Catch-Up Week
Jolie and Waster in the Swamp Hey it’s Jolie again. This is catch-up week in the contest. Thanks to all of those already here and working hard to find Nara. This week’s feature world is the Quarterz Swamp. It may sound and look intimidating, but it’s really quite beautiful. To encourage you all to give it a try, we’re going to give anyone who logs into the world a thousand points. Yup, just log in and you’ll be in the drawing for the Nook Color. Spend five or more minutes inworld and you’ll be in this week’s gift card drawing. If you’ve already made the points you need to get…
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Opportunity’s Disguises
As Disasters While we may dream of opportunity knocking on our door in the form of Oprah bringing us a new car or hitting the lottery, the biggest opportunities in my life have come disguised as something less appealing. When my father was dying and my sister was crumbling under the stress of taking care of him, we made a pact to sign up for a fiction workshop and get a start on the novels we’d always talked about writing one day. It became an escape from the reality of hospital waiting rooms and long hours at the dialysis clinic. At the end of three months I had about 30…
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Snatch Me: A Virtual World Capture Romance
I just signed a contract with Ellora’s Cave to publish my capture romance, Snatch Me, as part of their Sex Bytes series. I was not planning to write this story. Every time a scene started unfolding in my imagination I shut it down and said, “I do not have time for this story right now. The deadline was looming too close for me to finish in time.” My muse, ornery critter that she is, wouldn’t listen. She went on strike. I was running in place on every project I had going. My mind was an empty bucket. Finally I surrendered and let Snatch Me take over my life for several…