The Crayon Box

2012-05-02T10:19:00.001-04:00

Posted at TRS: http://ping.fm/TibYo

2012-03-22T10:55:00.001-04:00

Happy Spring! It's been very warm here, leading to thoughts of serious spring fever!

2012-03-09T09:21:00.001-05:00

I blogged at TRS about Daylight Saving Time: http://ping.fm/mkPwm

2012-02-17T11:48:00.001-05:00

Anyone else glad it's Friday? Oh and I blogged for the first time in ages. http://ping.fm/SV942

Friday Five

2012-02-17T11:41:00.002-05:00

1. Yes, it has been a while. Life keeps getting in the way. I really need more hours in a day.

2. I'm finished with Beyond the Fire. I need to edit it, on tap for next week, and get it submitted.

3. I have no idea what to write next. I've been contemplating a young adult novel...I have an idea about drag queens...and I have oh, three books that I really need to edit and find a home for. What to do, what to do.

4. Big Bang Theory makes me LAUGH. We watched the new one last night and I cracked up about Sheldon. Then the first episode of BBT aired on TBS. I'm really astounded at how the show has changed, the characters have gone through some changes, but it's still really funny.

5. I just read Eon and Eona, which were really good Young Adult books. Also read Slayers, also young adult, which made me long for the next one! Hmm writing about dragons and reading them. I'm also reading Stephen King's latest. The main character just went into Derry and met some characters from It. Loving it. I'm also rereading Dark Highlander. *sigh* I love Karen Marie Moning.

May the muses have more hours in a day. Or more coffee
Mechele

2012-02-10T11:16:00.001-05:00

Whooo hoo! Writing is done on Fire Riders 3: Beyond the Fire! Now begins editing and submission. Hmmm still get queasy on that last part.

2012-02-03T09:37:00.001-05:00

I blogged on quirky heroes: http://ping.fm/95Ahq

2012-01-23T11:19:00.001-05:00

It's a dreary day here. I really would love to curl up with a book and cup of coffee. Let's hope I do some writing!

2012-01-18T10:59:00.001-05:00

Still working. Still determined. Trying to ignore the heavy machinery taking down a tree a couple of doors down. Writing ho!!

2012-01-12T09:26:00.001-05:00

I have my nose to the grindstone. I'm determined to finish Fire Riders 3: Beyond the Fire in the next couple of weeks. I WILL NOT GET SICK!

2012-01-06T13:45:00.001-05:00

I blogged at TRS about being a kid at heart: http://ping.fm/4svII

2012-01-03T11:45:00.001-05:00

Little late but Happy New Year! I'm determined to write more in 2012!! Here is to health and happiness as well.

Another dragon on the loose!

2011-12-27T09:14:00.003-05:00

Alin can’t believe he captured Geant. Even though he did it unfairly and feels badly about it, he feels his people need this leverage against Eastania. The grizzled captain of Eastania’s dragon riders is just as fascinating in person as he was on parchment. Geant wants his freedom and if his captor would just come in chain's reach, he could get away. But Alin the captain of Wardona’s dragon riders is a little too alluring and sexy, and too smart to take the risk.

When Alin finally does walk within Geant's chain's reach, many things could happen. But what does is nothing either man expected. Combustion. And not the kind that explodes dragon riders. Volatile chemistry of the sexual sort.

Then Geant’s mate Elesia shows up, along with the Eastania delegation ready to negotiate freedom for Geant; she knows one thing instantly. Someone else has been taking her mate. What she discovers is an attraction and an interest in Alin as strong as Geant's own.

War threatens to keep them apart. Can they deny how they feel, or will the fire within consume them all?

To read an excerpt.

A snoopy dancing Mechele
www.mechelarmstrong.com

2011-12-12T10:31:00.001-05:00

I blogged at TRS on an unexpected ingredient: http://ping.fm/cN0iR

2011-12-01T09:49:00.001-05:00

Happy 1st day of December!

The monkey is out of the cage!

2011-11-29T11:00:00.004-05:00

Liquid Silver released Code Monkey late last night. I'm so so excited.

Love my cover. Love Baxter. Love the story. Yep, I'm snoopy dancing right now!

Blurb: Baxter Savage is bored at his job as a code monkey (aka computer programmer). He dreams of leaving his job for better but his sensual dreams of the company’s receptionist, Anna Marie, keep him at his job for now.

Anna Marie is the low woman on the totem pole who wants to be more and dreams of hitting the big time. When she’s asked to spy on a suspected secrets thief for a promotion, she can’t believe her luck. Only it means spending time with a code monkey, namely Baxter.

Baxter is thrilled to have Anna Marie’s attention and Anna Marie soon finds that the code monkey is a lot more interesting than she ever thought possible.

When she finds herself falling for him, will she answer the call of her heart or of her dreams? Can they catch the real thief together or will the code monkey lose it all?

To read an excerpt (the first chapter).

Hope you enjoy the story as much as I did writing it.

Mechele

2011-11-22T13:50:00.001-05:00

Geek Love is being offered in a bundle where 100% of the proceeds go to a charity. Check it out:

http://bundlelytic.com/

2011-11-10T09:40:00.001-05:00

I blogged at TRS Blue on my love of the holiday season and why this year is special http://ping.fm/dLVCs

Friday Five

2011-11-04T12:58:00.002-04:00

1. Not feeling well sucks. Especially when there is lots to be done.

2. I'm still so excited about Taming the Fire releasing. At least that cheers me up and keeps me warm on a rainy, chilly day like today. My pretty. If you haven't gotten a copy yet, get one! LOL. I just shared an excerpt with my newsletter group. See details on the book and my newsletter group at my website.

3. In a current reading slump. Haven't read anything to speak of. Need to find a good story.

4. Youngest wrote a piece about "Fall" and stuck it to my wall above my table with decorative fall and Thanksgiving stuff. She just "felt like writing it." Maybe I'll have a little writer on my hands one day.

5. The Walking Dead is still on my must watch list, though I'm having fewer nightmares about it. Maybe that's a good thing? I love how Daryl has gone from being this redneck bad boy, which he still is, but he's also the most optimistic of them all. "This ain't the mountains of Tibet, it's Georgia." Loved Castle the other night! Sort of a Sleeping with the Enemy theme. I love the beginning when he's like this bank is about to get robbed and Beckett says no way and then it does.

May the muses have NO ALGEBRA
Mechele

Who let the dragons out?

2011-11-01T09:31:00.004-04:00

Loose Id did! Whooo hoooo. Taming the Fire released overnight last night.

Blurb: Against the backdrop of a war over land where battles rage every night, Byron and Callum came together in an inferno of lust and they've been happy together. One problem, though; Byron is a dragon rider who is nearing the age when his fire build up will be too much and he’ll be in danger of combusting. It doesn’t help that Callum is a dragon rider too and raises Byron’s fire instead of lowering it. Only one thing will ease the fires within Byron.

A human.

Mira has been just existing, trying to stay out of everyone’s notice. Only she finds herself fascinated by two dragon riders who don’t act like the others. It’s a dangerous interest, and she should know. Her parents died as a result of dragon rider actions. But she hasn’t escaped Byron’s and Callum’s attention.

When Byron and Callum decide she’s the answer to their problems, will she rise above her problems and prejudices and step into the dragon’s lair to tame Byron’s fire?

To read an excerpt.

Where they be dragons, there is love!
Mechele

2011-10-21T15:26:00.001-04:00

In the land of edits. Will resume normal programming eventually...

2011-10-17T12:12:00.001-04:00

Check out Kate Hill's Halloween Contest too! http://ping.fm/y2QC3

2011-10-17T12:08:00.001-04:00

Sam Cheever's Trick or Treat Contest has begun! http://www.samcheever.com/Halloween_Contest_2011.html

Friday Five

2011-10-14T11:57:00.003-04:00

1. I'm a third of the way through the third dragon story!! Yay me!

2. Just found out Stephen King's Bag of Bones is being done as a mini-series by A&E! Will have to reread the book before December but am very much looking forward to it.

3. The Walking Dead premieres on Sunday night. Last time I watched the series, it gave me nightmares LOL. The previews look good. Castle was excellent this week as always. I loved Ryan's part in the episode. And what better compliment could Kate ever give Castle than the one at the end.

4. Youngest is not a reader *sigh* much to my dismay. She's been reading the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi in class. She plopped the book on my desk with the admonition to "read it, Mom, it's so good!" Needless to say when the kids tell me to read something, I don't take it lightly, especially from her. I checked it out from the library and read it. Really good adventure book with a hint of mystery. I enjoyed it very much, thank you, youngest. She was mad because I finished it before she did LOL.

5. To the person beside me in the double turning lane who tried to turn into my lane...thanks for eliminating the need for coffee this morning. Yes, that woke me up!

May the muses have books they can't put down
Mechele

2011-10-13T10:13:00.001-04:00

Getting ready to write! It's going slowly but it is going. I have a new pretty to share soon...definitely inspiring me this morning.