Loose Id at CoffeeTime Romance

Loose Id's Readers' Retreat at Coffee Time Romance Starts Monday!

Some exciting events and activities have been planned! Here is just a sampling:
Lissa Matthews and Suzanne Rock will be interviewing each other on 1 March and 18 March.
On 7 March, Ali Katz will give away a copy of her book, The Highwayman. Also, anyone who visits her guestbook and signs on that day will be entered into Passion in Spades Monthly Drawing for March. She will also announce a monthly drawing on 9 March, so look for that.
On 8 March, G.G. Royale will post the humorous article "Everything I Needed to Know about Treating Other People I Learned on a Kittenplay Forum."
S.W. Vaughn will give a title away on 10 March. The reader will get to chose from three different titles.
Look for exciting theme days, when many authors may be poking their heads in to share and chat. Saturday, 6 March covers contemporary erotic romance, mystery, and suspense. On 7 March, we'll have historical, westerns, and action/ adventure. For those of you that like to let your mind explore far-off worlds, come to the forum on 13 March for science fiction, fantasy, and time travel. If you're not tied up on 14 March, stop in for BDSM and all the deliciousness that comes with that. 20 March is our last day in the forum, and that will be given over to the darker side, to the vampires, shape-shifters, and paranormal stories.
So mark your calendars and your browser's bookmarks and make sure to join us throughout the month of March.

~Michelle

Loose Id at Coffee Time Romance

Come discover love unleashed with Loose Id's authors at the Coffee Time Romance Readers' Retreat starting March 1st. Something will be going on everyday until March 20th. Learn about how your favorite Loose Id authors write, what they are working on, and more. Participating writers include:
Ali Katz www.a-katz.com
Amber Green www.shapeshiftersinlust.com
Belinda McBride http://www.belindamcbride.com
Eileen Ann Brennan www.eileenannbrennan.com
Eliza Gayle http://elizagayle.net
G.G. Royale www.ggroyale.com
Gemini Judson www.gemjudson.com
Lissa Matthews http://www.lissamatthews.com
Mechele Armstrong http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
Michelle Hasker www.michellehasker.com
Nica Berry www.orossy.com/nicaberry
Qwillia Rain www.clubdiabloblanco.webs.com
Rosalie Stanton http://rosalie-stanton.com
S. W. Vaughn www.swvaughn.com
Selena Illyria www.selenaillyria.com
Suzanne Rock www.SuzanneRock.com
Treva Harte www.trevaharte.com
Won't you join us?
http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=1211


~Michelle

Sunday Quote

"Art is not a handicraft. It is the transmission of a feeling which the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy

Sunday Quote

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow

Sunday Quote

"Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy."
Richard North Patterson

Sunday Quote

"Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while."
David Eddings

Sunday Quote

"If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies."
Allan W. Eckert

Sunday Quote

"Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer."
John O'Hara

Sunday Quote

"He is able who thinks he is able."
Buddha

Sunday Quote

"There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art."
Lawrence Watt-Evans

Sunday Quote

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
Oscar Wilde

Sunday Quote

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. Doctorow

Sunday Quote

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
W. Somerset Maugham

a great blog post on e-piracy

Thank you Sharon!!

e-piracy

Sunday Quote

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain

oh my!

It's been forever since I blogged, but I'm still adjusting to this working, having 4 kids, and then softball, girl scouts, dance class, kidnastics, play dates, trips to the park, library, feed the ducks, should I go on?

My brother was in the hospital for a little while, and while visiting him I learned some sad news about a father of my husband's friend. Add on the health issues my grandparents are suffering from, I am definitely counting my blessings, but spending more time worrying about people than writing.

However, I'm working on a BBW that is a lot of fun to write. I got half way done. Now I need to finish it. Because since I started working, I have trouble finishing anything! The damn guilt about the messy house and how I am no longer making three meals a day gets to me. I can be my vision of a perfect mom, or I can be a writer and adequate mom. Why oh why do I burn with this need to be perfect in everything I do?

*slaps self.

Anyway, I hope to have a new release soon. I will keep you all posted :)

blogged at aoer

Today I blogged about muses.

http://www.authorsoferoticromance.com/?p=307

Michelle

e-Piracy advice on Loose Change

There is a great post over at Loose Change about e-piracy and what can be done about it.

Here's a snippet:
Here’s another myth that needs debunking: Internet Piracy is impossible to prosecute, and no one really tries.

Wrong.

Yes, it’s difficult, and often cost prohibitive, to track down individual posters of one story. That’s not the way our contacts at the US Border Patrol Division of Cyber Crimes work. Cyber crimes cost US businesses millions of dollars a year -- that makes them worth prosecuting. So our trusty Cyber detectives can and do prosecute individuals, including seizing their computers and levying hefty fines, their major point of focus is the host sites that allow Internet users to illegally share files. If sites continually allow users to post illegal files -- music, books, DVDs, etc. -- investigators may well seize servers and prosecute site owners.

Michelle

Whiskey Eats

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION! To celebrate the Holidays and thank our many customers around the world, nearly seventy Whiskey Creek Press authors have contributed favorite recipes for our first annual WHISKEY EATS Cookbook. You can get a FREE ebook download of WHISKEY EATS, or purchase a paperback copy at a discounted price. But hurry! The cookbook is only available in ebook and paperback formats through December 31, 2008!

Contest

15 days
15 authors
more than 15 books

Click here to see the contest!

Contest started 12/8 and runs until 12/22.

Good Luck!