My Internet connection has never been great but it totally went bonkers a week ago. I suspect the enormous amounts of rain are causing my dial up to fizzle. Whatever the reason I haven’t been able to send out the newsletter or update my website. In fact I’m lucky to get an email off. Right now I’m doing this via my phone which is adequate.

I’ll post the winner of last month’s contest here in the next few days. Unless I get really lucky and can get online and take care of business.

Next month there will be two contests. One here and one on jauntyquills.com. Both places I’ll give away an autographed copy of Innocent inthe Italian’s Possession. Details will come later.

Please bear with me as I work through this mess. I’m under deadline to get a book written and that comes first.

More to come later.

My heart goes out to those who’ve suffered loss with the recent devasting floods in the Nashville area.

Romance Writers of America had planned to hold their annual conference there this July, but the Opryland hotel was hit hard when the levies on the Cumberland River broke. They’ve had to turn us away nearly last minute which meant we had to find another venue to host the conference.

Just the other day RWA found a place to host our conference, and on the same dates which was very important. Maybe attendees and related personahad scheduled time off from work to go at that last week in July, so to change dates would have had a horrid impact on our organization.

So instead of going to beautiful Nashville where country music legends are born, we’re going to Orlando, Florida — Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin — the land were dreams come true. 🙂

Again, my thoughts and prayers are with those hit by this devastating flood.

I can’t remember when I wasn’t under deadline now. Not that I’m complaining about being a published author, but my deadlines have been so tight for nearly two years that I’ve turned one book in on time and began a new deadline with a new book. And to me they were deadlines because I have had anywhere from one month to three months to write a new novel. eek!

Anyway, I’ve just turned in the revisions for my fourth Presents novel — this is King Kristo Stanrakis’ and Demetria Andreou’s love story. My first royal couple that I probably thought about waaaay too long before writing. Anyway the editor loved the changes. Woohoo!!!

So now (guess what?) I’m under deadline again to write my first continuity. June 1st is the deadline, and also the release date for my Italian stallion — Innocent in the Italian’s Possession. I thoroughly enjoyed writing this novel and hope you’ll enjoy reading it.

I am going to try to make the effort now to blog here once a week, and occassionally offer up a surprise prize. So drop in from time to time and say hi.

Okay, the deadline calleth. 🙂 Blog session is over and back to writing.

I’m giving away an autographed copy of A Cowboy Christmas on BookTalk!

Event: Online Interview and Contest with JANETTE KENNY
What: Preview
Start Time: Saturday, October 31 at 8:00am
End Time: Thursday, November 5 at 5:00pm
Where: online at BookTalk.

About five minutes before I planned to leave for my romance chapter meeting on Saturday, there was a wreck in front of my house. This is the second three-car pile-up in a two month span. This time my mail box survived, but I don’t have high hopes that it will have a long life.

People are suddenly driving way too fast and too recklessly on my street. They should rename it Kansas Speedway 2. 😉

There’s a side street across from my house and any car trying to turn into it is subject to getting rear-ended. Hard. That looks like what happened this time, which is a repeat.

A couple of people we taken off in an ambulance. The fire department was on hand to deal with the spilled gasoline and/or antifreeze. Cops were measurely distances between impact and cars. Car trim, glass and debris littered the street.

With the first wreck, it was just good luck that nobody was walking on the sidewalk at the time. We have a lot of walkers, including kids on their way and from school. The last wreck was contained to the street.

Something is going to have to be done — probably a reduction in speed. I’m not going to hold much hope that drivers will suddenly become attentive.