Lis'Anne Harris's Blog, page 14
September 4, 2012
SWEET LIBERATION, Now Available!
It’s here and I’m thrilled! Sweet Liberation, Book #2 in the Castle of Dreams series, has been released on Kindle. Print version and all other retail outlets coming soon!
Blurb, teaser, and link to first chapter!
August 25, 2012
Are You a Dumpdigger?
Have you ever heard of a “dumpdigger?” I hadn’t until I came across this picture on Wikimedia Commons.
Dumpdiggers use antique maps and other historical records to locate very old properties and then systematically search the land for old garbage dumps using metal detectors and shovels. They find things like early American pottery, antique glass bottles and stoneware, saloon pipes and porcelain dolls heads, civil war relics and British Navy relics, military collectibles, coins, toys and tools....
August 20, 2012
Surf Report, 8/20/2012
from Forbes
Publishing Is Broken, We’re Drowning In Indie Books – And That’s A Good Thing
“Robert Bidinotto, a former journalist whose eerily effective indie vigilante novel Hunter shot onto bestseller lists last year agrees:
“The idea that you have to be rejected by a New York editor to improve as a writer is absurd.
“Howey concurs and in his response to Grafton adds:
“Tell me this: why is self-publishing antithetical to “honing one’s craft?” Who ever received writing advice in...
August 15, 2012
Surf Report, August 15, 2012
I find historical accounts like this highly entertaining! 
On my wish list for 2013 ~,~
Feast Day of St. Arnulph of Soissons, an 11th-century French patron of brewers. In the year 1612, brewers John Kempster and John Byrd of Bayton, Worcestershire, were charged with making beer “too well,” and selling it at their pubs for only a penny a pint. According to a petition signed by neighbors, they did “make it so extraordynarye strong that it draweth divers idle persons into the alehouses, by reason...
Surf Report as of 8/15/2012
I find historical accounts like this highly entertaining!
On my wish list for 2013 ~,~
Feast Day of St. Arnulph of Soissons, an 11th-century French patron of brewers. In the year 1612, brewers John Kempster and John Byrd of Bayton, Worcestershire, were charged with making beer “too well,” and selling it at their pubs for only a penny a pint. According to a petition signed by neighbors, they did “make it so extraordynarye strong that it draweth divers idle persons into the alehouses, by reason...
August 12, 2012
Falling Skies, Warehouse 13, & the New Revolution
Some things just don’t make sense. But I don’t care. I may be a lover of all things historical and romantic, but it isn’t the only thing I love. Scifi has always been a one of my favorite TV and film genres. I grew up in a family full of Trekkies and Star Wars freaks. Saturday nights with homemade pizza and Space 1999 is one of my favorite memories.
But somehow, over the past several years, I’d forgotten how cool futuristic, fantasy, and scifi shows really are. My gal-pal Charlee Allden asked...
August 11, 2012
Review: Ladybugs and Fireflies by Cheryl Alldredge
Ladybugs and Fireflies by Cheryl Alldredge
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Feisty fraud investigator Callie Roberts isn’t looking for a knight in shining armor to rescue her. The last thing she needs is to be distracted by a man, especially when he’s the powerful New York attorney in town to represent the man her dream client has hired her to investigate. With a past full of heartache, will Callie ever allow herself to believe happily-ever-after really can come true?
I loved Taylor and Callie! And the e...
August 9, 2012
Surf Report, August 9, 2012
I’ve been barely skimming the net for quite some time. As I was surfing to see what I’d missed over the past year, these were articles and items that caught my attention. I’m sure there are lots more, but this is what I’ve found in the last day or two.
From Slushpile.net
posted March 19, 2012
Lies, Damned Lies, and Publishing
“The modern publishing industry needs the sensational. A book doesn’t pop if it tells a story plain. It pops if there is blood, guts, and glory. If it bleeds it leads, they...
Surf Report, August 2012
I’ve been barely skimming the net for quite some time. As I was surfing to see what I’d missed over the past year, these were articles and items that caught my attention. I’m sure there are lots more, but this is what I’ve found in the last day or two.
From Slushpile.net
posted March 19, 2012
Lies, Damned Lies, and Publishing
“The modern publishing industry needs the sensational. A book doesn’t pop if it tells a story plain. It pops if there is blood, guts, and glory. If it bleeds it leads, they...
August 7, 2012
Lord Sener and Lady Joanna’s Story
Sweet Liberation
Excerpt:
Richard pressed his lips to Joanna’s sensitive nape causing goose bumps to travel the length and breadth of her form. She whimpered as her newly initiated body responded to her husband’s skillful ministrations. She clutched his arms where they held her back pinned to the chair, loving the feel of the coarse hair abrading her fingertips. His tongue set her aflame.
A low growl penetrated her wine-fogged mind. “Joanna. What you do to me without a tittle of effort boggles m...
