In the last 3 months, I’ve gained 5 pounds and 1 published novel.
Not bad.
Happy weekend!
Happy Weekend!
Category: Playing at Love
Happy Weekend!
In the last 3 months, I’ve gained 5 pounds and 1 published novel.
Not bad.
Happy weekend!
Meet the "Playing at Love" peeps!
Here they are!
The beautiful Tess Johansson: looking for love, finally in all the right places…
Jack Marshall: football coach and all around dream boat…
(hubba hubba)
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| Ooh-la-la. Go for it, Jack! |
Mackenzie: Tess’s faithful pal, always willing to seduce a hot guy if necessary for “the cause”
Rick: hipster newspaperman or sexpot in disguise?
Penny: Franklin High’s little song bird who can belt out Nirvana with the best of them!
Charlie: Tess’s soldier brother, and dreamy enough to earn his own spin-off…
It’s enough to make me want to read my own book. Again!
*swoooooon*
Find “Playing at Love” at amazon.com & barneandnoble.com
You’re welcome. 🙂
Meet the "Playing at Love" peeps!
Here they are!
The beautiful Tess Johansson: looking for love, finally in all the right places…
Jack Marshall: football coach and all around dream boat…
(hubba hubba)
|
| Ooh-la-la. Go for it, Jack! |
Mackenzie: Tess’s faithful pal, always willing to seduce a hot guy if necessary for “the cause”
Rick: hipster newspaperman or sexpot in disguise?
Penny: Franklin High’s little song bird who can belt out Nirvana with the best of them!
Charlie: Tess’s soldier brother, and dreamy enough to earn his own spin-off…
It’s enough to make me want to read my own book. Again!
*swoooooon*
Find “Playing at Love” at amazon.com & barneandnoble.com
You’re welcome. 🙂
"Playing at Love"
Tuh-duuuuuuuh!
Show choir teacher Tess Johansson loves three things: music, her job, and sharing that passion with her students. But when a school budget crisis forces funding to be pulled from either the sports or music programs, she finds herself going head to head with Jack, the gorgeous new football coach who broke her heart fifteen years ago.
Jack Marshall wants two things: to be closer to his young daughter and to make his mark as a football coach. Taking the new job, with the promise that he’d have time to build a solid team, gave him both. But now he must win the season with a group of boys who aren’t anywhere near ready or he’ll lose everything he’s worked so hard for. Being pitted against Tess, the summer love he never forgot, is like being fourth and long with only seconds on the clock.
On opposing sides of a fierce battle and with everything at stake, Tess and Jack find themselves torn between doing what it takes to win and doing what it takes to be together.
To read LOTS more, go here:
amazon.com
barnesandnoble.com
"Playing at Love"
Tuh-duuuuuuuh!
Show choir teacher Tess Johansson loves three things: music, her job, and sharing that passion with her students. But when a school budget crisis forces funding to be pulled from either the sports or music programs, she finds herself going head to head with Jack, the gorgeous new football coach who broke her heart fifteen years ago.
Jack Marshall wants two things: to be closer to his young daughter and to make his mark as a football coach. Taking the new job, with the promise that he’d have time to build a solid team, gave him both. But now he must win the season with a group of boys who aren’t anywhere near ready or he’ll lose everything he’s worked so hard for. Being pitted against Tess, the summer love he never forgot, is like being fourth and long with only seconds on the clock.
On opposing sides of a fierce battle and with everything at stake, Tess and Jack find themselves torn between doing what it takes to win and doing what it takes to be together.
To read LOTS more, go here:
amazon.com
barnesandnoble.com
things I’ve learned from the second pass of edits
(and I’ve had two of them now, which makes four passes in all)
I use these words too much:
“continued” (we’re talking 123 times, but I managed to cut it down to 44. No easy task.)
“scoffed” (I fear I use it incorrectly, as well)
“paused” (my new go-to is “hesitate.” I might be deleting that one during the third pass.)
I expect people to be mind-readers. They’re not. Not even my editor. Who should be, right?
I am absolutely rubbish at the proper use of the em-dash.
Speaking of punctuation and over-usages, I also overuse (and misuse) ellipses. We’re all shocked. . . . .
I can’t count – if the way I numbered my chapters is any indication.
Cutting word count is effing hard. I’m much too long-winded for that. Ask anyone.
Evidently, it doesn’t faze this writer when I use the same word four times in one paragraph.
Oh well. Moving on. Here’s to Round Three!
things I’ve learned from the second pass of edits
(and I’ve had two of them now, which makes four passes in all)
I use these words too much:
“continued” (we’re talking 123 times, but I managed to cut it down to 44. No easy task.)
“scoffed” (I fear I use it incorrectly, as well)
“paused” (my new go-to is “hesitate.” I might be deleting that one during the third pass.)
I expect people to be mind-readers. They’re not. Not even my editor. Who should be, right?
I am absolutely rubbish at the proper use of the em-dash.
Speaking of punctuation and over-usages, I also overuse (and misuse) ellipses. We’re all shocked. . . . .
I can’t count – if the way I numbered my chapters is any indication.
Cutting word count is effing hard. I’m much too long-winded for that. Ask anyone.
Evidently, it doesn’t faze this writer when I use the same word four times in one paragraph.
Oh well. Moving on. Here’s to Round Three!
Play this:
Music has always been my muse when it comes to writing. Sometimes, I’ve created a playlist after the story is written. Sometimes, songs come to me organically. And sometimes, I build a list before much of the story is on paper. . . . which helps me along when it comes to plotting.
My newest story “Playing at Love” is about a high school choir teacher and the school’s new football coach. (Smexy, right?) After the initial “thunder-struck” attraction, these two people are sitting on opposite sides of an issue–which was really fun to write.
Without giving tooooo much away, here are the songs that helped me write this fun little love story.
Playing at Love – playlist
(clicky-click to take a listen)
The Last Worthless Evening – Don Henley
Hollaback Girl – Gwen Stefani
Harder to Breathe – Maroon 5
This Grudge – Alanis Morissette
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Fallin’ For You – Colbie Caillat
Faster – Matt Nathanson
When He’s Not Around – The Corrs
Your Body is a Wonderland – John Mayer
Desperately – Michelle Branch
What Kind of Man Would I Be? – Chicago
I Want it That Way – Backstreet Boys
Play this:
Music has always been my muse when it comes to writing. Sometimes, I’ve created a playlist after the story is written. Sometimes, songs come to me organically. And sometimes, I build a list before much of the story is on paper. . . . which helps me along when it comes to plotting.
My newest story “Playing at Love” is about a high school choir teacher and the school’s new football coach. (Smexy, right?) After the initial “thunder-struck” attraction, these two people are sitting on opposite sides of an issue–which was really fun to write.
Without giving tooooo much away, here are the songs that helped me write this fun little love story.
Playing at Love – playlist
(clicky-click to take a listen)
The Last Worthless Evening – Don Henley
Hollaback Girl – Gwen Stefani
Harder to Breathe – Maroon 5
This Grudge – Alanis Morissette
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Fallin’ For You – Colbie Caillat
Faster – Matt Nathanson
When He’s Not Around – The Corrs
Your Body is a Wonderland – John Mayer
Desperately – Michelle Branch
What Kind of Man Would I Be? – Chicago
I Want it That Way – Backstreet Boys
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