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Happy Thanksgiving!

Giving thanks for my family and friends both old and new on this day of gratitude.

I love you all.

My husband and I are building a vintage holiday postcard 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. Today I’m posting the last of the Thanksgiving cards.

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

Today is Genesis of a Story with featured author A.L. Debran

 

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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 13 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness… Love will never die.”

~ Bryce Courtney

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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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Happy Thanksgiving from Romance Books ’4′ Us!

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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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First Kiss Wednesday ~ come share your best 300 word kiss

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

Today is First Kiss Wednesday

~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

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My husband and I are building a vintage holiday postcard 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. Today I’m posting two.

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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 14 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”

~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 Janice Seagraves’ 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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What’s in a name?

My husband and I are building a vintage holiday postcard scrapbook one card at a time. I was curious as to why there are so many vintage patriotic Thanksgiving postcards, so went looking for answers. I didn’t find much, but I’d venture a guess and say it’s simply nationalism. The turkey is native to North America.  If you’ve grown up in the USA,  it would be impossible not to be able to draw to mind the image of that first Thanksgiving meal shared between the natives and the pilgrims. We’ve built our own mythology around that large bird and that thankful meal.

I was surprised to discover the Spaniards had a domesticated variety of turkey from their holdings in Mexico. That bird soon found its way onto British ships coming from the Levant via Spain. An immediate association formed and the wild North American turkey got named for the country Turkey, and there you go. The indigenous people in the Americas were erroneously called Indians and their native bird erroneously called a turkey. Well, turkey is easier to pronounce than one of the bird’s old native names such as nalaaohki pileewa.

I’m posting one vintage card each day from now until January.

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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 14 entries to come.

Here’s one for today:

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

~ Mark Twain

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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 Bobbye Terry/Daryn Cross’ 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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S everal promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found o n my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow…

First Kiss Wednesday

~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

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Feeling like a chatty intro

My husband and I just love Vintage holiday postcards and greeting cards. Together we’re building a scrapbook, one postcard at a time.

I’m posting one each day from now until January.

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You’ll LOVE Reading Rose!

Agatha Christie, Michael Crichton, and Ken Follett are three distinctly different storytellers but they never disappoint me. All three write in exquisite detail and fill my imagination. By giving me sights and smells and hidden insights, they allow me to immerse myself in their imagery. I get to see what they saw in their mind’s eye when they crafted it. I consider myself a complex person. As a reader, I love getting in the writer’s head.

More than 20 years ago I fell in love with a book by Australian author and illustrator Graeme Base entitled The Eleventh Hour. It was a children’s book bought first for my daughter and then for my son on their eleventh birthdays. The book was a puzzle that told a story but hinted at a larger story behind the scenes. It was filled with codes to be broken and logic to be deduced and it took our family nearly three months to crack. It was fun but uncovering the clues weren’t necessary to telling the story because you’d eventually figure it out at the very end anyway. I enjoyed it a lot. I suppose that contributed to me writing a few reader-interactive novels myself.

My first puzzle book was Dreamscape. It’s a story within a story with a classic breadcrumb trail of clues in every chapter. Like The Eleventh Hour, the clues aren’t necessary to understand the story, the ending says it all. They’re just there so the reader will go..wait a minute..is Rose hiding a clue here? Loving Leonardo isn’t exactly a puzzle book, but it was created to stir one’s imagination beyond the storytelling by allowing the reader to see through the main character’s eyes by way of the various artworks mentioned.

Taking a page from the three aforementioned authors, when I create stories with paranormal elements, I weave realism throughout. I enjoy the challenge of crafting stories that make the impossible plausible. My goal in every paranormal story is to suspend the reader’s disbelief. My interest in history comes to the fore in my historical novels  and I carefully construct scenes and period dialogue so my readers are transported to that time. I also have a keen and ofttimes absurd sense of humor. Readers will discover a good dose of wit layered into my tales as well. And always tucked here and there, are insights into the ultimate meaning of existence through symbolism and metaphor. Why? Because I read too and I love stories that make me think. The following are simply random bits from my seven novels — small introductions in a few sentences.

Enchanted Skye

Setting the Stage:

Jenna cries as she scatters her grandmother’s ashes into the sea. Nearby in his Selkie form, Alex is oddly affected. Neither know her tears have unleashed an ancient charm. Forgetting he looks like a seal, he swims near.

The woman must have felt his presence for she looked up from her grief. Meeting his eyes, she looked startled to see him so close. She rose slowly and backed away.His heart ached to watch her go and he found the feeling both perplexing and extraordinary. Then and there, he knew he had to meet her. Taking a breath, he plunged under the water and swam to the far side of the cliff where the sea cave sat undetected. On dry land now, inside the dark chamber, he peeled away his waterskin. And where flippers were a moment before, a man’s arms and legs appeared. Shaking out his spotted skin with a snap, he rolled it into a tight bundle and headed toward the passage.

The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo (book 1 Ashkewheteasu)

Setting the Stage:

Ash, an immortal Native American shaman, has recently entered the modern world. Here, quite unexpectedly, he ends up kissing Livie in the restaurant parking lot after a dinner date. Never exposed to beer before, Ash is a little tipsy.

His lovely dark eyes sought hers and the passionate yearning reflected there made her feel dizzy with want. He spoke in his language again and she shook her head, not understanding. He smiled, picked up her hand and kissed her palm. Closing her fingers around the kiss as though it were a tangible thing, he told her, “You make me burn for you Livie, but this is not the place to love you as you deserve.”

Not knowing how to respond, she took a breath and let it out slowly. If not for the fact she barely knew him, she’d ask him to come home and finish what he’d started, inebriated or not.

The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo (book 2 Eluwilussit)

Setting the Stage:

Ash uses the birdstone to take his consciousness to the spirit world and there meets the spirit of Nawkaw, his old mentor. Nawkaw has extraordinary news for him.

Everything as far as his eyes could see was a pure version of what he knew in the living world — every blade of grass, every leaf, all of it — edged in the white glowing light. Walking on, he found Nawkaw as his younger self, standing up to his calves in sparkling clear water. Spear raised, body poised, Nawkaw too was edged in white light as was the fish he quickly speared and tossed on the bank. Ash found himself thinking the waters of the spirit realm must teem with spirit fish, for he had caught and eaten thousands in his long lifetime alone. Seeing Ash, Nawkaw’s face broke into a happy smile. “So the bird has flown you to us. And I only explained how the magic worked once before I died!”

Loving Leonardo

Setting the Stage:

Nicolas and Ellie invite Luca to discuss Leonardo da Vinci, and realize they have more than one interest in common.

I believe we were all aware of a sexual tension growing in the intellectual-rich loam. There were little things at play now: the way Ellie moistened her lips and looked at us with eyes that lingered from one to the other. The way Luca’s irises had darkened from snow shadow to moon shadow as he looked upon her. The way I’d catch myself with a reminder to breathe as my eye was drawn to these small distinctions. Like da Vinci’s sfumato, our mutual attraction hung in the air, and I was struck by the notion that the smoky quality depicted in his art was desire. Desire like this.

Loving Leonardo – The Quest

Setting the Stage:

Luca has gone missing. Nicolas is desperate to find him before Conte Bruno does. With the help of Will, a man who knows his way around the darker corners of Victoria’s London, Nicolas delves into the seedier corners of the dockside. In this scene, Nicolas asks the serving girl if she’s seen a highborn Italian traveling with three servants. Quite unexpectedly, he finds someone else.

I turned to Will, my very words sounding stupefied to my ears, “Bloody hell, that impetuous creature over there is my wife dressed as a man.”

“Oh Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Pardon me for saying it sir, but whatever was she thinkin’? These men aren’t out for a bleedin’ tea party, they’re murderers!”

I seriously doubted much thought was involved. Our man sits within our grasp and my hands were now quite tied.

Dreamscape

Setting the Stage:

In her waking world, Lanie knows Jason Bowen as the Victorian era ghost who haunts her house. At this point in the story, she’s entered her dream world, a world where Jason is very much alive and well in his time. In one world she loves a ghost and feels the hopelessness of that fact, in the other she loves a man doomed to die.

His eyes searched hers. He needed her to know. “I will love you through time. I will love you in your dreams and in the waking world. No matter what happens, no matter when.” His lips found hers, and kissed her sweetly.

Hermes Online

Setting the Stage:

Vivienne receives an email from an enigmatic man known only as S. Together they embark upon the world of anonymous Internet communication.

They were only words, weren’t they? If so then why could I see it, why could I feel this so acutely? I clicked send and waited.“You’ve got mail” burst forth from the speakers. I discovered I had been conditioned to have an autonomic response to seeing the envelope and hearing the computerized words. Like Pavlov’s dog, I began to salivate.

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Want to know more? Click the My Novels tab at the top of this page to see the trailers. Get your FREE sampling of 1st and 2nd chapters here:

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100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 15 entries to come. Here’s one for today:

“We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other.”

~Lucian De Croszonza

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Click on the Links tab above to access most of my links. I have a lot of blogs for various reasons. Scroll back on all my blogs for snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

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Guest blogger Lena Hart

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 anthology today!

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

Watch our new trailer on youtube.

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

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Set the Scene in Six on the Exquisite Quills blog, etc

It’s Set the Scene in Six on my Exquisite Quills blog

It’s a regular Sunday promotional event open to all romance authors. Come share your story’s backdrop or lead-up.

Then come back this Wednesday for another weekly event ~

First Kiss Wednesday ~ and share your best kisses.

http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

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Vintage holiday postcards and greeting cards kept as keepsakes speaks volumes of the regard in which they were held. My husband and I just love them. Together we’re building a scrapbook, one postcard at a time. I’ll put one up for you to enjoy, each day from now until January. Here’s another –>

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100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 16 entries to come. Here’s one for today:

“There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”

~Victor Robinsoll

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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 access most of my links. Scroll back on all my blogs for snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

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

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Author Cara Marsi’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 anthology today!

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

If you can’t see it here, watch our new trailer on youtube.

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

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*Romance Author Promo Op!*

S everal promotional opportunities can be found o n my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

First Kiss Wednesday

~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

Set the Scene in Six

~on Sunday, come share your backdrop or lead-up.

The Genesis of the Story

~ share the spark that ignited your novel

Author Interviews.

Stop by and see if the last two have openings. We’re booking into the new year now.

Who are Exquisite Quills? We’re an old group of author friends & their new reader/writer friends, and together we’ve built a book-loving community. Come join us.

Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527671093985960/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExquisiteQuills

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My day in The Romance Reviews Year-End Splash Party!

Vintage holiday postcards and greeting cards kept as keepsakes speaks volumes of the regard in which they were held. My husband and I just love them. Together we’re building a scrapbook, one postcard at a time. I’ll put one up for you to enjoy, each day from now until January.

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100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 17 entries to come. Here’s one for today:

“Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.”

~Victor Hugo

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Today is my day in The Romance Reviews Year-End Splash Party!



Follow this link to The Romance Reviews site and look for my name on the participant list. Then, scroll down to my question and choose an answer from the multiple choice. Read more here:

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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 access most of my links. Scroll back on all my blogs for snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

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

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guest Sue Grimshaw. Editor Random House: Loveswept

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 anthology today!

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

If you can’t see it here, watch our new trailer on youtube.

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

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*Romance Author Promo Op!*

S everal promotional opportunities can be found o n my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

First Kiss Wednesday

~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

Set the Scene in Six

~on Sunday, come share your backdrop or lead-up.

The Genesis of the Story

~ share the spark that ignited your novel

Author Interviews.

Stop by and see if the last two have openings. We’re booking into the new year now.

Who are Exquisite Quills? We’re an old group of author friends & their new reader/writer friends, and together we’ve built a book-loving community. Come join us.

Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527671093985960/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExquisiteQuills

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Just news & a postcard

Nothing much going on today other than cleaning and getting ready for a big dinner next week.

Vintage holiday postcards and greeting cards kept as keepsakes speaks volumes of the regard in which they were held. From now until January, I’ll put one up for you to enjoy each day. Here’s another –>

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Tomorrow is my day in The Romance Reviews Year-End Splash Party!



On November 23rd, follow this link to The Romance Reviews site and look for my name on the participant list. Then, scroll down to my question and choose an answer from the multiple choice. Read more here:

http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspo...

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For an idea of what my books are about, click on the My Novel tab at the top of the page to watch the book trailers. Get a free sampling of all seven novels in print at this time on Smashwords.

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

My other blogs etc…

Click on the Links tab above to access most of my links. Scroll back on all my blogs for snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, and more.

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100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 18 entries to come. Here’s one for today:

“There is no long distance about love. It always finds a way to bring hearts together no matter how many miles there are between them.”

~Nishan Panwar

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Author Desiree Holt’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 anthology today!

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

If you can’t see it here, watch our new trailer on youtube.

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

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*Romance Author Promo Op!*

S everal promotional opportunities can be found o n my Exquisite Quills group blog. http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

First Kiss Wednesday

~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

Set the Scene in Six

~on Sunday, come share your backdrop or lead-up.

The Genesis of the Story

~ share the spark that ignited your novel

Author Interviews.

Stop by and see if the last two have openings. We’re booking into the new year now.

What is, or rather, who are, Exquisite Quills? We’re an old group of author friends & their new reader/writer friends, and together we’ve built a book-loving community. Come join us.

Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527671093985960/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExquisiteQuills

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Writers first

Many years ago, while reading about the Scottish Clearances and that period of history that saw the clans of Scotland destroyed, I came upon the term “broken men”. Broken men denoted people who once were a part of their clan and shared kinship within the clan system, but were now clanless.

I can’t say what happened elsewhere in the world, but here in the states, those ragtag survivors of genocide flocked up. For example: the Campbells and the MacDonalds, once bitter enemies, banded up with the rest of the stragglers and kept some fragment of their social identity. They might be clanless, but they were Scotsmen first.

In this crazy 5 am segue of mine, here’s what I’m getting at. I created the Exquisite Quills blog and Yahoo Group to be a community for all romance writers (and readers). We have them all too — historical, contemporary, mystery, paranormal, erotic, Regency, Sci-fi, and yes, even romantic horror. We might be varied in sub-genre, adult content, and style. We also differ in publishing with both traditionally-published and self-published and people who do both. But like the clanless men who banded together because they were all Scotsmen at their core, we’re all romance writers.

It’s said when a pebble is cast in a pond and the rings push out from the center point, if not for the boundaries of the pond, those ripples would go on forever. What you do creates ripples, good or bad. I strive to keep this in mind when steering the boat that is my life. So, I put  a community together in part because I believe doing good things is the way to go, and doing good things can often come back to you, but especially because the publishing world is quite often a lonely place. I never imagined so many EQ “clansmen” would take to heart the community I was building. It just goes to show people need kinship in their lives.

Through Exquisite Quills I’ve met, and continue to meet, some very warm and wonderful people. I’ve had members take the reins and make a Facebook page, a Triberr tribe, Twitter tweets and hashtag (#EQuills). The founding members helped organize the EQ blog and now romance writers from the four corners of the world have several promo opportunities there, and the numbers say it’s growing into a high-profile place to be seen.  I’ve mentioned before that we’re all needles in a haystack in this business. Being seen is good. I came up with the Holiday Anthology idea to build a little exposure for all involved. I thought it would help shine a light on some very good writers. We’ve had several wonderful editors on our anthology. Another member made our fabulous cover (see link below for more of Carey Abbott’s evocative covers). We now have a video. Talented author Kaye Spencer made this flashy little trailer. I couldn’t be prouder if I’d made it myself. Well done, Kaye!

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

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Vintage holiday postcards and greeting cards are often beautifully done things and I think the fact so many were kept as keepsakes speaks volumes of the regard in which they were held. From now until January, I’ll put a vintage holiday postcard up for you to enjoy.

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If you’ve never read my love stories before, I invite you to download a free sample of my 1st and 2nd chapters. Going through Smashwords allows me to offer my samplings for free. Adult love stories meant for adult eyes. I hope you enjoy.

Love Waits in Unexpected Places – Scorching Samplings of Unusual Love Stories

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

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100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 19 entries to come. Here’s one for today:

“Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.”

~Euripides

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Author Renee Vincent’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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The Genesis of a Story

Today’s guest is Author Skye Michaels.

Come discover the creative spark behind

her novel Ivorie’s Surprise

http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

*Romance Author Promo Op!*

S everal promotional opportunities can be found o n my Exquisite Quills group blog:

First Kiss Wednesday ~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

Set the Scene in Six ~ on Sunday, come share your backdrop or lead-up.

The Genesis of the Story ~ share the spark that ignited your novel

Author Interviews.

Stop by and see if the last two have openings. We’re booking into the new year now.

What is, or better, who are, Exquisite Quills? We’re an old group of author friends & their new reader/writer friends, and together we’ve built a book-loving community. Come join us.

Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527671093985960/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExquisiteQuills

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If you’re stopping at this blog for the first time, I have links to follow and interesting posts of all sorts here. For an idea of what my books are about, click on the My Novel tab at the top of the page to watch the book trailers.

My other blogs

Scroll back on all my blogs for snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, etc.

http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

http://theancillarymuse.blogspot.com/

http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

These two blogs have other things happening besides mine:

http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/ (Look for me Dec. 4th)

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

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For fantastic book covers stop by Carey Abbott’s blog. She has a sale on now.

http://safariheatbooktoursandauthorservices.blogspot.com/p/pre-made-covers-for-sale.html

Love tokens

As a romantic soul, I absolutely adore old love tokens. I have several varieties of them in my collection of odds and ends.  One of my favorites is a gold ring thimble. At first glance it’s just a sewing tool made out of gold, but it’s more than just an ordinary gold thimble. When you cut the base off this particular kind of thimble, it gave you a wedding ring. The writer in me wonders why the base wasn’t cut free…Was it lost love, an untimely death, a hopeful yet unfulfilled wish, or just a better ring allowed the thimble to remain intact? Perhaps when Valentines Day rolls around, I’ll talk love tokens in depth. 

On a theme, there was a time when cards and letters exclusively told friends and family you cared. Vintage holiday postcards and greeting cards are often beautifully done things and I think the fact so many were kept as keepsakes says it all. From now until January, I’ll put a vintage holiday postcard up for you to enjoy.

Here’s another –>

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I’ve always been a story collector. The inspiration for Star of Wonder (my tale in the Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology) comes from the stories that make up the fabric of rural America — those small slices of common history told by our national treasure — our seniors. The rest is a tribute to the Christmas story. As with all of my stories, Star of Wonder has its share of metaphor. The Anthology is filled with charming tales. It’s free too!

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

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If you’ve never read my love stories before, I invite you to download a free sample of my 1st and 2nd chapters. I had a smaller version of this ebook on Amazon but they insisted I charge for it. As a reader, I wouldn’t buy chapters. I’d rather buy the whole book! Going through Smashwords allows me to offer my samplings for free. Adult love stories meant for adult eyes. I hope you enjoy.

Love Waits in Unexpected Places – Scorching Samplings of Unusual Love Stories

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

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If you’re stopping here for the first time, I have some interesting links to follow and previous posts of all sorts here. For an idea of what my books are about, click on the My Novel tab at the top of the page to watch the book trailers.

I possess an undeniably healthy sense of wonder so my interests are wide and varied. I guarantee you’ll find interesting tidbits from A to Z. You’ll even find the A to Z Challenge that had A to Z entries on history and science.  I invite you to scroll back through the alphabet and read them. I just loved researching the topics and condensing them for the challenge. I’ll do that again come April.

My other blogs

Scroll back on all my blogs for snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, etc.

http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

http://theancillarymuse.blogspot.com/

http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

These two blogs have other things happening besides mine:

http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/ (Look for me Dec. 4th)

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

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100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 20 entries to come. Here’s one for today:

“The hours I spent with thee, dear heart, Are as a string of pearls to me; I could them over, every one apart, My rosary, my rosary.”

~Robert Cameron Rogers

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an interview of Hollie Glover: HKD BOOKS – Author Services

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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*Romance Author Promo Op!* http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

S everal promotional opportunities can be found o n my Exquisite Quills group blog:

First Kiss Wednesday ~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

Set the Scene in Six ~ on Sunday, come share your backdrop or lead-up.

The Genesis of the Story ~ share the spark that ignited your novel

Author Interviews too. Stop by and see if the last two have openings. We’re booking into the new year now.

What is, or better, who are, Exquisite Quills? We’re an old group of author friends & their new reader/writer friends, and together we’ve built a book-loving community. Come join us.

Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527671093985960/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExquisiteQuills

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It’s free too!

I’m over at Victoria Adams’ blog today talking about my part in the Exquisite Quills Holiday Anthology. http://victoriaadams.blogspot.com/2013/11/rose-andersons-star-of-wonder-holiday.html .

I’m a story collector and always have been. The inspiration for Star of Wonder (my tale in the Anthology) comes from the stories that make up the fabric of rural America — those small slices of common history told by our national treasure — our seniors. The rest is a tribute to the Christmas story. As with all of my stories, Star of Wonder has its share of metaphor. It’s free too!

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

Years ago, my husband gave me a mostly empty album for collecting vintage holiday postcards. From now until January, I’ll put a card on for you to enjoy.

If you’re stopping here for the first time, I have some interesting links to follow and previous posts of all sorts here. With an undeniably healthy sense of wonder, my interests are wide and varied. I guarantee you’ll find interesting tidbits from A to Z. You’ll even find the A to Z Challenge!

My other blogs

Scroll back on all my blogs for snippets, insights, challenges, recipes, writer tips, chatty things, etc.

http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

http://theancillarymuse.blogspot.com/

http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

These two blogs have other things happening besides mine:

http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/ (Look for me Dec. 4th)

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

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100 Things Blogging Challenge! For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 21 entries to come. Here’s one for today:

“If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.”

~Christopher Morley

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Love Waits in Unexpected Places – Scorching Samplings of Unusual Love Stories

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

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Author Molly Daniels/Kenzie Michaels’ 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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*Romance Author Promo Op!* http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

S everal promotional opportunities can be found o n my Exquisite Quills group blog:

First Kiss Wednesday ~ come share your best 300 word kiss.

Set the Scene in Six ~ on Sunday, come share your backdrop or lead-up.

The Genesis of the Story ~ share the spark that ignited your novel

Author Interviews too. Stop by and see if the last two have openings. We’re booking into the new year now.

What is, or better, who are, Exquisite Quills? We’re an old group of author friends & their new reader/writer friends, and together we’ve made a book-loving community. Come join us.

Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527671093985960/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExquisiteQuills

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