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Need a hint to my question on the Summer Sizzling Reads Party?

Hey everyone! The Summer Sizzling Reads Party is under way! A month-long extravaganza of featured authors, stories, and prize giveaways–if you’re looking for some hot summer reads, this is the place to go!

My question is up today–guess correctly, and you’re in the running to win an e-copy of The Boys of Summer!

It’s question #4 on the page and I’ll make it easy for you: the answer is The Battle of Britain. So click on the link, click to enter and you’re set! Then check out the rest of the prize...

The Summer Sizzling Reads Party has begun!

The Summer Sizzling Reads Party has begun! Only it’s more of a *carnival*! Oh man, you have to go check this out–the contests, the puzzles, the prizes–THE STORIES! I’m already finding far too many stories I want to read and I’m just going to have to play the games in hopes of snagging some!

For me, June is blackberry bushes snow-white with blossoms, and the smell of honeysuckle in the air. Early morning walks with the dog in the cool mountain air. Lazing with a book on the sandy beach at the l...

When Your Fandom Heroes Become Heroes for Real…

Most of you following this blog know that I was at Galacticon 3 and ComicPalooza last weekend. I had a great time, though I would argue that one of the difficulties with attending such a large combined convention is that you have to pick and choose what events/panels/presentations you will attend. There were over 20 K attendees when all was said and done. The Convention Center was enormous–a regular rabbit warren of rooms and lecture halls. The venue also held an upscale lawyer’s graduation i...

An Embarrassment of Riches…

I’ve been without the internet for most of the last 24 hours, only getting back online late yesterday, which means I have a lot of catching up to do! Funny how we’ve become *so* dependent on the internet to do all our communications, isn’t it? I was at Galacticon 3 this past weekend with Anna Butler and it was her birthday on Saturday. I wished her happy birthday…VIA FACEBOOK. *facepalm*

I’ve received another outstanding review for The Boys of Summer from Rainbow Book Reviews and their reviewe...

The Summer Sizzling Reads Fest June 1-30th! Prizes Galore!

See that blue box on the top of my home page to the right there? The picture of the beach? The Summer Sizzling Reads Fest starts tomorrow, June 1 and runs until June 30th on the The Romance Reviews site! There will be over 400 participating authors and prizes to be won! Click on the link here (or on the beach icon to the right) to head over to the website and sign up! You do need to register in order to play any of the games there and be entered into the running for prizes.

The Boys of Summer...

Embracing the Courage to Follow Your Dreams…

I’m starting to get a good idea now why people travel. As someone who hasn’t traveled a lot herself, I’d always assumed it was about the journey to see things you’d never seen before. Stained glass in a cathedral in Rome. A Saturn 5 rocket in its entirety. The Hope Diamond. The Greek Isles. A quintessential British fishing village in Cornwall.

I’m beginning to see that it really about the journey itself. Like the poem, Ithaca, which I’ve always loved but never fully appreciated, the story is i...

Testing…is this mike on?

Just a quick test to see if my posts are crossposting appropriately. Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain…

Here’s a random picture just to make it more interesting…

Mrs. Condit gives The Boys of Summer a 5 sweet pea review!

I’m headed out the door for the airport to return home to the daily grind, leaving behind the wonder and excitement that has been Galacticon 3 and Comicpalooza this weekend, but I had to stop for a moment and share this terrific review for The Boys of Summer!

Josie Goodreads of Mrs. Condit Reads Books has given The Boys of Summer a glowing 5 sweet pea review!

Do drop by and leave a comment to be entered into the running for a free copy!

Lessons learned from a post-apocalyptic society…

I have to confess up front: I don’t like post-apocalyptic stories. I don’t like them because watching my favorite characters struggle for survival hits too close to home. My daily experience is one of life and death in a microcosm–work can be very stressful at times. I have to make decisions and live with the consequences. So while I can appreciate finding common ground with favorite characters within a television show, I typically look for something lighter in my home entertainment.

I might b...

Cylons, Colonial Warriors, Geekery, and Review News!

So here I am in Houston enjoying myself tremendously at Galaticon 3 and Comicpalooza! What fun I’m been having! I’ve never considered myself a part of the BSG fandom, though I wrote fanfic for it a long time ago. Man, have I been missing out!

A fan cosplays as Cylon Number Six

Nicki Cline, on being asked if she’d ever felt overwhelmed by fans at a large convention like this commented on the fact that she’d heard from fellow actors how fans in some fandoms didn’t respect an actor’s personal spac...