Archive for July, 2009

Win a copy of 72 HOURS!

Friday, July 31st, 2009

It feels like a good day to give away a book, so how about the first book in the Devlin Group series—the book in which we first meet Gallagher, hero of the upcoming No Surrender and owner of the fine mantitty over there in the sidebar.
Leave a comment on this post—anything from “hi” to “enter [...]

A Slave to Structure

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

So Tuesday morning I spent several hours at the computer working. Notice how I didn’t say writing? I wasn’t writing, I was obsessing. Obsessing is something I’m fairly good at it, but Tuesday morning was excessive, even for me.
What was I obsessing over? Structure. I had my little chart and was calculating word counts of [...]

Some pros and cons of the connected series

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

In the midst of my flailing for a blog topic yesterday, which can now be done in public thanks to Twitter, Jane suggested the limitations and advantages of writing a connected series book.
As a reader, I’ve grown increasingly conflicted about connected series. I used to love them without reserve but, over the last few years [...]

Playing dead

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Some days the manuscript is the cat and some days it’s the dog. I’m hoping to be the cat this week, but so far I’m doing more playing dead than anything.
Time to get to work. :type:

Gallagher meets The Dame

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Run, don’t walk, over the Smart Bitches blog and vote for your favorite entry in The Simon Kernick is Awesome Photoshop Contest! And check out what an awesomely talented Photoshopper did with the cover of No Surrender! I love it, and it cracks me up every time I look at it.
:clap:

Weekend funny: Church ladies

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Some of these really killed me, so I thought I’d share them with y’all while I hit the manuscript hard this weekend. I emphasized my favorite in bold font (thought it wasn’t easy—the Hamlet one was really good, too).
These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:
The Fasting & Prayer Conference [...]

Like a geeky kid in an app store

Friday, July 24th, 2009

By the time we did the family birthday party thing for the Tall Kid and then had supper and whatnot, it was late evening before he finally got to dig into his birthday present—an iPod Touch. Fortunately I have a power bug for mine, so I could charge his up while we ate so when [...]

A Mother's Wish Contest Winner

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Ha! Random.org picked Karen’s comment, but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t need another copy, so I hit it again and the winner of a Fictionwise copy of A MOTHER’S WISH is…
ms bookjunkie
:cheer:
Send me an email (shannonstacey@gmail.com) and let me know what email address to send your book to!

Contest reminder

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

You’re running out of time to enter to win a copy of Karen Templeton’s RITA Award-winning Silhouette Special Edition A Mother’s Wish! Scroll down to my previous post to get details!

Win a copy of A MOTHER'S WISH

Monday, July 20th, 2009

I was beyond excited to learn Karen Templeton won a RITA award for her Silhouette Special Edition, A Mother’s Wish. Not only is she one of my favorite romance authors ever, but she’s a wicked awesome lady, too.
So how can you win a copy of Karen’s RITA award winning book? Please read this part carefully!
Karen [...]