The subject for today is adversity:

Adversity is the first path to truth.
~Lord Byron

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
~Francis Bacon

~From The Quote Garden.

Raising a round of cyber toasts to Trish Milburn, Rachel Vincent, and Michelle Willingham. Tuesday on her blog, Trish announced that she sold! Wednesday on her blog, Rachel announced that she accepted an offer for three new werecat books! Yesterday on her blog, Michelle announced that she received her author copies for her second book, The Warrior’s Touch!

Congrats, ladies!!!

The subject for today is imagination:

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
~Michelangelo

The Possible’s slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
~Emily Dickinson

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
~Duane Michals, Real Dreams

~From The Quote Garden.

The Singing Bee is a new NBC show hosted by Joey Fatone. It airs Tuesdays at 9:30, EST. Every episode, he picks six contestants out of the audience and they compete to win a trophy, the title of Singing Bee champion for that week, and the winner also gets a chance to win money at the end of the show.

It’s so addictive. People have to correctly sing the lyrics to random songs in order to move forward. I found myself singing along with the contestants almost every time.

Demon Moon is the fourth book in Meljean Brook’s series: The Guardians. Colin and Savi are fantastic characters in this riveting, luscious, and utterly spellbinding paranormal romance.

Here’s the back cover blurb:

Meljean Brook returns to the sensual netherworld
of Demon Angel for a startling romance of
eternal love threatened by the consuming
darkness of a Demon Moon…

No one would call vampire Colin Ames-Beaumont kind, but one would call him unnaturally beautiful. For two centuries his tainted blood has kept him isolated from other vampires, sustained only by his beauty and vanity–bitter comforts, since a curse erased his mirror reflection, replacing it with a terrifying glimpse of Chaos.

Savitri Murray’s insatiable curiosity has gotten her into trouble before, but she’s always escaped unscathed. Then Colin comes along. In the midst of Heaven, he gives her a taste of ecstasy–and of Chaos. Deadly creatures from that realm herald the return of an imprisoned nosferatu horde, and Colin and Savi’s bond is their only protection–and their only passion…

The subject for today is effort:

All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.
~Author Unknown

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
~Author Unknown

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
~Author Unknown

~From The Quote Garden.

Demon Angel by Meljean Brook is a mesmerizing paranormal romance with an ingenious plot. Hugh and Lilith are exceptional characters whose connection is both incendiary and complex. I loved it!         

Here’s the back cover blurb:

For two thousand years, Lilith wrought vengeance upon the evil and the damned, gathering souls for her father’s armies Below and proving her fealty to her Underworld liege. Half-demon, half-human, bound by a bargain with the devil, and forbidden to feel pleasure, she draws upon her dark powers and serpentine grace to lead men into temptation. That is, until she faces her greatest temptation–Heaven’s own Sir Hugh Castleford…

Once a knight and now a Guardian, Hugh spent centuries battling demons–and the cursed, blood-drinking nosferatu. His purpose has always been to thwart the demon Lilith, even as he battles his treacherous hunger for her. But when a deadly alliance unleashes a threat to both humans and Guardians in modern-day San Francisco, angel and demon must fight together against unholy evil–and against a desire that has been too long denied…

The subject for today is growth:

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
–Glenda Cloud

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t work out, that’s when I’ve really learned.
–Carol Burnett

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

–From The Quote Lady.