Stormy, but Productive Day

We're having one heck of a coastal storm. The window panes rattled so hard last night, it made it tough to sleep. The wind is still blowing--hard. The rain started this morning and has yet to stop.

The planters and patio furniture are strewn willy-nilly around my backyard. About an hour ago, the rain gutter on the back of the house came down, well, half way down. It's pretty mangled. Steve's going to be trhilled to see that when he gets home from work.

The phone just rang. I screened as usual. It was a public warning for our little island. Coastal flooding forthcoming. Move all vehicles to higher ground. Uh, oh. I pulled on a slicker and hurried outside to make sure my car was in the slightly elevated driveway and not the street where it had gotten flooded two years prior. It was. Thank you, Steve!

Currently, I'm sitting on the sofa typing away at the deadline book. My two dogs, who hate storms, are curled on either side of me. Wind blowing. Rain pouring. If nothing else, it's a great writing day.

What's going on in your neck of the woods?

Too Many Books, Too Little Time

I'm at Babes in Bookland today. Hop over and see what the Babes are reading!

Also, as it applies.... HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!!

Cherished Memories

Today, I worked hard at the library. Today, I worked hard on my WIP. Today, I put together a slideshow of just a few special memories from past Romantic Times Conventions. On MySpace I imported great music by Lisa Loeb to accompany this slideshow, but I can't figure out how to do that here. Darn. So please CLICK HERE to go to 'Beth's' MySpace. Click play on the music and scroll down to view a few cherished memories from RT conventions! Call me nostalgic.

Make Me Smile

I sailed through most of my life sporting rose-colored glasses. I rarely watched the news or read the newspapers. It's not that I didn't want to be aware of current events, it's that for the most part media focused on the bad stuff in life. Stuff I didn't want to know about.

Unfortunately, as much as I love my job at the library, it behooves me to be somewhat savvy about what's going on in the world. So every morning, I now surf CNN. I'm often appalled by the headlines alone. Many of the stories are horrifying. I really don't want to know that mankind is capable of such atrocities. Lately, I've been feeling a little depressed. I blame the news. The 'bad' news that is. So I'm slipping on my rose-colored glasses for the next few days. I'm adopting Monty Python's "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" as my theme song. I'm asking you to help me adopt a merrier attitude.

Share some good news with me. Something about you. Your professional life. Your family life. Or something uplifting about someone you know. As Chicago sang... Make Me Smile!

Meanwhile, for your listening pleasure.. my new theme song!

A New Playground

I'm thrilled to announce I've been invited to join a fantabulous group blog with some stunningly talented authors and nice ladies to boot! There's a cool banner featuring all of our names, but for some reason Blogger won't let me upload this morning. Maybe later...

From here on, every Sunday you can find me at Babes in Bookland where we chime in on a weekly topic. My premiere post is an introduction of sorts, including an edited essay. But next week it's on to the featured topics! Please hop over and check out my new playground!

Bid on Me!

Okay. Not on me specifically. But my services.

Hmm. Let me rephrase.

Visit Brenda Novak's 4th Annual Online Auction for Diabetes Research where you can bid on amazing items such as exotic trips, laptop computers, gift baskets, signed books, lunches with famous publishing folk, critiques by famous publishing folk and folk like me who dream of being famous. Heh. Seriously. You have to check the auction. No. Go one better. Place a bid at the auction. It's for great cause!

You don't have to bid on me, but I'd be giddy as a school girl if you did. Here are specific links to things I donated.

For Readers: Collection of autographed books including, JINXED, CHARMED, SEDUCED, ALL ABOUT EVIE, EVERYBODY LOVES EVIE.... and become a character in my next novel!

For Writers: Critique of a proposal (synopsis & first three chapters)

For Movie Lovers: A gift basket overflowing with items donated by myself and writer, Olga Grun (Mostly Olga!) Amazon Gift Certificate, DVDS, Books, Popcorn.... and lots more!

Otherwise there are lots of other fabulous things to bid on... Like stuff from Nora Roberts, Laurel K. Hamilton, Kate Duffy from Kensington, Chris Keelser from Dorchester, AND from my very own and splendiferous editor, Keyren Gerlach (representing HQN and LUNA) an evaluation of a proposal!!!

Go, go, go!

Win Stuff!

I'm at Petticoats and Pistols today. Hop over and win some cool stuff! My post is right after Tanya Hanson's. She's blogging and giving away stuff, too. So it's a double whammy!