13 Things that made me happy this week: Edition 26

Thirteen Things about Aline de Chevigny

1- Going to my Uncle's 50th Birthday Celebration
2- Playing Dungeons and Dragons and kicking ass with my family
3- Finishing my latest Thriller Novel (56K and counting)
4- Hooking up my New Computer Monitor (It's soooo purrrteeee)
5- Rearanging my livingroom to give myself more room.
6- The Game Plan...(I laughed till my sides hurt. Man I love the Rock)
7- Seeing my Nephews and picking on them
8- Happy that my Dad made Stew so I don't have to cook
9- I got some awesome new research books to play with. (New stories here I come)
10- I got to buy some new clothes
11- Red Rose Publications has an awesome new Valentine's day contest.
12- I still have a week off before I go back to work
13- I don't have to clean the house until tomorow

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Wordless wednesday # 31

13 Reasons my Birthday was a raging sucess: Edition 25

Thirteen Things about Aline de Chevigny

1- Because it was my birthday of course LOL
2- I got cake
3- Got loads and loads of birthday email, calls and wishes
4- My Birthday contest was a success
5- I made others happy
6- I spent the day indoors where it was "relatively" warm LOL
7- The weather improved (went form -46 celcius to -20 heheeh)
8- I got to spend it a few friends
9- It's not over yet...party time
10- I'm finaly home and tonight we have a celabratory drink
11- I haven't lost all my memory yet
12- My house was relatively clean when I got home
13- Because of all of you who wished me a Happy Birthday.

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Wordless Wednesday # 30

Birthday Contest Winners

I received so many wonderful entries that I wish I could send you all a prize. Alas that isn't possible...or is it?
Since I can't send you all books, what I can do if send you each bookmark or cover flats of your choice.
So if you'd like a little something from me for making my birthday a raving success, send me an email to aline@ alinedechevigny. com (no spaces) and put Birthday Wish in the subject line.
In the email tell me what cover flat or bookmarks you'd like and your home address so I can send them to you.

Now for the Winners..... The names were picked out of a winter tuque by a co-worker hhehe

Ashlyn Chase
Sandra Erskine
Rhonda aka Blessed_heart

If you three ladies would please email me with Birthday Winner in the subject line and tell me which book you'd like from the following. I can send it out to you.

The books you may choose from are:


Luck of the Irish - Paranormal Contemporary
Blurb: When Dina’s boss assigns her to review a local family restaurant called Luck of the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day of all days, she isn’t happy. Upon entering the establishment and seeing all the staff dressed as Leprechauns, she expects passable food and annoyingly cheerful service. What she got left her breathless.

Buy: http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/more-hot-reads/luck-of-the-irish/prod_57.html


Merry Christmas to Me – Contemporary Romance
Blurb: Jennifer was having the worst Christmas ever. She'd just quit her job, her ex had happily married some blonde Barbie doll and the man of her dreams didn't even know she was alive.
Franko was through with women, or so he thought until the hottest little spitfire he'd ever met walked into him and set him straight. He now had five days until she left the mine for good to convince her that he was the Christmas gift of her dreams.

Buy: http://www.forbiddenpublications.com/book_pages/merry_christmas_to_me.html


Bare Bones – Halloween Paranormal Romance
Blurb: On the run from the Lycan who turned him during the full moon on All Hallows Eve, Christian Clarke isn't happy when he finds Joanna wandering through the woods searching for him. His inner wolf refuses to leave her side, yet his inner man wishes to keep her at arm’s length for fear that he won't be able to control his inner demons. Hearing her whispered profession of love, he reveals himself. Can he keep her safe from the pack that hunts him? Will Joanna love the beast he's become?

Buy: http://redrosepublishing.com/bookstore/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=17&products_id=58

Again thank you all for entering. **Smooches**

Aline
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Birthday Celebration Contest

In celebration of my Birthday, on 21 January, which starts in exactly 15 hours, 43 minutes and 16 seconds heheh but whose, counting. LOL I'm holding an impromptu birthday contest. It's a simple one really. All you need to so is send me an email at alinecontests @ alinedechevigny.com (No spaces) and tell me why January 21st is special for you? See simple.

Everyone who enters will be added into a draw and 3 winners will be picked 1st thing Tuesday morning (That's 22 January hehe)

There are a few Rules. ( I wish there didn't have to be but experience has taught me to be thorough)

1- Contests Starts now

2- Contest Ends Midnight the 22 January.

3- Put Aline's Contest in the Subject line. (Because of the spam and virus issues out there any e-mail without this subject line will be deleted.)

4- Only 1 entry per person.

5- Any blank email (This means an entry without the answer to my question above) Will be disregarded. No Exceptions! If you don't want to answer the question don't enter. It isn't fair to the others who did take the time to answer if I enter your name in the contest.

6- The winners will be able to choose 1 of the 3 following books available in pdf format.


From Aspen Mountain Press: Luck of the Irish - Paranormal Contemporary

Blurb: When Dina’s boss assigns her to review a local family restaurant called Luck of the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day of all days, she isn’t happy. Upon entering the establishment and seeing all the staff dressed as Leprechauns, she expects passable food and annoyingly cheerful service. What she got left her breathless.

Buy: Luck of the Irish


From Red Rose Publications: Bare Bones – Halloween Paranormal Romance

Blurb: On the run from the Lycan who turned him during the full moon on All Hallows Eve, Christian Clarke isn't happy when he finds Joanna wandering through the woods searching for him. His inner wolf refuses to leave her side, yet his inner man wishes to keep her at arm’s length for fear that he won't be able to control his inner demons. Hearing her whispered profession of love, he reveals himself. Can he keep her safe from the pack that hunts him? Will Joanna love the beast he's become?

Buy: Bare Bones


From Forbidden Publications: Merry Christmas to Me – Contemporary Romance

Blurb: Jennifer was having the worst Christmas ever. She'd just quit her job, her ex had happily married some blonde Barbie doll and the man of her dreams didn't even know she was alive.

Franko was through with women, or so he thought until the hottest little spitfire he'd ever met walked into him and set him straight. He now had five days until she left the mine for good to convince her that he was the Christmas gift of her dreams.

Buy: Merry Christmas to Me

Notice the theme LOL, I'm a firm beliver that my Birthday should be a Universal National Holiday too. Now if I could just convince everyone else of that. hehehhe

Good luck to everyone, let's make this a fun couple of days.

Aline
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www.alinedechevigny.com

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Saturday Sillies: Edition # 4

Ever have one of those days LOL

Happy Saturday.

Aline

Sven Update

Sven Update

The dry spell has broken yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I wrote 642 words this week on my new story.
(Yeah I know it's supposed to be Sven stuff only. But I was having writing issues LOL.)
So me thinks I'll be starting my word count from scratch fro 2008 and see exactly how much I can write during this whole year. And I'll call it.....hmmmm.....

Anyone have any suggestions for this?

So January word count is 642 and counting.

Aline

I had to share

TT 13 below...

I just received my first review for Merry Christmas to Me from Elizabeths Reviews and it's awesome.



Merry Christmas to Me – Contemporary Romance
Blurb: Jennifer was having the worst Christmas ever. She'd just quit her job, her ex had happily married some blonde Barbie doll and the man of her dreams didn't even know she was alive.
Franko was through with women, or so he thought until the hottest little spitfire he'd ever met walked into him and set him straight. He now had five days until she left the mine for good to convince her that he was the Christmas gift of her dreams.

Buy: Merry Christmas to Me

Reviews:

Elizabeth’s Reviews --- 3.5 Phoenixes

Having worked the past few Christmases, Jennifer had been looking forward to spending this festive season with her family. But now she is stuck on-site, as all flights out have been cancelled! But maybe all is not lost. Perhaps she’ll receive a fabulous gift this year, in the form of Franko. He’s hot, she’s interested – and so is he!
Merry Christmas To Me is a fun, cute Christmas novella that will take little time to read but will induce much enjoyment. Jennifer is an intriguing character. She has been burnt in the past and is well known on-site for not sleeping around – to the extent that there is a running bet on who can get her into bed first! Franko is the only man she is interested in. He is fairly new to the site and as far as Jennifer knows, unaware of her existence. Except he is, and he is very interested in Jennifer. If only he can get close enough to let her know. Franko himself is a big man, in build and character. His protective instincts towards Jennifer were wonderful. Both characters have a part in the telling of the tale, which really helps the reader gain insight into their thoughts, actions and emotions. There is detailed intimacy between the characters, though not anything offensive. On a note of caution, there are spelling and grammatical errors, which did mar the enjoyment of the tale as they interrupted the story’s flow, hence a drop on the rating the book receives. Still, Merry Christmas To Me is a good Christmas quickie, with likeable characters and a believable, festive plot.

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13 Reasons this week is going to drag: Edition 24

Thirteen Things about Aline de Chevigny


1- I have more filling to do that is humanly possible.
2- My spreadsheets have been multiplying while I sleep.
3- I'm on my last week at work, before my 2 weeks off.
4- Our Net connection in the dorms are catch and miss.(More miss than catch LOL)
5- I'm sick of sandwiches,and I have 5 more days of them LOL
6- It's cold and getting colder (-16 today and calling for lower tomorow)
7- I have a mound of bottles to clean. ( Acetone, Rinse, Repeat LOL)
8- I have 4 Stories due and limited time to work on them LOL
9- Did I mention my mound of paperwork and filing?
10- The flights are being delayed again which means Iget bumped further behind in departure LOL
11- I have a cold and it refuses to leave
12- There's this really cool show on tv...and I'm stuck in the lab LMAO
13- Oh yeah Monday is my Birthday and I'm at work LOL

So Is it Monday yet?

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Wordless Wednesday # 29

Found a New Favorite

I've always adored Garfield and what can I say, today's strip puts so much into perspective for me.



I'll be back in a few to post my teaser.

Aline

Writer's Block

Well I learnt that everyone is susceptible to writer's block including me. For the first time since I started this crazy path I couldn't write. No it wasn't just a block or ideas, it was Christmas and constantly having people around who needed all of your attention. It was work, after 8 months of working 12 hour shifts for 2 weeks stretched a girl gets tired and finally it was being sick. You really don't feel like writing anything when your freezing or dying of heat LOL

So after watching some of my friends go months without writing a word I was afraid I'd be in my slump forever. But last night a tiny trickle of an idea broke through and out of the blue the whole plot broke free. LMOA do you know how annoying it is to write something and not understand why your characters are acting the way they are? It can drive a person insane **grin**

So here's to one lesson I hope I don't have to repeat any time soon LOL

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Saturday Sillies: Edition # 3

Sven Update

Ok I wrote 0 words over the holidays. So no Sven update today.
Also I couldn't access or update my blog, or my website. Still working on that issue sorry. But as you can see I've finaly fixed the blog issue LOL. It was a slow connection on my mother's system causing the problem hehehe.

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Merry Christmas to Me is

Book of the day Giveaway at TRS on January 8, 2008.

To enter just go to The Romance Studio on January 8, 2008 to enter.



Blurb: Jennifer was having the worst Christmas ever. She'd just quit her job, her ex had happily married some blonde Barbie doll and the man of her dreams didn't even know she was alive.


Franko was through with women, or so he thought until the hottest little spitfire he'd ever met walked into him and set him straight. He now had five days until she left the mine for good to convince her that he was the Christmas gift of her dreams.

Good Luck to everyone who enters.

Aline