Where do you spend your time when you’re on the web? I’ve been finding myself enamored with Twitter. It’s so fast and so simple it’s almost irresistible. For those who have very little time to keep up with blogs and posts and websites in addition to ‘life’ stuff Twitter is a god-send! It’s the fastest communication tool I’ve ever used.
And it’s fun!
So that’s why I have a Twitter widget on my website now, so even if you don’t have a lot of time to comb through my website and see what I’m up to, you can always take a peek at the twitter-widget or hop on Twitter, take about 30 seconds (two minute tops) and catch up on what’s happening in the worlds of your favorite authors. Not to mention, there are plenty of good ole regular folks out there with interesting lives.
I’ve been converted! I am now a full-fledged Tweet-tee!
You know, I’d never paid much attention to Diabetes…until I was diagnosed with it during Christmas of 2007. What a present, eh?
I felt fine. No symptoms other than I kept gaining weight no matter how well I ate, how much I walked or exercised. So I decided to go in for a typical routine physical. The doctor called me back into the office a week later to tell me the tests had come back. And that I was just “over the line” enough in my blood work to be a diabetic.
It didn’t make a damn bit of sense. I wasn’t overweight (not by much anyway *smile*). Ate pretty healthy. However, I had allowed myself to totally stress, and I mean stress, over my job for a whole year, getting very little sleep, few days off, and hardly any exercise. And even though we all know stress does all kinds of nasty things to our bodies and causes the secretion of nasty hormones.
It took me a year of keeping my stress to a minimum, taking a blood-sugar control medicine and making my already pretty good diet even better. I went into the doctors office about six months later and received some good news. My blood tests came back non-diabetic. YAY!!
So I shared all that to say I really, really support what Brenda Novak is doing with her auction fundraiser for diabetes. And it is my fervent hope that you’ll participate, too.
So you’re probably wondering who the ‘us’ in the title of the post refers to. Click on the banner, hop over to the auction and take a look at what some of your favorite authors, editors, agents and publishers are doing this year.
Now this is a BIG book! And I’m not just talking word count, but the world Michelle built for the characters to play in is so full and well rounded that it makes the book feel huge. And I really like that. I like being able to see, hear, smell the world that the heroes and heroines are running around in.
There is one particular scene at a lake in the immortal realm where the hero and heroine first make love. You can practically see the moonlight on that lake. Hear the lapping of the shallow water against the shore. And a bit later something happens that makes the hero practically double over in pain and I swear you can practically FEEL it!
Now this guy, Merrick, King of the Unblessed, is a piece of work. He’s a classic tormented hero that you can’t decide if you want to hug or kick at the beginning of the book. But as you get to know him and watch his emotions evolve you can’t help but fall for the guy.
I don’t typically like my heroines naive or inexperienced, but Michelle makes it work. The story of Lady Juliana kept me engaged until I was anxious to see how the heroine dealt with her much more mature, though sometimes smack-upside-the-head-worthy hero.
This story is about Juliana’s adventure in the immortal realm, a total setup by Merrick. She’s got all kinds of folks interested in her business. Lucien – King of the Damned, Ean – King of the Blessed and of course, Merrick -King of the Unblessed. Not to mention her family of brothers and a close male friend who have ventured into the realm to find and hopefully rescue her.
She meets up with some interesting folk, er, beings. Brownies, pixies, faeries, this book has it all!
Now, if you haven’t checked it out, scoot your booty on over to Samhain and get it. You can also pick it up at any other eBook seller.
Also, if you get this book, drop Michelle a note and let her know what you think. As for me, I’m on to her next book in the Realm Immortal series, Faery Queen.
These women are only part of the reason that curves are ‘In’. But I wonder what caused the transition from “stick is it” to “curves galore”?
But here are two women who command the red carpet when they walk down it – Beyonce and Shakira. Others are Jennifer Lopez, Halle Berry and Gabrielle Union. I used to include Angelina Jolie in that category but for some reason she’s almost down to twig size. Now is anything wrong with being really thin? Nope. But for a good long while the media made those of us with curves feel as if we were big fat unattractive blobs who should be running to Weight Watchers to get rid of our hips.
And what really gets me is that when someone else (Hollywood? TV? Who?) decided that hips were in, suddenly folks were running to the butt surgeon to have fat pumped into everything from the lips to their backsides. I for one don’t allow anyone to label me or tell me how I should look, act or feel. They can all kiss my big ‘ole…well, you know ;D
My grandma used to say, “Baby, as long as you’re living in that beautiful skin of yours, that booty ain’t going nowhere.” And the woman was right, thank the stars. Those words stuck with me while I was growing up and because of my gran-gran, I learned a long time ago to accept my hips, my lips and all the rest as perfect. Besides, I could slim down to “knock me over by the next stiff breeze” proportions and my ass would still be the biggest thing on my body! Everything on me is where it’s supposed to be (even if it’s beginning to head South now ;D).
Watch this video and tell me what you think. Hips don’t lie and these women look FABULOUS, big booties and all! (Ignore the commercial. Damned Yahoo.)
This means it will only be available in eBook once the stores (including Amazon and Barnes and Noble) sell or return their current copies. No new copies will be available in print.
This book has received awesome reviews and was also nominated for a CAPA award. So if you’ve been on the fence about getting a print copy of this book, get it ‘fore it’s gone.
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