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4th of July Monday!

fiona — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:03:49 +0000

Happy 4′th of July to those who celebrate it! I’m keeping my rear at home in the relative cool, avoiding traffic and the insanity. I’ve spent the weekend unglamorously watching The Tudors Netflix finally brought secons 3+4 to DVD and I couldn’t resists!

Anyone else swooning over the Charles Brandon character? I found this video clip – and it’s like a historical romance in 10 minutes:

Revisiting a Cover

fiona — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:01:09 +0000

I spent the weekend redoing my own cover. I absolutely HATE making my own covers – I take forever to decide on things and talk about being OCD about every minor detail!

BUT – the previous Dragon Slayer cover just wasn’t doing it for me and my wonderful publisher Jill Noble at Noble Romance Publishing allowed me to rework it. ( I think I got a little enthusiastic on the yellow fire on the first version)

Behold the new and improved cover:) I finally created something I actually like!

Yes I’m still alive

fiona — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:54:33 +0000

I haven’t blogged since October? Holy crap!
I have great excuses for it: I’ve been doing a ton more cover art, I wrote like crazy from October till about Feb, and my website sort of held me hostage. No, seriously. I haven’t been able to log in. I haven’t had new releases so it wasn’t imperative for me to update my site, but lets just say I spent quite a few hours on it in January and still couldn’t do it.

BTW – handy tip (those of you who hate geek talk please feel free to skip ahead): if you are tearing out your hair trying to log in to your own wordpress website try the following:

1. disable plugins. Access your server through the FTP and rename the plugin folder plungins.hold or something and try it. Odds are one of your lovely plugins are the culprit.

2. Update the user name/password combo in the database – using MD5 for the password.

I started with the second option – and several hours and choice Russian curses later tried the first option. I don’t know what worked, but here I am, back at my own f-ing blog, cleaning house and feeling a sense of satisfaction for finally beating down the door. (Grandma would be so proud at my inventive use of my native language)

Now onto my news:

Yesterday, Virginia Henley friended me on Facebook. THE Virginia Henley. If you guys remember me blogging about my favorite re-reads, her book, The Pirate and The Pagan is one of my favorite re-reads. Adding to the significance of one of my favorite authors friending ME and not the other way around – her book The Falcon and The Flower was the third romance novel I ever read in English. A friend of mine smuggled the book out of her house to our school. I didn’t know how to pronounce breasts, but I had a good idea of what the heck they were!

I love how all this modern technology lets you connect to your idols and interact with them!

I’ll be posting more – unless WordPress decides to give me another round of brain exercise, but for now you guys can catch me on facebook and Twitter

Very Late Monday

fiona — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:35:28 +0000

I turn around and its Wed already! WTF happened?

Nothing new to report – working away at the second draft of Night Legacy. Turning a pile of cow dung into silk is hard work! Actually I love the way the story is coming together – kickass heroine, brooding hero – the works:)

Oh and I finally bit the bullet and joined Facebook. You can check out my page by clicking on it on the left hand sidebar. They finally got me assimilated:)

Behold my new writing cave

fiona — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:11:22 +0000

I’m happy to finally show off my writing cave! The boxes are “mostly” unpacked, the chair is comfy, the dry erase boards are set up (except the sticky notes keep falling!), the desk is ready and there’s even a little footstool for the times I require feline supervision.

The candles are “flameless” – so I don’t have to worry about setting the place on fire (I mentioned how I’m OCD right?)

My books are loosely grouped into “romance”, “writing”, “writing – to be re-read”, “inDeath series”, Russian Books, “Art Books” and “Misc”.

I’m seriously tickled with it:) Now I just have to get my butt down into that chair to write:)

Blog Tour for Night Haven

fiona — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:18:53 +0000

Kicking off the Blog Tour for Night Haven!

I blogged at Delilah Devilin’s about Paranormal Logistics in a Semi-Normal World last week.

Today Allie Boniface interviewed me for her blog Allie’s Musings.

Tomorrow I’m at Moira Keiths blog, talking about the inspiration behind Night Haven.

Stay tuned for upcoming blog stops!

-Fi

Guesting at Make Believe Mondays

fiona — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:27:59 +0000

My fellow Samhain author Debra Parmley interviewed me for Make Believe Mondays.

http://makebelievemondays.blogspot.com/2010/08/make-believe-mondays-with-fiona-jayde.html

Check it out when you have a moment!

Still Unpacking and New Interview

fiona — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:36:12 +0000

I’m still surrounded by boxes, but the kitchen and office are usable:)

Not much else to report other then a new interview at Ann Lory’s blog:

http://annlory.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-author-spotlight-fiona-jayde-al-hi.html

How is it almost August already? Didn’t we just ring in 2010?

Fangirl Monday

fiona — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:46:17 +0000

I saw this over the weekend and had to post it – and my fangirl squeals. Is it wrong for a grown woman to crush on an actor? Can’t wait for this movie to come out! I saw some sort of a whispered protest about prohibiting actors playing both Marvel and DC characters, but I’m just happy to see my boy…Though I do prefer him armed with two katanas…

In other news, I’m avidly procrastinating on my second draft of my big mystery project and using packing as an excuse

Bookish Monday

fiona — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:34:49 +0000

I’ve spent the weekend packing boxes and boxes and boxes of books:) The hubster and I are getting ready to move and there are towers of brown boxes in my living room:) And while its a tossup who has more books – hubby or I – I think I’m the clear winner by virtue of collecting books for all interests. And I got plenty of interests:)

Romance Books – Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb dominates:) There’s a good smattering of Linda Howard, Johanna Lindsay and JR Ward (thought I started getting those in Ebook format – Lover Avenged was like a brick! Glad I got that on my Kindle lol)

Writing Books – Looks like I went from “plotting” to “character” -… I still have a hard time getting through a lot of the books because I tend to buy them when stuck on a plot point and forget all about them when said plot point is resolved… James N Frey seems to be a consistent author on my shelves – he’s a damn good writing teacher (hehe – couldn’t help myself there)

Art Books – lots of drawing and painting and “happy little tree Bob Rossisms”. Plus a smattering of those “paint in a book” kits – those are always fun… I should get back into drawing… Someday.

Jazz books – A couple Bill Evans books which I can’t read (I have a hard time reading jazz rhythms) and a couple of Oscar Peterson books (with a CDs yay!). Plus a big stack of photocopied Star Wars soundtrack for the piano… Hubster wouldn’t let me recycle it:)

Hubster’s shelves are actually organized by theme/author – he’s got Robert Jordan on one shelve (HUGE books with neat covers!), a whole bunch of Star Trek TNG books (We once bet that he doesn’t have Q In Law in his collection and he took great pride in unearthing it in 10 seconds flat), Dresden books, and a smattering of various other Urban Fantasy books.

I gotta say – I love my Kindle, but there’s a certain gluttonous pride of ownership in having a diverse library of books:)

How do you guys keep your book collection organized?