Zee Monodee's Blog, page 33

Last #sixsunday February 5 release OnceUponASecondChance, the Muslim #1NS: What happened to Leila?

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The sun is back out and shining with a vengeance. Seriously, growing tired of the extreme heat, no wind, muggy humidity, and light that kills your irises outside even when you've got sunglasses on. Apparently 'perfect' beach weather... if you douse yourself in SPF50 every 15 minutes.

Anyhow... it's Sunday, and cannot believe this - it's the last day ever of Six Sentence Sunday! I remember joining this bandwagon some 1.5 years ago, and I don't think I've missed one week sin...

Author Rae Summers strikes it outside of her writing comfort zone!

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Thrilled today to welcome a lovely author and one of my oldest writing friends. We met on the very first crit loop I joined, and since she's from South Africa (literally, a stone's throw from Mauritius!), our friendship took on another dimension. And then when she got to establish the Romance writers Of South Africa group (ROSA), she was kind enough to invite me to join.

Rae's here today with a guest post that relates to her writing, and to the book with the lovely cover r...

I write because... (a rant amid an affirmation & progress)

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Lol, doing my best to have posts up regularly here. Though my brain goes awol sometimes, I have a whole crew of guests lined up for the coming weeks to keep the postings flowing. So this week might've been some hit&miss, after the staggeringly knackered kinda day I had yesterday, I missed the Links posting. Forgive me, and here's a glimpse of what I went through.

Imagine dealings with an ISP to make sense of their contract; banks conveniently 'forgetting' to cancel you...

What are you listening to? Let's Move To Some Tunes!

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Another week on the way. Yep, I didn't post yesterday, because it looks like I'm gonna need a more rigorous schedule to get all the work I need to do done, so blogging is (not getting the axe! LOL) but it will have to be more structured. Monday updates will come every other week now. I know I babble a lot, but I really don't have that much to talk about. *grin*

No guests visiting this week, so I thought I'd jolly up the place with some music. These are tracks that have been on repeat...

#sixsunday February release OnceUponASecondChance, the Muslim #1NS: Where is Leila?

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Another weekend - where is the time flying, eh? Dunno if you've noticed something a little different around here... pretty chuffed with myself at the new layout of this site/blog (busted all my brain cells this week to come up with with the layout). Would love to know what you think.

Anyhow, back to the subject of the day - Six Sentence Sunday. I'm sticking to my February 5 release from the 1Night Stand line at Decadent Publishing. Increasingly coming to be known as "the M...

Progress Friday Update! 3 new contracts & a brand-new-looking site!

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Seen anything different here? No...? (what do you mean, No???) LOL.

Forgive me, but I'm absolutely giddy right now. Spent most of the morning tweaking with codes and all that lovely hoop-la to make an airhead and/or non-nerd cross-eyed, and this is the result. A blog that doubles up as a website and steers clear of the previous clutter I had displaying on all my pages. Found some nifty tips and tutorials on the Net (what can you not find on the Net???) and here's the result. You...

Link Thursday: 4 Things You Think Are Sexy, But Aren't... (& don't make your heroine do them!!!)

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Lol, looks I'll really be able to do a whole week of posts, after all. Giddy feeling (which has been lingering since Monday, when I got some pubbing good news. More on that tomorrow!).

But yup - back on this Thursday with a new linked article. Browsing through my stash, I found this one and it called to me. Since last week, we went after 44 places where you can find eligible men, it comes to mind that you (or your heroine, in your book/s) will be doing everything you can to...

Author Jessica E. Subject has 2 releases this week + she's doing a giveaway!

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I'm delighted to welcome a fabulous author, lethal CP, insanely-generous woman, & really good friend today on the blog. Her name? Jessica E. Subject.

You must have heard her name somewhere on the Net. She is everywhere (and makes me wonder if she doesn't, in fact, know the secret to cloning!). Jessica is a powerhouse of new stories and generosity - I've never seen another author help out her fellow colleagues as much as she does.

And this week she's having a fabulous experience -...

Spotlight on Chicki Brown's AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG

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I'm in the edits cave right now, so I'm bringing you a little something from a good friend of mine, author Chicki Brown. Chicki writes IR/MC and/or African-American contemporary romance, and her books always bring to my mind the everyday-richness and drama of Tyler Perry movies.

Here's a sneak peek at her latest. This one made the Amazon bestseller lists in both Multicultural Romance and Contemporary Romance during its first week of release.

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AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG

Sparks...

Routines & what-not: How to be an author, an editor, a mum, & everything else at the same time!

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It sure has been ages since I last dropped on here for Mondays' Random Thoughts. Can we say life crept up on me? I also didn't have the best of plans in 2012, just aiming at dilly-dallying at writing and see where that would take me. That might've been Mistake #1.

For, you see - to be good at any role, you cannot dilly-dally with it .

If you're an author, you write (and finish projects!). That's your job.
If you're an editor, you edit (and work around deadlines and the like).
If you're a...