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This week...

Wednesday I'll be over at Slip into Something Victorian giving away a copy of Kiss of Scandal and talking about historical romantic suspense.

Thursday at Slip into Something Victorian , we're having Diane Wylie--check out her site and blog here.

Friday Deborah Schneider will be there with her new release, Promise Me .

After spending years in an arranged marriage as the repressed wife of an older man, Amanda Wainwright has learned the hard way that money can't buy happiness. She arrives in Willow...

Dark Desires of the Druids I: Murder & Magick

The first in my Druids series. I began this series oh, 2 years ago or so. Its first incarnation is vastly different from the published version, but I'm much happier with this. And I absolutely adore the cover!
Murder & Magick : Bramhope, England, 1882

From The Tryst, an excerpt from Raven & Malcolm's first meeting:

Laughing, Mac shook his head. He looked down into her bright blue eyes. "Pirate is a bit of an exaggeration. I captained nothing more than a merchant ship. Boring stuff, spices and...

Friday Guest: Mary Ann Webber

Welcome Mary Ann! Another fellow author from Northern Roses and Southern Belles, she's a great person and an author who's come a long way with her writing. I'm glad to have been there for this trip! Her story, No Decorum , is the second in the anthology.
This is your first published story, what gave you the idea for it? This story began writing itself while I researched the Red River Campaign , an important part of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi, It's unlike anything I've ever put on...

Thursday Progress

I digressed from my paranormal contemporary this weekend. Managed to write 10,347 words on something completely different, but really want to get back to this one. Still, I'm happy with what I've done. REALLY happy, so I didn't stop myself and in the end, only deleted about 200 or so.
Why can't every writing day be this progressive?
Trying to stick with one story and finish it. No more flitting around, working on one chapter here, one breakdown there. One story from beginning to end and one...

Wednesday Review: Northern Roses & Southern Belles

Next in line for this anthology is Mary Ann Webber's No Decorum.
This story made me laugh. I don't usually like heroines who are this immature, but in reading, I found Juliet not immature, but reactionary. She's a young southern woman with Yankees in her midst and an attraction to one that she doesn't understand. Of course she's going to fight back. Not with fists and guns, but with words and feelings. Despite being the daughter of a pastor, I found her to be all to human, just like anyone...

Victoriana

Have you checked out Slip into Something Victorian lately? Not only do we have awesome tidbits of Victoriana, but we have wonderful guest bloggers all this month. Today is Jeanmarie Hamilton , tomorrow is Anthea Lawson , Friday is Susan Macatee , and Saturday is Linda Atkinson (who I can't find a website for, sorry!)

Check us out!
http://slipintosomethingvictorian.wordpress.com/

Dark Desires of the Druids

I have a hugely long (now cut) prologue from this that explains the verse, the current happenings, and even alludes to the trilogy arc of books 1-3. I'm glad I cut it. *G*

Still, for any who care, here it is:
Prologue
Magicks were on trial.
The laws of the land changed and with these changes came a new religious and societal landscape. No more did the temples of old remain standing; no more were the icons of another belief or another way of life to be displayed freely without fear of...

Friday Guests: Susan Macatee

Since I just reviewed her story, Angel of my Dreams, in the anthology Northern Roses & Southern Belles , I thought I'd interview Susan see what she's been up to recently.
Civil War seems to be your niche, and you're a reenactor, any more plans to revisit this exciting era?

I don't have any Civil War stories in the works right now, but because of the great reviews for my Civil War time travel, Erin's Rebel, I'm considering doing another time travel featuring Civil War reenactors.


Tell me about...

Progress

Still working on my contemporary paranormal trilogy. I think it would have gone better if I could've concentrated during the last 7 weeks, but alas, I blame the holidays. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

In the midst of plotting out Book 2, I keep skipping to Book 3. I had the same problem with my Druids series, but I'm determined NOT to make the same mistakes. Everything has to flow from 1-3, and even though one and three are the most connected plot wise, I can't skimp on two.

Strugglin...

Wednesday Review: Northern Roses & Southern Belles

I decided to post reviews on Wednesdays. I read a lot, OK not as much as I used to--it's hard to read while writing, plus I'm paranoid about plagiarizing something accidentally. But I still read a lot of my fellow authors.


I'm starting with Northern Roses & Southern Belles , since there are a lot of great authors in this anthology...I won't, however, review my own book. :) I'll go in order, starting with Susan Macatee 's Angel of My Dreams.


Holes in time, I love it! I love the mystical aspects of...