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Legacy of the King’s Pirates series by M.L. Tyndall, Barbour Books: Book 1: The Redemption 2006 Book 2: The Reliance 2006 Book 3: The Restitution 2007 I first saw the cover for MaryLu Tyndall’s pirate book The Redemption in 2006. My initial thought was disbelief. It intrigued me but really, a swashbuckler book with a pirate hero isn’t your average Christian literature. Months later, I saw another Pirate book by MaryLu with a slightly different cover, followed by a 3rd book in 2007. By this time, the name MaryLu Tyndall was quite common to me but I didn’t know anything about her or her writing. In the fall of 2008, I stopped off in a Christian bookstore in Winnipeg, Manitoba on my way back from the American Christian Fiction Writer’s (ACFW) conference in Minneapolis, MN and there on a sale table lay MaryLu’s 3 book series, Legacy of the King’s Pirates . I’ve always been a sucker for tall ships and these book covers caught my eye with their aura of danger and excitement. And at ...

Over at Prairie Chicks Write Romance today, inspirational romance author Loree Lough is guest blogging about Book Signings . A veteran of over 100 book signings, she'll tell you the most effective way to hold this type of marketing promotion. Loree is giving away 2 books in the Love Finds You series so head on over and leave a comment to get your name in for one of the 2 books pictured here . And Loree's got a very unique way of picking the winners which I know because she told us over at the Inkwell on Thurs. But I'm n ot telling you here... you'll have to go to Prairie Chicks and find out for yourself. Loree's question for today is this: What would inspire you to attend a book signing… and what’s most likely to keep you away? So head over to Prairie Chicks Write Romance to answer the question, ask a question, or just to leave your email address for the draw. You don't even need a reason and we'll be very happy you did.

I'm blogging over at Inkwell Inspirations today about my favorite Inkspot in history . . . the one female who has inspired me the most. The answer is my namesake - Annie. My sister has always called me Annie. Back in the 70's, my CB handle was Annie Oakley. I'm talking of no other than Little Annie Oakley, the greatest sharpshooter who ever lived. The young woman who shot the ashes off a cigarette while it was still held between the Kaiser's lips! I thought I knew Annie until I started researching her for my blog post and then I realized I didn't know her at all. Because there's so much more to Annie Oakley than just the love story between her and Frank Butler. But oh, what a love story. :) My question for the day over at the Inkwell is about role playing in your childhood. Who is your favourite character either real or imagined? In history or otherwise? Photo credit given to: www.cowgirls.com/dream/cowgals/oakley.htm

Today is the 9th of November and I've been at NaNoWriMo for a week. I finally took a day off on Sat to attend the the Saskatchewan Romance Writers monthly meeting which was being held in Davidson instead of Saskatoon so I didn't have to drive so far. I left at 9 am and got back home at 9 pm. Fired up from all the coffee I drank enroute, I started writing at 10 pm Sat night and kept at it until 0430 in the morning, then continued yesterday when I awoke. So, here's my NaNoWriMo Progress Report up to and including Day 8: Project: Revising & Adding to Emma’s Outlaw Goal: Need 65,000 words to finish (90,000 Total) Nano Words so far: 11,834 (38,624 Total) Nano Goal: 18% complete (43% Overall) I seem to be revising more that I imagined. However, I thought it would be passive writing which was a fault of mine when I wrote the first draft, but I'm also adding sensory details and filling out my characters. I really like the way the book is coming together. And the feedback...

Even though I'm heavily involved in NaNoWriMo, I still had to prepare a post for today at Prairie Chicks Write Romance . I planned to talk more about Nano but forgot the Chicks are starting a new monthly feature: Writing Exercises. Wheeee! Janet posted this exercise on Sunday: Choose one of your main characters (male or female) from any of your WIPs and from his/her POV write about one of the most difficult decision he/she had to make. Since I’m working on Emma’s Outlaw for my Nano project, I used my hero, Dan for this exercise and then I used the word count for Nano. The excerpt I posted is a defining moment in the book but I haven't given away the ending. For the record, you are free to guess what comes next but I'm not confirming anything. Okay, I'm off to see if I need to respond to any comments over at Prairie Chicks and then I'm buckling down to Emma's Outlaw . When I left off on Tues, Dan had just come back from town and he brought Emma a surprise . . .

Here's my Day 3 NaNoWriMo Progress Report: Project: Revising & Adding to Emma’s Outlaw Goal: Need 65000 words to finish (90K total) Today's word count: 2458 quality words First word: For Last word: eggs. Favorite line: It was one thing to be forced to sleep in a room with a strange man even if they were in separate beds but it would be a definite breach of propriety to speak to him. Total Nano Words: 5837 Nano Goal: 9% done (should be at 10% today) Treat: Dancing With the Stars Results Show Overall, it's going good. However, I'm working at a much slower pace revising than I ever did drafting a novel during Nano. Will have to pick up the pace.