• Erin Fry … my hero

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    Erin Fry is officially my hero. If you don’t know Erin, she’s one of the staff members at Romance Writers of America.

    And she really saved my bacon today.

    I submitted a workshop proposal for the Dallas conference to RWA … and then my computer decided to die. I didn’t have a backup of the proposal anywhere. Not in my e-mail, not in my documents, not in my files.

    Dumb, huh?

    Panicked, I emailed RWA, and Erin sent me a copy of my proposal in less than twenty minutes. Which saved me from having to do the whole thing over. Thank you, Erin! :-) 

    If you write romance, and you haven’t joined RWA, I encourage you to. It’s a great organization with a professional, courteous staff who are real lifesavers. 

  • It’s the best time of the year …

    I love fall. Warm days, cool nights, colorful leaves, pumpkins, Halloween candy, snuggling on the couch with that special someone, Sunday football, new clothes … the list goes on. 

    What’s not to like?

    What about you? What’s your favorite season? Inquiring minds want to know …

  • Lazing around on Sundays

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    Sunday is definitely my favorite day of the week. You know why?

    Because it’s the day I do nothing.

    Well, technically, that’s not true. Most of the time, I do quite a bit on Sundays. I usually work at least four hours on my latest book/editing project. But these four hours are sandwiched around a nice lunch and an even nicer nap. 😉

    I love Sundays because they’re the only days I have to myself. No day job, no errands to run, no housework to do. I can eat, I can sleep, and I can relax. It’s a little slice of freedom to start the week off right.

    What about you? How do you while away your Sundays? Inquiring minds want to know …

  • Random thoughts from the week …

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    Started reading Ally Carter’s I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You. It’s a cool, young-adult novel about a spy school for girls. Makes my own spy idea look totally lame by comparision. Sigh.

    Maybe my football teams will do better this weekend than last weekend. Maybe I’ll win the lottery and marry Pierce Brosnan, too.

    Eagerly awaiting the return of all my favorite fall shows next week. How I Met Your Mother, Grey’s Anatomy, etc. and new ones that look cool, like Friday Night Lights, Heroes, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

    Now, off to indulge in one of my guilty pleasures … watching The A-Team on DVD. My significant other just gave me Season Three, and I’m anxious to get started. The plots are totally cheesy, and everything is sooo dated. It’s so bad, that it’s good. 😉

    What about you? What are some of your guilty pleasures? Inquiring minds want to know …

  • From the Library, With Love

    I have to ‘fess up to something. I wrote recently that I don’t have a TBR pile.

    Well now I do, thanks to my local library (which is staffed by Kathryn and Dottie, two of the nicest people in the world).

    I went to return some books today and found out that they had gotten 15 of my requests in all at the same time. Now, I have more books than know what to do with! There’s paranormal romance and historical romance and epic fantasy … and I don’t know how I’m going to read all these books in a month.

    Good thing I’ve got some vacation time coming up … 🙂