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2016: Day 193 or Annual Pre-Conference Mixer

YAY! One of my favorite things about getting ready for conference is Laurie Tomlinson’s Pre-Conference Mixer! And it’s totally that time of year again! Want to play? Check out the end of the post. Here are my answers! Name: Carol Moncado Location: SW Missouri What you write/tagline/trademark: Romantic Dramedy in the Ozarks…and Elsewhere (yeah, it used to be and the Alps, but then I ended up with more places ;)) Place in the book world: Indie. Newly-minted USA Today Bestselling Read more

By Carol M, ago

2016: Day 179 or Two Months Later

Two full months after eye surgery… I”m ready for them to be back to normal. Honestly, at this point, I’m almost ready to go back to my glasses at my old script. At least that was predictable. If I didn’t have my glasses I couldn’t see. Period. Now I’ve got this double vision thing. I’m still working on the TV set up in a corner of the living room for a monitor (though, I’m gonna Read more

By Carol M, ago

What I’m Working on Now: Summer 2016

It’s time for another update! I know you’re waiting with bated breath ;). And it’s kind of ironic, because the whole reason I’m writing this post right now is to procrastinate. Hey. At least I’m honest ;). So…what’s coming up? A fun novella that will be part of a collection later this month. More details coming soon! And this novella will revisit a couple old friends while introducing a new set of characters that will be Read more

By Carol M, ago

2016: Day 152 or My Happy Place and #CoverReveal

So…I’m procrastinating. I’m supposed to be writing a super fun summer thing that should release later this month. I’m loving it, but am stuck for the moment…so I’m blogging. I also did mock-ups for covers for the next four (yes, FOUR) novels as well as three novellas I hope to release this fall. I don’t have TITLES for all of them…but they have covers… :p I also wanted to come back after my last blog. Read more

By Carol M, ago

2016: Day 147 or Coping with my (temporary?) New Normal

So I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I’d had PRK surgery* in late April. Recovery had already been slower than I’d been led to believe and, well, it still is. Unfortunately, it’s probably about as good as it’s going to get. For now. See, prior to surgery, my vision was somewhere in the 20/3000 range. As in super stinky. The laser had to do fairly extensive reconstruction (at least based on the size and Read more

By Carol M, ago

2016: Day 135 or My Unintentional Hiatus

So I’ve been mostly offline for the last couple weeks. I’m sure most of you didn’t really notice, but I was ;). (That doesn’t explain my lack of blog updating but my lack of presence on social media anyway… ;)) I had this…vision of writing a particular blog post after all of this and, well, this isn’t it :p. On Thursday, April 28, I fulfilled a dream I’d had for far longer than seeing myself Read more

By Carol M, ago

Today My Mother Would Have Been 70

Today my mother would have been 70. The longer she’s been gone, the more my memories become vague impressions and less moving pictures of events playing out in my mind. I’ve said this before, but it still holds true. There is this Linda Gammel shaped hole in my life. Some days, it’s virtually imperceptible, but still there. Other days, like today – and this coming Tuesday when it will have been 30 years – it’s Read more

By Carol M, ago

What I’m Working On Now – Spring 2016

Well… Prince from her Past just released! YAY! Sales have gone really well, so yay! So what am I working on now… The project I’m hoping to finish this weekend is The Lifeguard, the INSERTDESCRIPTORHERE, and Frozen Custard – the second lifeguard book (though I’m not sure what that center word is going to be – heiress maybe?) It will release June 29 as part of a boxed set (and on its own a few weeks later). Read more

By Carol M, ago

2016: Day 38 or Yeah, I’ve Been Keeping Up Really Well

Yeah so I haven’t kept up with this “almost daily” or “pretty often” blogging thing. (In fact, I have a blog for InspyRomance this week that I haven’t written yet :p.) So what’s been going on? Well…I formatted the insides of both Winning the Queen’s Heart and Protecting the Prince and did the full cover flats for them. I got my proof copies and the paperbacks are now available on Amazon! YAY! I also ordered a TON Read more

By Carol M, ago

2016, Day 8: or Yep. Crummy Day.

I knew it would be. It was. It could have been far worse (can’t it almost always be far worse?) but it was bad enough. So this will be very brief. Things I’m thankful for: family Writingly stuff accomplished: *Ordered new toner for my printer *Sort of organized the table in the living room where lots of my stuff is stashed *Printed the super duper long manual for using these map making etc programs I Read more

By Carol M, ago