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Tidbit Tuesday: JS Wayne visits!

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Today, I'm glad to bring to you an awesome author I'm proud to call my friend - fellow Noble Romance comrade, JS Wayne!

I met JS when I joined Noble last year, and within a few days of meeting him, this man was my go-to destination to get a smile on no-matter-how-hard a day I was having. Filled with a stupendous sense of humour (do not - I repeat do not! - read his blog posts or emails while you're eating or drinking in front of your computer!), that you'll discover rife...

Random Thoughts' Monday: Getting there... & some news...!

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It's Monday, and the start of a new week. In my ideal game plan, I should've been on top of the game right now - all caught up with email, breezing through FB & Twitter and talking lots more with my friends there, I should've been writing a storm and totally immersed in my characters. In short, working at full throttle on being an author.

Instead, my second work week of January looks like a train wreck that's just happened, and now I'm left to pick up the pieces from this ...

Six Sentence Sunday - Calling Home Snippet #6

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The week seems to zip by as if on warp speed, innit? Cannot believe it's time once again for Six Sentence Sunday. Looking forward to some really awesome snippets as I troll the list later on - join me? :)

As for me, today, I'm taking ye all back to the yard that surrounds the double-fronted Victorian house in Camberry, Surrey. Last week, Jamie found Emma outside his surgery window, and their conversation when he came out to meet her was staggering to say the least for Jamie...

Progress Friday

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First week of being back on the 'job', so to speak... and not much to show for progress, sadly. Still in limbo over getting back into a productive work routine, and with that hacking cough shaking me every other minute, not exactly in the right frame of mind to concentrate. The plan was to be working already on Glory Days (Book #2 in the Destiny's Child lineup) but no such luck...

That being said, I did dust off an old project and sent it off to where it was supposed to be sent (my, ...

Link Thursday: 27 Things Men Don't Know About Women

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I have a fun one for you today. :) There's nothing I like more than enlightening the male brains in my house about what women want/think/believe... and I'm sure you must get a kick out of it too. *grin*

Now let's take it to another level - how about enlightening your reluctant and/or caveman hero about 'real' women? And need a peek into the female mind to better sketch that heroine of yours?

Look no further! Today's Link Thursday features an article originally from Esquire....

Writing Wednesday: Jessica E. Subject is here!

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Today, I am thrilled to have fellow author Jessica E. Subject over. I met Jessica last year on a critique loop, and within a few crits and emails, I felt like we'd been friends forever. She's an amazing lady, bright and upbeat and she always tells it like it is. And Jessica's work is fabulous too, peeps - I always complained about the lack of sci-fi that wouldn't put me to sleep because of all the science mumbo-jumbo in there - could I have the best of both worlds, sci-fi...

Tidbit Tuesday: Where's my best-laid plan, and my brain...?

"Comme un grain de sable dans une mécanique bien huilée..."

That's exactly how I can summarise my coming back to the blogging world, work, writing, and all that. Uh, yes, what does it mean...? Sorry, told you my brain had gone AWOL.

So that line above translates to "like a grain of sand in a well-oiled mechanism". That's the gist of it; it's a French saying for describing when something tiny and insignificant happens and totally throws off something that was working brilliantly.

I had the plan r...

Six Sentence Sunday - Calling Home Snippet #5

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It's Sunday, and I'm jumping like a Duracell bunny on steroids here because tomorrow my kids go back into school! Summer break is finally over for them, and I'm in the mood for celebrating - join me? :)

And since it's Sunday, what best way to party than with Six Sentence Sunday? I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a suitable excerpt for today, and that's when my editor's voice rang inside my head. Today I'll show you one of her favourite passages in the boo...

Link Thursday: The 15 Defining Moments in a Relationship

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Link Thursday and its (somewhat relevant to you!) article is back. I dunno about you, but Thursday is one of my favourite days, because I get to share with you all some of what my trips around cyberspace look like. And I get to share with you information that I think might be helpful to you as a writer (come on, we all know we get ideas, yes, but then we gotta research and back these ideas, don't we?); or as a woman out there in the world, whether you're single, married, ...

Writing Wednesday: Robyn Carr Visits!

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To me, nothing exemplifies a good time as well as sitting down with a deep, love-inspired and relationship-driven contemporary romance, and one of the epitomes of such a good time happens to be named Robyn Carr. I love her books - her stories are profound and there's always a feel-good factor to them. Ms. Carr's books are pretty much an auto-buy for me, now imagine how thrilled I was to be asked to review her latest story, Hidden Summit, and on top of it, have a chance to...