We'd like to welcome author Theresa Meyers
to the Dark Nest today.
to the Dark Nest today.
Leap
Year! Ten things you could be doing with an extra day
By
Theresa Meyers
author of The Half-Breed Vampire
(Book 3 in the Sons of Midnight miniseries)
(Book 3 in the Sons of Midnight miniseries)
One of
the things I like best about leap year is we get a whole day extra! Okay, I
realize that it’s actually comprised of bits of days we’ve saved up over the
last four years, which is not the point. The point is when they all come
together into one glorious extra day you need to take advantage of it! So in
that spirit, here’s a top ten list of things you could be doing with a whole
extra day if you were a vampire.
10. Visit somewhere new.
You’re
always waiting for someday to visit either the zoo, or museum or some little
shop you’ve spied buy never gone into. Perhaps there’s a little bookstore
calling your name. Go indulge on your one extra day in 2012 and see what you
uncover. It may turn out to be a new favorite haunt of yours.
9. Read a good book.
You
know you’ve been wanting to. We have these to-be-read piles that just keep
growing. This is the perfect day to knock one of them down to size.
8. Plant something beautiful.
Spring
is just around the corner, but of course if you’d rather believe that rodent
that came out at the beginning of the month and crawl back into your cave for
eight more weeks of Winter, that’s your prerogative. As for me, I prefer to look
forward. I love spring! What better way to celebrate it than by planting some
bare-root little thing that will grow into a beautiful tree or blooming plant in
the months ahead?
7. Eat lunch somewhere new.
You
always think about trying a new restaurant but never seem to get around to it.
You’ve got a day you can’t waste, because it’s extra--now’s the perfect time to
try something different and new.
6. Celebrate a very merry unbirthday.
I’ve
always wondered exactly what the people born on Feb. 29 have to contend with in
life. Since they only get their real birthday every four years, does this mean
they can boast they were driving by age 4? And as they get older, can they truly
say, “I’m only 19” when they are 76? In honor of all those missed birthdays
(which really can you imagine being told your birthday only happens ONCE every
four years?) go celebrate a very merry unbirthday for yourself. Sure it’s not
your birthday, but then three years out of four, it isn’t their’s
either.
5. Read a new blog.
There
are blogs for everything. Find one you’ve been meaning to read and look it over.
Then comment. Yes. Comment. In fact, since you have a WHOLE extra day, visit a
bunch of them you’ve been meaning to read and find a new favorite. Opening your
world even a crack lets in a lot of extra light.
4. Follow someone new.
Pick
someone you’d never Tweeted with or befriended on Facebook before and wish them
a happy leap year.
3. Have a party.
Hey we
celebrate things as mundane as Superbowl, why not have a party to celebrate an
extra day in the year?
2. Buy a special bottle of wine for next leap
year.
Okay,
buy two. One for leap year and one for four years from now. It’ll give you
something to look forward to.
1. Make a wish list.
Write
down a list of things you hope will happen in the next four years and put it
somewhere safe. Maybe next to the bottle of wine. In four years time see just
how far you’ve come and celebrate, maybe for that whole extra day in
2016.
THE HALF-BREED
VAMPIRE
Book Three in the Sons of
Midnight mini-series
Harlequin Nocturne
February 21, 2012
Ignorant of his true heritage,
half-breed vampire Slade Donovan is fated to feel like an outsider among his
clan. Until a mysterious woman arrives with the ability to unlock his
secrets—and make him crave a future he never believed he could have….
As a Game Warden, Raina Ravenwing
has only one mission in the Cascade Mountains: to track down a pack of rare
wolves that is terrorizing her tribe. Her instant attraction to Slade is a
distraction the beautiful wolf whisperer can't afford, unless she agrees to let
him help her. Yet working so closely together only intensifies their
passion…even as the unfolding truth of Slade's identity threatens everything
Raina holds sacred and could potentially destroy both their worlds.
About the Author:
Raised by a bibliophile who made the dining room into a library, Theresa
has always been a lover of books and stories. First a writer for newspapers,
then for national magazines, she started her first novel in high school,
eventually enrolling in a Writer's Digest course and putting the book under the
bed until she joined Romance Writers of America in 1993.
In 2005 she was selected
as one of eleven finalists for the American Title II contest, the American Idol
of books. She is married to the first man she ever went on a real date with (to
their high school prom), who she knew was hero material when he suffered
through having to let her parents drive, and her brother sit between them in
the backseat of the car. They currently live in a Victorian house on a mini
farm in the Pacific Northwest with their two children, three cats, an old
chestnut Arabian gelding, an energetic mini-Aussie shepherd puppy, several
rabbits, a dozen chickens and an out-of-control herb garden.
You can find her online on
Twitter, Facebook, at her Web site or blogging with the
other Lolitas of STEAMED!
Be sure to enter Theresa's giveaway for a signed copy of The Half Breed Vampire and a Love Bites mug full of chocolates http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/crazy-titles-sometimes-make-best.html
ReplyDeleteGreat top 10 list. The one about eat someplace new just struck me funny. The Vamp can take his human to a new restaurant.
ReplyDeleteSorry I have a weird sense of humor. I'd love to read The Half Breed Vampire.
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Julianne! Good to see you again. Thanks for following the blog tour!!! Actually, I originally thought of doing a list of ten things you could do if you were a vampire...one being visit the dentist, but then that invovled flesh eating venom if a dentist drilled too deep on a fang, and then I began wondering if vampires can even get cavities...
ReplyDeleteI loved reading the top 10 list. Thanks for spending time in the nest, Theresa! :)
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