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As we plan our trip to Vegas for our wedding (only 86 days to go till our wedding day!!), we are starting to look at the various shows that are available on and near the Strip. From the looks of it, Vegas has everything from cheesy magic shows to top dollar headliners like Cris Angel and the Blue Man Group. I think we are going to be in Vegas for six nights, which means we will have plenty of time to see a variety of shows. On our wedding night, we’re going to dinner and maybe just walking around the…

Okay, today, I am going to be a total brat, but I feel the need to get this off my chest, so I hope you’ll forgive me. In a few months, G and I are getting married. As a divorced woman, this will be my second wedding… but does that really make it any less important? Not to me it doesn’t. If anything, it makes it MORE important, because THIS is the wedding that will really count and that will really mean something to me twenty years from now. I realize now just how badly I screwed up when I…

Every year, the Romance Writers of America give two sets of prestigious awards at the national conference. One is the RITA, which is for published authors and, in that way, somewhat more prestigious and glamorous. The other, is the Golden Heart. The Golden Heart is an award given to the best manuscripts written by unpublished authors. There are 10 different categories that cover everything from inspirational to historical. I have looked through the RWA website for years wishing I could join, and everytime I was always drawn to reading about the Golden Heart and thinking I would love to enter…

I am very excited to report that Friday night / early Saturday morning around 1:10 AM, I finished the first draft of my very first full-length novel! Over the past two years, I have started many projects, but I have never actually seen a full novel from start to finish. Last year’s NANO WRIMO was close. I wrote 50,000 words of a novel I was calling “Into Darkness”, but when I hit my word count goal, I still didn’t have a complete ending to the story. Plus, for a horror novel, I really needed more like 65k or more words…

At this point, I am less than 7,000 words away from finishing my manuscript for Silhouette Desire! That basically means one good day of writing (well, one best day) or at the most, two days. By tomorrow afternoon, I should be revising and reading through the finished manuscript. I can hardly believe it! Even though I technically finished a version of this a few months ago, it needed some serious help. After I sort of reworked the plot, the story changed significantly and even though I was able to use a lot of what was already written, I still had…

Every time one of our most favorite reality shows begins, my sister and I choose the person or team we think will win the whole thing. We don’t even wait for the first episode to air, we simply go online and look at the character’s videos or biographies, then choose the person we think most likely to win. We always say we’re going to put money on it, but so far that really hasn’t been the focus. I think it’s more about the bragging rights than anything else. Here are the shows we are watching and choosing from this Fall:…