2013 Edition of... And the Oscar goes to....

ME! When I was a little girl I'd flip thru magazines and pick out the dress I would wear to accept the Oscar not for Best Actress but Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay (from my novel, of course).  Now that I'm older .... well... actually the only difference today is now I scroll through images on Yahoo.  So let's play pretend! Which dress should I wear on Sunday, February 24? Leave a comment and let me know!

Dramatic red?

Demure gray?

Sexy back?

Loving you is a man's job, baby... Bruce Springsteen

AS I'm writing the bonus scenes to Real Men Don't Drink Appletinis this song is playing inside my head. It's Bruce Springsteen's Man's Job (Loving you is a man's job.)

Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed

Happy Valentine's Day! Here are some beautiful quotes to go along with the day!

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!  ~Thomas Hood

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.  ~Robert Browning

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Audiobook for Love By Design is here!

It's here! I'm so excited about the audio release of Love By Design.

If you click on the link it will take you to Audible where you can hear a sample!

Audible - Love By Design

also available on iTunes here...

iTunes - Love By Design



Design Intervention starts the second season with its own surprise makeover. Interior designer Victoria Bryce must break in her temporary co-host, Aussie Russ Rowland. Victoria, former socialite wild child hopes the reality show will give her the clout to launch her own design line without her family connections. Russ, former bad boy Australian TV star is using the show to launch his acting career in the States. Sparks fly on camera as they argue over paint colors and measurement mishaps leading to passions igniting behind the scenes. But when their pasts collide with the present will the foundation they built withstand the final reveal?

1994 Lucky vs 2013 Andrew - Who would you rather...?

see as a blue collar hero in a romance novel?

Have you seen the new Diet Coke commercial? It's a take on the popular 1994 Diet Coke commercial where a group of women office workers take a '11:30 break'. They run to the window and watch as a hunky construction worker strips off his shirt and guzzles down a Diet Coke. It was a twist on the complaint of women being whistled at by construction workers. In a new 2013 commercial, a group of women are on a sort of picnic/break who see a cute guy mowing the lawn and they roll down a Diet Coke. He opens it and it sprays all over his shirt and -whoopsie- he has to take it off. My guess this is a take on Lady Chatterley's Lover.

So who would you rather read about in a romance novel? Here are the stats...

Lucky  (1994)                                                  VS                   Andrew (2013)                    
Born: Nebraska                                                                         Born: England
Age: 33                                                                                     Age: 31
Height: 6'2                                                                                Height: 6'1
Former Army Ranger                                                               Owns doggie boutique
Plays: Smoking Hot Construction Worker                               Plays: Sexy Gardner

Please leave a comment and let me know. If you need help deciding here is a You-Tube article about the 2 men....

"I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.” Josephine Baker

Time for another Quotes by Famous Women blog post. (from Wikipedia) Josephine Baker was the first African-American female to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934), to integrate an American concert hall,^[3] and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down),^[4] for assisting the French Resistance duringWorld War II,^[5] and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.

Here are some quotes from an amazing woman:

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”  Josephine Baker

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.” Josephine Baker

“I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. Josephine Baker

I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.” Josephine Baker

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.” Josephine Baker

Tebow wins by a landslide!

My first post on Romancing The Jock was a resounding success! Thank you to all who stopped by.

Here is the link in case you missed it

 Tebow or Sanchez...who would you rather? Romancing the Jock