Category Archives: What’s On My Mind?

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Looking for a labor and delivery/charge nurse!

You read that right. I need a labor and delivery or charge nurse to help me edit something with nursey content, and wondered if any of my lovely readers here fit the bill.

 

The heroine of my fourth book is a nurse, and while I hope I got details of her job, hospital setting, and that sort of thing right, I want to be sure before I submit it to a publisher.

 

So, if you happen to be a nurse and are willing to read a 70,000 word (22 chapter) book for me in the next week or two, please comment below and I’ll get in touch with you. Thank you in advance!!

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Let the Nominations Begin!

Stay, Third Time’s The Charm, Worth It, The After Party, and Up All Night all qualify to be nominated for You Want Blood Awards!

Oh please won’t you nominate me? 🙂

Here are the categories that most likely fit my stories:
Mr. January – Best Lemon
The Greatest Love Story – Best Romance
Tissue / Kleenex – Best Angst
Rollercoaster Award – Best Drama
The Charlaine Harris – Best Rewrite of SVM
Best of the Best – All Time Favorite Story
EIM – Favorite Author
Van Gogh – Best Artist
Eagle Eye – Best Beta
Pins and Needles Award – W.I.P. story you wait anxiously for updates on

You Want Blood Awards

The polls are open and you can now nominate your favorite authors and stories.

Remember we will be taking the TOP 10 nominees with the most votes from each category for you to then vote for your favorites.  Voting will begin May 15th and the winners will be announced May 29th.

Rules:

1. The story must have been started or updated in the period between May 1, 2014 and April 15, 2015.

2. It is up to you, the nominator, to fill out the nomination form in its entirety. If there are blank spaces on the form, your nomination will be rejected.

3. If any plagiarism is detected in a nominated story, we will pull the nomination and any awards received IMMEDIATELY.

4. For the newcomer award, the author cannot have published a story prior to May 1, 2014, for consideration.

5. The nomination form may be submitted one…

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Nominations will begin…

Nominations begin May 1st for the SVM and TB Fanfiction awards.

If you love my stories, nominate me. I’m not afraid to shamelessly beg. 😉

You Want Blood Awards

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Nominations will start on May 1st and you will have one week to nominate your favorites in the following categories:

Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Best One Shot
The Human Award – Best AH
The Hybrid – Best Crossover
The Best of Both Worlds – Best SVM/TB combo
Mr. January – Best Lemon
The Greatest Love Story – Best Romance
Tissue / Kleenex – Best Angst
Rollercoaster Award – Best Drama
The Alan Ball – Best Rewrite of TB
The Charlaine Harris – Best Rewrite of SVM
Best of the Best – All Time Favorite Story
EIM – Favorite Author
Van Gogh – Best Artist
Eagle Eye – Best Beta
NKOTB – Best Newcomer
Pins and Needles Award – W.I.P. story you wait anxiously for updates on

We will be taking the TOP 10 nominees with the most votes from each category for you to then vote for…

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ATTENTION ALL WORDPRESS WRITERS!!!

What a wonderful idea. One WP to unite us all. 🙂

Fang meets Fairy and other encounters

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Attention WP writers, betas (and readers/enthusiasts). After much discussion on the state of our beloved TB/SVM fandom and some hints from readers here or there we feel there could be a better way to direct traffic away from ff. net, which with its creeps on PM, hateful guest reviews and random bigotry has left us all disenchanted and on occasion has stalled the motivation to write. We feel there should be one site that allows an easy overview of what the different WP writers have to offer as a better alternative to the dreaded ff. net and hopefully invigorate our slightly waning fandom. At the moment a lot of writers have a blog roll on their own page that will direct you to the different blogs, initiate spotlights or make recommendations but despite that for most readers transitioning from ff. net to WP it’s a difficult place to navigate and…

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Book Title Generator

In my quest for a title for my fourth book (Damn you, elusive book title!!!), I searched for random book title generators, thinking, “How bad could they be?”

Bad.

Soooooo bad.

I laughed so hard, I cried. Then I called my friend, read them to him, and cried some more. Don’t believe me? The one I just got (and my new personal favorite) is:

The Horny Vampire’s Illegal Secretions.

Do you believe me now? What’s that? You’re STILL skeptical? Go here: http://sweary.com/romance-novel-title-generator/

You won’t regret it.

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Contact form!

I just wanted to let you all know there’s a new way to send me a private message. I posted a contact form on my sidebar. So, if you want to share a story idea with me, or just chat in general without everyone else seeing it, that’s the way to do it! I haven’t tried it out yet, so I hope it doesn’t suck. *,..,*

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You Want Blood Awards!

Meridiean has just brought it to my attention that I’ve been nominated for three SVM awards along with MANY other amazing writers.

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Sookie’s Present and Glamoured have both been nominated for Mr. January Award-Best Lemon.

 

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Sookie’s Present has been nominated for The Charlaine Harris Award-Best Rewrite of SVM.

 

If you’re feeling like voting, go check it out! I’m just warning you now, you’re going to have a REALLY hard time choosing.

 

 

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What would you do?

I’m reaching out to you to ask what you would do if you were me.

I have been posting Sookie’s Present on FF.net, and I have an unhappy and vocal reader. One of the problems with FF is that readers can post anonymous (Guest) reviews, which means I can’t respond if there are issues/comments that need to be addressed. (This is one of the many reasons why I love wordpress so much!)

For Chapter 6, Guest wrote: UGH! I was hoping this Sookie would be smarter and NOT take any of that disgusting Bill’s blood but she’s still the naive idiot from the books. If Sookie has sex with Bill in the upcoming chapter I will NOT continue reading this story. It’s bad enough that Sookie has Bill’s blood.

I tried to reassure Guest in an author note at the beginning of Chapter 7, saying, “For those of you who are worried about Bill being involved in this story (and Bill getting his grimy hands all over Sookie), I can assure you now that I don’t write Sookie/Bill FF. If you’ve read my other stories, you already know that.”

For Chapter 7, Guest (I’m assuming it’s the same person) wrote: Bill is obviously NOT losing his hold on Sookie since you made Sookie have his blood. I’m bitter over it, can’t you tell?

So my note didn’t work … now what? I tried really hard to explain the premise of this story from the get go. Do I waste my time explaining that my Sookie is smart enough to be wary of Bill, or that she didn’t have a choice in taking Bill’s blood (since he forced her to drink it after nearly getting killed, just like in the book), or that I hate Bill’s guts and the only reason he’s in this story is because I needed someone to motivate Eric to be his most alpha-male self?

I know I can’t please everyone, but I REALLY want to. Why is this bothering me so much? *sigh*