 My romantic comedy The Trouble With Love is live and ready to enchant you.
To catch a thief, Susannah Quinn, a by-the-book deputy, and D. E. Hogan (just call me Hogan), an undercover FBI agent, pose as husband and wife. Can two mismatched, pretend lovers, caught in a comedy of errors courtship, catch a thief, recover stolen jewels–and resist the sweet siren call of desire?
Chapter 1 was published March 1, and a new chapter will be published each month until October 2010 brings The End.
To enhance your reading experience, I've created a special soundtrack for The Trouble With Love. Each month a new song will be added to the soundtrack to accompany that month's new chapter. You'll find it on either of my blogs Sling Words and Joan Slings Words.
Open a tab at The Trouble With Love then open another tab at either of my blogs. Scroll to the bottom of the blog page where you'll see the Player. Click Play. Then go back to the tab where my novel is displayed and start reading. The music will play until you hit Stop or you close the tab.
I hope you'll read this serialized romantic comedy and tell your friends about it too. Drop me a note if you like it. I can always be reached at joan at joanreeves dot com. In the subject box, put Moonlight On Snow: A Love Story is still available. Add a little love and laughter to your life, read this heartwarming romance free online. Tell a friend about it. Please drop me a note if you enjoy it!
  Here are some of the resources available to anyone interested in writing.
Authors Guild
Build A Web Site
Category Romance
Gila Queen
Large Print Reviews
Preditors and Editors
Romance Writers of America
RWA, Houston Bay Area Chapter
RWA, Mystery-Suspense Chapter
RWA, NW Houston Chapter
RWA, Published Authors Special Interest Chapter
RWA, West Houston Chapter
Romantic Times Magazine
Sisters in Crime
Writers Beware
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 Please remember these articles are copyrighted. If you wish permission to use an article in any way, other than reading it for your own education and entertainment, please contact Joan Reeves for permission. Email and hard copy addresses are scattered throughout this site. Older articles are collected in Archives. For more articles, visit Sling Words or Joan Slings Words. by Joan Reeves©2009, All Rights Reserved May 2009 Definitions Here’s my easy to remember rule. All blogs are websites, but not all websites are blogs. A website is a collection of web pages, images, videos or other digital assets, hosted on one or more web servers, and is usually accessible via the Internet. The World Wide Web is the collection of all publicly accessible websites. Lord/Lady of Your Own Domain If you want a particular name associated with a website, then you purchase a domain name. Actually you’re only licensing the name for a specific period of time. Your license must be renewed periodically. Important: Privacy In addition to registering or licensing a domain name, you should purchase the security package that all website hosts offer. Pay the bucks. Otherwise, if someone types in whois in a browser, goes to that site and fills in your name, your home address, real name, phone number, etc. pops up. When you pay for the security package, the webhost name shows up.) DIY The software used to create websites usually isn’t as easy to use and requires the user to know a certain amount of HTML (Hyper Text Marking Language) or CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in order to create and maintain the site. The amount of HTML or CSS that you must know ranges from a little, like bolding text or creating paragraph indentations, to a lot, like being able to actually edit a template with an FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Sure, you can get software billed as easy to use, but you won’t be creating some of those gloriously beautiful websites you envy. Your will be plain Jane and more than likely will look like it was done by an amateur, not a web designer. Pay a Pro Web designers are professionals who marry art with computer technology. When a web designer quotes you several hundreds of dollars plus so much per hour to make changes after the original upload, they’re not bilking you. Well, maybe they are if you didn’t shop around, but that’s another story. Normally, they’re worth every penny. It takes a lot of specialized knowledge to create an aesthetically pleasing website. Pre-formatted DIY Host your site with a company like SiteGround that offers free professional design software for you to use or with an organization like Authors Guild that offers ready to go standard templates in a variety of themes and colors. I mention these two because I use them. My blog Joan Slings Words is hosted by SiteGround which offered free domain name registration and free software. They offer two or three kinds for websites and Wordpress for blogging. Since I intended for that domain to be a blog, I use WordPress. It’s not the easiest software to master, but I’ve muddled my way through. You can get a highly individual look because there are thousands of Wordpress templates available free for you to use. My website is hosted by Authors Guild. If you qualify as a member, I recommend them. Very easy to use, and you get a nice look even if you don’t do all the graphic design stuff I do. Blog So what's a Blog? It’s just a website using a specifically designed software platform that is particularly user friendly so that the individual who registers that blog name can post to and update the blog as often as they like. Most people seem to use the Blogspot blogging platform. It’s free. I use it for my original blog Sling Words. It’s the easiest blogging platform I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to personalize for even the most inexperienced user. The current version of Blogger is XML. You can add so many elements to the blogspot blogs and change the template easily too. If you have you domain website, get a blog too. They’re fun. Domain Websites tend to be static. They don’t get updated very often. I update mine every month because it’s easy. If you’re paying for every update though, chances are you won’t update it often. Blogs can be updated daily - hourly if you’ve got that much time on your hands. If you can’t afford to have a professional looking domain website or can’t afford to have your domain website updated very often, get a blog. You’ll have fun with it. It can be the daily wave of friendship you send to passersby and friends who stop by to visit over their morning coffee. Resources To Personalize Blogger How to Change your template: http://www.eblogtemplates.com/how-to-install-a-blogger-template/ Note: when shopping for free templates, be sure and read any comments on the site regarding the design you want. Some templates have bugs and the users always comment to let you know. Sites Offering Free Templates http://lenatoewsdesigns.blogspot.com http://www.blogcrowds.com/resources/blogger_template.php If you don’t see something that strikes your fancy, just plug “Free Blogger XML Template” into your favorite search engine and go shopping. Have fun personalizing your websites. The more distinctive your sites, the more your traffic will increase, and that’s the goal–increasing your visibility in order to make the most of your Internet presence. For Gifts and Promotion products designed by a writer for writers, shop at Joan's Cafe Press shop The WRITE Way. These unique designs can be found on tee shirts, tote bags, mugs, journals, and more, and they're not available elsewhere.
Everything is priced low for writers' budgets. There is even value-priced bulk orders available for writing organizations. High quality? Unique designs? Low cost? Yes to all! Joan will even work with you to personalize any of the products. Just contact her by email after you've looked at the items in the shop if you don't find what you want. There's something for every writer at The WRITE Way.  Copyright 2002-2009 by Joan Reeves. All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce anything on this web site, please contact: Joan Reeves, P. O. Box 1045, Richmond TX 77406-1045 or email: joan @ joanreeves.com. |
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