Tag: Nice Girls Writing Naughty; NGWN Group

  • The Noonhour – In The Kitchen with Michael of Wolfshead Photography, and a Prize Basket

    Happy Saturday! Today\’s Noonhour features none other than my husband Michael, of Wolfshead Photography. We collaborated on this post, which is part of a feature over at my group\’s page, Nice Girls Writing Naughty. You should click over there and leave a comment, because each commenter during our event is entered to win a truly awesome basket of prizes. Check it out!

  • Manic Monday – Startcher Engines!

    Manic Monday – Startcher Engines!

    It\’s Monday!  I feel like I should say something uber-motivating, that makes us all jump out of our chairs and make something massively awesome.

    Feel motivated yet?  ðŸ™‚

    We\’re almost ready to go live on the new site.  I\’m so excited.  It\’ll have a home for my blog (i.e. this one) and my Knoontime Knitting blog, as well as a section for books and promo stuff and bio and everything.  I feel like such a little kid.

    Every iteration of my online presence has brought new things to learn and new fun stuff to play with.  This time, it means I\’ll be leaving my beloved Blogger platform behind and migrating to WordPress.  The coolness of the website functionality overwhelmed the familiarity and ease-of-use of Blogger, so that\’s ultimately what made the decision easy.  You won\’t notice much of a difference in terms of what you can do on the blog, meaning you\’ll still be able to comment and share stuff, but on the back-end it makes it much easier for me and my webmistress.

    I have some neat newsy items for you today, as well:

    First, my workshop \”Unleashing the Creator Within\” is in full swing over at Coffee Time Romance.

    While it started on the 1st, you\’re very welcome even now, at the mid-point.  We\’re having a lot of fun with some non-traditional tools like music and word art.

    Second, the BDSM-a-palooza is from Feb 17th to the 19th at the Smutketeers!  I\’m participating with 50 other fabulous authors and the amazing ladies of the Smutketeers – there will be daily prizes, a grand prize with gifts from all of us, and more fun than you can shake a whip at.

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    Third, the Nice Girls Writing Naughty will be hosting a very special event – Fantasy Date Night with the Nice Girls and their friends, Feb 21st, on our Facebook group from 6:00p to 11:00p Eastern Standard Time.  I\’ll be teaching at that time, so I can\’t join you, but I know you\’ll have a ton of fun without me – just save me some chocolates and a date, and we\’ll be fine.  ~grin~

    Happy Monday!

  • November Is NaNo Time! Join Us For Tips, Tricks, and Prizes!

    November Is NaNo Time! Join Us For Tips, Tricks, and Prizes!

    Today kicks off our NaNoWriMo extravaganza at the Nice Girls Writing Naughty blog.  Your first post is by the fabulous Leela Lou Dahlin.  Leave a comment and be entered to win a prize from her as well as a chance at the grand prize, a $25 gift certificate to All Romance eBooks.  We have other prizes throughout the event, including a copy of Sealed by Fire by Rachel and I (or a choice of our backlist).

    What are you doing NaNo this year?  If you\’re not yet tempted, what might you write if you decided to?
  • Sunday Box Talk: Gardening

    Sunday Box Talk: Gardening

    I\’m over at the lovely Nice Girls Writing Naughty blog today with a recipe for Mint Syrup.  It\’s the last day of our contest, so please stop by and enter to win several awesome prizes, including a book from yours truly AND a gift certificate for $50 USD.

    Apropos of that, I thought I\’d chat about gardening a bit for today\’s Sunday Box Talk.

    I saw a button once that said, \”Gardeners plant gardens to relax and then spend all their time working in them.\”  There\’s a lot of wisdom in this saying.  The \”in the moment-ness\” of gardening, or any hobby, is what provides its sense of peace and \”now-ness.\”  By tending to the garden, we tend to ourselves and allow our bodies to experience grounding in a literal sense as we play in the dirt.

    Do you garden? Even a potted plant can be magical if approached with the right mindset.  It\’s a lot cheaper to by a pathos plan than it is to pour a drink, and the plant won\’t pack on the pounds or make your mind fuzzy.

    If you garden, what\’s your favorite plant? If you don\’t, yet, what would you like to have growing in your daily round?