January 2007 – PLOTTING BOOTCAMP
Online
is back by popular demand!
Dates: Jan 1-26
Last date to register: Jan 1
Cost: $35
Offered through
http://www.rosescoloredglasses.com/
online workshops

What you can expect:

PREMISE Pushups
LOGLINE lunges
CHARACTER Strengthening exercises
CONFLICT! CONFLICT! CONFLICT!
Breaking through the STORY STRUCTURE stronghold
Battling the PLOT LINES

We do more in one month than some people do all year!

Get tough! Get motivated! Get Plotting!

Join your Drill Instructors, Elle James and Delilah Devlin to learn a methodical approach to harness your creativity in order to produce an in-depth plot for your next novel.

Sound scary? It is!!!! Especially when you're staring at an empty page without a compass and a map to guide you through the novelistic jungle. Your DIs will lead you through four weeks of tactics, exercises and training that will help strengthen your abilities. Elle and Delilah will accomplish this with weekly lessons, bi-weekly chats and daily online communication. Join us for bivouac, In January!

Note: Spaces limited to 25 trainees. We’re already up to 16! Join this elite force now!

Post Release Relief!

The nervous stomach is starting to settle. My first book seems to have pass first muster. I've had many great comments about Thirty Days already. I'm so excited! The sweetest was at Liquid Silver's blog, Silver Expression. The woman actually made me cry!

Check out her comment here: http://www.liquidsilverbooks.com/blog/?p=390#comment-2494

So many others have emailed or posted on boards I frequent. I'm thrilled at the response.

Of course, now the nervous stomach starts for my February release, The Cost of Eternity at Ellora's Cave. Will it live up to expectations?

*cackle* Yes, writers do tend to be a little insecure. But the voices won't let me stop writing so I guess I'll just buy stock in antacids...

Thirty Days is out!

Today is the release day of my first book, Thirty Days. I have the silliest grin on my face that just won't go away! The cover looks so pretty on the New Release page!

Go check it out! And maybe you'll want to treat yourself to a hot little romance!

Chatting today!

I'm chatting at Joyfully Reviewed's Yahoo loop today! It's Liquid Silver authors day. There promises to be contests, prizes and lots of steamy excerpts!

Join us! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chatting_with_Joyfully_Reviewed

Hugs,
Shayla

Free Chocolate!

Shayla's First Contest!

In honor of Shayla's first release on December 18th, she's giving away free chocolate and a download of her first published novel, Thirty Days!

Check out her new contest page for details on how to win, a Ghirardelli Gift Basket and a free read!

Contest ends 12/31/06 when the winner will be chosen at random from the list members.

Thirty Days has a release date!

I woke up this morning to an email from Liquid Silver Books. They are releasing Thirty Days on December 18th. It had been tentatively scheduled for January. Did you know it is really hard to type while you are floating on air?

I can't stop grinning! My dogs keep looking at me funny with all the cackling noises I'm making. This is my first book ever published. I'm having trouble believing it's real!