June 25th, 2007
Monday’s eye candy for your viewing pleasure.
Archive for June, 2007
June 22nd, 2007
I’m hanging out over at Writers Across Time today. Tell me what you think about series!
June 21st, 2007
I’m going to be an uber-geek this week and dive into one of my favorite subjects: words. I admit it, I am a wordsmith, a lover of words. The etymology, the pronunciation, the definition. Sigh… Yep, for real, peeps. 
Top Thirteen Sites and Blogs for Writers
1. Grammar Girl’s Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing
2. It Figures: Figures of Speech, Snappy Answers
3. Blogslot
5. You Don’t Say: Language and Usage
6. Language Log
11. A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English
13. Online Etymology Dictionary
June 20th, 2007
I can’t believe it. Really. I’m shaking my head here. 
The Legacy gets released in six days on June 26 in ebook.
It’s the end of the series. The very last Malloy book! Truly, truly lucky number seven. You know it seems like I just started on book 1, The Bounty, and from there it’s a blur. It’s truly hard to believe that six of the series are published and now I come to the end.
It’s like sending my child off into the world, out of my hands, to fly under his own wing power. I’m getting choked up thinking about no more Malloy books. It’s as if they’ve become part of my family, real people that I care about. Sigh… Am I being a dork?
Yep.
Am I being sentimental?
Yep. 
I hope everyone out there that’s read one of the Malloy books has enjoyed them. I introduced Noah as a secondary character in The Bounty, and suddenly there he was again in The Prize. He was a lovable, scruffy kid that caught more than one person’s attention. I got plenty of “Will Noah get his own story?” and decided that he would, that his story would be the final legacy for the Malloys.
You’ve seen him grow up and now Noah gets his own happily ever after. It’s never easy for the Malloys is it? This adopted Calhoun-Malloy son has to find his own way in the world, for good or bad. His heroine is Rosalyn, a woman who’s as tough, if not tougher, than Noah, whose life had been rough, if not rougher, than his.
I’m excited, really I am, to see The Legacy finally get released. I want to celebrate it with everyone so each person who posts from now until next Tuesday, 6/26, gets entered into a special contest to win a special prize from me. What ’tis this special prize?
Why, it’s a Malloy family prize pack, featuring one paperback copy of choice (from the first five books), a complete set of bookmarks, a Malloy family pin, AND a sweet set of poker cards in a nice brushed aluminum carrying case courtesy of Trevor from The Gift.
Sound good? Okay, then cool! Post away and tell me what your favorite Malloy moment was.
June 19th, 2007
Catch me over at Passionate Prose. I’m talking about astrological signs and what they mean. 
