Hey everyone! An apt title for an author that juggles a gazillion different roles, lol. For a confirmed Blog-Hogger, I’m getting serious withdrawal symptoms following a long blog absence, but I’m making up for it by joining The Cupid Diaries: Moments in Time Blog Carnival put together by CRR. I’m also being interviewed today by Sarah Simas at The Love Struck Novice so I’d love for you to visit me there as well (link)

So just what is The Cupid Diaries: Moments in Time? It’s our fabulous CRR anthology, with contributions from some of our authors spanning a variety of romance genres – something for every taste. I’ve contributed two stories, both very different, and in looking back to the writing of them I realised just how significant Moments in Time really are. Especially the little ones…

So often we tend to want to measure our lives with large signposts – those life-changing events that stand out bold and dramatic in our personal landscapes. Truth is, if we really think about it, they are few and far between. It’s the small, ordinary events that join together to measure our life’s journey.

I have many of those, personal treasures that I’ve signposted along the way and which mark the moment of a special memory. I’m a busy girl most of the time, and it’s easy to let the frenetic pace take over. Sadly, this leaves little more than a long unmarked stretch of road. We may accomplish much, achieve our goals, even be enormously successful (and rich, and famous, and…) but if we haven’t pinpointed those little highlights along the way – a special gift, a thoughtful friend, a day with a loved-one – they simply get lost in the blur of traveling at speed. To remember them we need to mark them. To mark them, we need to take time to find them.

Writing my two stories for The Cupid Diaries: Moments in Time was just such a landmark. I almost didn’t. Was too busy, had too much to do, needed to focus on other “priorities”… I’m glad I did. It was a moment of self-indulgence, in which I got to dig deep, focus on what I love doing, and get to know a couple more characters…

The Uninvited tells of two people driven apart by misunderstanding and brought together unexpectedly. Sometimes, when least expected, love
will invite itself in and make itself at home.

Beyond the Blue is a longer story of abiding love, the kind that hangs on even when it seems that hope is gone…

I loved writing them. I enjoyed going back and reading them. They came from the heart, told of things I didn’t know were there, and left a mark on the winding road of my life.

CRR will be drawing 10 winners from those commenting on the different blogs over the weekend. For details of who is where, visit the CRR Blog at: http://www.classicromancerevival.com/blog/?p=1782

Have fun!
Jude

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