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Guest Blogging

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Not QUITE as far as I'd like to be, but pretty respectable for less than a week. Also, decided to do my edits on BD before I do my revisions on the paranormal, so got through 30 pages yesterday. No sewing, but I did get to JoAnn's for the Halloween fabric.

The boy is at college orientation. I miss him. He'll be back Thursday evening.

I finished Bitsy's Bait and BBQ, cried the last 40 pages. Now I'm diving into Black Hills.

I'm guest blogging today at Elisabeth Na

Goals for Week of Boy's EIGHTEENTH Birthday

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1) party for boy (HOW do I have an 18 year old?)
2) help boy make choices for college, since orientation is this week (again, HOW do I have a COLLEGE student??)
3) write query for short story
4) paranormal revisions
5) guest blog and SPN Sisters blog
6) continue busting tail on RS (10000 more words)
7) breakfast/shopping with Mom and BB
8) Go to JoAnn's for pumpkin fabric (I. Must. Have.)
9) Make skirt, cut out another
10) Research trip to Austin
11) Read Nora's Black Hi

More fabric I want

I think I will go back and get this one:



This one's fun, but really, what do you do with it?



And you know me and classic cars:





Again, what do you do with them?

And I thought this one was awesome, too.



Why do I have to be obsessed?

YEAH, Baby

I snoozed in a bit, until a little after 7. Might have slept later but dh kept snoozing his alarm. I woke up, made breakfast, turned on my computer....and saw an email from my Samhain editor.

She offered me a contract on Breaking Daylight!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!!! Of course, there are revisions, but I got offered the contract FIRST, which is new ;) SOOOOOO excited. I'm dancing and freaking out the cats.

Recurring Dreams

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I have recurring places in my dreams. I don't know that I've ever been to these places, necessarily, but I feel like I could drive right to them.

The first is a store, a craft store, I think, in a shopping strip not far from my house. In my dreams, I always have to get there super-early, like before dawn, so I'm always driving in the dark, and waiting out front for it to open. In my dreams, it's not always open, so I have to take advantage when it is. The place

Progress

New Story Day

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I finished my second short story yesterday, so today I get to start a brand new book! Woot! It's all plotted and everything (at least I think I have a plotting board around here somewhere.) It's an RS, and I'd love to have the rough draft done by the time I go back to school in 5 1/2 weeks. Possible? We'll see.

I have to say, though, writing novellas is pretty fun. I've written 2 this summer. Of course, the faster you write, the more queries and synopses to writ

Now It Can Be Revealed

My new cover!!! Isn't it stunning?

Romance Novel Cliches I Love

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1) The dance as seduction. God, I love to get my hero and heroine together on the dance floor. All three currently pubbed books have a dance scene. Couldn't work one into Surface or DLB, but BD has one. STTA does, too. I love getting them in such close proximity. Fun!
2) The hero giving the heroine the coat he's been wearing. She smells him on it, feels his warmth. Yum!
3) Small town stories
4) Forced proximity stories
5) Reunions

I was trying to think of more thing

Goals for the Week After the Fourth

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This picture is scarily accurate.

Okay, the other cupcake recipe was GOOD! Here's the recipe:

Cream 8 oz of cream cheese with 1/3 cup sugar. Add an egg and a pinch of salt. Blend. Stir in 8 oz of choc. chips. Set aside.

Make a cake mix according to direction on the box. Fill cupcake papers 2/3 of the way.
Add one spoonful of the cream cheese mix to the center of each cupcake (will sink and act as filling.) Bake as directed on the box.

Mmmm.

We had fun yesterday. We