Week 1:

• Sunday, April 27: 10K.

• Monday, April 28: 45 – 60 minutes Nordic Walk.

• Tuesday, April 29: 30 minutes Run/Walk

• Wednesday, April 30: 30 – 40 minutes Run/Walk

• Thursday, May 1: 45 – 60 minutes Nordic Walk or other aerobic exercise.

• Friday, May 2: 30 minutes Run/Walk.

• Saturday, May 3: Rest.

The goal — stay on track through the summer for a Marathon in the Fall.

This Monday I’d like to mention my Vancouver writing buddy and NEXT author, Kate Austin. I’m just blown away by this lady’s productivity. In just over a year she has sold nine — yep NINE – books. And in addition to being awesome company, she’s blessed by the Cover Gods. Take a look: 

Aren’t they just gorgeous? For anyone who is going to be in the Ottawa region come late September this year, Kate will be sharing plotting tips and giving a workshop on Writing For Harlequin – How To Break In And Stay In – as part of the Ottawa Romance Writers’ Association’s Sweet or Spicy conference slated for September 23-24.

Another buddy who deserves a mention today is Toni Anderson who has just revamped her website. She’s looking for guinea pigs to test links from different browsers

Mother Africa. Acrylic on canvas. 36″X48″

Jo is responsible for the graphics on my website while the talented Emily Carlin took the design, developed it, and showed me how to make it all function — no mean feat I tell, ya . Emily is an absolute dream to work with and I can recommend her one hundred times over. Check out some of the sites she and her team have created for other romance writers. I might just have to name a heroine after her … in fact, I think I will. It has a nice ring to it, dontcha think? … Dr Emily Carlin (I need another doc for one of my WIPs)

  The Working Artist Tarot. Mixed media on paper.

And in other Monday Milestone news (hey, I used to be a reporter ) my big baby is home for the summer with one year of university under her belt. We have a full house again for a few months .

And keep those slogans coming! Thank you to all who visited and threw suggestions into the ring. Meretta (whom I believe I have now cajoled into wearing a T-shirt) and I will be collecting them through May and will pick one by the end of the month. Stay tuned .

No mileage to report today. Ended up doing just over 8 miles yesterday (13 kilometres) sooo … today is rest day — running wise, that is. Much other ‘stuff’ to do.

Happy writing

Happy reading

Happy May Day (that doesn’t sound right?)

And Happy Birthday Jo!!!!!

And this particular Monday also just happens to bookend the week that friend and fellow Vancouverite Mary J. Forbes’ Silhouette Special Edition - TWICE HER HUSBAND – hits most shelves.

This is the last book in Mary’s trilogy on the Tucker brothers of Misty River … but be warned … you’re going to need those tissues for Luke’s emotional reunion with ex-wife Ginny and her two children!

For more on the trilogy, check out Mary’s Website

And this next one is a tad late in coming since the launch date preceded my blog debut:- But get out those tootie horns and top up the Bushmills anyway because  ….. Toni Anderson’s HER SANCTUARY was released as an e-book by  Triskelion Publishing last month and will be out in print in December this year!! (All the more time to party ) And those old times from eHarlequin’s Subcare will know all about toorie horns and Bushmills. If you don’t … too bad.

HER SANCTUARY was previously known to many out there in cyberspace as Venus’ Slipper and you can find an excerpt on the Trisk site. Toni’s voice is strong, fresh, evocative and her writing deeply atmospheric. You heard it here first — Watch this lady!