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On
the Amber Quill Bestseller Lists in December
#7 for Amber Allure
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#9 for Amber Heat
#10 for Amber Allure
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#10 for Amber Heat
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Chats
and Blogging
Tuesdays
in January I'm blogging at the Servants of the Muse Blog.
January
10th - Blogging at Romantic Erotica Writers (http://romeroticawriters.blogspot.com/)
Contest
Information
Book-A-Day
Giveaway at The
Romance Studio.
On January 12th,
TRS will be giving away a download of Vampyre Falls: Animal Heat, so
be sure to stop by to enter.
Give
me a hint--what title would you like to see me give away in the TRS
giveaway. Email me at adrianna@adriannadane.com
and I'll add that title to the offerings for my TRS monthly giveaway.
Put in the subject line"TRS-Book-a-Day Suggestion."
NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.
Winner
of my RT Convention Contest #3 is Jackie. Congratulations!
More
contests with more books coming up. Deadline to join my newsletter
to be eligible for the next contest, Adrianna's RT Convention Contest
#4 is January 22nd.
Subscribers email me at adrianna@adriannadane.com
if you would like to be entered to win. This drawing will have more
books from the RT Convention and a surprise or two. Jut put in the
subject line "January RT Drawing." This drawing is only for
my newsletter subscribers.
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Torrid
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January,
2008
New
Releases
December
2007
 The
winged male twins were an enigma on Vrotia. Growing up, they shared
everything. Except the female they both adored. She would never
belong to either one. Or would she?
Now available from Amber
Heat.
Gillian
Darby took a ride in the country to pick apples for a pie. She never
expected to end up dropped in a whole other realm, apparently as the
birthday gift for a unicorn prince. Gillian is an adventurous girl
and takes up the offer of the sexy man with the thick white tail to
become his consort for the day in exchange for a basket of magical
fruit. Being a chef with an eye toward fame, she was certain she was
on her way and had made a very shrewd deal. Or had she?
Now available from Amber
Heat.
New
Reviews
December
Reviews
Vampyre Falls: Animal Heat
5
Hearts from Valerie at loveromancesandmore.com!! Adrianna
Dane has written a scorcher that will curl the toes and have the
reader running for a cold shower. Read
the review.
Now available from Amber
Heat.
Breathless Peaks
4.5 Blue Ribbons from
Lacey at Romance Junkies Reviews!! BREATHLESS
PEAKS is a scintillating tale that leaves the reader with a warm
feeling at the end. ... Read
the review.
Now available from Amber
Heat.
A
Slice From Adrianna's Life
Moving
Into 2008...
I can't believe 2007 is
gone. It went by so quickly. I'm thinking 2008 will be just as busy.
January will see the release of two new stories at Amber Quill, and a
novel, Body Parts, at Loose Id. It's going to be another exciting month.
I was going to try to hit
another scifi convention this month, but I'm thinking not this year.
I do have one scheduled for March, and I'll be attending EPICon in
March as well. And then the RT Convention at the end of April.
December saw some very
difficult times here in western Washington as we had some major winds
and flooding that left many people homeless at the holidays, as well
as affecting more than two hundred small businesses. The Governors of
Oregon and Washington anticipate more than one billion dollars in
damage. We had hurricane-strength winds, heavy rains causing mud
slides, and record flooding. It even caused a portion of the
Interstate to remain closed for several days which is something that
hasn't happened before. Several of the stores where I shop locally
were under about ten feet of water.
Word is that the local
business are now open, but I think it's going to be a difficult year
and folks begin to recover.
There have been many
stories of neighbor helping neighbor, as well
as strangers stopping by to help with clean up. I believe someone
said it was the third hundred-year flood in the last sixteen years. Hmmmm.
I hope we can all look
forward to a better 2008.
Best wishes and Happy New Year,
Adrianna
Small
Footsteps Into the Future
by
Adrianna Dane
My first goal for 2008 is
to write more. Don't laugh. I'm talking about venturing into other
areas of writing. Maybe direct myself to do more blogging, write more
articles. I tend to procrastinate writing in those areas.
But I must admit, I don't
fall short in setting goals. I've been setting them since I was in
junior high. Now doesn't that date me? Translate that to middle
school. Short term and long term goals, at least in my life, are a
must. It's like your brain telling you to put one foot in front of
the other to travel across the room. To an even larger extent it's
creating the map that's used to travel to a new town or state or
country. It's not always perfect, but it can get you from Point A to
Point B with maybe a few glitches and scenic trips along the way.
In writing I do need to
set goals. I am [sort of] a planner. On occasion. Well, there's
layers to that. I might plan on this side of the room, but maybe not
on that side. In stories I know where they start, and I sort of know
where they finish, and I have a glimmer of how it's going to
progress. But characters are funny creatures because they like to
remind me that I'm
relating their
story, so things change as I get that first draft down. And they
change more by the time it's polished and submitted, and edited and
proofed and finally released.
Back to goal setting.
December or January is the perfect time for me to think about what
I've done and where I want to go. To ask the question, "what
have I achieved this last year?" And then the new set of goals
begin to emerge.
My deadlines for this
coming year are goals and that list is taped right next to my desk.
Then I must think about my other goals and how to add or take away
from previous lists. There are the short-term goals and the long term
goals. Short being anywhere from a month to three months. Long-term
being a year to several years.
Goals help me focus and
provide a vision. Confirming them, jotting them down on paper helps
to solidify them.
Rather than setting out a
list, here are a couple of websites I came across that might be
useful in goal setting.
www.mindtools.com
www.topachievement.com/goalsetting.html
Don't let these new goals
stress you out. In my opinion, less stress should be on that list of
goals. I think challenges are good, like adding a pound at a time to
a set of weights, do it slowly, break it down, and before you know
it, you'll be looking at a list of achievements, and not just goals.
And you're less likely to break your back if you don't try to do it
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