The Summer Reads Blog Tour!

June 2, 2014September 10, 20147 Comments

For the next thirteen weeks, I’ll be participating in Lisa L. Wiedmeier’s Summer Reads Blog Tour. It’s going to be lots of fun! There will be book recommendations and prizes and author talk…It’s a tour made of win!

As the posts go up, I’ll be reblogging them and adding the links to this post, but be sure to head over to Lisa’s blog, too, because she’s got a Rafflecopter event of epic proportions going on. She’s got books! She’s got swag! She’s got a one-hour Skype session!

But you can’t win if you don’t read these posts. So, without further ado, the links to the posts lie below!

Week One – Lisa L. Wiedmeier
Week Two – Sam Dogra
Week Three – Carrie Fetzer
Week Four – Will Macmillan Jones
Week Five – Andrea Baker
Week Six – Tricia Drammeh
Week Seven – Sammy HK Smith
Week Eight – Kay Kauffman
Week Nine – Michel Prince
Week Ten – AFE Smith
Week Eleven – Sophie E. Tallis
Weeks Twelve and Thirteen – Lisa’s Reflections

Super sweet

January 15, 20142 Comments

super-sweet-blogging-award1 What a whirlwind this month has been so far! I can’t believe it’s already the halfway point of January.

Of course, this means that I’ll be 30 before I know it. That’s right, the big day is at the end of the month. It’ll be an interesting one this year, for a bunch of reasons, and I’ll be glad to kiss the big 3-0 goodbye next year (for other reasons).

Here’s hoping 30 (and 31) are better for me than they were for my mom. This is something that is going to weigh heavily on my mind for a long time. I may even try to explain it at some point.

But not right now. That’s not supposed to be the point of this post. The point of this post is that holy cow, I can’t believe January’s half gone. Yep. That’s it. That’s the point.

Okay, no it’s not.

I’m inspiring – Part II

January 20, 2013January 27, 201310 Comments

Hi there, folks! How’s it going? I hope you’re all keeping warm. Iowa is currently back in the deep freeze after a lovely thaw. I have to admit, that week of 40-degree days was lovely. I really do live in the wrong state when it comes to winter.

But that’s not what I meant to write about tonight. In the space of a couple hours earlier today, I was nominated for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award twice! I was nominated for this award back in August and if you’d like to see what I had to say then, you can find the post here. I’ve spent the last hour or so trying to decide if I should do it again, but since two people were nice enough to nominate me, I decided, what the heck? Why not?

So, without further ado, many thanks to the lovely Tricia Drammeh and Maegan Provan, who were kind enough to nominate me. Tricia is a wonderful writer and it is a privilege to know her – if you’re not already following her, you should be! And Maegan is a new follower here, one I’m sure I will enjoy getting to know. Thank you for the love, ladies!

And now, without further ado,

Redefining extraordinary

July 24, 2012February 14, 20138 Comments

This post began its humble life as a comment on my friend Tricia’s blog post “Extraordinary.” It was late and I began writing, suddenly wide awake. Pretty soon, I realized that my comment could easily become as long as her actual post if I wasn’t careful.

I first read Tricia’s post on Griffin’s Quill and I found it absolutely amazing because I’ve been dealing with so many of the feelings she mentions in her post myself lately. So much of my life is one long, monotonous march toward the end – the end of the laundry, the end of the dishes, the endless cries of, “Don’t do that!” and “Don’t hit your brother!” and “Play nice!” and “Stay in bed, for the love of God!” It’s dreary and dreadful and mind-numbingly boring some days. I feel like I’m living in a fog.

But then, I open a book.

Are you extraordinary?

July 21, 201215 Comments

Photo by Kay Kauffman

We can be the heroes and heroines in our own lives. We can set out upon a quest. We can write our own stories, and within those tales, discover something extraordinary. We can have an extraordinary life. -Tricia Drammeh

I read that about an hour ago and was inspired. This post almost didn’t get published today, but I’ve still got ten more minutes to go before the weekend is officially here and I think I can make it! Anyway, Tricia is a wonderful lady and I highly recommend visiting her blog, where you can find the rest of the post that I quoted above.

Anyway, it’s late, I’m tired, I’ve got boatloads of work to do, and I’ve recently become addicted to Pottermore. If you’re there, let’s be friends! I’m SkyKey6037 and just got sorted into Hufflepuff tonight, so that was pretty cool, although I have to admit I was hoping for either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw. Oh, well.

And now, to the writing cave! Happy weekend, y’all!

Authors to Watch and more

March 22, 2012July 26, 20125 Comments

Ah, authors to watch. There must be a jillion of them. I, however, am referring to ten certain authors who were featured yesterday in an interview by Tricia Drammeh. She asked the question, “Why do you write fantasy?” and received some great answers from some great authors, including yours truly (although I make no claims as to my greatness). Check it out! Each interviewee provided links to a variety of sites at which you can check out their work and/or learn more about them.

In other news, rumor has it that the release of Promises, the second Timeless Series novel, will be delayed. Fans of Lisa Wiedmeier’s fantasy series will now have to wait till the end of May to continue following Cheyenne’s adventures.

I’ve almost finished the Kindle version of Tuesday Daydreams. Learning the formatting stuff was easy enough for the most part, but I still have a couple of glitches to work out here and there. I hope to have the Kindle version available for purchase by the end of the week (by which I mean the end of the calendar week, not tomorrow). I had Chinese for lunch today and ate my fortune cookie on the way back to work. I had to chuckle as I read my fortune:Channel your energy into something positive. I’d say all this work on my writing is definitely something positive. 🙂

Last but not least, the rain has come at long last and everything is turning a lovely shade of green. I adore spring. ♥