My Five Favourite things

Secret and Sweet Cravings Publishing's authors have banded together in ths blog hop to share Five of their Favourite Things

There are lots of prizes/giveaways up for grabs :-)  All you have to do - is to leave a comment sharing your favourite thing(s), remember to include your email contact address, to be in with a chance of winning!  Simple!

So, what are five of my favourite things?

1) Watching the sun rise, and set, watching the stars at night, been delighted with the display of meteor showers going on these last few days :-)

2) The treasures of friendship.

3) Family, immediate and extended.  

4) My pets, past and present.  Some may be gone but their memory continues.

5) Writing, and reading. Yes, both transport me to places I've longed to visit, and both introduce me to some fabulous characters :-)

I've shared my heroine's life and adventures for several years before I submitted and Sweet Cravings Publishings accepted No Job For a Woman, and over that time I watched her live evolve, change, shift and coalesce until it came true in Deborah's story.
Blurb:

Julian Fanshaw answers a call for help from his life-long friend Lord Worth to help keep his friend’s widowed sister, Deborah, safe from her increasingly vindictive neighbours. It doesn’t take long to realise him or Freddie long to realise the Grangers aren’t using her as a long-promised act of revenge against them; but are playing a deeper and far more sinister game of their own.

Deborah Stavely is determined to overcome the increasing harassment from her neighbour without calling on her brother for help. So she is not pleased when Freddie intervenes and involves his friend, Julian Fanshaw.

Circumstances demand Julian and Deborah learn to work together and Julian dares to dream that he might gain the love of the only person he’s ever given his heart to.

But will Deborah live long enough to discover that by releasing everything she values, she will gain everything her heart desires?

Other SCP authors participating in the blog event

Head over to the SCP facebook fan page and the SCP Readers' Group page for more authors. contests.

Giveaway

One pdf copy of No Job For a Woman will go to the winning commenter - as chosen by random.org

The 2012 A-Z challenge begins today

What is the A-Z Challenge?
 The A to Z Challenges to post the letter of the alphabet every day during the month of April, with Sundays off for good behavior. Since April 1 falls on a Sunday, that will be the day we start with A.

This is my fist year of participation so I have decided to to 'wing it'.   As long as I post the matching  letter of the alphabet for that day.

So, to day, my 'A' is about Angels.

What are angels?  Are they real, are they myth, and if so why do the play such important roles in all of the wolrd's major faiths, where they are depicted as 'messengers of god'.

The best known in everyday life are the Guardian angels.  Whether parents tell their children they have a Guardian Angel as a form of comfort or from belief doesn't really matter.  The child, at an early age is introduced the the angelic realm of reality.

In today's society angels are big business.  Workshops art work, meditation to name just a few areas where they  have become so important to people.

Do you believe in angels?  Have you ever seen one? Do you have an angelic tale to tell and would like comment on?

There are nearly 1700 participants this year and you'll find a list HERE