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We recently added a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Hound mix to the family. We should have waited to name her because Mayhem probably would have been a better choice than Sadie.

Here she is with her new best bud, Scooter. If you look closely, you can see she has one brown eye and one blue eye!

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We found this little lazy bug cutie 2 1/2 years ago at our local airport. Keeping a Beagle trim isn't easy, it seems Sierra, like all of her kin, loves to eat!

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Behind the Scenes
A look at what goes on in my writing world.

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I've taken the plunge and sent off copies of Tennessee Waltz and Ransom's Bride for conversion into digital format. Next step will be figuring out what to put on the new covers.

I'm also putting together a collection of my humor columns with the idea to self-publish them first to get my feet wet.
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Decisions, decisions, decisions....It appears I failed to note some wonderful news: I received the rights back for Tennessee Waltz and Ransom's Bride! I plan to self-publish them this year.

I've been doing lots of research. Since they were printed prior to everything going completely digital, one hurdle I have to cross is converting the print books to digital format. Smashwords has been a fount of valuable info and resources.

I am forging slowly ahead on this project in which TW will get the title it deserves (I mean, really, using the word "waltz" in the title of a book about a crippled heroine??). Plus, I plan to have a picture of her horse on the cover!!
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My wonderful editor at The Wild Rose Press resigned recently putting my novella, Susannah's Promise, into limbo. Not sure what's going to happen with it, but this isn't the first time I've been "orphaned." (A handy phrase writers use when the editor who loves their work changes jobs.) Vicky "got" my writing and that's the relationship all writers long to have with their editors and readers.
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Sometimes reviewers don't notify the author when they review a book. I stumbled over this lovely review a few weeks ago. Tennessee Waltz was published in 2004.

Ratings
Overall: 9
Sensuality: 9
Historical Element: 9
To read the review go
to my Book Review page.


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I found a free avatar program and made an avatar for Miss Mabel (missmabeltalkstassanoxie.blogspot.com). She's a little older than this, but they didn't have a female with gray hair. I thought the hat motif was more important than the hair color.
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I found a Brazilian edition of Ransom's Bride while browsing on the Internet. Still trying to get the royalty payment for it!

Well, that was a dead end. Seems Kensington has no record of selling Ransom's Bride to this publisher who has, of course, gone out of business! (June 2011)

Fancy that, someone found the money and I received a surprise in the mail today, a royalty check for a book published 7 years ago. (August 2011)
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I'm pretty sure this is the Dutch version of Ransom's Bride, but I have no idea what exactly this title means!

I looked around the web and it was the name of a dating show in the Netherlands once upon a time. It could also be the title of a song, not that I know for sure since I don't speak Dutch.

Buried in the online translation, I found "at random" which makes me wonder if the translator mistook Ransom for random! It also translates into "on good luck" which seems to be a catch phrase. And then there's "Let's try it and see what happens" as one translation.

Why do I get the feeling no one read the book before giving it a title!??
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This is a photo of Justin Worthington's house. It's been turned into a lawyer's office, but I love the house which is why I used it in my book.
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My first banner attempt. This is taken from the top of Feather's Last Dance.

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While no one at Smart Bitches. Trashy Books has ever reviewed one of my books, the cover of my second historical romance, Ransom's Bride did end up in a discussion loop. Frankly, I'm glad it was the cover!

The blog is from May 2006, titled "Bitchery Survey: Gems with Bad Covers." Hmmm, that puts me in the gem category, as a read or a bad cover??

I just love that the reader remembered my name and the book!!
Here's the link to the archived discussion: Emily said on....