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When Emotions Steamroll Professionalism

A very wise priest once told me “Emotions are never right or wrong … they just are”. Ain’t that the truth? We have no control over how we feel about a situation. But we DO have control over how we behave in light of receiving bad news or discovering offensive information. Too many people forget [...]

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Reader’s Choice

The Houston Bay Area RWA chapter is sponsoring JUDGE A BOOK BY IT’S COVER contest. There are over 170 books in 8 different categories. The wonderful thing about the contest is that each cover is judged on its own merit. There is no voting for only one cover per category. It’s not a popularity contest, [...]

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Halloween Scavenger Hunt

A howling opportunity to win a KINDLE, Amazon Gift Cards and a plethora of digital and print books. Come on over to Night Owl Romance and check out all the details. Visit 25 author sites to be entered to win. Visit at least 40 author sites and you’re entered to win the GRAND PRIZE. (All [...]

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Still Here and Kicking!

Rumors of me teleporting to another dimension have been greatly exaggerated. I have been working really hard preparing the second book of the Tilling Passion’s series DECEIVE HER WITH DESIRE for publication. I’m also working on a call for submission for Ellora’s Cave. This has kept me deep in the writer’s cave and my fingers [...]

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A Basket of Goodies

I’m having a give away for the WHOLE month of June…a basket FULL of goodies! I can’t take a picture of it because my stuff is still in storage for the next month. (Fingers crossed we’re in a house by July.) What’s in the basket? A print copy of Healer’s Garden Random print books from [...]

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How Can it Be??

It hardly seems possible that THREE years has gone by since I started this blog. Wow! Seriously, just wow! My first ever blog POSTS appeared the last week of November 2007. I remember frantically setting up a website (which has undergone two major renovations) and beginning to blog on my now inactive MySpace page as [...]

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A Magic Monday

I’d like to welcome author SAPPHIRE PHELAN to The Block today. Welcome Sapphire. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about you and how you got into writing I’ve been writing since I was eight, maybe even younger. I wanted to make up stories (mainly animal and scifi ones) like I read. I wrote [...]

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Reviewing the Week

I’m very pleased with a couple of reviews I received over the last couple of weeks. The first is for Bonded by Need from Just Erotic Romance Reviews. TS Peters gave it 4.5 Stars and had this to say … “Wow! Is there ever a whole lot going on in between these pages. There is [...]

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CONGRATULATIONS!

Three cheers for the three winners of my give aways! (And yes, that is a picture of me in high school … in my dreams. *vbg*) Hip-Hip-Hooray! Hip-Hip-Hooray! Hip-Hi… you get the idea. Around the Block’s winner of the Halloween trick-or-treaters (and an ebook of The Healer’s Garden): Commenter, Loretta Grand Prize winner of LSB Trick-or- Treaters [...]

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