Amy Ruttan

The snow is melting, and the graveyard is set up. It’s so warm here now we don’t need a jacket, so I predict muay colds on the horizon. Anyways I won’t be around too much, trying to get the kidlets ready and calm down, they are already wired like crazy monkeys.

Here they are in their Halloween costumes this year. They were at a Halloween party this past Sunday so I was able to snatch a picture of them, and that’s my Spooky Town on top of my piano, and Skeleton Steve.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Yeah that would be snow. We had a snowstorm last night. This is after a day of melting, but it knocked down trees and cut power in half of the city. Lots of trees are gone. And yeah, that’s my neighbor’s soft maple that fell over on my driveway.

We also have a snowsquall warning for tonight. *yay*

I haven’t been able to put up my graveyard because of the snow, and I doubt I will be able to this year which blows and the poor kids will be wearing snowsuits under their costumes. I’m going to hibernate now.

Masque of Desire is now available in print in an anthology titled TANTALIZING TREATS!!! WOOT! I am so excited. Masque of Desire was my first book ever!

You can get a copy here.

AND check out the brand spanking new cover. *drool*

AND to celebrate this fantastic event (I’m very stoked!!) I will be drawing a name from commenters on Halloween October 31st, and I’ll be picking someone from my newsletter as well to win and I’ll be annoucning both winners here on Halloween. Squee!!!

The haunting hour approaches and I came across some information about some fun haunting games to play.

The most common is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water; the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple. Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. In Puicíní (pronounced “poocheeny”), a game played in

Now I don’t know about the whole spouse thing, I thought that if you stared at a mirror in a darkened room you’d see Bloody Mary. LOL.

Hehehe. Sorry, I had a zombie voice in my head whilst I was typing the title.

I love Kraft Canada. LOVE that website. It freaking rocks. You can put in 3 ingredients and Kraft Canada will give you multiple recipes, and it’s especially good if you are on a budget. Here’s the link.

I thought I would showcase a healthy spooktacular snack from their website:

Mmm, doesn’t that look yummy. I think so, because crudites are my number one crave. I am bummed though that Peaches and Peach juice and anything related to that makes me want to hurl, sorry side tangent there.

Here’s the recipe:

POUR 1 cup Kraft Rancher’s Choice Dressing into a small bowl lined with lettuce leaves to resemble hair.

STARTING with the bowl as the head, form a skeleton shape by arranging sliced fresh vegetables such as peppers, cucumber slices, snow peas, mushrooms, celery or carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, broccoli and cauliflower. It’s a fun way to get kids to eat vegetables.

 And just cause I gots zombies on the brain, as it were. I particularly like the guy with the karate kick at the end.

Well, you’ll probably be hearing a similar story next July.

Totally by accident. Remember back in August when I was considering. Yeah well I squashed the thought and went about my business. Stupid 80% failure rate.

Regardless I’m getting a real bang for my buck on Independance Day 2009 … and I’m not even American.

I got the email yesterday, Masque of Desire is coming to print in an anthology called Tantalizing Treats. It will be available from the Jasmine Jade Website and then it will hit a bookstore near you by end of November roughly.

My first actual print book, I am tres excited!! I am feeling much better btw. Sumo still has the cold bad, but I’m feeling loads better.

I’m still sick, had a relapse on Monday. Can’t breath, can barely talk and in the spirit of Beetlejuice lots of nastiness!

This is one of my favorite Tim Burton movies. I just realized in fact how many TB movies dominant my Halloween watching list. I love Tim Burton.

Next Friday in fact. I can’t believe it’s this close. So I’ll be sharing lots of my favorite Halloween things, including my must see Halloween specials and movies. Are there any Halloween specials or movies you have to watch when it comes around Halloween time. The one below is one I watch both at Halloween and Christmas time.

Yeah, I do it. We all do. It sounds so dirty, but I google myself on a regular basis. Though I hadn’t in about two weeks, which means I didn’t discover this great review that I got from Just Erotic Romance Reviews.

I got a 4 with the heat level of O.

You can read the review here.

So other than Googling myself I have been creating a character name database. Something Eloisa James mentioned, so that you don’t keep naming your characters the same things, and your readers thinking you’re writing a story about another character. It lists the character name and what book they were in, and whether they are a main character or secondary … that kind of thing.

Do you Google yourself?