I’ve set myself up a little reward system for completing writing projects, and this is what I get when I finish Back In My Arms Again. I can hardly wait!
Author: Cora Lee
Cora Lee is a National Bestselling author of Regency romance. She went on a twelve year expedition through the blackboard jungle as a high school math teacher before publishing Save the Last Dance for Me, the first book in the Maitland Maidens series. She then followed it up with six other novels and novellas ranging from sweet and traditional to spicy and suspenseful.
When she’s not walking Rotten Row at the fashionable hour or attending the entertainments of the Season, you might find her participating in Regency Fiction Writers events, wading through her towering TBR pile, or eagerly awaiting the next Marvel movie release. If you’d like to find out more about Cora or her books you can sign up for her newsletter, or connect with her on Facebook, BlueSky, Bookbub, or Goodreads.
Monday Motivation
This is a key point for me. When I don’t make progress as fast as I’d like I sometimes get discouraged (especially when my health is a factor). But progress is progress, no matter how slowly it comes 🙂
Quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln (though it appears he never actually said this), photo by regan76 via flickr.
Monday Motivation
“Great moments are born from great opportunity.” Here’s your Monday Motivation:
Monday Motivation
I’ve been having a hard time getting my rear in gear lately, so I decided to make this a regular feature. These posts may or may not have anything to do with history, reading, writing, or romance. They will simply be whatever I find that perks me up.
Here’s this week’s motivator (yes, more superheroes!). It’s made the rounds on various social media outlets, but I have no idea who created it. If you do, let me know so I can give proper credit 🙂
Cora’s TBR Challenge Check-In
We’re a quarter of the way through 2016–how is your TBR Challenge progressing?
Last month I said I was finally making headway…and now I have to eat those words. I had a run in with my arch nemesis Chronic Fatigue and spent a week and a half in bed when I wasn’t at the day job. I’m also going back to school in May (just for one semester), so I’ve been trying to get all my editing and writing commitments wrapped up before then. I’m registered for two classes that are reading/writing intensive, so I’m operating under the assumption that I won’t have time to do much else (I’ll still be working at the day job as well).
That all adds up to me not reading for fun the entire month 😦
Looking ahead, there may be some down time in April where I can squeeze in some reading time. And there’s still a full week left in March–perhaps I can carve out some time and salvage the month. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Monday Motivation
In case your get-up-and-go needs some help getting going…and because I do love my superheroes 😉
You can change the whole world
Gonna take it over
Gonna start it over
Don’t you know what we can be?
Cora’s TBR Challenge Check-In
Two months down, fellow readers! Is your TBR pile getting smaller yet?
I’m finally starting to make some headway. I listed to John McWhorter’s Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue when all was quiet at the day job. If you’re a language nerd, you should definitely read (or listen to) this book. The author did his own narration, so if you listen to the audio don’t expect world-class acting. But the man clearly knows his stuff and enjoys his work 🙂
I’m working on two ebooks this month as well: A Night To Surrender by Tessa Dare (the first of her Spindle Cove series) and, from my TBR library list, The Proposal by Mary Balogh (the first in her Survivors Club series). Tessa Dare has quickly become one of my go-to authors when I want a fun, well-written Regency, and Mary Balogh has been one of my favorites for years. Our weather here in Michigan has recently devolved back into snowy, sloppy winter, too, so I suspect my free time the rest of the week will be spent with a fuzzy blanket and my Kindle.
Quote of the Week
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/oliver-wendell-holmes
Quote of the Week
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do..
–Eleanor Roosevelt
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/first-ladies/eleanorroosevelt
Friday Favorite: More of What Jane Saw
Two years ago, Sir Joshua Reynolds’ portrait exhibition was one of our Friday Favorites. This year, the good folks at What Jane Saw (brought to you by the University of Texas) are back at it, expanding the virtual art tour to include an exhibit of paintings devoted to Shakespeare’s works.
“You are invited to time travel to two art exhibitions witnessed by Jane Austen: the Sir Joshua Reynolds retrospective in 1813 or the Shakespeare Gallery as it looked in 1796. These two Georgian blockbusters took place, years apart, in the same London exhibition space at 52 Pall Mall (it no longer exists). When Austen visited in 1813, the building housed the British Institution, an organization promoting native artists. On her earlier London visit in 1796, it was the first-ever museum dedicated to William Shakespeare.”
As with the Reynolds exhibit, a menu bar runs across the top of the window allowing you to brows paintings by catalog number or placement withing the building. Clicking on a painting opens up a dialog box with a ton of information about the piece.
Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author 