Only two more weeks until INHERITING HIS SECRET CHRISTMAS BABY arrives, & I thought it might be fun to share an insider’s look at where the “Dynasties: The Jarrods” saga unfolds.

So welcome to Jarrod Ridge. Make yourself at home…

THE MOUNTAINS

THE SKIING

THE RESORT

THE LODGE

TREVOR’S HOUSE

(where all the good stuff happens :winkwink )

I say we make our reservations right now. C’mon, you know you want to. :thumbsup

P.S. I’m also over at the Brava Authors blog today, chatting about how I’ll really be spending my Thanksgiving Day.  Hope you’ll join me to share your own holiday plans. :chocolate

Word of the Week:  Mondaze — The daze you find yourself in due to it being a Monday.

And…I’m done with Twilight.

No confession there, & no shame, either.  I’m just…done.

I made it one whole week, 140 pages, before realizing life is too short. :crazy

My goal, really, was to check out the writing & see what all the hype is about.  Well, I’m still not sure about the hype, & now I know that while the writing is okay, it’s nothing that’s going to send me into squealing fangirl glee.

Basically, I was just too bloody bored.  (Pun intended, I guess. LOL)  Once in a great while something interesting would happen, but in between were pages & pages of I-don’t-give-a-sh*t boredom.

And I cannot count how many times I rolled my eyes over every guy in the school lusting after this nothing-special girl.

Or that hundred-year-old vampires were attending high school.  For, what, the nine hundredth time?!

Or that the whole freaking thing was taking so long to get to the point.

So I tried, but I think I can safely say the Twilight phenomenon is not for me.  I may watch the movie(s) to find out what eventually happened—& catch up on that whole sparkle thing—but otherwise I am moving on.

Let’s go back to making fun of it, shall we?

Happy Sunday, everyone!  We’re just a few days from Thanksgiving, so it shouldn’t be hard to come up with things we’re thankful for, right?  Unless we want to keep the really good ones under wraps until then. :winkwink

But I’ve got a few early ones I’m willing to share.

First, I’m very happy that the “Bloody Good Holiday Giveaway” is up in the sidebar for all the world to see.  (And ain’t it pretty?  :xmastree )  My web gal is so busy right now, & I’m such a pest, but she takes excellent care of me, anyway. :genie

Second, I am extremely thankful that a very bad thing that happened earlier this week is turning out a-okay…& that I discovered something really cool & exciting, even though I can’t talk about it yet. :ubermad

Third, I’m delighted that the giant stack of giveaway goodies I had to get packed up & mail are indeed packed up & mailed now.  All except one, but that will be going out tomorrow.  So if anyone thinks they should be getting a prize from me that doesn’t arrive in the very near future, let me know.

And last but not least, falling under the category of “it’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it,” my Desire editor wants me to include a recipe in the front of my June 2011 release, HER LITTLE SECRET, HIS HIDDEN HEIR—a.k.a. the bakery book.  So I have been forced to play around with recipes for items mentioned in the story.  Madame Mommy Dearest is helping, thank goodness, since A.) she’s really the baker in the family (although I can hold my own with a spatula & oven mitt, thankyouverymuch), B.) I do have another book that needs to be written, & C.) she’s also the holder-of-all-recipes.  But I have been closely involved, vetting the recipes, doing a bit of baking myself, & most importantly—acting as Taste Tester Extraordinaire.  Yes, that’s right…it’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it.  Thanks, Charles! :winkwink

So that’s my week of gratitude at a glance…how about you?

And now to announce the winner of this week’s Free Book Friday giveaway—an early autographed copy of my December Silhouette Desire, INHERITING HIS SECRET CHRISTMAS BABY…

:dancing Deanna!!! :dancing

Congratulations, Deanna! Please contact me with your mailing information & I’ll get your copy of XMAS BABY out to you as soon as I can.

Thanks to everyone who entered, & to everyone who hangs out here on a regular basis.  And you know the drill:  stick around—there’s always more fun stuff & more giveaways popping up in The Dungeon. :devilme