February 2008 Blog Posts (176)

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When Amber Wilson shows up at Brandon Cattle Ranch alone and pregnant, she has little recollection of the night she conceived. Distorted images of someone on top of her, pawing her, are the only memories of that fateful night. One thing she knows for sure--no man will get that close to her again.

Stone Brandon greets her at the door and is struck by her vulnerability, but her condition brings back painful memories for him. His heart has been hardened by deceipt and betrayal. Now all…

Heaving Bosoms author, Ashlyn Chase, discusses writing love scenes that sizzle at StoryCrafters today. Ashlyn will be a guest at StoryCrafters Forum on the 13th and answer any questions you have about writing romance so join us and learn from an author who's doing it right. Be sure to leave Ash a comment to be entered in the drawing for that Versace bag.

Also, get…

Today's stop on my book tour for The River, By Moonlight is at: http://www.thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/

It's a guest post I wrote about New York, and its influence on me and my writing. Please visit, if you get a chance. The post is right there, below my bio.

When a review is published in a newspaper, an author can take comfort in the fact that, if it's bad, the number of readers will generally be limited. If it's good, on the other hand, the possibility exists for the author to distribute it far and wide, to exploit it to the best of his/her ability. But when it's an internet review? When there's no way to tell how many people from how many places in the cyber world will read it? That's a daunting thought. And I found that this morning, because…

Many

times I'm recording new intros or outtros for teleclasses or audio products and

I'm struggling to read the info from my Word document. Now there's a fr*ee

online service that acts just like a teleprompter,

CuePrompter.com.

CuePrompter permits your browser…

Change is inevitable in any business, whether you employ just yourself or hundreds of

people. This week I'm sad to say goodbye to my Online Business Manager,

Janet Anderton. Janet is a good friend as well as valued colleague and has

decided to take her life in another direction. Unfortunately, that means a

change in what she wants to do for her business, as well,…

Amazon.com Short Story Program

my muse has been too quiet lately. it hass barely stirred in the last two months due to other aspects of life, despite the need to work on two projects that i wanted to have at least the rough done a month ago. i guess i should be greatful cause when it does wake up, all sorts of works will be coming out of me.

there was a saying a saw a few years back and unfortunately, my retention for certain things leave a lot to desire. the long and short of it was an: having the choice of two…

I stay true to a very old-fashioned rule when it comes to dating a friend’s ex, whether it is an ex-boyfriend or an ex-husband. Simply put, I won’t do it because I put a high value on my friendships. To me, dating someone’s ex would be disrespectful to the friendship. Having said that, I do know that exceptions to the rule can be tempting.

In this case, Steve was the ex of an ex-friend of mine. Since the friend was no longer in my life, one would think that the no-dating-an-ex rule…

We’re having a great week at the Virtual Book Tour website and I’d like to extend an invitation to each person to visit us. We have three great authors touring this month and they have posted a wealth of information about their books. You will find book summaries, excerpts, information about

how current events tie into their books, why they decided to write that

particular book and much more.

For…

Hello all,

I did something I don’t usually do and I posted a message directly to my readers at The Book Connection about the importance of writers using social networking to create a buzz for their books. Please go to http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/ and leave your comments.

Thanks.

Cheryl M

Every time you take your car in for an oil change, most shops give you a 15- or 30-point checkup when they change your oil to alert you to any other potential problems

you might experience in the future. In the same way that your mechanic conducts

a regular inspection of your automobile, you need to conduct an annual checkup

of your website.



Here are 7 critical areas that need to be checked yearly on your site:



1.…

Back in 1897, novelist W. Somerset Maugham,…

Check out http://www.frontstreetreviews.com/ to read a great review of Judy Gregerson's "Bad Girls Club". Judy toured with Pump Up Your Book Promotion in January and I am thrilled to say I had the pleasure of coordinating her tour.

Cheryl

I'm going to ask you to stretch your imagination to let me post this here, since the show was adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's famous Little House books.

Susan McCray and the program director at KSAV.org are opening up the phone lines in February for fans to call in and talk to Susan. Susan was the Casting Director for Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie and many other popular shows from the 70's and 80's.



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