One Writer's Journey: Honing the corkscrew brain

Join me at the Samhellion for another fun look at writing! Commenters welcome!

One Writer's Journey: Verbing

Cars, chasing, crashing. I discuss why powerful verbs attract readers at The Samhellion.

Upcoming Blog visits

Both January 10
Visit me at Tina Donahue's blog! I'm talking about characters and crises--and there's a giveaway of one of my ebooks!
My cats spew the secrets about living in the Hughes household at Jody Wallace's Writer and Cat!

January 20
I blog at The Samhellion!

Coming this month...

Upcoming events

• December 15, 2010—Secret! To Be Announced
• December 18 & 19, 2010—Samhain Christmas Party! At the Samhain Cafe
• December 20, 2010—Visit from Tina Donahue, contemporary and contemporary erotic romance author--with contest!
• December 20, 2010—I blog at The Samhellion
• December 31, 2010—I blog and offer a contest at Tina Donahue Presents

Blog and Biting Love ebook giveaway!

Join me at The Samhellion as I blog on One Writer's Journey: Picking Out the Muddled Sentence  Comment for an opportunity to win a Biting Love ebook!

Check out the Samhellion Spook-a-Palooza! Kindle, ebooks, wow!

Three contests, lots of amazing prizes! I'm participating in two, please join me.

October 17-23 is the first Scavenger Hunt. Twelve awesome authors, twelve ebooks. More info here.
October 24-31 is the second scavenger hunt.
October 17-31 is the Kindle contest. More info here.

Two weeks of contests

It's October and time for contests and scavenger hunts! I'm participating in quite a few...more info on each as I get it.

October 17-23—Samhellion Trick or Treat Ebook contest
October 17-30—Samhellion October Kindle Giveaway contest
October 30-31—LASR/WC/Aurora Halloween Scavenger Hunt
October 30-31—D. Renee Bagby Presents The 48 Hours of Halloween: One 1st chapter drops every hour. Comment to get a chance to win! More info here (scroll down to Reader Info).

New editor, New Samhellion Author Blog, Freebies still available!

Great news, I have a new editor, and Biting the Rainbow is in her hands. More info as I get it.

The Samhellion blog is getting a makeover! The freebie short stories Biting Dracula and A Biting Christmas Special are currently available at www.readmoreromance.com.

Great contest--eReaders ad a slew of ebooks as prizes!

If you enjoy ebooks or are thinking you'd like to try them, this is the contest for you! Samhain Publishing's Samhellions are offering 4 week-long holiday contests and this is my week. My special New Year's Eve novella The Bite of Silence (releasing Dec. 29) is one of the prizes!

You can get all the contest information here: The Samhellion Holiday Contest. But hurry, the contest ends noon EST 12/17.