Welcome to Tuesday Tales Holiday Blog Hop. I'd like to take this time to thank everyone who has visited my blog.This has always been my favorite time of the year. I love driving around with my kids looking at all the Christmas lights.  As hectic as the holidays get with the shopping and cooking, I still like the warm feeling of the holidays leave me with. I am giving away your choice.  Roses, The Boardwalk or Mystical Wonders - Circle of Friends (Book 1).  Please leave me your name, email address, the book you'd like along with the format in the comment section.  I'd also love to hear what your favorite thing to do is during the holidays. Madison Morina, college professor, meets Sal at the college’s pep rally.  They hit it off, but Madison still has her doubts regarding their relationship. Shari Stafford, a clairvoyant, hairdresser, finds love when she hires a carpenter to do renovations on her house. She has a special gift of reading mi...

For me, Christmas has always been a magical time of the year.  It was always a time for our family to get together.  One of our rituals was going to church on Christmas Eve, and on the way home driving around looking at all the houses decorated.  Then it was back home for the seven fish dinner along with endless desserts. To this day, I still keep up the tradition of driving around looking at the Christmas decorations with my kids.  The cookie process is a week long adventure.  I love making a dozen different kinds of cookies.  The top of the list are my seven layer cookies and chocolate crinkles. Mystical Wonders Series Circle of Friends  Book 1 Madison Morina, college professor, meets Sal at the college’s pep rally.  They hit it off, but Madison still has her doubts regarding their relationship. Shari Stafford, a clairvoyant, hairdresser, finds love when she hires a carpenter to do renovations on her house. She has a special...

Welcome to this week's Tuesday Tales to the word prompt Loose.  Sorry for the hiatus,but hopefully I will be back every week continuing with my new story, "From Me to You."  This is a draft.  So please excuse the mistakes.   “I have to admit I’m a tad bit jealous of your new beginning.” “Why?” “The adventure...the thrill...the newness...” “The newness of what?” “Of starting over again.   The thrill of the first kiss...the first time he touches you...” “If anything is going to be touching me under the covers, it’s going to be the vibrator you bought me last Christmas.” “And is it still in the box?”   Sophia asked leaning her shoulder into hers. “Don’t be a wise ass,” Erika laughed.   “You know how I feel about using toys.   If I’m going to have any kind of orgasm, it’s going to be with a real man.” “Come on loosen up.” Giggling she added, “just think of it this way, it stays hard all the time, it do...

Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Tales.  This week we are writing to the word prompt hard.  This is a first draft, unedited, so please excuse the mistakes. “It's so hard accepting that my husband ran off with a twenty-five year old. I did everything right, always being there for him, and all for absolutely nothing,” Erika said holding back her tears. “He’s the fool.   People will mistake his girlfriend for his daughter.   He is never going to be able to keep up with her.   Besides, she is so full of herself and nothing to look at. Erika laughed. Sophia always had a way of saying the right words to make her feel better. But the truth be told, his girlfriend was gorgeous. She didn't have a trace grays or a single wrinkle of her round face.   She was plump in all the right places.   Erika didn’t hate her, she was just envious of her youth. “The only thing that still hurts is the fact that he made me look stupid in front of my friends...

    Welcome to this week's Tuesday Tales to the word prompt Glass.  This is an excerpt from my WIP from Me to You.  Please excuse the errors, for this is a first draft.  This week will show the relationship between two best friends. Walking down the hall, she made it a point to stop by each of the kid’s rooms.   It seemed like only yesterday that she pointed their rooms and put together cribs. In each room, she packed the things they left behind, finding a part of their childhood. In Richie’s room she found a few tests from high school with marks of twenty and thirty sat behind the radiator.   He knew he would have been punished him for weeks and lectured about how important an education was. Those were the days that had flashed before her eyes were now over.   What she wouldn’t give to be picking up Barbie accessories and action figure paraphernalia off the floor  having her kids back with her again....

Welcome to this week's Tuesday Tales to the word prompt building.  This is the opening scene in my new contemporary novel called From Me to You. This is a draft so please pardon if there are a few errors.    Boxes sat in the middle of the vacant room on the newly refinished hardwood floors.   The decision to pick up and move had been evident for the past few months.   Erika sat down on the old red beer cooler and wondered if she made the right decision in leaving everything behind.   Deep down she realized she had, no other choice.   She needed to leave the past behind in order to move forward. Standing, she walked to the garden window, parted the curtains and admired her garden. For the first time in twenty years, all the flowers were blooming at once. Maybe that was a sign for things to come.   Erika took this as a sign that everything would be all right.   Not knowing what the future held in the n...

Welcome to Secret Cravings Publishing Blog Hop.  It's closing in the end of the summer.  The kids will be back in school, now it is mom's turn to buy something for herself.  Back in the day, when my kids were home during the summer, I never had a chance to curl up with a book.  By ten o'clock, I was dead to the world.  These days, if I'm not writing a love story, I am reading one. The summer is my favorite time of the year.  I love sitting on the beach writing and reading.  Last summer I edited Mystical Wonders - Circle of Friends and Second Chances.  This summer I got a late start because of Hurricane Sandy.  But I was able to write and do edits on book 4 - Survival. Next months, the third in the series - The Right Call Will be released.  Circle of Friends and Second Chances are both available electronically.  Circle of Friends is now available in paperback if you don't have a kindle, nook or like ...