Hey, all! I’m over at Plotting Princesses today. I hope you can stop by!

I’ve been a busy bee. Yesterday, my regular post over at Plotting Princesses was up where I talk about the decision I made to write full-time. I hope you’ll find it as inspirational as others did. Check it out here.

I was also a guest at Paranormal Romance Fans For Life. This is a great blog for paranormal romance readers. I talk about my love of movies there, so be sure to leave a comment and follow the blog.

Since I’m doing this full-time gig now, I’ve had to figure out the schedule of my day. In the mornings, I usually do blog things. I’ve scheduled a whole lot of them to promote for me upcoming. Which is great because I actually have time to do that now. I make a to-do list every morning of the things I want to accomplish and stick to it. I’ve also started a progress tracker where I can keep track of everything I’m doing during the day. Sort of like a timesheet. I guess you can take the girl out of Corporate, but you can’t take Corporate out of the girl. Plus, it really keeps me honest. I’ve found it helps me see exactly what I’m doing everything. I guess I need the visual.

I’m currently rewriting the “girl in the brothel” book I started last summer and finished up in early fall. A funny thing happened while rewriting–I realized this is a shifter book. My first one. Sniff. A tear. Seriously, though, I had no idea I’d be writing about wolves and stuff so I had to do a little research on the matter. I like the story, though, and the characters finally gel with each other. And by that I mean the heroine is finally with the right in the story and the hero is not the hero of the story after all. I got about 1700 words revised yesterday. Most of that is new material.

I have some other opinions I’d like to share with you, but I that’s going to have to wait. I need to get on with the day. I have more revision to do, some guest posts to write, and brainstorming for a novella.

I’m actively promoting ONE KNIGHT ONLY this week and next, so I hope you’ll bear with me as I send you on a blog tour.

First, I’m over at Vicky Burkholder’s blog with a post about how the story came about. Click here. 

Second, I’m at the Long and Writing Road with an interview and a juicy excerpt. Click here.

Third, today I’m at Otherworldly Passions with another inteview AND a giveaway! Click here.

Hope to “see” you there!

Blogging elsewhere: I’m over at Plotting Princesses! Come say hi

Does anyone else feel like this? I can’t believe September is nearly over. I don’t even have my fall decor out yet! Of course, it’s still in the 90s here and not feeling very fall-like. I wish October would get here with lovely temps. And rain! We still need that.

Yesterday I had to take the car in for service. Nothing major, just a tune up. My tune up cost $530. It was painful. The windshield washer had stopped working as well. That was another $168. I also had to have a fog light replaced. Add $49. All told, it was an $800 day. Money I could have spent on a new Coach bag. It was painful signing that check, let me tell you. But it needed to be done and the car seems to be happy. However, my clutch and rear brakes will need service soon.

At least the car is paid for and I have a job that allows me to pay for the service. See? Silver lining.

In other news.. I finally finished the read-through of the latest WIP. I made lots of long-hand notes on what scenes I wanted to add, rearrange and revise. I’m ready to get started on that but since there isn’t 36 hours in the day, I’m running out of time. Plus, with the release coming up, I need to get my promo spots done. Most of them are scheduled which is great.

Have you seen my website lately? If you haven’t, it looks much like the blog. I like the way it’s turning out. I don’t have a lot of fancy graphics in the headers, mostly because I don’t have the time to figure out how to expand the header (yet). When I do, though, I’m going to try and hire a freelancer to make something snazzy for me. In the meantime, I’m focused on writing and editing at the moment (and promoing!).

I decided to come to grips with the fact that one of my books wasn’t selling so well and terminated the contract. I’m waiting for reversion of rights. As soon as I get them back, I’m going to edit that book and self publish it. I already have a smokin’ hot cover for it (I hired someone to do it for me). Think I’ll beef up the sex scenes in that book, too. Self-publishing is an experiment for me right now. The two short stories aren’t selling that well (if at all) but that’s okay. They’re shorts. Hopefully something with a sexy cover will sell like hotcakes.

And I can’t believe it’s Wednesday. I have so much to do…and so little time!

Hey everyone – today is the launch of a new group blog (of which I’ll be participating in) called Plotting Princesses. I hope you’ll stop by and say hi!

We spent Tuesday evening at the Ballpark watching the Texas Rangers play. That was the fun part. The not so fun part was sitting in 100+ degree heat. It was still 100 degrees at 9 pm. I’d finally reached my maximum level of hotness (no jokes please) so we left after the 6th inning. My heart was racing and I had a really hard time walking back to the truck afterward. I was VERY glad to be in some AC and get home. I slept like the dead.

But woke up feeling like I’d been hit by a truck. I’ve come down with some sort of allergy/nasal/stupid thing. My sinuses have been bothering me the last two days. Yesterday was really bad. I felt like I could lay down and sleep for a week. And I get no more mid-day naps. hehe

This heat is nearly unbearable. We’ve had 20+ days of being in the triple digits. And virtually no rain. Everything is dead or dying. The lawns are practically brown. I’m sick of it. I’m ready for Winter. I’ll take 30 degrees ANY day next to 110. (My husband would disagree – he’s so not a winter guy.)

Hopefully I’ll be back to normal soon. In the meantime, my progress has been at a snails pace. Sadly.