A FRIDAY FUNNY

For this week’s Friday Funny, how about some signs you can’t help but giggle over?

FREE BOOK FRIDAY

This week’s Free Book Friday giveaway is from one of my favorite authors & one of my favorite romance lines:  CEO’s Expectant Secretary by Leanne Banks.

To enter the giveaway for this book, simply leave a comment to today’s post that includes the code FBF—for “Free Book Friday,” of course—to let me know you’re interested in the drawing.

U.S. residents only for the prize, please, but everyone is welcome to chat.

Winner will be announced during our Happy Sunday post on…well, you know, Sunday.

Winner is responsible for contacting me with her mailing information—i.e. I will not be contacting you—so be sure to check back in or you might not even know you won! :ohcrap

(If prize isn’t claimed within 14 days, another name may be drawn or item may be tossed back into the goody bag to be re-used for a future giveaway.)

As I mentioned on Facebook earlier this week, the reason I haven’t been around much is that I’ve been hidden deep inside the bowels of my deep, dark Editing Cave.

Even though the main writing on PROJECT: RUNAWAY HEIRESS (Book 1, “Project: Passion” mini-series for Harlequin Desire) was finished a little over a week ago, this is the part where I have to sit down & start reading every word, polishing & revising where necessary.  It’s not a fun part, either, because I’m already so familiar with the story, I don’t want to read it again.  Plus, I always think there are sections that are going to need a major overhaul, & who enjoys that?  It’s like digging a hole in the ground for a swimming pool.  Can’t I just have the pool already? :cat

This time around, I also had the added task of making sure I got all of my British details & references right.  (Sexy Nigel Statham is from across the pond. :yummy )  Thankfully, a U.K. reader on Facebook offered to be my fact-checker.  Or rather, my fact-approver. *g*  So I’m feeling pretty good about most of my hero’s POV.

As time-consuming as all of that was, I’m happy to say that the story held together beautifully.  Better than expected, actually.  I could swear there were scenes while writing that made me think, “I’m going to have to go back & fix this.”  But on the read-through, everything looked great.

You know what this means, don’t you?  Apparently, I am like the proverbial shoemaker.  I do the groundwork during the day, then at night while I’m sleeping, little cobbler elves come in & fix things for me.  Either that, or aliens.  And you know what—I’m okay with that. :coffin

But now, finally, I am beyond thrilled to announce that THE BOOK IS DONE!  DONE, DONE, DONE!!!  Not just finished, but polished & perfect (well, you know, perfect-ish) & on Editor C‘s desk, where it belongs.

Whew.  I cannot tell you how happy I am to have this one turned in.  As I mentioned before, it was a rough project to complete.  Not the story itself, but just getting. it. written.

And now that it is, I get to take a short breather, maybe a nap.  Then it’s back to work.  Book 2 is already calling to me. :lipstick

Do you know what today is?  Aargh, that’s right—it be National Talk Like a Pirate Day!

And ye’ll do it, ye will, or Mistress Heidi will see ye walk the plank!

So first, a hot & sexy pirate in honor of what should be Happy Hunk Day!

And then… Funnies!