Monthly Archives: April 2007

Squee and Blurb

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It’s another first for me: My first few fanmails (from people who aren’t, like, my mom). I had one girl ask if I could give her a bookmark (um, which I couldn’t, since I don’t have any– sorry!), and another girl told me my story “inspired” her (!) and asked for a signed photograph. After I got done squee-ing my little brains out, I realized, um, the only picture I have of me not in electronic format is probably a cheesy wedding picture. So off to Walgreens tomorrow to get some photos printed.

This whole Author Thing is pretty awesome.

Here’s a second for me: I sent off a short story query today. Cross your fingers for me. Want to see the blurb? K, good, I knew you would:

In A Cat’s Eye
Short Paranormal (11,500 words)

Loner P.I. Blake Alexander hoped he wouldn’t have to involve anyone else in the investigation of his grandfather’s death, but the live-in nurse, Karma, suspects foul play… and has secrets of her own. Little does she know, the secret of who Blake really is could kill them both. Can Blake resist giving Karma the truth, and perhaps his heart, or will she convince him to confide all to save her—and himself—from the danger prowling in the misty orange grove?

Thursday Thirteen: Edition #3

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Thirteen Things about Why Sonja Loves Her House

1. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. Wouldn’t you?

2. Hello? White picket fence. I think that’s the sound of my dreams coming true.

3. I named it Ever After. Isn’t that the perfect name? See, because I’m a romance writer, and this is a fairy tale house, and it’s me and my husband’s first house together, and we’re going to live happily ever after. Awwwwwww.

4. There is Echinacia growing in the back yard. How cool is that?

5. Even though we’ve lived here for 2 years, I still wonder how we got so lucky.

6. We’re bumped right up against the American Tobacco Trail, which you can actually ride all the way to downtown Durham, were Romeo and I both work. (That’s not to say we’ve done our part to save the environment, and actually, you know, ridden our bikes to work more than… ever. But still. it’s nice to know the option is there.)

7. Gardenias:
8. Garden tub:
9. Newly-planted-for-spring flower box:
10. The fact that I am now the social hub of my family because I have the awesomest party space. Rock on.

11. There are lots of green accents all through my house: kitchen counters, fireplace tile, bathroom tile, outside paint– and I love green.

12. Um, hello, I have the cutest back yard in the entire world:
13. Guess where I am right now? That’s right, be jealous: I am outside on my deck with the tiki torches lit, typing by the light of the moon.

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