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- Hometown:
- San Antonio, Texas
- About Me:
- IM me on Yahoo Messenger, rosec6984. I love to chat! I am 42, married 23 years to my high school sweetheart, am mom to two wonderful teens. I have always loved to write. I am currently working on two books, one nonfiction, working title: Veiled Hearts, and one fiction book tentatively titled The Murder of Saint Charbel.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Website:
- http://www.rosecontreras.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Ann Rule, Daphne DuMaurier, Laurel Lee, Agatha Christie, Amanda Stevens, Faye Kellerman, William X. Kienzleskip, Vincent Bugliosi, Diane Mott Davidson, Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell, MC Beaton, Iris Johansen
A new obsession: E-Books! Right now I'm reading Amanda Stevens' The Dollmaker (www.amandastevens.com/index.php), and Patricia Harrington's short mystery Antiguan Memories (www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GH3K7C/ref=yml_dp)
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Discovery Times Channel, Cold Case Files on A&E, American Justice, City Confidential, FBI Files, Law & Order: Criminal Intent/SVU, Dominick Dunne, Dr. G Medical Examiner, The First 48
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest." -- W.H. Auden
Rose Contreras's Blog
When a picture changes
I'm trying to change this picture of myself to something not at all myself. I'm having trouble with this. I used the "change my profile photo" feature and uploaded the correct photo, but this fuzzy picture of me is still there. Oh well.
Still working on my book. It's still a skeleton, but the skeleton becomes more defined every day. That's encouraging. Imagine a pregnant woman having to create the child within her cell by cell, bone by bone, limb by limb, feature by feature, all on her… Continue
Still working on my book. It's still a skeleton, but the skeleton becomes more defined every day. That's encouraging. Imagine a pregnant woman having to create the child within her cell by cell, bone by bone, limb by limb, feature by feature, all on her… Continue
Posted on July 26th, 2007 at 2:40am —
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Saint Charbel - some unexpected changes
I did some work on Saint Charbel yesterday, and I'm realizing that
this is turning into something entirely different from how it started.
It's one of those very familiar situations where my book is writing
itself and I'm just trying to keep up. That's when I know I'm on a
roll. I am resenting the usual demands on my time right now, because
Saint Charbel is swirling around in my head. The next thing is that
the title will definitely NOT BE The Murder of Saint Charbel, which is
too bad because I r… Continue
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Thanks for the invite! Word of warning: all those TV non-fic shows like Cold Case Files, AJ, FBI files, etc.? They're addicting. I know this first hand. :-)