So like, today I’m swamped. I’m making a cake in the shape of a pumpkin and making my first ever stuffed baked pumpkin. Our Family Reunion is this weekend. SQUEE!! I don’t know what your reunioin is like, but ours are WOO-BOY-HIDIEE that was a lot of fun! will have details (and maybe pictures) next [...]
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People have many reasons for writing blogs. Let me be honest about my purpose on this one: I am writing because I would rather write than excavate my desk. Usually it’s the little housekeeping tasks that seem more seductive than writing when finding new words is like pulling teeth. I have discovered to my chagrin [...]
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A big WHOO HOO! to our two Winners!! Roxanne St. Claire’s “Thrill Me To Death” winner - Anna Small (Please email your address to : mdohnoutka@yahoo.com with Roxanne St. Claire Winner in the subject line) “Hunt Her Down” winner – Chelsea B (Please email your address to vickilanewrites@yahoo.com with Roxanne St. Claire Winner in the subject [...]
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My husband is a big fan of a tea he gets at the health food store called Honest Tea. Under the lid is a sweet little quote that make you go hmmmmm. So I know I have already mentioned this, but I find these little sayings particularly profound, uplifting and…well, true. They often help me to [...]
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*Contest to win copies of Roxanne’s books will end Tuesday, September 15 at Midnight! So be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win!! Melissa: It’s great to have you with us, Roxanne. Have you always written romantic suspense? (Which is my all time favorite by the way.) Roxanne: Thank you, Melissa, [...]
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Please remember to take a moment and remember our fallen friends and family on this sad day. I don’t consider my days stressful. I’m a stay-at-home mom of a two year old. I know it could be a heck of a lot worse if I also had to balance an out of the house job like many [...]
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Okay. Given the difficulties of acquiring an agent, how do you get your deathless prose in front of an editor? In the olden days, you could just send off the manuscript, and in the fullness of times, you got a response. Probably 95% of the time it was a printed rejection slip, but sometimes it [...]
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Ummm….I forgot today is Wednesday. Labor Day screwed me up. Well, anyway, on my mind is the topic of navigating this industry, specifically with agents in mind. Theoretically, an agent is a good thing (or as an article in the RWR put it, perhaps a thing of the past?). Who doesn’t want someone to sell [...]
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Yep, summer is officially over. Not that you’d know it by the heat we’re still having in sunny Florida. Yesterday Science Guy and I went to Tarpon Springs and although we went early in the morning it was hot. Sweaty hot. I know that technically it’s still summer since Summer Solstice began on June 21st and [...]
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I love books that keep you guessing. Books that you find yourself lost in and can’t put down. Roxanne St. Claire’s “Thrill Me to Death” kept me turning the pages and trying to figure out who the killer was till the very end. Just when I thought I knew who it was, she’d prove me [...]
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