Special Limited Time Pricing on South Beach Love

To celebrate the premiere of the South Beach Love movie, the South Beach Love e-book will be specially priced at 99 cents from October 4 to October 10. Take advantage of this limited-time sale to download your copy of this feel-good romance about rival quinceañeras, glorious Cuban cooking, friendship, family ties—and romance. Visit your favorite retailers at https://books2read.com/SouthBeachLoveHallmark. And if you can, please show some love to Trapping a Terrorist whose feeling a little left out with all the excitement about the movie! You can get a copy of my 25th release for Harlequin at https://books2read.com/TrappingATerrorist.
South Beach Love Hallmark Publishing

Nancy Thayer Blog Winner!

Thanks to Robyn for reminding me about posting the Blog Winner from the Nancy Thayer post! Sorry for the delay, but I totally forgot about posting it.

The winner is Kate Rothwell. Kate, please e-mail your mailing address to cpsromance @ att.net so I can send you the SINS OF THE FLESH T-shirt.

Thoughtful Thursday – On Fruit Stripes and Summer

FRUIT STRIPE gumMy sister brought me a present yesterday – a package of FRUIT STRIPE gum. As I unwrapped it, the fruity smells assailed my nostrils and brought back memories of hot summer days in Levittown.

The flavor doesn’t last long on FRUIT STRIPE gum, but somehow that never made a difference back then. Sitting on the grass in front of someone’s house or along the curb in between rounds of stick ball, we would unwrap the gum, smile at its fanciful stripes and then enjoy that blast of fruity flavor.

And we didn’t toss the gum wrapper or use it to discard the now flavorless gum. Hell no, those gaily striped gum wrappers were bounty to be added to our ever-growing gum wrapper chains. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we prized the gum so much – those colorful wrappers sure made a statement on our gum wrapper chains! Wrigley’s gum also made great additions, especially the Juicy Fruit version.

I remember my chain was several feet long before I finally stopped adding to it. Some people never stop adding. Check out Gary Duschl, the current record holder and his chain. You can visit Gary at www.gumwrapper.com and even send him some gum wrappers so you can be part of his chain as well.

Gary Duschl of Virginia Beach, Virginia current record holder of the world's longest gum wrapper chain. Visit www.gumwrapper.com

Hope you enjoyed this fruit-flavored blast to the past and that it brought back pleasant memories of your own summer days.

Guilty Pleasure Monday – Jake Gyllenhaal

PRINCE OF PERSIA Movie PosterI thought he was cute in OCTOBER SKY, but when I saw this poster it was like – Wow, who is this hot guy?

It turned out to be Jake Gyllenhaal. Seems Disney and Bruckheimer are adapting the 2003 video game into a movie.

Disney and Bruckheimer have had a winning combo in the past (Think the Pirates trilogy). Add Gyllenhaal looking hot and I’ve got to keep an eye out for this movie.

PRINCE OF PERSIA SANDS OF TIME will be out in May 2010.

Here’s some footage they’ve released for the movie.


Fun Friday – Ninja Cat

This Fun Friday I have a very sneaky cat for you! It’s amazing how determined she is and how careful as she approaches her objective. It makes for a good chuckle. Also remember you have until midnight EST TONIGHT to leave a message on the Nancy Thayer blog to possibly win a SINS OF THE FLESH t-shirt.


Ninja Cat @ Yahoo! Video

Sexy Saturday and Sad Sunday

What a crazy day! Met with with my writing buddies, Kimberly Kaye Terry and Susan Krinard for breakfast and then with my Dangerous Woman buddies for coffee. Here’s Kimberly and Susan with me.

We were lucky to have Candance Poarch and Shirley Hailstock sitting beside us and took a moment to say HI and snap a photo!

Then it was more meetings with editors and publicists and a moment to take a breather. The RITAs were spectacular with lots of women in gorgeous sexy dresses, but the reception afterwards was crazy. Had planned to meet up with my friend Cathy Maxwell, but couldn’t find her so I headed back to a small gathering we were having with some Liberty buddies and other friends. We had a great time sitting around talking shop and also, all about the weird kinds of research we have to do to write a book!

Sunday morning, one last breakfast with friends before we started our road trip home. The plan had been that we would have less to take home than we brought to RWA. LOL! That was the plan anyway. Somehow we ended up with even more! Here’s shots of the back of the car and of my friend and fellow writer Lois Winston who shared the backseat with me.

So how as it overall? Awesome. Got lots of business done and have good things happening. A possible sale and some new opportunities that are falling into place. Excitement as I saw my book at the Grand Central Spotlight. Joy at seeing long distance friends and sadness at saying goodbye for the moment.

Tiredness. I’ve been running on very few hours of sleep and am hoarse from all the talking and the singing along at the Harlequin party.

Happy and looking forward to next year in Tennessee. We’re already talking about the road trip down. Convinced my daughter she had to come with me again. The last time she did was at least 6 years ago and I think she would have a blast!

Anyway, trying for an early night and some rest since it’s back to work tomorrow. Thank you all for dropping by this week and all your comments. Really appreciated hearing from all of you.