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February 21, 2017
Springtime in Winter
The weather here has been sorta crazy. Even though Punxsutawny Phil told us on February second that there will be six more weeks of winter, it's been springtime here for a couple of weeks. The forecast through the next week or so says temperatures in the sixties--you know, springtime. My perennials are peeking their little green heads out of the dirt in the front gardens and I saw a robin in the back yard yesterday. A robin! In February! We've been walking in the park each afternoon and man,...
February 20, 2017
Are you intentional?
Sunrise at FlahertysWe are having spring in February here in Indiana. Not sure how long it's going to last, but this week is looking pretty good! It is a time of hopefulness for Good Things to Happen and I'm pinning my wish-I-may, wish-I-might thoughts on that.How are you all coming on your reading for the year? I finished Number 13 this week, a Maggie Osborne re-release, The Bride of Willow Creek , which was every bit as good this time as it was the first time I read it. Right now I'm reading...
February 17, 2017
Villains: Heroes in their own minds
My friend posted a quote the other day, attributed to a Karen Marie Moning book: “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”This quote got me thinking about villains in general and a current favorite TV show in particular. In their own minds, every villain believes he/she is the hero of the story. They are convinced that what they are doing is right and correct.
One of my favorite TV shows this year is “Timeless”. IMDb describes it as “An unlikely trio...
It's a Whole New World!
Writer peep Aleatha Romig, who recently hit the New York Times, USA Today, AND the Wall Street Journal Bestseller lists, has invited other authors to write novellas based in the world of her Infidelity Series. Let that sink in for a sec… how totally cool is it to have other writers crafting stories situated in the world you’ve created?!And if that wasn’t awesome enough, some of those authors are also writer peeps! The Infidelity World will be released on March 23rd, and I’m spotlighting those...
February 16, 2017
Plot Lines
by Margie Senechal I spend a good portion of my life thinking about other people's lives or you know character's lives.
It gets pretty bad sometimes especially when I only listen peripherally to my family and get in trouble for not hearing the whole thing. You'd think they'd be used to it by now.
Lately I find living in my plots preferable to living in reality. Not that my life is bad, it's just that reality is kind of bleak these days.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and pr...
February 15, 2017
On Bingeing and Old Favorites - @AuthorKristina Knight
The cast of The West WingWe're getting ready to cut the cord in our house. A couple of years ago, we got our first Apple TV device - it's kind of like a cable box except it doesn't cost us anything (you know, after we bought it at the store). I'd known about Netflix and Hulu before we bought the Apple thingie, but I could never really get comfortable watching either of them on my computer. It wasn't the same, sitting at my desk and streaming something. Once the Apple TV was in place, tho...
February 14, 2017
February 13, 2017
The more things change... @ Liz Flaherty
Valentine's Day is tomorrow. I hope you have a great day, that you love somebody, that you are loved by somebody, and that you live Happily Ever After.There's an old saying...well, there are a lot of old sayings, but this one, credited to Alphonse Karr, says, "The more things change, the more they are the same." This is also a life lesson, of course, but I've been noticing it the past few weeks in writing.
With my publisher, I submit and sell (or don't) on proposal. I send the first three...
February 10, 2017
Baby Steps to Self-Publishing
I’ve taken some tentative steps into self-publishing. Actually, this step happened a while ago, but I'm changing it up a bit. I self-published a romantic comedy, RESCUE ME, that I wrote some time ago. In fact, it was originally written to target the Duets line of romantic comedies with Harlequin, a line that was around, I think, in the nineties. Talk about a blast from the past!Anyway, I self-published the book about four years ago, more to use as a gift and a giveaway than to actually sell....
Today is Heaven Sent!
Happy Friday, Wranglers! In anticipation of next week's Valentine's Day, I want to spread the love today and spotlight writer peep Mary Abshire. She's doing a giveaway (details at the bottom), releasing a book TODAY, and has a
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angel trilogy lineup! Check out the first book in her "Heaven Sent" Series!"FIRST KILL" BLURB: Andrew enjoys the company of women, perhaps too much. The council in heaven had enough of his sexual promiscuity and sentenced him to return to Earth to de...
