Category: Events

booksigning, Events, Wallpaper

October 2015 Cowboy Desktop Calendar Wallpaper Free Download

DOWNLOAD WALLPAPER The October 2015 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper is all about my author news and Events! One notable event is happening Oct 24th. Remember my Oklahoma Nights book, One Night with a Cowboy, set in Oklahoma and featuring Tucker and Becca who have their first date at Joseph’s Fine Foods and have a ‘heated’ discussion regarding Joseph’s signature and now infamous fried bologna sandwiches? Well 3 years later, the town council of Drumright has officially recognized Oct 24th as National Bologna Day in Drumright and I’ll be there to celebrate! Sept 30 – Oct 4 NINC Conference, St Pete, FL Oct 10 – NJ Fiction Writers Monthly Meeting, Edison, NJ Oct 23 – 9 am Radio Interview Listen Live on KUSH1600 Oct 24 – National Bologna Day Events, Drumright, OK (including a media event, booksigning, and costume party all held at the Tidewater Winery and Joseph’s Fine Foods). Local OK readers (and wine and bologna lovers) join me for the fun!  

booksigning, Events, Hot SEALs, Romance eBooks, Writers' Tools of the Trade, writing romance

Hot SEALs Kindle Worlds 101

Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs are coming to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds! What does that mean? Here’s a quick explanation… CAT JOHNSON’S HOT SEALS ON KINDLE WORLDS On August 4, 2015, Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs Kindle World will officially launch. Authors will be able to write, upload and sell their original stories written within the Hot SEALs Kindle Worlds guidelines and readers get to enjoy even more Hot SEALs stories contributed by some of their favorite authors or by writers who are new to them. The all-star line-up of #HotSEALsKW launch authors includes: Delilah Devlin, Marissa Dobson, Geri Foster, Desiree Holt, Kennedy Layne, Elle James, Olivia Jaymes, J.M. Madden, Becky McGraw, Donna Michaels, Siobhan Muir, Susan Stoker, Paige Tyler and Sabrina York. WHAT IS KINDLE WORLDS? To answer that we first must discuss the concept of FAN FICTION, which is the tradition of fans (of television, comics, and literature) penning their own stories in their favorite fictional worlds. They write for their own satisfaction and to share their words with fellow fans of the worlds in which they are writing, on their blog or on dedicated fan fiction websites. The most famous fan fiction story is of course by E.L. James who originally wrote 50 Shades of Grey […]

bull riding, Cowboys, Events, Life, writing romance

#RWA2014 San Antonio, TX – What I did on my summer vacation

My trip to San Antonio, TX was hot (well over 100 degrees daily), interesting, amazing, exhausting, eye opening and unforgettable. I went from meetings with industry professionals at the conference at the Riverwalk, to culinary adventures in Market Square, to a video filming for Amazon Kindle Love Stories and Kindle Worlds, to absorbing local color at the Cowboy Dancehall.  I now know there are more cowboys and tortillas (for breakfast lunch and dinner) in the state of Texas than anywhere else, that Prickly Pears are purple and that you can indeed have bull riding, dancing and live music all simultaneously under one roof. All in all, there were many things learned, new friends made, and old ones revisited and it was well worth the trip from NY and the time spent away from the WiP. Below are a few highlights in pictures.