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C.M. Villani: Inside the Heart of a Storyteller

My blog chronicles the misadventures of the wild, high-living, munchkin wrangling, hubby pleasing, butt kicker that is me - CMV. :) Just kidding (well sort of). Honestly, I started this blog at the beginning of last year to post about the highs and lows that come with the desire to become a published author. And boy are there many.

On occastion, I'm also known to post up some snippets of advice, total all out rants, and a good song here and there. Hope you guys poke around a little bit to check out what I'm all about.

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~Something Old~

For my blogging advice, I wanted to repost the links I put up at the beginning of the week to the how-to tutorials for creating Blog Badges/Buttons and the scroll box for the embed codes below it. It really isn't all that hard and it makes a great way to promote your blog!

Check it out

~Something New~

For those of you who have been here for a while, you'll know that I recently came to the decision that I needed to rewrite the first few chapters of my current work in progress

- THE TOUCH OF DEATH -

So as something big for the SheWrites blog hop I wanted to share my recently finished first chapter. Enjoy!

** Chapter One **

~Something Borrowed~

As I said above I - on occasion (okay three times last week but who's counting) - post up great new songs that I find.

Here is a great new one

~Something Blue~

Well besides the majority of my blog... :)

I created a series of Blog Badges/Buttons for Snag My Badge!

If you want to/like to, you can grab one to post up on your site!

Check them out on the right hand side of the page.

Thanks in advance.

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Shewrites Blog Hop

So I'm going to participate in Meg Waite Clayton's Blog Hop over at Shewrites which starts Thursday morning and runs through Sunday (I believe). I know a lot of you also belong to Shewrites, and I thought it might be something fun to create site badges for people to collect as they go through the blogs. Similar to the one from Shewrites I have in the right hand column of this blog.



If people want they can even post up the badges on their own blog to help cross promote each other's work.

What do you think?