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Ruby Reprise: Writing Thru the Christmas Crazies

I’ve shared this post with y’all last year, but it can’t hurt to hear it again. If you’re like me, you struggle to sit down with your work in progress during the busy, busy holiday season. So I thought it would be fun to share some coping strategies once more. I’ve added my 2 cents worth for 2013 near the end. :) Happy Holidays, everyone!

It’s December, and we are currently knee deep into the annual holiday season. As women, we are usually the ones responsible for the planning and plotting tha...

Ruby Reprise

Twelve Days of Short Stories

On the fourth day of December, Amazon gave to me…

Okay, so it’s nowhere near as sexy as Jeff Bezos’ 60 Minutes interview the other night where he talked about drone-delivery of packages, but Kim Law, Diane Kelly, Lindsey Brookes, Liz Talley, and I have some big Amazon news nonetheless!

(By the way, does theidea of unmanned robots flying through the air and drop-shipping packagesfreak anyone else out as much as it does me? Maybe it’s because I live in the DC area, but I have visions of getting e...

December 4 post coming soon!

Today’s blog post is a surprise that can’t be revealed until I get the official go-ahead. Please checkback around 10 am EST!

Ruby Release: The Vanishing Thief by Kate Parker

Amanda here. Today is release day for Kate Parker’s debut novel, THE VANISHING THIEF! Whoo-hoo!

When Kate was looking for a hostess I greedily jumped at the chance. Kate isn’t just my Ruby Sister, but we were Golden Heart finalists together for the first time in 2008, the Pixie Chicks. And she was also a member of my local chapter back then, Washington Romance Writers. In fact, it was at the WRW retreat in 2012 that she met her agent!

WRW has this fantastic game called American Author, where b...

NaNo: Confession Time!

Well, it’s December 2, and NaNoWriMo 2013 finished at midnight on November 30, two days ago.
If you’ve been stopping by this site lately, you know I gleefully (okay, maniacally) joined over 300,000 writers around the globe taking part in the annual frenzy of National Novel Writing Month, vowing to write 50,000 new words of a novel in 30 days.

I’ve won NaNo before, in 2009 and 2010. But for the past two years, I’ve failed rather pathetically.

I went in with deep humility, really not sure if I was...

NaNo Final Push Motivation!!

I’m going to make this quick, since I just finished cleaning up from a Thanksgiving meal I wasn’t supposed to have to make (darling sister-in-law was cooking to let me use most of the day to write…but then my husband got sick, and my little nuclear group got stuck at home).
I’m not going to tell you now just where I am with NaNoWriMo…that big reveal comes on Monday, after the final deadline’s past.

What I AM going to tell you is that I’ve had plenty of obstacles and family illnesses and last-mi...

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!!
We wish you safe travels, a bountiful meal with loved ones, and another year full of wonderful things!
See you back here tomorrow for another blog post.

Make Yourself Some Ruby-Red Cranberry Sauce!

On the day before Thanksgiving, we often post a recipe to help make your Thanksgiving feast just a little tastier and brighter. It’s a bit late to give you a turkey recipe–since brining is all the rage these days, and that needs to be started two or three days earlier.
Instead, we’re going with something a little saucy. Something sweet, tangy, and bright ruby red–very appropriate, coming from this blog.
It’s a 5-star favorite from AllRecipes.com: Cranberry Sauce Extraordinaire!

Enjoy!
And while y...

Ruby Tuesday: Kim Law

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of Ruby Tuesday, where we get to know the Rubies just a little better. This holiday week we’re joined by RITA-nominated contemporary romance Ruby Kim Law! Take it away, Kim!

Name: Kim Law

2009 GH Category & Title: Series Contemporary, Second Chance for a Family (renamed Sugar Springs)

What Happened to That Book: It was my second book published, came out 12/24/2102

Website: www.kimlaw.com

What subgenre(s) do you write? I write straight contemporary,...