Amy Ruttan's Blog, page 17

Murder & Revenge

Wow, I can't believe it's 4 days until Christmas. YIKES! My kids certainly know it. They're climbing the walls, which is awesome. I swear the older they get the better it gets. They truly "get" Santa this year. I took them to see Santa in the mall and they were awe struck and shy. WOW! James, well he just gets excited everyone else is. He's 6 months on the 26th and that also kind of is amazing. Where has the time gone?

Anyways, I'm making my monthly visit to The Raven Happy Hour blog talking a...

Satin Sash

I can't believe the day is here. Red Garnier's first NY release! YEAH RED!

This is on my X-mas list. Yep, I'm making DH go in and buy it. Hehehe.

So here is muay pimpage for my good friend and very hot trio.

He loved her.

 

She loved him.

 

And then there was another who loved them both . . .

 

Business partners Grey Richards and Heath Solis are best friends, even though they're as different as night and day. Grey is calm, confident, and always in control. Heath is as passionate as his smoldering...

No rest for the weary

No rest from Mr. Bump who is teething. He's cut 1 and 2, but he's working on 3 and 4. Thanks to another mother I've found a great homeopathic remedy, and it seems to be making him less grumpy.

I finished NaNo and had 1 day where I didn't do anything. Then what happens? New idea comes, and I've started writing again. Again another genre I really have never written and no nothing about, but it seems to be flowing well. I've even done the synopsis.

*sigh* Looks like a few more sleepless nights...

Now What?

Well, I am finished the WIP which consumed my very existence since October 20th. Seriously I couldn't think of anything else. Sometimes when I am writing I think of other books, other projects, the characters are arguing. These characters came in, sat down and all I heard was them. Day and night.

Now that I've finished the book, done a read through myself, done the blurb and have sent it off to my trusty CP's I'm sitting here wondering now what? Well, I should really do the synopsis, but I...

NaNo Done & Chocolate

Well, Tuesday night I got the official purple bar. Oh yes, not only did I finish NaNoWriMo but I finished my WIP. [image error]

Yesterday I was planning on going back through and reading, but instead I did the blurb. It took 15 drafts to get the high concept pitch just right. I hate writing them, but it's one less thing to do when I start querying in a couple of weeks.

So after the blurb was done I thought it was time for a decadent reward from my month of hard work (I started the WIP on October 20th).

No...

Quoth The Raven

I'm over at The Raven Happy Hour Blog for my first ever post! I'll be posting the third Monday of each month about Canadian Hauntings.

You can find my post here, all about the Ghost Road in Port Perry Ontario. A Ghost I've had a run in with.

So come visit with me!

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Lest We Forget

Since becoming a mother of 2 boys I have a hard time watching war movies. I picture my boys in the soldier's place and it breaks my heart. Recently I watched a movie on TVO, a biopic of Rudyard Kipling called My Boy Jack. Yeah I bawled, and then I went to see if Rudyard's son survived WWI.

He didn't, and then Rudyard wrote this poem:

 MY BOY JACK~Rudyard Kipling circa 1914-1918

"HAVE you news of my boy Jack? "
Not this tide.
"When d'you think that he'll come back?"
Not with this wind blowing, and...

NaNo Update 1 Week In

WOW what an intense week of writing. I have hit (as of Saturday November 7th) 19k in my WIP. I started NaNo my Urban Fantasy was sitting at about 23k and now it is at 41k. I am immensley happy. I'm also happy it still seems to be flowing. I mean it's a first draft so I know I'll be going back over to make sure her internal conflict is layered through the story. It's a first person POV so I only have to worry about her GMC etc.

I also have to make sure I tie up loose ends, because the UF is...

Lots of things

How was everyone's Halloween? We didn't have as many kids as we usually do. I usually buy about 150 mini chocolate bars and am able to give them all away. The street is humming with kids, I live on a crescent with a school so there is no shortage of trick 0′ treaters. This year not so much. By the end of the night I was giving the few kids coming to my door handfuls, and I still didn't get rid of all my candy. I bought double because Halloween was on a Saturday and I was expecting a lot...

Over at Leah's

I'm over at Leah's today right here.

 I'm talking about Halloween Costumes and she's graciously giving away a copy of Masque. E-book of course.

I'll be away tomorrow helping the kidlets get ready for Halloween, and baking lots of treats for my brood. I love Halloween. So have a safe and haunting but happy Halloween! Boo!

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