Romance writers are some of the nicest, most helpful people I’ve ever known. Maybe it has something to do with most of us being women and all of us dealing with emotions as our job. Romance writers share the secrets of how they write their books, essentially training their replacements. No other profession does this …
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I’ve been watching my blog stats go up recently. I haven’t a clue why but yesterday I had a record 78 visitors and according to my stat counter a whooping 69 visitors arrived her while looking for variations on the word “halloween.” I looked up “halloween” on Google and through TWENTY pages, I couldn’t find …
I am feeling pretty humble right now. I am a big fan of the Biggest Loser. Last episode Jillian had one of the girls actually get on the treadmill and run 10 miles an hour for 5 seconds. I thought I could do that, so today after I did my 45 minutes of the stairstepper, …
El-e-e tagged me for this meme. I’m glad because it’s been awhile (again) since I wrote anything here. Yes there will be more featured authors. I’m working on interview questions tonight. The rules: 1. You have to post these rules before you give the facts. 2. Players – You must list one fact that is …
It was a big weekend at our house, at least Sunday was. All day the Boy kept talking about how he wanted to sleep in his own room. You have to understand that Beloved and I are kind of Attachment Parenting types. We breastfed our daughter for… a long time and we believe in the …
In looking over my stats for this blog, I’ve noticed that one of the search terms that people use and find me is “Padme.” In case you don’t know, that’s the name of Anakin Skywalker’s (DARTH VADER) love and Luke and Leia’s mommy. If you’re interested at all in the Skywalker family (and laughing) read …
Some thoughts on vacations and having people visit you on their vacations: 1. Some people are willing to spend money on a hotel just to get out of the car, regardless of how little they have left to go to get to their finally destination. 2. Flying long distances is never fun, regardless of the …
Wow! I can’t believe how time has flown. I never intended to let my blog languish so long! When I got home from the trip, my time was mainly spent getting things ready for school. We live in the South so my kids both started school on 13 Aug, which still seems early for this …
I got back last Saturday from what was supposed to be the Writers’ Cruise. From that opening sentence, you obviously can tell that it didn’t happen exactly as advertised. Let me start from the beginning: About 8-10 months ago, a member of RomVets, a group of romance writers who served or are currently serving in …
Sorry I’ve been so neglectful of this blog. Life just seems to get in the way of doing the things I want to do. Some quick updates: Writing update: I’ve kind of put off writing because of some other things going on. I finished judging the entries I got from the Get Your Stiletto in …