Thursday, September 30, 2010

A recipe for super easy quiche

This recipe is taken from one of Jo Seagar’s cookbooks called Jo Seagar Cooks and as the title states, the quiche is very easy to make. It’s the perfect thing for a summer picnic, unexpected guests or a quick weekend dinner.

I saw it on a friends blog and decided to make this for dinner.

4 eggs
1 1/2 cups grated tasty cheese
1 small onion peeled and chopped
6 rashers of rindless bacon chopped
1/2 cup self-raising flour
1 1/2 cups of milk
1/4 cup of chopped parsley
salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 cups of your choice of vegetables (chopped mushrooms, peppers, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, corn, peas, beans, grated pumpkin etc) – your imagination is the limit when it comes to vegetables.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Spray a medium – to large size lasagne dish with no stick baking spray. Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Pour into the prepared dish and bake for 40 – 45 minutes until set and golden brown. If your oven is a fan one reduce the cooking time accordingly. It takes around 30 -35 minutes in a fan oven. Serves 6 people.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Lynne's Love Triangle releases today!

Can you guess why I'm doing the happy dance over here at my desk? It's a very special day for Cherie and me at Siren Publishing. We had our menage book, Lynne's Love Triangle release!

This is the first book we wrote together that will also go to print. Do you want to hear a little more about it? Well here you go!



Lynne's Love Triangle
Missy Lyons and Cherie Denis
Siren Publishing
Price $5.50


AVAILABLE: Wednesday, September 29th

[Ménage Amour: Erotic Ménage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, May-December, Bondage, light BDSM]

Lynne had to video tape the supernova hot sex the night she landed two men in her bed because she knew it would never happen again. Kurt is sweet and sexy. Troy is dominating and masterful. Both of her new lovers fulfill her better than her deepest fantasy man. How could she pick just one? Will it make a difference that they are both over twenty years younger than her? Will the flames of their desire burn out after this single night of passion is over?

And more importantly, can her new lovers pull together when it really counts and protect her from a crazy stalker trying to kill her? Only time will tell.


To read more or purchase your copy, please visit the publisher here:
http://www.bookstrand.com/node/808494

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Lynne's Love Triangle is now available for pre-order now



Lynne's Love Triangle is now up for pre-order and it's one menage you don't want to miss. The fun just gets started after these three get together.

Just a little something about it:

Lynne had to videotape the supernova hot sex the night she landed two men in her bed because she knew it would never happen again. Kurt is sweet and sexy. Troy is dominating and masterful. Both of her new lovers fulfill her better than her deepest fantasy man. How could she pick just one? Will it make a difference that they are both over twenty years younger than her? Will the flames of their desire burn out after this single night of passion is over?

And more importantly, can her new lovers pull together when it really counts and protect her from a crazy stalker trying to kill her? Only time will tell.

Buy your copy here:

http://www.bookstrand.com/lynnes-love-triangle

I hope you enjoy reading your copy!

Lots of love to you all!
Missy Lyons
www.missylyons.com

Friday, September 24, 2010

Lynne's Love Triangle is up for pre-order starting today!


If you want to make sure you don't miss out, you may pre-order your copy of Lynne's Love Triangle today. Yay!



Lynne's Love Triangle
Missy Lyons and Cherie Denis
Price $5.50


AVAILABLE: Wednesday, September 29th

[Ménage Amour: Erotic Ménage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, May-December, Bondage, light BDSM]

Lynne had to video tape the supernova hot sex the night she landed two men in her bed because she knew it would never happen again. Kurt is sweet and sexy. Troy is dominating and masterful. Both of her new lovers fulfill her better than her deepest fantasy man. How could she pick just one? Will it make a difference that they are both over twenty years younger than her? Will the flames of their desire burn out after this single night of passion is over?

And more importantly, can her new lovers pull together when it really counts and protect her from a crazy stalker trying to kill her? Only time will tell.

Pick up your copy here:
http://www.bookstrand.com/node/808494

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Grammar geekiness

Me a grammar geek? I would never have thought it, but yes it's important to know some basic rules and be able to edit your own stories when you write. So, I thought I'd share some times you need to remember to capitalize the letter.

9 Rules for using capitals in a sentence:

The first word of a sentence or fragment
The name of a day or a month
The name of a language
A word expressing a connection with a place
The name of a nationality or an ethnic group
A proper name
The name of a historical period
The name of a holiday
A significant religious term
The first word, and each significant word, of a title
The first word of a direct quotation which is a sentence
A brand name
A Roman numeral
The pronoun I

Do you know why I thought to post this? Research my dear friend. I had to look up whether or not to capitalize french fries or not. While French might be capitalized if it pertains to the French, it does not have to be capitalized if it is describing a thing.

They are capitalized when they refer to the nationality:

French toast
English literature
Dutch courage
etc.

When they do not refer directly to the nationality, then they are often begun with lower case letters:

french fries
put english on the ball
we're in dutch now!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Please welcome my guest blogger of the day Dee Shore!

Aloha everyone! For those that don’t know me I am Dee shore. I write BBW, romantic comedy, mainstream romance, and even some erotica. It’s really nice to meet you all! I have been published with Red Rose Publishing since it opened its doors can’t remember thought it’s been a while LOL

Like everyone else I have a zillion favorite things. BUT being the closet techy nerd I am, I have to admit electronic gadgets are my favorite! I can’t live without my BlackBerry or iPod Touch. The combination of having the two is truly perfect in my book.

So today I am going to present to you my favorite apps from both.

For my iPod Touch, it has to be my Nook app. For those of you that don’t know what a Nook is, it’s the Barnes & Noble eBook Reader. Now if you have an iPod Touch you can save yourself money and get this FREE app. And spend the cash on shoes lol. Kindle also has a free app for the iPhone/iPod Touch but I didn’t like it as much. Plus you get three free classics when you download it. I’m ok with that LOL! Here is a sample what it looks like:



To download Nook for your iPhone/iPod Touch. Visit the App Store and do a quick search for it. Please note that you have to be connected to a WIFI network for the iPod Touch.

For my BlackBerry, my favorite app is UberTwitter. I am always twittering, even if I am not at home. So I needed an app to make it easy for me to do that on the go. That’s where Uber comes in. I have tried all the Twitter BlackBerry apps out there and none compare to this one. There is SO much you can do with it that you can spend days learning how to do it all. Heck you can even change the color around it. Mine is purple LOL I had it pink before. I’m such a girl {giggling}.

To download UberTwitter, you can do a quick search for it on BlackBerry App World. Or click HERE from your BlackBerry.





I hope you enjoy my nerd blog and if you enjoy my review I do tons of reviews on my Tumblr so follow me there for nerd information lol You can click on the link bellow *points down*

I want to thank Missy for having me here today. She rocks! And I want to thank you for being here today with me you Rock! \m/\m/

Oh and before I go today is my sisters, Dane, a Happy 28th Birthday. She made so much fun of me when I turned 30 but lookie-lookie she’s just a few years away LOL!

Find me on the web:

• Official Site http://deeshore.net
• Twitter http://twitter.com/desshore
• Tumblr http://deeshore.tumblr.com
• Ringside Series http://ringsideseries.tumblr.com

Thanks so much for spending some time with me!
XOXOXO
Dee

Monday, September 13, 2010

Pass the coffee and let me wake up

Are you a morning person? I used to love mornings, but lately I've been staying up later and struggling to wake up in the morning. I guess it doesn't matter what I do as long as I don't skip sleep.

My excuse last night was to get a few pages done on the christmas story I am working on. It's like a tradition to me to put out a Christmas story every year. So it's important to me to finish it. Just as much as the others I need to be working on.

I used to love to write in the mornings more than any other time of day. It was quiet and I had the most energy. My daughter was off at school and my husband was at work. As I said mornings were good for me to work uninterrupted, but things have changed, and I now have a new little one to keep me busy in the mornings. So as a working mom, I adapt. I change my schedule but it's going to take some time to get used to it.

If only sleep were something I could skip. Instead of getting a good night's sleep, I seem to be relying on coffee to keep me functioning. I think a lot of people are wired differently. Some have their energy in the morning and others work better at night. As much as I try, I'm not sure I canchange my wiring.

Which brings me to my questionof the day. So are you a morning person or more of a night person and have you ever tried changing?

Sunday, September 12, 2010

The blog

Okay, so I've been a little lax lately about the blog. Not sure if this really works for me or how to make it work, I kind of left it alone for long periods of time to let it fizzle into nothingness.

But I hope to bring the blog back. If you have an idea for a topic you want to hear about or me blather on about just drop me a line and I'll go for it.

For now, I'm going to try to blog a couple times a week and be more regular even when there is nothing to promote.

Why do you think I suddenly had this talk of promises and goals to blog? I just saw my stats. I blog under ten times a month and have two somewhat loyal viewers. For which I am humbly grateful.

Peace!
Missy

Friday, September 10, 2010

Free Story by Missy Lyons




Do you subscribe to All Romance ebooks newsletter? You should! There is tons of free stuff in there, contests, new releases and a free read every Friday. Missy Lyons story 'Till Death Do Us Part' will be featured in it October 22 for Halloween.



If you miss out, or don't sign up in time--don't worry! Missy Lyons will feature it in her newsletter that month too. Sign up here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Missy_Lyons_Newsletter/

Thanks and I hope you can enjoy it!
Missy Lyons
www.missylyons.com

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Missy's release party at The Romance Studio is today




I'm hanging out at The Romane Studio until 8PM EST to celebrate my new release, Heart of a Cowboy. Come visit and maybe you'll win some books or something else just as fun!

http://theromancestudio.com/party/

Comment for a chance to win.

Facebook likes me?

I am testing the facebook streaming like box. I really have no idea how to play with it but am thinking it could be a good idea to use for helping my readers to find me.

Have you tried making a fan page and then making a like button. It gives you two options. One is an iframe:



Then there is the more flexible XFBML but it needs javascript:



Unfortunately I just use what seems to work on here:

You can get more directions here:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box

The like button is smaller but not really looking like a button for me. However this seems to be a nice option for giving information to people from other places like your website and blog.