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Saturday, June 03, 2006

Moving to Wordpress

Blogger has had one to many outages for me this past week, so I'm going on and moving to WordPress.

The new version still has a few visual glitches (mostly css problems - I'm still learning!) but all the old posts have carried over.

Please follow me by changing your bookmarks to
http://www.embercase.com/wpembercase/
If you'd like to exchange links, leave me a message with your site.

Happy reading!
Ember

Posted by Ember Case :: 6/03/2006 02:23:00 PM :: 2 Comments:

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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Goals for the week

Goals for the week :

Sunday - finish polish on first chapter of Warrior's Mate; write cover letter for The Knight Agency

Monday - send first chapter and cover letter to TKA; Hit 10,000 words on Warrior's Mate

Tuesday - Hit 11,000 words on Warrior's Mate

Wednesday - Hit 12,000 words on Warrior's Mate

Thursday - reread and print out so it can be laying around in case Sis has a few minutes to read this weekend

There will probably be no writing after Thursday; I begin WOFATTAS - my Weekend of Fun at the Theatre and Such. Sis will be here from Friday until Monday; Tuesday is Brainy Boy's birthday, and we've promised him much fun. Wednesday will be May 31 - I'll have new goals then. And hopefully a clear direction of that still murky project I want to have ready to pitch to Nocturne in Atlanta.

What are your goals for the week?

Posted by Ember Case :: 5/21/2006 05:27:00 PM :: 1 Comments:

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Friday, May 19, 2006

Critique me!

I was taking an early lunch break, and reading through my Bloglines to catch up on messages. And what did I see over at The Knight Agency blog?

Friday, May 19, 2006

Winner of the Critique

Thank you to everyone who posted their questions and thoughts on a TKA message board! These responses are really going to help us push forward successfully with our many ideas.

Now, the answer you have all been waiting for...

*Drum Roll Please*

The winner of the free critique...

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Karen of Neptune Beach FL

*applause*

Congratulations! Thanks again to everyone for their participation!

I'm just a whee bit excited!
Going to polish the first chapter of Warrior's Mate tomorrow and have it ready to send next week!

Posted by Ember Case :: 5/19/2006 12:14:00 PM :: 1 Comments:

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Friday, May 05, 2006

Days of no-time

212 words this morning in 20 minutes. Ugh.

Going to resort to the Cinderella card (I feel like such a bad mom when I do that) after dinner and see if I can get to 1000 before my brain melts into a puddle of "I've been up 16 hours" goo.

Posted by Ember Case :: 5/05/2006 05:05:00 PM :: 1 Comments:

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Monday, May 01, 2006

American Title III

I really hoped to get something done by June 1 for the American Title III contest, but it's looking like it's not going to happen. Hubby dumped a new project on me - write the media guide for the Jacksonville Bobcats. By the end of May. By myself. Print ready, in pdf. The writing by itself wouldn't be so bad (it's only 50 pages, most of which will be player and coach/staff bio's) - but I get to do the print layout too. Ouch. Graphic design on that scale is not my usual thing.

So I'm going to just focus on the story for Nocturne, and getting it ready to pitch in July.

Yes, my goals are always shifting ;) But better to have shifting goals, than to have no goals at all!

Posted by Ember Case :: 5/01/2006 11:04:00 AM :: 0 Comments:

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Sunset Key released!

Sunset Key
Cassidy Kent
ISBN 1-59426-563-1

Freesia Daniels, personnel specialist and consummate planner, wasn't prepared to get the boot from her company for possessing a heart. When she decides to return home from Boston to the sunny beaches of Key West to lick her wounds, she discovers her heartbroken past has finally caught up with her in the form of Zachary Gray, her childhood sweetheart. He lures her to his island getaway and lands them smack in the middle of a raging hurricane. Lightning doesn't often strike twice, but this storm might give them both a second chance at love.

Size: HeatSheet
Rating: Pulsar
Excerpt: http://www.phaze.com/Excerpts/SunsetKeyExcerpt.htm
http://www.phazebooks.com/catalog/product_...?products_id=87 S

Posted by Ember Case :: 4/27/2006 01:44:00 PM :: 0 Comments:

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Monday, April 24, 2006

BOS Results

Final scoring from the Romance Diva's "Best First Meeting" contest were released yesterday. Here's the final results -
The Lord Helps Those... Keziah - 50/50
Tonight, Forever Ember 48/50
The Rebound Guy JAC 47/50

I read Keziah's story during the first round, so I agree with the judge - it was an awesome story! Gratz to her.

My second place finish was a lot easier to swallow when I read the very detailed comments (Thanks to Diana DeBalko of Siren Publishing for being so thorough). Had my first taste of honesty judging - and by the end, there were so many little mistakes (comma missuse the big one) that I was thinking, how did I finish second?? Going to have to sit down and go through the entry this week and fix those problems but - I hate comma usage rules!

Today was my first morning of getting up at 5:30. To write, you know. Except instead of writing I read over my scoring comments, and now I'm blogging. Bad writer.

Posted by Ember Case :: 4/24/2006 12:23:00 PM :: 0 Comments:

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BOS Final results

Posted by Ember Case :: 4/24/2006 09:58:00 AM :: 0 Comments:

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WIP

7,054 / 12,000 - 58.7% Krissy's Story
(Not an active project)

16,979 / 25,000 - 67.9% Secrets of Desire

640 / 16,000 - 0% Unnamed (Next WIP)

Contests

Amber Quill Heat Wave
winners announced Mar 1 -
did not final

Best First Meeting -
Romance Divas
Top 3 finisher;
entries now in final judging

Stroke of Midnight
Passionate Ink
Finalist, Paranormal
Winners announced
at Nationals, July