Archive for September, 2008

Quick drive-by

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Becoming Miss Becky is #3 on the top ten list at MBaM! A huge thank you to everybody who’s read it, and I really hope you enjoyed it!
The cleaning off of the bookshelves and packing of the office/den is not going well. There simply aren’t enough empty boxes in my life, and I’m finding [...]

Hello world!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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Autumn in Technicolor

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Unfortunately it rained for most of the weekend, which mutes the colors for the camera, but I’ll post them anyway.
We somehow managed to end up at the falls during a lull in the rain…

…where juvenile wackiness ensued:

And below the Notch, on the southbound homestretch.

Hasta la Sunday

Friday, September 26th, 2008

We’re outta here. Traditionally we ride the ATVs until the weekend before Thanksgiving, but this year we’re done for the season already. As long as the husband’s in top shape for sledding, it’s all good. And it’s supposed to rain all weekend, but we don’t care. We’re going to sit under the awning with [...]

A new epub in town, unfortunately

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

A Cherry Lane Press, which is due to open April 1, I believe. After poking around, I’m almost hoping it’s an April Fool’s Day joke.
Usually I don’t say anything, but this is starting to piss me off. Epublishing is the business I’m in (as a subcontractor, of course), and things like this make that business [...]

COWBODY…not coming soon to a bookstore near you

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Obligatory backstory: The setting is an IM conversation with the usual suspects, during which I tried to type “cowboy” and typed “cowbody”. As we’d also been discussing Angie’s call for submissions for a shifter antho, hilarity ensued. And I, wanting to prolong the procrastination rather than get the filing done, wrote a blurb for [...]

Come visit me

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I’m at RR@H Novel Thoughts today! Come visit and you might win a download from my backlist! :cowboy:

Becoming Miss Becky is out!

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Hey, guess what’s available—and at a bargain sale price, even—at MyBookstoreandMore.com right this second?

Becoming Miss Becky

A sheriff with a stone-cold reputation. An innocent madam hell-bent on disturbing his peace. Who will be the first to give in?
Rebecca Hamilton passed through life as bland as biscuits—until the day she buried her father and fled out West [...]

Winner of the Catherine Mann box

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Sorry I didn’t do this last night. I had a wicked headache and closed the laptop early. But this morning my beautiful and talented assistant randomly gave me a number and the winner is—
Ali!
:clap:
Email your snail mail addy to me—shannonstacey@gmail.com—and I’ll send those delicious Wingmen Warriors to you (I’ll try to not cry all [...]

I'm at RTB today

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Talking about the state of real estate (book shelves). Come say hi!