna and Reid, who have all kinds of interesting secrets and an emotionally compelling story line, I must admit that I had a lot of fun developing the secondary characters.

Minor players in a story can be

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