About Me

I am 28.  I am Mom to 5 kids and my husband and I have been married 10 years.  I am a senior at ETSU, majoring in English with a minor in education.  I love reading and writing and this is my blog about both!

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April Showers Blog Design Giveaway!!!

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Here is a little about April from her website. "I started designing blogs almost two years ago, and thanks to lots of  demand, I was able to quit my day job (June 2010) and hire some help to  beautify the blog world! I graduated with two Bachelor's Degrees in  Advertising and Radio/TV/Digital Media Production. Blogging, online  media, and of course - design - are my passions, secondly only to my  wonderful husband. I love babies, Band Hero, Facebook, running,  swimming, and have a serious love for shopping. I hope we can make your  blog a functional work of art that inspires you too!"  Where you can find her online: Her Design Blog Her Personal Blog Facebook Twitter She does blog design, business identity, and invitations and announcements.  She also has a freebie section with layouts and buttons for use. In addition to blog design, April also offers design classes.  I took her Blog Design class back in September and it was great!!  You also get a copy of the c
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Book Giveaway Week!!! Giveaway#1

This is actually a set of 6!!  (yes 6 books!)  They are all in the romance genre.  They are: Still the One ~Robin Wells (Look for my review later this week{I Loved it!!}) Montana Destiny ~R.C. Ryan To Surrender to a Rogue ~Cara Elliott Knight of Passion ~Margaret Mallory Ravished by a Highlander ~Paula Quinn Desire Me ~Robyn DeHart How To Enter Mandatory Entry: Follow me on one of the following: GFC, Twitter, Facebook.  Leave me up to 3 comments with your email address (I will email the winner! So if you don't post it, make sure it is on your profile!!) Extra Entries:  *Post my button on your blog for 2 entries (Leave 2 comments) * Blog about the giveaway for 3 extra entries (Leave 3 comments and the link) *Tweet or post about the gveaway on FB for an extra entry (Leave a comment once per day) Hurry and enter!!  All of my Book Giveaways will end 6/15 at Midnight Eastern Time!! ***Disclaimer: I received these books free from Hachette Book Group.***
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Author Interview: Cheryl Snell

Here are some questions I asked Cheryl Snell author of Shiva's Arms Where are you from? Alberta, Canada, eh. When did you first consider yourself a writer? When I published a poem in an excellent journal whose rep dwarfed my previous publications What inspired you to write your first book? Inspiration didn’t enter in. I had published about 65 poems and a few stories in lit journals and the logical next step was to put together a collection of poetry. Do you have a specific writing style? I write in a lyric narrative style. A critic/professor recently said I was an American surrealist. I like that. How did you come up with the title, Shiva’s Arms? It came to me when I was at McDonald’s with my Mom one day. It had all the elements I needed, incorporating the Hindu god of creation AND destruction, comparing that entity to Amma (who did plenty of C&D herself). All the god’s arms reminded me of Amma’s push-pull with Alice. Is there a message in Shiva’s Arms that yo
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