Garden Bloom Day November 15, 2009

This meme can be found at May Dreams Gardens.

Although we have had a couple of cool nights (40s) our weather is still mild.  Here are some pics from the garden Saturday morning.

We still have peppers coming!

We think this is a Rose of Sharron - anyone know for sure?  Very pretty blooms each year!

 

The blooming Saga Palm from our balcony! Note the orange seed pod.

Here is a close up of the seed pod - Can anyone say "Alien"??

Two Christmas Cactus on the front window sill are just starting to bud!

Tiger Lilly wanted to know what I was doing inside at the window!

She wouldn't stay there to let me get a better shot so I had to wait till she sat and posed so prettily!

New Series Reviews, Interviews and GIVEAWAY with Author Cheryl Pierson!

Over the next several weeks we will be visiting with Author Cheryl Pierson.  Cheryl has written several books and is celebrating her latest historical western release, Time Plains Drifter due out through Class Act Books in early December!

Fire Eyes, which is also an historical western was released in May 2009 by The Wild Rose Press.
A Night for Miracles is also to be released by The Wild Rose Press in December!

This is another mini team series shared at THREE BLOGS!

A special thanks to my blogger teammates for this series:  Sumana at I READ and Deanna/Ibeeg at MOM-MUSINGS.

The interview will be in four parts:

Part One – Questions about the writing process.

Part Two –. Questions about the publishing/promoting process and Fire Eyes

Part Three – Questions about the new book – Time Plains Drifter

Part Four – A few personal questions!

We will also be posting reviews for Fire Eyes and Time Plains Drifter.

Cheryl is giving a choice of her books to TWO lucky winners.

TO ENTER:  This is the Giveaway post! So you MUST ENTER HERE and leave your e-mail address to be entered in the Giveaway!  Extra entries at the events will not count unless you are entered HERE too!

Extra Entries:  You will get an extra entry for each comment made at any of the review and interview posts. That is a possible 7 additional entries!

We will start the numbering count with my posts and then continue them as Sumana and Deanna post their reviews and interview portions.  We will merge our lists to keep them chronological and when all is done we will submit to random generator!

For easier entry I am including the events schedule here and I will add the links as the reviews and interviews post!! 

11/15 -  here: Main Giveaway Post (this very post!)

11/17 - here: Martha's review of Fire Eyes.
11/18 - here Interview Part 1 - The Writing Process!

11/19 - at I Read: Sumana's review of Fire Eyes.
11/20 - at I Read: Interview Part 2 - The Publishing Process and The Book - Fire Eyes!

11/24 - at Mom-Musings: Interview Part 3 - The Book - Time Plains Drifter!

12/1 - here: Martha's review of Time Plains Drifter.

12/2 - here: Interview Part 4 - Some Personal Questions!

12/4 - End of the Giveaway at midnight CST; Winners announced on Saturday December 5th!

* This contest is open to residents of US and Canada for print book (as soon as available) or eBook and OPEN Internationally for an eBook choice!

* No P.O. Boxes Please - for shipping reasons.

We hope you will join us as we learn about another author and her good books!! See you Tuesday with the first Review!

We Have TWO WINNERS PLUS! YAY!

Well - I can tell you that was a bit of fun. 

I printed out the list of comments for each event. 

Then I went through and eliminated comments by Carol or the hostesses.

Next I had to eliminate some that didn't enter at the Giveaway post.  Sorry to any of you who wanted to be entered but didn't follow that instruction!

I numbered to confirm the total entry count.  The fun part was putting them in order by time entry - I had to do that three times to get it right with the total count! =o)

Finally I plugged it into Random Generator and got #s 19 and 37.

The lucky winners are:

PENNEY and DEANNA

And as a bonus Carol and I agreed that a special gift should go to ROBYN1 who commented on every event but one!  Great Job! Thanks so much for that extra effort!  So Carol has agreed to give Robyn her choice of one of Carol's eBooks! 

Penney and Deanna need to e-mail your addresses and Robyn1 e-mail me with your book choice!

Thank you to everyone who entered and commented on the different events!  We hope you enjoyed learning more about Carol North and her excellent books!!
Thanks again to Sumana at I Read and Crystal at My Reading Room for sharing in this mini-tour!

Finished for Review: Noella's Gift by Dorina Covey

Title: Noella's Gift
Author: Donica Covey
Publisher: Champagne Books
Buy Link (Currently on sale! $1.40)
Genre:  Contemporary/Christmas
Pages: Short
Heat Rating: Sweet

A disillusioned cop, and a bitter woman. Can a little girl take the bah-humbug out of their holiday?




Author Website: Donica Covey

A very sweet Christmas Story.  Review to be sent to You Gotta Read Reviews this week.

Finished for Review: Confederate Rose by Susan Macatee

Title:  Confederate Rose

Author: Susan Macatee
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Buy Link
Genre: Historical Romance
Pages: 240 pages
Format: eBook, Paperback
TWRP Heat Rating: Spicy

Disguised as a man to serve with her husband as a soldier in the Confederate Army, Irish immigrant Katie Rose O'Reilly vows to remain in the ranks and seek revenge on Yankees after her husband is killed at Sharpsburg. When she falls and almost drowns in a swollen stream, Southerner Alexander Hart, a Yankee spy, saves Katie from drowning, then nurses her through a resulting fever, keeping his identity secret from the feisty and beautiful Rebel soldier even as he finds himself falling in love with her. Can Katie reconcile her loyalties with her love?


Author Website:  Susan Macatee

I do like Civil War romances!
Review to be sent to You Gotta Read Reviews this week.