Ally Blake's Blog, page 34

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Another great writing day today! The story is bustling, The characters are a great match/mismatch. The tension is delicious. Yummdiddilyumptious!

Helps that I've found a local cafe or two that are condusive to inspiration. Both make amaaaazing iced coffees and yummy cupcakes and my very fave white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies.

If this book is a success I may just have to dedicate it to them. And by them I mean the cupcakes and cookies ;). Hey, I've done it before! THE WEDDING DATE , my next Harlequin Presents Extra, was dedicated to raspberry and white chocolate muffins! True.

By the way THE WEDDING DATE now has its own dedicated page on my website. So head on over to get a sneak peek.

bun in the oven

In answer to the lovely Joanne's question, the other day I did make a sneaky reference to the fact that I have Bub number three well on the way :). What with writing, and moving, and stuff the bump has managed to stay under the radar.

Come mid-December I'll have three under three. Heaven help me!

xXx

blue sky for mighty pies!

After ten years of living in Melbourne, primarily staying because we simply couldn't move back home to Brisbane til the Collingwood Magpies won the AFL Premiership, what do they go and do 6 weeks after we leave? THEY WIN THE FLAG!!!!

We left the kidlets with my in-laws (my first ever night away from my babies!) and made the trek back to Melbourne last week. Only to see our team draw. No loss. No win. No idea as to what to feel. No stranger a feeling have I known than at the end of that match, espeically as it was multiplied by the other 100,000 people around me. We knew we wouldn't be back, with littlies to return home to and thousands already spent on what should have been THE big weekend, we decided to go low key and stay home. Maybe that was the key? After being at three Collingwood non-wins in a decade maybe we were the problem? (A fan's gotta do what a fan's gotta do for the team, right?)

And in the best move of the millenium we instead shouted my husband's mum the airfare and grand final ticket to see the rematch. Boy did she have a ball!!!! If she has her voice back by now I'd be much surprised.

And as for us? Even from my lounge room, oh the joy of joys!!! Then out on the town last night I had a slurp of champagne. I had complete strangers address my very pregnant belly as "the next Pendlebury" (best player on the gorund yesterday). And I stood up wind while my hubby and his brother smoked cigars they've had saved since 2002, in waits for Collingwood's next grand final win.

Now we can all sit back and revel, and rewatch the game over and over again for the next few months of off-season. I reckon we can hold off til about February before declaring ourselves absolute favourites to win again next year.

Ah, what the heck, I might just go book our flights back to Melbourne for Grand Final weekend 2011 now!!!

wait there's more...

As an addendum to the previous post...WE HAVE TICKETS!!!

Two more sleeps til Grand Final Day. My stomach is jitter-bugging as I type.

GO PIES!!!!!!!!!!!!

go pies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse my breathlessness, but I'm trying very hard not to hyperventilate on a daily basis since my darling footy team, the Collingwood Magpies made this weekend's Grand Final!!! Eek! Yay! OMG!!!

They've been the best team all year. They finished top of the ladder. Hubby and I were soooo sure they'd make the grand final we actually booked flights to Melbourne this weekend a few weeks ago. But it's still the best kind of shock to know we're there. And there with the most massive chance...

poison

Moving boxes are unpacked (mostly). Toddler is toilet trained. (Little champ!) Website updates for wonderfully understanding clients are done and dusted.

And that means?

The time has finally come for me to dive into my next book. And that means perusing oodles of pictures of this guy. Meet my Nate McCaffrey. He's funny, he's charming, he's hot hot hot. And he has Belladonna Fyfe in a sweat. Though the fact that when they first meet she's in head to toe green Lyrca sure can't help!

Can...

happy batman = happy toddler

For anyone who follows me on Facebook or Twitter will already know, there has been little writing occuring in my house as my husband and I locked ourselves in the house this week in order to encourage our oldest to become toilet trained.

Armed with loads of advice from friends who've been there and done that the first few days still had their rough moments. Day one was made up entirely of "accidents", which surprisingly my sensitive soul of a daughter didn't give a hoot about! There went my...

the wilds of suburbia

We are all settled into our new home - well, if you can count the boxes and boxes of books and DVDs yet to find a home "settled in". though we did just buy 3 metres of bookcases we are planning on lining up aginst one wall and filling to the brim which I am sooo excited about!

The most unexpectedly lovely thing about our move so far has been the wildlife.

Less than twenty kms from the city centre we have gorgeous little grey geckos climibing our windows, especially on rainy days. Gum trees in...

what a week!

We've spent the last week cleaning madly and re-painting the entire inside of our new house. The colour is just gorgeous! a beautiful, warm, dark cream. Yum.

Today we get our furniture delivered. I'm all prepped to be a little general ordering big burly men around and telling them where to put things.

And then comes... the great unpack.

Friday is my brother-in-law's wedding. I've seen the menu so am very excited!!! How my hubby thinks he's getting a look in at either dessert I have no...

want to read my first book ever? here's your chance!

First came news of the re-release of my first Modern Heat, and now...

Come January in the UK, Mills and Boon are oh so kindly re-releasing THE WEDDING WISH , my debut novel! How cool is that? This is the first time it's been published since 2003!

I'm am sooo excited about this turn of events as it holds such a special place in my heart. This is the book that took me from the slush pile. This is the book that introduced me to the editor I still have today. This is the book that made me think...