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Friday

Fireman Saves Kitten

Thanks, Rye.

IWSG Wednesday

It's that time again. When we as writers express our doubts and concerns, share our experiences and encourage others.
Besides our awesome IW support group, I'd like to talk briefly about family support. My family is great and completely support my writing, of course, most of them don't support it enough to actually read it. Grin.  I periodically collar the hh, who is an English Instructor and writes poetry. When he does make a suggestion on a manuscript I've written it's usually spot on and something I've totally overlooked. My sister picks up nearly everything that comes out on Kindle and shoots for being the first purchaser and is tied for first place with the hh in leading the rah rah support section. I couldn't do without them. But the family member whose support blows me away is my eighty-seven year old uncle who reads everything that comes out in paper. Romance, fantasy, historical, it doesn't matter, he reads it. Is that not the coolest thing?
And speaking of come outs, i.e. releases, Vampire Island has been re-released.
http://tinyurl.com/nkjfqmc I really like my cover. I purchased it from The Cover Collection.  The price was fair, but my math skills have never been my strong suit and you know those math questions about buying two dozen loaves of bread for twenty some people, etc, etc? Well, I obviously failed because when I had to factor in the pounds versus dollars, I thought I was saving thirty dollars when I was actually paying an extra thirty. grin.


Blurb:
My name is Zoe Tempest. Just let me say, I had no intention of becoming a vampire hunter. My world revolved around the trendiest clothes, the boy of the week, shopping, and texting.
I always tried to play down the fact that I’m really quite intelligent. I’d much rather be considered blonde and clueless. It’s so much easier to get dates.
My parents were well-off and indulgent. I was the center of their universe. I’m afraid I took that for granted.
One odd thing, my mother insisted I take self-defense training. I just figured she wanted to keep her little princess safe. But looking back, perhaps she had a premonition. To my surprise, I took to it like a kid to Pop Tarts and ended up with a black belt in karate.
My life was as close to perfect as a seventeen year old can get. I had everything. Then my parents were murdered and my world came crashing down.
After their funeral, I went to live with my uncle Julian Kilmer. That’s when everything changed. In a manner more terrifying than anything I could have imagined.
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Weekend at the Movies...Even Though It's Tuesday

Wow. Didn't we just mention a few posts back it was the first of October? And  now its November? Yikes! At  least we got an extra hour's sleep.
How was your weekend, blogger buds?  Any trick or treaters? We had  about seven.
We did the movie thing this weekend.  Something new and different.  Our weekends seem to revolve around grocery shopping at Walmart and movies. Friday we re-watched San Andreas. And even though I'd seen it before by the end of the movie I was on the edge of my seat.



Saturday we went to see Bridge of Spies.  It was an interesting look at history. Tom Hanks is superb in the role of James Donovan, the American lawyer who negotiated the exchange of an American pilot  and an American student for a Russian spy.  (Later Donovan was beneficial in obtaining the release of 9700 prisoners in Cuba.) This isn't a fast paced, nail-biting movie, but its certainly worth a look see, especially if you're interested in history. A friend of ours liked it so well. She watched it twice in the theater.

Monday

Wow. Didn't we just mention a few posts back it was the first of October? And  now its November? Yikes! I'm not even going to mention that next month is December. grin. At  least we got an extra hour's sleep.
Any trick or treaters? We had  about a dozen. Which means we had this leftover:
And this:
Oops. The calorie side is showing.

~*~And the winner of the Amazon Gift Card and copy of Vampire Bay 
(from the Spooktacular Blog Hop Giveaway) is.....Drumroll........Ashley M.Congrats, Ashley. 
Thanks to all who liked and added me to twitter.

Happy Halloween

The Jack-o-Lantern at the other Cox Household Err, borrowed from CJ's Blog
A repeat that screams Halloween  I'm still trying to figure out if this is Christmas or Halloween.  

No Tricks Just Treats

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Just in time for Halloween....If you haven't read Ghost For Sale and would like to, there's a giveaway going on. The landing page is at Kensington Publishing.
Got your Halloween candy bought yet?  It's getting down to the wire..... And the giveaway for the Cake Book is still going on under the contest age.

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Wacky Wednesday

I try not to post back to back trailers, but I thought this was too funny not to share.

A Helping Hand

Monday

So how was your weekend, my blogster buds? Friday night turned into pizza and a movie night for us. We rented the Avengers. I love the actors in the Avengers, love the Iron Man series and the Thor series, but unfortunately neither the HH or I enjoyed Age of Ultron. The back and forth dialogue between them was good, snappy.  But the plot just didn't do it for me. Enjoyed the pizza:)
Saturday night we went looking for toys since the babies will be in next weekend.   And...had pizza.
Give me pizza, chocolate and a bestseller under my belt (Isn't that a odd phrase?) and I'll die a happy woman.