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Fangirl Friday – May 6th Edition

Happy Fangirl Friday! The day when we gush about new books and give you a heads-up on great deals. As always, feel free to share your own book news (releases & sales!) in the comments but please be courteous and do not repeatedly re-post the same material. Thank you!

And now… to the BOOKS!

New Releases:

Against the Pawby Diane Kelly

Police officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner are on the lookout for a convict who has been unleashed. . .

PAW PATROL IS ON THE CASE
Megan has her sights set on fi...

Demystifying HTML part 3 – tables

With HTML, one of the most fun and versatile features is the table. A table allows you to present all sorts of information in a structured way. Today’s post will demonstrate how to create simple HTML tables.

A quick recap of the Demystifying HTML series: The goal of this series to help you understand (and perhaps correct) HTML in web pages. Part 1 included HTML basics. Part 2 described how to display information in lists.

HTML Tables

If you’ve ever used a spreadsheet application, you know th...

Stop the (Negative) Insanity!

Happy Monday everyone! Okay, so you may not feel like celebrating the start of the work week, but I bet you can find something to smile about if you look. Perhaps the traffic lights were green or a butterfly landed on your arm. These might seem like little things, but they’re important. Often times we dwell on the annoying things that go wrong, letting them eat away at our peace and daily joy. But wemust also pay attention to the little good things, whichpeople tend to forget aboutas soon as...

Fangirl Friday

There’s a Ruby sister sale! (Say that 5 times fast.) All three of these Ruby sister books are only FREE for a day or two, so grab them while you can!

First up, TODAY ONLY Bev Pettersen’s Fillies and Females is free.

She’d rather die than be the center of attention…that may happen.

Becky Rivers yearns for a loving family and carves out a home as companion-nurse to an aging Texas matriarch with more opinions than horses. Bruised by years of neglectful foster care, she avoids the limelight but...

Brainstorming Unusual Character

Oops. The Ruby calendar had a few holes, so I thought we’d talk weather today. Not what it’s like in your area (however, you certainly can share), but how weather is used in our novels to trigger change in our characters’ lives. We know the well-worn cliché of the hero and heroine trapped in a cabin during a snow storm, but we don’t want to do cliché. We want to write fresh ideas

Did you see THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE? How about THE GRAPES OF WRATH? Those are two off the top of my head movies/...

Is Your Book Already Out There?

Do you ever notice when you’re working on a book that you think is brilliant (or when you just finished one and you’re about to start shopping it around) that all of a sudden you start seeing books exactly like yours everywhere you look? I know there is no such thing as a purely original idea (especially when your idea is Austen-based, as mine is, so it’s already derivative), but it can be a bit demoralizing to keep seeing evidence that someone else got there first.

I think when this happens...

Fangirl Friday

There’s nothing special going on in Ruby land this week, which is good news for all you readers! You have this week to get caught up on all the wonderful Ruby stories out there before more stories come your way in the next few weeks.

And there is a treasure trove! Between about fifty Ruby sisters, there are probably more than 500 stories out there waiting for you. Fiction, non-fiction. Young adult, romance, paranormal, mystery, thriller, scifi. Historical, contemporary, futuristic, fantasy. S...

Demystifying HTML – part 2 : Lists

In September, I posted the first article in a series to demystify HTML, which is the language we use to format web content. The goal of the series is to make it easier for you to read and (perhaps) correct the HTML you have in web pages.

A quick recap: Part 1 included terminology and 4 basic HTML “tags” (italics, bold, paragraphs, and line breaks). Tags generally come in pairs and change the way that the text or data is presented.

In this post, we’ll look at bulleted lists. There are two kin...

Accidental Hitchhiker: The Story Behind the Story

People often ask writers where we get our ideas. Mine come from anywhere and everywhere—a dream, a snippet of conversation overheard in a bar, a walk with my husband. After that initial burst of inspiration, I build on the idea. Expand and improve it as only a romance writer can, making it more. More exciting. More funny. More romantic.

My first published work was a short story in Woman’s World magazine. I’d decided to try my hand at short stories, and when I sat down to brainstorm, the first...

Fangirl Friday

Ruby sister Kim Law has books on sale this week, no matter where you live!

In the U.S. Sweet Nothings is on sale this month. For those of you who don’t know, that’s the cupcake story with the 235 wonderful ratings. A lot of people LOVE that story.

http://www,amazon.com/Sweet-Nothings-...

If you’re in the U.K. or Australia, Montana Cherries is on sale. The U.K. site is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montana-Cherr...