I spent a week in sunny San Diego for the first time. It wasn't as warm as I'd liked it to be but at least it was sunny. Let me rephrase that: At least in the afternoon when the fog dissapted but the breeze was cold. Loved the zoo, wine tasting and the restaurants. People must live in their cars with the amount of traffic around there.

Did a lot of reading to boost my writer's block! Now that I am back to work, I need to put some effort into listening to my characters!

Thank goodness for smart phones! I run into people all the time who are avid Romance readers and when I found out, I direct them to my book and my publisher's (Lazy Day Publishing) web site!

You haven't heard from me in a couple of days because I am experiencing writer's block. I started gung ho on my next book and seemed to have stumbled into a brick wall.  When this happens, I take a deepo breath and put aside, Facebook and Twitter and do some heavy duty reading. I have so many authors who have inspired my, especially those at Lazy Day Publishing such as Liz Borino and Jade Carey as well as Barbara Huffert and Taylor Tryst! Thanks for your help!  It is greatly appreciated!

Still on a technology challanged roll here. We have Verizon Fios, like I've said before. We had issues with our Internet and received a new router. I haven't been able to install it yet because it is connected to my husband's pc and he hasn't done our taxes just yet and the list of excuses runs on. I have found out that if I bring my laptop downstairs next to the router, I can connect to the Internet and run back upstairs and I'm good. Hopefully, I've lost a couple of pounds with all of the running up and down the stairs?

So this week, I got an email from Verizon telling me that there will be a change to several of their HD programs and the box we have won't be able to access these programs. Hmmm. I am not the television watcher in the family. I'd rather read a book. So I forwarded the email to my husband and he freaked out because the programs are ESPN. Just for the record, my husband, whom I love to death, is a die hard sports fan. He watches ALL sports. He takes at least a half hour alone to get through the sports section of the daily newspaper. Needless to say, the new box arrived Friday.

We have four televisions in the house. Two are HD and the other two date back to the early 2000's. The one HD is in my exercise room and the other is in the family room. Logically, we are thinking it's the one in the family room and my husband makes us watch all of the shows we have dvr'd because by switching the box, you lose your shows. Okay, that took a while. Only to find out that the box is really for the TV in my exercise room. The television that is only on for an hour while I do my exercise routine. My husband turned to me and said," See? Now you can keep up with all the sports updates!" Really?

Watching your book being released is like giving birth. You have spent months nurturing your plot and characters and when it is released, you want it to grow and be loved. However, I am a helicopter mother in real life. It is hard to let go.