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Yep. I finally took the plunge and started a street team. If you would like to join, you can find it here.

Perks of joining the team are sneak peeks at my upcoming books, special contests, and an annual swag mailing. I’m sure other benefits will crop up as I get the hang of things.

The job is sharing links on release day, contest links, etc, through social networks and passing out swag at events or even in your home town. Since those are things several people already do for me out of the kindness of their hearts, I figured I would get organized and start working on a reward system.

Information will be limited while I battle it out to get my website back up and running, but I should have firm rules and guidelines in place by late May. I hope.

Join up! And take this journey with me.

Y’all might notice over the next week there will be some changes to my website.

It was infected with a virus back in February and I made the switch to hosting my site at www.araneaenation.com

Now that’s causing me trouble with search results, so I’m packing up and moving back to www.haileyedwards.net

Pardon the dust as the site will be under construction until May.

 

Thanks!

Y’all might notice over the next week there will be some changes to my website.

It was infected with a virus back in February and I made the switch to hosting my site at www.araneaenation.com

Now that’s causing me trouble with search results, so I’m packing up and moving back to www.haileyedwards.net

Pardon the dust as the site will be under construction until May.

 

Thanks!

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Romance Divas
Soliciting Proposals for Romance Divas Back to School,
September 9 through 11, 2013, and for 2014 general programming.

Romance Divas, an award-winning community for romance writers, is accepting proposals from interested instructors and presenters for our virtual conference Romance Divas Back to School 2013 and for monthly 2014 programming. We are seeking craft-focused workshops for the September event and workshops on craft, business, promotion, writer’s life, and more, for general scheduling.  Our workshops are held on the Romance Divas forum.

 

Proposals for workshops for the September Back to School event should be 1 to 3-day workshops.
Proposals for general scheduling should be for workshops of no longer than two weeks.
Your proposal should include:
1.     Workshop Title and Duration (days, weeks)

 

2.     Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Mixed)

 

3.     Prerequisites

 

4.     Description and outline
5.     Presenter bio (including publishing and education credits)

 

6.     Presenter contact information

All Romance Divas workshops are open to all members free of charge.
Proposals for the September 2013 event must be received by 6/15/13 but Romance Divas is always looking for workshop presenters and has opportunities throughout the year.

 

Decisions for the September 2013 event will be made and presenters contacted for confirmation by 7/15/13.   All proposals should be addressed to: Emily Ryan-Davis, rdivasworkshops@gmail.com. Please include “Romance Divas Proposal” in the subject line of your e-mail.

 

I am so excited to announce that A Hint of Frost won the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in the FFP category!

 

Dad loved Frost so much, and he badgered me into entering a few contests with it last year. So far it’s finaled in all of them, but this is its first win. It’s the first time I’ve ever won an award. I just wish Dad was still here to try and steal it from me.

 

When it arrives, I’ll post a picture. Exciting times.

 

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From the Facebook Event page:

The Birmingham Books and Babes and the North Shelby County Library are pleased to announce there will be an authors meeting on Aug 3, 2013. Hailey Edwards, Moira Rogers, Kit Rocha, Angela Blount and others will be meeting with us. Books will be available there for purchase, there will be Q & A, and whatever else Hailey has planned. After the meeting there will be other happenings TBA So save the date and come have some fun and drink some sweet tea and be seduced!

 

For the full listing or to join the party, go here.

So…Bree and Donna have lured me into trying all sorts of things.

 

Their most recent adventure was making their own nail polish. Now, I love nail polish and I was thrilled to get the chance to make my own. But…my allergies went nuts while I was mixing it. Once I stopped sneezing and could breathe again, I started thinking about Sasha’s friend Pam who runs her own indie nail polish shop on Etsy.

 

I knew Pam was making Sasha custom polish, so I decided I would force Pam to do my bidding too! Yay!

 

This is what Pam mixed up for me. Each color is based on a heroine from my Araneae Nation series, with the exception of the black polish. It’s named after everyone’s favorite antihero, Vaughn.

 

 

This black base (center picture) is Vaughn-derful.

 

The clear topcoat with gold flakies (seen on the left) is Lourdes-ing It Over You.

 

The holographic topcoat (seen on the right) is No More Shady Kaidi.

 

 

This emerald (center picture) is Hasta Mana-na.

 

It’s also shown with the flaky and holo topcoats.

 

 

This red creme (center picture) is Zuri-ous About You.

 

It’s also shown with the flaky and holo topcoats.

 

 

This silver (center picture) is Double Dog Daraja You.

 

It’s also show with flaky and holo topcoats.

 

And this is a bonus shot of my nail polish army!

 

 

I had so much fun working with Pam, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. She designs custom polishes for authors/series/events. You can contact her through Etsy or her blog for pricing and information.

Y’all, I thought I had such a bright idea adding a review request form to my website. You know what might have helped? If I turned the notifications on. *face palm* I can’t believe I did that–worse yet that I just realized it.

 

My website was hacked last week and I ended up updating all of my information. That’s when I noticed the form notification problem and I enabled it. Until then, I assumed I had no responses on the form. Then today a dozen backlogged requests popped into my inbox. So now I’m emailing everyone with an apology and, in qualifying cases, copies of the books they requested.

 

I am so embarrassed this happened and people are getting books they requested several months ago, but at least the problem is fixed for next time. I’ve been receiving requests for A Time of Dying, so everything looks to be working as it should. *thumbs up*

 

Thanks for your patience!