I'm a CAVE DWELLER!!!!

Hey Everyone!!!! I am sorry for being so absent! Holidays plus deadlines equals INSANITY!!! :) I do hope everyone had a super Christmas/Holiday and fabulous New Year. WOW! It's 2010! I cannot believe it!!!!

My status right now is still CAVE DWELLER! I'm on serious deadline and will check back with updates and a new contest and STUFF after February 1st!

Meanwhile...check out the next Mammoth book: The Mammoth Book of Irish Romances. I have a short story in there entitled: Nia and the Beast of Killarney Wood. It was so fun to write! :)

Take care, I've been thinking about all of you, and I look forward to seeing you again in a couple of weeks!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

November Contest Winners!!!

Congrats to Jill, Lisa, and Susan! You are the three chosen winners for the November contest! You've each won a signed copy of my anthology, A Highlander Christmas! Yay!

I've sent all of you private emails, so please respond with your mailing address and I'll get these copies out asap!

THANKS to everyone who participated! And I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! I've been out of town visiting family and have only just returned. Now...time to shop for Christmas!!!! EEK!

I'll be posting a Holiday Contest here soon, so check my website and here for details!

Thanks everyone!

How big is YOUR stack?

Lol! Get your minds out of the gutter! I'm talkin' about your TBR stack! Well...this isn't exactly MY stack. Mine is double that! Two big fat tall, teetering piles of fabuloso books to be read! They all look so darn good and junk! (this is totally random, but have you seen that Pot Hole commercial? The pot hole is a southern belle with a TWANG and JUNK--lol!) Anyway.

I think I have started nearly every book in my two TBR piles, but something always drags me away, and I haven't finished one of them yet! Including SHUTTER ISLAND--and it is DARN GOOD! I'd told my pal Kim Lenox about it, and that Stinker has already finished it! (I'm shaking my fist at you, Kimbo) But where do you find the time to read?

I swear, time DRAGGED by when I was a kid. It took FOREVER for Christmas to roll around, and summertime lasted a lifetime. Now....ZIP! It all flies by! BOOHOOO!

Okay! What's on your TBR pile? Here's just the top of mine:

Shutter Island

Dreamfever

Marked

The Shining (again! I have read this one, but it's GOOD!)

Sunrise Song (again--one of my favorite Kathleen Eagle books!)

The Ghost Huntress

Frankenstein

At Dawn We Slept (Pearl Harbor)

So...what's in YOUR stack??? :)

ALL HALLOWS EVE!!!!

Happy Halloween everyone! What a fun time of year! I ADORE Halloween and all that comes with it. We have a few must-do, must-see favorites around our house! Two are Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein, and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Johnny Depp is an all-time favorite of mine anyway, but his portrayal of Ichabod Crane is THE BEST EVER!

Love me some Trick-or-Treaters, too! And what's Halloween without Lou and Bud running into three of Hollywoods greatest monsters ever? Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman! We can't forget about Casper, or Stephen King's SILVER BULLET (love me some Corey Haim in that one!) (or Stephen King's ANYTHING, really!), and we add Edward Scissorhands into the mix as well. You HAVE to have a good haunted house thrown in, and since my kids are too big for me to follow them around and trick or treat, I mooch off my friend's kids (this year we have Superman, Buzz Lightyear and WOODY!)

I remember when I was a kid, our Halloween costumes came in those flimsy white boxes with a see-through plastic top. You had your choice of Casper, a monster, a princess, and a few more. FUN DAYS INDEED!!!!

Gotta love Edward Scissorhands' hair! Sort of looks like Edward Cullen's!!! Ha!

We are SO watching Abbot and Costello, and Sleepy Hollow TONIGHT! Yay! "Heeey, Chick! Whoooa Chick!" LOL! That is some classic funny stuff!!!! And with Tim Burton, you can't go wrong!

I just finished putting candy in little Halloween bags for Trick-or-Treaters, and while I've had my front porch decorated since the first of October, I'm doing the final spooky touches tonight. I'm terrible about uploading pics, but I'll take some and post!

Happy Halloween, and BEWARE OF THE HARVEST MOOOOON..........

WINNERS!

Hey, Christina and Armenia! CONGRATS!! You have won a signed copy of A Highlander Christmas! :)

Just email me your full name and mailing address to hauntedromances@yahoo.com, subject line: HIGHLAND WINNER

THANKS for everyone who commented, and your chance to win is not over! During the month of November I'll be collecting names for 3 drawings for a signed copy of A Highlander Christmas. If you're seeing this here, you can go ahead and email me early (before I have it listed on my Contest page!) at hauntedromances@yahoo.com subject line: NOVEMBER CONTEST.

Good luck, and congrats to the winners!!!!

A Highlander Christmas CONTEST!

While I'm not quite finished enjoying my favorite month (OCTOBER!) or holiday (HALLOWEEN!), A Highlander Christmas, my Christmas anthology, will hit the shelves November 3rd, so I thought I'd better hurry up and get a contest rolling! :)

Dawn Halliday and Sophie Renwick are the other contributing authors, and their stories are fabulous! Mine is, of course, ghostly, and involves a Munro ancestor! :)

A CHRISTMAS SPIRIT: Paige MacDonald's Highland tour takes a surprising turn when a storm forces her to seek refuge in a forbidding castle already inhabited by the dead-sexy spirit of Gabriel Munro...

So! All you have to do is simply comment here, and tell me your favorite holiday! I'll randomly select two winners TUESDAY, OCT 27th. The winners will recieve each a copy of A HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS!

Good luck!

OCTOBER!!!!!

Hey! Do you see a resemblance here? LOL!
I ADORE Christopher Walken, especially as the Hessian Horseman in Tim Burton's, Sleepy Hollow (I'll blog about that later!~LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!)




And how freaking cool is Martha Stewart as the GHOSTLY EQUESTRIENNE! BOOHOOO! I wanna be the GHOSTLY EQUESTRENNE!!! Lol! She looks so COOL! Wicked contacts in her eyes and a nice oogie scar on her pasty ghost face! And her top hat ROCKS! :) This Halloween issue of her magazine rocks, too. Lots of great recipes and other cool stuff!!!

More later! I'm off to Georgia Romance Writer's Moonlight and Magnolias Conference in Norcross, GA (outskirts of Atlanta), so if anyone is close by, come on over on Saturday for the literature book signing/sale and say HI!!!!

And PS...THANK YOU EVERYONE for all your wonderful fine comments on Thirteen Chances! You're so sweet! I loved writing Christian's story! He's always been one of my favorite characters!!!! :)


See ya'll soon!