Home Safe and Sound
I’m back from the Gulf Coast! Had an ugly time getting down there, with three separate mechanical issues on our plane that required our captain to land halfway to Dallas to refuel because one of our fuel tanks wasn’t working. Of course I was convinced our plane would kill us all. You can imagine my relief when we finally landed safely in Dallas/Ft. Worth. I missed my connecting flight to Mississippi by three hours, and by the time I finally got another one, I rolled in six hours late.
Had a great time visiting my pal Katie Reus, and her family. We toured ex-Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s post Civil War summer home, Beauvoir, and ate some really great Southern BBQ.
We took some long walks past beautiful houses like these:
I even spent some time on a white sand beach enjoying the warm sunshine.
The trip back was smooth, though I came home to subfreezing temps and snow–something we don’t get a lot of here in the greater Vancouver area. Snow’s supposed to stay up in the mountains where it belongs!
I didn’t get very much writing done while I was away, but who can blame me? Had a good time and my whole family was ecstatic to see me again. Sometimes it’s good to go away for a bit on my own!
Mississippi Bound
Just found out this weekend that I’m going to Mississippi on Thursday! I’ll be spending a few days down there in the comparatively warm temperatures visiting my pal, author Katie Reus, and I can’t wait! Well, I mean I’m not looking forward to the flights, which is why my hubby didn’t tell me until Saturday afternoon even though he booked the ticket for me in early December. Gives me less time to stress, was his reasoning.
Not sure what we’ll wind up doing down there exactly, but I don’t really care as long as we get to hang out together. At some point she’ll probably wind up tying me to a chair someplace to make me bang out another chapter while I’m there. She’s tough like that 😉 Plus she keeps freaky weird hours and gets more done by 7 am than most people do in an entire business day. I have high hopes she’ll let me sleep in until 7 every morning, but I’m not holding my breath on that one.
I don’t know if I can interest her in doing some Civil War site tours or maybe a day trip into New Orleans, but for sure I’m going to insist we go eat at a BBQ place we ate at last time down there. My man is gonna be so jealous!
So everyone please send good thoughts and flap your arms for me on Thursday. Uh, and when I fly home on the 17th, too. I’d appreciate it!
Happy New Year! Almost…
Bring on 2012! Did you make any resolutions for the New Year? I have. I’m gonna bust out of this awful literary constipation I’ve got going on, or die trying. Hopefully I won’t have to die to get through it.
The holidays were nuts around here. Little weasel was really sick the week leading up to Christmas, and the two nights prior (including Christmas Eve), he woke up screaming and writhing around in his bed, holding his head. Fever, vomiting, the whole nine yards. I wound up having to take him to Emergency on Christmas Day, and our whole day fell apart.
I’m beginning to think it’s normal to spend Christmas Day at the hospital, since it was six years ago to the day when I hemorrhaged and wound up in the maternity ward while I was six months pregnant with him, then put on total bed rest thereafter. As it turns out, that’s when I started getting serious with my writing and wound up publishing Out of Her League because of it. Had I not been bedridden, I don’t know if I’d ever have taken it so seriously. Isn’t life strange sometimes? Little weasel’s okay now, but this was not a fun Christmas for any of us. Hope you all had a better holiday!
On a brighter, happier note, in celebration of the New Year, my amazing pal Katie Reus has a humongous contest starting January 1st and running through mid-February. She’s got a romantic suspense release on January 2nd (His Secret Past), along with that naughty Callie Croix‘s newest erotic romance (Touch Me), and then the first of her major New York published books comes out from NAL on February 7th. Alpha Instinct is the first of at least five books in her Moon Shifter series, so if you love paranormal romance featuring kick-ass shifters, you’re in for a real treat.
Katie’s giving away all kinds of prizes, including books from authors like me and Cynthia Eden. The grand prize is the newest Kindle from Amazon. To see the details and find out how to enter, go here. I hope a lot of you will sign up for this awesome contest!
Callie Croix Release Day
That naughty Callie Croix has another release today. Dillon’s Claim, the sequel to Deacon’s Touch, is officially out and this eldest Dumen brother is quite the sexy alpha cowboy!
There are a couple of contests going on with giveaways for the book, so you can check out the info on Callie’s personal blog.
Hope all of you are ready for the upcoming holiday madness! I’ve got all my shopping and wrapping done, so that’s a huge relief. But if my Callie persona lands me on Santa’s naughty list, I’m going to be ticked 🙂 (You won’t tell him, right?)