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Hot & Bothered

Yeah, that's how I felt yesterday. Yikes!

It was so darn hot here in Sydney. The heat didn't let up at all, even into the night. Still, in spite of that (or maybe because of it) I slept really well last night. I even had some really cool dreams...
Anyway. I wonder if it's going to be another hot one today. Probably. It looks pretty sunny out there and I'm already feeling the heat, lol.
Well, I've been hard at work on The Hidden #6 revision. I even managed to squeeze in another chapter this...

Hey, it's Monday...

...and I'm feeling good. Wonder how long that will last? lol.
No, seriously, I'm all ready to get stuck into the third/final draft of The Hidden #6. Of course, there'll be editing in the future, but all I want to do right now is make it as shiny as I can before submitting it to my awesome editor.
The first thing I did was change the font from Courier (which I like to use for first and second drafts, for some bizarre reason) to Times, which actually means that the total page count went down...

THE LILY BARD MYSTERIES #4: Shakespeare's Trollop by Charlaine Harris

Lily Bard just wanted to start life over - but life had different ideas. A thrilling crime series from an international bestseller!
This omnibus contains the titles SHAKESPEARE'S LANDLORD, SHAKESPEARE'S CHAMPION, SHAKESPEARE'S CHRISTMAS, SHAKESPEARE'S TROLLOP and SHAKESPEARE'S COUNSELOR.

Lily Bard is starting over again. She's disguised herself as much as she can, cutting her hair short and wearing baggy clothes and she's moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas, where, working as a cleaning lady, she...

Weekly Reading Challenge Update:

Books Read So Far in 2011: 10/100

Is it really the weekend, already?

Yep, it is. Wow, this week has really flown. Especially the last two days.
I haven't had a chance to drop in and blog properly because I got caught up in edits/revisions for one of my upcoming novellas for ImaJinn Books.

That's right. Very soon, there'll be a bunch of free novellas available for download at ImaJinn, and I'll have two available: a story about a gargoyle, and a prequel novella for The Hidden series. Very exciting! And I'll keep you posted as more info becomes available.
Anyway...

I got a blog award! Yay

The other day I got this:

Thanks so much to Margaret West for the honour. :)
These are the rules for accepting this award:

* Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award. (done that above)
* Share 7 things about yourself. (done that below)
* Award 10 recently discovered great bloggers and contact these bloggers and tell them about the award. (done that below my 7 things)

Seven things about me:

1. I'm a bibliophile
2. Listening to My Chemical Romance puts me in a good mood & makes me s...

ROSEBUSH by Michele Jaffe

A dark, sexy psychological thriller from a fantastic new voice in YA fiction.
Jane is found, near death, in a rosebush - a victim of hit and run. But as she s convalescing she realizes that her friends stories and her memories of what happened that night aren t adding up.
And now the only thing she does know is that one of her friends isn t so friendly.
One of them tried to kill her.
Sometimes the truth is a very thorny thing...
When I received an ARC for this book, I have to admit that I was i...

THE LILY BARD MYSTERIES #3: Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris

Lily Bard just wanted to start life over - but life had different ideas. A thrilling crime series from an international bestseller!
This omnibus contains the titles SHAKESPEARE'S LANDLORD, SHAKESPEARE'S CHAMPION, SHAKESPEARE'S CHRISTMAS, SHAKESPEARE'S TROLLOP and SHAKESPEARE'S COUNSELOR.

Lily Bard is starting over again. She's disguised herself as much as she can, cutting her hair short and wearing baggy clothes and she's moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas, where, working as a cleaning lady, she...

Hiya!

Welcome to a new week!
This one's going to be a broken-up one. Yay. Hubby goes to work today and tomorrow, has Wednesday off (it's Australia Day, here in Oz), then goes back to finish the work-week with Thursday and Friday. Phew. After that, the weekend rolls around, and my daughter goes back to school next Monday.
That's also when I plan to throw myself into the third/final draft of The Hidden #6. So I've got to prepare myself for that this week, which means reading up on a few last-minute...

Weekly Reading Challenge Update:

Yeah, I've decided to update this Reading Challenge once a week. :)
Books Read So Far in 2011: 8/100