My Love
2007-03-19 05:49:00
Before I start this post I do want to say that it is personal. But, I'm a writer and if I don't get personal every once in a while, I lose touch, lol. I'm not going to pay attention to my writing skills right now either, nor the spelling. I'm just here to let it spill out, I'll come back later and edit, rofl. And for some reason I can't sleep, been tossing and turning, thinking of my love. Yes, that's him up there with my son. Isn't he the hunkiest, most rugged mountain man you've ever seen??...hehehehe...he's going to kill me if he ever reads this!Well, our story is a great one, but has dealt us a few hardships along the way. We met in a bar, yes, I know.....not the best place to meet guys, lol. That night I hadn't gone out to meet guys, though, because you see, it was maybe my third time going out after my son was born. Keep in mind, by this time my son was already one. I had a newborn baby, a $645 mortgage, a car payment and being a waitress really didn't put me in the m
Too Cute!
2007-03-21 06:33:00
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Innocent Evil Excerpt
2007-03-21 05:25:00
This is an excerpt from one of my works in progress. Feel free to post your comments and critique! PrologueThere are a lot of ways a soul can be stained. Abuse, neglect, and mistreatment are a few. Any one of these can turn good into evil, twisting and bending it into an unrecognizable feature. After all, everything is good in the beginning. Nobody and nothing starts out that way, climbing out of the womb with malice on their minds. Out of all things dangerous, nothing is more so when the righteous are driven down the path to insanity, barely clinging to the side of them that once spoke to angels. Screaming at the injustice, they flee, with a tail of fleet-footed retribution wagging steadily behind them. Indeed, there is a thin line between good and evil. For only when two wrongs make a right, can a tormented soul live with themselves.Being innocent can only take someone so far. Once that point of no return has been reached, they must step freely over it, giving their pure and golden h
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What I'm listening to today.....
2007-03-23 19:38:00
Evanesence is all I'm listening to today. I'm getting a new book ready for subs and this song especially fits the mood. Not to mention the I just love this group, lol...go ahead, jam a little!!
Launch of Twilight Muse!
2007-03-23 17:21:00
I'm excited to announce the launch of my new blog, Twilight
Muse. At Twilight muse I will be featuring authors and their excerpts, new release, contest information, interviews and more! It's just another little way to get all the great author's a little more publicity!Since I began my own writing journey, I have been floored by how much talent is out there. It's really given me the drive to pursue my writing. It's inspired me. So I wanted a place where I could honor that, this inexplicable bond between writers, especially romance writers, lol.So, if you've got a minute, head on over and check it out. I have video trailer and excerpts up that are just too awesome! And, quick note...if you want your info posted on Twilight Muse, please feel free to contact me!
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Some pics...
2007-03-24 06:12:00
Hell-Hounds
2007-03-24 05:57:00
These are the hell hounds I share my daily life with. Kane is the big white one, the medium sized fluffy thing sleeping on the legos table is Gus and the itty bitty one is Trixie - a.k.a Trix the Mix. Kane saved me once, but I'll save that story for later, gotta get back to my Innocent Evil MS.
Terrified of The Zoo
2007-03-27 19:39:00
Zoos depress me. The cages, the small enclosures, all of it. I realize that if it weren't for the zoos these creatures probably wouldn't have anywhere to go or not be here at all, but still. Seeing a tiger pace back and forth gets to me. Broken spirits is what it is.On the good side of things, I went to Lone Elk Park this weekend with my family. Lone Elk is over 500 acres of free roaming land for elk, bison and other animals. The best thing, is just before you get to the park opening, there is a spread of buildings, surrounded by waterfalls, picnic areas that don't encroach on the nature around them and BIRDS, birds of prey, specifically. My favorite are the owls. This place is the THE WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY.It was a great day. Filled with wonderful sightings and the inevitable tick findings on our persons, lol. To me, this signaled Spring, the birth of great things, the beginning of a cycle that never ends. The thing I like about this place is that they only put the birds in cages wh
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Thirteen Things I have to do while Writing
1.)I ...
2007-03-29 20:40:00
Thirteen Things I have to do while Writing1.)I buy airheads (ya know, those taffy-like things?) and suck on them.2.)I cannot write while music is playing, if it has lyrics. Cause I'm the idiot who has to sing along, and before you know it, the lyrics have somehow ended up on my page.3.)I have a tendency to stop the flow and try to analyze. I forget that I can always come back and fix it, that to have the skeleton of the story will allow me to go back and perform literary surgery.4.)Faith in myself....this is a hard one, took me a while to get there.5.)I have to have my slipper shoes on.6.)Then I have to take them off, leaving them lay below the chair.7.)I have to sit indian-style in the chair. I'm very short, although my legs touch the ground, it's still very uncomfortable for the backs of my legs.8.)I have to have Hershey's for when my airhead supply runs out.9.)Something to drink, used to be Pepsi, but lately I've been getting sick whenever I drink it, so now it's Sprite or Koo
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A Really Scary Ghost Story by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke
2007-04-02 06:07:00
Recently Llewellyn published a book with the intriguing title, Don’t Call Them Ghost
s. That made me remember some of the various “ghosts” I have encountered in my life. And the many stories I’ve heard over the years.Perhaps we shouldn’t call true “spiritual survivors” ghosts – but it is still a good enough term for many paranormal encounters until the nature of the experience is better understood.Many years ago I had a really scary experience that taught me a few lessons about the personal nature of paranormal encounters and the problem of pre-judgement. I knew a lady and knew that she “played around” even though she was married to a nice and successful guy, had two fine children and a good professional career. In those days, I drove a convertible and on a warm autumn evening I had the top down. I had been working late and as a I drove through downtown on the way home I heard a newsboy shout (that’s how long ago this happened) “St. Paul woman shot in motel room.
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RIDING THE STORM by Sydney Croft
2007-04-05 01:50:00
I was lucky enough to catch a sneak peek at this upcoming release. Thanks, Larissa! (wink) I haven't read it all the way through yet, but it's one of those where you can't wait to get to the end. My fingers ahve been itching with wanting to finish it.I'm almost thinking about shirking my revision duties for my latest MS so that I can dive into it again. I got lost when I began reading and when I came up for air, a half hour had gone by. It drowned out the noise of the kids yelling and sucked me right in!If you have a chance, check it out! RIDING THE STORM will be available soon from Bantam Dell. You can also Preorder from Amazon at Sydney
's site!Visit SYDNEY CROFT
CHANGES ARE BEING MADE!!
2007-04-04 19:52:00
I am changing the blog and it's template,please excuse the mess!!!!
New Site Coming Soon!
2007-04-05 14:59:00
So, I have finally purchased my domain and have set up a new site host. I did this because my current site is set up for more of a products business, and I'm quite limited as to what I can do with it. With this new site I should be able to add flash as well as create the template from the ground up.I'm probably also going to host a new blog there as well. I will keep this one as active as I can, but for the most part, my main blog will be hosted on my new site once I get it set up. I might do duplicate postings so that each one is current, but I haven't made up my mind as of yet.Not sure this was such a good idea with everything I have going, but.....it needed to be done!
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THE DREAM KING Cover is done!
2007-04-08 04:23:00
Say hello to The Dream King cover! This is my first official cover! So, what do you think? I had so much fun making it. The Dream King will be available May 2007 at LAVENDER ISIS PRESS.Blurb~At the beginning of each night during the witching hour, Amanda Carson travels to a place veiled with illusion and lives for the touch of a forgotten love. A man unlike any other calls to her across a shadowy midnight world.She relives magical battles and the heated caresses of a man who seems more alive than any dream. But, little does she realize that the man of her dreams is indeed real and seeking her with the greatest of intensity.
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Happy Easter, everyone! I have a Spring contest go...
2007-04-08 17:43:00
Happy Easter
, everyone
! I have a Spring
contest going on at my new site! All you have to do is email me a comment about the new site and I'll enter you into a drawing to win, yes, you guessed it, a FREE animated banner! LOLWhat are your plans for the day? Mine include starting on the next cover from Lavender Isis Press and trying to finish the revisions on Whisper Moon. We celebrated yesterday, went to an easter egg hunt and devoured candy all day long. Today my son is with his dad, so I'm using the holiday to try and catch up on stuff!I hope you and yours have a beautiful Easter, filled with warmth, candy and lots of pretty colored eggs!
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MissySueHanson.com
2007-04-08 17:40:00
Okay, everyone.....my new site is up and live, though it still needs work. I'm in the process of installing a flash desing, so I'll probably be back in a few days to tell you that, yet again, something's changed, rofl.If you want, hop on over and take a peek.....MISSY SUE HANSON
Dagian Designs
2007-04-10 15:53:00
Last week I visited REBECCA GOINGSsite and was very impressed, so I followed the link at the bottom to her designer's website, DAGIAN DESIGNS. For those who aren't new to author websites, you might already know of them. DAGIAN DESIGNS does flash video trailers, websites and book covers. I have been in an exhausting search to find a flash website designer, so imagine my thrill when I happened upon them! I jumped the gun a little bit with my new site, thinking that the flash idea I had just wasn't working, and now, I'm talking to DAGIAN DESIGNS about the possiblity of designing a site for me. She says that dark romance is her specialty, so I'm thrilled to have found them. What I'll do is eliminate my original site, keep the new site for my art and use the site the site that DAGIAN DESIGNS creates for me as my official site.Confusing, huh? rofl.....if you have time, check this awesome designer out. Supremely talented and so cool, the trailers left me breathless!
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OMG!!!!!
2007-04-14 04:54:00
I'm going to faint. *taking deep breaths* It's too bad nobody is here to pick me up off the floor......because..... (drumroll, please)I JUST GOT OFFERED MY VERY FIRST CONTRACT FOR MY BOOK "BAYOU SUMMONS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm sorry I'm yelling, but I really, seriously can not help it!!!! Here's how it went, I sent the query along with the synopsis and first three chapters. ONE day later, they emailed me requesting the full MS. I wasn't expecting that and am loath to admit that I didn't have it finished, so I said I would send it in by the end of the weekend. She emailed me back, then asked about my cover art. AT this point, I had three more chapters done, so I sent that along with my reply. Less than an hour later, she emailed me saying she wanted it, was impressed with how polished it was and that she was sure it would sell fast!!!!! HOLY SMOKES!!! Then she told me she would be sending me the contract TOMORROW and not to rush, take my time with the rest of the MS......Is anyone e
"Sinless Rogue" Manuscript Request
2007-04-13 03:31:00
Twilight Fantasies has requested my manuscript for "Sinless Rogue
"! I'm ecstatic!! I still have some tweaking to do before I can send it off, so I better get to work!
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COS Productions Film Night
2007-04-13 03:27:00
I am co-hosting the COS Productions film night at THE ROMANCE GALLERIA this Friday, April 13 at 9 pm eastern/ 8 pm central time. Join us for a night filled with interactive chat and book trailer previews!If you haven't yet been to the Galleria, here's what you need to do......Visit the link above and download the software, only takes a minute and has caused no problems with my computer.......sign in...then, Voila! Enter the most exciting 3D environment for romance authors and readers alike! I hope I see you there!
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My Scholarship Image
2007-05-01 03:01:00
I will be starting web design classes here in about a week and was introduced for the chance to win a $10,000 scholarship to The Art Institute. I'm excited about htis becasue the program I'm going for is $16,000.The entries will be posted at The Art Insitute on May 14 and all the contestants are supposed to invite their friends and families to vote for their image. I will be making the rounds for that, let me tell you! I used my Bayou Summons image and added some stuff. I thought it turned out fairly nice.
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My New Site......
2007-05-01 02:57:00
I'm sorry it's been awhile since I last posted, but I was sweating bullets trying to get my MS doen in time for my Bayou Summons May 1 deadline. I did it, sent in today, got it in just in the nick of time.Okay, this is a preview of the site that Dawn at DAGIAN DESIGNS is building for me. She's incorporating flash also, so it should be killer by the ime it's done!!! I can't wait! I will be sure and let everyone know when it's up and running!
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BAYOU SUMMONS Cover
2007-05-14 04:02:00
I just got finished with the cover for BAYOU SUMMONS! I had a blast! It was awesome getting to do the cover for my very first book! So, what do you think?
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PLEASE VOTE FOR ME!!!!!
2007-05-15 21:51:00
I have an image entered in a $10,000 scholarship contest at The Art Institute, where I study web design......if you can take a few moments and vote for me, I will love you forever!....well, I already love you forever, but, you know......The link will take you to my image and you can vote for me at the top right...thank you!!http://scholarship.aionline.edu/entry.aspx?id=246
THE SPIRIT WITHIN by Shonna Brannon
2007-05-19 20:26:00
The Spirit Withinby Shonna BrannonISBN: 978-1-60088-130-5Alyssa Carrington's spirit must search out the man who tried to kill her before her body’s taken off life support and she moves on to the other side.Sam Carson’s a detective whose sister was murdered the night Alyssa was attacked. When he hears a voice claiming to be the spirit of Alyssa, he thinks he’s going crazy. Can he go against the rules and track down his sister’s killer and get Alyssa back in her body or will his feelings for her spirit get in the way and send her to the other side, making him lose his chance with her forever. To buy visit Cobblestone Press!
OASIS OF MY HEART by Tara S. Nichols
2007-05-19 20:25:00
Oasis of My Heartby Tara S NicholsRelease Date May 25th 2007Sadie Davies is running away for the second time in her life. The first time she wanted stardom. This time she is running from it. Intending to keep a low profile she sets up for a solitary life, but with sexy, know-it-all, neighbour Dustin Reed she finds it rather difficult. Moving in next door to playboy Dustin Reed wasn’t Sadie Davies idea of keeping a low profile. With ex-manager Horace Bigelow hunting her down the last thing Sadie wants is a distraction.Now she has to decide whether to let this lady-killer into her life for fear of attracting a real killer.Available May 25th from Cobblestone Press!
GOTHIC BLUE by Portia Da Costa
2007-05-19 20:22:00
GOTHIC BLUE - Portia
Da Costa'What are you going to do to me?' Belinda asked defiantly. 'Beat me or something? Smack my bottom? I'm sure that's what you decadent aristocrats live for - a chance to humiliate the lower orders.' Even as she was speaking, this idea - which should have seemed horrendous - was becoming highly exciting. At an archduke's reception, a handsome young nobleman falls under the spell of a malevolent but irresistible sorceress.Two hundred years later, Belinda Seward also falls prey to sensual forces she can neither understand nor control. Stranded by a thunderstorm at a remote Gothic priory, Belinda and her boyfriend are drawn into an enclosed world of luxurious decadence and sexual alchemy. Their host is the courteous but melancholic Andre Von Kastel; a beautiful aristocrat who mourns his lost love. He has plans for Belinda - plans which take her into the realms of obsessive love and the erotic paranormal."Above all else, Gothic Blue is a romance. There are
ONE WICKED WINTER by Cassidy Kent
2007-05-19 20:17:00
ONE WICKED WINTER is now available!It's a three novella anthology...Published By: Amber Quill Press Release Date: April 2007 Written as: Cassidy
Kent A sexy first date, an unexpected encounter, and a torrid reunion. Three smoldering stories of reckless passion stoke the fires of one very wicked winter…Dear JohnIn her last year of high school, Dane Harley, a foster kid with no direction, met John Stratton, a Pittsburgh rich kid with a penchant for trouble. She visits him a decade after disappearing from his life, only to discover he’s moved on. Their subsequent affair speaks of the torrent of passion and love that still binds them.Santa’s HelperCEO Noel grants a boy’s Christmas wish by escorting sexy single mother Maura around Manhattan on Christmas Eve. The spark between them is immediate, but the distance between Park Avenue and the Jersey suburbs is immense. Are their worlds too dissimilar to merge or can they bridge the distance with love?What Lies in WinterWorkaholic Hayle
SNAP! by Shelley Munro
2007-05-19 20:15:00
The Time to SNAP! is now Snap! by Shelley Munro An inheritance should be something pleasant, like money or jewelry or a personal memento. That's exactly what accountant Alice Beasley is expecting the lawyer to announce at the reading of her aunt's will--a nice surprise to ensure her future security. Instead Alice inherits a condom company called Fancy Free along with numerous associated problems: elderly board members who are more preoccupied with cake, coffee, knitting and frank discussions of sex; worrying troubles with production and design; the attentions of a stalker with a costume fetish, and then there's the manager--James AKA Mr. Dashing. He makes her very nervous indeed. It's clear to Alice she has fallen down a rabbit hole into a chaotic Wonderland, and she's waiting for someone to pinch her awake. Alice wants normal, she wants security and love, but what she gets is fun and passion and physical pleasure while bad boy James teaches her about managing a condom company.
WHISPER MOON Cover
2007-05-19 20:12:00
I have already began to make a mock-up of my cover for WHSIPER MOON. This is what I've come up with so far......what do you think?
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