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Announcing the Make It Golden Contest 2015

The Ruby Slippered Sisterhood is about to celebrate our SIXTH blog birthday!! Our official Birthday Bash will be Monday, September 21st, and as always, WE’LL be the ones giving away the gifts! So be sure to join us here one week from today for the festivities!! Right after that, we’ll be holding our annual MAKE IT GOLDEN CONTEST, and giving our Golden-Heart-eligible readers a terrific chance to shine (plus have a chance to earn more great prizes!!)

The MAKE IT GOLDEN contest is designed for u...

Fangirl Friday

There aren’t manysales and new Rubyreleases to post this week, but I’m looking forward to somefabulous upcoming releases currently available for preorder…

Temptation and Tequila (The Tremont Sisters Trilogy, Book 2)

by Elizabeth Bemis

Releases September 15th!

Never trust tequila on your birthday.

She loved him. She’d always loved him. And it took just one tipsy birthday kiss for him to shatter her heart. But horse vet Chloe Tremont doesn’t wrangle studs for a living only to let brooding hun...

A Cautionary Tale

It’s been said that, in a courtroom, the man who represents himself has a fool for a client. Something similar can be said for a writer who does his or her own editing.

In an earlier blog, I mentioned fine-tuning my SFR and how it became a cautionary tale in and of itself. Here’s why:

Family obligations made it impossible for Cuz to relocate when his employer decided to move two-thirds of the way across country. With him facing unemployment, we decided to finish a manuscript that, although be...

Show and Tell Wednesday – Star Wars Edition

So I learned that last Friday was dubbed “Force Friday”, a special date where a bunch of Star Wars merchandise was released into the wild to drum up a commercial frenzy prior to the release of the next installment – “The Force Awakens” in theaters in December.

As I set out for my normal round of errands this weekend, I wondered how much of a disturbance in the force there would be. So I thought I’d take some pictures.

An early stop for me was at the bookstore to get some cinnamon tea. Sure en...

Timeliness is next to Godliness

I’m waiting for a painter to show up for his 8:30 appointment to get a color swatch so he can work on my house. It’s now 10:15. Getting excited won’t do me any good. Around here, we call it Carolina time. Joke: The workman said he’llbe there on Tuesday. He is, but you never know which Tuesday he means. Carolina time.

And that led me to consider timeliness in our writing lives. We all have deadlines, either from an outside publisher or of our own making. Editors, or readers, expect us to meet...

Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day to all our lovely readers!! The Rubies are taking the day off to spend some relaxing time with our loved ones, and hope you’re doing the same! See you tomorrow for a brand new post!

Fangirl Friday

Welcome to Fangirl Friday! We have several listings for you this week, and hope you’ll include your own recommendations in the comments below. Lara Archer has two books on sale for just 99 cents as part of Zoey Derrick’s SUMMER BLOW-OUT EVENT, which features lots of super-hot romances for $1.99 or less (some free), and also has a Rafflecopter giveaway for a $110 Amazon gift card!

Cinematographer Nick Turner has desperately wanted independent film director Amber Wakeling for years, but he won’...

Prologues: Yea or Nay?

–Previously published on my personal blog–

Warning: This blog is being written in the No Edits Zone. Grammar and Spelling Nazis, proceed at your own risk!

After months spent fine-tuning the SFR (a cautionary tale in and of itself), I’m finally back to my Merlin Series. Gotta say, making the transition has been difficult. Worse, despite the multiple GH nods the first two Merlin manuscripts received, looking at them now makes me wince.

Why? Good question. I can’t put my finger on it, but I’m no...

Show and Tell Wednesday: Book Nooks

All my life, I’ve wanted a room for just my books. With the new house, I finally have a study/library that’s all my own. Well, I do share with the twinsies and the cat–it is the best room in the house, after all.

But it gets better! Look at what else the room has…

A window seat!!!!!

Since moving in, I’ve been drooling over this and browsing pictures of book nooks on Pinterest and Houzz the way teenagers browse “pron”. (Mispelled to avoid bots) I couldn’t post the best of the pictures because...

The September Hour-a-Day Challenge Starts Today!!

It’s here! It’s here! September is here!

Most years, that hasn’t been good news for my writing productivity–I’m a teacher, and the start of each new school year is like falling down a well. (A good and noble well, to be sure, but one that swallows my time and energy whole.) For many of you, September is time to ramp up again after the laziness and chaotic travel and family-centeredness of summer. You may be wondering where your momentum went, and why it’s so hard to find your focus.

Regardles...