Love and Magic with Deborah Hale

I'm first.

How is everything going Deb?

Glad to see your phosphers. I'm having trouble ajusting to the new site, but assume it will get better with time. :wink: (<=This is supposed to be an icon.  It takes to long to use the smileys now.)

I'm having difficulty getting around here. The new site refuses to bring me to LUNA unless I threaten it LOL and the author threads were hidden till like 5 minutes ago.

 Aline <--------Not enjoying the new challenge right now LOL

Wow, I'm gone for a few months and everything changes. I hope that everyone had a great Christams and Happy New Year.

 Deb, I hope the revisions/writing are going well! How has the weather been up your way? We have has such a mild winter so far. It scares me to think of what the summer is going to be like.

Mickey

Thanks for the welcome back FF. I was a little shocked to find everything so different. I do not have much time to be online anymore and had no clue that changes were in store for the new year. Thus far I have not decided if I like it or not.

Mickey

well I've mainly found that the upgrade doesn't work very well and I give it thumbs down.

It has nothing to do with being tired, hungry or late at night. IT JUST DOESN"T WORK WELL.

I had a friend who I sent a request to, she never got it and it showed up on my part as just not being accepted. I tried twice and then cleared it. but when she made the request, it went thru. When there are a lot of pages and even though you want last it keeps opening to the first page, For my part they took what wasn't broken and broke it. This is my only way to reach some of my friends and that is why I don't just walk away

Hi Everybody!  Sorry I haven't been around to chat.  I was chained to MSWord day and night through January rewriting my manuscript.  I sent it in yesterday then put away my Christmas decorations.   I had taken the tree down, but the ornament box was still sitting in a corner of the living room and all the wreaths and things were still up.  Now to clean the rest of the house and get reacquainted with my family. 

Barbara, so glad to hear you enjoyed The Bride Ship!  It was fun writing a story set in the local area.  I grin to myself every time I drive my the music pavilion on the Bedford highway.

Sorry to hear folks are having trouble with the site upgrade.  I may be sending a holler asking how to do things.  Like -- how do you initiate a Buddy request?  I got some from others and approved them, but I'm not clear on how to initiate one.

Hi FF, Mickey, Six, Sapph, Aline!  Hope 2008 has been good to you so far.  Our weather has been all over the place.  We had a mild spell early in January that felt like April, then it got very cold again.  We've had several storms, most of which have started with snow, turned to freezing rain, then rain, then gotten cold again.  Does that ever leave a hard, bumpy mess behind!  But our local groundhog DIDN'T see his shadow on Saturday, so hopefully we will have an early spring.  With December so cold and snowy this year, it already feels like we've had a loooong winter!

Deb

Ooohh!  Thanks for the info, FF.  I too was wondering how to invite friends. 

 Turn down Deb?!? Never!  I would rather cut off my right hand...and I need it desperately for my 10-key.  Can't do 10-key with my left to save my life.

 Six

Thanks, FF!  Knew I'd just have to ask and somebody would clue me in.    You and Six can expect Buddy invitations from me very soon.

The other on-line read I did was my first, Mistress of His Heart which spun off the novella Cupid Goes to Gretna and the novel Lady Lyte's Little Secret.  It was my first for E-Harl.  It's on the On-Line Read Library of the Mills and Boon site, which I believe is millsandboon.co.uk  (with the www first). 

Now off to dinner to celebrate my dd's birthday.

Deb

Hi Deb !! How are you ! 2008 was kind of a downer, I had to put down one of my cats. He was just 14 months old...

Other than that things have been wonderful !

Hey Deb,

 So far 2008 has been insanely busy and cold. Everytime I'm at work the thermometer drops below -40 LOL

Realised I really don't like extreme weather LOL give me spring and fall year round and I'd be happy.

Hope things are warm over there.

Aline

Am I doing something wrong?  I like many of the features of this new Community set up, but I'm finding everything I do soooo slooooow.   I'm don't have this problem with other sites I visit, though I don't interact on them the way I do here.

Any suggestions?

Deb

The hard refresh definitely helped.  I'll have to consult my in-house tech support, now that I know it isn't a problem others are having.  There may be other stuff I can try on my end.

It c-c-cold down east today with wicked wind chill.  So much for our groundhog's weather prediction abilities. 

Deb

LOL yeah Deb it's been a nasty cold winter and it's not done here yet.

I'm both excited, anxious and terrified LOL

But I will get to meet Merris weeeeeeeeeeee that makes it worth it. I keep peppering the poor Woman Jo Carole at RT with questiions I think I'll bring her a thank you gift when I go LOL.

The e-Author signing is on Wednesday and I arrive on Wednesday so that will make things a little dicy if any of my connections are late of grounded. I think I'll cry if I miss the signing due to Northern April weather LOL

Was looking at your new Historicals that you have contracted and they look awesome. I can't wait.

 Aline

Hi Deb.  Do let us know when your new book(s) is (are) coming out.

Yuck!  Better you than me!  As I grow older, I hate snow more and more.  I'm so glad that I don't live in New England anymore.

Thanks Deb

 its still pretty chilly out our way.. I can't wait for spring !!!

Deb,  *claps hands* thats wonderful news !!!!

Well, it snowed out here again today !!  I thought it was spring !!! LOL...  I am hoping that the weather warms up soon.

That is great news Deb!

The snow is finally melting away in my area. I only hope it stays that way. Easter was pretty good. My dd did great as the angel in the play at church. My sister returned some books she borrowed from me ages ago so it was nice to have some of my old friends back where they belong.

FF, I wish I had the raspberry blowing smiley still. First time it has snowed for you, sheesh! I shouldn't complain because it hasn't been a bad year but still. Sheesh.

Hey Aline, are you back yet from the RT convention?  How did it go?  Hope you had a terrific time.

Spring has finally found the Maritimes!  It got very nice all of a sudden.  I kept expecting it to turn nasty but no sign so far.  I was even able to BBQ the past couple of nights.

The HH wip is coming along.  I should hit the 2/3 mark in the next couple of days.  This past weekend I attended the launch party of a friend who's first book has just been released.  It was acquired for the Everlasting Love line, but got put into Superromance, which I think is a good home for it.   Heart of My Heart by Stella MacLean -- a great blend of contemporary romance and women's fiction.

Deb

Hi FF!

I'll bet Aline and Lori had a blast.  Can't wait to hear all about it.  It's so nice to have somebody to hang out with in airports -- it can make an otherwise slow time zip by.

How are things in La Belle France?  No more snow, I hope. 

Deb

Hmmm, wonder what happened at the airport. I'll have to ask one of them.

We had breakfast together on Saturday. Aline, Lorie, myself, my sister, Donna (a board memeber who has been epublished) and Maria V. Snyder all met up in the lobby. Jeri Smith-Ready was supposed to be there also but she got detained.

What a great group to get together, Kim!  That's probably the best part of any conference or convention for me -- meeting up with people I know from the Community or other on-line groups. 

Though I'm still in shock from a chance elevator meeting with the Bat-Dame at RWA a few years ago.  I guess I'd sort of pictured her like the wise-cracking old broad on the Shoebox greeting cards.  She really should call herself the Bat-Babe.

Glad to hear you had a fantabulous weekend, FF!  Some rain isn't bad, espeically if most of it comes at night.  And it sure beats snow and ice.

The d/h got our taxes e-filed today.  Canada's deadline is later than the US, and we have even more time because I'm self-employed.  Thanks to our eldest's educational deductions, we should be getting a nice refund. 

May is going to be busy with my twins going on a school trip, my folks celebrating their golden anniversary and my deadline at the end of the month.   I only have another 20K to make my word count, but as usual I've got too much story left to tell.  So I'll let it go as long as it needs, then cut, cut, cut in revisions.

Deb