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What the hell is happening in our world that now, on top of everything else, we have to start worrying about PIRATES! And I’m not talking about Pirates of the Caribbean. I’m talking about real life, modern-day AK47 carrying pirates who hijack ships, steal cargo, and kidnap passengers for ransom. Now, it’s totally possible that I’m ignorant here and that piracy has been a normal thing for centuries and I’m just hearing about it more over the past year or so because it has been in the news more. I don’t know. I’m thinking that it’s probably been there in…

I almost can’t believe all of the nasty and negative comments going around the web in regards to the whole Gisele vs. Bridget controversy! If you don’t know about it, I’ll give you a simple rundown of what I know. Tom Brady, NFL Quarterback superstar and definitely super-hunk, was dating Bridget Moynahan for over two years. Bridget, pictured here on the left, is an actress who was in movies like iRobot and Sum of All Fears… but of course, we all know her best as “Natasha” or “The Idiot Stick Figure With No Soul” from Sex and the City. They…

My pitch with an editor from The Wild Rose Press went very well on Saturday! It’s a very small online press that publishes anything from 7,000 word short stories to full length 100,000 word sagas. Everything they publish is romance, but they publish almost every sub-genre of romance (excluding certain things like homosexual romance, which I never plan to write anyway). Their full-length books go to print as well. I pitched my novella, “Steal My Heart” which is just over 20,000 words. She seemed very interested in the story, said that she’d love to take a look at it and…

Saturday is going to be a huge day for me. For the first time in my life, I have an appointment with an editor to pitch my novella. The one I finished last year, “Steal My Heart”, and which has been rejected three times, is the story I am going to pitch. I have been spending a lot of time this week reworking it, changing the plot a little bit to clean up some messy parts, and adding some hotter scenes to make it more appropriate for the online ebook market. My meeting with the editor is at 4:10, and…

So whereas last week was a really super-productive week for me where I followed my schedule like a good girl and got a ton of shit done… this week is like a nosedive into slackerville. I don’t necessarily think that I’m being a bad person or anything. I’m just not feeling very well. For some reason, my back has been killing me this week, so I have been trying to stand up and stretch as much as possible. Unfortunately, the second I sit back down, it starts to bother me again. Yuck! The scary thing about motivation is that it…

Last night when I was reading a book my critique partner loaned me titled, “Goal, Motivation, & Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction”, I had an idea pop into my head of how to make my own novel’s plot sizzle just a bit more. Although I have been relatively happy with my new book, I still have felt that compared to other Silhouette Desires, there just isn’t enough conflict between the two main characters. Changing the plot to this new idea would mean a slight revamp of the synopsis and first four chapters that I have written, so that’s…