May 1 - Come to The Wild Rose Press's Third Birthday Party

Happy Birthday to the Wild Rose Press.
Join us May 1, 2009 for a day of fun blog posts and prizes every hour.

Stop by www.BehindTheGardenGate.blogspot.com all day May 1, 2009. Beginning at 6 am ET and ending about 11pm ET, each hour will highlight the many lines we have at the Wild Rose Press.
And every hour, a random winner will be drawn from those who post a comment. The winners will receive their choice of book from that line.

At the end of the day, a grand prize winner will be drawn from all that post throughout the day.
The grand prize winner will receive a gorgeous tote bag full of books, a t-shirt, coffee mug, gift certificates and whatever else we can stuff in a tote bag or if the winner would rather, they can take a $30 gift certificate to the TWRP bookstore.
(this can be any TWRP store, White Rose Publishing, the Wilder Rose or the main Wild Rose Press bookstore.)

www.BehindTheGardenGate.blogspot.com

www.thewildrosepress.com (romance)

www.thewilderroses.com (erotic romance)

www.whiterosepublishing.com (inspirational romance)

Too Much Blogging?

In my October 12, 2008 post, I talked about Loretta Chase's departure from the Word Wenches blog.

Ms. Chase, popular author of Your Scandalous Ways, left because she needed more time for writing.

Two weeks ago, Edith Layton said she was leaving the Word Wenches blog. Just this past week, Susan Holloway Scott/Miranda Jarrett, also announced her departure from Word Wenches. And, on March 17, Cara King of Risky Regencies announced she was leaving her blog.

All three ladies left these very popular blogs for the same reason Loretta Chase did--blogging took up too much of their writing time. Do I detect a trend? Will authors now leave their blogs because blogging takes up too much time?

These ladies are all established authors, so a little less blogging probably won't hurt their sales. Yet, even I, newbie that I am, feel the drain blogging takes. I've been skimping on this blog because I've been blogging at Romantic Synonymous and Happily Ever After. Blog posts take time and energy I could spend on writing something new.

Six months have passed since I wrote that blog about Loretta Chase. I know more now that I did then. I've already decided I won't do any more guest blogs, except for very special reasons. I have one more, on May 13 at Allie Boniface's blog, that I scheduled last November. Then I concentrate on my new story and see how well everything works out.

Thank you all,
Linda

Blogging at Happily Ever After

I'm blogging tomorrow (actually the post is up now) at Happily Ever After on Gorgeous Men in Tight Breeches and Ruffled Shirts, Part II. I have more pictures!

And because spring has finally arrived here in New England, I decided to post some flower pictures.


Thank you all,
Linda

Blogging at Between the Lines

I'm blogging today at Between the Lines on I Write Regency.

If you like Regency, you might like to take a look.

Thank you all,
Linda