Numbers are all Relative
Posted on | May 30, 2010 | 15 Comments
This is the year I turn thirty-five and that has brought a few things to mind. As a child I swore I wouldn’t have a baby until I turned thirty, my oldest will be sixteen in July. I’d planned to have two children, a boy and a girl, but eventually had four daughters. My goal was to be a freelance photographer for either National Geographic or Sports Illustrated. I’m now a published writer. Obviously the plans I laid out for my future were far different from reality, but I think things have played out nicely.
When I started writing, there was no definite plan in place to be published. I wrote because I had a story stuck in my mind that wouldn’t let me sleep at night. My characters pestered me incessantly until I gave up and sat down in front of my PC. It took a while to admit to anyone that I was writing. My hubby was the first to know and when he didn’t laugh a weight lifted from my shoulders. I thought. “I can do this and it’s okay to say I do.” Now that a few years have passed and I’ve had more than one book published, I can say I want to be an author when I grow up.
Turning thirty-five doesn’t bother me. I don’t have a problem growing older. I’ve always considered age a relative thing. Some days I feel fifteen, other days one-hundred-and-ten. Usually I’m just right at my age. There is a definite sense of contentment in knowing I’ve accomplished so much. I’m a mother, a wife, a daughter, a friend, a working member of my community and a published romance author. So what if I haven’t been to Paris or Australia. Perhaps I’ll never photograph lions in their natural habitat outside my local zoo. That’s all right with me.
In honor of my birthday I’m taking the entire month of June to celebrate with my readers. Have you been to my website lately? I’ve dedicated an entire page to my shifter world introduced in They Call Me Death. You can find information about their history as well as links to free stories about a few characters. Explore it here: http://www.msmissyjane.com/shape_shifters.
I’ll be blogging all month long at various places including the blog I created for my shifters here: http://www.theodereikspack.blogspot.com. Follow along with me on my “Birthday Blog Tour” for a chance to win prizes. Beginning with this post, all commenters have the chance to win and each winner will be entered to win a grand prize at the end of the month. Good Luck!
-Missy Jane
*make reading a guilty pleasure…*
www.msmissyjane.com
My Life as a Star: Shooting Your Own Book Cover
Posted on | May 22, 2010 | No Comments
Like many writers, I’ve had my share of disappointments along the road to becoming a pubbed author. In my case, I gritted my teeth and kept going through 6 years, 4 novels, numerous “revise and resubmit” requests, and 63 outright rejections before my debut novel—a dark Tudor romance called THE DEVIL’S MISTRESS—was accepted by Samhain.
I might have entertained the notion (very briefly!) that the lion’s share of my work on THE DEVIL’S MISTRESS was done at that point, but reality quickly disabused me of that foolish fancy. In addition to several rounds of revisions—some of them substantial—and the development and implementation of a marketing plan to boost my sales, I became very focused on ensuring that the cover for this precious darling…my first pubbed novel…was exactly the way I wanted it. In part, the perfect cover was sort of a reward to myself after six years of striving to make that first sale. In part, I suppose, I’m used to being in charge of the things that matter to me—both in my other field, and life in general. And most of us have heard horror stories from other authors whose stories were undeservedly saddled with The Cover From Hell.
Anyway, in order to maximize my authorial input and creative control over the cover, I requested and won Samhain’s generous agreement to let me shoot my own book cover.
Right away, I knew what I wanted: a dark and sexy cover that captured both the tone of my story and the Tudor setting, as well as precisely the right hero/heroine. First I found the models, with substantial help from a friend and colleague at The View Talent Agency (www.theviewtalent.com). My heroine, Allegra Grimaldi, is a reluctant lady assassin who’s blackmailed to poison Anne Boleyn. Italian model Jamie Thomas, with her dark and sultry beauty, was perfect for the role. My hero, Sir Joscelin Boleyn, is Anne’s honorable bastard brother—a French knight who’s sworn to protect his sister. Model Shane Rice, who somehow managed to convey in our meeting both sex appeal and a profound sense of kindness and decency, made the perfect Joscelin. Because I’d found these models through a personal contact at the talent agency, I was able to hire them at a substantially discounted rate.
Next, it was time to find the perfect photographer and producer (the guy who organized the entire shoot and brought the moving pieces together). This proved to be one of the shoot’s greatest challenges. Some false starts and delays (as in, about three months’ delay from when I’d first hoped to shoot the cover!) were stressful hurdles for me—the quintessential Type A personality—to weather. If we missed the publisher’s firm deadline for submitting the cover, my book release could have been delayed. Finally, I found the perfect match in Frank Swoboda and Lori Decicio at Corner Booth Productions (www.cornerboothmedia.com/about/Default.aspx). In turn, they hooked me up with the perfect photographer, rising star Kristen Black. Together with my spectacular agent, J.D. DeWitt—who had just sold my second novel, and was a constant source of good contacts and creative input throughout the process—we discussed the look and feel I wanted for the cover.
Thanks to personal contacts, I was able to line up hair and makeup artists from Paul Mitchell at a discounted rate. The artists did a “dry run” with my models, and with my input, to clarify the look we wanted to achieve. The Tudor costumes I hand-selected, with help from the models and producer, from the costume shop at the Spokane Civic Theatre. Here, too, we hit a snag.
Although we found the perfect, lustrous, burgundy-and-gold Tudor gown for my Allegra, and absolutely the perfect russet-and-saffron doublet for my hero, there was nary a pair of breeches or trunk hose in the shop that fit over Sir Joscelin’s manly hips. We finally found a sort of pirate’s voluminous cropped black pants, which tucked into faux black boots, proved to be non-distracting. Just to be sure, we positioned Joscelin behind Allegra, and confirmed that between her sweeping skirts and the right camera angles, the pirate pants were not an issue. Props—costume jewelry, a medieval silver goblet, and hand-tooled Venetian masks—came from my own collection of eccentric oddities. The producer also identified a Gothic cathedral in Washington as the perfect location, then campaigned for and won the church’s permission for us to shoot there. (I can’t be certain whether the donation I made to the church helped our cause.) J
Finally, it was time to shoot! The last Saturday in February dawned crisp, clear but cold. Our five-hour shoot took place outside on the cathedral steps…and it was freezing, with gale-force winds! Allegra had goosebumps and needed to retreat several times to the heated interior of her car. I hid shivering in my own car a few times too! Fueled by lots of hot coffee, Joscelin toughed it out, along with producer Frank and photographer Kristen, although the hurricane winds required various adjustments for the shoot.
At last, we had our shots, and closed with a spontaneous round of applause for this monumental effort. Kristen sent me “the best of the best” 25 shots, from which I selected two for promotional purposes and one—THE one—for the cover. I bought the rights for the ones I wanted. Then art director Scott Carpenter at Samhain ok’ed the cover, added the title and author in snazzy gold script, and we were ready to go!
Arranging my own cover shoot was the experience of a lifetime—glitzy, challenging, adventurous, and fun. The entire process from start to finish took between 3-4 months, including three weekends spent “on location” three hours from my vineyard home as we arranged and shot the cover. The shoot expenses and hourly rate for the various professionals involved were also not trivial. With all expenses included, I ultimately paid in the mid-four figure range. As a result, I ended up with the PERFECT book cover, and not a single tiny detail I would want to change. As a bonus, I now had excellent material for promotional postcards and bookmarks, as well as fodder for my new website at www.LauraNavarre.com. However, when the time came to think about covers for my second novel, I was quite content to let the publisher do the honors!
If you’re interested in seeing how my cover turned out for THE DEVIL’S MISTRESS, you can check it out here, along with excerpts from the novel, at http://www.lauranavarre.com/book/devils-mistress . If you’re interested in winning a free copy of DEVIL’S MISTRESS or a framed and autographed MISTRESS poster, Over the Edge Book Reviews is running a contest through May 23. Here’s the link: http://www.overtheedgebkreviews.com/2010/05/giveaway-interview-with-samhain.html
If you’d like an autographed postcard, please drop me a line at LauraNavarreAuthor@yahoo.com. I also enjoy hearing from readers on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LauraNavarreAuthor , and you can follow me on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/LauraNavarre. My book is out June 1, and I’d love to hear feedback from any of you on that hard-earned cover!
Happy Reading!
Laura Navarre
Desire has never been so dangerous.
Tags: DEVIL'S MISTRESS > historical > Laura Navarre > romance > Tudor
Trying new things-are you brave?
Posted on | May 14, 2010 | No Comments
It’s been one of those ongoing obsessions of my life–trying new things. Yes, I know, there are labels for people like me, people who can’t stay on one task for any length of time before being distracted by the next new shiny thing. Like ravens discovering a…
Wait, where was I?
My curiosity and willingness to ‘go for it’ means I get to try all kinds of new activities, from rock climbing to whitewater kayaking. Downhill skiing in the Rockies and skin diving in the Caribbean. If those seem too wild to tease your interests, I can also add gentler adventures to my list–like canning and painting and playing a musical instrument. Learning to play bridge and practicing Yoga.
As a reader, my curiosity has served me well over the years. I’ve read sci-fi and fantasy, real life adventures and sweet children’s classics. I’ve even in the past year learned how to read first person stories and enjoy them.
Now as a writer, the adventure continues. I started by writing a paranormal–werewolves with a sense of humour. The next challenge was to write a menage, and let me tell you getting all those limbs organized is an interesting task. Over the past year I’ve written contemporary works, novella and short stories and one ‘almost full length’. So with my need to try new things, what’s next? On the list for the future– yes, I’ll try first person. Some day. And I’ll write a long book–long enough no one can say it’s too short. 
But the adventure I’m trying now is to write a continuing story. All my series in the past have used the same setting, but brought minor characters up to be the new hero/heroine. In the Granite Lake Wolves, the brother mentioned in book 1 becomes the hero of book 2. His sweetie’s sister becomes the heroine of book 3–and yes, at first it seems you need a road map to figure out who’s who. But it’s a fun way to visit a world.
Enter Stormchild, book one of Pacific Passion. Matt and Laurin are two storm struck lovers that come together by the conclusion of the book. But it’s a short story, and the world is pretty cool, so I just can’t just abandon them to their HEA. I want to know what happens next. So my shiny new adventure is to write two more books for them as they travel up the Inside Passage of the Canadian Pacific coast.
Sparkly distractions of the best kind.
For information about Stormchild you can visit here, or drop by my website. I’m always playing with something new, and sharing pictures and visiting with readers at my blog are among the loveliest of distractions.
To Prequel or Not to Prequel?
Posted on | April 7, 2010 | No Comments
I’m not a big fan of prequels. Maybe the Star Wars franchise ruined it for me, maybe I’m just not the type to look back at what happened before. Whatever the case, I prefer to move forward when reading. I prefer to have the past all summed up in a prologue or very succinct memory sequence. So when it comes to my writing I never anticipated needing or wanting to write a prequel for my world. Apparently I was wrong. A good friends of mine recently read my books and had a ton of questions for me when I saw her again. I was excited about getting the feedback and she was excited about getting more information. We both ended the conversation feeling disappointed. She finally said, “Missy I need a prequel. You have to write a prequel.” I thought, do I really? She then handed me a list of questions and I realized, yeah…I do.
The question now is, how do I go about it? My friend’s questions revolved around my heroine, Alexia Williams, and the death of her family. How did they die and why? How did the war start between the shifters and humans? How did Alexia find her way into the human military? I have no problem answering those questions. I love Alexia and plan to have her in other books set in my shifter world. But should I stop there? Do I just write Alexia’s beginning? My hero, Andor, has some unanswered questions too.
For the moment, my plan is to write a prequel from Alexia’s point of view with more details about the beginning of the war and what she went through to survive the battles. She’ll meet shifters and humans along the way and possibly answer some questions about them. However, I feel the need to warn my readers that I’m only the typist. My characters write their stories. I might start out telling Alexia’s history and find myself inside another character’s head. Yes, I know how that sounds. Until my husband has me committed I’ll keep writing about my beloved shifters and the humans who have to learn to live with them. Hopefully they will help me answer everyone’s questions.
-Missy Jane
www.msmissyjane.com
The Importance of Ritual
Posted on | March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Few things breathe life into a character for me as much as their little personal rituals – the idiosyncratic things they do differently from anyone else. It’s what makes them unique, and in many cases it’s what cements them in the reader’s mind. To be fair, I’m primed for ritual – I grew up Catholic, and it’s tough to get a more bombastic ritual experience than the full-on, smells-and-bells High Mass. The rituals I mean, though, don’t have to be (and typically aren’t) those big expansive things.
I’m talking about that seemingly ordinary thing that your character does that no one else does in that particular way. It could be a favorite utensil for scrambling eggs, or the first thing they do when they come in the door of the house. It could be a particular order for bedtime preparations, or how they apply their make-up. Everyone has these rituals, and most of us don’t even think about them when we do them. They are part of what makes us unique.
They same holds true for characters. The example I always think of is Neil Gaiman’s Coraline – The Other Mother, when making omelets, melts the butter in the pan, then pours the melted butter into the whipped eggs before cooking them. Of all the scenes in the book, that particular one stuck with me. The ritual gave her the depth she needed to feel like a complete person.
When first developing Hearts and Minds, I got lucky – Syna’s ritual became obvious fairly early. She’s very controlling, and likes to understand things in detail, so of course she does her astrogation by hand. She checks it with a computer–she’d be mad not to–but the hand-calculation is a little thing she does that I think provides a lot of insight into her as a person.
So how about yourselves? What rituals do you follow? What rituals have you given to a character, or realized a character must have as a natural outgrowth of her personality?
J.C. Hay was inspired to talk about this after reading Mark Morford’s article about personal weirdness on SFGate. His novella Hearts and Minds is currently available from you-know-who.
Let the party begin!
Posted on | March 18, 2010 | No Comments
There’s been a lot of parties and special days lately. Valentines, St Patty’s Day. The Oscars, the Grammys–at Samhain Publishing they presented the Sammies this past Saturday and there were some great books honoured and celebrated.
We like to celebrate. It gives us a great deal of pleasure to look back at our accomplishments and see how far we’ve come. It’s also a break from our every day routine and I’m all for a good party. Only you need a few people to make it more fun. I’ve got the cyber cake and funky hats all ready. Anyone want to come to a party with me? I promise I won’t make you wear green–you should have seen my hubby scrambling to find something to wear on St. Patrick’s Day! I won’t make you slip into 5 inch heels, unless you want to. Nope–I’m celebrating the first year of being a published author with Samhain the best way I know how– by giving away romance books.
There are too many times in life where we have to face tough moments to ignore the times that are happy and bright, and this past year has been a wonderful experience. I’ve learned so much along the way, I just have to party. If you want to come on over, the chip dip is zero calorie, but the stories are red hot. Bring your noise maker!
You can find the party at Vivian Arend’s blog. If you’re not in a party mood, you can check out her books at her website- including getting a peek at an excerpt from the upcoming Wolf Games.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Posted on | March 18, 2010 | No Comments
I do apologize for this post being a tad late today. My connection has been funky off and on for the past couple days.
I hope everyone’s having/had a good holiday!
While I’m not Irish (Welsh/Scottish/German here), I do at least wear green. But where did this day come from? Well, it’s been a national holiday for over one thousand years, and is widely celebrated all over the world.
St. Patrick is, you guessed it, the patron saint of Ireland. The holiday on March 17th is his feast day, as well as the anniversary of his death. (If you’re wondering, since I’m part Welsh–St. David is the patron saint of Wales.)
Below are a few links for your reading/research pleasure, on St. Patrick and his holiday. Enjoy!
St. Patrick’s Day – History.com
Who Was St. Patrick? – History.com
St. Patrick – Catholic Online
St. Patrick – Catholic Encyclopedia
-Mychael Black
Give me some Space…
Posted on | March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
Fiction, that is. I’m talking about science fiction. 
Hi! *waving from Australia*
My name is Yolanda, and this is my very first post here. So I thought it might be nice to introduce myself first. I live in a suburb of Sydney, Australia with my hubby, daughter, and cat. I enjoy writing in a variety of genres—ranging from urban fantasy to sci-fi.
I’ve got a sci-fi story now available from Samhain Publishing, which mixes in some otherworldly elements. I can’t seem to get away from those. Although, to be honest, why would I want to? I love giving tales some sort of paranormal slant.
The other day I got to thinking about the fascination I seem to have with space stories. It’s not something that I developed recently, but something that’s been in my life since I was a kid. Some of my first recollections of movies that I really enjoyed were the original STAR WARS trilogy and FLASH GORDON. Not the Flash Gordon TV show.
And that got me thinking about westerns. Because when I was a kid, I didn’t like westerns. My father loved watching them, but no matter how much I tried I just didn’t enjoy them. They bored me.
Fast forward quite a few years and I started watching an awesome anime show called COWBOY BEBOP, then followed it up with another called TRIGUN. So, by the time FIREFLY came around, I was already hooked on the idea of space cowboys. That’s when I realized that the original Star Wars trilogy kinda had space cowboy elements too.
So when the idea for a space cowboy hit me, I was ecstatic.
That’s when my story, WITHER, hooked me in. I cast my characters and they had some very long and complicated pasts, both apart and together. I also threw in some feral wildlife terrorizing the small town of Wither, and there was my own space cowboy tale to tell. A tale that I wanted to inject with a little red, hot passion. After all, these ex-lovers had a lot of unfinished business left between them.
Once I was finished and looked at my notes, I realized that this world I’d created had so much more to offer—a bunch of other characters who had their own stories to tell and places to visit. That’s when I decided that this would more than likely be a series. A series I wanted to call RECAST. I liked that name as soon as I stumbled upon it. To be honest with you, I don’t even know what I was looking for at the time, but I can tell you that I found it online while visiting a thesaurus and looking for another word. Love it when that happens!
An array of characters, which will all be somehow connected, has slowly evolved into a saga that I can’t wait to tell. I’ve already written the second story and the next two are itching inside my brain, desperately trying to get out. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun, because I’m really enjoying creating new worlds, creatures, and robots that will fit into this wicked and often complicated galaxy. But not only are the surroundings vivid enough that I can see them, but I’m looking forward to delving and telling the different stories that are continually evolving.
So, what about you? Are space cowboys and a galaxy filled with characters leading complicated and entwined lives something that appeals to you?
Thanks for reading!
—–
Yolanda Sfetsos
www.yolandasfetsos.com
Dispatch from a middle school dance and a free Kindle/Nook book
Posted on | March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Recently, my husband and I were recruited to chaperone a dance at the local middle school. These dances are sponsored by the Student Council and one of our sons is a member, so there was no way we could get out of it. Don’t get me wrong, I like kids. But chaperoning several hundred kids on a Friday night with loud music and no comfortable chairs couldn’t compare to curling up at home with a Taco Supreme pizza and an hour of The Ghost Whisperer.
Deciding to make the best of it, I figured I’d do some research for the young adult novel I’m writing. I watched, I listened (as best I could over the music) and I put on my pre-teen/teen secret decoder ring.
Secret #1: Trying to fit in, while appearing unique, is crucial to kids. Crucial and nearly impossible to do. And yet, every generation attempts the impossible through their choices in clothes, shoes, hairstyles and of course music preferences. Every generation has their version of The Breakfast Club. There are athletes and princesses, brainiacs and underdogs. What was interesting to me, besides the fact that all the girls, no matter their dress code, hairstyle or popularity ranking, knew every word to the Miley Cyrus songs, was the fact that all the kids wanted to be part of the dance. There were two obvious loners, one girl, one boy, who didn’t hang out with anyone or each other, and when they approached a group or a potential dance partner, were shunned. Why did those kids come to the dance? Certainly not to have their feelings crushed.
Secret #2: Human beings, no matter their age, want to be loved, accepted, desired. After the dance, I thought more about what I’d observed and at first patted myself on the back for making it through those awful, awkward teen years with only a few battle scars. Then it hit me like a hundred girls singing Party in the U.S.A.—even as old as I am and with all the experiences I’ve had, I’m not so different from my younger counterparts. While I pride myself on being self-assured and wise, I often find myself second guessing what I say, what I do, and what I’m wearing. The pressure’s really on when I give a lecture at the local college or meet with a book club to discuss one of my novels. I spend hours figuring out what to wear—casual or dressy? Flats or heels?—and then spend extra time on my makeup and hair. I up the charm, the self-deprecating humor, and all the while, pray like crazy that they like me.
So the secrets I learned at the dance weren’t actual secrets. We all suffer from internal misgivings while trying to be part of a group and seeking love and acceptance. Even the characters in my novels struggle with the same issues. Julia, in Operation Sheba, is a great analytical thinker but doesn’t trust her emotions and therefore has trouble trusting others as well. Zara, in I’d Rather Be In Paris, has no trouble going head-to-head with a psychotic terrorist, but put her in a business meeting and she struggles not to stammer or stutter in front of her boss. Brigit, in Proof of Life, understands people and what motivates them from the inside out, but she only has one friend and she’s completely estranged from her family.
I’m curious…are you like me and so many others, whether young or old? Do you ever belt out Party in the U.S.A. while praying for approval inside? Do you fix your hair three different ways and try on six pairs of pants before you feel confident enough to walk into a group of strangers? Do you ever stammer in front of your boss?
Misty Evans always wears her secret decoder ring in public and can be overheard singing Miley Cyrus songs in the shower. The first book in her Super Agent Series, Operation Sheba, won a 2008 CataNetwork Reviewers’ Choice Award, a 2009 CAPA Nomination from The Romance Studio, and is a finalist in the 2010 New England Readers’ Choice Bean Pot Contest for Best Romantic Suspense. To download a free copy of Operation Sheba for your Kindle, click here. For a free copy for your Nook, click here. The free promotion runs through March 14th. Enjoy!
Tags: acceptance by peers > characters with insecurities > dance > free Kindle book > free Nook book > Miley Cyrus songs
What Do You Dream?
Posted on | March 3, 2010 | 3 Comments
Available now!
Yesterday (March 2) marked the release of my romantic suspense, REYN’S REDEMPTION from Samhain Publishing. The idea for this book originally came from a dream I had many years ago about a guy who returned to his hometown where he was an outcast. The reason for his outsider status was vague, as dreams tend to be, but the impression of this loner, a mysterious but magnetic personality, stuck with me.
Ta-da! Reyn Erickson was born. I played around with the storyline, secondary characters, and other minutia of the story for months, even years before this final version was compete, but Reyn stayed true to the original concept that came to me in that dream years earlier. REYN’S REDEMPTION is, as the title implies, Reyn’s story, and I didn’t want to change anything about him or his journey toward finding peace-of-mind, self-forgiveness, and lasting love. The identity of the killer changed many times through various drafts, but not Reyn… or his inner pain, his brooding manner, his isolation, his gruff facade, his heroism, his kind heart. I do love a tortured hero!
Reyn isn’t the only character created from dreams I’ve had. I have an unpublished manuscript with an unusual hero who came to me through a dream. Kevin is a pacifist, raised by a flower child mother whose husband was killed in Vietnam. He works a blue collar job in a Southern town where he has little illusion of ever changing his life. Enter the pampered (but sweet) debutante from out of town who wants to find independence from her overbearing parents. The result is a sort of reverse Cinderella story… Cinder-Fella if you will. And the concept of Kevin came to me in a dream. A character so vivid and unique to me I had to create a story for him.
The basic premise of my contemporary romance HEALING LUKE, a beauty and the beast type of story, also came from a dream.
Dreams, experts say, are an expression of our subconscious, a way for our brain to sort out and catalogue all the images and experiences we bombard it with all day. Sometimes dreams are whacky and random. Sometimes they are symbolic and significant. Memories might be replayed with odd embellishments or with a realism that plays havoc with our emotions. I’ve had dreams about my husband that had me waking up steaming mad at him. Other dreams have left me near tears and missing my grandmother. Sometimes dreams express our hopes or our fears.
So it really is not surprising to me that I’ve found fodder for great heroes or plot lines from dreams. Of course, not all of my books start out as dreams. Many come from things I see that make me ask, What if…?”, a news story, a line in a song, an intriguing plot hook, or a secondary character who begs from a book of their own. I built the character and plot of UNDER FIRE from the ground up. I started with my hero, Jackson, found the most unlikely heroine for him to fall for, crafted a perilous situation for him to deal with, layered in conflict, secondary plots and characters, and so forth.
Book ideas are everywhere, but the most fascinating ones to me are the ones that derive from dreams. There is something profound and magical about those gifts from my subconscious muse.
I hope you will enjoy Reyn’s story. The journey to get his book published was a twisting path, but I’m thrilled to finally be able to share this dream-inspired, tortured hero with readers.
So now it is your turn. What do you dream? Have you ever had a character from a dream or a scenario stay with you for days after the dream? Ever woken up mad at your spouse/kids because of a whacky dream?
Share something here about what you’ve dreamed in the past, and I’ll put your name in a drawing (on March 
to win a book from my backlist (See my backlist at my website: www.bethcornelison.com).
Happy reading and sweet dreams!
Beth Cornelison
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