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November 23, 2010
Bragging on my babies!
Happy Tuesday, peeps!
Song of the day- We R Who We R by Ke$ha
I'm so stinking excited to finally be able to share some cheer video with you! Athletic Perfection had its Pre-season rally last Thursday, showcasing performances from each of the seven teams. The athletes have really stepped up their game this season and are AMAZING!
Things are a little different this year. We're keeping the stunts top secret until after our Dec 11-12 competition, so the video posted below will be of the girls tumbling, jumping and dancing.
In case you missed yesterday's post, I've been up to my ears in book three in the Hanaford Park series, and most recently, revising my romantic suspense, Obsessed. I'm hoping to finish up the revisions in the next day or two and send that puppy off to my agent. Then it's back to Gabriel and Taylor in The Witching Hour.
Hope you have a great Tuesday!!
Song of the day- We R Who We R by Ke$ha
I'm so stinking excited to finally be able to share some cheer video with you! Athletic Perfection had its Pre-season rally last Thursday, showcasing performances from each of the seven teams. The athletes have really stepped up their game this season and are AMAZING!
Things are a little different this year. We're keeping the stunts top secret until after our Dec 11-12 competition, so the video posted below will be of the girls tumbling, jumping and dancing.
In case you missed yesterday's post, I've been up to my ears in book three in the Hanaford Park series, and most recently, revising my romantic suspense, Obsessed. I'm hoping to finish up the revisions in the next day or two and send that puppy off to my agent. Then it's back to Gabriel and Taylor in The Witching Hour.
Hope you have a great Tuesday!!
November 22, 2010
Meet an author Monday
Happy Monday, peeps!
Can you believe it's almost Thanksgiving? The holidays snuck up on me this year.
Before we get to the hop, I thought I'd give you an update as to how things are with me since I've been pretty absent lately.
In case you missed it, I participated in NaNoWriMo again this year. Notice how I used past tense for participated? Yep, I ... uh... got a little behind and well .... uh ... then I received a revision letter for my romantic suspense. The revision letter took precedence, so my Nano novel got pushed to the side. Surprisingly, I'm okay with this. I got a huge chunk written on the project and I'm thinking the small break will leave me refreshed and ready to finish it up.
Along with the writing, I've been busy performing cheer related activities. My girls have their first competition in two weeks. Woot! This means we've been busy with things like pictures, a pre-season rally, and lots of extra practices. I'm excited to be able to post a video tomorrow of some of their performance from the recent rally. Woot!
Okay, on to the hop!!
Authors! Have a book out? Are you under contract for publication? Make sure you join in the hop. This is a great way to network your blog and let readers know who you are!
Here's how it works:
READERS:
Follow as many authors as you like. Just follow the Linky list and hop from author to author. The idea is to find as many "new to you" authors as you can, and hopefully some great new reading material as well. Leave a comment as you hop from blog to blog! We'd love to chat with you!
AUTHORS:
Follow the Meet an author Monday host (Cali Cheer Mom) along with any of the wonderfully talented authors on the list.You will need to enter your name and blog url into the Linky tool.Grab our super cute button and place it in a post. (THIS IS IMPORTANT!) If you don't create a post for the hop, your readers won't have a place to comment, and the hop will stop with you. So create a post, paste in the Linky code and start hopping!The purpose of the hop is to meet "new to you" authors and discover great new reads. Follow as many authors as you can. Leave a comment and introduce yourself!If you'd like to share the Linky list in a post on your blog ( Please do!) just follow the link and grab the code.
Can you believe it's almost Thanksgiving? The holidays snuck up on me this year.
Before we get to the hop, I thought I'd give you an update as to how things are with me since I've been pretty absent lately.
In case you missed it, I participated in NaNoWriMo again this year. Notice how I used past tense for participated? Yep, I ... uh... got a little behind and well .... uh ... then I received a revision letter for my romantic suspense. The revision letter took precedence, so my Nano novel got pushed to the side. Surprisingly, I'm okay with this. I got a huge chunk written on the project and I'm thinking the small break will leave me refreshed and ready to finish it up.
Along with the writing, I've been busy performing cheer related activities. My girls have their first competition in two weeks. Woot! This means we've been busy with things like pictures, a pre-season rally, and lots of extra practices. I'm excited to be able to post a video tomorrow of some of their performance from the recent rally. Woot!
Okay, on to the hop!!
Authors! Have a book out? Are you under contract for publication? Make sure you join in the hop. This is a great way to network your blog and let readers know who you are!
Here's how it works:
READERS:
Follow as many authors as you like. Just follow the Linky list and hop from author to author. The idea is to find as many "new to you" authors as you can, and hopefully some great new reading material as well. Leave a comment as you hop from blog to blog! We'd love to chat with you!
AUTHORS:
Follow the Meet an author Monday host (Cali Cheer Mom) along with any of the wonderfully talented authors on the list.You will need to enter your name and blog url into the Linky tool.Grab our super cute button and place it in a post. (THIS IS IMPORTANT!) If you don't create a post for the hop, your readers won't have a place to comment, and the hop will stop with you. So create a post, paste in the Linky code and start hopping!The purpose of the hop is to meet "new to you" authors and discover great new reads. Follow as many authors as you can. Leave a comment and introduce yourself!If you'd like to share the Linky list in a post on your blog ( Please do!) just follow the link and grab the code.
November 15, 2010
Meet an author Monday
Authors! Have a book out? Are you under contract for publication? Make sure you join in the hop. This is a great way to network your blog and let readers know who you are!
Here's how it works:
READERS:
Follow as many authors as you like. Just follow the Linky list and hop from author to author. The idea is to find as many "new to you" authors as you can, and hopefully some great new reading material as well. Leave a comment as you hop from blog to blog! We'd love to chat with you!
AUTHORS:
Follow the Meet an author Monday host (Cali Cheer Mom) along with any of the wonderfully talented authors on the list.You will need to enter your name and blog url into the Linky tool.Grab our super cute button and place it in a post. (THIS IS IMPORTANT!) If you don't create a post for the hop, your readers won't have a place to comment, and the hop will stop with you. So create a post, paste in the Linky code and start hopping!The purpose of the hop is to meet "new to you" authors and discover great new reads. Follow as many authors as you can. Leave a comment and introduce yourself!If you'd like to share the Linky list in a post on your blog ( Please do!) just follow the link and grab the code.
Here's how it works:
READERS:
Follow as many authors as you like. Just follow the Linky list and hop from author to author. The idea is to find as many "new to you" authors as you can, and hopefully some great new reading material as well. Leave a comment as you hop from blog to blog! We'd love to chat with you!
AUTHORS:
Follow the Meet an author Monday host (Cali Cheer Mom) along with any of the wonderfully talented authors on the list.You will need to enter your name and blog url into the Linky tool.Grab our super cute button and place it in a post. (THIS IS IMPORTANT!) If you don't create a post for the hop, your readers won't have a place to comment, and the hop will stop with you. So create a post, paste in the Linky code and start hopping!The purpose of the hop is to meet "new to you" authors and discover great new reads. Follow as many authors as you can. Leave a comment and introduce yourself!If you'd like to share the Linky list in a post on your blog ( Please do!) just follow the link and grab the code.
November 12, 2010
First Gifts blog hop Nov 19-21
Happy Friday, peeps!
Song of the day- Only Time by Enya (Yep, taking it way back today. Perfect song for WIP)
I'm super excited to share with you what I'm sure is going to be a very fun blog hop next weekend.
Liz Fichera, author of Captive Spirit, is hosting a First Gifts blog hop next weekend (Nov 19-21.)
You can find her blog here.
What exactly is a First Gifts blog hop? It's simple really. Come and share a story about the first gift you ever received from your significant other, no matter how silly, sexy or wonderful it may be.
Sounds fun, right?
Make sure to include the cute button above in your post, and if you're not following Liz, you really should. She's fabulous!
Can't wait to join the hop and read all of your fun stories! See you there!
Song of the day- Only Time by Enya (Yep, taking it way back today. Perfect song for WIP)
I'm super excited to share with you what I'm sure is going to be a very fun blog hop next weekend.
Liz Fichera, author of Captive Spirit, is hosting a First Gifts blog hop next weekend (Nov 19-21.)
You can find her blog here.
What exactly is a First Gifts blog hop? It's simple really. Come and share a story about the first gift you ever received from your significant other, no matter how silly, sexy or wonderful it may be.
Sounds fun, right?
Make sure to include the cute button above in your post, and if you're not following Liz, you really should. She's fabulous!
Can't wait to join the hop and read all of your fun stories! See you there!
November 11, 2010
E-pirates suck. Rant!
Hey, peeps.
Not exactly the type of post I wanted to type. In fact, I wasn't planning on making a blog post tonight at all. I was planning on working on book three in the Hanaford Park series.
I'm participating in Nano to try and get a good chunk of this manuscript done, and hadn't had a chance to write this morning. I came home from dropping my girls off at cheer and sat down to write when I received a Google alert leading me to a file sharing site with three different links to my book. All were uploaded by the same jerk whose name I will refrain from sharing at this time.
I Googled this turd's name and found he's uploaded my book elsewhere as well. In fact, one of the forums I was led to was hosted in a different country! Couldn't navigate the site to save my life.
How am I supposed to fight that? Sure, I sent a take down notice to the sites I was able to navigate. Thing is, I can't find a place to contact this jerk to ask him nicely to stop giving away my book for free. All I've got is a name, and I'm not even sure it's correct.
This blows!
As I said above, I'm currently working on book three, and to be honest with you, it's the most challenging thing I've written so far. Time travel, historical aspects ... lots of things that are fun, but take time to wrap my head around. It's been slow going, and when this type of crap happens, it makes me feel like tossing my laptop into the pool. I've been guilting myself for days for being short on my Nano word count, for not finishing faster. I agonize over every single word I type out.
Then this happens. Let me tell you, it sucks the wind right out of my sails.
Yes, I realize I'm a newbie author, a tadpole in the big pond. I also realize there are those that think because I'm not published with the "Big Six" that I'm not published at all, and I should probably quit complaining.
Whatever! I worked hard. I fulfilled a dream, and dammit, it pisses me off that people stomp all over it and steal from me.
E-piracy is wrong, people! Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Not exactly the type of post I wanted to type. In fact, I wasn't planning on making a blog post tonight at all. I was planning on working on book three in the Hanaford Park series.
I'm participating in Nano to try and get a good chunk of this manuscript done, and hadn't had a chance to write this morning. I came home from dropping my girls off at cheer and sat down to write when I received a Google alert leading me to a file sharing site with three different links to my book. All were uploaded by the same jerk whose name I will refrain from sharing at this time.
I Googled this turd's name and found he's uploaded my book elsewhere as well. In fact, one of the forums I was led to was hosted in a different country! Couldn't navigate the site to save my life.
How am I supposed to fight that? Sure, I sent a take down notice to the sites I was able to navigate. Thing is, I can't find a place to contact this jerk to ask him nicely to stop giving away my book for free. All I've got is a name, and I'm not even sure it's correct.
This blows!
As I said above, I'm currently working on book three, and to be honest with you, it's the most challenging thing I've written so far. Time travel, historical aspects ... lots of things that are fun, but take time to wrap my head around. It's been slow going, and when this type of crap happens, it makes me feel like tossing my laptop into the pool. I've been guilting myself for days for being short on my Nano word count, for not finishing faster. I agonize over every single word I type out.
Then this happens. Let me tell you, it sucks the wind right out of my sails.
Yes, I realize I'm a newbie author, a tadpole in the big pond. I also realize there are those that think because I'm not published with the "Big Six" that I'm not published at all, and I should probably quit complaining.
Whatever! I worked hard. I fulfilled a dream, and dammit, it pisses me off that people stomp all over it and steal from me.
E-piracy is wrong, people! Wrong, wrong, wrong!
November 10, 2010
Woohoo Wednesday Vlog!
Lol! Try not to laugh. That's all I'm sayin' :D
November 8, 2010
Meet an author Monday and a special birthday wish :D
Good morning, peeps! It's Monday again, which means it's time for the Meet an author blog hop.
But before we get to the hop, I want to take a moment and give a happy birthday shout out to a new friend of mine, Killian McRae. Hope you have a wonderful day, bb!
Killian's debut novel, 12.21.12 releases December 21st. Make sure to stop by her website for more info! http://www.killianmcrae.com/
Authors! Have a book out? Are you under contract for publication? Make sure you join in the hop. This is a great way to network your blog and let readers know who you are!
Here's how it works:
READERS:
Follow as many authors as you like. Just follow the Linky list and hop from author to author. The idea is to find as many "new to you" authors as you can, and hopefully some great new reading material as well. Leave a comment as you hop from blog to blog! We'd love to chat with you!
AUTHORS:
Follow the Meet an author Monday host (Cali Cheer Mom) along with any of the wonderfully talented authors on the list.You will need to enter your name and blog url into the Linky tool.Grab our super cute button and place it in a post. (THIS IS IMPORTANT!) If you don't create a post for the hop, your readers won't have a place to comment, and the hop will stop with you. So create a post, paste in the Linky code and start hopping!The purpose of the hop is to meet "new to you" authors and discover great new reads. Follow as many authors as you can. Leave a comment and introduce yourself!If you'd like to share the Linky list in a post on your blog ( Please do!) just follow the link and grab the code.
Hope you have a wonderful day!!
But before we get to the hop, I want to take a moment and give a happy birthday shout out to a new friend of mine, Killian McRae. Hope you have a wonderful day, bb!
Killian's debut novel, 12.21.12 releases December 21st. Make sure to stop by her website for more info! http://www.killianmcrae.com/
Authors! Have a book out? Are you under contract for publication? Make sure you join in the hop. This is a great way to network your blog and let readers know who you are!
Here's how it works:
READERS:
Follow as many authors as you like. Just follow the Linky list and hop from author to author. The idea is to find as many "new to you" authors as you can, and hopefully some great new reading material as well. Leave a comment as you hop from blog to blog! We'd love to chat with you!
AUTHORS:
Follow the Meet an author Monday host (Cali Cheer Mom) along with any of the wonderfully talented authors on the list.You will need to enter your name and blog url into the Linky tool.Grab our super cute button and place it in a post. (THIS IS IMPORTANT!) If you don't create a post for the hop, your readers won't have a place to comment, and the hop will stop with you. So create a post, paste in the Linky code and start hopping!The purpose of the hop is to meet "new to you" authors and discover great new reads. Follow as many authors as you can. Leave a comment and introduce yourself!If you'd like to share the Linky list in a post on your blog ( Please do!) just follow the link and grab the code.
Hope you have a wonderful day!!
November 5, 2010
It's madness, madness I tell you!
It's Friday! Thank goodness!!!
Song of the day- Bad Romance by Lady Gaga
So I was a slouch this week.
Scratch that. I've been a writing machine this week, but I've been a slouch when it comes to my blog (ducks and hides.)
I wasn't going to participate in Nano this year, but got sucked in at the last minute. I'm now feverishly pounding away at the keys for a better part of the day, every day, in a manic attempt to finish book three. Yes, there will be tons of editing, and lots of revising once I'm finished, but to be able to finish this sucker before Christmas would be great.
That being said, my blog might be a little quiet for the next couple of weeks. I'm going to do my best to keep up, but if I miss a post, it's because I'm knee deep in my manuscript, plugging away.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! Mwah!
Song of the day- Bad Romance by Lady Gaga
So I was a slouch this week.
Scratch that. I've been a writing machine this week, but I've been a slouch when it comes to my blog (ducks and hides.)
I wasn't going to participate in Nano this year, but got sucked in at the last minute. I'm now feverishly pounding away at the keys for a better part of the day, every day, in a manic attempt to finish book three. Yes, there will be tons of editing, and lots of revising once I'm finished, but to be able to finish this sucker before Christmas would be great.
That being said, my blog might be a little quiet for the next couple of weeks. I'm going to do my best to keep up, but if I miss a post, it's because I'm knee deep in my manuscript, plugging away.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! Mwah!
November 2, 2010
Athletic Perfection's new uniforms! Squeee!!
Woot! Woot! Woot!
Can you tell I'm a little excited?
Check out the new unis! Soooooo cute! So sporty!
November is a busy month. Not only am I participating in NaNoWriMo, but the girls have cheer pics, and their pre-season rally. First competition is the beginning of December. Woot! The girls are so ready to show off their amazing skills. Can't wait!!
Can you tell I'm a little excited?
Check out the new unis! Soooooo cute! So sporty!
November is a busy month. Not only am I participating in NaNoWriMo, but the girls have cheer pics, and their pre-season rally. First competition is the beginning of December. Woot! The girls are so ready to show off their amazing skills. Can't wait!!
Nano!!
Happy Tuesday, peeps!
Song of the day- If You Seek Amy by Britney Spears
Ahhhhh! It's November! That means it's time for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.) My butt will be glued to my writing chair for the next four weeks in a mad attempt to finish book three in the Hanaford Park series, tentatively titled The Witching Hour.
You won't see a ton of reviews from me this month as I'm going to be spending most of my time writing. If you see me lingering about on Twitter or FB, please, kick some sense into my ass and remind me to get back to my writing :)
Thank you, bb's!
Song of the day- If You Seek Amy by Britney Spears
Ahhhhh! It's November! That means it's time for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.) My butt will be glued to my writing chair for the next four weeks in a mad attempt to finish book three in the Hanaford Park series, tentatively titled The Witching Hour.
You won't see a ton of reviews from me this month as I'm going to be spending most of my time writing. If you see me lingering about on Twitter or FB, please, kick some sense into my ass and remind me to get back to my writing :)
Thank you, bb's!
