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Okay guys, this is a little different. You want your 5 points, you'll have to pull a couple of rabbits out of your hat. :)Three questions. In order. First letter of first word of each spells out the trivia answer. We're featuringJoAnne Baldwin's career is as a ____________________. (From one...
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This weekend, I watched a movie called Saving Grace. It's a British film starring Barbara Blethyn as Grace and Craig Ferguson as Matthew. It was released in 2000.WARNING: There will be spoilers.When Grace is widowed, she discovers her two-timing husband has mortgaged everything to the hilt, inc...
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Let's all welcome thriller author Robert Liparulo to our blog! We met Robert on the READ THIS! author tour around Michigan last year. And there's nothing quite like spending multiple days packed inside a bus to get to know a person. The pic taken below was at one of many, MANY Meijer discount st...
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Hi Guys. Sorry I'm late.***********************Jen was almost out the door when the thought hit her.Nah. Couldn't be.Could it?I mean, she'd bought a ticket. But, no. No way. Bonnie knew her numbers. She'd have looked, would've known.Still . . . it wouldn't hurt to check. I mean, the ticket ...
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Over the past several days two terms, ‘vanity publishing’ and ’self-publishing’ seem to have become interchangeable. I suppose someone who self-publishes could be doing so out of the vane need to have their name on a book, but that doesn’t make self-publishing and va...
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I have grocery shopping to do, but I thought I’d leave you with a couple of links. The first comes from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The second is from John Scalzi. His entry cracks me up.Copyright © 2009 Jordan Summers. This Feed is for personal non-commercial u...
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I'm here. A little flaky, a little tired. But I'm hanging in there. Trying to get the house clean and relax enough that I have enough brain cells working to write. We'll see.Hope you are all doing well. Thank you to everyone who has been encouraging. I'm going to keep moving forward. Hope ...
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Check out Lee Goldberg’s great blog with a response from Harlequin in the links.Copyright © 2009 Jordan Summers. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringem...
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Let the blurring and tarnishing of the Harlequin name begin.Copyright © 2009 Jordan Summers. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@...
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Today, I have a guest blogger--Rowan Larke.Rowan and I had been online acquaintances for a while--I remember at least one chat room conversation I did that she was at--but it was when we had a chance to talk regularly on Twitter, that we became friends and writing buddies. She's one third of my ...
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StatusOkay, 4:18 a.m. and I'm up and at it. Had things I was going to do yesterday that got eaten by the relocation crisis. BUT I got a call on a job. And in order to GET the job I had to take one of those pre-employment computer tests at the branch office in a town about an hour/hour and fifte...
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I've been out of town. I blogged about it here.I guess that's why it doesn't feel like it's been that long since I posted a blog. Because I did. Just not here. Oops. Sorry, y'all.And when I got home from coping with all of that, I had medical stuff, plus Ian at the newspaper wanted me to work ext...
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My agent sent me a copy of the press releases for the new Carina and Harlequin Horizons ventures. One question that has been coming up all over the readers and writers sites is can an author who pays the vanity press, Harlequin Horizons to publish their work call themselves a Harlequin author? Ap...
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Ah, job hunting long distance in a recession era. Aint it grand (NOT!).Anyway, got up at 4:00 and came in early to send out applications. Got a few done. May I say that the whole apply over the internet thing is definitely a mixed blessing? Good -- I can apply from home or office in Texas witho...
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I’d planned to write an entry about auditioning, since I spent a lot of years auditioning for bands and for commercials/television shows. I was going to tie the entry in with writing. (A surprise, I know. *g*) But the blog world is in such an uproar over THIS announcement that I thought it ...
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For about five months or so now, I've had these characters in my head. I knew who they were, I knew they belonged together, I knew which world they belonged to, but I didn't have a story for them. All my vague ideas were too close to something else I'd already written and I hate to repeat mysel...
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I’m writing this post from Nashville, where I’ve been since I left home in the wee hours of the morning on Friday. I’m here for the RWA Board of Directors’ meeting. Tomorrow will be Day 3 and another 10 hour day. Yes, I’m a bit tired, but it’s been a great trip...
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Dh was out of town last week. I’d planned to spend the time working like a busy bee, but instead I socialized with friends and got my hair done. (Plus a few chapters edited.) I also actually did a tremendous amount of thinking while he was gone. I thought about everything from pen names to ...
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Okay, I'm going to cheat a little. ;) I want y'all to read the posted chapters over on the joint blog (assuming you haven't already. If you have, you get attaperson points--10 BIG attaperson points.) SO, the trivia question is based on the posting.What does Celia use to seal the breach in the...
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Not that long ago, it used to be that advertising was confined to predictable locations. You'd see it on TV, hear it on the radio, see it on billboards and on the sides of buses. Now advertising is everywhere, and with all the noise, the target audience doesn't even see most ads let alone remem...
Mary Anne Landers
Mary Anne Landers
Patti: Thank you for your blog on advertising, from someone who knows more about it than most of us do.

Like you, I think it's become just so much noise. I do my best to block it out. I'm getting better at it as time goes by.

But would I be so quick to condemn it if I had a book to sell?
November 16 at 12:57am
Sandra Bombarger Rogers
Sandra Bombarger Rogers
We mute the TV ads, rarely read magazine ads. I will read the billboards to my husband if I'm bored when we are traveling. I only read the interesting ones.
November 16 at 4:31am
Laramie Kay Sasseville
Laramie Kay Sasseville
It's no accident that people start tuning out the noise. I don't want to see or hear ads for anything unless I have a specific interest in that sort of thing and am in the mood to consider it. So many advertisers are like importuning street hawkers.
November 17 at 2:45pm
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OKAY, I'm back. Hope you haven't "starved" in the meantime. So, first off, if you want a sneak peek at the first chapter of the first book in the new series go to the joint blog. It's posted.Are you back? GOOD. Now, if you want to see the first chapter of the upcoming Sazi book, I BELIEVE (thank ...
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Okay, got quite a lot more done. The packages WENT. (Insert Hallelujah Chorus here). BUT because I am a cheapskate ($11 as opposed to over $30 as an example) they are mostly not going out with the quick delivery. SO, I'm changing my offer of getting yelled at. If you don't receive them in 1 m...
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Now, where did we leave off...? Ah, yes:**************Of course, if I sealed the barrier I might be sealing the demon in. I debated the pros and cons for a few seconds, and decided it was better to get the barrier up. If I sealed it in, we’d have it in a contained area when the priests arrived...
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Good morning friends and neighbors.All righty then. For a status check thus far this morning.__X__ Up. Out of bed. __X__ Teeth brushed, showered, and generally not physically offensive to the public. __X__ Shopping done to purchase TP and minutes for phone, cleaning products, and stuff f...
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I have this problem with a sock disappearing when I do laundry. The first time it happened, I didn't consider where it might be, and later that week, I got dressed and went to the Evil Day Job (EDJ). As I'm walking down the aisle to my cube about mid-morning, one of my guys asks me, Is that you...
Candy
Candy
Didn't Stitch of Lilo and Stitch come to earth to steal everyone's left shoe?
November 13 at 1:18am
Melanie Jackson
Melanie Jackson
I often see solo sox at the side of the road and wonder why? Did the jump from a speeding vehicle?
November 13 at 11:53am
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Stupid question, right? Everybody fails at something sometime. And yet, silly me, I expect myself to be perfect. To just not screw up. And when I fail, or screw up, I indulge in the kind of self-flagellation that doesn't do anything but make myself feel worse, and certainly doesn't fix the pr...
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Drum roll, please...get ready for a brand new heroine, in a brand new world!**************************BLOOD SONGCHAPTER 1I pulled the Miata to the curb and checked the address one more time. I stared at the building and the neighborhood. It wasn’t what I’d expected. The interview I’d had with ...
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Last night I breathed a sigh of relief as I turned in the edits for BLOOD SONG, the first of our new series, "The Blood Singer." And what better way to celebrate turning it in than to share part of it with YOU, our fans! :D So over the next few days, I'll be posting up the first chapter of the bo...
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The face of publishing might be changing every few seconds, but that doesn’t change what a writer has to do. A writer writes. I’m currently editing the first hundred pages of my Young Adult novel, then I’m going to finish the manuscript. While I’m writing that book, I&#821...
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One of the hardest questions I get is How is the book going? The person asking is probably doing it along the lines of Hi, how are you?, but this isn't as easy to answer as they think it is and it requires me questioning them in return.Which book? Do they mean Edge of Dawn, my book that came ou...
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Had some work done on the truck. It is an old truck (but a good one). I am very fond of it, and all things considered, it has run very well for a very long time. BUT the transmission is going. They've done some work that will extend its life, but are now going to have to look for a used one. ...