ROMANCE: IS IT FOR EVERYONE?
Yesterday my husband and I went to the bank to deposit money for Georgia Romance Writers and then on to Wal-Mart to buy some food and some plants.
The teller at Bank of America noticed the name on the deposit slip and wondered if I was Georgia Romance Writers. After explaining about the organization and telling her that I was a romance author, she became excitedly interested. You see, she reads romance “all the time.” Then she went on to explain that her husband gives her a hard time about reading “that stuff” so [...]

Vacations for me have been a time filled with possibilities. Without the pressures of school, work and all the other mundane activities I have to deal with on a daily basis, my creative juices begin to flow. Armed with a camera and my imagination, I’m off to enjoy a period of relaxation and periodic fantasy.
From my honeymoon in Aruba and a summer excursions to Jamaica, Antigua and Montserrat, I came up with the idea for a hot and spicy novel. The sand and sunshine just begged to be the setting for a story about a man and woman finally recognizing [...]

Hi. My name is Sally, (Hi, Sally) and I’m addicted to playing with words. I’m addicted to letting my ability to turn a phrase distract me from crafting deep, heart-felt conflicts.
That’s why craft Tuesdays scare me. The niggling weasel of self-doubt always perches on my shoulder and hisses in my ear, “What do you know about craft? You’re not published, and you started your first serious novel over ten years ago. . .” And the hateful little beggar just keeps going and going like a twisted, sadistic, incredibly ugly Energizer bunny. Well, this morning I gathered my thumb and forefinger [...]

I spent spring break on a road trip with my sister and our combined gang of five children – ages 16, 13, 11, 10 and 7. Any idea what five children do the majority of a week? They eat and they outgrow things. I’ve now seen every Walmart Super Center up and down the coast of South Carolina. On one of our forays into Wally World I picked up a cheap cotton jersey dress in a jaunty turquoise geometric pattern. Not until we got to my mom’s house in Hilton Head did I bother to take the tag off and [...]

By Marilyn Baron
We didn’t know much about each other when we first began our journey. All 19 of us belong to Georgia Romance Writers. All but two of us are PROs. Some of us are friends, many just acquaintances. Some of us might not have recognized each other if we passed on the street. But in the process of forming, naming, and launching our blog, Petit Fours and Hot Tamales (PF&HT), in January 2009, and finding our way in this strange new world of blogging, something miraculous happened. We bonded.
Prayers and a Swift Kick in the Pants from our PRO [...]

Mission #6: Pages 16-20 and Finding Time to Write
Here we are, Mission #6 of a 9 week Operation to get those manuscripts ready to submit for the Maggie contest. If you’re like me, you are very far behind and scrambling to catch up. If you are like some of the wonderful readers of this blog, you might already be done with your submission and just waiting for May 1st so you can mail it in. To all of those people, I hate you… grin… Just kidding. I commend you. You have really kept your goal in mind and your [...]

It’s always fun to put two names up! Almost as much fun as reading Marin Thomas’s post yesterday.
Today’s winners are:
For THE COWBOY AND THE ANGEL
Penney! Yeah!
And, for A COWBOY’S PROMISE
Cici Barnes! (OOH, can I borrow it when you’re done?)
Ladies, please send your snail mail addresses to me at dlkaufman@bellsouth.net no later than next Friday!
And, for those of you who still want to know more about Marin Thomas and her books, please visit her at www.marinthomas.com
For those of you who didn’t win, here are the links to buy Marin Thomas’s books:
THE COWBOY AND THE ANGEL
A COWBOY’S PROMISE