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HOLIDAY WRITING RECIPE

Writing Holiday Recipe

Ingredients you will need:

Several Holidays stacked on top of each other

One home or an apartment already in desperate need of cleaning will do

Family members—The number depends on your lifestyle

A ton of shopping

Several hours of gift wrapping

A day or two of baking and cooking

Friends or social events. Some say this is optional. I do not. Add a bunch.

A dash of cleaning-up

A ream of blank pages

One Golden Heart contest or publishing deadline (personal goal can be subs...

Where Are They Now – The Starcatchers & Lucky 13s (Classes of 2011 & 2013)

Welcome to Week Seven of our eight week series: The Golden Heart Finalists, Where Are They Now?  We’ve been at it a while now and we’ve met quite a few Golden Heart finalists, but each week we’re finding new and unique stories on the post-Golden Heart journey.  This week, we’re visiting with the Starcatchers of 2011 and Lucky 13s of 2013!  So let’s get to it!

(All of the information was voluntarily provided by the finalists themselves – and if you are a Starcatcher or Lucky 13 and you missed...

Let’s Live Stream on FB!

“Lights, camera, action!”

Not the words you like to hear thrown at you? I definitely fall in that category. But I was asked to live stream a video at a Facebook party, and I took on the challenge. Low and behold, it was actually fun!

Today, readers want to know more and more about their favorite authors. Gone are the days when we could just hide away and write. Social media has blown the doors wide open, and the public wants to talk with us.

So, I’m going to show you how simple it is to do a...

Where Are They Now – 2008, 2006 & 2004

Welcome to another installment of our eight week series: The Golden Heart Finalists, Where Are They Now? We’ve visited with some of the early Golden Heart finalists and some from more recent years, but now we’re going back to the middle – the even years of 2008, 2006 and 2004!

As our Golden Heart series has progressed, we’ve seen some themes emerge, but every Golden Heart experience is unique and this collection of award-winning authors is no different.  From the moment they got the call to n...

Getting in the Spirit of the Season

Last Christmastime, I was the gym, jogging away on the elliptical (which is my happy place) and idly flipping through the audio for the various TV channels lined up in front of me when I saw the gorgeous Shemar Moore appear on screen to pimp his new (at the time) movie.  He talked about working with kids and wanting kids of his own – and every woman in the audience of the daytime talk show he was on melted in tandem.  You could see them volunteering to help him on his quest to start a family,...

Care and Feeding of the Perpetually Peeved

I have a confession to make.

This blog post is the first new thing I’ve written in over a month. My WIP, which I mentioned in my ENTHRALL ME release day interview last month, is stalled out at about the halfway point. I can’t bear to look at how long it’s been since I last updated my manuscript.

ENTHRALL ME itself? I’m so proud of the book I wrote. Reviews have been great, but sales could be better. It must be said: this is rather a self-fulfilling prophesy, because I’m completely uninterest...

Where Are They Now – The Firebirds (Class of 2012)

Welcome to Week Five of our eight week series: The Golden Heart Finalists, Where Are They Now?  Last week we got updates from some of the OGs of the GH, but this week we’re back to more recent years and welcoming the chance to catch up with the Firebirds of 2012!

In March of 2012, the Firebirds got the call notifying them that they were Golden Heart finalists and later that year many of them made their way to Anaheim for their shot at taking home the Golden Heart necklace… and they banded tog...

Announcing the Winner of the 2017 Halloween Hop!!

We had fun giving away all our virtual candy, and we hope you had a blast searching for it (and finding some great new books and other prizes along the way!) We had lots of Trick-or-Treaters participating, and now we’ve got the winner of our $100 Grand Prize Amazon Gift Card!! Her name is announced after the jump……..

AND OUR WINNER IS: DEBBIE CHUTE!!! Congratulations, Debbie! And thanks to everyone for playing! We’ll be back in December with our Annual Holiday Cookie Exchange Blog Hop, with...

Trick-or-Treat Halloween Hop with the Rubies!

Happy Halloween! To celebrate this spooky-fun season, we have treats and tricks for all of you (and they’re calorie free)! Just click on each of the links below to hop to a Ruby’s web site, blog or FB page for Halloween fun. Rubies will have giveaways or fun tricks and treats waiting for you. “Collect” the candy from each Ruby. When you’ve filled your virtual trick-or-treat bag with all the candy, e-mail your list of each Ruby’s favorite candy to laraarcherromance@gmail.com to enter the draw...

The 2017 Ruby Halloween Trick-or-Treat Blog Hop Starts Tomorrow!!

BOOOOOOOO!!!!! Happy Almost Halloween!! The Rubies had so much fun with our Halloween Blog Hop last year, we’re doing it again this year!! Just like last year, you’ll be able to hop from blog to blog trick-or-treating….i.e., finding out which candy each Ruby has stashed somewhere on her blog post. Keep an accurate list of which Ruby had what candy, and email it to us, and you’ll be in the running to win a $100 Amazon gift card!! Plus there will be other fun treats and prizes up for grabs at v...