Happy New Year!

I'm so excited for the new year! 2015 brought me a lot of wonderful things, like my daughter Hanna, a new job for the hubs, and a new house! How's that for change?! It's really been an awesome year and I hope 2016 will be just as great. What are your plans for this New Years Eve? We're spending it with family and will be going to bed early. I'm ok sleeping through the ball drop. Sleep is precious to me and the hubby has to work early in the morning.

I'm excited to announce that my raffle and cover reveal will begin at midnight PST. It runs from the 1st to the 4th, so don't feel like you have to wait up to participate and please share with your friends! See the gorgeous cover for the fourth book in my Desperate and Daring Series and enter my raffle for a prize! I've also got a brand new website I've been working on and lots of fun things I will be doing in the new year to promote my books, including offering signed copies through my site!

New Years Raffle Prize!

This year I'm taking my business and my books to the next level. I will be more organized, more productive, and more successful. The more, the more. That is actually a hypnotic prompt I used when I practiced hypnosis several years ago. I've been on a long journey trying to discover who I am and what my purpose in life is. Now at the age of thirty, I know who I am and what I want. I'm an author. That is so clear to me now. Everything I've experienced before now has led me to here.

Happy New Year. Celebrate quietly, or as crazy as you like, but always celebrate. The changing of time brings opportunity. Don't waste it.

Cheers,
Ella


 Check out the raffle on my facebook page!

Yoga With A Baby

Have you seen those videos of people doing yoga and their pets are climbing on them? It's funny right? Well, while my kitty did supervise, it was my daughter who climbed all over me. Still adorable and funny. She gets so excited when people are on the ground with her. She even has her own version of downward dog.

 She does this all the time and it cracks us up. There is never a dull moment with this little girl. Please excuse the messy living room, or not. I have two small children and most of the time I just don't care. Cleaning with small children around is like trying to dry your car off with a towel while it's raining. I have better things to do than keep my house looking like a better homes and gardens magazine. It's called living, playing with my kids, or being lazy. It's great.

Anyway, I'm really proud of myself for accomplishing the yoga this morning. I've reached my goal weight post baby, but looking at my body, I certainly don't look it, and the size of my clothes are not changing. Weird, right?
I HATE EXERCISE. But, I found that I do enjoy yoga. So, yoga it is. If only I could manage to do it on a regular basis, which I still can't. I am the queen of procrastination when it comes to exercising or anything on a regular, scheduled basis. It's amazing I manage to get anything done. If I somehow got my act together and was organized and efficient I think I could rule the world.

Don't worry, World. That is unlikely to happen. But I am trying. I've reorganized my files, gotten a planner to keep track of things I need to do on a day by day basis. I'm taking things one day at a time. Small goals and small steps work for me.

Today's goals are:

• Yoga 
• Blog post
• Edits on Mine, All Mine *
• Stay off The Debil (aka Facebook) until after 6pm.

*Mine, All Mine is the first book I ever wrote and as I prepare it for print I'm doing a little rewriting. Nothing major, just basics like my overuse of the word nearly and junk like that. I cringe when I read it and I don't want to feel that way. Every author has a first book that is rough around the edges. I've learned so much since I wrote that book that I just need to fix some errors and clean it up. It represents me and I want it to shine like it should. The e-book version will be updated once I'm finished, too.

Wish me luck with my goal list and I hope you have a happy Friday. Youtube Yoga With Adriene if you are interested in trying some yoga. She is really fun and quirky.

I want to spend my life time loving you...

If that is all in life I ever do...

Tonight I took a trip back to 1998 and watched The Mask of Zorro, much to my 4yr old's chagrin. It took some convincing, pretend sword fighting, and enthusiastic shouts of Zorro! He was dead set on watching Minuscule, a cute movie about a Ladybug. Ugh. Can I get a little romance please?!

I don't get to watch this stuff when the hubs is home. But, I got my movie and I got my Antonio Banderas fix. I love this movie and I especially love the song at the end. It's sung by Tina Arena and Marc Anthony. It encompasses everything I love about romance, falling in love, the racing heartbeat, the amplified emotions. I can feel it all at once in one song and it makes my muse go crazy with ideas. It's like a drug and I can't get enough of it. I want to spend my life loving, being in love, giving love, spreading love. That is my gift. That is my purpose.

In fact today, on Facebook of all places, I heard a very enlightening speech from Jim Carey about what we give to the world. Maybe I was meant to hear it, because there is a hefty amount of doubt and ridicule that comes with being a romance writer. What I do may seem small and insignificant, but it isn't. Jim Carey gives laughter to the world and that is precious. I give love. Through books I give love. Does that sound ridiculous? Probably, but to me it isn't. I can't count the hours I've spent reading romance but each of them are valuable to me. Those were hours I forgot about unhappiness and sadness. Hours I smiled instead of crying. Hours I spent unaware of my loneliness. If I can do that for someone else I have done something vitally important.

Please enjoy the song and if you haven't seen the movie, watch it!

                         

Writer(s): James Horner, Will Jennings
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