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I thought it was time for me to once again share a video/song from my writing playlist.  This time, "Hold Onto My Heart' by Graham Colton. :)

Missed my interview on BlogTalkRadio?  Here's the podcast. :)

Joe Cafe - by JD Mader

Blurb:

The murder at Joe Café is an abomination. It stops the entire universe. For Michael, it tarnishes everything, including his badge. For Chet and his hostage, it is the beginning of a chase that will lead them through dingy motels and the darkest corridors of their minds. Dogan just wants Sara back. Jimmy the Cat wants to make up for all the time he has wasted. Frankie wants to live a 'moral' life, erasing everyone in his path who does not live up to his standards...

One of my friends recently made hundreds of cake balls for her friend's wedding reception.  When she told me that they are simple - if time-consuming - to make, I decided I had to try my hand at creating these scrumptious sweets.

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I decided to try three flavor combinations my first time out: chocolate cake with chocolate-peanut butter coating, chocolate cake with peanut butter coating, and Kahlua-infused chocolate cake with chocolate coating.

I started with a milk chocolate cake mix.  Instead...

New book and trailer - Everything You Are (Jukebox Heroes 3)

Ritesh Kala's Book Reviews is hosting a major giveaway now through February 19th.  Many romance ebooks are up for grabs, including book three in my Jukebox Heroes series (Everything You Are) which will be released just in time for Valentine's Day!  Hop on over to the blog and check out this generous event.

Schooling Carmen by Kathleen Cross

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Desperate to stand out in a family of overachievers, beautiful, bigoted, and bitchy Carmen DuPrè will do anything to leave the "hellhole" high school she works in—even if it means getting groped by a geezer who's promised her a promotion. She's not worried about things getting out of hand though—if there's one thing Carmen knows, it's how use her looks to get what she wants—including courtside Lakers seats and...

Hippie Boy: a Girl's Story by Ingrid Ricks

Blurb (from the product description on Amazon):

What would you do if your Mormon stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For thirteen-year-old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN.

For years Ingrid has begged her free-wheeling dad to let her join him on the road as a tool-selling vagabond to escape the suffocating poverty and religion at home. When her devout Mormon mother marries Earl―a homeless Vietnam vet who exploits the...

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle

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Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams - not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.

In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to...

Beginning on Jan. 1 of this year, I started two reading challenges.  One of those challenges involves reading books by authors I've never read before.  I decided to start there, diving into a promising paranormal mystery book.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to shelf it, possibly permanently.

What started out as an interesting premise and intriguing backstory soon devolved into an overwritten, confusing mess.  Half the time I can't tell what the author is trying to say, and the tangents keep...