Ok, I've been away a long time, but I have been reading a lot.
1.Blood Ties Book 2 - Jennifer Armintrout
That is an amazing book. I enjoyed number 1 and number 2. Can't wait for number 3
2.Pretty Bad - Shirley Jump
I didn't really liked this one. I guess I am starting to be tired of airhead heroines.
3.Dead and dateless - Kimberly Raye
Ok. Another airhead but this time, she is a vampire. Good story, but I hate the fact that I will have to buy the number 3 to know if she will fall in love or not.
Anyway.
I have plenty of reading since I review for a cool website !!! (more to come)
On another matter, Nalini Singh has created a cool meme for the release of her latest, Visions of Heat.
Here is some questions that, if answered, can make me win!!!
The VISIONS OF HEAT meme
1. Which psychic power would you most like to possess?
Which psychic power I'd like to possess ? Hummm... Have the ability to know the results of the loto...:))) (grin). Or be able to know the future.
2. If you could see the future, what would you like to see?
I'd like to see my daughter and I, living with my honey and having more babies :)
3. Imagine you woke up one day and could shapeshift - what would you shift into?
A cat. An independant cat that would eat only real food :)
4. What kind of a paranormal creature would you invite over for dinner if there were no limits on who you could ask?
A real good witch. Or a faery.
5. Which future innovation do you wish would hurry up and get here already? i.e. flying cars, a transporter, computers with artificial intelligence, an auto chef?
A transporter. A transporter. A transporter. A transporter. No more commute. EVER.
This meme was begun by Nalini Singh to get the word out about her next book, Visions of Heat [http://www.nalinisingh.com/visions] (releasing March 6). Want to play, too, and enter to win a $50 Amazon voucher plus an ARC? Click here [http://nalinisingh.blogspot.com/2007/02/visions-of-heat-meme.html] for details.
Here it was for today !
xxx
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
TBR pile
I was going through blogs of authors/editor/whatever and I realized that everybody has a TBR pile. Everybody except MEEEEEE !!!!
I read A LOT because I have a commute of 3 hours everyday and because I am addict to it.
(I can see myself in a READER-ANONYMUS. Hello. My name is Anne and I am an addict. I read at least one book a day - except for the Harlequins, those I can read like one every 45 minutes/1 hour - and it makes me spend A LOT of money on them. And worse then that, I got my daughter into it. Not only do I have to buy books for myself, but I have to buy them for my girl.)
Every time I go to WALMART, I go in the books section and end up with 2-3 books. I buy books at the convenient store. At the used book store (this is a last resort since authors get nothing out of a sale in a used book store). I exchange them with co-worker and friends.
I can't give them away. I really CAN'T, I swear. I tried it once and end up buying them back.
I still have all the books I bought and I have no intention of giving them away (sorry honey). If it is okay for a man to have a garage full of tools, it is MORE than okay for me to have one, two, three, four or even ten bookshelves :)
I read A LOT because I have a commute of 3 hours everyday and because I am addict to it.
(I can see myself in a READER-ANONYMUS. Hello. My name is Anne and I am an addict. I read at least one book a day - except for the Harlequins, those I can read like one every 45 minutes/1 hour - and it makes me spend A LOT of money on them. And worse then that, I got my daughter into it. Not only do I have to buy books for myself, but I have to buy them for my girl.)
Every time I go to WALMART, I go in the books section and end up with 2-3 books. I buy books at the convenient store. At the used book store (this is a last resort since authors get nothing out of a sale in a used book store). I exchange them with co-worker and friends.
I can't give them away. I really CAN'T, I swear. I tried it once and end up buying them back.
I still have all the books I bought and I have no intention of giving them away (sorry honey). If it is okay for a man to have a garage full of tools, it is MORE than okay for me to have one, two, three, four or even ten bookshelves :)
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Mooching
While I was reading one of my favorite blog http://alg.livejournal.com/, I discovered a new website that I want to try. http://www.bookmooch.com/, BookMooch allows us to post some books that we don't want and mooch other books that we would like. I have no idea how it is really working, but as soon as I know I'll post it.
Bye Bye, I am on my way to learn everything about mooching !
Anne
xxx
Bye Bye, I am on my way to learn everything about mooching !
Anne
xxx
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
How I like my heroes
I just finished a book where the hero was a non-educated man that was working as a pilot for a millionaire man.
It made me think about what I like to see in a hero. What I like to read and what I like to write.
I like them tall with broad shoulders. And alpha. Definitively alpha. An hero who knows what he wants and who do what it takes to go and get it.
The hero of the book I've read, despite what I do not like in him, got me only because I couldn't see any other heroine than the one he got at the end.
Also, how do I like my heroine ? INTELLIGENT ! :) that's it that's all !
On another subject, while I wanted to continue my dragon's manuscript, I realize something.
I am a rewriter. I write a piece and right after, I edit it. Again. And again. And again and again and again.
Result ? I stop being productive and become this monster obsessive-compulsive !
Ah Ah !
Now, I'll let you go because I have to go write. No rewriting for me today !!
It made me think about what I like to see in a hero. What I like to read and what I like to write.
I like them tall with broad shoulders. And alpha. Definitively alpha. An hero who knows what he wants and who do what it takes to go and get it.
The hero of the book I've read, despite what I do not like in him, got me only because I couldn't see any other heroine than the one he got at the end.
Also, how do I like my heroine ? INTELLIGENT ! :) that's it that's all !
On another subject, while I wanted to continue my dragon's manuscript, I realize something.
I am a rewriter. I write a piece and right after, I edit it. Again. And again. And again and again and again.
Result ? I stop being productive and become this monster obsessive-compulsive !
Ah Ah !
Now, I'll let you go because I have to go write. No rewriting for me today !!
Sunday, February 4, 2007
The little yellow note
Last week, Élo, my daughter, gave me a little yellow note to sign. It was coming from her gym teacher and it was for : her efforts.
Wow ! I was so proud of my little girl ! She is the worst kid I know when it comes to sports. She always has her nose stuck in her books (wonder where she got that... ;) )and is a solitary child. She hates teaming up with other kids, unless she can lead them.
So as I was taking my pen to signed that note, already seeing it framed on the wall, I asked her to tell me how she had it. And as fast as I got excited by the little yellow note, I got back to earth.
She got the note because for once, she kept her mouth shut while her teacher was giving the explanations of the day.
Signing.
I love you too sweety :)
Wow ! I was so proud of my little girl ! She is the worst kid I know when it comes to sports. She always has her nose stuck in her books (wonder where she got that... ;) )and is a solitary child. She hates teaming up with other kids, unless she can lead them.
So as I was taking my pen to signed that note, already seeing it framed on the wall, I asked her to tell me how she had it. And as fast as I got excited by the little yellow note, I got back to earth.
She got the note because for once, she kept her mouth shut while her teacher was giving the explanations of the day.
Signing.
I love you too sweety :)
Reading and reading and.... reading
Hi all !
I know it has been a while since I last post something, but I was busy reading. I discovered the Harlequin Next (www.thenextnovel.com) and I fell in love with them.
I started by reading "The Second Time Around" from Marie Ferrarella and I loved the story, the characters, the plot, the side characters.... well, with everything.
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By the way, did you know you're pregnant?
Eight tiny words, but strung together in one sentence…they are destined to destroy life as Laurel Mitchell knows it. For after twenty-five years of wedlock and three grown children, starting over with the diaper-and-formula scene is…inconceivable.
Apparently not. Now her sweetly snoozing marriage is frantically adjusting to a most unexpected wake-up call.
And to the new man in her life—her husband, Jason. Recently devoted to working long hours and planning the perfect road trip, he's suddenly become impossibly sexy, affectionate and overprotective.
And between the tears (hers) and the terror (his) they're waiting for a bundle of joy in pink (yes, pink!) that's already proving life's most unexpected gifts are the best.
What had attracted me to this book is the cover. I love pink and to see it on a cover with the picture of a pregnant lady obviously very happy is the reason why I bought it.
When Laura goes to her doctor for her annual exam, she never would have guess that her doctor would announce a pregnancy. At 45, she was certain that the time had passed. She already had 3 grown boys, one of them on his way to get married, and Jason (her husband) and her were planning their life kids. But the baby is there and under no condition would she consider an abortion.
For Jason, it is a frightening moment. What Laura thought was refusal of her pregnancy is really fear. He is scared of losing her, that something bad might happen that might take his wife away from him.
But as the months pass by and has Laura get rounder, pieces of the puzzle take their place. Just the way I like my stories to be. And guess what ? The new addition to the Mitchell family is a little girl :)
What I love, absolutely love about that story, is that Laura and Jason are a solid couple. Okay, after twenty-five years of marriage, life has become a little.... routine. Nothing exciting. But there is no adultery, no mistress, no hidden secrets. And I loved that.
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I also read, from the Harlequin Next, Slightly Psychic from Sandra Steffen.
Slightly Psychic
Jan 2007
9-780373-88125-3
Lila Delaney never claimed to be entirely psychic…just slightly psychic. But any ability she might have had disappeared the minute Lila's visions led her and the police to a missing heiress…healthy, happy and tied to the bed of Lila's fiancé. Broadcast live on national television, the incident was enough to make Lila hightail it out of town.
Lila's journey brought her and her best friend Pepper to a small Virginia town. All too soon the woman who just wanted to be left alone was indulging in mint juleps and moonlit celebrations, becoming attracted to a too-secretive man and getting involved in an unsolved murder. If only her psychic abilities would return, Lila might just figure out what she was getting into next….
Okay. Again, I bought it for the cover. And because I love stories with psychics and witches :)
I found Lila to be a quiet woman. She is real, true and does not want to appear to be someone she is not (that is my analist :) ). When she finds a missing heiress with the help of one of her vision, she loose all credibility she had when it comes to her intuition. Because the man with the missing heiress was no one else than... her fiancé. And the cries she was having in her intuition ? Well, they are pleasure screams.
At about the same time, she inherit an old farm in a small Virginia town. When her best friend Pepper appears the day of her moving, they both take a leap of faith and plundge in the unknown.
Joe McCaffrey, a successfull ex-baseball player who lost his reputation, his daughter and his carreer when his wife disappeared two years ago, lives at The Meadows and works there.
The two of them will find a way, find the way back to their life, helping the people surrounding them find their way too.
I found that story nice, cute and funny. Lila is a bit... neutral for my taste, I have much more prefered Pepper's personality. But at the same time, I see no other heroine for the handsome Joe McCaffrey. The story is beautifully written, with emotions, feelings and left me with a sense of satisfation.
I know it has been a while since I last post something, but I was busy reading. I discovered the Harlequin Next (www.thenextnovel.com) and I fell in love with them.
I started by reading "The Second Time Around" from Marie Ferrarella and I loved the story, the characters, the plot, the side characters.... well, with everything.
------------
By the way, did you know you're pregnant?
Eight tiny words, but strung together in one sentence…they are destined to destroy life as Laurel Mitchell knows it. For after twenty-five years of wedlock and three grown children, starting over with the diaper-and-formula scene is…inconceivable.
Apparently not. Now her sweetly snoozing marriage is frantically adjusting to a most unexpected wake-up call.
And to the new man in her life—her husband, Jason. Recently devoted to working long hours and planning the perfect road trip, he's suddenly become impossibly sexy, affectionate and overprotective.
And between the tears (hers) and the terror (his) they're waiting for a bundle of joy in pink (yes, pink!) that's already proving life's most unexpected gifts are the best.
What had attracted me to this book is the cover. I love pink and to see it on a cover with the picture of a pregnant lady obviously very happy is the reason why I bought it.
When Laura goes to her doctor for her annual exam, she never would have guess that her doctor would announce a pregnancy. At 45, she was certain that the time had passed. She already had 3 grown boys, one of them on his way to get married, and Jason (her husband) and her were planning their life kids. But the baby is there and under no condition would she consider an abortion.
For Jason, it is a frightening moment. What Laura thought was refusal of her pregnancy is really fear. He is scared of losing her, that something bad might happen that might take his wife away from him.
But as the months pass by and has Laura get rounder, pieces of the puzzle take their place. Just the way I like my stories to be. And guess what ? The new addition to the Mitchell family is a little girl :)
What I love, absolutely love about that story, is that Laura and Jason are a solid couple. Okay, after twenty-five years of marriage, life has become a little.... routine. Nothing exciting. But there is no adultery, no mistress, no hidden secrets. And I loved that.
-------
I also read, from the Harlequin Next, Slightly Psychic from Sandra Steffen.
Slightly Psychic
Jan 2007
9-780373-88125-3
Lila Delaney never claimed to be entirely psychic…just slightly psychic. But any ability she might have had disappeared the minute Lila's visions led her and the police to a missing heiress…healthy, happy and tied to the bed of Lila's fiancé. Broadcast live on national television, the incident was enough to make Lila hightail it out of town.
Lila's journey brought her and her best friend Pepper to a small Virginia town. All too soon the woman who just wanted to be left alone was indulging in mint juleps and moonlit celebrations, becoming attracted to a too-secretive man and getting involved in an unsolved murder. If only her psychic abilities would return, Lila might just figure out what she was getting into next….
Okay. Again, I bought it for the cover. And because I love stories with psychics and witches :)
I found Lila to be a quiet woman. She is real, true and does not want to appear to be someone she is not (that is my analist :) ). When she finds a missing heiress with the help of one of her vision, she loose all credibility she had when it comes to her intuition. Because the man with the missing heiress was no one else than... her fiancé. And the cries she was having in her intuition ? Well, they are pleasure screams.
At about the same time, she inherit an old farm in a small Virginia town. When her best friend Pepper appears the day of her moving, they both take a leap of faith and plundge in the unknown.
Joe McCaffrey, a successfull ex-baseball player who lost his reputation, his daughter and his carreer when his wife disappeared two years ago, lives at The Meadows and works there.
The two of them will find a way, find the way back to their life, helping the people surrounding them find their way too.
I found that story nice, cute and funny. Lila is a bit... neutral for my taste, I have much more prefered Pepper's personality. But at the same time, I see no other heroine for the handsome Joe McCaffrey. The story is beautifully written, with emotions, feelings and left me with a sense of satisfation.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
What is the real beauty ???
I rest my case
www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909
No comments
Anne
www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909
No comments
Anne
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
My Five
Hey you !
To keep track of the books I read (and believe me, I live a lot since I have a commute of 1hr30 morning and evening to go to and back work) and not buy them twice - yes, that happened to me, I have decided to start a list of the book I read AND note them. This way, I'll be able to keep track of my reading !
Anne
xxx
To keep track of the books I read (and believe me, I live a lot since I have a commute of 1hr30 morning and evening to go to and back work) and not buy them twice - yes, that happened to me, I have decided to start a list of the book I read AND note them. This way, I'll be able to keep track of my reading !
Anne
xxx
Sunday, January 14, 2007
WIP
What is a WIP ? It's a Work In Progress.
I need to have many ongoing WIP so I can go to one to another, depending on my mood. Maybe it doesn't make a a real writer, but maybe also, I need to follow my heart.
I have story that's sweet, another one where I've got one that my heroine kick some ass, another one that is funny.... You see where I am going. I am dedicaced to see them all finish. And because I am not under contract, I feel I can do it this way.
And, I am still waiting for my French YA.
See you later,
Anne
I need to have many ongoing WIP so I can go to one to another, depending on my mood. Maybe it doesn't make a a real writer, but maybe also, I need to follow my heart.
I have story that's sweet, another one where I've got one that my heroine kick some ass, another one that is funny.... You see where I am going. I am dedicaced to see them all finish. And because I am not under contract, I feel I can do it this way.
And, I am still waiting for my French YA.
See you later,
Anne
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Mari's new book
Hey all,
I just saw Mari Mancusi new book cover and I think it is... WOW !!!
Go and take a look on : http://mariannem.blogspot.com/ !!
Bye for now !!
Anne
xxx
I just saw Mari Mancusi new book cover and I think it is... WOW !!!
Go and take a look on : http://mariannem.blogspot.com/ !!
Bye for now !!
Anne
xxx
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
What's new
Hello again !
It took so long before I wrote again... only because I have so many e-mails addresses, differents accounts... that I forgot what I had use to be logged on ! :)
I have a not of things I'd like to ranted on...
1) When my daughter went in a Book Fair, last november, she meet one of her prefered publishing house and she told the editor that her mommy was a writer and that she had something ready. He told her to tell me to send it to him. Which I did !!! Of course, it might mean nothing, but hé, am I really going to let it pass ? Nooooooo !!! I also sent the synopsis of the same story to another publishing house.
And now, like any other writer..... I wait !
2) I have discovered over the last few weeks many authors/editors/agents that were blogging and that were giving valuable information about the market. Thank you to those.
and finally three : for those of you who are not yet published, do you sometimes feel like The Call is so close to you that you can feel it physically ?
Oh well, talk to you later folks !
Anne
It took so long before I wrote again... only because I have so many e-mails addresses, differents accounts... that I forgot what I had use to be logged on ! :)
I have a not of things I'd like to ranted on...
1) When my daughter went in a Book Fair, last november, she meet one of her prefered publishing house and she told the editor that her mommy was a writer and that she had something ready. He told her to tell me to send it to him. Which I did !!! Of course, it might mean nothing, but hé, am I really going to let it pass ? Nooooooo !!! I also sent the synopsis of the same story to another publishing house.
And now, like any other writer..... I wait !
2) I have discovered over the last few weeks many authors/editors/agents that were blogging and that were giving valuable information about the market. Thank you to those.
and finally three : for those of you who are not yet published, do you sometimes feel like The Call is so close to you that you can feel it physically ?
Oh well, talk to you later folks !
Anne
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
I am on !
Hi everybody !
I am so excited to be here !
Let me talk about myself a little bit, so you can know me a little. I am an aspiring writer of romance and YA (I am actually working on a YA). I live in Quebec province, in Canada but will soon move to the USA, in NYS, to be with my honey :) (hi love!)
I have a daughter of ten and she inspire me in all action I took in the past, I take in the present and will take in the future.
Now, French is my maternal tongue and I learned English a little at school, a lot on TV and with friend. Why I want you to know that ? Because I make a lot of mistakes, grammar and syntaxes ! (oh, you will see. I mean, read!)
Hope we will have a lot of fun together!
Anne
xxx
I am so excited to be here !
Let me talk about myself a little bit, so you can know me a little. I am an aspiring writer of romance and YA (I am actually working on a YA). I live in Quebec province, in Canada but will soon move to the USA, in NYS, to be with my honey :) (hi love!)
I have a daughter of ten and she inspire me in all action I took in the past, I take in the present and will take in the future.
Now, French is my maternal tongue and I learned English a little at school, a lot on TV and with friend. Why I want you to know that ? Because I make a lot of mistakes, grammar and syntaxes ! (oh, you will see. I mean, read!)
Hope we will have a lot of fun together!
Anne
xxx
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