See you all Monday!

I’m PURPLE!

Your Passion is Purple!

You've got a ton of passion, but you don't always wear it on your sleeve. If something truly excites you, you let your inner intensity shine through. But otherwise, your passion tends to morph into energy ... which you never lack. You're a balanced woman, knowing when to turn on the fire in your heart.

Thirteen Reasons Why I’m Not Online

1. I’m on vacation.

2. There’s no high speed Internet here.

3. I should be enjoying myself not surfing the net.

4. It’s actually cool enough to go outside between 12 and 3 in the afternoon (unlike NC = wet, hot washcloth).

5. WordPress let’s you set up blog posts ahead of time so I wrote this yesterday.

6. There’s life outside of computers (really!).

7. I’m reading a book now. *cue the angels*

8. My laptop battery died on the plane.

9. I’ve for a WIP to finish, and 5,000 words to add.

10. I’ve got edits to finish.

11. My to do list keeps getting longer as I write this list!

12. I’m hungover from celebrating the release of The Legacy.

13. I really am on vacation.

I felt like the Tasmanian Devil yesterday when The Legacy got released. I was here, there and everywhere. Now I’m going to sit back and rest for two minutes.

My icky cold that hung on for two weeks morphed into a sinus infection. Double-ick. So now I’m on major antibiotics (we know what that means ladies) for ten days, but hopefully I’ll be able to sleep more than an hour at a time soon.

I’m off on a family trip tonight to CT so I won’t be on much for the next four days. I’ll post some funnies to keep y’all entertained while I’m gone.

And now… for the winner of my blog contest for the fantabulous prize pack which includes the print copy of a Malloy book and a complete set of bookmarks is…

Cathie!!!

Congrats sweetie! E-mail me at cowgirlbeth@gmail.com your choice of books and your snail mail addy!

Thank you to May for hosting me on her blog, Miladyinsanity, yesterday, it was a lot of fun! I especially like my new nickname “Batty Wonder”. The winner of that blog contest will be announced on May’s blog later today.

I hope y’all have a good Wednesday and thanks for helping me celebrate The Legacy!

The Legacy is published. Yahoo!!!

I’m playing today over on May’s blog, miladyinsanity, so swing on by and see Beth Vs. Shannon, Part 2, the battle of the cowboys!

Monday’s eye candy for your viewing pleasure.

I’m hanging out over at Writers Across Time today. Tell me what you think about series!

I’m going to be an uber-geek this week and dive into one of my favorite subjects: words. I admit it, I am a wordsmith, a lover of words. The etymology, the pronunciation, the definition. Sigh… Yep, for real, peeps.

Top Thirteen Sites and Blogs for Writers

1. Grammar Girl’s Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing

2. It Figures: Figures of Speech, Snappy Answers

3. Blogslot

4. The Editor’s Desk

5. You Don’t Say: Language and Usage

6. Language Log

7. Blogging Pedagogy

8. Words at Work

9. Legal Writing Prof Blog

10. Glen Hershberg Blog

11. A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English

12. Merriam-Webster Online

13. Online Etymology Dictionary

I can’t believe it. Really. I’m shaking my head here. The Legacy gets released in six days on June 26 in ebook.

It’s the end of the series. The very last Malloy book! Truly, truly lucky number seven. You know it seems like I just started on book 1, The Bounty, and from there it’s a blur. It’s truly hard to believe that six of the series are published and now I come to the end.

It’s like sending my child off into the world, out of my hands, to fly under his own wing power. I’m getting choked up thinking about no more Malloy books. It’s as if they’ve become part of my family, real people that I care about. Sigh… Am I being a dork?

Yep.

Am I being sentimental?

Yep.

I hope everyone out there that’s read one of the Malloy books has enjoyed them. I introduced Noah as a secondary character in The Bounty, and suddenly there he was again in The Prize. He was a lovable, scruffy kid that caught more than one person’s attention. I got plenty of “Will Noah get his own story?” and decided that he would, that his story would be the final legacy for the Malloys.

You’ve seen him grow up and now Noah gets his own happily ever after. It’s never easy for the Malloys is it? This adopted Calhoun-Malloy son has to find his own way in the world, for good or bad. His heroine is Rosalyn, a woman who’s as tough, if not tougher, than Noah, whose life had been rough, if not rougher, than his.

I’m excited, really I am, to see The Legacy finally get released. I want to celebrate it with everyone so each person who posts from now until next Tuesday, 6/26, gets entered into a special contest to win a special prize from me. What ’tis this special prize?

Why, it’s a Malloy family prize pack, featuring one paperback copy of choice (from the first five books), a complete set of bookmarks, a Malloy family pin, AND a sweet set of poker cards in a nice brushed aluminum carrying case courtesy of Trevor from The Gift.

Sound good? Okay, then cool! Post away and tell me what your favorite Malloy moment was.

Catch me over at Passionate Prose. I’m talking about astrological signs and what they mean.