It's the last day of March, so I thought I'd stop by and wave goodbye to my month as a featured author!  It's been a lot of fun chatting with all of you. Don't forget, there's still a few hours to enter my contest at The Romance Book Club - the prize is an autographed copy of The Grail King and a beautiful blank journal to record your thoughts, dreams, and story ideas!

 I can hardly believe tomorrow is April 1. Finally. Easter coming so early has really screwed up my perception of the seasons - I keep thinking that since Easter is over, it should be WARM OUTSIDE!!!!  The signs of spring are coming...purple crocuses, yellow forsythia, early morning bird song, the bathroom scale creeping upward due to all that winter inactivity...

I am soooo looking forward to that first spring day warm enough to wear shorts outside!

 Joy

Two weekends ago, my teenage daughter was sick and she wanted to watch a movie with me, so we watched the first Star Wars movie. Hard to believe I was in high school when it came out. But wow, wasn't Harrison Ford a cutie! So I told my daughter we ought to do a Harrison Ford marathon the following weekend and she thought that was cool.

We've got all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies at home, so we've seen them a lot and didn't put them on our list. Not being a member of Netflix (yet), we headed over to the movie rental place, armed with a list of about 12 HF movies, and started hunting. I was really hoping to find Witness, but it wasn't there. I wanted Blade Runner, which I've actually never seen, but no luck on that one, either. Or Frantic.

But I did find Working Girl, one of my absolute favorites, and it was great seeing that again. We also rentedt Regarding Henry, which is a very sweet movie, and The Mosquito Coast, which is very intense. And Sabrina, a romantic comedy I've never seen before. Of course Harrison was a doll in that one, too.

Any other Harrison groupies out there? I can't wait to see his comeback in the new Indiana Jones movie. 

Joy 

 I'm honored to be guest blogging here at The Romance Book Club this month! My January release, Deep Magic, is featured for March. Deep Magic is the second in my historical fantasy Druids of Avalon series for Dorchester, a stand alone story, though some characters in the book appeared in my previous historicals, Celtic Fire, the "prequel" to the Druids series, and the first "official" Druids of Avalon book, The Grail King. TGK won Romantic Times Magazine's Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Fantasy.

This month I'm coming up for air between books. I turned in the manuscript for my October 08 release, Immortals: The Crossing, a couple weeks ago. Immortals is a contemporary paranormal series I'm doing with two other authors, Jennifer Ashley and Robin T Popp. A bit different from my historicals, but since my books in the Immortals series are set in Scotland and have a Celtic flavor, there are similarities as well.

 When I'm not writing all day and night (at least it seems like that sometimes!), I like to watch movies.  In the past I usually rented the DVDs to watch at home, but we recently got Comcast On Demand, so now there are a ton of free and pay-per-view movies on my TV as well. Which is great, really. At least in concept. In reality, the better my cable service gets, the less I know how to use it!

 We now have THREE remotes. With lots and lots of buttons. These buttons don't always do what they say. For example, there on On/Off buttons on all of the remotes, but only one of these turns on the TV. Ditto for the volume buttons - got three of em, but only one works. Which remote lets you watch a TV station? Which lets you watch a DVD? Which one for a VHS tape? Which one gets you to Comcast On Demand, so you can bang around the buttons looking through 5 separate lists of movies to see if there's one you'd like? Which button makes the screen go totally snowy? - oh, wait, that's the button I always seem to be able to find. What does AV-1 and AV-2 mean, anyway?

I'm not a techie, but I've never been a techno-dolt, either. So why is it so hard just to turn on the TV??? Luckily, I have kids, including one uber-techie who has some weird psychic connection to the buttons on all the remotes. So at least until he goes to college, I'm good.

Joy

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