Wallpaper Wednesdays

This portrayal might be a little sexier than the way she actually dresses, but I figured “why not?” Loralie is a recurring character in most of my dragon books. She is a powerful sorceress but is she working for good… or evil?

Loralie the Sorceress

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HOW TO USE: Click on the size you want, then right-click to “Set as Background” on most systems.

Radio Show Tonight!

I’m one of the guests on Stella Price’s online radio show called “Books Byeond the Boundaries” tonight at 8pm Eastern time, so if you have a chance, drop by: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/BooksBeyondtheBoundaries

There’s a chat room and you can participate by asking questions there, even if you can’t call in. I’m super excited because Stella’s other guest for the evening is none other than Linnea Sinclair! Tonight is sci fi night! Woo-hoo!!!

See ya there!

Wallpaper Wednesdays

Another in the series of dragon scale backgrounds. This time a lighter one…

Lady Jenet Scales (from the book, FireDrake)
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The Woes & Wonders of Voice Recognition

Way back when, in the time of Windows 98, I bought a voice recognition program called Dragon Naturally Speaking. It was relatively inexpensive and worked pretty well, all things considered. I tried installing it on my laptop, but the fan motor was apparently enough to really throw the thing off.

Dragon was taken over by their competitor and the program that I loved went downhill fast, imho. I didn’t buy the upgrade when I upgraded to XP. Until yesterday, as a matter of fact, I didn’t even know that my new Vista machine had something very similar already installed!

So while the thunderstorms kept me offline (I had to shut down the cable modem and wireless router, but managed to sneak on the desktop between raindrops), I managed to set up and “train” my new voice recognition software and it’s just as good as my old Dragon program, if not better! In fact, there are some fun new functions that help you correct mistakes - which the program inevitably makes.

It’s a little scary to actually write using this, but I did soemthing to my wrist the other day when I was lifting something and I don’t have the luxury of time to let it heal. I’ve promised to send something to an editor by the end of next week and it’s going to be ready by then come hell, high water (we had that yesterday with the storms), or sprained wrists!

So any of you with Vista and a microphone headset, check out the voice recognition software built into the OS. It’s pretty freaking COOL!!!

Wallpaper Wednesdays

Here’s one relating to my most recent ebook release…

Jaci’s Experiment - Quartz
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Perfect - Now on FictionWise

Well, it’s finally happened. My novella, “Perfect” has shown up on Fictionwise! LOL. You can find it here: http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook71183.htm

Update

I just saw the new cover for One & Only and while I can’t show it to you yet because it hasn’t been officially approved, it’s amazingly awesome! I can’t wait to show you! I also just turned in the first edits on the story, so things are moving along. Oh! And the release date has been moved up - it’s now November 7th! Originally they’d talked about November 25th as the release date, but the new schedule has it on the 7th, so I’m not complaining.

In other news, I started plotting out the next book in my Resonance Mates series. Grady’s Awakening will be the long-awaited story of Grady Prime and his journey to feeling. Some interesting characters have already shown up and demanded to be put in his book, so I’m anticipating this will be a wild ride!

I’ve started Twittering and while I don’t have that much of interest to talk about right at the moment, I think Twitter will become a useful tool during conferences and such when I can do blast reports from various events. I’m new to the concept, but I think it’ll be fun. You can follow me at: http://twitter.com/biancadarc.

Twittering

I don’t know exactly how much I’ll use this thing, but I’ve started Twittering! LOL. You can follow my escapades at http://twitter.com/biancadarc.

I can’t promise it’ll be all that exciting at first because I really need to learn how this thing works, but it looks like fun — especially when I can give updates from conferences and such. Right now, I’ll probably be focusing on updates relating to my writing and activities surrounding my writing. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Party on The D’Arc Side Group Today!

Jaci’s Experiment - Out Now!

Available today from Samhain Publishing!

Scroll down to yesterday’s post for an excerpt…

And don’t forget to join us tomorrow for a

PARTY on The D’Arc Side Chat Group!