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Joyfully Reviewed is doing a whole bunch of contests this month, highlighting author newsletters. I’m one of the authors involved. Check their yahoo group out to see who else is participating and how to enter!!

BTW, I’m also still running my Love Hangover contest so if you haven’t entered, head on over to my website to see the rules on my contest page!

Excerpts are up at my messageboard for those so inclined.

Oh and Taking Chase will be out in paper on February 20! Even more thrilling is that the pre-order page is up at amazon! Yay!!

Stuff on my To Do List for this week:

1. Chatting tomorrow night at Romance At Heart! This is my first chat with them so please come out to say hello!

2. Find what to cut to get the last 1K out of Stripped to get it down to 27K

3. Finish fleshing out the story for my next proposal for the Vegas anth

4. Get more written on Making Chase

5. Get bookmarks ordered for RT

6. Clean my house (my husband would be very happy with this one)

7. Be sure everything contest wise has been mailed out.

In and around this there are kid type things - a play for one child on Saturday while the other one is at a birthday party. Present procuring for said party. Teacher conference for one kiddo. The usual, LOL.

Not a bad week!

What about you all? What’s on your to do list this week?

I received my very first review for SNAP! yesterday from The Romance Studio. Brenda Talley from The Romance Studio said, “This tongue-in-cheek tale written by Shelley Munro is not only hilarious, but a sweet love story…This book is filled with passionate sexual situations.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book; besides the humor, the intensity of Alice’s terror attacks, and the development of the relationship between James and Alice are wonderful. I highly recommend this book. It certainly delivers all the issues needed for a perfect read!” 4.5 Hearts

The entire review can be read here.

And meanwhile, I’ve been very quiet working on my current paranormal. I’ve finally given my book a working title - House of the Cat. It’s coming very slowly but I hope to have a 100,000 word draft to batter into shape by the first week in March. Unfortunately as soon as I commit to a project, I start thinking of all these cool ideas for new projects. I’m terrible! Anyhow, it’s a public holiday here in New Zealand (Waitangi Day) and hubby has gone off to play golf. I’m going to grab a cup of tea and start writing. Please DO ask me how I’m going with my WIP. I need all the help, prompting and encouragement I can get at the moment since my muse wants to procrastinate.

I’m holding my usual monthly contest for readers to win books. All you need to do to enter is join my newsletter and you’re in the draw to win.

Inspired by Shelley’s book, SNAP!, I decided to take another goofy quiz. It’s all her fault, I swear it is. But I’m not giving any hints about the book, other than it’s keeping me up at night reading when I should be sleeping.

So, what ‘Alice In Wonderland’ character are you? Well, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, I’m both Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum. Now, how the heck I’m two characters, I’ll never know. I bet my kids could figure it out…

My results said:
You scored as Tweedle Dee & Dum.

Yes, you’re both - because they’re exactly the same. You’re quite dumb, and blatantly oblivious to most things going on around you. You love to tell stories and screw around. You’re loveable, but sometimes extremely annoying.

Tweedle Dee & Dum–63%
Alice–50%
The Mad Hatter–44%
White Rabbit–38%
Queen of Hearts–38%
Caterpillar–31%
Cheshire Cat–13%

Now, it’s your turn. Take the quiz here and tell us who YOU are. And while I’m complaining about being two characters, I have to admit…it was fun! –> Alice In Wonderland Quiz HERE

I got new glasses last weekend - I like em. This is me, no makeup and newly 39. Even though my right eye is like 2200, my left eye is now better than 20/20. That’s because I favor the left I suppose. Anyway, I’m now knocking on 40. It’s not as distressing as I’d imagined it to be. Perhaps it’s because I’m in the best shape of my life and things are going really well for me professionally and personally. Maybe it’s because by the time I got here, I’ve realized that old isn’t so old after all.

Still, I use expensive cream for my face (Definity by Oil of Olay and yes, I bought it FTC - the stuff absolutely rocks! I have super sensitie and dry skin and it’s the best stuff I’ve ever used and I highly recommend it!) to try and combat wrinkles, or at least keep them from taking over. And I have other products I use for skin and hair and all that jazz. It’s expensive, battling age.

Frauke is doing an overhaul of my website to a lighter color because while I love this dark blue, it’s hard on my eyes! And since many of my readers are my age or older, I figure it may be hard on their eyes too.

However, I must say I feel sexier than I did, even just ten years ago. I’ve hit my stride I think. I don’t care what anyone else thinks and I don’t mind trying new things and I get more looks now than I did ten years ago! Perhaps it’s the attitude, maybe it’s because I’m a doofus, LOL, who knows?

In any case, 39 started with a cupcake and a hot cup of coffee made my my husband who’s been with me for going on 21 years now. He’s seen the girls when they were a lot perkier and he still loves em. My kids gave me my favorite perfume (which I don’t buy for myself because it’s expensive and I don’t quite know when I turned into my mother but here I am) and my husband, well he gave me something we’ll try out later after the kids are asleep!

It’s a good day. I’ve got a lot of writing to do this weekend and the time to do it. My dude turns 39 on Tuesday. We used to do a birthday week back in the day, before kids and the need to sleep more than three hours a night. He’s got salt and pepper at his temples and in his beard - damned sexy.

Have a great Saturday folks, have a cupcake and take a second to appreciate who you are now.

I’m a huge sports fan. Actually, living in New Zealand makes it difficult to avoid coming into contact with a sport of some kind since the outdoor life is part of our culture.

This weekend the Sevens Rugby tournament is being held in Wellington. Teams from all over the world are competing including one from the US and another from Canada. While I’ve never been to the tournament, I usually watch some of the games on TV. It’s just as much fun watching the shots of the audience as the rugby because the attendees dress up in all sorts of costumes. Last night I saw green aliens, an entire family all dressed in superman suits, a bunch of smurfs, and a few mystery costumes. Everyone was having a great time and the rugby wasn’t bad either!

This weekend also marks the start of the Super Fourteen Rugby tournament (14 teams from Australia, NZ and South Africa fight it out over several months to find a winner). I’m so glad the rugby season has started again. I’m not a cricket fan at all, which is the summer alternative. I tell my husband I watch rugby for research purposes. Call me shallow, but I love it when our Sevens team wins and they take off their shirts and do a haka. It’s definitely research then, but the rest of the time I watch because I love the game. And, I’m actually a really good ref. Sometimes I shout at the referee from my easy chair and order him to search for his glasses. *blush*

I’ve taken my love of rugby and written a few stories featuring the sport. ISSY’S INFATUATION is out in March. I also heard from my editor yesterday and BEST MAN (also a little rugby) will be part of the Ellora’s Cave Naughty Nuptials series due out in June. Yay! Quietly pleased about another sale and doing the happy wiggle.

Do you like sports? Are you a watcher or a partcipator? Do you like sport-themed romances? Do you have any favorites? Any sports you’d like authors to include with their romance?

Shelley

It’s finally here! TJ on a Tangent is semi-available. When it’s all done you’ll be able to sign up for it and receive a monthly update. For now, just take a look and let me know what you think.

TJ On A Tangent - First Edition

I know this is a totally girly thing to say, but I LUV the colors. I’ve never done a newsletter before so I’m totally excited about it.

AND, a Sneak Peek page is coming…one day…