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January 8, 2018
I’ve Got My Reading and Writing On!
So, #boutofbooks started today (at midnight) and I’ve done some reading. I have had a stack of books to choose from that I’ve been collecting for just this week. I won’t get all of them read, but I’ll get a few of them finished.
This is what I’m reading:
You are a Badass by Jen Sincero (I started this last year, but I’m determined to finish it this week)
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The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
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and
Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George
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Did you...
January 3, 2018
Happy Wondrous 2018
I started to add some text to the image above, but it’s too beautiful to touch. It’s bright and it’s crisp and it’s new and it’s open. It’s open to all the wonders we can imagine.
Happy 2018, Y’all!
It’s bitterly cold here in the south and while I don’t usually mind cold, we southerners aren’t built for this kind of cold. We have thin blood. We can handle heat and humidity better than most. But this cold stuff? 11 degrees? Nope.
As I write this, though, it’s cloudy and I have two cats in the...
January 1, 2018
Bout of Books 21
It’s time to GET YOUR READ ON!
Bout of Books is a read-a-thon hosted by author/blogger/reader Amanda Shofner and blogger/reviewer/reader Kelly from Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 8th and runs through Sunday, January 14th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 21 information and updates, be...
November 23, 2017
Happy Thanksgiving
If you celebrate Thanksgiving here in America, I wish you a happy and lovely time with good food, good friends, good family, and plenty of good times laughing.
If you’re not in America, I wish you a very happy weekend full of life and love and grand adventures…
Please stay safe wherever you are and know that you are appreciated every day of the year.
~lissa
November 16, 2017
Push Me Harder is Now Available!
Available as an ebook:
When two people must push through the last vestiges of heartache and guilt to embrace life and love, it takes a leap of faith, a lot of tears, and some unbridled sexiness on a porch swing…
Caitlyn never expected to be a widow at the age of thirty.
Jethro never expected to lose his brother in the desert of Afghanistan so far from home.
Neither expected the feelings and desires from long ago to bubble up through the cracks in their hearts.
But for two souls who were ne...
October 26, 2017
New Release in Robyn Peterman’s Magic and Mayhem Kindle World
I can do this. I really can. I can learn to bake a cake. Filled with positive thoughts and repeated affirmations I was pretty sure I didn’t believe, I looked into the bathroom mirror and frowned at my reflection. “What?” I demanded. “Do you doubt me? Well, join the damn club.”
I was a witch or a magician or a strange, freaky person who could flick her fingers and wink her right eye and smiles would appear on nearby faces and hearts would flutter and people w...
October 22, 2017
Hour 23 – If This Was Your Last Day To Read For A Year…
Hi Y’all! Lissa Matthews here! I’ll be holding things together for Hour 23… We’re in the home stretch!
Does the title make you curious? Make you a little anxious? Make you want to wring my neck for planting the mere idea in your head of not reading for a year? I get it… But… What if TODAY was your last day to read a book for a year? That starting after you turn the final page today you’re not allowed to read another book for 365 days… What book would you choose to be the last one? What book w...
October 12, 2017
The End of the Book is in Sight
According to my Pacemaker.press app, I have less than 10K words left to write on this book. That doesn’t of course mean that it’ll end in less than 10K words, but it’ll end pretty close to this weekend’s target word count.
I’ve been writing well this week, so far. The words have been flowing and there’s so much love. No among the characters. No one may be getting blown up here in the next couple thousand words or so, but I’m loving it. I’m in love with the writing and believe me, that helps...
October 9, 2017
Music Monday – Tom Petty: Free Fallin’
In the girl’s locker room, way back when at the Middle School I attended in Gainesville, Florida is a name scrawled on the wall. Tom Petty. I hope they haven’t erased in. I hope they haven’t touched it. It’s a piece of history, iconic musical history. Before he was Tom Petty the star. Before he was Tom Petty the rocker. Before he was Tom Petty of the Heartbreakers, or the Traveling Wilburys. He was just, Tom Petty.
Free Fallin’ was my favorite song of his as it was for many people.
RIP Tom Pe...
October 5, 2017
To Finish Or Not To Finish The Book…
There really isn’t a question or an option. Finishing the book is a must. And soon. Like soon soon. Like a few weeks ago soon.
So, once again, I’m on a mission to write 10,000 words this weekend. 2500 words a day for 4 days. That’s what I must do. The book will be out later this month, so, I really have no choice. Life, once again… Well, it’s can’t get in the way. It has to be put on hold and the family has to fend for itself and I have to be left alone for a few hours a day.
Writing sprints...
