Sasha White

FEDORA CHEN! Congratulations! You’re the winner of Signed copies of the Eppie Winning book Mirage and the fabulously sexy Dangerous by Monica Burns

Thank you for your donations to my Run For The Cure! Aside from the online donations of $150, there’s another $150 in cash so far. Only $700 more to reach my goal. It seems like a lot, but I have faith because I know cancer hits home for many people.

What’s up for Grabs on July 15th?

There will be 2 separate draws on July 15th.
First up..
Fabulous YA author Darlene Ryan has donated copies of
Rules for Life

Saving Grace

Responsible

and her latest, Five Minutes More

*Along with a selection of Green and Black’s organic chocolate because it’s way more fun to lay around, read and eat chocolate.*

There’s information about the books on the main page of her website www.darleneryan.com

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Also up for grabs is the A Writers Prize Package from me (Sasha White)
* Wishing Stones

* Inspirational Necklace (Of if a male is picked, then a Handcrafted Glass Bead Bookmark…more masculine;) )

* Copy of Stephen King’s On Writing.

* Sasha White padfolio

*Critique of Partial manuscript from me, (3 Chapters and synopsis) Sasha White.

Here’s a peek at what some of the prizes to come.

A totebag full of Foxy Fun:
*tote bag from Mari Freeman
*signed copies of Sunstroked and The Hotline by Cathryn Fox
*EC playing Cards
*Cathryn Fox T-shirt and Pen
*Author swag and surprise treat.

These books will be grouped together in mixed bags of deliciousness for a couple of lucky winners:
Signed copies of Texas Men and Tempted by a Cowboy by Delilah Devlin.
Signed copies of Good Girl Gone Bad, Skin, and Jaded byKarin Tabke
A signed copies of winners choice from my available backlist in each package.

HOW TO ENTER THE DRAWS

Twice a month I’ll be drawing a winners for some free books and treats that have been donated by generous author friends. If you want to enter the draw all you have to do is donate to my charity fund. You can do so on THIS PAGE of the Run For The Cure site. Unfortunately on that site you do have to have a credit card to donate. IF you want to donate, but do not have a credit card, and wish to do it by pay pal. Please use the CONTACT form here on my website and email me with RUN FOR THE CURE in the subject header, and I’ll tell you how to do so.

For every $5 you donate, your name will be entered into the draw once So if you donate $20, you’ll get 4 entries. Once you enter, that enters you for every draw from then on.

Authors: If you wish to donate prizes, please use the CONTACT link on my website to email me and let me know what you’re donating.

Happy Canada Day!

YAY! Through no doing of my own, I have 6 days in a row off from work at the bar. ANd man have I got a To-do list! LOL

One of the things on the list is to write. Another is to work out. Yet another is to pretty up my patio.

I have a huge long balcony that I love. Last year I spent lots of time and money on flowers and indoor-outdoor carpeting, and made it all pretty. But I suck at the flowers/plant thing, and got very discouraged when the flowers died and didn’t rebloom for the rest of the summer. Then there was the “fire incident.” (For which my Mom is due to come over and we’ll be re-painting /staining the walls to cover up the damage. LOL)

I thought I blogged about it, but I can’t find it in the archives so here’s a brief summation.

Last year my Mom came over to help me paint my condo. She works at Home Depot and is into all that sort of stuff, so it was a good time for us. But my Mom smokes, and I make her smoke outside. She was sitting on my balcony, smoking and she put out her cigarette in the dirt in one of my flower pots. She left soon after that, and I started snoozing on my sofa in the living room. (Hey, I’d actually gotten up early to paint so I was tired!) In my sleep I could smell smoke, but I thought it was my neighboors (They have a firepit in their backyard) or someone bar-be-queing. The crackling sound of the fire didn’t register either. I vaguely heard someone saying “Hello? Hello-o?” Then suddenly the tone of the call changed, panic becoming more evident. “HELLOO__O! HEY! HEY! SOMEBODY THERE!!” I sort of woke up and stumbled to my patio door to see what was going on outside, and “MY DECK WAS ON FIRE!”
Quick thinker I am I grabbed a vase of flowers form inside, tossed the flowers on the floor and started dumping water on it. A few runs through the house with the vase and a jug filling and alternating pails of water got it dowsed. Seems my mom’s cigarette butt hadn’t quit been Out, and the hot hot sun burning down on the flowers caused a spark, and my flower pot went up in flames, and then it caught the side of my building, (that’s when the fire crackling got louder and the neighboor realized it was getting bad and the whole tone of things changed)

So I’ve had planter pot melted into my deck floor and big bad ugly black scorch marks for a year now. Getting it fixed is on my To-do list this week.

So is taking a walk in the river valley with my camera. Maybe I can get some good nature pictures to post on my Photoblog.

So todays plan, as my day off/start day was to help my Mom fix the outside of my building and replant some pots for my deck. But she just called and said it’s not warm enough to do the painting. So now I’m off to the mall to do a bunch of shopping for little things that I’ve put off. (Cats need a new litter box,and food dishes, and maybe a few toys). I’m also going ot try and get the disks from my friends photos hoot burned so I can set them aside for a while (I get to easily distracted by playing with the photos when I should be writing), and yes, I still need to do my 2008 taxes. *sigh*

So, those are my plans for the week…what are yours?

The lovely Darlene Ryan has donated some of her Young Adult books to my prize pile for the Donate & Win Campaign.

Added to the pile from Darlene are copies of
Rules for Life
Saving Grace
Responsible
and her latest, Five Minutes More
Along with a selection of Green and Black’s organic chocolate because it’s way more fun to lay around, read and eat chocolate.

There’s information about the books on the main page of her website www.darleneryan.com

Keep checking back to see if you’ve won. And don’t forget to DONATE

Check it out. My buddy Delilah Devlin has 2 releases this summer, and she’s spreading the wealth!

So, if you follow my blog regularly you know I have an interest in photography. I’m used to taking scenery and landscape shots, but last year I decided I wanted to get into portrait and people stuff. It took a while but I finally convinced some friends to come over and do a photo shoot so I could practice. We had a blast, and got some good shots, even some great ones! Taken last week, here’s a few for you to take a look at.

To see these photos and more, keep watch at my photoblog

Who wants to win Signed copies of the Eppie Winning book Mirage and the fabulously sexy Dangerous by Monica Burns?

I’m in awe of how much some of you are donating to my run. Thank You. I know economic times are tough, and I really appreciate your help with this cause. I’m working out and physically getting ready for the run. DId I mention I Hate running. yes, hate is a strong word, but I really do hate it. Even when I was in tiptop shape running was something I hated. I’m out of shape now and I really hate it. Right now I hate it more becasue I’m so overwieght I can’t run. It kills my knees and ankles. However, I’m working on the treadmill and the X-trainer at the gym, and soon I’ll be better. Right now it’s taking me 21 minutes to do a mile (5k = 3.10 miles) walking. (and my knee is killing me at the end of it) My original goal is to be able to do the 5k run in 45 minutes, so I think I can do that by October 4th.

Now…how do you win the books I mentioned?
Twice a month I’ll be drawing a winners for some free books and treats that have been donated by generous author friends. If you want to enter the draw all you have to do is donate to my charity fund. You can do so on THIS PAGE of the Run For The Cure site. Unfortunately on that site you do have to have a credit card to donate. IF you want to donate, but do not have a credit card, and wish to do it by pay pal. Please use the CONTACT form here on my website and email me with RUN FOR THE CURE in the subject header, and I’ll tell you how to do so.

For every $5 you donate, your name will be entered into the draw once So if you donate $20, you’ll get 4 entries. Once you enter, that enters you for every draw from then on. The draw on June 30th is for 2 Monica Burns books…one of which is a brand new print release!

Here’s a peek at what some of the prizes to come.

A totebag full of Foxy Fun:
*tote bag from Mari Freeman
*signed copies of Sunstroked and The Hotline by Cathryn Fox
*EC playing Cards
*Cathryn Fox T-shirt and Pen
*Author swag and surprise treat.

A Writers Prize Package from me (Sasha White)
* Wishing Stones
* Inspirational Necklace
* Copy of Stephen King’s On Writing.
* Sasha White padfolio

These books will be grouped together in mixed bags of deliciousness for a couple of lucky winners:
Signed copies of Texas Men and Tempted by a Cowboy by Delilah Devlin.
Signed copies of Good Girl Gone Bad, Skin, and Jaded byKarin Tabke
A signed copies of winners choice from my available backlist in each package.

Breast Cancer has hit many people, too many. It’s a desease that runs in my own family, and a personal cause of my own..so please, donate and help support the search for a cure.

Winner of Beth Williamsons Brava books The Education of Madelin and the Redemption of Micah is Carrie Divine! Carrie, I have your information from your entry form so I’ll pass it along to Beth right away, and she’ll get your books out to you! Congratulations.

Be sure to come back tomorrow and see what the next giveaway for my Donate and Win campaign will be. :)

Oh, and if anyone is interested in what I’ve been up to, feel free to check out my Photo blog.

Who wants to win an early copy of Beth Williamson’s second Brava The Redmption of Micah?

I’ve signed up for a 5 k Run in October. Not only is the run to raise money for Breast Cancer, but it gives me a goal for my workouts. Something that will help me stay on track and push myself. I doubt I’ll be able to RUN all 5 k by October, (I still have so much wieght to lose) but I’m ok with run a little- walk a little. :)

Now, I’ve got some lovely author friends who’ve donated prizes to help me raise some money. What I’m doing is Twice a month I’ll be drawing a winners for some free books and treats. If you want to enter the draw all you have to do is donate to my charity fund. You can do so on THIS PAGE of the Run For The Cure site. Unfortunately on that site you do have to have a credit card to donate. IF you want to donate, but do not have a credit card, and wish to do it by pay pal. Please use the CONTACT form here on my website and email me with RUN FOR THE CURE in the subject header.

For every $5 you donate, your name will be entered into the draw once So if you donate $20, you’ll get 4 entries. Once you enter, that enters you for every draw from then on.

June 15th Prize is
Signed copies of The Education of Madeline and The Redemption of Micah from Beth WIlliamson. Which BTW, The Redemption of Micah doesn’t release until June 30th, so you’llbe getting an early copy..and it’s autographed!

On June 15th I’ll announce the winner of the first drawing, and which item I’ll be drawing for on July 1st.

Here’s a peek at what some of the prizes to come.

A totebag full of Foxy Fun:
*tote bag from Mari Freeman
*signed copies of Sunstroked and The Hotline by Cathryn Fox
*EC playing Cards
*Cathryn Fox T-shirt and Pen
*Author swag and surprise treat.

A Writers Prize Package from me (Sasha White)
* Wishing Stones
* Inspirational Necklace
* Copy of Stephen King’s On Writing.
* Sasha White padfolio

Signed copies of Mirage and Dangerous by Monica Burns

More prizes to come in the future so please start donating now. Not only will you have a chance to win some great stuff, but you’ll be donating to a worthy cause.

So the girls at work are starting to read my books. Yes, I’ve been working with them for a couple of years, and they’ve known the whole time that I write, and what I write, but they’ve never had any interest. One girl has read one before. Somehow, they got to talking, and now 5 or 6 of them have gotten into them. BOUND has been passed around, and everyone loves Joe. They want more Joe. They don’t seem to like karl at all, and I don’t get it. I liked Karl when I wrote Bound, even though he wasn’t the hero. In my mind he was sexy.

One of them has read MY PREROGATIVE, and another is just starting it. The one who read it loved it, and asked if I’d been reading her diary as research. LOL What can I say, bartenders who feel and act like Kelsey are not few.

My point to this is that Bound is a bit of a BDSM story. Katie has fantasies of being dominated, and Joe is very willing and adept at making those fantasies come true. And I’m finding it quite amusing how many of my co-workers are enjoying it, and asking for more. To understand my amusement I should state that most bars I’ve worked at, sex has always been a huge topic of conversation with us. We’ve all talked very openly about experiences and fantasies and everything you can pretty much imagine. But this place that I work at now…not at all. Seriously, I work with a dozen or so guys and girls and they never talk about sex. They talk about dating, and they talk about school (university) and money, but rarely sex. And never to the degree that I’m used to.

In fact, when the subject of me writing erotica comes up, most of them either giggle and blush, or they ignore the topic completely. So their reactions to my stories have amused me. I think I work with a bunch of closet kinks.