Okay, I'm not going to try to make excuses this time for my absence from the blogging world. It happened, let's move on since I get no good doggie biscuits for being gone for so long!
In my world - I did a fantastic book fair in Maryland at the end of September, had a fabulous time and got to talk to lots of people and sell books. In October I went to a Out for Lunchevent sponsored by THe Patriot News and had a blast talking to over 700 women and selling more books! Halloween was a freaking blast and if I can figure out how to put pictures up I will. I'm the one in the French clown outfit though my daughter kept calling me a mime! In November, the lovely Rida (publisher extraordinairre) contracted a book with me and my two very good friends Victoria Smith and Vicky Burkholder. It's a fabulous anthology of shifter stories called The Shape of Love. Keep your eye out for more news! And I hope you had a great Thanksgiving because I did :)
And now we move into the holiday season. Mine's going to be crazy, but I'll be here even if it's just to bore you with what I'm doing :)
Oh, and I wrote 45,000 words in 10 days about a week ago. Woot! And now I'm working on the next Ivy for those people who want to know. Bad news for Bella! I can't wait.
Till tomorrow!
Misty
Friday, November 30, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Yet Again! and cool contest!!!!!!
Yet again, I am a bad bad blogger. Sucks for me. But thank you to anyone who has still come back on any given day to see if I actually got off my butt and posted something new :)
My main reason for posting, beyond getting the freaking ball rolling again, is to show you a fantastic, FANTASTIC, new contest beign put on by my friend Megan Hart, author extraordinaire. You must run out and make a trailer for her book and it better be a good one. 'Cause she'd going to fondle a copy of Tempted for you and then sign it. PLUS she'll be doling out a $100 gift certificate for Amazon. HOLY FREAKING COW!!!! Run, don't dawdle and get started on a trailer. The rest of the details can be accessed through her website www.meganhart.com. I'm going to try to put the video up but I don't know if that will actually work. Here goes: LOL.
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My main reason for posting, beyond getting the freaking ball rolling again, is to show you a fantastic, FANTASTIC, new contest beign put on by my friend Megan Hart, author extraordinaire. You must run out and make a trailer for her book and it better be a good one. 'Cause she'd going to fondle a copy of Tempted for you and then sign it. PLUS she'll be doling out a $100 gift certificate for Amazon. HOLY FREAKING COW!!!! Run, don't dawdle and get started on a trailer. The rest of the details can be accessed through her website www.meganhart.com. I'm going to try to put the video up but I don't know if that will actually work. Here goes: LOL.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Another Triumphant Return
I think this makes it fourteen or fifteen times I've triumphantly returned. We won't talk about the not so triumphant ones, okay?
News: I had an absolute blast at RWA Nationals, got me a zebra striped cowboy hat from my friend Meri, saw people I haven't seen in a year, made new friends and got to meet Alfie Thompson who so totally rocks almost as much as her fantabulous book Lights! Camera! Fiction! A Movie Lover's Guide to Writing a Novel. If this book is not on your shelf then shame on you! It's wonderful and a complete keeper. And I got a kiss from her when I said I had it, but I'm not going to tell you where since I am a woman of mystery and I don't want to wound Alfie's great reputation :) LOL. Let me have my fun. I also got to meet Kathy Carmichael who also rocks. I got to hang out with Donna Bagdasarian (who is magnificent) and get an elevator story with Kelly Mortimer. I got to stand close to Chris Keesler and I told him I was taking him home in my bag :) It was a fantastic week. Oh, and I sold out at the Literacy book signing for charity. What a wonderful feeling.
And now I'm back to real life. I've done some critiquing for friends, written some and polished a manuscript called What's Life Without the Sprinkles and am writing something I call Twice on a Blue Moon. Basically having a blast and happy to be back.
How's everyone else doing? You okay there, out in blogland? I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to drop a line :)
Misty
News: I had an absolute blast at RWA Nationals, got me a zebra striped cowboy hat from my friend Meri, saw people I haven't seen in a year, made new friends and got to meet Alfie Thompson who so totally rocks almost as much as her fantabulous book Lights! Camera! Fiction! A Movie Lover's Guide to Writing a Novel. If this book is not on your shelf then shame on you! It's wonderful and a complete keeper. And I got a kiss from her when I said I had it, but I'm not going to tell you where since I am a woman of mystery and I don't want to wound Alfie's great reputation :) LOL. Let me have my fun. I also got to meet Kathy Carmichael who also rocks. I got to hang out with Donna Bagdasarian (who is magnificent) and get an elevator story with Kelly Mortimer. I got to stand close to Chris Keesler and I told him I was taking him home in my bag :) It was a fantastic week. Oh, and I sold out at the Literacy book signing for charity. What a wonderful feeling.
And now I'm back to real life. I've done some critiquing for friends, written some and polished a manuscript called What's Life Without the Sprinkles and am writing something I call Twice on a Blue Moon. Basically having a blast and happy to be back.
How's everyone else doing? You okay there, out in blogland? I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to drop a line :)
Misty
Monday, July 09, 2007
Like the Phoenix
So here I am again but tomorrow I will be leaving for Romance Writers Of America Nationals conference in Dallas so I won't be blogging until next Monday. I'm pretty excited about the conference. I get to see some of my friends, meet new ones, put faces to names from over the internet, and make new friends. Always a blast.
I'm cleaning up a manuscript for submission and have put It Ain't Broke on the back burner for the moment to do that. I plan on getting back to it once I finish this up which will hopefully be sometime in the near future :)
On the personal front I went to see THE FIXX last weekend at a small bar in town and it was awesome!!!! The lead singer could have sweat on me it was so small. That's the way I really like to see concerts, but it doesn't always happen that way. We're going to see THE POLICE weekend after next and it will be huge! Which is good, but not nearly as intimate. I also found out that VANILLA ICE is going to be at this small local bar. I almost fell over. Could you imagine? Do you think he'll do Ice, Ice Baby? That would be so hilarious. His posters say "The Legend - Vanilla Ice". I might just have to throw down the $12 and see what he'll do. LOL.
Anyway that's what I've been up to. Along with camping which I'm going to try to get this picture for since it is typical of any trip I take. Wait for it! I'll be back next Monday and blogging again. I hope you'll come back even though I've been totally unreliable lately as to how often I post.
Take care,
Misty
I'm cleaning up a manuscript for submission and have put It Ain't Broke on the back burner for the moment to do that. I plan on getting back to it once I finish this up which will hopefully be sometime in the near future :)
On the personal front I went to see THE FIXX last weekend at a small bar in town and it was awesome!!!! The lead singer could have sweat on me it was so small. That's the way I really like to see concerts, but it doesn't always happen that way. We're going to see THE POLICE weekend after next and it will be huge! Which is good, but not nearly as intimate. I also found out that VANILLA ICE is going to be at this small local bar. I almost fell over. Could you imagine? Do you think he'll do Ice, Ice Baby? That would be so hilarious. His posters say "The Legend - Vanilla Ice". I might just have to throw down the $12 and see what he'll do. LOL.
Anyway that's what I've been up to. Along with camping which I'm going to try to get this picture for since it is typical of any trip I take. Wait for it! I'll be back next Monday and blogging again. I hope you'll come back even though I've been totally unreliable lately as to how often I post.
Take care,
Misty
Thursday, June 21, 2007
End of Contest :)
Well, I had three books to give away and three comments on my various blogs, so it looks like my kid doesn't have to pick names out of a hat :) Winners are Laney from myspace and Barrie and Alli from Blogger. Congrats, ladies!!! Let me know where to send them and you get SHINY NEW IVY'S!!!
In other news, today is Jubilee day here in town and I think our normal population is somewhere in the low 20Ks. My understanding is that there could be as many as an additional 90K here today. WOWOWOWOWOW!!!! Maybe I can sell some more books :) LOL.
And in even other news, I started a new book called It Ain't Broke and am a solid 15 pages in. Not going to hot rod it with this one. I figure anything upward of five pages a day works for me. So that's all from my little corner. Oh, except that there will be new links posted soon for friends blogs I love to read. Don't forget to check over there and follow the bread crumbs to some fabulous authors.
Take care,
Misty
In other news, today is Jubilee day here in town and I think our normal population is somewhere in the low 20Ks. My understanding is that there could be as many as an additional 90K here today. WOWOWOWOWOW!!!! Maybe I can sell some more books :) LOL.
And in even other news, I started a new book called It Ain't Broke and am a solid 15 pages in. Not going to hot rod it with this one. I figure anything upward of five pages a day works for me. So that's all from my little corner. Oh, except that there will be new links posted soon for friends blogs I love to read. Don't forget to check over there and follow the bread crumbs to some fabulous authors.
Take care,
Misty
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
CONTEST!!!
All right, so I went MIA (and why does it feel like I say that a little too often?) and now I am back again. Shiny New Release Day was fantastic. That weekend I had my monthly RWA meeting and took some books with me. There was a line at the front table which I thought was for the raffle tickets. Turned out it was people waiting to get a signed copy of SOSD!!!! How freaking cool is that? I felt like a STAHHHH!!! And I'm still selling them.
But for you, dear blog readers, I am running the contest that should have run last week (I know I'm bad but at least I 'fess up to it) and here is my burning question. What is the best and/or worst cliche you've ever heard? I love 'em and want some more of 'em. So wow me. Post here and I'll take everyone's name, jumble them up, have my kid pick three (yes I said three) and get some winners! I love winners. You love to be winners. Put your favorite cliche in the comments and we'll get along fine.
Later Gator,
Misty
But for you, dear blog readers, I am running the contest that should have run last week (I know I'm bad but at least I 'fess up to it) and here is my burning question. What is the best and/or worst cliche you've ever heard? I love 'em and want some more of 'em. So wow me. Post here and I'll take everyone's name, jumble them up, have my kid pick three (yes I said three) and get some winners! I love winners. You love to be winners. Put your favorite cliche in the comments and we'll get along fine.
Later Gator,
Misty
Friday, June 01, 2007
Shiny New Release Day!
So yesterday was SHINY NEW RELEASE DAY for Something Old Something Dead. And I gotta tell you, I don't think I've had a better day in a long time. The books came to my door right before I had to go pick up the kid, so I got to take one with me to the school and show it off. The clothes I ordered for RWA Nationals showed up on the doorstep too and everything fits (unheard of!). And then I got a fantastic review posted over at Fallen Angels Reviews for Reignited - five, count them, five angels. baby!!! Woot! Then I finished my latest book, typing the end yesterday afternoon.
And if that wasn't enough, I then got to go lay brick in my friend Vicki's backyard for her patio. Seriously?!?!?! you say. And I say heck yeah! And it was a blast even though her husband had to watch every brick I laid :) He wasn't that bad, but it was a close thing :)
Had a fantastic day and counting on enjoying the rest of the week. I hope you do the same. And come back tomorrow because it will be contest day here in blogland and a shiny new book is the prize!
Misty
And if that wasn't enough, I then got to go lay brick in my friend Vicki's backyard for her patio. Seriously?!?!?! you say. And I say heck yeah! And it was a blast even though her husband had to watch every brick I laid :) He wasn't that bad, but it was a close thing :)
Had a fantastic day and counting on enjoying the rest of the week. I hope you do the same. And come back tomorrow because it will be contest day here in blogland and a shiny new book is the prize!
Misty
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