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Saturday, November 01, 2008
Do you Nano?
No, it's not some freaky fetish or weird fruit diet. Nano or NanoWrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The title implies what it is. For the month of November you push yourself to sit at the computer and write a novel; get the words down until you get 5oK. Simple as that.

Don't edit. Don't revise. Just write.

I have participated every year since 2004. Some years I have completed the 50K word count and some I have faded away about a week into it. I can't say that I have sold either of the ones I completed, but I did get a rough draft done, completed; it only needs to be tweaked. Where as before all I had was a blank page. And twice, the writing in such a fast paced time-frame got me "in the mood" to write and I finished something else that I did eventually sell. So it helps and works!



And the best part, it doesn't have to be perfect it only has to be done. There is a famous (in the romance world) quote, "You can't edit a blank page." So think of November as getting those pages down and then in December edit 'til your hearts content!



Join those of us up to the challenge and NANO!

Labels: books, Nano, novels, writing

It's not difficult if you pace yourself right. It's roughly 1800 words a day, which works out to about 7 or 8 pages. That's not that bad. Half a chapter, a scene or two. When you break it down that way, you can easily crank out a scene or two. I have even had days where I have written 25-30 pages so it is totally doable.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Got Cover?
My newest cover has been released.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
aw... how sweet
So, I try not to talk about my kiddos too too much. Some is a privacy thing and some is I don’t wanna bore folks.

Today, I had to pick up spare + 1 from school because he wasn’t feeling well. I had been out running errands and when we were walking to the car he said he was surprised I wasn’t at home. I asked why, did he think I sat around all day playing video games and he said, “Nope. I figured you’d be working on a book.â€

Two things entered my head. aw how sweet and busted!

I was in fact doing “mommy/wife†work paying bills and grocery shopping so not so much busted really. But how sweet the child “expects†me to be writing. Guess, I gotta go now, I have a date w/ a keyboard!

Labels: kiddos

Wednesday, October 08, 2008
SECOND CHANCES is up on the website...
I visit my page at Samhain's website every day--several times in fact--hoping my newest book will be up... and it is! AND note: if you are related to me in any way shape or form... I didn't write the book-blurb

“Second Chances†by Denise Belinda McDonald

Genre: Contemporary Romance

ISBN
Length: Novel
Price: 5.50
Publication Date: January 13, 2009
Cover art by : Coming Soon: 1-60504-359-1



Be careful what you ask for. It might come with spurs—and baggage.

The Paintbrush series

After catching her boyfriend with his pants around his knees while a walking, talking cliché takes “dictationâ€, Suzanne Walters quits her job, quits her man, quits Texas and moves to Wyoming to find the woman she used to be. Unfortunately, her first five minutes in Paintbrush finds her facing down the town bully in the local diner—and running smack into the one thing she’s not looking for: a wet dream in cowboy boots, Jacob Bowman.

Jacob excels at two things—flying under the radar, and saving his pennies in hopes of running his own ranch someday. He can’t stop thinking about the fantasy in tight Wranglers who nearly mowed him down exiting the diner. The curvy, vivacious spitfire makes his mouth go dry. She’s got her eye on him, as well, but her determination to prove her independence is just as strong as the sexual pull between them.

Life’s knocks have given them both strong hearts, and even stronger wills. As danger looms, that stubborn pride could cost their one chance to discover if there’s something more between them than great sex.

Will they swallow their pride, or will they lose it all?

Warning: Cowboys and horses and bullies OH MY! Sweet, sweet loving and a little rowdy behavior

Labels: MY BOOKS, new books, romance, Second Chances

Monday, October 06, 2008
TAGGED
Mik tagged me...

If you have pets, do you see them as merely animals, or are they members of your family?
The dogs, definitely part of the family, the fish… eh, he’s growing on me


If you could have a dream come true, what would it be?
hmm…. It changes from day to day … dunno


What is the one thing most hated by you?
oh spiders!


What would you do with a billion dollars?
well, shoot, if I had a billion dollars, I wouldn’t need the first question, I’d be able to do anything


What helps to pull you out of a bad mood?
a giggle from my kiddos


Choose one letter of your name and come up with a word to describe yourself.
D - delightful {snort}


What’s your bedtime routine?
A little tv, sometimes a book, the fan on, covers pulled up tight


What kind of books do you buy?
oh so very many

Where do you want to be in ten years?
I’d like to say Hawaii, but um…. these questions are so hard


What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
she’s a sweet, shoe-holic gal, that I call a friend

What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
coffee…must have coffee


What’s your favorite food?
just one…

Formal Wear or Casual Wear?
Totally casual and bare foot most of the day

Sports: Football or baseball?

I like both, but football slightly more


What do you consider your guilty pleasure?

Lifetime…




I'm tagging Eenie, Meenie, Minie... Moe is off the hook ... LOL
Monday, September 29, 2008
hello..........
Don't forget... I update my Wordpress page more frequently ~

Have a great day!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Lunch with Emmitt anyone?
Most days I really loathe my (DH) husband's job. Without going into to much (boring ) detail, he works as rental coordinator in the broadcast industry, primarily with sports. (the cameras and crap that goes with them to broadcast an event, his company rents it, services it and runs it at times). Which means with all the sports and whatnot that run all year long he is on call ALL THE TIME 24/7 (+ if it were possible)--especially with the stupid Blackberry his work so graciously provided.

But it does have perks from time to time. Once he was booked to San Fran and we asked to rearrange his ticket for two cheaper ones and I got to go with--the hotel was the same price either way. And he does get tickets for games: I've been to more sporting events than I care to mention. (and the swag...oh the swag--I have more sports logoed crap, I could start my own business...LOL...But I am far too lazy)

Yesterday, though was quite cool! The DH got exclusive tickets for a Monday Night Football and ESPN luncheon. The pair have weekly (most weeks) luncheons for the Monday Night Football game's home city team. We had lunch at Ruth's Chris steak house along with Jerry Jones, and his family, Emmitt Smith (WOOHOO!), Darren Woodson (WOOHOO!), Marco Rivera (WOOHOO) and some other folks (yeah, no clue who most of them were). It was a superb meal, after which the afore mentioned former-players spoke about the game. It was pretty cool to hear their candid remarks on today's players (with as much testosterone as we have in the house, despite trying not to be interested in sports, I have to stay abreast of everything--the kids were UBER-impressed). Not to mention the goodie bag after . . .

How many folks can say they had lunch with Emmitt and Jerry--no one else I know.

Of course the DH also had tickets to the game that night. I chose not to go as he could only get four--they were free so I am not complaining, but the two little boys couldn't go--so mom got to stay home. Not surprising, Heir didn't want to go either, so DH took Neighbor S and kid neighbor Little E and of course Spare--I think he'd have smothered his dad had he been left behind.


The game was AWESOME!



Webfetti.com

Go Cowboys!

Labels: COWBOYS, Dallas, football

Monday, August 25, 2008
Things I learned over Summer Break
School has started, can you hear me cheering! Don’t get me wrong, I love my children, but there is something to be said for them being out of the house, in a confined space that you know where they are, where hopefully you don’t have to worry about them.

Summer break was shorter than usual, it seemed. The dh and I were only in the same state at the same time for about 1/3 of the entire summer–sounds crazy huh?!? If that’s bad, the last two weeks were uber-crazy. We got school clothes and shoes, supplies, saw a circus–and watched as much Olympics as humanly possible. The cousins from Switzerland were in town and we had kid pics done and lunch and grandma’s house for birthday gifts (Switzerland is a LONG way to send stuff!). Then we took in a ballgame, after a soccer game during the rain. Got school schedules, and football gear as well met the teachers. And sent the dh outta town AGAIN! WHESHEW!!!!

With all this, what did I learn you ask? Oh many, many things . . . in no particular order.

~ A six-year-old WILL puke after eating 3 1/2 hot dogs (and ice cream, and
drinking two water bottles) at a b-ball game regardless of how much better he
“feels†when the older brothers and cousins get 2nd ice creams

~ dogs
DON’T like a six-year-olds fingers up their noses

~ a pet fish, next to
the dinner table WILL ruin appitites when he goes belly-up during the main
course

~ speaking of pet fish, be CAREFUL which seat you pick at a
wedding reception or might “WIN†the centerpiece (a bowl of goldfish)

~
don’t wait to plan talks, pitch info or emcee speeches five minutes before hand
or you may blather on and see many a blank or bewildered stare in your direction

~ a potential editor WILL remember your work if you bring it up when
you’re NOT supposed to

~ when sitting at a table full of authors, don’t
ask how many books they have sold and hold up fingers indicating how many YOU
THINK it might be. 28 is WAY more that ONE ~ GAW!

~ a nine passenger van
(total, INCLUDING the driver) cannot hold 10 conference attendees, no matter how
much we like each other and REALLY want to get to the hotel

~ always
KNOW how you’re getting back to the hotel (for sure) before you leave or the guy
kicking the rubber ducky down the street my be your traveling companion for many
blocks

~ DON’T make eye contact with the big ass dudes, in the black
town car sitting in the alley next to the hotel–safety first, y’know

~
if you do a face-plant on a train at a conference, people WILL remember and talk
about it two years later, even if they don’t remember it was YOU ~ Wheshew

~ on the flight back home after a conference, DON’T let the man next to
your read the back-cover blurb of the book in your hand if his questions begin
with, “have you ever met Fabio?â€

~ no matter how much sun-screen you
use, you WILL get burned after a day at a Six Flags water park, so suck it up
(and FORGET the pedicure)

~ when the gas reminder dings, the auto WILL
only go SO long before it won’t go no more

~ when you honk at and flip
someone off, make sure there are places to turn away from them over, say, THREE
miles, or it can be an uncomfortable amount of, “Yeah, I’m still here.â€

~ when you’re mom told you, “you’ll GET yours,†when you’re brought home
for the 3rd time after TPing someone’s house… you may end up having a bunch of
stinky, smelling, messy, sweet, funny, taller-than-you boys ~ life is NEVER
dull!


Hope you had a fun and intersting summer too!

Labels: kids, life, writing

Friday, August 22, 2008
Meme
Meme from Amie : Copy the list below. Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book. Italicize what you’ve watched. Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme. (I’m not taggin, but feel free to play along anyway.)

1. Jurassic Park . . . I read part of it–does that count?
2. War of the Worlds
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4. I, Robot
5. Contact
6. Congo
7. Cocoon
8. The Stepford Wives . . . watched some of the original when I was a kid
9. The Time Machine
10. Starship Troopers
11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
12. K-PAX
13. 2010
14. The Running Man
15. Sphere
16. The Mothman Prophecies
17. Dreamcatcher
18. Blade Runner . . . am I the ONLY person never to have seen this?
19. Dune
20. The Island of Dr. Moreau . . . seen some of this
21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
22. The Iron Giant (The Iron Man)
23. Battlefield Earth
24. The Incredible Shrinking Woman
25. Fire in the Sky
26. Altered States
27. Timeline
28. The Postman
29. Freejack (Immortality, Inc.)
30. Solaris
31. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
32. The Thing
33. The Thirteenth Floor
34. Lifeforce
35. Deadly Friend
36. The Puppet Masters
37. 1984
38. A Scanner Darkly
39. Creator
40. Monkey Shines
41. Solo (Weapon)
42. The Handmaid’s Tale
43. Communion
44. Carnosaur
45. From Beyond
46. Nightflyers
47. Watchers
48. Body Snatchers

I have probably seen more of those, just don’t recognize the title.

I have seen MOST of the Stephen King made to movies (even the ones I didn’t realize was his at first–like Green Mile or Shawshank Redemption, Yeah I live in a bubble at times). Guess I need to get reading!

Labels: books. movies, meme

Monday, August 11, 2008
TRADING FACES booktrailer
I created a booktrailer for TRADING FACES

Enjoy ~

This page contained an embedded video. Click here to view it.

Labels: books, MY BOOKS

Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Release Day ~ TRADING FACES
TODAY IS THE DAY!

TRADING FACES releases today from Samhain Publishing. WOOHOO!



There are worse things than winding up dead…

With her ex-husband’s death, Elyse Cabot thinks she’s permanently off the emotional roller coaster…until he turns up posing as his twin brother—the real victim of foul play—at his funeral. Before she can get any answers out of him, he’s gone, leaving her with more questions than closure.

And a fortune in loose diamonds.

Seeing Elyse again brings back a lot of hot, sweaty teenage memories for Jack. Then she opens her mouth and out comes some cockamamie story about her ex, diamonds and double crossing. So much for rekindling an old flame. Still, he just can’t seem to resist the lure of this dame in distress.

He just hopes he can solve the case before he does something stupid—like fall in love.

Sooo.... to celebrate it's release, I'm going to give away one e-copy of the book. Leave me a comment at SFC and at the end of the day I will pull one name out.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
The contract's signed and in … so I can announce…

I sold another book to Samhain~ WOOHOO!

It will be out in “E†in early 2009 and in print in late 2009.

It is a Contemporary western-ish novel set in Wyoming. (Cowboys, horses and bad guys OH MY!)

Labels: books, MY BOOKS, news, writing

Monday, May 19, 2008
TRADING FACES (updated)


“Trading Faces†by Denise Belinda McDonald
Length: Novel
Price: 5.50

Publication Date: August 5, 2008

Cover art by Angela Waters



There are worse things than winding up dead…

With her ex-husband’s death, Elyse Cabot thinks she’s permanently off the emotional roller coaster…until he turns up posing as his twin brother—the real victim of foul play—at his funeral. Before she can get any answers out of him, he’s gone, leaving her with more questions than closure.

And a fortune in loose diamonds.

To her relief, a face from the past agrees to help her uncover the truth behind her newly acquired rocks. Private investigator Jack Walling has come a long way from the awkward geek she brushed off in high school. Such a long way, she discovers an inconvenient truth: There are worse things than winding up dead. Like falling head over heels for the hunky P.I.

Seeing Elyse again brings back a lot of hot, sweaty teenage memories for Jack. Then she opens her mouth and out comes some cockamamie story about diamonds and double crossing. So much for rekindling an old flame. Still, he just can’t seem to resist the lure of this dame in distress.

He just hopes he can solve the case before he does something stupid—like fall in love.

Warning, this title contains the following: Twins, explicit sex, graphic language, some rock ’em sock ’em violence, and did we mention diamonds?
Thursday, May 15, 2008
New Book!

My new release is up on Samhain’s website . . . WOOHOO!!




TRADING FACES

comes out in e-format August 5th

STAY TUNED for more info

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Contest
It’s time for another contest . . . .

Check out my CONTEST page and you too could be the proud owner of one of 20+ prizes

WOOHOO!!!

Labels: contest



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