Bound by desire...

 As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been learning how to make "junk" journals. I put the name in quotes because I don't really agree with the term, even if I do understand why they're calle...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2023/10/learning-new-skills.html

 So much for being better about blogging! It's been an interesting four months since my last post. I've made several handmade journals, lots of videos (if you haven't checked out my channel y...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2023/09/still-here-honest.html

 I haven't posted anything since January, mostly because I've been busy with projects other than writing. I've started a business making and selling junk journals, my daughter just got married -...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2023/06/havent-posted-anything-since-january.html

As always, January is a good time to look back as well as forward. How did last year measure up? And what will I do differently this coming year? Well, that depends... READING Not my best year...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2023/01/2022.html

One might think that, after finishing the mammoth Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan this past summer, that I might shy away from another multi-book fantasy series. Anyone who thinks that, d...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2022/11/what-have-you-been-reading.html

Well, I finally did it. I read the entire Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. All fourteen mammoth books of it. Twenty ears ago or so, I read the first book, The Eye of the World, and en...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2022/09/well-i-finally-did-it.html

  Yep, you read that right. I have written a new novella, full of hot, hot, hot romance and featuring two wonderful characters who are finding their true love -- even if it does come a littl...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2022/06/new-release.html

I spent the early part of January writing a decent synopsis for The Companion, sent it off to David Farland, who promptly had a stroke and passed away two days after I sent it. I'm pretty sure my...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2022/02/reading-writing-andweaving.html

When writing my erotic romances, I don't start with a synopsis, I just write. Mostly I start at the beginning, work through the middle, and find the Happily Ever After. Why? Because if I write th...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-dreaded-synopsis.html

  Missing some photos for my montage, but here's our tradition!    New year, new beginnings, new resolutions.    Putting the old year to bed, settling accounts, and  looking back, ho...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2022/01/catching-up-in-new-year-come-on-2022.html

THE HISTORY: I first started The Companion over twenty-five years ago when I envisioned two groups of people: Earth Mothers and Sky Fathers and a specific conflict between them. It was 1995 and ...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/09/its-done-0r-how-i-wrote-epic-fantasy.html

     If you're a long-time reader of my blog, you know the past several months have been...hectic. In April my Dad went into hospice and I spent every day with him. I read several books as he ...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/08/im-baaack-and-i-read-books-and-i-wrote.html

Sunset; View from my cabin July 19, 2021 It's quarter to eleven on the night before Summer Solstice and all is quiet here at Storyknife. In fact, it's been pretty quiet for the past 19 days -...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/06/sunset-view-from-my-cabin-july-19-2021.html

Well, my bags are packed and I'm ready to go! And if you read/heard that line sung in John Denver's voice, you're showing your age. :) Regular readers know where I'm headed: Storyknife in Homer...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/05/alaska-here-i-come.html

...and as a writer, you'd think I'd have the words to express the stress I lived these past several weeks. But I am still too close and I can only explain my absence from all things social media ...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/05/its-been-two-months.html

      Not only is St. Patrick's Day quickly approaching, but nthis week is Read An Ebook Week - and what better way to celebrate than by reading stories by Irish authors - or at least, Irish-...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/03/two-reasons-to-celebrate-st-patricks.html

The Celebrity Summit - July 2019 probably the last cruise ship I'll ever sail So I took February off from social media - mostly. I also refrained from reading the news - again, mostly, sticki...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/03/reading-and-writingand-no-arithmetic.html

 Well, some new books...for me, anyway. Once I realized the Netflix series, Bridgerton, was loosely based on Julia Quinn's books, I decided to reread The Duke and I (the first in the series) -...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-year-new-books.html

 Bridgerton  I am four episodes in and actually enjoying it for what it is, not for what snobs *think* it should be.  Let me explain…  I have read several of Julia Quinn’s Regency r...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2021/01/bridgerton-review.html

  Our lights are up on the house, the rooms are decorated with memories and flair from the past. Music sounds throughout the house, cookies are in the oven, and the tree will be up soon. All p...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2020/12/holiday-spirit.html

   GET ALL FOUR BOOKS IN THE SUBMISSION SERIES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! Head on over to Smashwords (use the links below) to get each book at $1.00 or less. Fill out your own collection ...

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 Haven’t written much this past month – either fiction or non-fiction. To be honest, I feel like I’m in a holding pattern until the U.S. election is done. Here in New York State, we’re v...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2020/11/written-much-this-past-month-either.html

 I wrote this a week ago and have been sitting on it, unsure whether I should share it or not. My husband has convinced me I should. Turns out, I'm not the only one feeling this way. 2020:  ...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2020/09/wrote-this-week-ago-and-have-been.html

 Here in the Northeast, the weather turned chilly this past week and the fall colors are popping out all over. I've put up the autumnal decorations around the house, changed my drawers from summ...

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 As the nation still struggles with a pandemic, racial issues, and politics that are running amok, I took the summer to do something I haven't done in ages: read. And I don't mean read a few b...

https://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2020/08/summers-bounty-reading-list.html