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And the Winner Is

The winner of the ARC of WITH EXTREME PLEASURE is: Sherri

Sorry I'm late to announce, but life kinda got in the way!

And the Winner Is

The winner of the ARC of WITH EXTREME PLEASURE is: Sherri

Sorry I'm late to announce, but life kinda got in the way!

Giving Away an ARC of WITH EXTREME PLEASURE

I launch a brand new autumn blog theme and then I disappear. Sorry about that. Lots of stuff keeping me offline. This weekend I'm in Baton Rouge for the Heart of LA Readers Luncheon. To hold you till I can get back to blogging next week, I'll leave you with a weekend giveaway – an ARC of WITH EXTREME PLEASURE.

ONLY SOMETHING THIS DANGEROUS…

After three weeks in Manhattan, Kingdom Trahan is ready to get back to bayous, crawfish boils, and afternoons fishing on the Gulf. But before he can pull...

Robert McKee Does Romance?

From Publisher's Marketplace:

Screenwriting guru and author of the worldwide bestselling STORY: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, Robert McKee's LOVE STORY and HORROR STORY, the first two in Robert McKee's Genre Series, based on his comprehensive seminars dedicated to specific storytelling genres, to Sean Desmond at Crown, in a major deal, by Shawn Coyne at Genre Management (NA).

Five Reasons Today ROCKS!

In no particular order:

1) It's the first day of autumn!

2) I'm having lunch downtown with friends!

3) I have a new autumn blog theme!

4) I'm getting my hair cut!

5) I got my first review in a major publication!

A huge big ol' box of lovey dovey to Lauren Dane for telling me WITH EXTREME PLEASURE had been reviewed in Publishers Weekly. This should not be such a big deal, but it is. It's my first PW review. I'm excited:

With Extreme Pleasure Alison Kent. Kensington/Brava, $14 paper (288p) ISBN...

The most AMAZING storytelling I've ever "SEEN"

From Wikipedia:

Kseniya Simonova (born 1985) is a sand animator from Ukraine. She was the 2009 Winner of Ukraine's Got Talent[1:], constructing an animation that portrayed life during Ukraine's Great Patriotic War against the Germans in World War II.

A DVD Gem

After her beloved father dies, the sassy Precious Ramotswe (Jill Scott) sells an inheritance of 180 cows to start a detective agency and becomes the first female sleuth in the history of Botswana.

I knew about this series of Alexander McCall Smith books but never read them, but I rented the DVDs from Netflix and watched the pilot last night. Has anyone else seen this HBO production? Oh, it was great! The husband came in at the end and enjoyed the few minutes of what he saw, so I'll have to...

A winner & A funny

Random.org tells me that the winner of the WITH EXTREME PLEASURE arc is:

Sara Winters!

I have a quick funny. No. 1 Daughter FINALLY went to the campus police to get her parking permit. She needed her driver's license, auto insurance card, and proof of school enrollment. Had everything but the last. Went to registration to get a copy. They asked how she'd paid for the semester. Financial aid. Because of that, they couldn't print it; she would have to go to the library and do it herself. She...

My Bookshelves. Let Me Show You Them.

I'm not really showing them, but I am talking about the number of books I own at Lee Hyat's Tote Bags 'n' Blogs site today. Pop over and visit. (And ignore the heinously bad grammar. I swear I fixed that sentence. Now I swear I sent the wrong file, gah.)

Information Gathering: A Readers Poll

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What DO you DO?

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