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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

The storm that dropped temperatures and ice from Texas to the Mississippi is planning to bring snow my way later today.  Anyone who’s read my loving winter post at Romance Books ’4′ Us this week already knows snow brings out the little kid in me. I’m not alone.

LOL that clip always makes me laugh.

We have a perfect sledding hill here. Many’s the winter when we’d invite friends for night sledding. We had it all — adult kids, real kids, sled-chasing (and riding) dogs, warm drinks, strong drinks and munchies. Our sledding nights were gloriously fun. Truck tire inner tubes, cafeteria trays, runner sleds, inflatables of all sorts, and toboggans ran our hill. If it could be ridden, we rode it. One year upon discovering our king-sized waterbed had a leak, we drained it and saved it for sledding. Imagine an inflated king-sized mattress with duct taped handles on it and 10 people piled on like a tackle at the Super Bowl. It was hysterical.

I think about running that hill at night every time we have deep snow. Then I think of that long trudge up the hill. 

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I stumbled upon some high-resolution magnified snowflake images yesterday and they got me thinking about the mechanics of snow.  This is what gives a flake its shape:

As one of the states of water, snow is made up of two particles — hydrogen and oxygen. Oxygen as the negative force becomes the center molecule that begins the snowflake. Hydrogen, the positive force, attaches to the sides (always 6 sides and always at a 104.5 degree angle). As this bundle drops from the sky it rolls and bumps into other molecules. These get attached and form the snowflake we all find so lovely. The process is rife with variables in temperature and humidity on the long fall to earth so that ensures no two are ever alike. They may be similar, but each is 100% unique.

When I was teaching, I’d describe all the mechanics to my students then follow with this fun project. If you’re interested in cutting out a 6-sided snowflake for winter decorations, youtube has many  instructions for paper-folding and cutting “snowflakes”. A good portion of how-to videos offer a fun activity but the end product won’t be a 6-sided flake. You must start with a three fold for that perfect snowflake.

This site offers nice templates

http://www.papersnowflakes.com/6sided

One of the best math explanations comes from Vihart. I find all of her math and geometry videos exceptional. Here, she also shows how to cut out perfect paper stars.

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Just days left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 3 entries to come.

Here’s another:

“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”

~ Franklin P Jones

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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and

plan to keep it up from now until January. Because

I can’t decide which to post, today I’m posting two.

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a guest Blog with Elaine Cantrell.

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RB4U is participating in author Nikki Barrett’s READER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY — Lots of prizes. Enter today!

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This week I had my blog day on Romance Books ’4′ Us. Come see how much I love snow. http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/2013/12/timing-is-everything.html

And…our new contest has approximately 30 prizes for one winner, including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. I’m adding a free book from my backlist to the loot. Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

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Precious Details

Wow, no one ever explained to me that when you’ve reached the age of “over the hill” time accelerates on the downward slope. I swear I just cooked a Thanksgiving dinner the other day and today my calendar says it’s the 7th already. Today is full of things that need doing and tonight the first of a string of holiday parties.  It’s a good time to recycle something! I have just the thing. A few weeks ago, author Victoria Adams hosted me on her blog as part of the publicity for our Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology debut. Here’s a replay:

A retelling of the Christmas Miracle, and how I came to write it.

I’m often asked how I come to write the stories I do. That answer is hard to pin down because I write all sorts of things from children’s early readers to historical non-fiction. I suppose writing is just the natural progression of a story collector. I’ve been collecting stories ever since I was a child. I especially love when older folks share their memories — I could listen to seniors reminisce for hours. With an active imagination and background in history, I can fill in the blanks and I see their life and times unfold right before my eyes.

Like so many of my generation, I grew up listening to my elders at the kitchen table. Nowhere else in the house was suitable for such discourse. Important conversation could only occur there – a habit harkening back to the days when the hearth was the center of all activity. Melmac coffee cups and chromed percolator, those ritual items of adult conversation in the 1960’s, sat beside ashtrays of Pall Malls whose tendrils of eye-stinging smoke swirled to the ceiling When my parents, aunts, uncles, and friends got together, they discussed everything from politics to the day to day business of their lives. They also played pinochle and laughed and told stories.

I’d sit there on some aunt or uncle’s lap soaking up stories like a little sponge. More often, I’d be somewhere on the floor listening quietly and drawing pictures amid the jungle of legs. I still remember bits and pieces of some of the stories shared at the table, and I’ve collected stories ever since.

When my husband and I moved our little family to this farm house years ago, we immersed ourselves in the land and the history. Everyday details of the area, including adjacent farmsteads, were stories waiting to be discovered. I knew about the man who went to California as a miner ‘49’er and came back after striking it rich. I know there are three children buried along the back road because the farm was quarantined when they lost their lives during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. I know about the pioneer cemetery where five children are buried after the morbid sore throat ravaged the family in the 1850’s. I know about the grisly murder of a farm hand and the lime pit on the hill that dissolved the body. I know about the hidy-hole secret in the house next door that hints at Underground Railroad activity. And I wonder about the molar we found in that house’s cistern. From the older folks who remember when rural electrification came through my area in the late1930′s comes one of my favorite stories — How the Christmas tree was lit for the first time when electricity finally came to the country. This is the basis for Star of Wonder. The rest is a tribute to the Christmas story. As with all of my stories, Star of Wonder has its share of metaphor.

Many of our oldest neighbors have passed on, but I still have their stories. I cherish and share the details of their lives wherever I can. And through their retelling, those lives are remembered. I encourage everyone to ask questions of their elders. The details of their lives are as precious as the time left to tell them. Make their stories yours and share them. And then share your own.

Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol.

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Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

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Less than one week left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 4 entries to come.

Here’s another from the Bard. I just love this one:

“No sooner met but they looked; No sooner looked but they loved; No sooner loved but they sighed; No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.”

~ William Shakespeare
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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January. Today I’m posting a pair with puppies.

Cool camera.

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Stop by the Exquisite Quills blog today for an interview with erotic romance author Jane Leopold Quinn.

Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog. Join us tomorrow for our Sunday open promo ~ Set the Scene in Six

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I’m not blogging much because I’m taking a holiday break, but you can still discover my books and a little bit about me. Just click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

My unusual love stories are in both ebook and paperback and can be found wherever books are sold. Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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a guest Blog with Denise Alicea.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

RB4U is participating in author Nikki Barrett’s READER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY — Lots of prizes. Enter today!

https://www.facebook.com/NikkiLynnBarrettauthor/app_228910107186452

This week I had my blog day on Romance Books ’4′ Us. Come see how much I love snow. http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/2013/12/timing-is-everything.html

And…our new contest has approximately 30 prizes for one winner, including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. I’m adding a free book from my backlist to the loot. Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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A fire sparkling

Only 5 more love quotes to go in the 100 Things Blogging Challenge.I’ve been posting a little something from my chosen topic for nearly 100 days. I’m often so busy I sometimes neglect this blog for other things. Needless to say, making a commitment to blog 100 days at a time is good for me. When this challenge ends, I’ll do another.

Today I’m offering a little something from the Bard. I’ve said before Shakespeare and I go way back…lol no, I’m not that old.

My love of his works traces roots to an honors English class my freshman year in high school. The teacher, compelled by the spelling of my last name, sat me right next to the scale model of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater and the stack of corresponding books I could read if I finished my work before the bell rang. I’ve always been a very fast reader with quick comprehension of the written word so the Bard and I had lots of time together.

As I recall, most of my classmates hated Shakespeare because the language often takes time to interpret. Understanding what he was getting at never gave me trouble, even though he often made up words out of thin air. You have to take the scene as a whole. Once you do that, it all makes beautiful and poetic sense. Shakespeare adherents claim nearly 2000 never-seen-before words came out of that brilliant mind of his, and he often tweaked words. Example: taking a noun and making it a verb of it. Here are just a few we wouldn’t have today if not for his imagination:

academe * accused * addiction * advertising *  amazement * arouse * assassination * backing * bandit * bedroom * beached * besmirch * birthplace * blanket * bloodstained *barefaced * blushing * bet * bump * buzzer * caked * cater * champion * circumstantial * cold-blooded *compromise *courtship *countless *critic *dauntless* dawn* deafening *discontent *dishearten* drugged* dwindle *epileptic* equivocal *elbow *excitement *exposure eyeball *fashionable *fixture* flawed* frugal* generous* gloomy *gossip *green-eyed *gust *hint* hobnob *hurried *impede* impartial* invulnerable* jaded* label *lackluster* laughable *lonely *lower *luggage *lustrous *madcap *majestic *marketable*mimic *monumental *moonbeam *mountaineer *negotiate *noiseless *obscene *obsequiously *ode *Olympian *outbreak *panders* pedant *premeditated *puking *radiance *rant *remorseless *savagery *scuffle *secure *skim milk *sparkling *submerge *summit *swagger *torture *tranquil *undress *unreal *varied *vaulting *worthless *zany* gnarled* grovel*

Word lover that I am, I fully appreciate his genius. I’ve used these words in my life and in my writing. Not having them would mean a little less color to our language.

Here’s a love quote for today:

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a

fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.”

~ William Shakespeare
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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January. Today I’m posting two.

Here’s one from the British Empire. Notice all the flags. And below, a pair of holiday pooches. 

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Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog.

Join us Sunday for our open promo ~ Set the Scene in Six

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My blog presence is smaller this month because I’m taking a holiday break to see to gift making and cookie baking. Even though I’m not blogging much, you can still discover my books and a little bit about me. Just click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more. My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

>>Subscribe to this blog for all my news<<

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author Tina Donahue’s blog day.

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RB4U is participating in author Nikki Barrett’s READER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY — Lots of prizes. Enter today!

https://www.facebook.com/NikkiLynnBarrettauthor/app_228910107186452

This week I had my blog day on Romance Books ’4′ Us. Come see how much I love snow. http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/2013/12/timing-is-everything.html

And…our new contest has approximately 30 prizes for one winner, including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. I’m adding a free book from my backlist to the loot. Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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Little Bits of Love

My husband started his “quest” last weekend. That’s what he calls Christmas shopping for me. As he’s described it: “the gifts have to be unusual because you’re an unusual person.”

Hmm…

I think I’m a relatively easy person to give gifts to because I appreciate history and love little old things…Cracker Jack prizes, Heinz pickle pins, Oscar Meyer wiener whistles, bottle stoppers, and assorted bits like that. You just can’t go wrong with little things from yesteryear.

I’ve been a collector of small antiques and collectables since long before I met my husband. I had a great uncle Frank in California who owned an antique store that regularly supplied  Hollywood movie sets. Every once in a while he’d come by something little he thought I’d like. I got my first oldies when I turned 5 — a wind-up tin duck from 1930 and a hand-carved wood decoy with crazy offset hobnail eyes from the Civil War era.

The little things Uncle Frank sent were often broken. That sounds strange to say…why would an uncle send a kid broken things? I always understood why because he and I were cut from the same cloth. Just because he couldn’t sell that Victorian bronze cherub broken off its inkwell base didn’t mean the artistry of the piece was any less. He sent it to me because he knew I’d see that too. And I did. That antiques lived their lives before they came into mine is one of the things I love best about them. You can almost feel the history on some pieces. My husband understands this about me too. Over the past 36 years he’s been my largest contributor to my collection of small things.  I think of them as little bits of love. I offer proof:

On one quest, my husband found an antique rubber crow decoy for me. It sits atop my living room curtains. I couldn’t begin explain why, but I put little hats on it as whimsey strikes me. Upon determining my hat selection too small, my daughter made an assortment of styles for every season and then some. My favorite is the viking helmet. The crow is currently wearing a derby and a mustache.

lol Yeah I guess I am unusual. 

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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January.

I just love the spats the girls are wearing.

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Less than one week left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 6 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.”

~ Alain De Botton

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Today is Genesis of a Story on my Exquisite Quills group blog ~ today meet author Jennifer Garcia as she shares a little about the spark that led her to write My Mr. Manny.

Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found there.

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My blog presence is smaller this month because I’m taking a holiday break to see to gift making and cookie baking. Even though I’m not blogging much, you can still discover my books and a little bit about me. Just click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more. My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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author Paris Brandon’s blog day.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

RB4U is participating in author Nikki Barrett’s READER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY — Lots of prizes. Enter today!

https://www.facebook.com/NikkiLynnBarrettauthor/app_228910107186452

Yesterday was my blog day on Romance Books ’4′ Us.  Come see how much I love snow.  http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/2013/12/timing-is-everything.html

And…our new contest has approximately 30 prizes for one winner, including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. I’m adding a free book from my backlist to the loot. Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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Blog day at Romance Books ’4′ Us. Come see!

It’s my blog day on Romance Books ’4′ Us. I’m talking about winter and how much I love snow. Come see!

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January.

Here’s another cute one.

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One week left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 7 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Today is First Kiss Wednesday on my Exquisite Quills group blog ~ romance authors, come share your best 300 word kiss! Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found there.

http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

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I’m taking a holiday break to see to  gift making and cookie baking.

Even though I’m not blogging much, you can still discover my books and a little bit about me. Just click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more. My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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RB4U is participating in author Nikki Barrett’s READER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY — Lots of prizes. Enter today!

https://www.facebook.com/NikkiLynnBarrettauthor/app_228910107186452

And…our new contest has approximately 30 prizes for one winner, including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. I’m adding a free book from my backlist to the loot. Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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Method or madness

An author’s world is incredibly busy. I had an inkling it might be before I started, but I never knew just how busy. I’m taking a much-needed break from the constant promotion and such redirection might allow some of the sadness from recent losses melt away. I know I’ll lose momentum and get buried under a ton of new books and new authors, but it’s important to put my focus elsewhere for a while. I don’t worry I’ll never regain my footing. Every book is new to someone and all’s well the moment I start promoting again. I love this time of year and using other creative outlets will only boost my literary crafting a few short weeks from now. If I know anything about myself it’s that my creativity cascades. I’ll get back into that “zone”. That’s how I managed to write so many books this past year — I got a creative bump from the holidays last year.

:)  Method to my madness.

While I’m taking a holiday break for making my gifts and baking my cookies, come get acquainted with me and my books. Scroll down to previous posts and click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges (my A to Z Challenge posts are very interesting, if I do say so myself), recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more. Scroll down to learn how you can read my 1st and 2nd chapters for free.

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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January.

Here’s another.

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Less than two weeks left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 8 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“Love is smiling on the inside and out.”

~ Jennifer Williams

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My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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Author Cynthia Arsuaga’s blog day

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

RB4U is participating in author Nikki Barrett’s READER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY — Lots of prizes. Enter today!

https://www.facebook.com/NikkiLynnBarrettauthor/app_228910107186452

And…our new contest has approximately 30 prizes for one winner, including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. I’m adding a free book from my backlist to the loot. Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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Little bits

While I’m taking a holiday break, click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more. Scroll down to learn how you can read my 1st and 2nd chapters for free.

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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January.

Here’s another.

I love this snowman’s face!

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Less than two weeks left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 9 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“All this happens because man is love and is there is a great love between two souls, it never dies but transforms itself in holiness, the ultimate stage of Love we can identify.”

~ Sorin Cerin

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My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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Author Cynthia Arsuaga’s blog day

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

Our new contest has at least 30 prizes including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card.

Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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Set the Scene in Six! Come share yours

Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Today Exquisite Quills welcomes all romance authors for

Set the Scene in Six! Come share your scene’s lead-up or background details.

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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January.

Here’s another.

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Less than two weeks left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 10 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“Love is the music of our lifetimes. It endures beyond time just as a musician’s note resonates eternally through space.”

~ Julie Rearick

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My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

My other blogs etc…

Click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

>>Subscribe to this blog for all my news<<

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Author Nicole Morgan’s blog day

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

A new contest begins today with at least 30 prizes including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card.

Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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A few new things today

I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January.

Here’s another. 

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Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Today as part of our Author Interview Series, Exquisite Quills welcomes Author Diane Leyne.

Tomorrow ~ Set the Scene in Six!

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Less than two weeks left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 11 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

My other blogs etc…

Click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

>>Subscribe to this blog for all my news<<

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Author Suzanne Rock’s blog day

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

A new contest begins December 1st with at least 30 prizes including a $75 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card.

Read the pages and find the dancing Santas!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Author Kaye Spencer made us a little intro for youtube. Watch the new trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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The countdown is on

I make many of my gifts for my loved ones, and all the while I’m seeing to my seasonal projects to accomplish by the end of December, my blogs are somewhat quiet. Because the internet soon buries inactive things, I’ve locked myself into the 100 Things Blogging Challenge to keep my main blog active on the web. That’s winding down too as I head into my last week and a half of love quotes. I like the challenges and may do another come January.

In the meantime, I hope you’re enjoying my stroll down memory lane with vintage holiday postcards. My husband and I are building a scrapbook one card at a time.  I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January. I just love these things.

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Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

 

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Less than two weeks left!

100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 12 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“Overcome the devils with a thing named love.”

~ Bob Marley

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My novels in ebook and paperback can be found wherever books are sold.

Get your FREE sampling of all seven here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

My other blogs etc…

Click on the Links tab above to see my book trailers and other blogs filled with snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

>>Subscribe to this blog for all my news<<

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Author Sandra K. Marshall’s blog day

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

Last days for the November contest with one-winner-takes-all prizes. Read the pages and find the cute little turkeys! http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Get your free Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology Vol. 1 today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374815

Watch the new trailer on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTph6-UV7mg&w=420&h=315

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