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Here's to a Most Wonderful 2010 Reading & Writing!

Happy New Year to all of you who make blogging fun. I've got a few goals this year, all involving numbers. Big numbers. Numbers of words and miles and other things, but I'm keeping them to myself. Protecting them in the same way I protect the work until it's ready for public consumption. I have a calendar hung to keep track, two, in fact, and am excited to start plugging in those numbers and watching them rise . . . or in some cases, fall. *g* Yes, things like lists and calculators and...

Here's to a Most Wonderful 2010 of Reading & Writing!

Happy New Year to all of you who make blogging fun. I've got a few goals this year, all involving numbers. Big numbers. Numbers of words and miles and other things, but I'm keeping them to myself. Protecting them in the same way I protect the work until it's ready for public consumption. I have a calendar hung to keep track, two, in fact, and am excited to start plugging in those numbers and watching them rise . . . or in some cases, fall. *g* Yes, things like lists and calculators and...

Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings, Happy Holidays

True foodies & photogs may want to hide their eyes

If you've come here expecting to find this sort of food craftery, you're in the wrong place (but, wowza, isn't that amazing!) as I save my craftery for the stories I tell. What my baking lacks in pretty, it makes up for in yummy. The recipe I use for shortbread sugar cut out cookies was given the name Love Cookies by one of my co-workers because she said our other co-worker who made these every Valentine's Day and Easter and Christmas made them with LOVE. She would take a day of vacation to b...

Nine ways to begin writing

Earlier this year, PBW introduced me to Poets & Writers Magazine. I subscribed, and have received two copies so far, and have devoured both. I think genre writers can get a lot of inspiration looking outside of their writers orgs and genre specific cons, but we tend to know those best so forget there's a big wide world out there to fuel our creativity.

The January / February issue has an article about writing a first novel, and the sidebar list, Nine Ways to Begin Writing really caught...

The character synopsis is a plodding tortoise

Thanks again to all of you who offered congratulations for yesterday's deal news. It's exciting to be a part of something different and challenging (and trust me, if you could be a fly on the wall while those of us involved hash this out, you'd see just how challenging it's going to be, but OH so much FUN). This will definitely have me buckling down and dusting off the bunny feet since I've gotten into the tortoise way of doing things this year. Not that slow and steady is bad, but sometimes ...

I can talk, the media blackout has been lifted

So, I have a sale to announce, but I don't know much about it. I know I'll be writing the book after the first of the year. I know it's due to come out around October. I know the publisher, HCI Books, who is probably best known for their Chicken Soup series. I know it will be a romance, but that's about all I know. Oh, I know I'll be involved in this project with two amazing authors who I've known forever! One made mention of the project yesterday on her blog. The other author is the...

Recent Winners

I totally forgot to pull a winner for the RT Best Blaze nominees, so that winner is:

Marsha Jones – comment #2

My JINGLE BELL ROCK winners are at this link, and my NO LIMITS winners are at this link. I've heard from some of you, but not all, and I haven't mailed anything yet but will do so by this weekend! If you're on the list, send me your mailing address!

Also, the winner of the $250 gift certificate to Amazon that HelenKay Dimon and I gave away was Heather Hart.

If you love GLEE, are you watching the Sing-Off?

These are my fave performances so far and remember. There are NO instruments at all, this is pure a capella. I'll lay odds these two groups will be the last standing!

The ads for the show calls it a cross between Glee and American Idol. It's a sing off, as the title suggests, between voice only groups. The Beelzebubs have been a fixture at Tufts University since the sixties, and Nota is a Puerto Rican band with an amazing fusion of sounds. Take a listen to both. (I was going to add a second...

Exposing cover models

Laurie Damron of Laurie's Laudanum sent me an email last night to let me know that there was more to be seen of my cover model for NO LIMITS on Jo Davis's upcoming release I SPY A WICKED SIN. Fun stuff, huh!