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June Wedding Blitz: Shirley Jump and The Bride Wore Chocolate

June is the month of brides and weddings. My own daughter won’t be married until August, but even so, we are thinking of little but weddings and such this month. So I decided to put together a special June Wedding Blitz series of guest blogs — authors who have featured weddings or brides in their bok themes. Stay tuned for a month of wedding fun.

And now, without further ado…

Please welcome guest author Shirley Jump to the blog. Shirley is going to kick off the June Wedding Blitz month on the b...

Independent Book Bloggers For the Win!

Thanks to any and all who may have helped in my bid to become an IBBA winning blog on Goodreads. The results were announced on the 16th (I’m behind!) and I didn’t win. Sob.

However, some truly awesome blogs did win, and you should check them out.

I’ve been considering how to make my blog more interesting and appealing to my readers (part of the whole change going on, as you can see by my redesigned site). I’m definitely going to use these blogs in my research on what is working for readers. I h...

Writers and Hollywood: When Reality Takes a Backseat to Showmanship

Mocking When Hollywood Gets It Wrong: Bones “The Suit on the Set”

DH and I DVR a lot of TV and watch it later. We try to watch it together, but we don’t always manage it. So we’ll give a quick update — “You can watch X, Y, and Z, and erase them.” We need to do this because DH is the DVR King and he does not like the recorded shows to go above 60% of the DVR space (he also does not like the gas tank to go below half full…needless to say, I’m more of the drive-until-fumes-stage driver).

I’ve been...

The Ex-Files: To Title Or Not To Title, That Is The Question

To Title Or Not To Title — Help Needed

I’m working on The Ex-Files, my blog novel, for a mid-July release. It has had the same title for years. But in the time when I first began working on the book (pre-death of chicklit), other novels, and a TV show have used this title.

Friends and colleagues are divided in opinion. There’s no “rule” against reusing a title over and over again. This one is perfect for the novel (a young woman gets her dream assignment that will lead to her moving toward her...

Turtle Mom Wedding Whinesday: First Pinterest Poll – Vote Now

Apple Chancery script option.

Let the Voting Begin

Okay. I’ve done it. I’ve gotten the first Pinterest poll under way.

This one is not about suits and ties because I had a more pressing matter — the script for printing the invitation envelopes. Daughter would like it to be elegant against the dark gray of her envelopes (I’ve simulated here, but your color may vary, so don’t hold me to it).

I looked through my available fonts, and picked a couple that I thought would look nice and be easy for the...

Turtle Mom Wedding Whinesday: 18 Minutes and Choose Love

ANNOUNCEMENT:For any Kindle owners who don’t want to miss a second of the Turtle Mom Wedding saga (which began last year withConfessions of a Turtle Mom), you now have the option to subscribe to theAbout a Wedding blogon Amazon. Unfortunately, you cannot subscribe to blogs with the Kindle app yet, so you non-Kindle folks canFollow the blog, or the RSS feed, or sign up for the monthly newsletter for a reminder.

18 Minutes and Choose Love

Daughter and I talked this week, and I was supposed to do...

Turtle Mom Wedding Whinesday: Upcoming Pinterest Intersection

So, a quick note today that Daughter and I have decided to put some of her Pinterest choices up for a (non-binding) vote in the near future. If you want to join in the fun, you may want to add my wedding board on Pinterest.

Daughter made me change my picture (I had one of me touching a Vandegraft generator with static-y hair…she said it made me look crazy). I defaulted to the hat picture. I need a good picture of myself, but I take truly awful pictures. Eyes closed, red patches, upside-down sm...

Independent Book Blogger Awards Season: Vote for Me!

Fellow Goodreads citizens, lend me your clicking finger…

I always wanted to run for student council, but I was much too shy to do so. On TV sitcoms, they make it look like a big deal (teens create professional looking posters, campaign, have platforms, have competition). That was not the way it went down in any of my schools. The teachers tapped the kids they thought were right for the job (Honor Society was a feeder pool), it was rare that anyone else put in their name so that there was a com...

Boxing the 7-Legged Octopus: The Secret of Ebook Boxed Sets is…

The Secret of Ebook Boxed Sets is…

…I have no clue.

But I'm about to find out.

Right now, I'm in the experimental phase. I've put up two boxed sets of my Once Upon a Wedding historical romance series (Books 1-4 and Books 5-7). I thought 7 books in one boxed set would be even more unwieldy than breaking a set of 7 books in half. Every so often I'm reminded that I have an almost OCD fondness for symmetry, and that trait was in full evidence while deciding whether to go with Books 1-3 and 4-7, or 1...

Turtle Mom Wedding Whinesday: Say "No" to Fit in the Dress

I haven't bought a dress for the wedding (doing that whole "when I've lost XX pounds" delusional thing). But since all it has to be is gray or yellow and flattering, this is not a big deal (except the flattering part, but I refuse to stress about it until I've lost XX pounds).

No so for the bride. She bought the dress as a floor model and is having final alterations very soon. [Note: picture is *not* the dress she chose, but a fitted waist is a fitted waist.] Which means she can't afford to...