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March 3, 2015
Show and Tell Wednesday: The International Edible Book Festival
Calling all bakers and food artists! Have you heard of the International Edible Book Festival?
It’s a worldwide phenomenon that happens on or around April 1st this year. The concept is simple: Make bookish creations that are edible. The official event is hosted by a French organization that looks rather intimidating: http://www.books2eat.com/.
Local libraries host their own events as well. Here are some examples from the University Library at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois: Edible Book Festival 201...
March 2, 2015
Guest Annabeth Albert Talks About How the WWF Changed Her Writing Career!
Annabeth grew up sneaking romance novels under the bed covers. Now, she devours all subgenres of romance out in the open—no flashlights required! When she’s not adding to her keeper shelf, she’s a mult...
March 1, 2015
2015 Ruby Slippered Sisterhood Winter Writing Festival Closing Ceremonies
It’s always hard to believe, but DAY FIFTY of the Winter Writing Festival has arrived!This is our Final Check-In Monday and Closing Ceremonies rolled into one.
You still have ALL DAY today towork towards your goals–nothing ends until midnight your time. (As always, the Festival is always about YOU.)
After that, though,the great Writing Festival Torch will be extinguished until next year. But we know the embers will keep on glowing, and the Creative Fires will continue to burn bright inside each...
February 26, 2015
Fangirl Friday (2.27.15)
Welcome to the last FANGIRL FRIDAY of February! The day when we gush about books. New books, cheap books, free books, or books we’re just excited to be reading right now.
New Ruby Releases This Week:
This weeks I’m thrilled to announce the release of the third book in Shelley Coriell’s romantic suspense series, The Apostles:
The Blind by Shelley Coriell
When art imitates death…
As part of the FBI’s elite Apostles team, bomb and weapons specialist Evie Jimenez knows playing it safe is not an option...
February 25, 2015
A Sure-Fire Formula For Falling in Love?
In a recent, much ballyhooed article in the New York Times, writer Mandy Len Catron shared the story of how she fell in love—by following a formula laid out more than 20 years ago by the psychologist Arthur Aron. In the writer’s view, Aron’s method was powerful enough to make two strangers fall in love in just a few hours.Ready to hear how it works?
The article sums up the scientific process this way: “A heterosexual man and woman enter the lab through separate doors. They sit face to face and...
February 24, 2015
Show and Tell: Lucky Money
Last Thursday (February 19) was Chinese New Year, so first off: Happy New Year!
What I’ve brought for Show and Tell today are lucky money envelopes. I think most people are familiar with these pretty red things that are ubiquitous every year around late January and late February. For a bit of background, red envelopes can be given as gifts for any special occasion, not just New Year’s. It’s common to see red envelopes given during weddings or birthdays. Hubby and I took a honeymoon to Europe u...
February 23, 2015
Share ANOTHER Snippet Day!!
Back on the 17th Day of the 2015 WWF I revived a tradition from previous years of asking Festival participants to share a little snippet of something they’d written during the process. As usual, the results were wonderful, diverse, funny, moving, and inspiring in all sorts of ways.Quite a few others who enjoyed the little glimpse into what’s been brewing in other WWF writers’ secret brains asked me if we could do a second round before the 2015 Festival ends. So….we’re back again today, asking...
February 22, 2015
Winter Writing Festival Check-In #6
Just before the Festival started, I offered advice about goal-setting by comparing the Festival to running track and knowing how to pace yourself for a race. Some folks who started out strong in this writing mini-marathon may have come out too strong and dropped by the wayside, but a hardy band is clearly going the distance with us and making awesome writing progress right through to the end! Good for you!...
February 19, 2015
Fangirl Friday (2.20.15)
It’s time for FANGIRL FRIDAY again – the day when we gush about books. New books, cheap books, free books, or books we’re just excited to be reading right now. It’s a light week for Ruby news this week, but don’t let that stop you from sounding off about books you love in the comments!
New Ruby Releases This Week:
There are no new Ruby releases this week, but if you have a new book out or if there’s a new book you’re excited about, please tell us in the comments!
Ruby Books Discounted or Free in...
February 18, 2015
What’s Your One Thing?
My family and I spent this past New Year’s Eve on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. For those of you who’ve never heard of it, it’s next to Aruba. We’ve been to Bonaire many, many times and enjoy the scuba diving, but this last trip was different.
As we drove through the town of Kralendijk (don’t ask me to say it because I have no idea how it’s pronounced) I noticed a wall outside the town square painted with black chalkboard paint. On the top of the wall, written in pink chalk, was: 201...
