Merry Christmas

RT Nomination for The Critic

I'm not sure if you can read the font on the picture but if you can't this is what's happening. The Critic was nominated for an RT award for Best AA book of 2008 Romance. YEAH!!!

I'm going on tour

Santa Baby 2008 Virtual Book Tour for Hopeless Romantics
The Santa Baby 2008 Virtual Book Tour allow hopeless romantics to flex their very vivid imaginations and soar as they hear from ten beloved romance writers just in time for the holidays!

All The Buzz Reviews and The GRITS COM Literary Service have teamed up to host the Santa Baby 2008 Virtual Book Tour headlining some of today’s exciting African American romance writers, December 1-12, 2008!

This exclusive ten-day virtual book tour will give romance readers, and new readers to the genre, a chance to hear from ten popular writers about their new and upcoming book releases just in time for the holidays!

This virtual book tour is inspired by the sultry sex-kitten, Eartha Kitt. Her Christmas song, “Santa Baby,” topped the charts in 1953 making her one of the most popular entertainers in the world. The same sensuous mix that Eartha Kitt brought to this Christmas song many years ago, is the same sensuous mix - Gwyneth Bolton, Niobia Bryant, Dyanne Davis, Gwynne Forster, Bettye Griffin, Donna Hill, Andrea Jackson, Deborah Fletcher Mello, Farrah Rochon, and Stefanie Worth - bring to their work and to this tour!

Romance novels made an astonishing $1.4 billion last year, making the romance genre one of the top sellers in the publishing industry. Though some complain that the formulaic plot and “happily-ever-after” endings in romances aren’t always indicative of real life; the staggering number of romances sold each year is testament to its popularity and staying power!

The Santa Baby 2008 Virtual Book Tour begins Monday, December 1, 2008. So join the tour at AllTheBuzzReviews (www.allthebuzzreviews.com) or TheGRITS.com/virtualbooktour (www.thegrits.com/virtualbooktour)
About All The Buzz ReviewsAll The Buzz Reviews is the book reviews and literary event blog of Renee Williams, the CEO & Owner of Literary Signature Service, an event planning business specializing in literary events for authors of every genre.
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In Blood We Trust

Adam Omega has a new video trailer and he would love to have you cast your vote for him. But as his mortal helper with some morals I will ask that you watch the video and that if you find it to be the best that you cast a vote for it. Adam will not harm you if you don't. Eve will see to that. Thanks


F. D. Davis, The mortal

http://thenewcoveytrailerawards.blogspot.com/

checking in

Abi told me that I needed to update my site and to post. I'm going to see how long it will take her to notice. By the way my friend Abi has some great news to share but I believe in people telling their own good news. Lets see if she share. Congrats Abi. Love you

By the way, that's Donna Hill from the Soul Tour. More pictures to follow.


Dyanne

Long time no post

It's been a long time since I posted here. I'm doing it today because I'm trying not to do all of the work I have to do and I'm trying to tell myself that blogging is the same as writing. Yeah right. LOL.


Anyway since no one comes here anyway this is just so I'll remember how to come.

Dyanne

Interview with a Vampire Adam Omega

http://gwynethbolton.blogspot.com/2008/01/about-book-mondays-interview-with.html

Adam Omega has his first interview up. Check it out.

Dyanne

Is anything private?

Since I really try to avoid public battles and I still want to have my say I thought I would do it here. I don't know that anyone reads any of the blogs that I do anyway but it's a sure bet this one is read the least. So basically this is a diary entry. LOL


The topic I want to discuss is privacy. Should we be held accountable for the things we say in our homes? Should anyone be able to tape our most private conversations and sell them? Should a person lose their job for their private views, racist or otherwise?

Since this is my diary entry so to speak I'll answer that question for me and me alone. I don't think so.

Now hold up. I'm not saying that teaching your children hateful words is right, but two wrongs don't make a right. A child should not tape private conversations and then offer them to the world.

Would you really like for aunt Bessie to know that you think her potato salad is the worst thing you've ever tasted that you wouldn't feed it to your dog nor give it to the hog as part of the slop they're fed?

Would you want your friend to know you think she's been acting like a tramp. How about your sister, would you want her to know that you think her kids are little brats? Would you like for your husband to know that you fake it and always have?

Everyone says things, mean and hurtful derogatory things. Should every word we say be held up for public scrutiny? Where does it end? Why don't we just have cameras installed in our homes and give big brother an open view to our lives?

Come on people. Is anything private anymore? If anyone does read this I would love to hear your opinion. Thanks.

Dyanne

Another Man's Baby

Let me know what you think of the trailer. As you may have guessed this is not a romance. It's mainstream women's fiction and the story is about Eric Jackson and how he's dealing with his life after serving three tours of duty in Iraq.

Aging

Good morning,

I was just wondering if any of you know the exact moment you started to age. I mean when you really knew it, not when you spotted your first gray hair but when you looked in the mirror and someone else like your mother was staring back out at you.
Now that doesn't mean that I don't think my mother wasn't pretty because she was. But for God's sake she was my mother! And the other thing about it is she's been gone for ten years now. So it's a little spooky to say the least.
When my mother was alive everyone including me thought my sister looked like my mother. Not soon after the funeral I had of course dyed my hair the same color my mom always used. (not on purpose) and relatives were staring at me. I knew the reason but I was ten years younger, no big deal.
Then about five years ago I went to bed with perfect vision and woke not being able to read small print. I went to the eye doctor because something had to be wrong. It was. I was getting old. Then these little things started sprouting on my neck. I'm a nurse but while I'm writing this I can't remember the correct term so I'm just going to keep writing. Anyway these little things are on my neck. UGH!!

Brown spots now pop up on my legs and arms and I still can't make my mother's face leave my mirror. Along comes menopause and well... At least I can say I don't have the usual symptoms. At least not yet and it's been three years.

So how did I know I was going through it. It's too personal to tell here. I was having my pap and told the doctor about it who insisted based on my exam that I wasn't. I told her I was because of some changes that I had noted and insisted on blood work. It came back and yes I had entered that phase of my life. I was just barely crossing it but I was on the doorstep. Guess what as soon as I was proven right the changes I'd noted went away. I knew my body and just wanted paper to back me up.

Now this is the last straw. Well not really because I want to live a long long time. But I was looking at my skin and my God it's looking older. Still soft but older. Now I look in the mirror and Dyanne seems to have disappeared. Where the heck did she go? She can't be the person in the mirror because that's my mother.

Come on talk to me people please. Tell me when did you start to feel old? OOPS wrong word because I still don't feel old inside. Well most of the times but things are changing so talk to me. Dish. Have a good weekend and if you can find your glasses write to me.

Namaste


Dyanne





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Good Morning

Good Morning,


I'm just popping in to say hello. Not much is happening around here except work work and more work and I'm saying Thank God for that. Many Shades of Gray is doing well. Of course as with any book you have some who don't like it. that's the way it is and will always be . It Comes with the terrority. The day any writer writes and book and not one person complain will more than likely be the day the earth will explode. The Bible has tons of negative reviews.

love ya

Dyanne

Don't ask me what happened but when I uploaded this cover it came out blue. Anyway I have a new book coming out in Nov and since I didn't know about it until a week ago I haven't mentioned it. I've been too busy getting ready for Many Shades of Gray.

Dreams really do come true.

Since I last posted two things happened. I had a birthday on Sept 1 and my friend Fatima Gomez passed away on Sept 3. I didn't want to write anymore about it because mainly I don't want to bring anyone down. But since I asked everyone to pray for peace for her I guess I should at least let you know the outcome.

No matter how sorry I feel that there was nothing I could do in my OWN powers to save her I do know that she was ready to end the suffering. She told me out of her own mouth and she asked me to stop praying for a miracle. I did. It was hard but I did. I wasn't able to pray for peace because being human I still wanted a miracle whether I prayed for one or not.

As Christians we say that we're not afraid of death but we mourn anyway. Regardless of what we say I think we're all just a little afraid of the unknown. I'm not going to lie. I don't want to go. EVER!!! I enjoy living. I don't want anyone I love to go. EVER!! But then again I'm not in control am I?

Just know this, the family is coping and so am I. Thank you for your prayers.

Namaste

Dyanne

A look at the desk of a writer doing edits.

Pictures of my desk when I'm doing edits. The picture of In the Beginning is of the finished product on the bookstore shelves. This one was taken at Barnes & Nobel

Many Shades of Gray

Pictures from a contest I held

I recently held a contest on my yahoo group and I'm posting the winning pictures here. I wanted the ladies to show me a creative picture of what they did with their books.


This picture was the runner up. It was just so darned cute. Can you figure out why? This is Kim' s picture.
The top two you've seen but I love them of Alexis so I had to include them again. They also came from Patsy Nelson but she wasn't allowed to use them for the new contest. Alexis would have won simply because I love the pictures. I hope you all enjoy them. Go to my website and click on joinDyanne's yahoo group if you'd like in on the fun.

Dyanne

Book Signing

Hello everyone,


If anyone is in The Bolingbrook IL. area on Thursday 7-9 P.M. please come to the Barnes and Nobel and say hello. I'd love to see a friendly face and you can have some free raspberry coffee. You don't have to buy a book. Promise.


Dyanne

L.A. Banks.

I had the most fun with L. A. Banks and her street team on July 28th 2007. I'm putting down the date so I'll never forget it. Barbara Keaton, Alicia and Candance brought Leslie/L.A. to Bolingbrook to to my cable show.

To say we howled is putting it mildly. I will be putting an interview up very soon. A shortened version of what we did for the show but come on you know I have to include something on my own site.

And get this. L. A. Banks mentioned me on her blog. Did I say I was a big fan of hers? Can you tell it?


Dyanne

A Prayer Request

Good Morning,I am asking for prayer for my friend Fatima. We've been friends for thirty-five years. We've been together for the birth of four of her adult children and for the raising of my one and her six. We went to nursing school together. We are a part of each other families, attend each other's family reunions.

Fatima has been suffering with cancer for almost six year. She's gone through one life threatening operation after another. She's been through both cardiac and respiratory arrest. Every time that we've been able to hope there has been a new tumor.

Yesterday the diagnosis was handed down that Fatima has two weeks. For some time now my medical knowledge has interfered with my innate beliefs in the power of prayer. But in the end my belief in miracles is stronger than my medical knowledge.

It's really hard for me even at this date not to continue praying for a miracle for Fatima, total and absolute healing.I know that I should be praying for peace for my friend and for her to be alleviated from pain. I can't. I still want a miracle.

So I'm asking of anyone reading this to do what I can't. Please pray for peace for Fatima and a release from her pain.

Dyanne