Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Hello, again! Before I delve into this week's Challenge Question, I'd like to share a little 'funny' with y'all, if you don't mind. It kind of falls in line with today's topic, I think. While subbing for a 5th grade class this afternoon (it's Thursday) I saw a Goes Home announcement on the teacher's desk. The school is having a Bagel Drive, and it read as follows: "All you have to do is (comma) bring in a dollar and turn it into your teacher." Welcome back for Week Eight of the MFRW Author Blog's 52-Week Blog Challenge . This week we are asked to discuss: The Worst Writing Advice I've Gotten And, like always, I have to remark on that word, Gotten . Blech. I gave it a better word in my Title, though. This week's Challenge Question is both great and evil for me, but I'll try very hard not to expound on the Evil (as in, I'll TRY). Just know I'm fully aware of the fact that I'm a ...

My Review of B.J. Scott's Highland Hellion , Book One in her Blades of Honor Historical Romance series. Pages -  240  Publisher -  Soul Mate Publishing Published -  March 30, 2016 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical Romance, Scottish Series -  Blades of Honor 1 of 3 Language -  2/5 Sexual Content -  1/5 Narrative -  3rd P Arya MacEachan’s beloved father taught her to hunt, ride, to handle a sword, and shoot an arrow straighter than most men, things a proper lady did not usually learn. When he is killed at the Battle of Bannockburn, their holdings taken by Robert the Bruce, the spirited lass is left alone to care for her invalid mother, a task she does not take lightly. Garrett MacDougall, leader of his displaced clan and their related septs, struggles to provide for his people on barren land where hunting is forbidden, forcing him to steal from the new Lord of Argyll in order to...

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to a late entry in the MFRW Author Blog 52-Week Blog Challenge. This is now Week Seven, and today's topic is: Top Five Things on My Bucket List Can't STAND the phrase Bucket List . The guy who coined it was referring to death that way, kicking the bucket, and I just think it sounds really stupid. Anyway, I apologize for the late entry this week, but I did spend a lot of time thinking about what to say and didn't really come up with anything spectacular. Realistically, I'm limited by lack of wealth in the Bucket List category of life, but that doesn't stop the imagination from creating one thought bubble after the other! I think we've done this list before, too. Here we go, and in no particular order, either. #1 I'd really like to be in NYC on New Year's Eve just once. Kid 101 Maybe not sandwiched among the throngs -- freezing my doopah off with them -- but in a swank hotel room with a perfe...

5 Authors (Dead or Alive) whom I'd Like to Meet Hi! It's Week 6 already, and today our Challenge Question is:  Five Authors (alive or dead) I'd Like to Meet This will be a post I'm going to kick myself over in a few days (if not hours) because I only came up with three. When all is said and done, the other two are going to come to me, and I'm going to be like, "You dumbell, of course!" Also, and while this has zero to do with today's topic, it at least possibly explains my brain fog: we are currently under a Severe Winter Storm Warning through tomorrow afternoon. (sad face) We've had at least 3 to 5 inch snowfalls for the past seven days now, but tonight, starting at around 1:30 a.m., we're supposed to get another 7-10" before noon tomorrow. I've lived here all my life and still haven't adjusted to the weather in winter, so I've been pondering such things as getting my Diet Coke (fountain only) tonight or cha...

The cover is all that is enjoyable about this book. Pages -  335  Publisher -  Oliver-Heber Books; 9 edition Published -  January 15, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Guardians of the Stone Book 2 of 5 Genre -  Historical Romance Narrative -  3rd Person Sexual Content -  1/5 Language -  1/5 The year is 1123. Scotland's King David seeks an alliance with the fierce mountain Scot, Aidan dun Scoti. But only one woman will tempt Aidan--the accursed beauty whose father once betrayed his clan ... Offered in marriage by David of Scotland as a guise for peace and cursed by Aidan's people for the sins of her father, Lìleas MacLaren is the one woman Aidan believes he is immune to. Alas, she is also the one woman who might bring the fierce chieftain to his knees. I had a very difficult time engaging with this one. And, I'm guessing this was likely written for the Middle S...

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Hello, everyone, and HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY! Welcome back to Week 5 of the MFRW Author Blog's 52-Week Blog Challenge. This week, we're asked to discuss: A Book That has Influenced My Life The word 'influenced' threw me for a time, and it wasn't until I began to query others that the dawning of realization hit. Honestly, I am one-track minded when it comes to books. Books = Romance Novels to my mind, and I have yet to read one that made me sit up and think, "Y'know, it's about time I did something like this in order to better myself!" LOL Also, at my age, I don't necessarily read to 'learn' anymore... and I know that sounds odd or wrong to most, but bear with me, please. When we were on the topic of Earliest Memory, I should have mentioned my earliest Reading experience when I was probably late three or four. I was on my father's lap, helping him turn the pages of a...