Angel’s Arms
Today I woke and like so many others with hope that yesterday was just a bad dream. But no, it happened and that overwhelming feeling of sadness is left to nestle in and find a place in the corner of our hearts where all grief goes. Then I walked past the little stone plate that I keep hung in my home and have had so many years (see it’s had its share of dings over the years as we have) that I’ve honestly forgotten where I got it but remember I was drawn to it all those years ago when my two angels where just little ones. It’s an angel holding two small babies safely in her arms.
I can imagine the angel’s arms are overflowing today. Sending hope for healing hearts in Newtown and all over the world today.
Love and Peace,
KMJ
Friday Cheers!
Cheers and Happy Friday! Thanks to all who entered my 1st Goodreads giveaway! We have 2 winners and the signed books will on the way! For those who did not win please look to your right and click on with your favorite e-tailer for TTL in an instant. I hope to have another Giveaway soon. Thanks again.
Well we’ve made it through another week and I’ll let Idris (always good hero writing inspiration) raise a glass to us all. Yay! BTW have you seen BBC’s Luther yet? If not what are you waiting for? Get on in there. Season 3 is taping already and I may want to chat!
Best,
KMJ
P.S. for all you Scandal lovers my recap of last night’s epi is up on Heroes and Heartbreakers now. Click here to check it out.
Reading Good
Tick tock pretty lovelies. The clock is winding down. There are less than 2 days left to enter my Goodreads giveaway. Please click on over for your chance to win a SIGNED copy of Though The Lens my debut ‘sexy island getaway’ novel. Whoo Hoo!
And in honor of Goodreads and my 1st giveaway here’s a little Tears For Fears with my favorite video set in a library. Yeah I know this video has nothing to do with islands or my book but Goodreads is where I keep track of the books that I read so it’s sort of like a library to me. Just follow along people and sing. You know how my whacky mind works. Oh and enter the giveaway. Thanks!
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels by manon42All the best,
KMJ
P.S.
Please share some of your favorite music videos that are set in libraries. I’d love to know more.
Stepping into Traditions
My tree is up hurrah! This is the holiday of baby steps. It feels a little off to do things like trimming the tree without the kids since they are still away at school. The DS will be home in a week and the DD a few days after that. The DH and I decided to get the tree going though since time was ticking and got it up this weekend just minus the traditional new ornaments that I add every year for the kids. They will add those finishing touches when they come home and then it will . What are some of your holiday traditions?
All the best,
KMJ
Holiday Cheer!
Happy Friday! Tick Tock people! No worries, it’s all happy happy joy over here on ye old blog. Have you started your Christmas shopping? Have you finished? Please don’t say you’ve finished and back in July too because I just may cry.
Today I’m sending you all a little holiday cheer from the 5th Avenue Lord and Taylor Christmas windows. I got to take a peek at them when coming out of my writing cave and traveling downtown for my RWA-NYC holiday brunch last week. I met up with my DH who was called into work for a bit of an emergency, well I pulled him away from that for a while and had him come with me to enjoy the cheer also.
Here’s wishing you a fabulous Friday and a Happy Hanukkah to all celebrating this weekend!
All the best,
KMJ
P.S. if you are a Scandal fan (and really why wouldn’t you be? You just MUST be!!!) Please hop on over to Heroes and Heartbreakers and check out my harried late night Scandal recap of last night’s episode. OMG did you see that? Check it out here.
Image thanks to abc.scandal official page
Making Note Of It
Check out this beautiful canvas print of my book cover that I got at Easy Canvas Prints.
I’m not sure what I’ll do with it or where I’ll put it, but still I love it! I was feeling like I needed to document this milestone in my life in some way. Who knows, hopefully this will be the start of a collection.
I’d love to know how you celebrate all the wonderful things you do? Now don’t be shy, because I know you all do quite a lot. Please share and give and give yourself that well deserved pat on the back!
All the best,
KMJ
Scripting Life
So what do you do when in your head you’re feeling all sassy like a twenty something year old heroine from a rom com with your own upbeat soundtrack, but in reality it’s early morning but you’re lying in bed trying to talk your body into catching up with your mind and get it gear. The soundtrack is stuck on repeat. You see it’s another morning of waking up with a pain in your back and aches through all your joints. Definitely not the stuff of a romance heroine, let alone a young-ish (work with me people) romance writer who needs to book it to the keyboard and get those achy fingers flying and some words produced.
But that’s me and with my diagnosis of RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis ) a couple of years ago it’s been a slow spiral downward. I see my doctors and have tried different meds and I’ll admit, on and off exercise, but still, it doesn’t feel like enough. If you’re like me, through the pain, you want to feel proactive and not like some old maid being put out to pasture with this, what sounds like, an out to pasture disease.
Well, I’m happy to say that through a lovely blogger friend I have found a place where I can find some answers and feel like I’m being proactive while surfing the net. Lifescript.com has a fantastic Rheumatoid Arthritis Center with a wealth of information. You can check it out here and check out Lifescript.com here for all sorts of other health and wellness tips. Lifescript.com was kind enough to send me 2 lovely yoga mats for my review and getting the word out which I’m more than happy to do. Anything to spread the word on fighting this awful disease. Here’s hoping I put them to good use getting these rickety joints moving!
What you looking forward to singing a new tune to in the coming year?All the best,
KMJ
Friday Side-eye
What’s Jack up to? Why he, like me, is totally giving this week the side-eye and wondering how it got to be Friday already. How in the world did Friday get here and the floors didn’t get mopped, the tree didn’t get up and my characters in my current WIP are still doing a little bit of everything but getting down to the business at hand. Yes, it’s side eyes all around over this way!
Oh well, better to let it go and list of a few accomplishments: Christmas pics have been taken, Outside lights are up and the deep freezer has been cleaned and scrubbed after the horror of Sandy. (Sidebar: There is nothing scarier than scrubbing a basement deep freezer all alone, at night. Yeah, I should have thought that chore out a bit more.)
Next on my list, it’s back to those characters and getting them away from all the chatter and down to business. Of course in the back of my mind it’s the other Christmasy things to do, gifts to get, cards to write. But that will all, I hope, somehow happen It always does. And I know that Jack with his reminder side-eyes will keep me on track. How do you stay on task during the Holidays?
P.S. If you have a moment I invite you over to like my official Amazon author page. Just another way to keep up on all my book happenings! Also have you read Through The Lens please feel free to leave a review. I’d love and appreciate it. Thanks!
Going Clubbing…
So what do I have in common with EL James, Meg Wolitzer & Thomas Hardy? Stop laughing, this is going somewhere people. You see as it now turns out all of our books have been read by the fantastic ladies of the Super “A” Reading and Cultural Society. Now that’s really not their name, it’s just a name I made up, I could also call them The Magnificent Literary 7 or maybe the Lit Spice Girls, I kind of like the ring of that too. Either way they are just great and they were kind enough to break into their regularly scheduled programming to read Through The Lens and invite me to speak at their monthly gathering.
I can’t tell you all how nervous I was, going in for my very first book club chat, but these kind ladies made me feel right at home. Turns out they had all read the book and from the feeling I pick up, liked it. They asked fantastic questions about the characters, motivation, the way I craft a story and touched on some inside industry things, all of which I hope I gave coherent answers too. Hey, you never know with me.
I got a wonderful insight into their reading habits and I was surprised at how many of them read on their phones, oh my poor eyes, but for sure the digital age is here to stay. We talked new and old books, favorite authors and genres and in the end I left with some gorgeous flowers and a magnificent group of 7 new friends. Oh yes, I’m a lucky girl indeed! And next they are on to a book that couldn’t be more of a shift from TTL … To Kill A Mockingbird. Really? Me, the opening act for Harper Lee who woulda thunk it?
All the best,
KMJ
The In Between
Good day lovelies. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend. So now here we are. Right smack in the beginning of the crazy patch between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Time to deck the halls, get your shop on, really all this means is time to WORK.
For some of us it’s all the final week of NanoWrimo. Best of luck to all of you who were doing Nano this month. I hope you are nearing the end of your 50,000 words. I was doing my own “Not quite Nano” which didn’t quite pan out. But that’s ok, I still have this week and I’m not giving up just yet.
What are you doing with your In between time?
All the best,
KMJ
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