International Heat is hosting a Global Warming blog tour and giving away a ton of prizes. For more details, click on the jpeg and you’ll be taken to their blog, where you can get the finer points of what they’re doing.

To enter, I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to visit the blogs listed below and answer whatever question is given.

Mari Carr

Desiree Holt

Viv Arend

Pearl’s House of Romance

Jambrea Jo Jones

Z.A. Maxfield

J.R. Patrick

Carol Lynne

Jayne Rylon

Lexxie Couper

Dawn Montgomery

Valerie Tibbs

Larissa Ione

eBook addict

Amanda Young

Rhian Cahill

Nicole Austin

Jess Dee

Selena Illyria

Lila Dubois

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Q: To begin, please share which genre(s) you write in…
A: First off, I’d like to thank you, Amanda, for having me today. I write paranormal romance. I’d love to be able to write in other genres but when I try, something paranormal always jumps onto the page.

Q: How long did you write before you received your first contract for publication?
A: I had been writing seriously for about two years before receiving a contract with LooseId. Faith Revisited was the second manuscript I’d sent around so I feel blessed that it happened fairly quickly.

Q: Out of all the stories you’ve written, which is your favorite?
A: My favorite story is actually the first thing I wrote with the hope of publication about the angel Muriel and her vampire mate, Ezra. It was where I began building the world I like to play in and while I have since changed the facts of their story in other works, it is one I would love to rewrite someday.

Q: Do you need to be in a specific place or atmosphere before the words flow?
A: I need two things to write, a place with no distractions and my music. I am a people watcher so I can’t write when other people are about. With my music, I have found that each book has a different tone. If I can find the right music, the book seems to write itself. Bale, from Faith Revisited, only wanted to listen to AC/DC (the males I write about can be demanding that way 

Q: What’s the strangest source of inspiration you’ve found for a story? (more…)

March 7-13 is read an ebook week. Celebrate by telling someone you know about ebooks.

Visit the website below for more information.

http://www.ebookweek.com/index.html

Hi,

I know that this didn’t directly affect you, but I thought that maybe you can
be interested in knowing what happened on LiveJournal in the last month. I
posted about it:

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/976175.html

In few words, LiveJournal for the past month had an hidden code that hijacked
all out clicks to 150 website (included Amazon and Ebay) with Associate
Programs to compute the Referral Fees to the same and only Associate ID,
probably a LiveJournal’s Associate ID.

I’m posting this on various other blogs, since I really didn’t like the “No
Answer” policy of LJ, even after they admitted, in other blogs, that indeed,
the code was redirecting fees to them. (more…)

http://bookworld.editme.com/GLBT-Bookshelf-March-2010-Fundraiser

Q: To begin, please share which genre(s) you write in…
A: I’m kind of a jack-of-all-trades author. I love writing contemporary romances, such as Forbidden Passion, but my first love has always been romantic suspense. I have three romantic suspense novels currently out through Cerridwen Press. And recently, I’ve started writing Inspirational romances, which is such a challenge as well as being extremely rewarding.

Q: How long did you write before you received your first contract for publication?
A: Seriously, about a year, but I actually started the writing process as a pre-teen. I wrote my first romance, filled with the typical clichés and corny romance. It’s still in a drawer somewhere. I didn’t seriously consider writing until much later. My first published book was a paranormal romance.

Q: Out of all the stories you’ve written, which is your favorite?
A: I’d have to say I have two favorites. The Things You Think You Want, a romantic comedy published through Samhain Publishing has a lot of me in it. The story is about a small town girl going to the big city but she never leaves her small town roots behind. There are some very tender, touching moments from my life in there. My second favorite story is Don’t Close Your Eyes, a romantic suspense thriller that has a touch of paranormal. I love this story because it reunites two lovers who had thought they’d lost each other forever.

Q: Do you need to be in a specific place or atmosphere before the words flow?

A: No, I can write just about anywhere. Usually on my couch with my laptop. But the story itself simmers for a while in my head before it comes to life.

Q: What’s the strangest source of inspiration you’ve found for a story?
A: Lots of authors say this, but I still think it’s odd that most of my ideas come to me in dreams. Weird.

Q: If you could offer one tidbit of information for new writers, what would it be? (more…)

The Washington Post is reporting on a change in state hiring policy enacted by new Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has signed an executive order barring discrimination in the state workforce on grounds that include race, sex, religion and age, but not sexual orientation.

Previous governors included sexual orientation.

There really is no way to translate this action other than that McDonnell believes that sexual orientation, in and of itself, can and should be used as a sole cause for firing state employees or denying promotion. This action by their governor is an open invitation for supervisors or managers to fire or demote employees. And it is likely to happen.

But what is even more likely to occur is abuse, harassment, and antagonizing of gay people. If a coworker calls someone a “damn pervert”, that’s not going to be punished. If the morning meeting is started by a daily f*ggot joke, there’s no recourse. If a state employee shares how they lost the paperwork of the “flaming queen in my line” to gales of laughter, that will not be illegal discrimination. And posting big signs quoting Leviticus or “protecting marriage” will not be an indication of a hostile workplace.

How can there be any respect or consideration, any objection to abuse, if the official state policy is “it’s OK to fire the queers!!”

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