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The winner of the September New Releases Clash is… The Road To Mercy by Kathy Harris Congratulations, Kathy!! And thank you to all our participating authors: Catherine West, author of Hidden in the Heart Donn Taylor, author of Deadly Additive Jennifer A. Davids, author of Restored Heart Stephanie Grace Whitson, author of The Shadow on the Quilt It was a tight race and everyone did great. Many, many of our readers commented they would like Read more

Yep. Picked the kids up at 330. Voted about 345. We live in a small-to-medium sized town [just under 15K]. A few years ago we annexed a tiny town [a few hundred] that retained it’s own mailing address/dot on the map. That’s where we vote. In that tiny town. At a fire station in the middle of nowhere. There’s MAYBE 20 parking spots. Probably more like 15. [Okay. I Google Mapped it. There’s 21 plus Read more

When her brother is injured fighting in France, Meghan enlists her fellow Harvey Girl waitresses to sew a Red Cross signature quilt to raise money for wounded doughboys. Local horse breeder Caleb McBride longs to join the battle, but the army won’t take him. Because he has kept his shameful infirmity a secret, the townsfolk have labeled him a coward and war profiteer. When Meghan uncovers his malady, her poor opinion of Caleb unravels. Can Read more

Yesterday wasn’t nearly as productive as I’d hoped but it wasn’t a total loss either. Plus we took the kids to see the Shaolin Warriors last night and had lunch with friends [after rocking babies in the nursery ;)]. So all in all, a good day even without a huge word count. Today is going much better as far as word count is concerned. And since I likely won’t post until fairly late tomorrow, I Read more

When her client and old college friend is murdered, P.I. Kat Justice knows the killer will come for her next. Her survival depends on finding her unknown enemy first…and working with homicide detective Mitch Elliot, her onetime crush. It’ll take all her professional skills to ignore the sparks between them, but Kat can’t allow the handsome cop to get close. She’s seen too many people she loves die, so she vows just to do her Read more

Yesterday was my best day so far :). 5272 in between everything else and only about a 3 hour dedicated writing block [in which my computer locked up :p]. Today, was church. We were in the nursery and then had lunch with friends. Fortunately, it only takes one thumb to type on my phone ;). Rocking a sleeping baby with a phone in one hand works. Not the whole time but some of it. And Read more

Yay! Today was one of those “breakthrough” days! Pepper and I had talked earlier this week about the hero’s name. We joked about one possibility, but I went with the nickname anyone – as it could be short for several names. Today, I figured out how that name – or, rather, the reasoning behind it – will be one of the keys to getting my hero and heroine together once and for all. Plus my Read more

That’s “sicko” like actually sick. Not like… well, Criminal Minds sick. Have been headache-y all week and today my neck is also feeling it and I’m running a slight fever. 🙁 I did hit my regular NaNo goal yesterday but not my elevated one. Or close enough anyway. Day 1: 1663 That’s 4 shy of the daily goal. Not too shabby with my head the way it is. It’s one of those headaches that when Read more

From Savannah to Montana… In 1916, Southern belle Alanna Lessing travels to Montana on a mission—to rescue her older sister from the influence of suffragettes and bring her back home to Savannah where she belongs. Alanna fears that her sister, Margaret, has allowed herself to be swept away by these newfangled beliefs. The Christmas season is drawing near, and sleigh bells are ringing among the snow-covered peaks. The charming town of Missoula begins to grow Read more

For the next week or so, I’m planning two blog posts a day – one book review/COTT [those are already scheduled through next Friday] and then a NaNoWriMo update [because I’m also doing NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month – and you can’t count prescheduled blogs for that]. I have one other book review scheduled for the end of the month as well. So NaNo… I’ve had a story in mind for about two months Read more