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Thin is sometimes not preferred

Thin bodies, yes. Thin blog posts, not so much. Sorry mine have been thin of late. But my time's been stretched so thin as to almost be transparent. I just have not been able to get online much. And when I do, my $#&! computer's acted wonky. I suspect last year's virus attack left my CPU a bit shaky and weak, and I fear it will collapse at some point.


But for now, the blog tour must go on! Today I'm at Simplistik, where the hero of my dark paranormal, Dead to Rights, is in the interview seat. Come over and learn what makes an angel tick - or what might tick him off. :)

SSS: Jeb's bath

Hey Sixers! Welcome back. Hope you had a great week!
Here's another look at my Western historical, A Midwest Summer Night's Dream. Jeb uses the same bath water Winona used earlier, and it has a strong effect:
I bear a charmed life – no one said it better than Shakespeare, and Jeb could live no other way. Open skies and plenty of space suited his needs, with a borrowed book now and then to help chase away loneliness, but what tomes did Miss Young have stashed in her trunk? The flash of an image through his mind stole his breath. Miss Young—Winona—dipping her hand into this water, letting it run along the skin of her arm, mass of chestnut waves pinned atop her head, long legs leaning against the tub sides, her curving bottom in the self-same spot his now sat. The vision hardened him with uncommon force, and he slid under the water, let the scented water cover him. Better to drown in a porcelain tub than in his own foolishness.
Ah, I love a well-read guy, don't you? :)
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Dead to Rights blog tour continues!

Three more blog spots this week! Two for the Dead to Rights blog tour, and another for my latest release, A Midwest Summer Night's Dream.

Today, I'm at Romance Books R Us for the Western historical, talking about rounding up heroes for stories. Yee haw, ha ha.

On Thursday, I'm at Lia Davis' blog with the topic, Weaving Unrelated Topics into a Story, and basing fiction partially off of actual events.

Friday, I'm at spotlighted at Readers' Eden (what a great blog name, huh?)

I hope you can pop over sometime and say hi. :)

First Loves Blogfest

Thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for yet another fun event! The first loves blog fest celebrates the loves that started it all:  first movie, first song/band, first book, and first person.

First movie
Remember the days when movies were special treats, something you waited and waited for to appear on TV? You had to make sure you watched at a certain time on the scheduled night because there were no recorders, no DVDs, in fact not many conveniences of any kind. (And if you don't relate to this, you're too young!)

When I was a kid, we had three channels, and every year, I waited for this movie to be aired. It has so many great elements - fantasy, an evil witch, a bumbling wanna-be wizard, a spunky heroine. So many characters to root for. Even the Wiz. How many times have you repeated the line, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"?




First song/band
Too easy. The Beatles. I was six years old, and my brothers and sisters, all older than me, could talk about nothing else but them. The night they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show changed my life. I became a rabid fan even at that young age, and from then on, I couldn't get enough of their lyrics, their songs, their movies, their pictures.




First book
Aside from The Velveteen Rabbit? :) I loved Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft and others, but when I read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings, I loved everything about it - the characters, the world Tolkien created, the magic and fantasy and heroism. I was so relieved when the movies didn't trivilialize the books, but brought them to vivid life.




First love
I had a few crushes in my young life, but when I met my hubby, that was it. He was first, last and forever. I was nineteen when I married him after dating for six months, and we're still hanging in there. That's us back in 1977, when he dropped me off at my surprise wedding shower. (No laughing!)


And this is us a year and a half ago, finally celebrating our 33rd anniversary (a few years late) by sailing off into the sunset on a cruise ship.



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SSS: Jeb meets Winona

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there! Hope your kids bring you breakfast in bed and make your day memorable. You deserve it!
Here's another scene from A Midwest Summer Night's Dream, in which Jeb first meets Winona, who's just arrived on the stage coach. He's just finished complaining about the weight of her trunk when he gets a look at her:
Jeb rose along the bell shape of her skirt to where it curved in to her waist, jutted out to her ample bosom sadly confined behind the green fabric, along the graceful arch of her neck to her pinched rosebud mouth, flared nostrils, and dark eyes that sparkled like the clear night skies above a mountaintop. Within the bonnet, chestnut hair framed her heart-shaped face. Her stark stare and peach-blush complexion arrested him—she was no spinster. No chance of that, with her looks.
Still shielding the envelope against herself, she drew to her full height, nearly eye level with him. “The weight of civilization is well worthwhile, Mister…”
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Double billed again today

What a crazy busy week! But very good. I'm so grateful for your support!


Today I'm at the Happily Ever After Thoughts blog. Hope to see you there!


And if you visit Coffee Time Romance, you can enter to win your choice of any of my back list. I'm part of their forum event, and learned that May 13 is actually Leprechaun Day, so named my giveaway Pot o' Gold.
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All Genres blurb fest at TBR this weekend

All authors are invited to post blurbs from their books at TBR this weekend. Any and all genres welcome! Just please be sure they're suitable for general audiences.

Hope to see you there! [image error]

Another stop on the tour

I'm over at Books-n-Kisses today, another stop on the Dead to Rights blog tour! Do I feel like a rock star? (well, not really)

If you have any time to stop by, it would be great to see you there.



In other news...

Congrats to Lorrie Unites-Struiff on the re-release of her very cool story, Gypsy Blood. Isn't that a beautiful cover?

I love Lorrie's writing style. You will, too.Pick up your copy at Amazon! [image error]

Blog tour catchup and another guest post

Busy busy day! I have two stops on my blog tour for Dead to Rights today, first an interview with Close Encounters of the Night Kind and a guest blog at Romancing the Dark Side.

Another interview today at the wonderful Kayelle Allen's site, Romance Lives Forever, is for another dark paranormal, Dancing With the Devil.

Whew! I know you can't visit them all, but it would be great to see you here or there. :) [image error]

SSS: First peek at A Midwest Summer Night's Dream

Hey, Sixers! I'm switching it up this week to a first look at my Western historical with a Shakespearean twist, A Midwest Summer Night's Dream. Here's the opening six:


Strange how fast civilization fell away. Faster with each stop, it seemed to Winona Young. No sooner had the Overland Stagecoach departed the last town—its name meant nothing to her—than plains stretched out, framed by the rectangular coach window like a moving painting. So beautiful, even in its emptiness. Like a clean slate. Exactly what she needed.
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