Sunday, August 31, 2008

Unleash Your Story!




Support my efforts!

I've decided to participate in Unleash Your Story, the Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser for Sept. I'll be joining the other fine ladies of RWA Online as a team and we're going to write and raise money for CF.

Here is my CF Homepage. Be sure to donate! It's for a good cause.

Monday, August 25, 2008

My first Video!

Promo....


As I ponder another future release, I wonder what is the best promo an writer can do.

Bookmarks?

Magnets?

Pens?

Calendars?

Then there are the other things -- chats, promoting on loops, getting advance reviews.

But the question remains...what is the best promo an author can use?


Any advice?

Sunday, August 24, 2008

The best part of writing is...

...when it makes you smile. Writing should be fun, not something that is unpleasant or a drudgery. Today was spent writing on my current WIP, a vampire/shapeshifter romance that has elements of comedy in it. Above all, it's a romance. I would never be able to write unless it had a HEA.....


Here's a sneak peek:

He accepted another Vampire Chaser from the bartender and continued to watch the people milling around. Most only gave him a cursory nod, never speaking to him. Others just steered clear of him. Rex had a feeling they knew who he was and what he was, and didn’t want to disturb him.
Fine with him. Though the drink ebbed his anger, he still felt sexual urges. Perhaps in a little bit he would approach one of the women to help satisfy his needs.
The music slowed to a surreal beat, lights transcended the room into a shadowy glow. The couple at the table now had their arms around each other, kissing earnestly. His cock twitched watching them, and he suppressed an urge to join them.
A touch on his upper arm and a voice purred in his ear, “Why are you standing here all alone when you could be with someone?”
He started to turn his head to see who she was, but her fingers slid up to his cheek to prevent him from doing so.
“No. Don’t look. Just use your senses.” Her voice was soft as the fingers that feathered across his face.
She smelled of crushed gardenias, enveloping his nostrils and he breathed deeply her scent. Pure lust filled him. Too long he’d been without a woman. Here he cruised the bar looking for a willing woman and Rex suspected he had one willing standing right next to him.
“Maybe I want to look at you to see what a beauty you are?” he murmured, his erection stirring against the tight confines of clothing.
“But aren’t surprises the best fun of all?” She leaned closer, her breath tickling the side of his face. “We can pretend to be blindfolded and never know who we kissed.”
“Only kisses?” He had to know the answer as his penis began to press painfully against the constrictiveness of his zipper. Her words tempted him. It was what he came for, so why resist what she offered?
She laughed softly, a tinkling sound which contrasted sharply against the Bon Jovi music now playing. A few couples were dancing, but most were involved in cuddling.
“We can do anything you want.” She leaned closer and he swore he could feel her tongue on his shoulder. “Anything…”

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Looking in the mirror,I made myself laugh....

okay, so seriously folks, I decided to take a pen name for the publication of my steamy, sensual romances. This morning I stood at the mirror and concentrated on saying my new name out loud.

And found myself giggling uncontrollably. Okay, it is not a bad name, but well.....


It's going to take some time to get used to it.Photobucket



By the way, here is the announcement of the winners for the Kiss Me Baby contest. Yours truly is sitting there in third.

Rant ahead.....

We wish to interrupt your regular programming for a rant....

I hate hate hate the mail I get from credit card companies. They have marked the outside of the envelope "Important" or "Do Not Discard" or some other hokey crap to get you to open it.
Of course, once you open it you find it's an offer to write a damn check on them so they can charge you gadzillion dollars in interest and fees!

I dislike with an intense go-to-hell feeling that I rarely get!!!!!!

I tear up every single one of them and I'm seriously thinking of gathering them up and burning them in a sort of effigy in hell display.


Okay, I feel better.

Back to your regular program....

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Nice little graphic for me....



Oh, yeah, and I forgot to add this graphic.....
I need to update my website.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Announcing a sale!


I wanted to announce that I sold a story to Whispers Publishing! I've signed the contract but do not yet know when it will be out. I'll post it as soon as I do.

The story is called A Christmas Wish and will be published under a pen name of Holli Winters because, well, it's more sensual romance. :D
My thinking is that I'll keep the more sweeter romances under my Patti Fischer name and the hotter stuff under Holli Winters.

And A Christmas Wish is currently up for vote as the best reader's fave along with another I entered. I must admit that blew me away to be in the top five!

I've been keeping busy with things after coming back from the RWA Conference. Right now I'm writing a paranormal romance that is {{hot}}.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

My RWA photos

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- Patti

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