Happy Wednesday Everyone! I've been trying to update this blog at least once a month--sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I don't have a consistent schedule set up, so I guess at the end of every month, come check-in and see if I've put up a new post. So, now for my news updates: The Author Encounter website has been up and running for a while now. Authors, readers, agents, editors, vendors, etc. can join. If you're interested, but want more information than what's on the website, you can contact the company via email . We're on the LAST day of the Kindle giveaway. You can join by going to The Author Encounter giveaway page and entering. No purchase necessary. The audiobook narrator of Divine Love , Chris J. Hudson, and I will be running an online workshop on September 4th for members (so there...

Happy Wednesday, Thursday, or whenever you read this, darling readers! IMMORTAL DREAMS basket (bag of goodies) I donated for the conference raffle Things have been super busy in the Averie Household (although, when are they not?) And also busy in my writing life, too. This past weekend, I attended the Northwest Houston chapter of Romance Writers of America (NWHRWA--which I am a member of this chapter) Lone Star Writer's Conference. The conference consisted of being broken up into 2 parts, a morning speaker and an afternoon speaker. ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & LION basket I donated for the raffle Kerrelyn Sparks speaking at the 2016 Lone Star Writer's Conference In the morning we had the incredibly talented, NY Times Bestseller, Kerrelyn Sparks (of the Love At Stake series fame). Kerrelyn is someone I know personally and haven't seen in more than a year, so it was great to see her again, catch up, and hear what she had to say. She talked about differe...

Happy Wednesday Everybody, Tomorrow the post I mentioned yesterday I'd be guest posting on Erin Bevan 's blog will go "live".  I'm looking forward to sharing about my Grandfather's storytelling. There's a lot going on in my life. As some of my readers know, I'm pregnant with the newest character which will be joining the Averie   Household sometime in 2015. So, there's been a bunch of pregnancy stuff. Luckily so far (please God, let it stay this way) I haven't vomited. I've been extremely grateful for that, especially how bad I felt in the beginning, and how I've had indigestion/acid reflux issues (yes, I do take something for it, no, it hasn't gone all the way away). Sleeping has been up and down--some nights okay, some nights not okay. (And people wonder why I stay up so dang late, well...now I have a good reason, other than the fact I write, and do blogging, and watch TV movies LOL). I'm still trying to finis...

Happy Thursday All, It seems like ages since I wrote an update. There's been some things in my real life, and some things in my writing life that have meant that I didn't get on here to do any updates. Real life is just busyness--nothing bad, for which I can only send up a prayer of gratitude to God. As for writing, been working on a WIP (Work In Progress) and some other stuff pertaining to the Immortal Dreams Trilogy. Speaking of which...are you ready? Here we go... 1.  I got an email from my publisher. Looks like Immortal Dreams Book One: Divine Love will release June 18th. It's possible it MIGHT get pushed back to June 25th, but we're shooting for the 18th. (And yes, the 18th is only 2 weeks away *smiles*). 2. All THREE novels in the Trilogy have cover art! Yes, you read that right. About 1-2 days ago sent an email to the cover art department for my publisher saying I liked the revised cover art for Book Three, so I'm just waiting to hear back fro...

Happy Monday One and All, The Averie Household is in full Christmas gear-up mode. We've finished Christmas present shopping. The outside lights are up (sorry, I don't have pictures right now.  Our camera needs its batteries replaced and we ran out of the kind it uses. But once we get the batteries, I'll go out and see if I can get some pictures of them. We don't have a lot out).  Our tree has been up for a while, which has been fun--although the lights don't work on it, so next year husband has said he's going to put lights on it. Good thing we have some extra lights...hopefully we have enough. Have to find that out. I've been enjoying The Florin Street Band's newest video/song, Winter Wonder .  I don't know how many of you remember their first song, My Favorite Time Of Year , but I loved it. It was an effort put together by Leigh Haggerwood , a singer/songwriter. He got a bunch of musicians and singers together and they dressed in Victorian era...

Happy Friday All, Everybody having a good week? Yes, no, maybe so? My week's been all right. There's been a lot going on. I've been prepping for the 4 blog posts I mentioned in the last post, and also received requests for 2 others. One of them is a blog that authors who are publishing/published  with Soul Mate Publishing post on. I was invited by Stella, and that's being set up for the last Sunday in June (June 30th).  The other one is in-process--there's somethings I have to check up on before that's set up.  Like I said in my previous post, if you have a writing and/or reading blog you'd like me to appear on, all you have to do is email me and ask .  If you could please have a date and topic in mind when you email me, it would be much appreciated. I'm revving up for the release, plus several other things are going on, so it's easier for me to come up with a blog post if I know the date and topic from the get-go. (Thank you in advance...

Happy Monday All, I hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was good and bad. Bad because I wasn't feeling well on Sunday, but good because I saw one of my out-of-town sisters and her family on Friday night. As to why I have the drumroll in the title of this blog? Well, I have some Surreal news for you... Surreal has a brand new title... The new title is... ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & LION So be watching for more news on All's Fair In Love & Lion to come very soon. Especially the fact I will be announcing the release date soon. Just going to get that go ahead from my publisher. Have A Marvelously Magical Monday!

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 ...

Happy Friday All, To quote Mater from Cars and Cars 2 movies, "Dadgum!" It's been a long time since I've updated. I'm so sorry! It's been crazy around here and I've been saving my writing inspiration for my WIP. Bear with me...there's a TON of updates... One of my WIPs is almost done. I'm about two-thirds of the way through with it and hoping to very soon start editing it and sending it to my Illustrious and Awesome critique partner, Tess St. John. My awesome chapter mates have been busily releasing books, too. Carla Rossi released onto Amazon Kindle , Dr. Noah And The Sugar Plum Fairy , an Inspirational Romance that looks cute and fun. I don't have a Kindle, so hopefully it gets released in other formats, soon. Terri Molina has been offering a freebie on her House Of Cards , available on Amazon Kindle . I believe, today is the LAST day to get it! I'll find out if she's going to extend it, but as far as I know today is...

Happy Monday Everyone, This past weekend the illustrious Christie Craig gave a special workshop to the Northwest Houston Romance Writers of America , which, I'm proud to say I'm a member of this awesome group. The workshop was called "High Tea & POV" although, I don't know how many people actually consumed tea (I had water), but we sure listened in rapt attention as Christie talked about getting into your character's heads. In fact...that's precisely what POV is. POV--point of view. Which character is telling the story? Is it your heroine? Then you see, feel, hear, smell, taste, experience intuition and thoughts of that character. These are things that I've talked about with my C.P. but I'm not always consciously aware of them while I'm writing. When I'm writing I'm imaging how the character reacts based on what I know about the character. I'm reacting and visualizing. When I go back and edit I'm looking at the dialogu...

Happy Friday Everyone, Also, Happy September--yay, Fall is on its way! Not only am I late posting this during the day, but I'm also behind on blog posts. I've been working hard on edits and a bunch of things going on in my life, so I had to put blog updates on hold. I don't know what next week will bring in the way of blog posts, but I'll try to post more. I'm not the only busy one around here. While I'm hiding under the editing rock, the world keeps spinning around me (which is a good thing!) So, I'm going to tell you to what's going on in the order I heard/found out about it: In October I'll be posting another official book review. This is one where the author has asked me to do this. I've started the book in question and I'll be setting a date, soon. Adult Romance author, Robin Badillo's Whiskey Road is now available on Amazon Kindle . My book review of Christie Craig's new release (adult Romance), Don't Mess With ...

Happy Friday All, Sorry I didn't post yesterday. At night I've been going to bed instead of posting. Last night I had some sort of allergy reaction to something (not sure WHAT triggered it, yet) and I had shortness of breath. I'm doing better today (thank you humidifier and Tylenol--and a very helpful doc whom was on call last night and called me back almost right away--I love my doctors' office, they are so awesome and I am NOT a fan of going to the doctor). Anyway, it looks like next week (unless I'm told otherwise) will be the next Write By Bethany giveaway event. Yep, this is a big event...this time I'm giving away jewelry, made by someone I know (who I'll reveal her name and company next week--but it's really awesome and beautiful work). Yours truly (meaning me) is sponsoring a necklace and earrings set representative of something one of my heroes would give one of my heroines. No, I'm not published yet, but this is how much I love this pe...