Cover For

Waltz Me Through Time

I've just received the cover for my next release with Ellora's Cave. I absolutely love it! It captures the spirit of the story and especially the hero in his way-too-sexy tux.

Waltz Me Through Time is one of Ellora's Cave's Dance of Desire series and will be released on February 9th. It's another of my "paranormal lites" and with this one we do a bit of time traveling. 

Juliana Douglas has a thriving antique shop and a boyfriend who is likely to propose any day. Everything is working out just as she wants it to…until a handsome stranger arrives from 1902 and claims she’s his wife.

What To Do On A Cold and Nasty Day

Okay, here's the scenario.
It's a cold and nasty day outside. You're off from work and spending the day at home...alone. Working on your Work In Progress isn't an option. So what do you do? (Oh, and we're going to keep this PG rated. )

Here is my list of top ten things to do on a nasty day:

1. A TV Marathon. Watching an entire season of Mad Men, True Blood, Castle, The Soprano's or Family Guy until the characters are coming out my ears! My other option here would be a Movie Marathon with the entire Lord of the Rings series or all the Lethal Weapon movies. Oh my gosh, I could follow that up with the Die Hards or Terminators! Or maybe a Chick Flick Fiesta would be a good choice!

2. Sorting through my TBR (To Be Read) shelf. It's embarrassing but I easily have over 5000 books and let's face it. I'm never going to read all of them. Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to pass a few along. (If you've been on my shelf and I haven't read you in 10 years, maybe we could find a better home for you.) WARNING: It's dangerous to thumb through any Keeper Books. That could put a quick end to "Sorting through the TBR shelf" and head straight into the next option...

3. Curling up with a good book. Nothing like meeting a to-die-for hero and watching as he and the heroine overcome their internal and external conflicts, make it past the Black Moment and arrive safely, if somewhat battered, at the HEA!

4.  Playing with the Wii, the X Box or whatever it is that I can't ever play with because everyone else in the family monopolizes it.

5. Shopping on the internet. Notice I didn't say "Buying on the internet". There is some really really odd stuff for sale out there and it's not all on the X-rated sites. (This can be done between games of Sipder Solitaire.)

6. Organizing my coupons. I religiously clip out coupons from the flyers that come with the Sunday newspaper. I toss them in a bin on the counter and leave them there until they expire. Perhaps this isn't the best use for them...

7. Figuring out how to work all the options and apps on my phone. I just got an iPhone and I will be 113 by the time I figure out how to work everything. (Somehow, I keep taking pictures of my floor.)

8. Doing a jigsaw puzzle. They really are fun. I'm exceptionally good at the ones with cardboard backing for ages 3 to 5. Speaking of puzzles, my all time favorites are the Sudoku number puzzles. I feel so clever when I solve one!

9. Turning off the phone, Turning on the wind machine and taking a nap. Naps are one of the incredibly under-rated joys of life and they just make everything better.

10. One day, I might try taking the laundry off the treadmill where it's been hanging for the last three years and give that machine a try. There really was another reason besides clothes storage that I bought it.

You'll notice I haven't included any of that clean out the linen closet/refrigerator/garage/attic stuff. The day is dreary and nasty already. Why make it worse?

TTFN

Hi!

I put up this blog a few weeks ago and then kinda let it go because I didn't really have anything to exciting to post. I don't lead the type of life that has the paparazzi chasing me and I didn't think anyone really wanted to read about how I spend my day avoiding housework and keeping tabs on the neighborhood. (My office faces the street and you'd be amazed what people do in public!)

Anyway, I had an absolutely marvelous time participating in a book signing with the First Coast Romance Writers yesterday at the local Borders bookstore. It was wonderful to see all the members who came out to support the group and the community involvement!

Here are some pictures of the event.

Yours truly

Nancy Haddock, author of Last Vampire Standing and La Vida Vampire

Merrillee Whren, Harlequin Love Inspired author with Alyssa Day NYT and USA Today Best Selling author of The Warriors of Poseidon series

Donna McAteer, author of the Bliss Society Series with Violet Rightmire, author of Dancing in Time

Lydia Hawke author of Firetrail and Perfect Disguise which have both been made into motion pictures chatting with Harlequin Intrigue author Tracy Montoya (center) and Anita Lourcey Tooke (right) author of Out of Her Dreams

Catherine Kean, author of A Knight's Temptation with Maggie Toussaint In for A Penny

Somehow in the excitement, I missed a few snapshots. Apologies to Cheryl Norman and Renee Ryan.

Shortly, I'm heading out to the airport - about 3 hours from here - to pick up my daughter who has been on a study abroad program in Russia. I should have some interesting pictures to share from that.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Today, I’m taking my inspiration from Darragha Foster who blogged Saturday. (Hugs and good luck, Darragha!!) I thought I’d share a little about what’s happening in my life. Like her, I decided I was going to take control. I set out on a definitive course of action to do something about my inability to live the life I wanted. Let me digress…

Several months ago, I heard they were going to make a Bionic Woman movie and I decided I wanted the starring role! So I started making a few changes. Little by little, I knew I could change enough to grab that plum of a role.

I figured carpal tunnel syndrome had no place in a bionic woman’s life. How can I fire my super-secret laser gun if my fingers don’t move?. In just a few visits, Dr. Four-Foot-Needles took care of that problem.

But what about that rotator cuff injury I got playing backup quarterback for Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl? (Wasn’t I awesome?) How will I be able to throw rapid fire projectiles to bring down the fleeing bad guys?. This time, it took a visit to Dr. Close-Your-Eyes-And-Count-Back-From-Ten. Hey, no problem! Ten—
All fixed!

Now, what about the knee injury I received when I hurled myself in front of that goal David Beckham ALMOST got? How am I going to do all those snappy Kung-Fu kicks that are just soooo Bionic Woman? Another date with Dr. Close-Your-Eyes ought to fix this. This time, I didn’t even make it to ten.

Okay, I’m almost ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille, but that hip. The whole thing just isn’t working for me anymore. We really need to simply start all over and replace it. This time when Dr. Close-Your-Eyes showed up and his medical bag of tricks contained a hammer and saw, I didn’t need to count to anything. (YIKES!)

As you can imagine, my husband thinks I’m having an affair with Dr. Close-Your-Eyes, who also ‘did my toe’ (Now doesn’t that sound provocative?) last year. Trust me, if I were going to have an affair, I’d sure pick an easier cover than this.

With the help of my wonderful physical therapist, Diane-the-Mauler, who received her degree at the Marquis de Sade School of Therapy, my bionic body parts are almost all in working order. I’ve still got my cane (and top hat, of course) but it should go by the wayside in a few weeks. I figure I’m now a shoo-in for the starring part in the movie!

And that’s how I spent my summer – spring, winter and, hopefully, not fall — vacation. I’ve also spent the time dreaming up intriguing plots, devastating heroes and feisty heroines that I can’t get on paper – or computer – fast enough!

Okay, trivia time! Let me know if you remember the name of the original Bionic Woman and the actress who played her on TV (Don’t all google at once ). I’ll do a random drawing and send the winner a copy of CAPTURED, the second book in the Le Monte Dynasty series.

Thanks for blogging with me and have a great day!