Most days I go for a bike ride. It's a great way to get out of the house and combat bottom spread--the writer's curse. I think I suffer from a very mild form of hayfever or allergies because the minute I go outside my nose starts to run. It's not enough to cause me...
Month: January 2011
Thirteen Things For Authors To Tweet About
I'm fairly new to Twitter, and I'm always wondering what to tweet about. I subscribe to The Book Marketing Expert newsletter and this week they included an article covering things for people to tweet about. Here are a few of them. Thirteen Things For Authors to Tweet...
In Love and War by Suzanne Barrett
Today Suzanne Barrett is visiting to give us a taste of her recent release, In Love and War. Timnagh, County Waterford, 1993 Irish dairy farmer, Meaghann Power, struggling to make ends meet, rents her converted castle keep to an embittered war correspondent wounded in...
The Latest Must-Have Fashion Accessory
We’ve had our puppy Bella for about two weeks now. She’s the cutest little thing, but she does tend to be a bit cheeky/naughty. When she gets excited she starts to bite. Since she still has her baby teeth, it feels like needles piercing the skin. We definitely want to...
Make Your Own Hand & Foot Scrub
During our last holiday one of the special activities on board the cruise ship was making beauty products using items from the pantry. Below is one of the recipes: Sweet Brown Sugar Scrub 1 part milk 4 parts brown sugar Mix the sugar and milk together. Apply to hands,...
Thirteen Variations of James
Character names have been on my mind this week since I'm starting to percolate a new story in my head. It struck me when I was searching through my baby naming book how many variations there were of some names. Take James, for example. James is a nice strong name. In...
Lazy Weekend Fun….
We decided it's never too early to start getting our new puppy used to traveling in the car and went for an outing to our local Botanical gardens. Bella had a ball exploring, despite the heat of our summer. This is Bella exploring one of the rose gardens. I really...
New Zealand: White Island
White Island is one of New Zealand’s volcanoes—the most active one. The island is privately owned and was once mined for sulfur. I’d never seen White Island before and was looking forward to our visit. We had perfect weather and the volcano puffed out a little steam...
Puppy Power!
We picked up our new puppy from the Humane Society tonight. She's a Jack Russell X and is fifteen weeks old. She only has one speed---fast! Her name is Bella and she's very cute.