Hi, Everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend! Hope you enjoyed a
safe holiday weekend. We're experiencing the worst drought we've had in 50 years here, so I admit I was a bit worried someone in the neighborhood might ignore the fireworks ban and end up starting a fire, but no one did. Not here at least. Some teenagers started a grass fire across town. It was actually . . . not eerie, but weird . . . not hearing fireworks for the first time ever on the 4th. Fireworks, I believe, have always been banned here in the city, but people often manage to sneak them in anyway and put on shows in backyards. This year? Nothing. Residents must really have taken the fire hazard seriously.
So how did you spend the 4th? At the beach? Barbecuing? A family gathering? Attending parades? Curling up with a good book?
I spent it with family. My facebook and twitter friends may have noticed I tend to disappear entirely from the internet on
most weekends because I deem weekends family time . . . which is one of the reasons I can never seem to catch up on email, facebook, etc. *sigh*
ON THE WRITING FRONT
I have
BIG NEWS!
Tantor Audio is publishing my
Immortal Guardians series! Woohoo!
Darkness Dawns is scheduled for release on July 25th. (You can Pre-Order it from
Amazon.) It will be read by Kirsten Potter:
Kirsten Potter has won AudioFile Earphones Awards
for her reading of The Snowball by Alice Schroeder and
her performance as Barbara in George Bernard Shaw’s
Major Barbara. Her reading of Madapple by Christina
Meldrum was a Booklist Editors’ Choice for Best
Audiobook 2008.
I'm also currently participating in TWO big blogging events:
I'm blogging about the importance of choosing the right names for one's characters in romance novels over at
Reading Between the Wines Book Club for
Writing Romance week. I'm also giving away a signed copy of
Darkness Dawns. The contest lasts through July 8th, so I hope you'll join me!
I'm also blogging about paranormal brotherhoods (love them!) over at
Paranormal Haven for
Bookish Haven Summer Vacation. I'm giving away a signed copy of
Darkness Dawns for this one, too. The contest lasts through July 15th.
BACK ON THE HOME FRONT
Other than that, I'm watering my veggie plants like crazy to help them survive the drought and hoping to get some reading time in soon.
What's happening in your corner of the world?
Dianne
