Mel's Silly Love Songs

Yowl from the sticky summer hot prairie, my Big Cats. Kougar or not, moi wishes she had a sparkling water swimming hole, just to float and find a sweet relief. Although the lovely tall trees with their bountiful umbrella of leaves provides cooler air temps.

With honor to the eclipse, not visible on the tame prairie ~ the pic.

Mel's Silly Love Songs ~ This week on Title Magic ~ http://titlemagic.blogspot.com ~ Mel wrote a fabulous blog on the value of silly love songs and romance novels in our lives. For many of us, a great big including the Kougaress, we are profoundly connected to and influenced by romance, all the wonderfully different ways of romance. For the most part in our daily lives, we are severely deprived of what we passionately long for ~ romance and romantic love, the very expression of romance in every area of our lives. For example, how we decorate our homes because romance is a way of being and lifestyle, not merely an act of love or sex.

Moi's mew-sings: Mel, I love that song too. I always have. And it does just what you say.
However, kudos, major kudos. This is an outstanding blog. And I couldn't agree more.

Also on Title Magic, a fantabulous blog on settings by Allison Chase. Here is Helen Scott Taylor's intro:

I'm delighted to welcome Allison Chase to Title Magic today. Under the name of Lisa Manuel, she's written four wonderful historical romances. This time she's added a touch of paranormal to her story and set Dark Obsession (what a fantastic bookcover!), the first book in her new Blackheath Moor series, in a place dear to my heart! Read on for her insights on how to use setting as character.

Moi's mew-sings: Allison, excellent blog about setting. Thank you.You're so right about setting being another character because the 'world' can thwart or aid the main characters, or even determine what can and ca't be accomplished.

I luv how the heroine and hero related to or interact directly with the setting, or their environment.

Anitra, I hadn't thought of it that way, but definitely true about how setting in direct opposition can snub or be a foil for the character's inner turmoil.

Lexie, good point. I think sometimes setting is taken for granted. No, not all of us live or know New York.

Last night, the Kougar finally posted on the Siren-BookStrand Author's blog ~ after quite a bit of brain-spinning work, the announcement for the release date of When a Good Angel Falls ~ titled:

Paranormal ~ By the Magical Numbers: August 13, 2008 ~

What's so extraordinary about that? Why it's positively woo-woo angelic. No meow kidding. The Kougar's eyes opened like saucers and stayed that way for several moments. Because of what she witnessed: draft saved 2:12 am. Mew-okay, so a zero was left out. 2:12 instead of 2012, and the Kougar had just spent several paragraphs discussing the numerology of Winter Solstice 2012.

And not only that, but believe-if-you-will holy ~ just as moi was about click on Done, and add the mystical romance splendid cover art of When a Good Angel Falls, the announcer on Coast-to-Coastam said "from the city of Angels".

No stunned wowza kidding, Big Cats.

Now! a tidbit for the Big Kitties who have indulged their reading appetite and gotten this far in moi's blog.

THE SPECIAL SECRET PROJECT ~ a claw snippet ~
Tiny ecstatic squeals burst from between her lips. Her head whipped to and fro in a wild chaos of movement, her fiery hair like constant flares from the sun.

Silly love song smooch from the Kougar...