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Saturday, May 31, 2008

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Writing takes over your life

Me enjoying myself in Spain last year - just so you know I don't actually write all the time.

I don't know how many other authors find that writing takes over their lives, but I certainly feel it does, because there is always something you have to do. If you aren't actually writing a book you are promoting, checking proofs or doing edits. We must love it or we wouldn't do it!

I am going on holiday in a few weeks and I shall take my computer with me so that I can continue to write a little and stay in touch with what is happening. I have almost finished the third book in a trilogy for Severn House. One more chapter and then revisions should do it, and then I have to start a Regency because a deadline is looming. However, I intend to take time to watch the final of the "I'll do anything" contest on TV this weekend. Three girls are left competing for the roll of Nancy in Oliver - a new production of the musical in London.

My new book with Eternal Press will be out next week. It is my first with them so I am looking forward to it. I have another coming in September. I have a new Regency for HMB in July.

Love to all, Linda

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

My view on Speaking to the Dead...

After reading Sarah's post on her thoughts of speaking to the dead I really wanted to do more than leave a comment, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if we get some serious dialogue going on this one. LOL

Like Sarah, I've had experiences where I've dreamed of relatives that have died where they've given me specific information. Unlike Sarah's dream where her mother came and told her where to find a pair of earrings, most of my information has had to do with my genealogy research. I've always been fascinated by the past, and particularly by the secrets that families keep. You know the ones where great-grandma ran a speak easy during the prohibition, or the uncle whose family were slave owner's but who married an ex-slave (that's a true story in my family history). In one instance, I was researching one of my Native American ancestors who had married a non-Indian. At the time I was trying to discover what tribe she was when I had a dream where her Uncle gave me further information to find the answers I was looking for. That dream led me on a path where I was able to find out what tribe she was. I don't believe in coincidences, and I know that the dead do use dreams to communicate with us.

Personally I plan on using some of this personal experience in a future book so stay tuned!

If someone has had a similar experience and would like to post their comments on either my or Sarah's blog post, I certainly hope you will. :-)

Monday, May 26, 2008

Speaking to the Dead

I know, weird subject, but I see so much about speaking to the dead lately on television. There are those who claim to actually do it and then there is fiction like The Ghost Whisperer. There is all about hauntings on the Discovery channel. After watching John Edwards (I think that's his name. I might be thinking of the senator though) and the woman with the skunk hair-do, it really got me to wondering about speaking to the dead.

Do you think it's possible to connect with those from the other side? Do they hear us? Do they have something they meant to tell us but didn't get a chance to do it? God, I hope so. In my latest release, THE VIOLIN, Genevieve is haunted by dreams of a man who died back in 1927. Wouldn't it be wonderful if those we loved could speak to us in our dreams? I did dream about my mother a year after she died and she told me where a missing pair of earrings were. Granted, it could have been that my subconscious knew where those darn earrings were and it just came up in a dream when my subconscious was free floating in my mind. But I like that the information was presented by someone I loved. The earrings were in the pocket of a coat I had not worn since the night my mother died. Still, I hope it really was her speaking to me in a dream.

What a wonderful feeling to know that they were only separated from us by some thin, mysterious Vail. Perhaps they know what we are going through. Just maybe, they can whisper to us words of encouragement and guidance. Maybe this kind of soft communication is what we call "a hunch".

Personally, I hope that all of this is true. I would love to hear from my parents, my niece, Christy, and my Uncle John. It wold be so wonderful to ask them questions about their lives on the other side and tell them how much I love and miss them.

If you could speak to the dead, who would you want to communicate with? What would you say?

Wishing you all good things to your corner of the universe. Happy Memorial Day.

Sarah J. McNeal

www.sarahmcneal.com

Friday, May 23, 2008

Love & War

My new book for Severn House will be out next month. Love & War is the second in the Upstairs Downstairs trilogy. I am working on the third book in a new Linda Sole trilogy and I have finished the third in the Upstairs Downstairs trilogy. Now I have to finish my Regency trilogy for HMB!

I love the covers on the SH books because they are real and this one even looks a bit like my husband's father as a young man.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Three New Contracts!

Big news for me! NCP has offered me three new contracts! Woo-Hoo! The contracts were offered on the sequel to I'll Be Yours, His Lady's Keeper, my futuristic paranormal fantasy, Psychic Chains, and my futuristic paranormal fantasy, Rogue Fairy book one in my new Exiles of Magic Series!

More information, coming soon! Remember, you can subscribe to my newsletter author group, so you'll be the first to know of any new information concerning my books!

My Yahoo Author Newsletter Group!

And the good news train just keeps on going...I have also had a new author website designed by the fabulously talented, Rae Monet! You can follow the link below to see the new look!

My new author website!

I'm off to do some more happy dancing!

~Marly

Monday, May 19, 2008

I'm Back! (Sort of)

Hello pretties,

At long last, after months of grueling, unending misery (okay, it was two weeks), final exams are over! I'm taking summer classes, so the relief is short-lived, but I have a nice week and a half break before I'm back in the thick of it.

I'm spending the time finishing my current novel, Reckless Liaisons. It's nearly done. Requested partials are already under review with a few agents and editors I pitched to at an RWA conference in March. With any luck, I'll be hearing from them soon. Once the book is complete, I'll be querying more agents and editors with fingers crossed.

It's a frightening, but exciting thing, the next step in my career as a writer; that is, trying to make the jump from small press to mass market with a New York house. I know the book is good enough. I'm very proud of myself.

So, keep your fingers crossed for me!

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Regina Paul

Natalie-Nicole Bates

Natalie-Nicole Bates may be new to the world of publishing, but she’s always been a fan of books and is an active book reviewer. Now she gets to see what’s it’s like on the other side of the book fence when her paranormal romance, Antique Charming, is released through Books To Go Now Publishing this fall and her contemporary romance, Change of Address, will be published in January 2012 by Secret Cravings Publishing.

In addition to her love of books, Natalie also has an uncharacteristic love of hockey which can be attributed to the fact she was born in Russia. Natalie now resides in the UK with a collection of Victorian and Edwardian era photography, her favorites being the post-mortem photographs. Visit Natalie-Nicole online at Natalie-Nicole Bates.com

Tara Fox Hall

I'm an OSHA-certified safety and health inspector at a metal fabrication shop in upstate New York. I have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a double minor in chemistry and biology from Binghamton University. My writing credits include nonfiction, horror, suspense, erotica, and contemporary and historical paranormal romance. I am the author of the paranormal action-adventure Lash series and the vampire romantic suspense Promise Me series. I also coauthored (with Eric Dietrich) the nonfiction book Forbidden Conversations. I divide my free time unequally between writing novels and short stories, chainsawing firewood, caring for stray animals, sewing cat and dog beds for donation to animal shelters, and target practice. Visit me at Tara Fox Hall.com

Lindsay Townsend

Lindsay lives in Yorkshire, England, where she was born, and started writing stories at an early age. Always a voracious reader, she took a degree in medieval history and worked in a library for a while, then began to write full-time after marriage.

Her first unpublished historical found her an agent and the second got a publisher in London interested. They wanted her to write with a modern setting, which she did – several romantic thrillers set in Greece, Italy or on Dartmoor in the English West Country - and enjoyed it, but historicals are really her first love. Lindsay is currently writing medieval romance for Kensington, who published ‘A Knight’s Vow’in 2008 and are following it with ‘A Knight’s Captive’ in spring, 2009.

She is also fascinated by the ancient world, especially Rome, Egypt and the Bronze Age. ‘Flavia’s Secret’, set in Roman Britain, came out from Bookstrand in 2008, and two more historicals, ‘Blue Gold’, set in ancient Egypt, and ‘Bronze Lightning’, set in Bronze Age Greece and the Britain of Stonehenge, have also just been released early in 2009.

Please visit Lindsay's blog.

Linda Sole

Linda writes as herself and under several other names. As Linda Sole she iscurrently published by Severn House of UK and USA. She also writes as Anne Herries for Harlequin Mills & Boon. She is happily married and lives in England with her husband. Linda enjoys visiting Spain where she loves to walk, swim and lie in the sun. Writing is her passion and she manages a few words every day, but she also loves animals and especially squirrels. She is known as the squirrel lady at her local supermarket because of all the nuts she buys for them!

Visit her website for more information.

Sarah J. McNeal

I became interested in writing at a young age. My parents didn’t allow us to have a television so my sisters and I became avid readers. We read everything from Shakespeare to my mother’s True Detective Stories that, by the way, scared the hell out of me. I submitted my first story and received my first rejection when I was thirteen years old.

I am particularly drawn to writing fantasy and time travel and have created a magical place called Valmora where winged people with various magical abilities are in constant struggle against the evil forces of the Dark Isle. Two of the books in this series are presently available at New Concepts Publishing: THE DARK ISLE and LAKE OF SORROWS. I am writing the third now: THE LIGHT OF VALMORA. I have written a time travel novel in which a woman goes back to the 1920’s to save a man from dying in THE VIOLIN that has been submitted to New Concepts Publishing. I intend to write a series of musical instrument stories including THE PIANO and one that I intend to start in the near future titled, HARMONICA JOE’S RELUCTANT BRIDE.

Until recent years, I wrote short stories, two of which were the early inspiration for the Valmora series and three other stories that were sci-fi and paranormal.

I have also written nonfiction including an article in The Charlotte Observer and a monthly newsletter from the emergency department of CMC Mercy Hospital that, unfortunately, I no longer have time to write.

Writing brings me a joy and fulfillment that nothing else can. I love creating magical worlds and people who want to make a difference. I hope that anyone who reads them will love them, too.

Please visit her website for more information.

Patricia Richardson

My desire to write began at a young age; my mind was always filled with great stories. However, my dreams, and aspirations were put on the back burner and even at times forgotten after I became married with children. Later the divorce came, which meant I had to become both mother and father to my children. I worked overtime and weekends just to support my family. The struggle to survive and give my children a healthy, loving home lasted until they were grown. Late author, Gracie Cornish, Ph.D. inspired me to follow my destiny. I met her at a place of employment, "just sit down and start writing," she told me and I did just that. I wrote every chance I got; at work, on the subway, and in my spare time at home. This all started in the latter part of 1998. That very same year God impressed upon my heart to relocate from New York to Maryland. I was obedient and moved.

The move meant that once again I had to put my writing on hold to become familiar with my new environment and learn to cope with the conditions of a highly stressful job. Most evenings when I arrived home the only thing I wanted to do was turn the ringer off the telephone and sleep. I seldom picked up my manuscript, which was kept under my bed just waiting for me not to be too tired and stressed to write. The time for writing again did not come until late in 2001 when I finally came to the realization I would always be stressed and tired from working and if I did not use the gift God gave me I would never achieve the independent financial freedom I wanted. After this epiphany I set a goal for myself; to have the manuscript completed and sent to my editor in March of 2002. Finally, in March of 2003 the book cover for my first novel, "A Place for Ida," was approved and I was published! This of course came with a price. I lost work, I cried, and I virtually had no social life. I was on a personal lockdown. I was on a mission. Most of my spare time was spent researching publishers, cover letters, and anything else I felt was pertinent to my success. Since then I established Leap of Faith Publishing and republished "A Place for Ida" and soon after published the sequel, "A Time for Jonathan."