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September 29, 2017
Happy Birthday, Miguel de Cervantes!
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists.
His major work, Don Quixote, is considered the first modern novel, a classic of Western literature, and is regarded among the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la Lengua de Cervantes (“the language of Cervantes”). He has also been dubbed El príncipe de los ingenios (“The Prince of Wits”).
QUOTES
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
“To be prepared is half the victory.”
From Wikipedia and Emaze.
September 27, 2017
2017 Color of Love Blog Hop Sign-up
It’s time to start getting ready for this year’s celebrations and participation has been expanded to include authors, bloggers, and sponsors to sign up. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate diversity in romance novels while drawing potential readers to your blog and books.
Every year, over $200 in prizes of both gift cards and ebooks are given away and this year will be no different. This year the event runs from November 23rd to December 3rd.
We are looking for sponsors for our Grand Prize Giveaway. If you would like to donate you have three options:
Donate $5 and have one social media entry included in the rafflecopter option.
Donate $10 and have two social media entries included in the rafflecopter options.
Donate an eBook and have your book featured on the Love Bites and Silk website during the event month.
Please note that since this event is about celebrating interracial and multicultural romance novels, your book needs to feature at least one main character who is a person of color.
For more info and to sign-up, please visit the organizers page HERE.
September 24, 2017
Dressed to Unimpress #WritingChallenge
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52-Week Writing Challenge: Week 38
Snippet from current WIP — Family Matters. Attorney Olivia Chandler is stepping further out of her comfort zone for new love, Bruce Bellamy.
Olivia argued with herself the entire drive to Bruce’s home.
The New Balance running shoes felt foreign on her feet.
Purchased over a year ago, Olivia wore the shoes two to three times a week when she worked out in her home gym.
But she’d never worn them outside of her home, much like any athletic apparel…or the jeans she wore today.
She adopted a habit of wearing tailored business suits and heels before leaving law school. The only things which varied were the style of the suit and height of her heels.
Olivia slowed and stopped at a traffic light rubbing her hand down the leg of her jeans.
Margot was right. Olivia was wound too tight… and boring.
Her idea of casual dress leaned toward a light, spring dress accompanied by a blazer, and ballerina flats… but only on non-court days.
The light turned green and Olivia accelerated through the intersection.
Get over yourself, Chandler! People dress casually every day, stop trying to have an anxiety attack. This is for Bellamy, so suck it up!
Warmth enveloped her body as thoughts of the man she was falling in love with filled Olivia’s head. Anxiety over clothing vanished. The corners of Olivia’s mouth twitched as she remembered his admonishment.
“Under no circumstances are you to show up in your lawyer clothes, counselor.”
He chuckled at the horrified expression on her face.
“Please, Olivia? Do this for me. I want the kids to see the real you, not the Olivia-mask the world sees every day.”
Olivia sobered at his words and promised to dress casually.
Bruce pulled her into his arms. “Besides, my specialty dish is considered comfort food and best enjoyed… while you’re comfortable.” He’d claimed her lips before she could respond, kissing Olivia deeply. He pulled away and pushed a small shopping bag into Olivia’s hands. Bruce backed toward the front door.
“Whatever you decide to wear,” he motioned to the bag, “you have to wear that with it.”
Olivia didn’t miss the mischievous gleam in Bruce’s eyes as he all but ran out the door to his truck. He winked as he slid into the driver’s seat and blew her a kiss as he sped away.
She stood in her doorway shaking her head. Remembering the Halloween costumes Bruce chose for them, inklings of dread caused her to shudder. Olivia stepped back inside her foyer, closing the door. She held the bag out at arm’s length and smirked.
“Now what have you gotten me into, Bellamy?”
©Felicia Denise 2017
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September 22, 2017
Happy 93rd Birthday, Rosamunde Pilcher!
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Born Rosamunde E. M. L. Scott on September 22, 1924, in Lelant, Cornwall, Pilcher’s first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills and Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1955, she also began writing under her real name with Secret to Tell. By 1965 she had dropped the pseudonym and was signing her own name to all her novels.
At the beginning, writing was a refuge from her daily life. She claims that writing saved her marriage. The real breakthrough in Pilcher’s career came in 1987 when she wrote the family saga, The Shell Seekers. Since then her books have made her one of the more successful contemporary female authors.
The Shell Seekers focuses on Penelope Stern Keeling, an elderly British woman who relives her life in flashbacks, and on her relationship with her adult children. Keeling’s life was not extraordinary, but it spans “a time of huge importance and change in the world.” The novel describes the everyday details of what life during World War II was like for some of those who lived in Britain. The Shell Seekers sold more than five million copies worldwide and was adapted for the stage by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham.
In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists’ Association.
After penning more than forty novels and anthologies, Pilcher retired from writing in 2000. Two years later she was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
September 21, 2017
Happy Birthday, Fannie Flagg!
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Born Patricia Neal September 21, 1944, at age nineteen Fannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials, and later wrote for and appeared on Candid Camera. She then went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the bestselling author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe; Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!; Standing in the Rainbow; A Redbird Christmas; Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven; I Still Dream About You; and The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion. Flagg’s script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. Flagg is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize. Flagg lives happily in California and Alabama.
QUOTES
“Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”
“Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it’s not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.”
“In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.”
“I was, am, severely dyslexic and couldn’t spell, still can’t spell. So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed.”
Happy Birthday, Stephen King!
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books. He has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the film The Shawshank Redemption which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.
QUOTES
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
From Wikipedia and Google.
