A Brief Note -- Update

Hello Everyone,

Normally I don't post on the weekend, but for those of you not on my Facebook page, I thought I better let you know a few things:

1.  My blog was closed most of the week because I'm working on a novel. Information on the novel I'm working on can be found in the margin of this blog underneath the information on Surreal.

2. Earlier this week I had an annoymous person trying to post a comment...normally I don't have problems with people posting annoymously, however, my comment section is NOT for advertising your webpages (I don't mind if you you have a link to your webpage under your name or if your name links to your webpage, just please do NOT advertise about it in the comment section). The only time I do any kind of "advertising" or plugging businesses is when I've had personal experience with the website and/or that website has something to do with writing and/or books. If you want your business advertised, my comment section is not the place to do that. I didn't think I needed to say this because I figured most people knew that, which is why I haven't mentioned it before. Another problem is, it was an annoymous post, so I thought it was Spam (in fact, the post was IN my Spam folder). If you have something that has to do with books that you want plugged, email me first and we'll talk about it--but do not send me annoymous messages or annoymous comment posts about plugging your webpage. I'll delete them. This is not to be mean, this is to be as safe as possible on the internet.

3.  I might be posting a regular post on Monday--we'll have to see how much progress I make with my writing.

If you have any questions or comments about anything on this blog or this post, please send me an email message.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Rain, Comments, Contest & Books

Happy Monday All,

It's rainy, wet, and thundering around here--not cool and very gloomy out, which isn't really conducive to feeling awake and peppy, but I'm going to try anyway. I've got my coffee, so that should help quite a bit.

I don't know about you all, but I'm sick of allergies. I've got them and my offspring has them and either way you look at it, it's just annoying, right? Well, the upside is, I'm feeling a bit better and I got some rest yesterday, so hopefully I'm mending the rest of the way.

There's a couple of things I wanted to address...first off:

I've been getting some questions lately about posts not showing up. Let me explain:  comments are, in fact, showing up...the thing is, every single comment goes through moderation. That is, they show up in my administrative files on Blogger. When I sign in, I see them, and press the "Publish" button and then the comment shows up in the comment section of the blog post. Unfortunately, I haven't sat down and addressed this in an official blog post, but there is a little note at the top of the space where you type in your comment. I apologize for the inconvenience, but this has cut down on commenting issues (why, I have no idea) and it has also given me an opportunity to make sure there aren't duplicated posts. Sometimes it takes me awhile to sign in and see your comment and get it posted onto the blog--that does NOT mean that it's not there, it just means yours truly hasn't signed in to get it. If you don't see your comment up within 24 hours, please, send me an email and I'll check and see if it got caught in moderation or if Blogger decided to have a glitch. Thank you for your patience.

Guess what! The Northwest Houston Romance Writers of America has opened up its annual Lone Star Contest for writers! (This is a chapter of RWA I'm a member of) There's some great prizes this year, so be sure to go check it out. Deadline for entries for the Lone Star Contest is midnight June 9, 2012. Please click on the link above for further information.

I got to go to C.C. Hunter's book signing at Katy Budget Books on Saturday. I also met author Joy Preble. I purchased the first book in Ms. Preble's series, it's called Dreaming Anastasia. So far, so good!

What's going in your world?

Have A Marvelous Monday!