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Bird by Bird

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Liz...in black and white

I love color. I have a heck of a time picking a favorite--usually blue--because when I'm deciding, a gorgeous shade of red will jump in there...or some earth tones...and...wow...how do you decide? So it took me a while to jump on the Seven-days, seven black-and-white photos, no people, no explanations challenge on Facebook. But I did.

It was fun to do. I had musical things, because being married to a musician changes all things. Brightens things. Adds immeasurably to my life's private soundtra...

Facebook Halloween Hop and Giveaway!

I'm part of a Halloween Hop with many prizes to be won. Enter the Giveaway (link below) and hop on the Facebook hop. There will be a gift card prize to be won at every stop on the Facebook Hop - that's over 70 gift cards to be won! I hope you'll join us!

HALLOWEEN FACEBOOK HOP & GIVEAWAY!Over 70 Authors ~ 2 Awesome Giveaways
We’re treating romance readers to an autumn full of cool prizes. Enter the Falling in Love Romance Giveaway October 24–November 14 and you could take home one...

My Reading Challenge

by Margie Senechal

Something happened on the way toward my read fifty books in a year commitment.

I rediscovered my love of reading. And discovered new genres that I'd been missing out on. I'd like to say the latter was because of the read/watch challenge, but I basically abandoned that one in March or something.

So, for the fifty book challenge, I am currently reading books 40 and 41--one on my Kindle and one hardcopy. That's the other thing I discovered--I like reading "books" again. For the p...

2017 Reading Challenge Update from @AuthorKristina Knight

I was going to check in quarterly with this whole reading challenge, and I just realized we're almost halfway through the 4th quarter without an update, and I'm also pretty sure I skipped right over the 3rd quarter update, too. Whoopsie!

I am reading, though, that's the big thing, right?

Okay, to recap, Liz announced she was doing a 50-books-in-2017 challenge. I thought, hey, I can read 50 books this year...so I glommed on. And Roni Loren is doing a monthly themed, read/watch challenge and that...

On Being “Famous”

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It was going so well, too...

Writing, as I wind down on the book that is due December 1, has gone well the past couple of weeks. I've gotten out of a snarl or two. I've said--right out loud-- "Where in the world did that come from?" when the plot took off on its own in the middle of the night and came back with surprises. I've told Duane, "I can't write one more word. My brain is just totally fried," before coming back out to the office and writing some more.

I love it.

I was writing on Friday or Saturday, and the wor...

Why Not Me?

I get a lot of emails, probably because I sign up for a lot of stuff. Some I delete right away (why did I sign up for this anyway?), others I skim through, and some I actually read. One of the few newsletter-type emails I actually read is from Joseph Michael. His “Cup of Joe” email is interesting and often has some information I can use. A recent Cup of Joe really resonated with me.

My post on Word Wranglers a few Saturdays ago was about finding motivation. I need inspiration to help me finish...

The Name Game

by Margie Senechal

I've been thinking about character names a lot lately. Probably because I realized that I keep using variations of the same name or with the same letter.
I really seem to to like the letters A, J, and R.

In three manuscripts, I have variations of the name Ann--I have Analise, who goes by Ana, Annie, and Anastasia. I also have an Ashlynn.

I have three different Rileys. I've decided to change one of those to Ronald but he'll go by Reb. And in that same manuscript I have a transg...

#NewRelease: Falling for You Anthology from #HarlequinSuperromance authors!

It's release week for Falling for You, and I couldn't be more excited about it! First, because it's a series expansion, and second, because it has been such a joy working with the other authors in the set. We had envisioned the anthology as a spotlight for our line, Harlequin Superromance, but when we heard the line was closing, it became our send-off for the line (but don't stop buying Superromances, there will be new books out through 2018...and our backlist books will be on sale, too!).

The...