Yes, I said I was going to have a contest and here it is!
I'm giving away a free autographed copy of Where One Road Leads and it couldn't be easier to win. All you need to do is to go to my new website It's All About The Romance, check it out and leave a message in my guestbook and you'll be entered to win. I'll announce the winner on Saturday. So go on and enter!
I'm very pleased to announce that my three chapters of That Kind Of Magic is off and away to Canada. Now I have to wait, but I've already plunged back into editing of Dreamer's Sea. Did I mention how much I hate editing? I submitted several chapters to my crit group before taking a break and working on TKOM. I don't know if I should pick up where I left off and send more in or go it alone. I love the input from the group, but it's such a loooong project and with the length of this particular manuscript I'd be submitting chapters for months. If I go it on my own I may miss areas that need fixing, but I could get through it faster. Then again, I may be able to do just fine on our own.
There's not much on tv these days. That's great for my writing but I'm very sad. We lost a completely awesome show this past week thanks to the poor treatment by ABC (long hiatuses while bad shows were playing, being moved from time slot to time slot 6 times in 2 seasons.... the writers strike). Men In Trees was still awesome and had such a loyal following and now we're all sad. I wish the cast well and thank them for some of the best tv on tv. I'll miss Elmo and all the Elmoians.
Here's one of my favorite videos from the show. Jack and Marin are awesome and Jack 9aka James Tupper)is so handsome. He's my model for my hero in Dreamer's Sea.
Now I have to get back to editing. Remember to get on over to my website and leave a comment and you may win an autographed copy of Where One Road Leads!
I'm trying to come up with a writing plan. I've been doing a lot of handwriting of my sequel to Sweet Forever, pages of notebook, when I've been hanging out in the van waiting for some person or another. I think (for today) that I'll dedicate my mornings to writing this story and the afternoons and evening will be dedicated to edits of Dreamer's Sea.
Sounds fair, I think. I don't want to lose the thoughts I have on my sequel.
Let's see how long that works. Of course with the way my arm has been hurting I may lose all use of my right hand before I see either of these published. I'm kidding. Sort of.
And because it's Wednesday and we know what Wednesday brings....a new Men In Trees episode, I'm going to post this awesome video.
Can you tell I'm in lust with James Tupper? Lucky Anne Heche. She not only gets to kiss him on the set of the show but she gets to go home with him at the end of the day. Here's my Daily Inspiration...
Okay, this morning I posted a YouTube of one of the cutest TV couples (Jim & Pam from The Office)and now I'm going to post my other favorite TV couple, Marin and Jack from Men In Trees....
This is such an awesome show and it's been so abused by ABC. Still there's a loyal group of fans who are hellbent on seeing it survive and go on to a third season.
The post below is regarding the efforts of the fans on the part of the show. I think that it's so moving that I wanted to share it.
I found a TV news website mention of the MIT Plant it Forward tree plan. It is about the plan that the fans are using to push the suits into renewing the show for another season. Here's the link:
If Yahoo truncates the link above, just copy and paste all the lines into your brownse.
For those who cannot read the news story, I have copied it below. Eileen
Men In Trees: Plant It Forward Campaign!
Post by: Sal
Source: Zap2It & ABC
Plant it Forward Campaign to save Men In Trees:
A large group of fans from the popular ABC.com Men In Trees message board has organized a campaign, currently underway, to plant food trees in less-fortunate countries. This is being done in honor of an ABC primetime show that the fans will go lengths to save - Men In Trees. 3,000 trees have been contributed so far. Their goal is 5,000.
The food tree campaign is to encourage ABC to renew Men In Trees for a third season and encourage them to promote the show. "ABC moves around the time slot with the frequency of a CB radio," reports Sally Johnson. "The network hasn't given the show a fair shake yet. They seldom promote it, but with meaningful encouragement from fans, that can change."
TV writers and critics agree: "...considering ABC's track record with Men in Trees ˜ 234 time slots in two years! ˜ I'm not holding my breath," writes TV Guide commentator, Michael Ausiello. The "little show with a lot of heart" as it bills itself, has received praise from many critics.
5,000 food trees can produce up to 50 million pounds of food for hungry people over the lifespan of the trees. Each food tree costs $1 and is tax deductible. They are being planted through the non-profit organization treesforlife.org. A certificate of contribution is given to each donor. These certificates will be presented en masse to ABC's Primetime Program Director, Stephen McPherson, at the conclusion of the campaign.
"We believe that, in the end, our Plant it Forward campaign will show ABC how devoted Men in Tree fans can be and how many fans there could be if they just promote the show and settle on a consistent time slot," explains lead organizer, Liz Herdade, who goes by the screen name CatinTrees. "No show can possibly withstand that over time, regardless of high acclaim. We're pleased to be changing this by contributing food, trees and clean air."
Johnston adds,"When we reach 5,000 trees, we will distribute a press release with the goal of bringing exposure to Men in Trees." She points out, "Somebody has got to promote the show. We prefer ABC do that, and eventually we'll convince them, but in the meantime, we will kick up some glamour dust for our show."
Take Care,
Sal
So, if there are any Men In Trees fans out there who want to help, or just want to help out because the cause in itself is such a good one, please join in! There are special instructions on how to do this and have the recognition go to Men In Trees and this Plant It Forward campaign. If you want to participate let me know in the comment section and I'll forward the information that is necessary. thanks!
Yeah, it's morning. Monday Morning. In 3 hours I'll need to be at work and thus begins another 6 days of work. Blah. I'd rather work 1 day and have 6 off. The trouble is I'm more productive with my writing during the week when the afternoon and evenings are my own (and my kids). So maybe I shouldn't complain. I sure didn't get anything done this weekend. Between work on Saturday and other things on Sunday (including a Heroes marathon-trying to catch up on the series which we never saw before a few months ago).
I did sort through some notes on Where I'll Stay, the sequel to Sweet Forever so I am working. Just not at the pace I would like.
All right, now I have the knowledge I'm going to try to post my Inspiration Of The Day, a Youtube video, could be from a TV show, could be a video. Todays is from one of my FAVORITE and shows, Men In Trees, which is completely underrated and treated so badly by ABC (I won't get started). James Tupper is such a hunk (I'm 42, I can say that) and he and Anne H have awesome chemistry (both on and off screen apparently)
I'm up to 62376 words in Dreamer's Sea and I still have much to write. I was so afraid that I wouldn't be able to get 65k out of it and now it looks like it could EASILY go to 70+K. That is a very good thing. The longer the story (as long as it's a really good story) the more marketable it will be to an agent. I'm doing a touchdown dance in my head. Just trying to get past a scene between my hero and heroine. I'm trying to justify them staying apart when the crazy kids are in love (though they haven't spilled the beans yet-hey, things are complicated). I was going to give them that scene later but I dont' think I can fight it. It's like giving birth, you can't fight it when that baby wants to make an appearance. So, what would another writer do if a scene, a moment, is happening faster than you planned? Somehow squash the moment or give it to them have it and let the cards fall where they may? if I stop the moment it's going to make the whole thing awkward. But I have a great scene already written for them. If only they'd wait a few weeks. My muse will be back on tv this Friday. Well, not my muse, but my inspiration for my hero in DS. Men In Trees has been off the air for months and months and they're finally giving us a season 2 premiere this week. Jack (aka John Tupper) is my Jonas in DS. It'll be good to have him back to gaze upon whenever I need a little inspiration. Okay, breakfast and dishes time. And I'll mull over my predicament while I'm doing it.
Location: Southwestern, New Hampshire, United States
I'm 44 year old mom of 3. I work as a customer service rep for a publishing company, and I write. I have five published novels and working on adding to that.
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