Sexy Between the Covers

I am on Melissa Kier's blog today! Thanks for having me!

http://www.melissakeir.com/1/post/2014/01/shades-of-rose-disappear-with-me-by-l-dean-pace-frech-blogtour-bookspotlight.html

CU's eBook Giveaway

I was at CU's Ebook Giveaway earlier this week:

http://cusebookgiveaways.us/?s=disappear+with+me

Check it out!

Pure Transparent Freedom

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Have you ever experienced pure transparent freedom? I feel it when I am in the throws of writing. I love the feeling I get when the creative juices are flowing and the words just pour out of my fingers, from the keyboard, onto my screen.

What makes you feel that freedom? Are you pursuing that this year?  If not, I hope so. Remember, I've blogged about this before, New Year's Resolutions are goals for the year, not just January. You don't have to start this month or next and can still reach your goals. I didn't quit smoking until April the year I did that and it was May before I went back to school to finish my bachelor's degree.

Even if you don't start this month, you can get going on the passion that makes you feel pure transparent freedom this year.

Did you set any New Year's Resolutions or goals?

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Is it possible for two Civil War veterans to find their place in the world on the Kansas Prairie?

 

Love is greater than hope or faith, but can Reverend Leander Norris convince a jury that the love he shares with another man is natural?

Purchase A Place to Call Their Own or Disappear With Me from Amazon US today!

Purchase A Place to Call Their Own or Disappear With Me from Amazon UK today!

Then request an Authorgraph, an electronic inscription, from me.

Join the conversation:  use #APTCTO and #disappearwithme to talk about the novel on social media!

Exciting New Chapters

Although it may be terrifying to get out of your comfort zone, it's very exciting to start a new chapter in your life ~ Katie Couric

For the first time in twenty-two months I am out of my comfort zone. I do not have completed manuscript that is ready for submission. It's just the way 2013 went, I published the two manuscripts I had completed and didn't do a good job of continuing to write anything new.

Then three different ideas started popping into my head, so I got a bit distracted. Then I tried to write one draft in November for NaNoWriMo (I keep telling you to remind me I can't do that, but I still see myself trying next November.)

So anyway, here I am, working on three different manuscripts this year and hoping to get two of them published. This "self-deadline" is definitely different than the first two novels, but it is exciting. Can I do it? Absolutely!

What exciting chapters are starting in your life this year?

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Is it possible for two Civil War veterans to find their place in the world on the Kansas Prairie?

 

Love is greater than hope or faith, but can Reverend Leander Norris convince a jury that the love he shares with another man is natural?

Purchase A Place to Call Their Own or Disappear With Me from Musa Publishing today!

Then request an Authorgraph, an electronic inscription, from me.

Join the conversation:  use #APTCTO and #disappearwithme to talk about the novel on social media!

Saving Mr. Banks

It's what we storytellers do...restore order with imagination ~ from the movie Saving Mr. Banks

It's what we do! Restore order with imagination...

I saw the movie Saving Mr. Banks and absolutely loved it! Not only was it a great story about the making of the 1964 movie Mary Poppins, but it was a great study in plot and character development.  And the quote listed here comes from Walt Disney's last ditch effort to persuade P.L. Travers into signing the rights for the movie over to him.

No matter what your dream journey, I think that's what we dreamers do, we restore order with imagination. That order is different for each of us. For writers, we restore order in the fictional and parallel universes we create. If you're in sales, you restore order in your customer's lives by offering your products or services to them.

Yes, that's what dreamers do, restore order with imagination.

What order are you restoring this week?

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Is it possible for two Civil War veterans to find their place in the world on the Kansas Prairie?

 

Love is greater than hope or faith, but can Reverend Leander Norris convince a jury that the love he shares with another man is natural?

Purchase A Place to Call Their Own or Disappear With Me from MusaPublishing today!

Then request an Authorgraph, an electronic inscription, from me.

Join the conversation:  use #APTCTO and #disappearwithme to talk about the novel on social media!

The Job That Takes the Longest to Finish

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish ~ JRR Tolkien

How is your New Year going?  Mine hasn't started with the gust of the last two years, but it's started. I've been dealing with being sick since the Saturday before Christmas and still have the lingering cough. If there's anything I've learned in the last few years, and last few months, is to listen to my body and take it easy when I'm not feeling well.

But having my routines ready to go and taking notes while I'm laying on the couch sick has me ready to go once again today. I'm not exercising yet, but I'll exercise my mind and get some writing done this morning.

Once your routines are established, it's easier to get back to them. If you look back on past blog posts, I'm sure I'll have written about how I just worked through the cough and cold. I needed to do that then, but now I can rest and get back into routines.

Besides a little writing and movie early this afternoon, that's it for us today. Just rest and try to get over this illness.

Are you working on New Year's Resolutions this weekend?

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Is it possible for two Civil War veterans to find their place in the world on the Kansas Prairie?

Love is greater than hope or faith, but can Reverend Leander Norris convince a jury that the love he shares with another man is natural?

Purchase A Place to Call Their Own or Disappear With Me from Musa Publishing today!

Then request an Authorgraph, an electronic inscription, from me.

Join the conversation:  use #APTCTO and #disappearwithme to talk about the novel on social media!

What a Banner Year!

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world ~ JRR Tolkien

What a banner year! I sold and published my first two manuscripts and started a third!  My goal was to get one published and write a third manuscript, so I'd say I did pretty good.

A Place to Call Their Own was named one of their Best Historicals by The Novel Approach Reviews.  See the story here:

http://thenovelapproachreviews.com/2013/12/31/2013-the-year-in-reviews/

What about next year? My big, fat goal is to finish the manuscript I've started and write two more first drafts before the year is done. I do hope to publish two of the three as well.

If you follow me, you know I take New Year's Resolutions very seriously. Now by putting it out there, it helps me be more accountable to myself as well.

What are your goals for the New Year?