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Off To Conference!

I’m heading out to conference today, and finally excited to go.  I’m doing a dialogue workshop Friday at 2 pm with Laura Wright, Sylvia Day, Alexandra Ivy, Elisabeth Naughten and Darynda Jones.  I think it’s going to fun! My portion of the workshop is: Bromance Dialogue: Cracking the Guy Code.

I will be buying rights to more pictures, but right now, the one I have is one I bought to go on my Apodaca FB banner, but then we rejected it. Too young, and the flag in the background worried me. I didn’t want to come across as offensive. Because I’m writing about a security agency made up of former marines, I felt the flag deserves a big more respect than guy standing in front of it wearing a towel and dogtags.  (And FYI, when I buy rights, I use iStock or BigStock).

 

So what do you think? Did I make the right call cutting this guy?

I won’t be posting on Friday, so have a great weekend, and I should be back on Monday!

 

Weekend Roundup

Good weekend! But tiring. I spent hours cleaning up the blog and FB. A lot of posts are gone, but those are the past anyway and we’re all about the future here, right?  I’m not going to get into a big discussion about the why of it, except to say this: I believe in doing the right thing

On Bailey News–I had this on my FB but it vanished. Here’s Bailey after getting into a box of donuts:

Bailey is fine now but he spent the night getting his stomach pumped.  He somehow jumped up and knocked the box of donuts off a table  (this is at Bailey’s house, not mine) and wolfed down four before he was caught. Unfortunately, two of them were chocolate.  Bailey’s fine, my sons’ wallets however, are suffering.

I’m feeling better and better.  It’s up and down, but that’s normal with what I have. Wizard keeps telling me that I can call him anytime and he’ll come get me at conference if I don’t feel well.  I rolled my eyes and said, “I’ll be fine. I can rest in my hotel room.”

“Well you do have a birthday coming up. A big one.” Okay he didn’t say a big one. He yelled out how old I’m going to be. And he laughed. Went on teasing me about getting old.

Then I tried on my gown for the Awards Ceremony at Conference and showed him.

He was working on the computer, looked up and froze. “Holy shit. Forget me picking you up, I”m coming with you.”

“But Wizard,”  I said innocently, “What are you worried about. You know I’m getting old now. No one will even notice this old gown on me…”

He narrowed his eyes. “You’re screwing with me, aren’t you?”‘

I laughed and headed up with the stairs. “Every chance I get, Wizard, every chance I get.”

Yeah…I may be old but I still know how to get to Wizard

How was your weekend?

FYI: Changes and Blogs Vanishing

I know, it’s a Saturday, what am I doing posting?

This is just and FYI post

You may notice that yesterday’s post (with comments) and a bunch of other posts have vanished. I’m doing that on purpose. I’m cleaning out the blog.

I’ll tell you all the reason on Monday.

That’s the end of the FYI post.

Hope you’re all enjoying your weekend!

Hunk Fail

Happy Friday! I can’t believe I leave for the RWA conference next week. I’m not going to be at my best, but hopefully, few people will notice.  I’m taking my laptop and hoping that since I’ll probably be forced to rest, I can work on CAGE MAGIC. That poor book keeps getting shoved aside for other projects.  Linc, Ram and Eli have lost all patience with me.

Anyway…lets move onto this. Now I love the pool as much as anyone, but this just looks wrong to me:

Is he romancing that that poor dragon?

Have a great weekend!

Wing Slayer Worthy

Still recovering, but making progress! Yesterday I sort of worked for a while. Mostly answering some email (not all) and outlining my portion of a talk on dialogue.

Then BLB went with me grocery shopping, helping since I have trouble twisting and various things.  We came home and BLB iced down his leg and I headed for the bottle of Tylenol and the recliner.  Guess the two of us won’t be conquering the world this week!

Onto our candidate! I liked the tattoo…

…not so sure about what looks like “boy-shorts” that girls wear. What do you all think? Wing Slayer Worthy?

Weekend Roundup

Hi All,

I’m still sick, so I’m not much fun. Since this is the Internet, I’m going to keep it vague.  I’ve got a virus that’s kicking my butt, however I will recover and be fine. It’s just going to take time and patience.

My doctor insisted I take “Sick Leave.” Fortunately, I turned in my book and am now taking it easy.  I plan to resume working a few hours a day Tuesday or Wednesday, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m not on the Internet much either.

However, I would absolutely love to hear about how YOUR weekend went. Truly, I want to know. Share, please!

Sick Day

I’m a bit under the weather. but I should be back on Monday.  Everyone have a great weekend!

 

Wing Slayer Worthy

I saw my eye doctor again yesterday, and she was very pleased with the improvement in my eyes.  I’m happy too! I have a little ways to go yet, but it’s much better.

Now onto important things:

So what do you think? Wing Slayer Worthy?

Weekend Roundup

Happy Monday!

So the heat has finally hit us in Southern California.  I managed to get myself slightly burned on Saturday hanging out at the pool. Which meant I had to stay inside on Sunday while Wizard was out there swimming. So. Not. Fair!

It was a really good weekend. While I was waiting for my beta reader to read the contemporary I worked on CAGE MAGIC. Damn, I love that book! I’m have more than a 100 pages (rough) and need much more,  but hopefully I’m going to be able to carve some time out to work on it around my contracted books.

Yesterday my awesome beta reader let me know she finished the book and thinks it’s working.  She actually said really nice things, and found a few spots for me to work on. I am so thrilled! I wrote Adam and Megan’s story fast, but I wrote the book *I* wanted to write, and that seems to work.  While the romance is front and center, I get to have other things going on too, some mystery, intrigue, betrayals and secrets. How could I not love that? I’ll finish that this week and send it to my lovely editor.

I’m trying to get back onto my workout schedule as well. I took a couple weeks off for BLB’s surgery, and to hit my deadlines, but now I must recommit.

Wizard and I had a great weekend together.  BLB was spending the weekend at his house, so we enjoyed the time.

But Wizard misses Bailey! He totally does. So while cooking breakfast together one morning, I was dancing around the kitchen  singing, “You liikkkeeee Bailey! Wizard likes Bailey!” until Wizard threatened to videotape me singing.

I stopped.  I can’t sing. I can’t dance. And I really don’t want a record of me trying!

But I might have hummed it a bit more.

So how was your weekend?

 

Hunk Fail Times Two!

Hey all

I can’t believe it’s the weekend! First a holiday in the middle of the week. Then yesterday BLB went home for a few days, and I was thinking I would have the house to myself to work nonstop. Not two hours later, one of my other sons came home visit. LOLOL! I love them all so I can’t really complain. And somehow, I managed to finish revising the manuscript. I sent it off to a friend to read before I do the final polish and send it in.

Now onto Hunk Fail. All I can do is apologize in advance for this:

And this:

Hope you all have a great weekend!