Lately I’ve been thinking about my favorite book as a child and why. My favorite book (no laughing) was The Poky Little Puppy.

It was a golden book for kids with little spotted puppies. I can still tell you the entire story – lol! – I read it like a million times. I think I identified with that poky little puppy – you see he was the one that was always the last coming home, the loner, the one that stayed behind to explore. Then when he got home he ate all the dessert his brothers and sisters didn’t get because they’d dug under the fence.

Of course in the end, the poky little puppy got caught. Then their mother put up a sign that said no desserts ever for puppies that dig holes under fences. (As if the puppies could read. *snort*)

Anyway, for some reason that book was my absolute favorite.

How about y’all?

Whew, made it. It’s finally Friday (no I won’t launch into Hank Williams Jr. song, promise). It seems that March has flown past in the blink of an eye.

Friday is a day I don’t feel like doing anything (translation: beer and pizza for dinner), soooo today is quiz day!

I like this one… What type of weather are you?

I’m rain… how interesting. Pretty damn accurate description though.

You Are Rain

You can be warm and sexy. Or cold and unwelcoming. Either way, you slowly bring out the beauty around you. You are best known for: your touch Your dominant state: changing

Four and a half stars to be exact! (Warning, this is going to be a mushy, gushy horn tooting post. Leave now if you’re diabetic.)

I just got my hands on the Romantic Times review for The Gift (in the May issue) and wowza, it’s a good one!!!

“Williamson has done an excellent job of creating two very likable characters who have a chemistry that will singe the reader. Trevor and Adelaide share a wonderful romance with plenty of heat and steam.” - Kristi Ahlers

I’m very proud to see so many stars on the RT website for the books that I’ve written. It’s a fine line we writers walk between wanting the reviews and not wanting them. We’re all afraid when we put ourselves out there for all the world to see that someone is going to point the finger at us and say, “You suck.”

Part of any human being’s makeup, I think. The need for affirmation and confirmation – some more than others I’m sure. I admit it, these good reviews make me feel fabulous. Writing isn’t just what I am, it’s who I am.

So a big thank you to Kristi Ahlers, the reviewer from RT for the lovely review of The Gift. I’m glad you liked Trevor’s story. He definitely charmed me.

I know it’s Wednesday, but here is Monday’s Eye Candy for your viewing pleasure:

Hey y’all! Thanks to everyone that posted on the blogs yesterday to celebrate the release of The Tribute. The lucky winner of my bag o’ goodies is… Janet!!!

*snoopy dance*

Janet – e-mail me with your snail mail addy so I can send you off your treats.

*tosses confetti and dances around like a lunatic*

You’ll find me blogging over on the Samhain Blog and at Passionate Prose today about The Tribute, book 6 of the Malloy family series. It’s here, it’s here, it’s here!!!!

One more day until The Tribute releases! Woohoo! I’m so excited, jazzed, uber-pumped and all that jazz. So who wants to win a goodie??? Here’s the deal, I’ll be posting on three different blogs tomorrow. All you have to do is post a comment on any of them and you’re entered to win. Sounds easy, right? Here are the blogs:

http://www.bethwilliamson.com/blog/

http://samhainpublishing.com/blog/

http://blog.romancelovers.net/

This last blog is called Passionate Prose and is the new and HOT new blog for a bunch of erotic romance novelists that publish with Samhain.

So are you ready for Brett Malloy’s story? I am!! Stop by tomorrow and enter to win!

I’m one of the 24 authors in the Midsummer Night’s Steam stories with Samhain. Mine is called Marielle’s Marshal (a western, of course) that takes place in Arizona 1840s. Lots of sand, sex, and alpha man. It releases on August 31, the last of the stories.

Lookit the pretty new cover….

AND, it will be released in a print anthology in summer 2008 with three other fabulous ladies (Jennifer Colgan, Sam Lee, and Michelle Cary). The cover is the same with all our names on it. Isn’t it fab?

I’m so jazzed!!!

Pop on over to the Writers Across Time blog! Share your thoughts on kids and the funny things they say and do.

Happy Friday!!!!!

I am in the deep, dark recesses of the editing cave so I can’t come out and play today.

Here’s a quiz to entertain you.

What famous movie kiss are you?

Coooool! I loved this kiss. I’m a sucker for the original Star Wars movies.

Your Famous Movie Kiss is from The Empire Strikes Back

"Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited."

Hm, so it’s hump day right? I wonder exactly what hump day means. People say it all the time, like “oh, it’s hump day”. Does it really just mean that it’s halfway through the standard work week? Or that we’re all supposed to hump like bunnies?

Wikipedia says: “An English language idiom for Wednesday is “hump day”, a reference to making it through to the middle of the work week as getting “over the hump”, as well as a possible double entendre. It is also unofficially (and with some irony) referred to as “the peak of the week”.

Days of the Week says: “Wednesday is often referred to as “hump day” because of its position as the middle day of the work week. If the work week were a hill. Then Wednesday would be the crest. It is all down hill from there. (Whether the down hill ride is a coast or a descent into a swamp is left to the individual.)”

Urban Dictionary says: “Wednesday, or the hump of the week
The absolute BEST day of the week, the day of maximum hope that maybe, you might make it out of this week alive. A particularly good hump day can last you the rest of the week, and by Doomday morning (Monday) you survive by anticipating hump day. Nothing goes wrong on hump day.”

I like the Urban Dictionary definition best.

Come join the Samhain peeps today over at the Novelspotters Yahoo loop – we’ll be chatting all day. I’m on from 7 to 8 pm EDT (yes, that’s daylight savings time. isn’t it nice we start earlier now?). Come on by and have fun!