Boy, have I been missing

I'm sorry for being MIA. I just realized I hadn't been around with a substantial blog for a while. (insert chirping crickets here.)
I've been busy with a novel, a potty training two-year-old, a family visit, and a final check over for a requested manuscript. Fear not, gentle reader, I'll be back with a new blog idea in a week or so. I'm going to try to do one subject focused on writers and one focused on readers, with both being focused on fun. I might also have a wildcard. We'll see how we go. Look forward to future blogs. Hopefully they will be fun.

Weekly Quote Wednesday Joseph Conrad and Sherry Thomas

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Historical romance quote

 Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful. And in the end, so catastrophically flawed. ― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a usband

Weekly Quote Wednesday Franz Kafka and Julia Quinn

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

Historical romance quote

 “To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke And I

Weekly Quote Wednesday Eleanor Roosevelt and Sally MacKenzie

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

Historical romance quote
  
"Frankly, I hope to see you and Ned married this summer."

Ellie Choked--and made the unpleasant discovery that it was possible to snort tea out of one's nose.  
―Sally MacKenzie, Bedding Lord Ned