Nikki's debut month!

How excited are we for Nikki & her debut book hitting the shelves in the US/UK bookshelves this month!!! Next month, we will see them for ourselves here in the land of Oz. Can't wait to do some shelf re-arranging (oops did I say that out loud - again! *grin*).


Congratulations Nikki & many, many sales to you! 

Nikki over at The Pink Heart Society Blog

Nikki Logan along with Jennie Adams are the authors of  


Weekend Wildcard: Go Green with Harlequin Romance Authors


at the Pink Heart Society blog. They are chatting about their February releases which are bundled together in the UK. They are exploring some of the themes in common in  Jennie's 'Australian Boss, Diamond Ring' and Nikki's 'Lights, Camera...Kiss The Boss'.


Please drop in and say hi!

Bootcampers blogging....

Just a little round of where our Bootcampers blog, other than here of course ;))

Rachel Bailey blogs at Silhouette Desire Authors blog.

Nikki Logan and Melissa James blog at the Harlequin Romance Authors blog.

Nikki & Rachel blog at the LoveCats DownUnder blog.

Eleni Konstantine (ie moia)  has her own blogs - Eleni's Taverna, and Eleni's Library.

 

Fiona Gregory's dog Gromit has her own blog called Gromit's story.

And of course our regular Bootcamper 101 Writing Drills  teamsters are Roseanne Smiles, Fiona Gregory & Eleni Konstantine.

    Fiona & Roseanne     

  Fiona & Eleni

                                                                                    


                                        

Boosting our Creativity

I love challenging my creativity and pushing the barriers of my storytelling - a legacy of a crusty old writer who tutored me in a year long short story writing course. He didn't enjoy romance, and tried his hardest to have me write different genres. And that involved throwing challenges my way. I wrote stories based on single words, occupations, feelings - anything he came up with. Each story pushed me to my limits, but looking back it was worth it.

A few of the Bootcampers who crit for each other are enjoying a creativity exercise - we're making and swapping story starter envelopes. You're given a list of items and you need to find pictures of them. These are sealed into an envelope (the style of envelope is part of the creative challenge) and then its lucky dip time - you choose someone else's envelope and off you go. We started the challenge on Friday night. By Saturday, most of us had sealed our envelopes. I was so enthused, I made up a second one to swap with my online crit partner. We swap envelopes next week, and the goal is to write a 3000 word short story within a month, then submit it for publication.

I can hardly wait to see what my lucky dip envelope holds.

Mission Report: Nikki Logan

Okay campers, while we're dancing for Tracey, here's another fantastic piece of news. Nikki's book "Lights, Camera...Kiss the Boss." is the Bookclub Pick of the month for February over at Pink Heart Society. On 23rd Feb, Nikki will be discussing writing at: Pink Heart Society.
 I don't have a time yet, as soon as I do, I'll post so those of us who can get there and support our Nikki will. So exciting, and the books on shelves 1st March. Have you checked out the Australian cover? Awesome. Nikki such a brilliant time for you. Soak it all up.

Bootcampers Rock.