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off</category><category>the ultimate fighter</category><category>CPQ</category><category>new idea</category><category>YA</category><category>Dexter</category><title>Welcome</title><description>to www.yolandasfetsos.com</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2287</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-6640560340596684540</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-31T06:49:43.936+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>urban fantasy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading 2012</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>excellent book</category><title>RIGHT HAND MAGIC by Nancy A. Collins</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xG8dfJcsW9w/T8aHLVBxuWI/AAAAAAAAFm8/VnqWNeTFYuQ/s1600/7832151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xG8dfJcsW9w/T8aHLVBxuWI/AAAAAAAAFm8/VnqWNeTFYuQ/s1600/7832151.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Like most Manhattanites, aspiring artist Tate can't resist a good rental deal-even if it's in the city's strangest neighborhood, Golgotham, where for centuries werewolves, centaurs, and countless other creatures have roamed the streets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her new landlord is a sorcerer name Hexe, who is determined to build his reputation without using dark, left-hand magic. As Tate is drawn into Hexe's fascinating world, they both find that the right hand does not always know what the left hand is doing-and avoiding darkness is no easy trick...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I've had this book on my TBR pile for a bit, and had been itching to pick it up. Earlier this week, I decided I couldn't put it off any longer... and I'm glad I picked it up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tate needs a new place to live, so when she finds an ad for a room inside a boarding house in Golgotham, she decides to check it out. Golgotham is in New York, but it's an old part of town, where the Kymerans and a variety of other supernatural beings live away from the main human population. In fact, most humans stay away from there but Tate really needs a new start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she gets to the boarding house and meets the landlord, the alluring Hexe--who only practices right hand magic--she likes him right away. It seems to be mutual, and she moves in. It doesn't take long for her to start fitting into Golgotham and feel like it's where she belongs. But not everyone feels the same way, and when a wounded were-cat hides out in the boarding house, things only get harder...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I absolutely loved this book! I really enjoyed Tate's honest voice, as well as Hexe's good nature. Their attraction was instant, but developed at a nice pace, and the story was fantastic! There were a lot of very interesting characters in this world, and the picture the author painted of &lt;a href="http://www.golgothamonline.com/faq.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;Golgotham&lt;/a&gt; was so vivid, I often felt as if I was walking down the narrow streets with the characters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, this is another keeper for me. Actually, I ordered &lt;a href="http://www.golgothamonline.com/lefthandmagic.htm" rel="" target="_blank"&gt;the second book&lt;/a&gt; as soon as I finished this one! :)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-6640560340596684540?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/right-hand-magic-by-nancy-collins.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xG8dfJcsW9w/T8aHLVBxuWI/AAAAAAAAFm8/VnqWNeTFYuQ/s72-c/7832151.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-4169084266075609832</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-28T10:38:00.582+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>movies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>to-do list</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>weekend</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading</category><title>Weekend &amp; Movie Thoughts</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com/graphics/1172689" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/2386/2386653ekvr8y66pp.gif" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We had a lovely, and very sunny weekend! There was much UFC watching, working out, walking, lovely meals, some shopping, and just good times. It was so good that I didn't want it to end. :( &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But here I am, on a Monday, hoping that the sun remains for the rest of the week. Even if the forecast says otherwise, lol.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Trying to keep positive thoughts, instead of the negative ones that plagued me a few weeks ago. So far, so good. I suppose that having a whole week to recharge and tidy up a lot of the stationery clutter I had around really helped. In a way, doing that also helped me get rid of some of the mind clutter. Which is always a good thing!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So, it's a new week. What have I got planned? Well, &lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7832151-right-hand-magic" target="_blank"&gt;I started reading another book&lt;/a&gt; that I've had on my TBR pile for a while, but couldn't wait to get stuck into. And I intend to get started on brainstorming &lt;em&gt;Sierra Fox #3&lt;/em&gt;, by pulling out all the notes I already have and putting them into some sort of coherent stream. I'm pretty much ready to get started on it next week.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The only thing/s that will stop that from happening are edits. If I receive edits for &lt;em&gt;Sierra Fox #2&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Hidden #1&lt;/em&gt;, then I won't be able to get stuck into the first draft. Otherwise, I can't wait! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We watched two movies over the weekend: &lt;a href="http://www.devilinsidemovie.com/#/trailer/" target="_blank"&gt;The Devil Inside&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.steelgetsreal.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Real Steel&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'll start with &lt;em&gt;Real Steel&lt;/em&gt; because it was so crappy. The story sounded okay--a futuristic about fighting robots and an ex-boxer dude. The actual execution was pretty bad. I just couldn't get into it. The main character was very unsympathetic. Actually, he was an a-hole. And his son wasn't any better. Put them together and I really didn't care what the hell happened to them. Not a fan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Devil Inside&lt;/em&gt;, I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; enjoyed. I'm a sucker for demonic possession/exorcism stories, so I knew I'd be totally sucked into this one. I thought it was very well written, and told. The actress who played Maria Rossi was really impressive, and freaky. There were a lot of creepy scenes, and the tension kept me glued to the screen. I thought it was great! I know a lot of people had problems with the ending, but I don't know how else they expect these documentary-type movies to end. Seriously, if you sit down to watch one, you should already know that you're not going to get a concrete conclusion. Or a happy ending. I would gladly watch a sequel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Okay, think it's time to finish off this post and look for a stationery something for my daughter, grab my notes, read a little, and possibly switch off the computer. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;See ya!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-4169084266075609832?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/weekend-movie-thoughts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-6535816604331085478</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 04:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-25T07:57:15.600+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hachette review</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>YA</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading 2012</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>excellent book</category><title>BLACK HEART by Holly Black</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jx-jTzAP7vE/T7V-bPMu5fI/AAAAAAAAFmE/XyIynxn48vo/s1600/9780575096806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jx-jTzAP7vE/T7V-bPMu5fI/AAAAAAAAFmE/XyIynxn48vo/s1600/9780575096806.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="shoutline" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The stunning conclusion to the Curseworkers series finds Cassel in the most dangerous con of all and with this life on the line he may be forced to make his biggest gamble yet...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="shoutline" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cassel Sharpe knows he's been used as an assassin, but he's trying to put all that behind him. He's trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He's trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. And he's trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he's been raised to believe the government is the enemy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;But with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob and new secrets coming to light, the line between what's right and what's wrong becomes increasingly blurred. When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to sort out what's a con and what's truth. In a dangerous game and with his life on the line, Cassel may have to make his biggest gamble yet - this time on love.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading &lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2010/07/white-cat-by-holly-black.html" target="_blank"&gt;WHITE CAT&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2011/06/red-glove-by-holly-black.html" target="_blank"&gt;RED GLOVE&lt;/a&gt;--and absolutely loving both of them--I couldn't wait to get stuck into the last book in the &lt;em&gt;Curse Workers&lt;/em&gt; trilogy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cassel Sharpe doesn't lead the easiest life. He lives in a world where everyone wears gloves because&amp;nbsp;some people can affect others with a simple&amp;nbsp;touch of their hand.&amp;nbsp;These people are called Workers, and he&amp;nbsp;comes from a family who happen to be just that. They're also con artists, masters of manipulation, and compulsive liars. Actually, his brothers&amp;nbsp;used him as an assassin without his knowledge for years. And now, he's&amp;nbsp;working for the Feds. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, he's decided he'll sign up with them after he graduates from Wallingford Preparatory. As much as he's trying to be a&amp;nbsp;good member of society, the poor guy keeps getting dragged into messy situations. So when he finds out his mother is being kept by Zacharov until the Ressurection Diamond she stole from him&amp;nbsp;is found, he's got no choice but to investigate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Then there's the issue of his brother, Barron, who's already working for the Feds and is toying with the emotions of a high school girl, Cassel's friend. And of course,&amp;nbsp;Lila Zacharov. The love of his life is now part of her father's crime family, but he can't forget about her...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;When the Feds need his special kind of power to be used on a governor who is making too much noise about controlling workers, his life is put on the line because he knows he can't trust anyone. After so many cons and lies, will the biggest stunt end up being the death of him?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Heart&lt;/em&gt; was another heart-stopping, brilliant book that had me on the edge of my seat--especially towards the end--because I couldn't wait to see how it would all turn out. It's another amazing installment to this intriguing trilogy, which reaches a very satisfying end, but made me sad when it was over. I'm going to miss Cassel and his easy manner of unintentionally slipping from one lie to another, waiting for the next con, and still trying to be different from the rest of his family.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I absolutely LOVED this book, and&amp;nbsp;recommend the trilogy to anyone who enjoys a great story!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Heart, May 2012, ISBN 9780575096806, Gollancz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-6535816604331085478?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/black-heart-by-holly-black.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jx-jTzAP7vE/T7V-bPMu5fI/AAAAAAAAFmE/XyIynxn48vo/s72-c/9780575096806.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-7596467958555228118</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T08:25:05.565+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>mind clutter</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>real life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cleaning</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading</category><title>Just, stuff</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com/graphics/450582" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="244" src="http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/916/916488c2s0nnp0hx.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wish I was doing what this kitty's doing right now. I had a hard time getting out of bed this morning, because it was so cold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It's not &amp;nbsp;even winter yet, and the mornings and nights are already super cold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to admit that I was hoping for a warm&lt;em&gt;ish&lt;/em&gt; winter. Y'know, since we kinda missed out on summer and all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This climate change thing really sucks. :/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So, this is what I said at the beginning of the week:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"..this week is going to be all about resting my brain, catching up on some reading, brainstorming, thinking, and getting my head into gear for Sierra Fox #3."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And I have to admit that I've been sticking to it. On Monday, I had to get some X-rays taken on my left arm (forearm, near elbow) because I have what feels like a small lump, but looks like it's actually a piece of bone that's sticking out. Not sure why, but the tech didn't think it was anything serious. I'll call my doctor today to double check what the specialist said after taking a closer look. Fingers crossed that it really is just another anomaly of mine. I seem to have a few of those. LOL.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm actually enjoying this week, and have caught up on a lot of dusting, cleaning, and even organising of my stationery, books, notes, etc. At the same time, my brain's resting, but my creative wheels are turning, getting me ready for what I'd like to tackle very soon: &lt;em&gt;Sierra Fox #3&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But for today, I'd like to squeeze in a bit more reading than I've managed so far. I'm reading &lt;a href="http://www.hachette.com.au/books/9780575096806/" target="_blank"&gt;BLACK HEART by Holly Black&lt;/a&gt;, and it's so good! I just need to set more time aside for sitting on the couch to read...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hubby's got an RDO tomorrow, so we'll be spending the day together. Yay. Can't wait. Love spending time with him. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, I better get going. I've got clothes to put out on the line, need to get my daughter's breakfast, plus get her lunch ready. She needs to get to school a little earlier today. It's school photo day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Have a great one!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-7596467958555228118?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/just-stuff.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-1231288614714202523</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-21T08:13:28.315+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>I'm back to blogging!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uDfFDJASQoM/T7lkO0qyjLI/AAAAAAAAFmk/a6DJc93xR7E/s1600/CoasterByCass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="191" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uDfFDJASQoM/T7lkO0qyjLI/AAAAAAAAFmk/a6DJc93xR7E/s200/CoasterByCass.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wow! I didn't realise it had been so long since I last posted a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; blog post over here. But I've been &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; over the place during&amp;nbsp;the last few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the pic on the left? It's a lovely coaster my daughter made&amp;nbsp;for me at school. For Mother's Day. I think it's awesome. Though I won't be putting any drinks on it. I've put it on one of my bookshelves. Love it! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I hope you enjoyed the &lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, especially the&amp;nbsp;post with &lt;a href="http://www.paranormalhaven.com/2012/05/guest-post-from-author-yolanda-sfetsos.html" target="_blank"&gt;character pics&lt;/a&gt;. ;) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Still can't believe that Sierra, her world, and all the other characters are finally out&amp;nbsp;there. Looking forward to hearing what readers think...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This month has been a crazy-busy one for me. I finished the never-ending SFR re-write/revision and finally subbed it. Then I got through&amp;nbsp;editing &lt;em&gt;Sierra Fox #2, &lt;/em&gt;and&amp;nbsp;got that sent back&amp;nbsp;early last week. And of course, the promo cycle for &lt;a href="http://store.samhainpublishing.com/patch-darkness-p-6812.html" target="_blank"&gt;A PATCH OF DARKNESS&lt;/a&gt; was very time consuming, but fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now,&amp;nbsp;it's&amp;nbsp;time to have&amp;nbsp;a small&amp;nbsp;mental holiday. LOL. I really need it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So this week is going to be all about resting my brain, catching up on some reading, brainstorming, thinking, and getting my head into gear for&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sierra Fox #3&lt;/em&gt;. I would love to get started on the next book real soon, but don't want to rush into it.&amp;nbsp;I have outlines for the next three books--it's going to be a 5-book series--but still need to get my head wrapped around each one, before throwing myself in. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;2012 has not been an easy writing year so far, and I'm hoping the second half turns out to be a whole lot better! Fingers crossed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, that's it for now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Have a great day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-1231288614714202523?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/im-back-to-blogging.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uDfFDJASQoM/T7lkO0qyjLI/AAAAAAAAFmk/a6DJc93xR7E/s72-c/CoasterByCass.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-8930546591298258039</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-21T11:31:20.818+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vampire</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hachette review</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>one of my fave series</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>urban fantasy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading 2012</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>excellent book</category><title>DEADLOCKED by Charlaine Harris</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xnQUn3PpcKc/T6mXS_kavWI/AAAAAAAAFlA/S8wbiEttj00/s1600/9780575096585.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xnQUn3PpcKc/T6mXS_kavWI/AAAAAAAAFlA/S8wbiEttj00/s400/9780575096585.jpg" width="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands. A young girl has died at a vampire party - and it looks as though her lover, Eric, might be responsible. Eric swears he didn't do it, the police don't believe him, and even Sookie isn't so sure. Nor is she inclined to take his word for it, not having caught him enjoying the victim's blood minutes before she was killed. But something strange is going on. Why had Sookie been asked to come to the fateful party a few minutes early - just to catch Eric in the act? And why had the victim spiked her blood before approaching Eric? Was it simply because she wanted to be irresistible, or was it something more sinister? Sookie will have to find out . . . but it's the worst moment to investigate, as her Fae family are having troubles of their own and Sookie is, inevitably, drawn in. And there is one last complication. The cluviel dor her grandmother left her. It will grant her one wish, which could fulfil Sookie's heart's desire. The only problem is, she still doesn't know what - or who - her heart truly desires . . .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is the latest Sookie Stackhouse book,&amp;nbsp;so I couldn't wait to get stuck into it. And it starts out in a very jovial place, with Sookie and several of her girlfriends&amp;nbsp;having a good time during Ladies Only night at Hooligans. Surely nothing can go wrong in a strip club... Um, we're talking about Sookie's world, so yeah, something strange happens. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;When her great-grandfather, Niall,&amp;nbsp;pays her a visit and starts asking her questions about why Claude and Dermot are living with her, she starts to wonder what the hell is going on. As he continues to dodge her question of why he's visiting,&amp;nbsp;Sookie&amp;nbsp;finds herself in the middle of a heated fae discussion that ends with Niall taking Claude back to Faery with him, to try and figure out who cursed Dermot. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As if that's not enough, she also has to attend a vampire party to answer a few questions the King of Nevada, Arkansas, and Louisiana&amp;nbsp;has about&amp;nbsp;what happened to Victor. She doesn't want to be there, but knows she needs to. And things get worse when she finds Eric drinking from another woman. A strange woman who then ends up dead in the front yard, and the focus of a human police&amp;nbsp;investigation. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;All of a sudden, she doesn't know who to trust--there were plenty of &lt;em&gt;people &lt;/em&gt;who had a reason to want the girl dead, and each had the&amp;nbsp;time to do it. Still, there are a lot of other issues she has to focus on. Like her lack of relationship time with Eric and how he keeps leaving her out of a very important proposal he's facing, Bill continuously&amp;nbsp;hanging around to remind her he still loves her, a serious Were situation she gets herself caught up in, and the cluviel dor. The item so many desire, but Sookie's determined to keep safe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;She knows it holds great power, and is strong enough to attract the Fae her way... So how will she use it? And what is her true heart's desire? Will using the cluviel dor make her realise what/who is really important to her? I loved how it all worked out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deadlocked&lt;/em&gt; is the second last book in Sookie's series, and I absolutely loved every minute of it! It's once again filled with unseen danger, multiple threats, a complicated love life that seems to get more entangled with every book, good and lasting friendships, as well as one of the deepest betrayals she's faced. I felt so bad for her, but have to admit that I loved the way the book ended.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now, I can't wait to read the last book. Of course, it'll also be very sad when I finish it. This series is one of my favourites!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deadlocked, May 2012, ISBN 9780575096585, Gollancz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-8930546591298258039?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/deadlocked-by-charlaine-harris.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xnQUn3PpcKc/T6mXS_kavWI/AAAAAAAAFlA/S8wbiEttj00/s72-c/9780575096585.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-7775674403824072284</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-18T06:48:03.216+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>werewolf</category><title>The Blog Tour might be over...</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But I've stopped by &lt;a href="http://naomijay.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/werewolf-versus-vampires-yolanda.html" target="_blank"&gt;Naomi Clark's&amp;nbsp;blog&lt;/a&gt; to weigh in on the &lt;a href="http://naomijay.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/werewolves-versus-vampires.html" target="_blank"&gt;Vampire versus Werewolf Debate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm actually a fan of all supernatural creatures, but today I'm taking the werewolf side. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(And there's a Joe Manganiello pic included. You're welcome!) LOL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com/graphics/936160" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="279" src="http://dl4.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1897/1897194cosep35vl7.jpg" width="218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glitter-works.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;glitter-graphics.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Friday, everyone!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-7775674403824072284?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/blog-tour-might-be-over.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-3612875018614709940</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-17T21:13:13.846+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest interview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>The last stop!</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nocturnereads.com/2012/05/interview-with-yolanda-sfetsos.html#more" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Nocturne Romance Reads" border="0" src="http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k483/Nocturnereads/Button2-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It's an interview! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-3612875018614709940?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/last-stop.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s72-c/Untitled.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-3352135747311028439</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-17T07:06:03.206+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>books</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>urban fantasy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>The blog tour is almost over...</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Today I'm at...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/guest-blog-yolanda-sfetsos.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/Chllybrd/UFIBUTTON.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chatting about 'Some of My Book Picks'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-3352135747311028439?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/blog-tour-is-almost-over.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s72-c/Untitled.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-7948101639244507879</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-16T13:28:11.622+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>yay</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Samhain Publishing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>new release</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>urban fantasy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>excited</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>It's release day!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hykwm46OZO8/T7Av_XAWoOI/AAAAAAAAFlw/L_55yBs8jXM/s1600/PatchOfDarknessA72lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hykwm46OZO8/T7Av_XAWoOI/AAAAAAAAFlw/L_55yBs8jXM/s1600/PatchOfDarknessA72lg.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;All it takes is one weak seam for everything to fall apart.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sierra Fox, Book 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In a perfect world, Sierra Fox would have stayed away from the Council she left years ago. But in this world—where spirits have the right to walk among the living—it’s her job to round up troublesome spooks and bring them before that very same Council.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Though her desk is piled high with open cases, she can’t resist an anonymous summons to a mysterious late-night meeting with a bunch of other hunters, each of whom seems to have a unique specialty. The news is dire: something is tearing at the fabric of the universe. If the hunters can’t find who or why in time, something’s going to give in a very messy way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As current cases, family secrets, new clues and her tangled love life slowly wind themselves into an impossible knot, Sierra finds herself the target of a power-sucking duo intent on stealing her mojo. And realizing she holds the key to the last hope of sealing the widening rift. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product Warnings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spook catching: may contain traces of ectoplasm and otherworldly nasties. Not recommended for those with allergies to ghosts, demons, and with boyfriends who think your power is theirs. While reading, avoid dark patches and stay to the light.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://store.samhainpublishing.com/patch-darkness-p-6812.html" target="_blank"&gt;A PATCH OF DARKNESS IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM SAMHAIN&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patch-Darkness-Sierra-Book-ebook/dp/B007RGWKXU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1334613378&amp;amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank"&gt;KINDLE&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-patch-of-darkness-yolanda-sfetsos/1110012324?ean=9781609286880" target="_blank"&gt;NOOK,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-patch-of-darkness/id516704723?mt=11" target="_blank"&gt;iTUNES&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm so excited!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I also stopped by &lt;a href="http://theromancestudio.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/being-published-in-genre-that-i-love.html" rel="" target="_blank"&gt;The Romance Studio.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-7948101639244507879?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/its-release-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hykwm46OZO8/T7Av_XAWoOI/AAAAAAAAFlw/L_55yBs8jXM/s72-c/PatchOfDarknessA72lg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-7129898350199071534</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-15T16:45:54.634+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>Casting My Characters @</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a border="0" href="http://www.paranormalhaven.com/2012/05/guest-post-from-author-yolanda-sfetsos.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h44/icyjezebel/Blog%20PIcs/guygirlbuttoncopy.jpg" width="20%" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;This was a really fun post because it's got pictures of who I cast as the main characters in &lt;a href="http://store.samhainpublishing.com/patch-darkness-p-6812.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;the first Sierra Fox book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you check it out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-7129898350199071534?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/casting-my-characters.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h44/icyjezebel/Blog%20PIcs/th_guygirlbuttoncopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-5906767554355632031</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-14T07:57:30.722+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest interview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>I'm visiting the Pixies today...</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wickedlilpixie.com/2012/05/13/cdnmrs-interviews-yolanda-sfetsos-for-the-sierra-fox-blog-book-tour/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KM9EeKEn8CE/T7AtJCD4QJI/AAAAAAAAFlk/GWd4DlI7hbM/s200/480217_10150663915273722_144985653721_9341137_1237656657_n.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This was a really fun interview, with some very cool questions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Also, &lt;a href="http://wickedlilpixie.com/" rel="" target="_blank"&gt;WLP&lt;/a&gt; were the first ones to post a review of &lt;a href="http://wickedlilpixie.com/2012/05/11/cdnmrs-reviews-yolanda-sfetsos-a-patch-of-darkness/" rel="" target="_blank"&gt;A PATCH OF DARKNESS&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks Sara!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-5906767554355632031?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/im-visiting-pixies-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KM9EeKEn8CE/T7AtJCD4QJI/AAAAAAAAFlk/GWd4DlI7hbM/s72-c/480217_10150663915273722_144985653721_9341137_1237656657_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-8720958438127068601</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-12T20:13:48.376+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest interview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>This is where I'm at today...</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mangamaniaccafe.com/?p=6397" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5044016631_135a8e415e_o.png" width="35%" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;center&gt;It's an interview this time. :)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-8720958438127068601?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/this-is-where-im-at-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s72-c/Untitled.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-2344421692381835856</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 09:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-11T19:59:35.678+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>Guest blogging at...</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/guest-blog-with-yolanda-sfetsos.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_twkWjrqBGmY/S3w3Q4_8CbI/AAAAAAAABM0/GT1j-k9yl8s/FBLinkBack.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Today, I'm talking about 'The Importance of a Series Bible'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you enjoy my post!﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s1600/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-2344421692381835856?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/guest-blogging-at.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_twkWjrqBGmY/S3w3Q4_8CbI/AAAAAAAABM0/GT1j-k9yl8s/s72-c/FBLinkBack.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-2147284104527597660</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 09:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-11T19:49:37.250+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vampire</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>one of my fave series</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>urban fantasy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading 2012</category><title>CHOSEN by Jeanne C. Stein</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kGa9G9UhWts/T6mWBOCwarI/AAAAAAAAFkw/xrlKYw6Yy-o/s1600/7832174.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kGa9G9UhWts/T6mWBOCwarI/AAAAAAAAFkw/xrlKYw6Yy-o/s1600/7832174.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="freeTextContainer600363534887920311"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;Anna Strong's primitive vampire instincts are getting harder to control. And a new enemy wants to take advantage of that fact, for Anna has been chosen to shape the destiny of all vampires-and all humans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Anna Strong, Vampire series is one of my favourite, and I've actually fallen behind. So, I decided it was time to change that by getting stuck into the sixth book. And I have to say, it was awesome getting back into her very dangerous and rough world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anna's a vampire, but she's also a bounty hunter and is very headstrong. Trouble always finds her and this time, someone's trying to kill her. So to avoid the danger, she takes off with Lance and finds out a few things about his past. Mainly, that his maker is just another vamp who wants to get his greedy paws on Anna. It seems like everyone's convinced she's the Chosen One and will do whatever they can to control, or defeat her. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always love the tone of these books and how her strongest friendships are either strengthened or someone ends up betraying her. This was another excellent installment.  :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-2147284104527597660?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/chosen-by-jeanne-c-stein.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kGa9G9UhWts/T6mWBOCwarI/AAAAAAAAFkw/xrlKYw6Yy-o/s72-c/7832174.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-7402866459644034775</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-11T08:03:00.932+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>urban fantasy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>Today I'm visiting...</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;... the lovely, &lt;a href="http://networkedblogs.com/xsxos" rel="" target="_blank"&gt;Ren Thompson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've stopped by her blog to chat a little about urban fantasy, and why I love it so much!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-7402866459644034775?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/today-im-visiting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s72-c/Untitled.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-1259315365395798687</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 19:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-09T05:07:05.178+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest interview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>contest</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>Two chances to win!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Today I'm visiting:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bookmonsterreviews.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/interview-and-contest-with-yolanda.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5BnaNxNlm80/T6lteDufYYI/AAAAAAAAFkk/f4PNe8LWMMk/s1600/BMR+Banner+-+Black+Heart.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But there are&amp;nbsp;actually two contests! One at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://bookmonsterreviews.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"&gt;BOOK MONSTER REVIEWS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, and the other at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.literaladdiction.com/authors-corner.php" target="_blank"&gt;LITERAL ADDICTION&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Good luck! :) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-1259315365395798687?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/two-chances-to-win.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5BnaNxNlm80/T6lteDufYYI/AAAAAAAAFkk/f4PNe8LWMMk/s72-c/BMR+Banner+-+Black+Heart.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-147988679191797169</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-08T08:20:41.959+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest interview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>Double stops!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;That's right! Today I'm at two places at once. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read an interview at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mybookishways.com/2012/05/interview-yolanda-sfetsos-author-of-a-patch-of-darkness-sierra-fox-1.html" rel="" target="_blank"&gt;MY BOOKISH WAYS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And a guest blog post at:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://darkfaerietales.com/guest-post-a-patch-of-darkness-by-yolanda-sfetsos.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://darkfaerietales.com/wp-content/uploads/link.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I hope you drop in to say "Hi!" :D&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="cke_range_marker"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-147988679191797169?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/double-stops.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s72-c/Untitled.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-9146574749956546687</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-05T23:20:38.845+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>Next stop!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm  guest blogging at... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://allthingsurbanfantasy.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/guest-blog-patch-of-darkness-by-yolanda.html#more" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="All Things Urban Fantasy" src="http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae307/AllthingsUF/ATUF_200x150.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It's just a little post about &lt;em&gt;Living with Spirits&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So exciting! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-9146574749956546687?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/next-stop_05.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s72-c/Untitled.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-35645542845469716</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-05T09:25:48.616+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sfr</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>yay</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rewriting</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>revisions</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>productive</category><title>It's done!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com/graphics/1457425" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/3014/3014263mgw4qau71a.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;OMGosh. I can't believe it's done!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I spent this week working on the&amp;nbsp;final--&lt;em&gt;really, really final&lt;/em&gt;--draft of the SFR&amp;nbsp;R&amp;amp;R novella I've been working on (but mostly off)&amp;nbsp;since the beginning of this year. It was hard work, but well worth it. I haven't been excited about this story for so long that I thought I'd lost the spark.&amp;nbsp;But last week,&amp;nbsp;after I spent some long hours&amp;nbsp;on the couch with the characters, something happened, and I fell in love with the story all over again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And I think it shows. Not only because everything fits in so much better, but because I actually couldn't wait to get back into it and get it finished.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Everything is so different. This ended up being a total hack-and-slash re-rewrite. I threw away a big chunk of the original story.&amp;nbsp;Actually, this (much better) version is about 8k less than the one before it. This draft ended up being 41,482 words.&amp;nbsp;There was a lot of essential cutting. A lot of adding, and just general making-the-story betterer. :D&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyway. It's now done and in the hands of my editor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Though I have to make sure I re-write the synopsis, too. Might get that done this morning as well...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Wow. Although I'm nervous about it, I'm not going to dwell on it. I'm finally able to move onto other projects, without remembering that I still have 'the never-ending revision' to tackle. LOL.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It feels like a weight off my shoulder. Now I can enjoy the rest of the weekend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Have a good one!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-35645542845469716?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/its-done.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-1684915350536128663</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-04T05:03:44.242+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest interview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>Next stop:</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://romancing-the-book.com/2012/05/interview-contest-yolanda-sfetsos.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Romancing the Book" border="0" src="http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk189/4MyDesigns/Buttons/rtb_bb_125.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time it's another interview + a contest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As part of the:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And there's more to come... :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-1684915350536128663?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/next-stop.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk189/4MyDesigns/Buttons/th_rtb_bb_125.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-3434894387637906564</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-04T05:03:59.095+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>guest interview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A Patch of Darkness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sierra Fox</category><title>@The Romance Studio...</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm one of their &lt;em&gt;Featured Authors&lt;/em&gt; this month.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theromancestudio.com/who1.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can read the interview right here!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;This continues the...&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s1600/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Be sure to check out the &lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;other dates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;:)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-3434894387637906564?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/05/romance-studio.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sO4pbWDeq4c/T430RiwwIJI/AAAAAAAAFjE/dgKBz8rTPXA/s72-c/Untitled.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-3429120298634424074</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-01T08:09:59.662+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading 2012</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>excellent book</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>zombies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>horror</category><title>FIGHTING TO SURVIVE by Rhiannon Frater</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NRpD2QcbVac/T5tKVT-wURI/AAAAAAAAFkY/JHQzyMBjJQo/s1600/10863079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NRpD2QcbVac/T5tKVT-wURI/AAAAAAAAFkY/JHQzyMBjJQo/s1600/10863079.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins—finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After absolutely loving the first book in this trilogy, &lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9648068-the-first-days"&gt;THE FIRST DAYS&lt;/a&gt;, I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next to Katie and Jenni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jenni might be a happy zombie killer and have a hot Latino boyfriend to stand by her side--as well as having her stepson alive and safe--but she's constantly haunted by her abusive dead husband and the death of her two young sons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Katie's trying to deny her attraction to Travis, but when she finally realises that they're living in a world where the next day could be your last, she can't hide her feelings anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that the Ashley Oaks fort has a bigger population of survivors and keeps growing, this small community can't keep putting off making their way into the newly renovated hotel they have access to. Every single person will have to face their worst fears as small groups of survivors venture into the hotel to clear away all of the zombies. And now that they're being watched by the disgusting bandits, the walking dead are no longer their only threat...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OMG. This book was fantastic! I couldn't put it down and got totally swept up in the tension and horror that the survivors went through. The story's told through the POV of several survivors, giving the reader a deeper look into each person's state of mind--which was awesome. It's another fast-paced book filled with zombie killing and a strong pack of survivors trying to make their small slice of the world a better place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were some really cool surprises too, and the scenes where they deal with the bandits--brilliant. I also love Nerit, she's so kick-ass. Loved it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't wait to see how it's all going to end in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6718719-siege"&gt;the last book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-3429120298634424074?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/fighting-to-survive-by-rhiannon-frater.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NRpD2QcbVac/T5tKVT-wURI/AAAAAAAAFkY/JHQzyMBjJQo/s72-c/10863079.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-8312400883084385045</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-28T09:27:25.211+10:00</atom:updated><title>Blogging on the weekend...</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com/graphics/283522" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="263" src="http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/581/581198xiai24ltao.gif" width="176" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;... because I didn't get much of a chance during the week. ;)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As I mentioned on Monday (see, it's been &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; since I last stopped by for a real post, lol) I spent the past week working on the paper revision of my SFR novella. Yeah, the one that's driving me crazy and I can't wait to finish. O_o&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And that's what I did this morning! I spent Monday and Tuesday working on a few chapters, then spent&amp;nbsp;the last two days away from the computer. I sat on the couch and&amp;nbsp;worked on it&amp;nbsp;until I finished it. I've also&amp;nbsp;added all of the changes into the Word doc. So, cool!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's progress but I&amp;nbsp;now&amp;nbsp;have one more draft to do before&amp;nbsp;I can say&amp;nbsp;it's totally finished. Which is really exciting, because I'm very happy with the changes and tweaks I made--it pretty much ended up being a total rewrite--but a little frustrating because I just want it to be done. Like, now!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Soon...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oh, and in case you were wondering the word count ended up being&amp;nbsp;just under 39k. It fell a little short of what I was hoping for, but that's okay. I've got a feeling the last chapter will need another overhauling session. lol. We'll see.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now onto something really exciting. The other day, the lovely &lt;a href="http://www.cassicarver.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Cassi Carver&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;told me about this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SUOnVLSlToo/T5snrcmVHMI/AAAAAAAAFkE/9KovXhOttHg/s1600/Samhain+UF+Top+10+26042012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SUOnVLSlToo/T5snrcmVHMI/AAAAAAAAFkE/9KovXhOttHg/s400/Samhain+UF+Top+10+26042012.jpg" width="168" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Do  you see my book right at the top there? Sure, this is only the UF Best&amp;nbsp;Sellers list... but wow! &lt;a href="http://store.samhainpublishing.com/patch-darkness-p-6812.html" target="_blank"&gt;A PATCH OF DARKNESS&lt;/a&gt; hasn't even been released yet. And won't be available until May 15, so seeing this made me smile. :D BTW, &lt;a href="http://store.samhainpublishing.com/romantic-elements-urban-fantasy-c-147_25.html" target="_blank"&gt;it's still there&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Speaking of Sierra, don't forget that there's still a chance for you to win a copy from &lt;a href="http://www.romfanreviews.com/2012/04/interview-with-author-yolanda-sfetsos.html" target="_blank"&gt;RomFan Reviews&lt;/a&gt;. The contest is open until April 29. And there'll be other chances popping up all over the place next week, when the &lt;a href="http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/sierra-fox-blog-book-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sierra Fox Blog Book Tour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; continues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, not much planned for the weekend. I just want to take a bit of a break and catch up on some zombie reading. I was originally going to put this revision-rewrite aside for a week before continuing, but I think it's best to just dive back into it on Monday after a few days away from it. That way, when it's done and submitted I can &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; get stuck into Sierra's next book! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a great weekend!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-8312400883084385045?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/blogging-on-weekend.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SUOnVLSlToo/T5snrcmVHMI/AAAAAAAAFkE/9KovXhOttHg/s72-c/Samhain+UF+Top+10+26042012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515840.post-2971714409403176701</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-27T20:27:17.848+10:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>great book</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>YA</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>reading 2012</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>short story</category><title>TORN &amp; ONE DAY: THREE WAYS by Amanda Hocking</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SO0mMPaBQvs/T5pzTZMgAHI/AAAAAAAAFj0/0DgsK1Ty3a8/s1600/9716824.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SO0mMPaBQvs/T5pzTZMgAHI/AAAAAAAAFj0/0DgsK1Ty3a8/s1600/9716824.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;Acknowledging that she was different from everyone else wasn’t difficult for Wendy Everly – she’d always felt like an outsider. But a new world and new family is a hard for any girl to accept easily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving behind the mysterious country of her birth, she is determined to fit back into normal life. But the world she’s left behind won’t let her go that easily. Kidnapped and imprisoned by her true family’s enemies, Wendy soon learns that the lines between good and evil aren’t as defined as she thought. And those things she’d taken for granted may have been lies all along. With the help of the dangerously attractive Loki, she escapes back to the safety of Förening – only to be confronted by a new threat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to make a choice – can she put aside her personal feelings for the sake of her country? Torn between duty and love she must make a choice that could destroy her one chance at true happiness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="1" id="myReview"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th valign="top"&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="readable reviewText"&gt;&lt;span id="freeTextContainerreview286459293" style="display: none;"&gt;I'm really enjoying the world of the Trylle and the Vittra! Especially since quite a few secrets are revealed in this installment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Wendy returns home to her brother Matt, she's captured by the Vittra and meets the very mysterious Loki. But when she returns to Förening, her world is thrown upside down as she slowly starts to realise that what she really wants isn't as important as what's best for the Trylle. She has to make some pretty tough decisions in this one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm lo&lt;a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9716824-torn#"&gt;...more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="freeTextreview286459293"&gt;I'm really enjoying the world of the Trylle and the Vittra! Especially since quite a few secrets are revealed in this installment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Wendy returns home to her brother Matt, she's captured by the Vittra and meets the very mysterious Loki. But when she returns to Förening, her world is thrown upside down as she slowly starts to realise that what she really wants isn't as important as what's best for the Trylle. She has to make some pretty tough decisions in this one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm looking forward to reading the last book in the trilogy. Can't wait to see how everything turns out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ONE DAY: THREE WAYS&lt;/strong&gt; is a very interesting story in the POV of Finn, Tove, and Loki. It was great to see the world through their eyes and read their personal feelings about Wendy and everything else. Great story!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="215" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yqf-XKQdWPE" width="360"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17515840-2971714409403176701?l=www.yolandasfetsos.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.yolandasfetsos.com/2012/04/torn-one-day-three-ways-by-amanda.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Yolanda Sfetsos)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SO0mMPaBQvs/T5pzTZMgAHI/AAAAAAAAFj0/0DgsK1Ty3a8/s72-c/9716824.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>
