The Mysterious Garden Muse

I want to share this information about best selling romance author LUCY MONROE's 2012 Reader Fitness Challenge. It's a great idea and you can win prizes, too! Full details are available at her website . The Lucy Monroe Reader Fitness Challenge April 1 - June 23, 2012 Online Registration Form Sign up and tell your friends! With weekly drawings for FREE workout DVDs and books by Lucy Monroe and other authors!  Names will be drawn from among all  registered  participants in the Lucy Monroe Reader Fitness Challenge and prizes will be shipped to the address given on the original registration form ONLY. Dear Readers, 2011 was my wake-up call to get healthy and I've been working hard to improve my lifestyle with better eating and exercise habits to help me become healthier, stronger and happier.  I kicked off the year by joining my local Hillsboro Fitness Challenge in January.   Not only have I lost weight and inches, but I have lots more energy and enthusiasm than I&

This year is flying by, and April will be here before we know it. Here is the schedule so far - as always, there will probably be more guest blogs added along the way. Week of April 2 – Dorothy St. James (who also writes as Dorothy McFalls) The Scarlet Pepper    Tuesday, April 3 – Guest blog by Erika Chase A Killer Read (Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series #1)    Week of April 9 – Natalie J. Damschroder Fight or Flight      Tuesday, April 10 – Guest blog by Linda O. Johnston The More the Terrier (Pet Rescue Mystery Series #2)    Week of April 16 – Libby Hellmann A Bitter Veil    Week of April 23 – American Mystery Classics: Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge  

Do your books feature weapons and/or ammunition?  Make sure you are writing about them accurately.  The Ohio Valley chapter of RWA presents  Adam Firestone with an all-day workshop: FIREARMS AND  THE  CHOREOGRAPHY OF DIRECT ACTION  Featured Topics: Introduction to Firearms & Ammunition Tactics, Tec hniques & Procedures Terminal Ballistics Cyber Crime The Choreography of Direct Action Hands On Show and Tell Adam provides technical consulting services to the literary and entertainment industries, specializing in action choreography and technical consulting on cyber and weapon technologies.   Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.  (Q&A to 5 p.m.) Kings Island Conference Center 5691 Kings Island Drive Mason, OH 45040 Registration Free to OVRWA Members  (Join here: http://ovrwa.com/join-ovrwa/ ) $25 Fee to non-OVRWA members – Includes Box Lunch Contact Becke Martin Davis, Vice President OVRWA, for details (Post a comment here if you