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Mother’s Day eBook Sale Facebook Hop

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Happy Mother’s Day! Looking for the perfect give for the mom in your life? Help her get ready for spring and load her kindle with great reads! SALE: https://tinyurl.com/pmxntgm

To help us celebrate, please join Mother’s Day eBook Sale Facebook Hop! Starting here at romantic comedy author Ellyn Oaksmith’s Facebook page, you’ll have the chance to win some great prizes and “meet” some amazing Gemma Halliday Publishing authors, including: *Anne Marie Stoddard * Nicole Leiren * (yours truly) * Da...

Platespinning 101: Lesson #37 – Time is Money

[image error]If time is money, that means I’ve got 24 hours in my pocket to burn on any given day – well, except tomorrow when I’ll be forced to hand one of my hard-earned hours over to the DST (Daylight Savings Time) and get nothing back for it except a better lit morning.

That’s what I call a poor return on investment.

Married some twenty years to my Finance-major college sweetheart, here’s what this English major grad has learned: money management is pretty straight-forward.

Balance how much you earn...

ChickLit Love Hop

[image error]Join 50 chick lit and romantic comedy authors in celebrating friendship and romance in the #ChickLitLove Hop. We’ll honor Galentine’s Day on February 13 and Valentine’s Day on February 14 with prizes, freebies, and entries to win the grand prizes of SpaFinder gift certificates.

Here’s a list of the participating authors:

GALENTINE’S DAY (Monday, February 13)
Traci Andrighettii
Author Melissa Baldwin
Tracie Banister
Kathryn R. Biel: Author
Renee Conoulty – Author
Geralyn Corcillo the Writer
Wh...

Five Things Worse Than Having Stomach Flu

Sorry for the non-literary topic, but since I’ve had my arms wrapped around a toilet bowl for the past day or two, my mind has focused on little more than exacting revenge on the nurse who gave me my flu shot last fall.

“Yes, this one covers all strains,” she lied as I skeptically bared my arm.

Grrr.

[image error]Afterbeing roused from a deep sleep Sunday night by an urgent need to regurgitate what felt like everything I had eatenfor the past five years into said toilet bowl, my mind struggled to pinpoint...

Can You Hear Me Now?

Hello! Remember me? I know it’s been awhile since you’ve heard from me.

Here. Let me give you some hints. I’m a reluctant breadwinner…closet romantic comedy writer…snarky mother to five boys.

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No? Uh, let’s see.

I’m also the Plate Spinner (i.e., crazed working parent who laughs in the face of chaos andcanleap over tall piles of laundry in a single bound). I’ve also written a couple of books.

Ah, OK, that sounds familiar?Wellgood, because I’m very delinquent in anno...

Flight Risk Promotion Tour and Giveaway

My pal, Krista Ames over at Bridging the Gap Promotions has put together a book blog tour for my latest release! Be sure to following along so you don’t miss out on: Riveting author interviews A tell-allinterview with the hero of Flight Risk Never-shared-before excerpts And, best of all, chance to win a $25 Amazon […]

Under Brave, See Autism

Two weeks ago, son #4, the one whofalls on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum, started college. For me, it was the fourth time I dropped a boy off at a faraway campus with vague promises of care packages and a reminder to buy a bus ticket for fall break. For my three older […]

Flight Risk Release Party Giveaway

Flight Risk, book #4 in my Assignment: Romance series releases on August 23rd! I hope you can join meand several of my outrageously talented author pals to help celebrate! 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. – Tracy Kimmer 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. – Geralyn Coricillo 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. – Stacey Weidower 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. – […]

A Sunny-side Up Summer

I know what you’re thinking…”Where’ve you been? It’s August, for Pete’s sake!” You’re right. This summer has flown by. Why it seems like just yesterday I was pulling my white capris and sandals from the nether regions of my closet. So much has happened in the last two months. Too much to write about really. […]

Book Baby Pic

As I promised in my Birthing a Book post, here is a picture of Flight Risk, my latest book-slash-baby. Isn’t it lovely? That’s Aubrey Thomas, a phobic travel writer at the Chicago Gazette, on the cover. When shemust chose between jumping to what she fears will be certain death from a skydiving static line or […]