I’m blogging over at Beyond the Veil today about the Fantasy books I grew up loving. Come tell me what you loved (and if you ever had a thing for Frodo, fess up so I don’t feel quite so odd in my pre-teen crush) to read .

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March 17th is the day everyone gets to be Irish, even if it’s just to get kissed.

You’re 65% Irish

You’re very Irish, and most likely from Ireland.
(And if you’re not, you should be!)

How Irish Are You?

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Through the random coincidence generator of Hotwire, hubby and I stayed at The Wyndham Resort in Orlando this weekend. A few writer type peeps who are going to this years Romantic Times convention asked for some details; here’s what I’ve got.
Note – As mentioned, we booked our room through Hotwire. I would not [...]

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I’m sorry for the week of radio silence. No good reasons, just Life happening at the speed of life.
But yesterday, I got edits! And because I was for some reason in the mood, I sat myself down and did them.
On editing.
Words I needed help with from the thesaurus today :
bond
shiver
slowly
twitch
quickly
horribly
dire
deliberately
encouraged
sharply
stab
dark
delight
release
demand
searching
needed
darkened
attack
attacker
drawing
thick
thickly
When I got my [...]

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It’s a tournament day, but not a crack-of-dawn one making this a rare event where I didn’t have to crawl out of bed hours before I was ready to. Instead I got to get up as the sun was rising, have a leisurely cup of coffee, check up on my email and such (my [...]

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The PI Bookshelf is up to date with the March 2009 releases. I am so, so glad that 3 very wonderful editors stepped up to take over Booknotes, the PDF version – it’s made it so much easier to get the online version done acurately and on time.
The Twitterverse has been all (ahem) atwitter [...]

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For the Science Fiction / Fantasy lovers out there, Random House is giving away some free reads. Mmmmm, free. Word of the year.

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Stayed up so very late finishing Nalini Singh’s Angels’ Blood last night, that it was early. But it was worth the loss of sleep. Best book I’ve read in a long, long time. And yay! it’s the first in a new series.
Ever heard of Couch to 5k? I survived day [...]

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I’m racing towards the no-more-working time of the day and haven’t gotten most of what I wanted to get done complete.
What did I get done?
Lots of staring at the screen. LSB tells me that I’ve got a net gain of 131 words. That’s about a word every 3 minutes since I opened the [...]

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Shamelessly lifted from the incredible Angela James :
Ask your kid the questions and write them down exactly how they respond.
(Princess is 6 years old.)
1. What is something mom always says to you?
“No.”
2. What makes mom happy?
“Me doing what you say.”
3. What makes mom sad?
“Not doing what you say.”
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
“Jokes.”
5. [...]

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