Happy Thursday All, First all, thank you for all the Facebook love! I really appreciate it. (To check out my Facebook Author page, click here ). It's great to be able to connect with y'all there. Also, if you want to drop me a line, you can email me . I'll be ordering bookmarks for All's Fair In Love & Lion shortly. Also, I plan to do a giveaway with a fun swag item sometime in the future (haven't set a date for that, yet--but once I get those details figured out, I'll let y'all know). I can't believe in just 2 months it'll be out! I really am thrilled.   Basic story line for All's Fair In Love & Lion :  Sasha Brighton is a high school English Teacher (she teaches Juniors) and she always wanted her own Prince Charming. However, she figures reality isn't fairy-tales. That is, until Monroe Dubay, a shapeshifter of sorts, steps out of her dreams and into her life.  I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. :-)...

Happy Wednesday (late afternoon), Hi everyone! No, I haven't forgotten the blog or any of you. I've been pretty preoccupied lately. The best way to keep up with me is to find me either one of two ways (or both ways): On Twitter:  @WriteByBethany Or on Facebook:  do a search for Bethany Averie I update those frequently. There's been some blog updates that I did today. I updated books I finished reading. (Yes, it was good). I also updated about my writing. The status on Immortal Dreams Book 1:  Dream Weaver is that I got my critiques back so now it's in the revision process (and then that will go out to CP and beta reader/s and then more revisions until it's ready). I've got the companion novel for Surreal in the process of being written (that's been a bit slow) and Immortal Dreams Book 2 ( Dream Weaver sequel) started. So I've been fairly busy on that front. Updates have also been added to what movies I want to see. Of course that was ...

Happy Friday All, The preliminary author edits for Dream Weaver are slowly coming along. I'm hoping to finish up this weekend, or at least early next week. I really want to get this out to critiques so I can be all ready for whatever edits my publisher has for Surreal . Need to be able to concentrate on that without too many distractions (deadlines, as you know, are a part of an author's life, and I intend to do my best fulfill my part in that). On a completely unrelated topic (but something I thought was funny) I was waiting for my hot tea to finish steeping and as I opened up this post to write it, I totally forgot the tea was there. Then suddenly I was like, "Oh no! My tea! It's going to be too strong." Well, good news, folks...it isn't. Yay...total win. A good cup of tea on a cold day with honey is a cozy thing indeed. (Local honey is supposed to help with allergies, how many of you all knew that? Too cool). So to help with some of the allergy i...

Happy 2013 Everyone! Welcome back! New year, fresh start, and all that fun jazz.  Kleenex for all the runny/ sniffly noses!  I hope that so far 2013 is treating you right, although I understand a few folks out there have been fighting off icky illness stuff, and my thoughts and prayers are with them. Offspring has sinus infection, so I feel your pain. I've had allergies (again), but I'm doing all right otherwise (thank you, God!) My Holidays are not over, yet. The Christmas Season ends on Epiphany, so my decorations are staying up through January 6th. I know some folks go back to work or have their teen aged able-bodied children help them take stuff down while they're at home, but in general , I beg of you, please leave those decorations up through January 6th, if you possibly can! We rush through things at such a great rate these days, taking time to be grateful and to count our blessings is important. As a Christian, it's a good reminder to me that ...