A Valentine's Wish

Be My Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day From Write By Bethany & Happy Tuesday Everybody,

I thought in honor of the day I'd write this post in red. Hope every one's having a great Valentine's Day.

Interesting thing about Valentine's Day...there's a lot of stories that center around the day. One being that there was a Roman Saint (actually I heard there's more than one) named St. Valentine--but one that used to leave notes for people.

YA Paranormal author, C.C. Hunter did a post about Valentine legends that I thought was interesting.

My husband said he got something for me, but I don't know what. I gave him his card (he doesn't like me to really get him much for Valentine's Day, so I don't usually get him more than a card or at least not much more than that. Sometimes I'll get him Twizzlers or something like that). We don't really make a big deal out of Valentine's Day...although we sort of used to, but now if we get to go out later in the week, great, if not, it's all right. We don't mind.

The only Valentine's candy I don't like much are those Conversation Hearts. I know, I know, they're a Valentine's Day staple, however, I've never been especially fond of them. Oh they're fun to read and sometimes to eat, but I really only like the purple ones, and even then, only one or two.

Valentine's Day is about love. And as a friend of mine once told me (and I agree) "Love is a verb." It's action. Love is there when the chips are down and love is there when the sun is out.  Love is a sacrifice. It has many rewards, but it also has many trials.  But love can and often does, benefit a person one way or another.

What Valentine's gifts do you like?

Have A Happy Valentine's Day!

Hopeless Romantic

Good Evening Everyone,

Yes, it's unusual that I post more than once in a day, but I figured considering I'm a hopeless romantic and since I write paranormal romance, it would be odd if I didn't say something in honor of February 14th--Valentine's Day.

Also known as St. Valentine's Day. There's a lot of interesting stories surrounding Feb. 14th, but if you look up St. Valentine and check out this article you'll get a clue as to who the person (or persons, since there's probably more than one St. Valentine) were. There's a lot of stories about him.

In any case, I'm very blessed to have my Valentine and husband, who is a wonderful, wonderful man. Our Valentine's is going to be rather quiet, which is okay. I truly don't mind.

But, in honor of the day, I wanted to share something with you:

As you all read in a previous post I listened to several different songs (and artists) while writing Surreal. Now, normally my stories don't have "theme songs", but Surreal is the exception. Especially if you want to know how my main male character feels about the female main character.

To find this out, just listen to Chris De Burgh's Missing You. Pretty much everything in that song is how the man feels about the woman in Surreal.

And for those of you who aren't into mush...check out the Ramones' Rock N' Roll Radio.

Have a truly Happy Valentine's Day!