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Get Healthy Blog Hop

Alex Cavanaugh ,  Stephen Tremp, L. Diane Wolfe,  and  Michael Di Gesu   have teamed up for the Get Healthy Blog Hop! Bummed about being fatigued all the time? Not feeling as fit as you'd like to be? Here is a Blog Hop that can help us make 2013 a year that we can  get healthier. The Objective: Share with everyone something you have done that affected your health in a positive way.  I just attended my 20 year college reunion over the weekend, and I was amazed by how fit my peers looked. What am I doing wrong? I've always been a tall, athletic woman, and I know being thin isn't in the cards for me, but I'm displeased by some recent weight gain. Change is HARD, and one change I need to make is to incorporate more mindful eating into my regimen. According to Lauren Todd, mindful eating is eating based on physiological cues instead of environmental or emotional cues. After a long day of work I often plop down in front of the TV to eat m

#Omnilicious Twitter Party

Good things are happening at Omnific Publishing. We'll host our first Twitter Party this Friday 5/31/13, starting at 7:00 p.m. EST. Prizes and giveaways galore! Hop back on my blog on Thursday to snag my secret letter for the scavenger hunt. Secondly, Omnific has a Facebook group you can join HERE . Check out giveaways, reviews, and other goodies from our growing group of authors! Omnific's latest release Tangled by Emma Chase is tearing it up, sitting at #1 in Erotica on Amazon's Kindle charts. Thirdly, I want to thank author Carol Oates for her help with beautiful graphics like the Twitter Party one above. She's helping her fellow Omnific chicks with some kickass marketing tools! Finally, come back on 5/29 for the Get Healthy Blog Hop, when I'll give away a copy of my swimming romance Streamline .

Author R.L. Griffin -- Review and Interview

It’s my pleasure to have author R.L. Griffin to the blog! She loves to write in the New Adult genre—one of my favorites. Following her interview is my review of her novel By a Thread . Jennifer Lane (JL): Welcome to the blog, RL! I'm psyched to meet you at the New Adult Sleepover Weekend in December. How did you get started writing? R.L. Griffin (RLG): I've been "writing" all my life, but I wrote my first published work while I had so much free time in law school. * sarcasm * JL: You're an attorney, correct? How do law and writing fit together? RLG: As an attorney you have to write long boring briefs and arguments that are very dry.  I love creating people's stories and so writing gives me the ability to do that. JL: How do you juggle working, writing, and motherhood? RLG:  Poorly.  I don't sleep very much.  I do try to make sure I'm the best mom I can be to my son when I can.  I do work long hours so I try t

Editing Has Made Me Crazy

Have I mentioned how much I love the editing team at Omnific Publishing? Jessica Royer Ocken has taught me so much about the right way to write. Mostly I'm grateful for this knowledge. But there are times when I think I've learned too much, like when typos and grammar gaffes interfere with my enjoyment of a novel. I'll be happily reading a story with good plot and characterization but then halt, wide-eyed, with horror. Blond is an adjective, BLONDE is a female noun! A comma doesn't belong there, people! It's e ffect, not a ffect, when describing a noun. Editing know-how also drives me up a tree when friends make an error in language. I mean, really--who cares ? I'm nowhere near perfect at the spoken or written word. Yet when a colleague says something like "It's the same for her and I", I want to shout "Her and ME! It's ME, not I!" Today my psychotherapy client told me she "could care less" about something

The Mother of All Blog Bounces

Happy Mother's Day! Please join Omnific Publishing authors as we celebrate our mothers on our weekly Thursday Blog Bounce. Today we discuss how our mothers have influenced our writing. With her encouragement and kooky sense of humor, my mother had an early influence on my imagination. She enrolled me in art classes before the age of five (too bad the lessons didn't stick!) My mom valued education and the power of the written word, especially for firing off letters to politicians who weren't doing their job! And, my mother is a lot of fun. I remember her driving me and my neighborhood teammates home from swim practice one night . . . for some reason she started making animal noises. We had a blast imitating chickens, rabbits, and wookies. Here's an example of a movie that cracks us up ( Every Which Way But Loose ): Finishing a novel takes bountiful hard work and perseverance--qualities my mother instilled in me. The fact that she's still working fou