An Introduction

What does pink mean to you?

Perhaps it’s a coveted designer label wrapped in the finest silk, or a shining reminder of the importance of breast cancer awareness. Maybe it's the memory of a high school sleepover with five of your closest girlfriends, giggling until dawn about which member of the football team has the best derriere.

Maybe it makes you think of the soft blush on the cheeks of a newborn baby when she smiles for the very first time, or the first radiant blooms of spring, prodding you with their fragrant resilience to grow and flourish in your own right. Or perhaps it simply brings to mind the perfect embodiment of all that it means to be completely and unabashedly female.

There are any number of possibilities. But to us, it means all those things and more. In our eyes, pink isn’t just another slot on the color-wheel, it’s a state of mind. As self-proclaimed Pink Ladies, we have joined here on a mission. Ours is a pilgrimage of the heart, with fondest aspirations to make you, the readers, fall deeply, irrationally, irrevocably in love.

We have a lot of exciting topics to explore on our blog, and a few giveaways in the works as well – including a Valentine’s Day gift basket to celebrate our favorite day of the year! Visit often and feel free to comment, we love to hear from our readers.

Here’s to 2009, a brilliant new year bursting at the seams with endless possibilities!

And now, a special note from the ladies themselves:

Tracy Preston Author of Destiny's Captive Information and Excerpts: tracypreston.literalseduction.net myspace.com/imadaydreambeliever

Whenever someone asks me what my dreams and aspirations are as a writer, I have to laugh at the images that spring to mind. I’ve related this in interviews before, but I'll mention it again because it's always the first thing I think of. If you’ve ever seen the Meryl Streep comedy, She-Devil, you will remember Mary Fisher and her pink palace by the sea. (Who wouldn't want a seaside mansion with their own personal Garcia?!)

As a creator of sometimes outlandish fiction, I’d be lying if I said deep down in my heart of hearts I don’t dream big. Of course I do -- what kind of writer would I be if I didn't? Dreams are, after all, a little piece of our hearts drifting to the surface to give us hope for a brighter tomorrow.

If someday I break out by penning a great story at just the right time (you go Stephenie Meyer!), you won’t hear me complaining. But for now, I’ll settle for my three-bedroom, leaky bathroom sink, never enough storage space despite the basement, piece of suburban apple pie. If along my journey I should manage to make someone smile on an otherwise ho-hum day, or a few hearts flutter with avid anticipation of just when in the heck that stubborn heroine is going to give in and admit she loves her hero, I can say I’ve done my job. That’s the most an author can hope for, really…that we have an opportunity to tell our stories, and tell them well.

While we’re on the subject of stories, at the moment I find myself elbow deep in the sequel to Destiny’s Captive, the second installment in the historical Destiny Series, this one about Lucian’s charming younger brother, Robert. I am also well on my way toward finishing a contemporary vampire story that could be the beginning of a beautiful series. I am having a blast developing the characters for Tempted by Moonlight, as vampires do have a certain visceral appeal.

In the meantime, thanks so much for joining us as we endeavor to become the very pinkest we can be. Do stop by and visit often, we just might have a contest or two on the horizon!

Happy New Year!

Sloan Seymour Author of That Montana Summer Information and Excerpts: www.sloanseymour.com myspace.com/sloanseymour

Hey all! Sloan Seymour here. So happy you stopped by to visit our blog. The three ladies I share this blog with are exceptionally savvy writers, so stay tuned to see what's happening.....!

As for me, I've been writing for six years now. My first book was released in 2008, and it's been very exciting going through the process of publication. The most rewarding part is hearing feedback from readers. It's a great day when someone says they love your book. And even better, when they order you to get your butt back in the chair so they can read the next one.

That said, I am at work on several projects right now - one being a romantic thriller that's truly a pain to plot but is fun to write for the characters and storyline are quite compelling. When I'm not wrapping my brain around plot lines and characters, I work as an RN on an oncology floor. Yes, the talk about a starving writer is true. Food doesn't miraculously appear on the table. :) I enjoy nursing but it is indeed a draining job and losing myself to good-looking heroes and feisty heroines is very much second nature at the end of the day.

Thanks again for reading my bio. Have a great day and stay tuned to our blog!

Sloan Seymour

Katherine L. Logan Author of The Ruby Brooch Information and Excerpts: katherinellogan.com myspace.com/katherinellogan

I'm Katherine Logan, and I'm a writerholic. {Clap, clap, clap} Whew! You can't imagine how difficult that was. I've finally acknowledged my addiction and am on the way to recovery!

It started when I was a teenager, I suppose. My grandmother, Aquilla Jones Lowry, received one of my poems and was so thrilled to have it, that she felt compelled to publish it in a local artsy newsletter. The muse comes from her, you know, and when it chooses to disappear for a while, I blame her for taking it back. I realize, of course, that that's nonsense. But nonetheless, she was the keeper of the family muse until she passed away.

I write time-travel, historical romances. I completed one book and am very close to completing it again. Some think I'm making a career of this one story. I know I'm not, that I just didn't tell it the right way the first time around. After I finish it, sometime before spring, I'll send it off to my editor at The Wild Rose Press and move on to the next adventure in the Gemstone Trilogy, leaving behind the Oregon Trail for the last year of the Civil War. When the war's over we'll head over to San Francisco and discover what life and love were like in the late 1800's.

When I'm not feeding my addiction, I work so I can spoil my grandchildren. I spent twenty years as a paralegal and law firm office manager until I walked away to see what the rest of the world had to offer. I worked for former Governor John Y. Brown, Kentucky Educational Television, Second Presbyterian Church of Lexington, a telecommunications company, and now I'm working for a one hundred year old global mining machinery company learning that coal is not a dirty-four-letter word.

Like my fellow Pink Ladies, I am delighted that you have stopped by to visit and hope you'll return often.

Blessings,
Katherine

Teresa Reasor Author of Captive Hearts and Highland Moonlight Information and Excerpts: www.teresareasor.com myspace.com/teresaromancewriter

I’m Teresa Reasor. I’m an artist, teacher and writer. I’ve been drawing since I could hold a pencil, writing a long as I could read, and teaching for eighteen years.

My first love is writing. I can lose myself in another time and place, and experience fantastic adventures vicariously through my characters. And if I fall in love with my hero along the way-- I get to experience the first bloom of romance without really being unfaithful to my hubby of thirty-four years.

Now that my three children are busy building lives of their own, I can now concentrate on weaving plots and crafting bad guys, and the strong characters who oppose them. I write alpha heroes (most of them warriors), feisty, stubborn heroines, and conflict, conflict, conflict.

And I’m a sucker for a happy ending. I feel cheated without one.

Currently I’m working on a contemporary military romantic suspense (for those of you who love Navy SEALs) and a paranormal romance set in Scotland that's possibly the hardest and best thing I've ever written (Or I believe so). I hope both will be contracted someday soon.

Thanks for blogging with us!
Teresa Reasor