Fraking Word War!!!
Current mood: sassy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Leslie Dicken and Lisa Paitz Spindler invited me to join their Word War, starting this past Monday. May 5.  I set my goal of 500 words a day. The ticker shows how many words I plan to write for the rest of May.  We're reporting to each other daily and Wednesdays we're to publicly report our progress on our blogs.

This past year has sucked and I'm determined to get some new work submitted this year. Right now I'm working on a story to submit to one of the confessional magazines. The Voices are talking to me again and I plan to have a new fiction story to submit by September, '08.

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Destination Pleasure
Current mood: animated
Category: Writing and Poetry

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DESTINATION PLEASURE is now available in print at Amazon.com!

Ever fantasize about going somewhere exotic? Want to make a memory that burns long after the trip is over? Nine women. Nine countries. Nine erotic adventures. Join them as each embarks on the trip of a lifetime. Sometimes it's the journey. This time it's the destination. Destination Pleasure Erotic moments in exotic places.

DOUBLE DEUTSCH by Shayla Kersten

Needing a fresh start after her husband divorces her for a younger woman, advertising exec, Catherine Lakeland, takes a position in Germany. Curious about sex with a man other than her husband but wary of the complications of a relationship, Cat trades places with her new friend, a sex worker at a brothel, for one night of pleasure but double the fun.

MADE IN MEXICO by Desiree Holt

Gabrielle, a former DEA agent, has safely retreated from the world, living in a tiny room in the Yucatan and making her living as a guide for tourists in the Quintana Roo jungle. Then her old boss asks her to find an agent stranded in the jungle with no way to contact anyone, and help effect his retrieval. Luis Aguilar is her former lover, a man who ignited her passion and stole her heart, yet she ran from the lifestyle he offered. What will happen when she sees him again after a year has passed?

WICKED IN WALES by Eve Savage

Ever had one of those days? First a train strands hotel manager Leia Weisman in a Welsh town with a 54 letter name, her best friend won't get off the "you need to get laid" wagon, and she practically attacks the zipper of the sexiest man she's ever seen. Lucky for her, Maddock Cyndyn has the cure. Him.

DEEP DOWN UNDER by Myla Jackson

On vacation to Australia, Lucy is left with a bad taste in her mouth when her boyfriend dumps her because she won't go down. A twist of fate, a kamikaze kangaroo, and Lucy is on an outback adventure she'll never forget when she lands in the arms of sexy Aussie cowboy, Jack Kenner, where she learns the magic of going Deep Down Under.

SULTRY SAUDI NIGHTS by Allie Standifer

The past is supposed to stay in the past, right? Tell that to Sheik Damon E'Darvue. He showed up in Ariel Lake's life after a one night mistake three years ago. With amazing amounts of bad luck and bad timing, Ariel finds herself married to a man she's never been able to forget. But this time will she find the courage to stick around and find out what happens once passion is satiated?

TAKE ME AGAIN SAM by Megan Kerans

Belly dancer Dove Rickland travels to Casablanca to improve her dancing. But she never expects to receive hands-on lessons from sexy restaurant owner Samir Macias, or that they'd be so pleasurable.

NAUGHTY IN NORWAY by Layla Chase

A job promotion temporarily relocates Texan Dissa Booth to Oslo, Norway where she treats herself to a weekend mountain trip. The athletic moves of her blond, blue-eyed Viking of a ski instructor, Rolf Torger, set her lustful thoughts racing. Dissa cuts loose and lets him know she's interested in any moves he might make besides on the slopes. Will one night of sexy naughtiness be enough? Or does a chance exist for more?

NAKED BLUFF by Betty Hanawa

The friendship with privileges relationship of American professional poker player Clarisse Jones and Prince Makis has bloomed into a love as beautiful as the roses his small country exports. His parents, the Prince and Princess of the island Principality of Renoun, have come to Monaco to pressure him into marrying. The American professional gambler is not what they wanted to be the new princess.

MI TORO by Brenna Zinn

In Seville, Spain for what should be an easy shoot for the final pictures of her Men of the World – Revealed photo book, Diana Walters quickly discovers her model is not the usual pushover. But if she hands over control to matador Philippe Cordova, will she leave with Spain with more than what she came for?

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Andrei Claude at WAP
Current mood: animated
Category: Writing and Poetry

Cover model Andrei Claude is a guest at Writers at Play today, May 2! Join us for a glimpse into the life of Mr. Romance 2005, fun and prizes. Among his covers is Shadow Warrior, an anthology I was part of.

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Ask an Editor @ www.writersatplay.com May 1st!
Current mood: chipper
Category: Writing and Poetry

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Turquoise Dreams to be released Friday, April 25!
Current mood: happy

This Friday, April 25, my novella Turquoise Dreams will be published by The Wild Rose Press, specifically The Scarlet Rose line of The Wilder Rose

Nita Ramirez Gonzalez and Calder (Call) Calverton have denied their attraction to each other for years. Now both are having erotic fantasies they can't ignore, especially when their dreams have them experiencing those fantasies through the legendary lovers who died 150 years ago.

Check out the excerpt at www.BettyHanawa.com Also, I'm blogging today at Writers at Play about how I wrote Turquoise Dreams. I'll be drawing a name from those who comment at Writers at Play. The winner will receive a pdf copy of Turquoise Dreams  plus a print copy of my EPPIE winner, Shadow Warrior. Come join me and don't forget to check out Turquoise Dreams, on sale Friday, April 25, at The Wilder Rose

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writing distractions or turning into a MySpace junkie
Current mood: frustrated
Category: MySpace

So, there I was focused on getting pics to use for a slideshow for Music and TV in MySpace. I started while I was fixing supper. I was on my laptop in the living room, after all I was just boiling water to put frozen vegetables in. Everything else was done. I started smelling something strange, then my husband walked from his office to the kitchen. "What have you got cooking? Oh, Sh*t!" I'd lost track of time and the water nearly boiled out of the pans. So, I stood there and read

 

while the water boiled and then the vegetables cooked. After I cleaned the kitchen, I went back to MySpace. I went to Photobucket and loaded a bunch of pictures. When I clicked the html code and pasted it to MySpace, I saw every pic I'd gotten. Not in the grid or slideshow, but individually. Then I realized I should have gotten the picture through MySpace which would have made me a nice slide show.

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One at a Time
Current mood: pleased
Category: Life

Last week, for the first time in my life, I saw daffodils in people’s yards.The area I live in is too hot for them so I’ve never seen them other than as potted plants.

A few days after I fell in love with daffodils, a friend sent me an essay about a hillside of daffodils blooming in a glorious pattern of colors. The plot had been planted over the course of thirty-five years, one bulb at a time. The moral of the essay is any plan can be accomplished if it’s taken one step at a time.

Like several of my friends, I’ve been in a writing slump. The fog is starting to lift. I know the pattern of the story tucked in my brain. I’m not going to let the enormity of what I want to accomplish, the pressure of other stories that need to be finished or edited stop this story. Every day, I’m writing one word at a time, one paragraph, one scene of this story that makes me smile whenever I think about it.

Some day I’ll have more than just the single thoughts, but an entire book to smile at. But for now, I’m happy to smile at one daffodil at a time.

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New Release
Current mood: excited
Category: Writing and Poetry

New year, new blogs, new stories coming out. Personally, I was extremely glad to see the end of 2007... a year in which the Fuck-Up Fairy ruled my life. Now I’m happily growing "In the Garden" of the The Wild Rose Press, amongst the Summer Roses, the Fairy Roses, and those fun, sexy, naughty roses in the Scarlett Rose line.

Naked Bluff is my contribution to the fabulous Destination Pleasure line.

Destination Pleasure takes you to exotic locales to play sexy games with fabulously gorgeous heroes.

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Books to Read !!!
Current mood: cheerful
Category: Writing and Poetry

Terri Garey's first book Dead Girls Are Easy has been released!!! 

Spooky happenings intermixed with "whistling in the dark" humor. I'm looking forward to seeing Nikki and Joe again and finding out more about Nikki's life before her death and new friends showed up. It's on my Keeper Shelf next to Sookie Stackhouse and Queen Betsy.

Read more about Dead Girls Are Easy and enter Terri's fun contest happening now at her website Terri Garey

ALSO:

As you can see by the countdown clocks, I'm eagerly waiting for the first and second books in C.L. Wilson's Tairen Soul series: Lord of the Fading Lands and Lady of Light and Shadows. These books are going to rock Fantasy readers. Read some excepts at her website: C.L. Wilson

Happy Reading!

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Writing, Weight Watchers, Evening Walk, and Books
Current mood: cheerful
Category: Life

I've been excavating my desk. The San Antonio Chapter of RWA is starting a "book of the month" challenge to write 50,000 words in a month. They started today, but I'm still excavating my desk and transferring files from an old laptop to a new one.  Tomorrow's going to be pretty much a wash, for writing again with chores to finish and a wedding shower to go to.

I rejoined Weight Watchers Online a week ago when I had trouble buttoning my fat jeans.  But I went to a graduation party and wedding shower last Sunday and managed to avoid the cake and cookies.  Stuck to the sandwiches, fruit, and veggie tray with water to drink.  I lost 4 lbs this past week.  I'm sure most of it is water weight, but I've already got more energy just by tracking my food and eating more balanced meals.  I can the cake tomorrow too.

For the first time in months, I had the energy to get out and walk.  I walked for thirty minutes this evening. I dipped into the 35 extra points but only by a couple since I had an activity point to swap.

I saw the most gorgeous damselfly this evening, busily dipping into the puddles after mosquito lavie. Go dragonflies and damselflies!

I also collected some more rocks to tumble. I love rocks. It's a family tradition. Practically everyone in my mom's family has a collection of rocks. I have my grandmother's and mother's collection. They'll go to my son. My daughter's like her dad and looks at us cross-eyed over our obsession.

I've been reading two of the JD Robb Death series a week since the beginning of May.  While I don't really like Nora Roberts-I'm sure she cries all the way to the bank about that-I do enjoy the JD Robb series. But after reading so many of them - and halfway through the series - I'm getting a bit bored with them.  Instead of starting the next one, I'm reading "Goblin Quest" by Jim C. Hines now and then I think I'll read another Dresdan Files book afterwards by Jim Butcher.

I can't wait until the current hard-back book by Janet Evanovich comes out in paperback. I just screamed at the end of the preview chapter of the last book. "Ranger has a WIFE???" Ranger is one of the hottest males to walk across the pages of a book. A bad-boy you can trust. Ummm-mmm.

Life is getting more enjoyable.

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