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All of Jared Bennett’s life, this strikingly handsome warrior king from another world has focused his power and energy on his people’s fight for freedom. Now, in Wyoming’s Teton Mountains, as Jared’s people discover the secrets of time, they are finally poised to defeat their enemy. But Jared’s obsession with a lovely geologist threatens the long-sought victory, a woman whose existence has mysteriously burned in Jared’s heart like the brightest distant star.

Geologist Kelsey Wells is fiercely attracted to Jared, but her fiery lover speaks of alien wars and time travel and is hiding something that could cost them a love that transcends time and space.

I wrote quite a bit this weekend and I’m very happy to say I’m almost done with this proposal. I hope to finish rough draft by Thursday or Friday and get it to my critting queens aka The Mean Bitches. (We’re not really mean, we just like the way it sounds.)

Sunday, we watched a couple of movies: Domino (with Kiera Knightley) and Just Friends (with Ryan Reynolds) Domino was good, but it wasn’t what I expected. I thought it would be more action and less drama…but it was the opposite. So, at times it was a little slow. The cinematography was outstanding though. Just Friends was actually very funny. It was better than I expected.

Last night, some ferocious storms rolled through. I went to bed late because I wanted to stay up and watch Big Love. I missed the 9:00 showing because I had to watch Grey’s Anatomy. (And I was NOT disappointed, either. It looks like Chris O’Donnell is joining the cast. YUMMY!)

So, anyway, I really like the HBO show, Big Love (it’s about a polygamist family) and I wanted to see it and wasn’t really sleepy. At 1:00 am I turned the light out and wouldn’t you know it, the storms rolled in at 1:20 am.

I didn’t sleep much at all because they weren’t good sleep storms. They were more like, “Shit, I hope my roof holds and that tree doesn’t blow over” storms. And now I’m really tired.

How was your weekend? Get any anything accomplished?

I wrote quite a bit this weekend and I’m very happy to say I’m almost done with this proposal. I hope to finish rough draft by Thursday or Friday and get it to my critting queens aka The Mean Bitches. (We’re not really mean, we just like the way it sounds.)

Sunday, we watched a couple of movies: Domino (with Kiera Knightley) and Just Friends (with Ryan Reynolds) Domino was good, but it wasn’t what I expected. I thought it would be more action and less drama…but it was the opposite. So, at times it was a little slow. The cinematography was outstanding though. Just Friends was actually very funny. It was better than I expected.

Last night, some ferocious storms rolled through. I went to bed late because I wanted to stay up and watch Big Love. I missed the 9:00 showing because I had to watch Grey’s Anatomy. (And I was NOT disappointed, either. It looks like Chris O’Donnell is joining the cast. YUMMY!)

So, anyway, I really like the HBO show, Big Love (it’s about a polygamist family) and I wanted to see it and wasn’t really sleepy. At 1:00 am I turned the light out and wouldn’t you know it, the storms rolled in at 1:20 am.

I didn’t sleep much at all because they weren’t good sleep storms. They were more like, “Shit, I hope my roof holds and that tree doesn’t blow over” storms. And now I’m really tired.

How was your weekend? Get any anything accomplished?

Hehehehee.

I’m so freaking excited! I can’t tell you what great news this is!

This news really has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with my ultra fabulous CP–Maria Geraci.

Dear, sweet, talented, Maria Geraci received an offer of representation from Deidre Knight of TKA.

Not only is this awesome because Deidre is a fantastic agent with an outstanding work ethic and eye for talent. It’s doubly fabulous because she’s my agent, too.

I’m so excited! Can you tell????

Hehehehee.

I’m so freaking excited! I can’t tell you what great news this is!

This news really has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with my ultra fabulous CP–Maria Geraci.

Dear, sweet, talented, Maria Geraci received an offer of representation from Deidre Knight of TKA.

Not only is this awesome because Deidre is a fantastic agent with an outstanding work ethic and eye for talent. It’s doubly fabulous because she’s my agent, too.

I’m so excited! Can you tell????

I know something you don’t know.

I’ll give you a hint…it has nothing to do with me.

Stay tuned…

I know something you don’t know.

I’ll give you a hint…it has nothing to do with me.

Stay tuned…

Well, despite Mexican Food issues, yesterday turned out to be a great day.

First off, I received the thumbs up from Deidre on the synopsis for my current WIP. She was very excited about it and that really fueled my motivation.

Then, I had to leave work early thanks to the afore mentioned Mexican food, so I though my day was going downhill fast. But I got home, called Maria, and we started to chat about my story. I was happy with what I had so far, but something was missing. I couldn’t quite figure it out. So, Maria suggested I read the thread on scene and sequel in our RWA Online forum and maybe that would help me see things differently.

To be honest, I had been avoiding that thread. I get so overwhelmed sometimes by the rules of the craft. But, Maria is all-knowing, so I had to at least give it a shot.

I’m so glad I did. I didn’t even get through the first page before I had an “aha!” moment.

The scene is what is happening. It’s the action. Okay, I get that. Every scene has a goal, a conflict, and a disaster. I get that, too. Or so I thought.

Something that kept catching my eye: The more dramatic the disaster the better.

Okay. Fine. I’ll just keep reading.

Every scene has a main goal. It doesn’t have to be anything big. It’s just the purpose of the scene. The disaster is the final twist that stops the pov character from achieving his/her goal.

I didn’t have to go any further. I realized where I had gone wrong. My disasters weren’t really disasterous. They were more like hurdles. They didn’t stop the character from achieving the goal in the scene, they just made it more difficult.

So, my characters were achieving their goals which made the conflict kinda blah.

It’s soooo much better now, thanks to a quick brainstorming session with Maria. And I took my pages from 38 to 45 last night.

I love it when things go right!

Well, despite Mexican Food issues, yesterday turned out to be a great day.

First off, I received the thumbs up from Deidre on the synopsis for my current WIP. She was very excited about it and that really fueled my motivation.

Then, I had to leave work early thanks to the afore mentioned Mexican food, so I though my day was going downhill fast. But I got home, called Maria, and we started to chat about my story. I was happy with what I had so far, but something was missing. I couldn’t quite figure it out. So, Maria suggested I read the thread on scene and sequel in our RWA Online forum and maybe that would help me see things differently.

To be honest, I had been avoiding that thread. I get so overwhelmed sometimes by the rules of the craft. But, Maria is all-knowing, so I had to at least give it a shot.

I’m so glad I did. I didn’t even get through the first page before I had an “aha!” moment.

The scene is what is happening. It’s the action. Okay, I get that. Every scene has a goal, a conflict, and a disaster. I get that, too. Or so I thought.

Something that kept catching my eye: The more dramatic the disaster the better.

Okay. Fine. I’ll just keep reading.

Every scene has a main goal. It doesn’t have to be anything big. It’s just the purpose of the scene. The disaster is the final twist that stops the pov character from achieving his/her goal.

I didn’t have to go any further. I realized where I had gone wrong. My disasters weren’t really disasterous. They were more like hurdles. They didn’t stop the character from achieving the goal in the scene, they just made it more difficult.

So, my characters were achieving their goals which made the conflict kinda blah.

It’s soooo much better now, thanks to a quick brainstorming session with Maria. And I took my pages from 38 to 45 last night.

I love it when things go right!

I live in Mississippi and I’m so glad to know that my lawmakers are spending my tax dollars and their quality time on the important things. I mean, honestly, I’ve been growing more and more concerned about the influx of the three-dimensional-genitalia-devices this state has seen. We need to nip this trend in the bud. (If you don’t know sarcasm when you read it, we need to talk) LOL
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From MSNBC:

Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)

There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week, another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will stand.

“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”

Well, I am glad to see that the local legislators are focusing on the most pressing issues of the day. I’ve long believed that a three-dimensional, possibly battery-operated device is far more menacing than a handgun. In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere. Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user, but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far greater threat to society.

This, from a state that levies only an 18-cent tax on cigarettes, 55 cents below the national average and where 62 percent of residents are overweight, making it the fattest state in the country. Yet still the public schools don’t make gym class compulsory. Mississippi’s laws would make you believe sex is the single greatest threat to public safety and well-being. After all, it’s illegal in Mississippi to have sex with someone you’re not married to or to live with someone other than your spouse.

Both can result in a $500 fine and six months in jail. And men are not permitted to be aroused in public. But at least good people are protected from the disfigurement that could result from an accidental electrical overload from a defective toy.

Georgia and Texas have passed similar bans and courts have repeatedly ruled the legislators have the power to do it. I guess the Second Amendment doesn’t say anything about the right to bear a stimulation device.

But the sex activists are not closing up shop in the South Pole just yet. They formed a lobbying group based in Florida called the National Alliance of Adult Trade Organizations or NAATO. Not, of course, to be confused with the other NATO, which is based in Brussels.

I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people, but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to the community than what real live people do to each other every day?