Archive for January, 2006

A year gone by…

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Angie was rummaging through her archives and spotted something in an old post that reminded her to remind me that today is the first anniversary of my getting The Email.
The post from1/31/05:
While pondering the discussion about bland blogs on Alison’s blog, I went through my email accounts and found…
THE Email. From Ellora’s Cave. The Doubt [...]

5 Angels!

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Anita from Fallen Angel Reviews gave Forever Again 5 angels! :woot:
Forever Again is a very emotionally driven love story. I was surprised at the depth of all the characters involved. Each character had their flaws and faults. It was refreshing that Gena is not made out to be a saint and Travis the “bad” [...]

I'm awake now!

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Usually I pour myself a really big mug of coffee and fire up the computer to read some blogs. Granted, it’s not my sharpest time of the day. But I almost had a heart attack when I started reading this blog post at Writeminded.
Then I read it again. :lmao:
:woot: Good way [...]

And a 3rd moment

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I just realized that the villains in both of my books having villains are named Miguel.
:wtf:
I don’t think I’ve ever known a Miguel personally, but it does make me wonder about those past lives of mine. :lmao:

Two moments today…

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

The funny one (synopsis for the Big Book):
The absolute hardest part of writing a synopsis for me is the “wrap-up” paragraph—the one that says all is resolved, they’re madly in love and watch the horse’s tail swish as they ride off into the sunset.
So in order for me to move past that point and start [...]

Shannon vs. Word grammar check

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I don’t write with Word’s spelling/grammar check running. Those squiggly lines are actually a roadmap to insanity, right there. But I always run a spellcheck on it before printing it to do a real read-through. On my desktop the grammar function is totally shut down. Clearly when the monkeys are taking a break from [...]

The long, but not-so-winding road

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Diana and Jaci have both posted about their journeys to NY success. I found them both inspiring, but I’ve seen a little mild snarkiness in response. I’ve known them both for about 5 years, and neither of them has ever mentioned finding some magical potion in a flea market somewhere. What they [...]

I'm tabloid fodder!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

What have I been up to? (Or, rather, who have I been doing?) Check out the the latest tacky edition of The Teglia Tattler to find out!
:lmao:

Which way did she go?

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

A quick post and run…
The weather’s horribly crappy today. The kids will probably get out early. They shouldn’t have gone at all, except our school does two bus runs—the high school for 7:30 and the little ones for 8:30—and it wasn’t snowing when the earliest buses headed out at like 6am. And [...]

Congrats, Moonlit Romance!

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Today’s launch day for Moonlit Romance, and their first release is by the wonderful and talented Laura Hamby!

Marianne Wilson is fed up with her mother’s incessant match-making. Especially when her mother contrives to set her up with Nick Galanapolous. Nick can’t be classified in the same wimpy category of men Marianne prefers to date. That [...]