Thursday Thirteen and book promo!

Thirteen jobs I have had:

1. After School Program worker

2. Dry cleaning clerk

3. Cashier at an office supply store

4. Grocery store Hallmark Cards (set up new product/maintenance/reorder product)

5. Ticket seller at a local Science Museum

6. Cashier at a college bookstore

7. Clerical Support for a collection agency

8. Customer Service for an online horse wagering company

9. Student lol

10. Private Investigator

11. Security Officer

12. Recruiter

13. Bank teller


What kinds of jobs have you had? Any that you loved? Were there any you despised?

Let me know.

Also, we have another Diva, Emily Ryan-Davis with a new release:


She believed the man didn't matter as long as he said yes - until the wrong man vowed to love her beneath....

All the Trees in Pearl
by Emily Ryan-Davis

Available March 21 at Ellora's Cave



Signed and paid for by one brother.

Ethan Carver didn’t order a wife, but he couldn’t turn away from Margaret Redde’s lush mouth and proper manners. Could he keep up his brother’s deception and make her stay?

Set on fire by the other.

She wanted security and didn’t care where it came from - one brother was as good as the other - until Ethan touched her. One night in his arms changed everything. His hot kisses sent her up in flames and taught her desires she didn’t know she possessed.

Read an excerpt today!

SICCO and other good news...

What is SICCO you may ask? It is the name of the new local chapter of Sisters In Crime that myself and a new writing group I have joined are forming. SICCO will stand for Sisters in Crime Columbus Ohio.

I was fortunate to meet the woman who will be our chapter president at my RWA chapter meeting this past weekend. I was very excited to hear that there were other local mystery writers.

They also have a critique group which I feel will be helpful to me as well.

I have also learned that I was accepted into the Mentor program that Romance Divas runs. I cannot tell you how excited I am. All of the mentees are "patiently" waiting to learn about who our mentors are.

Lastly, today I accepted a new position at a Marketing research firm. The job will begin Monday. I will make more per hour than the last job, health benefits and a 401K!

Wish me luck in all these endevours :)

I will be back tommorrow with Thursday Thirteen.

Have a great night!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Your Leprechaun Name Is:

Plucky Whiskeybreath

What's Your Leprechaun Name?

Thursday Thirteen & Book Promotion :)

My 13 Favorite TV Shows

1. Gilmore Girls

2. Grey's Anatomy

3. Soprano's

4. Dexter

5. Ugly Betty

6. Big Brother

7. Medium

8. Popular

9. Oz

10. The Riches

11. Nip/Tuck

12. Rescue Me

13. Kyle XY

Just wanted to do a little bit of book promotion. One of the Divas, Diva Jax has a new release out on March 17th! Here's a little info on it. Go and buy it :)

THE LOTUS BLOSSOM CHRONICLES an anthology with Simone Harlow

Paperback: 250 pages

Publisher: Parker Publishing, LLC; First edition (March 17, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1600430341

ISBN-13: 978-1600430343

In Jax Cassidy'sSIREN’S SEDUCTION ...

Niko Chow craves solitude. Only fate won't leave him in peace. After losing his wife and unborn child in a car crash, he slips into the dark world of alcoholism. His desire to overcome his addiction leads him to a promise made to a dying friend and into the arms of a seductive chanteuse. Donovan Matthews ignites a passion within him he has long denied. The more time he spends with her, the more Niko finds her spitfire determination and generous heart as sensuous and exotic as the Lotus Blossoms that bloom in his garden. Can she end his internal war and help heal his aching soul?

In Simone Harlow's CONCUBINE ...

In the new world order, New Africa bounty hunter Nyssa Farris has only one goal…to get her daughter back from the woman who snatched her out of her arms as a baby. But to do that, she must break her one rule: never hunt a slave. Once a pleasure slave to a king, Nyssa understands how the loss of freedom can scar a person’s soul, and for her daughter she will pay the price.Prince Asad Kuba is a man on the run. Escaped from the wicked queen, he will do anything to stay out of her clutches. He doesn’t expect a beautiful, determined woman to capture him, bed him, and take him back in chains.Two people on a collision course will change nations.

Lisa~

Cabin Fever

Well today I was finally able to venture out. I went to pick up the new RT magazine. Many of my fellow COFW members either had a review or an ad in the magazine. Very cool to see people you know in the magazine :)

I also just found out some awesome news! On May 15, 2008 one of my favorite authors, Elaine Viets will be at the Foul Play mystery bookstore in my city signing autographs! WOO HOO :)

The bookstore is very cool. Based in a victorian style house in uptown Westerville, it has ALL mystery books, too many to count both used and new. They also have cats that hang out in the bookstore. I checked out the place last week and was able to meet Harriet. She was a sweetheart.

Well I am off to figure out this plotting board.

Happy Writing :)

P.S. I got some business cards to take with me to ThrillerFest and give out to people I meet that I want to stay in contact with. I will try to post one soon:)

Snow Snow go away come again another day

As I am typing this we are expecting "The biggest winterstorm Ohio has seen this year"

UGH!

Its spring time, is it too much to ask for a little cooperation from Mother Nature? Next month is my birthday and I am putting my request in NOW, right this minute for a nice sunny springy day! I will expect nothing else lol.

Lucky DH gets to escape this Snow City for Las Vegas :( He sucks lol.

However my mom and I have planned a girls weekend. Watching old movies, making homemade pizza and snuggling up with the fuzzy kids (My mom's dogs). Casablanca, and The Sting just to name a couple.

I also have my responsibilities to my girls in my troop. We are selling GS cookies this weekend.

On the Writing front, I had a quite successul day yesterday. I spent my time challenging over at Romance Divas with some of the new friends I have made over there. All in all I ended up writing over 900 words on a new WIP I started on wednesday.

I am some pages short of my challenge for my PowerDraft challenge, but I hope to finish strong and make my 15 pg goal for the week.

I am also attending my first big scale conference in July. In NYC, the International Thriller Writers are holding ThrillerFest 2008. I am only going for the first two days which is called Craft Fest. I am very excited and nervous!

What has been some of your conference experiences? Like it? Love it? Hate it?

What went right? What went wrong?

I'd love to hear your input :)

Off to make lunch!

Lisa St. James
(Like it? This will be my pen name from here forward)

Thursday Thirteen

Today I am going to post thirteen of my favorite authors, in nor particular order :)

1. Nancy J. Cohen Bad Hair Day Mysteries

2. Elaine Viets Dead End Job Mysteries

3. Nancy Bush Jane Kelly Series

4. LeAnn Sweeney Yellow Rose Mysteries

5. Sarah Strohmeyer

6. Victoria Laurie

7. Joan Hess

8. Joan Hess

9. Julie Kenner

10. Earlene Fowler

11. Gemma Halliday

12. Janet Evanovich

13. Sue Grafton

Who are your favorite authors? Whats on your To Be Read pile?

Have a happy Thursday!

Mrs. P

To challenge or not to challenge...

This week I am participating in my first PowerDraft with COFW. Its eight straight days of writing. BICHOK BABY!

B(ut)
I(n)
C(hair)
H(ands)
O(n)
K(eyboard)

So far 2 pgs and 200 words...a little slow on the upswing, but I will get there.

Have a good one :)