Haven’t done squat…but hey, COOL news!

Well, the last week has been a total freakin’ wash when it comes to the writing front.  I’m halfway through with View to a Kill, but still hitting a stopping point, and I’m not sure why.  If I can’t pull my head out by the weekend, it’s definitely going to my crit partners so I [...]

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Talking About Books Tuesday…Dark Horse, Tami Hoag

Okay, to start with, sorry for being MIA last week.  I couldn’t get up the ambition to write more than my freakin’ name down *g*, so just decided to take a break from it all, including writing.  But now I’m baaaack (aren’t you scared??), and here’s our regularly scheduled programming!
Ex-cop Elena Estes once worked for [...]

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Whining away my Monday…

Sorry gang, no music or movie review today…had the absolute crud over the weekend, so spent most of it watching Frazier (bought hubby the CD for a “what the hell” present) and sleeping… I promise something good next week, tho!!
Terri/Keira

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The new Thursday…Blogs…Dionne Galace

Since Thursday seems to be the day that I either don’t post, or come up with something totally weird, structure-wise, I thought it might be fun to recap some of the blogs that I visit on a regular basis. 
Our first up is the “It’s Not Chick Porn” blog run by Dionne Galace.  She does great (totally no-holds-barred) reviews of [...]

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Subconscious calling…

So I’ve hit a snag in View.  A major one.  I have to have my heroine deceive the hero (or lie to him by omission), so I can push them apart after they’ve done the nasty (and no, this isn’t a plot device, just how it rolled out of my head).  This isn’t such a [...]

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TABT; Blue Smoke, Nora Roberts

Blue Smoke
Nora Roberts
In a word….fabulous!  As a former firefighter, I love it when authors get it right, and Roberts does this in spades in this book.  Told in “chunks”, this book tells the story of Reena Hale, a child who is affected and fascinated by the mechanics of fire, and how she takes that and [...]

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M&M Monday…UltraViolet and Red Hot Chili Peppers

Movie:  Ultraviolet…  I was looking forward to this movie, really I was.  But as I watched it, I had to wonder exactly what target audience the filmakers were going for.  I would say teenaged boys (because after all Milla Jovovich is in it) because of the lack of any real story or acting (by anyone) [...]

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Freaky Location Friday…Venice, Italy

Freaky Location Friday 
Venice, Italy (sublocation, Murano) (http://www.vacationidea.com/venice/gallery/venice_train_station_Gallery1.html) 
I’m going international again today.  August and I did a semi-whirlwind swing (three weeks) through central Europe when we were stationed in the
Azores, so I think I’ll be writing about the cities we visited.  This trip was basically our honeymoon (even tho we’d already been married for over five [...]

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“Language” in Books

 
So I’ve always had spicier language in my books…and I don’t mean the smutty kind *g*.  In the various contests I’ve entered over the years, I’ve received comments that this kind of language isn’t what readers are looking for.  I find this highly amusing, both as an author and as a reader.  As previously established [...]

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Slack-ass? You decide *g*.

So I’m sitting here thinking that I’ve been a total slack-ass since I came off break last week (and damned if it didn’t hurt to come back *g*), until I went in and added up what I’d done…6,500 words!  Now considering I’m shooting for 1,000 words per day, and then 3,000 on Saturday and Sunday, [...]

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