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Seressia March 31st, 2007

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Seressia March 25th, 2007

This shirt came about as a result of much discussion and debate regarding multicultural romance. If you’re a reader or writer of African-American and multicultural romances, then this t-shirt is for you:

You can buy this in the fitted style or regular t-shirt by going here. The design was created by Roslyn Hardy Holcomb, the author of Rock Star. The price is set by Cafe Press, no profit is being made from it. So, if you love romance in all its forms, buy a t-shirt today.

Look for me wearing mine at the RT convention in Houston in April!

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Seressia March 24th, 2007

I have to make this quick, since there’s a deadline fast approaching (as in NEXT FRIDAY) for my new novella.

I had a great time at Romance Slam Jam in Miami Beach last weekend. Seeing old friends (Hi, Betty!) and meeting new ones (Hi, Darlene!) and sipping a variety of mojitos. Plus picking up an award for Vegas Bites!

Those to whom I promised to post my notes from the Time Management Workshop, click here. I fully intend to flesh this out and post an update with clickies and all that on my website, but the novella has to be finished first (that whole managing time thing, you know?)

Adrienne and Tisha put on a helluva conference in a beautiful hotel with great food and wonderful entertainment. Those ladies deserve monumental kudos for all their work.

Next year, Slam Jam will be in Chicago. If you love multicultural romances, this is the stop for you. They already have an awesome lineup and I’m sure it’s going to be fantastic!

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Seressia March 23rd, 2007

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Seressia March 21st, 2007

Spend an evening with authors of romance and erotica:
When: Thursday, March 22nd 9PM EST – until
Where: www.niafoxx.com/Chat.html

Who:
Corey Domino Yazeed
Emma Ray
Elissa Gabrielle
Jamie Hill
Nia Foxx
Seressia Glass
Sylvia Hubbard

There will be a live chat, free excerpts and awesome giveaways. Plus you never know who else will drop in.

Hope to see you there!

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Seressia March 20th, 2007

I just wanted to announce that Vegas Bites won the 2006 Emma Award for best anthology at the 10th annual Romance Slam Jam! As it was the only paranormal anthology in the bunch, I’m doubly thrilled we won!

Other winners included:

Favorite New Author: Gwyneth Bolton

Book of the Year: I’m Gonna Make You Love Me won for

Favorite Hero: Darren Whitman from I’m Gonna Make You Love Me

Favorite Heroine: Alicia Taylor from I’m Gonna Make You Love Me

Favorite Romantic Suspense: Love Me Carefully by A. C. Arthur

Favorite Sequel in a Romance Series: The Closer I Get to You by Melanie Schuster

Favorite Steamy Romance: Delight Before Christmas by Angie Daniels

Favorite Inspirational: Defining Moments by Jacqueline Thomas

Favorite Novella: “Chocolate Kisses,” by Renee Luke

Favorite Author: Francis Ray

Favorite Cover: Dyanne Davis’s Misty Blue

Go forth and Amazon these authors post-haste. I’ll have more to report on Slam Jam later in the week, I think, but I got in so late Sunday it was actually Monday and I’m still brain fried.

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Seressia March 12th, 2007

I saw 300 over the weekend. Now in case you didn’t know, I’m apparently NOT the target audience for this movie, being a black female over 25. That didn’t stop me from enjoying the movie.

I LOVED THIS MOVIE.

I know many reviewers like slate are putting a very modern spin on it when they pan it, drawing parallels to the current situation in Iraq. CNN did the same thing. Critics are in a completely different realm from regular movie goers. Actually critics of any medium are usually counter to what the audience wants/likes. And the audience REALLY liked 300.

I’m sorry, I thought this was a movie based on a graphic novel loosely based on an event that happened more than 2000 years ago. Apparently I’m not the only one who thought so.

I’m pretty sure no one claimed 300 was a documentary. I’m pretty sure Frank Miller didn’t call up the History Channel or Greek historians or Encyclopedia Brittanica to verify his grapic novel. (I did, in fact, see the History Channel’s program on the Battle of Thermopylae, and I enjoyed that as well, but then HC is one of my favorite channels.)

Anyway, back to the movie. Everyone in the theater enjoyed it. I mean the young fan boys, the gamers, the men who like men and the women who like men. There was something for everyone to enjoy in this movie. The visuals, the soundtrack, the fight scenes. My SO thought it was the best movie he’d ever seen. Every woman with whom I’ve discussed this movie all said the same thing:

“Gerard Butler in nothing but moonlight. WHEW!”

Go forth and see 300. Check the history, and the critical parallels to modern wartime events, at the door. Sit back and enjoy it for what it is: a freakin’ movie.

I for one, am actually going to go see it again–in IMAX.

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Seressia March 4th, 2007

So I just found out that BOTH Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge are on the list to attend Dragon*Con this year. Since CJ was one of my main reasons for attending last year (aside from the Ghosthunters and Mythbusters’ build team) I’m thrilled that he’s going to be there this year.

LET’S HOPE HE ACTUALLY MAKES IT.

If I wrote fanfic, it would feature one of these guys!

Yum, yum, give me some!

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Seressia March 4th, 2007

“…I feel more alive when I’m writing than I do at any other time—except when I’m making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment—the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.”

May Sarton (1912–1995), U.S. author. As quoted in Women Writers Talking, ch. 1, by Janet Todd (1983).

I live for those moments. Moments when the outside world is nothing more than ambient noise, like a tabletop fountain. The moments when writing is my only focus, when the words flow and my muse laughs in glee. When nothing is more important then the words spilling across the page–not my stomach, my bladder, my need for a shower.

Sometimes those moments are few and far between. Usually when a deadline is fast approaching, like the one I face now. That’s when my mind unfortunately gets in the way of doing what needs to be done. There are times when too much thinking can ruin a scene, much the way that too much thinking can ruin other pleasurable pursuits.

What if I don’t do it right? What if I don’t please anyone? What if I look like an idiot? What if I screw up so badly I’m never able to live it down?

The answer to those questions should be, “So what?”

Will the world end? When I be sent to jail? Will I go through 18 pints of Chunky Monkey? Be forced to run around the block naked singing “Gettin’ Jiggy Wi’ It”?

If the answer to all of that is no (Thank Goodness) then I guess there’s nothing else to hold one back.  Stop thinking and start doing.  Find that perfect moment of bliss.

There’s nothing to it but to do it!

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