Winners, Prizes, France and Today's Dreams

Thanks to all my blooger friends who linked over to Romance B(u)y the Blog yesterday!!!

It was crazy, and having so many friendly faces around only added to the fun. Yesterday's prize is everyone's favorite, I know, soooooo... keep checking back over the weekend. You might just see the second set I bought show up again ;O) Keep reading for yesterday's winners and today's funky prize.

Today's topic, dreams seems like a good one...One of my career goal/dreams is that when a new book comes out, my backlist will sell through, too. Guess what, the Amazon numbers for my Feb. The Runaway Daughter have been off the charts the last couple of days. It hit Amazon's series romance best seller list at #25 yesterday (of all series lines...there was a lot of Norah's back list up there, but there was me, #25 ;O) So, name recognition dream--check!!!

Have I mentioned yet that A Family for Daniel is out in France...translations in foriegn countries, another writer dream--check, check!! I have a photo of the cover that blogger won't let me upload...look for it tomorrow...


A totally non-publishing dream? At the moment, being Ann Hathaway's character in Devil wears Prada!!! The clothes in that movie are amazing (the plot and writing is so much better than the book, too, BTW). I want a publishing closet to select my designer duds out of every morning!!!

What are your dreams...share your darkest fantasies, LOL. Okay, or maybe just the fashion ones ;O)



Today's blog party prize is... This great XOXO heart clutch. It's fun for the summer, but also with it's black tones could be fun all year around. Leather straps, great bucket shape, dangling accent. Wow!! And of course, I'll be giving away another Borders gift certificate. Remember, you can't win if you don't leave a comment...How else will I know to draw your name ;O)

And about my purse collection... Before my previous blog blew up because of spam, I'd actually posted some pics...Maybe I need to do that again...Maybe you don't need to know how totally obsessed I really am...

Coach's contemporary bags, Cole Haan, Isabella Fiore...it's a good thing, until you look at the price tags on designer bags. I shop sales and outlets and ebay until I can find what I want at a price I can afford...usually when an advance or royalty check comes in...dreams were meant to come true, right!!!

Okay, here are yesterday's winners:

Julie from Ohio won the Guess party purse and wallet combo out on RBtB. I wish I had one for everyone (especially Jack, because then we'd get to hear what your wife would do to get her hands on it; or Lucky, because 40th birthdays are super special). I'll put another set up for launch party winning over the weekend, 'kay!!

ThatBrunette won the Borders gift certificate!

Addresses in my inbox will help muchly, ladies. I'm still waiting to hear from one of yesterday's winners. Again, I'll begin mailing everything next week.

And I have a few more readings today--glad we've been close to the mark with the ones so far!! Isn't this fun!! If you want to play along, leave your birth year and sign (or day and month of your birth) in the comments.

Dana, a 1974 Aquarius

The Risk Taker...you are likely to have an unusually active social life, with a network of diverse friends and progressive ideas or causes to keep you busy...you may have an enduring interest in scholarly pursuits...you have the gift of gab, and you can talk yourself into or out of anything...you may also enjoy getting into different or even dangerous situations...you like the new and different, the risk, and the idea of working with like-minded friends...friendship is a high priority for you...your gregarious attitude is great for bringing many different kinds of people together...you keep the flow of conversation going...

Okay, I have to stop here, because Dana and I are pals, and this reading is just spooky...this book blows me away!!!

Crystalg, a 1970 Leo

The Talanted Hero...you take great pride in doing things in a big way and with a big heart...fiery, dramatic, you enjoy being the center of attention through acts of creativity...your career is likely to carry with it traits of doing even small things in a big way...you are a doer...you see the big picture and have grand ideas about how to proceed...you do best when you are your own boss.

NOTE: This last one might look familiar. I mistakenly did 1970 on Tuesday when I did Sandra's reading from 1971...I've gone back and changed hers...sigh, me and numbers aren't always friends ;O) Sandra, check out your new paragraph and let us know if it strikes any closer to home...just a year made a huge difference, according to the book!!

Can't wait to hear your dreams and give away more prizes!!! So, come out and play ;O)