Hello, I am Diane Alberts, and I was recently lucky enough to contract my full length novel, Reclaimed, with Decadent Publishing. It is currently undergoing edits, so I decided to take some of my free time to say hello! I look forward to getting to know everyone, and for the chance for everyone to get to know my beloved characters, Isaac and Sabrina, and hopefully love them as much as I do.
In the meantime, here are five facts about me that you don’t know:
My other job, besides writing, is that I own a yarn company. I hand paint specialty yarn, and sell it to fellow fiber enthusiasts such as myself. In addition to dyeing yarn just in my random way, I also run three yarn of the month clubs: two for Harry Potter, and one for True Blood. Every month, my members and I brainstorm and come up with a special color way (that is yarn speak for colors all mashed together prettily) to represent the character of the month—and what fun it is!
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I got married to my husband when we were only twenty. We were too young to drink champagne at our own wedding. He was in the Marines, and he was worried that he wouldn’t be given leave to come to our wedding, which was originally scheduled for the weekend of September 11, 2002. We moved our wedding date up to June 29th, and everyone swore I was pregnant. They were wrong. Most also swore we’d only last a year or so. It’s been nine. They were wrong again.
After we were out of the Marines, we traveled across the country to return to Pennsylvania, and I was six months pregnant with our second child. I needed to stop to use the restroom at least once an hour, and once my husband swore he was going to drive me to the airport and leave me there. I had just went to the restroom, and gotten in the car. He hit reverse, and I screamed that I had to pee again. He hadn’t even gotten to back up. Not even an inch.
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And you can bet your ass that my King Henry will indeed look like Jonathan—and not his real portraits. Oh, yeah, baby.
8 comments:
Hi, Diane xx lovely blog! I so do enjoy peeking into the stories behind the stories, so to speak! And wow, your CA home sounds like my dream home! I'm totally an ocean girl :)
and if your King Henry looks like Jonathan....sign me up!
Hope you're enjoying those edits xxx it's my favorite part of the process.
Eric grew on me too! I'd only read a couple of the books out of sequence before the TV show and then I read all of them. I love the book where Eric loses his memory and though we have to wait for months before the series is out in the UK - I understand that's a feature!!
As for Henry - fab make up - I hadn't seen the early series and woo, they really made him look old!! But not ugly!!!!
It's nice to learn more about you, Diane. I'd love to wake up to the sound of the ocean. A sound machine will have to do for now.
Good luck with edits. Have fun with them. Congrats!
Yeah, I really miss the view. A lot.
It's funny what one can get used to...I'm .5 miles from the ocean, on Monterey Bay and the shaking? Yeah, but no big deal. Tsunamis? Well, I was here when Japan's rolled into Santa Cruz harbor and wrecked it...
But both prices I gladly pay to be .5 miles away from that view! ;-)
Welcome to Decadent!
I love The Tudors.
Thanks for stopping and hanging out today, Diane!
Heather
Decadent Publishing
I love true blood and tudors
We are alike in that aspect, then!
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