Trailer Park Tuesday: Destination Romance

Romance Slam Jam will set sail in 2010 for it's annual conference. Rochelle Alers will keynote the fantastic cruise. But did you know that Romance Slam Jam also supports Non-Profit Foundations? This week's Trailer Park Tuesday will also feature Destination Romance.

It's an anthology where all proceeds will go to the South Side Health Center (an organization fighting to stop the spread of AIDS/HIV in the AAcommunity) Each story in the anthology will also have it's own ebook, according to Deatri.

Destination Romance: While on a cruise to Jamaica, six couples discover the “Love Boat” is a lot more than a television series from the 1980s, and this time the destination is hot, steamy romance.


As A Whisper

AlTonya Washington

Izaya Charles was devastated when Gunther Datari ended their passionate and lengthy relationship. Work keeps her going until she and Gunther meet aboard the newest ship in his fleet. Will desire or devastation be the outcome of their reunion?

Show Me!

Barbara Keaton

Cammie's life would never be the same following a chance meeting (or so she thought) with Jacques, a man many years her junior who would grant her unselfish, unbridled passion!

Trapped In Paradise

Deatri King-Bey

After escaping an abusive marriage, Saundra Write swore never to allow anyone to trap her again. Then comes along Jeremy King, the kind of man any woman would beg to be trapped in paradise with.

Seaside Seduction

A.C. Arthur

Mac should be the last person to teach his best friend to love and trust when he’s been lying to her for years. And now that his game is up, he can only hope the beautiful Caribbean days and sensual seaside nights will be enough to make CJ dismiss the mistakes of the past to sail towards a brighter future?

On My Knees

Dyanne Davis

Carmen placed everything before love until love was nothing more than the stories told in romance novels. Aaron is an accomplished romance author, but wants the real thing. A cruise brings the two together. Renewed

love, with a healthy dose of lust, works to keep them together.

More And More

Niobia Bryant

Mocha Nivens enjoys the casual nature of her long-term, long-distance relationship with businessman Dean Kincaid, but she ends it when he moves back to town wanting more. When Dean dates other women, Mocha realizes what

she’s lost, but is it to late to claim the love shedeserves?

 

Happy 234th Birthday US Marine Corps

Bonus trailer park tuesday. This month is the US Marine Corps 234th birthday. My dad is a retired Marine. He was a sharpshooting instructor at Paris Island in Buford, SC. I have a host of cousins and good friends who have served and are serving. This birthday message is from General James T. Conway 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.

Trailer Park Tuesday: Sesame Street 40th Anniversary & First Lady Obama

Welcome to this week's Trailer Park Tuesday. In honor of Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary this week's selection is this episode of First Lady Michelle Obama making a garden. Sesame Street's new season kicks off today.
Does anyone have a great Sesame Street moment? I love the Rubber Ducky Song. lol
Who's your favorite Sesame Street character? I like the Count

TMA: Thank your Favorite Blog and Blogger

Happy Monday. I love November. It's one of the few months of the year where instead of buying gifts we give thanks. We honor those who mean a great deal to each other. This month I would like for us to also honor the blogs that have meant so much to us. I will begin with me:

1. Faith*In*Fiction - although new content is rare now. Bethany House AE David Long inspired some of the best Christian publishing blogs out there. He invited me into his community and have forged eternal friendships because of it, including...

See who I give thanks, then Join in on the fun at Blog Thanks Award

If a Female Author Made Publisher's Weekly Top Ten Best Books List...?

Monday, Publisher's Weekly announced it's annual Best Books of [2009.] I was excited that Victor Lavelle(Big Machine) made the list, but surprised by  this statement:

It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male. -Louisa Ermelino

All male? As in no women women writers made the list?

Out of over 50, 000 books they reviewed this year, not one of those books written by a woman made the top 10. Moreover, none were books written with a Christian worldview(point for another discussion later.)

I remember back in 2007 NPR completed a survey that suggested women read more than men about nine books a year. So hearing the news that not one book picked in 2009 were written by a woman gave me pause. Is it that the books we typically read most aren't well written? or is there a PW standard that isn't realistic for most women readers? I'm curious about this, because I was sure Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie[That Thing Around Your Neck] would have made the list this year.

Is there a female author, who published a book this year you believe should have been on the short list for the Best of 2009?

Don't forget I'm compiling the Christian Fiction Best Books of 2009 as we speak. Stay tuned. I will make my announcement in December.

Kudos again to Victor for making it. Here's a snippet of Big Machine's opening lines. Great writing for sure...

EXCERPT

Chapter One


Don’t look for dignity in public bathrooms. The most you’ll find is privacy and sticky floors. But when my boss gave me the glossy envelope, the bathroom was the first place I ran. What can I say? Lurking in toilets was my job. Click here to read more.

Trailer Park Tuesday: Intervention

Good Tuesday. Today's Trailer Park Tuesday at Christian Fiction is  

Terri Blackstock's Intervention. 

 Watch the book Trailer then tell me what you think:

NANOWRIMO: A Day Late and a Chapter Short. Tips to Getting On Track

NANOWRIMO began yesterday. NANOWRIMO is an acronym for National Novel Writing Month. I have participated in the challenge since 2007 and am already a day behind. Which isn't good for me, but good for you. Today I want to share some mistakes I've made in the past NANOWRIMOs, so that you won't make them. In return, I ask you to help keep me on pace. Be my accountability partner, if you will.

1. Plot your novel before you start. The first time I participated in NANOWRIMO I thought I would write as I go, then I got bogged down with a plot point gone bad around Day 7. Save yourself the unnecessary drama plot ahead. 
2. If you don't have a plot yet, here's a skeleton you can create in thirty minutes or less. Click here to get my Plot Point Quick Do. 
3. Compartmentalize your book by weeks.
• week 1 - the beginning & the inciting incident, setting up your story. 50 pages
• week 2 - the journey- and the motivation change,. 50-100 pages
• week 3- the black moment(gut check, route of real problem the main character is finally aware of, but it is too late,) climax (what we've been waiting to happen from the beginning) 100-150 pages
• week 4 - the reversal,resolution and conclusion 150 - 200 pages
4.  Write dirty. Don't care about mispellings, diction, tense, just write this thing.
5. Write with words six graders and below can read.
   
6.  Have fun. If the story isn't fun to you, then write something else. the point of this thing is to get your juices flowing and to have fun writing. 
7. Get some accountability partners. My id is dee stewart.

Happy Writing. I will post up tonight I hope(wink)

Dee