By Vivian Arend
Every year hundreds of people contribute to help make this auction a success. From the fundraising site:
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Welcome to Brenda Novak’s Annual Online Auction for Diabetes Research. So far, we have raised over $1.3 million (cumulatively) — and hope to break $2 million in the near future. In order to make that happen, we are doing everything possible to set a new record this year.
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The auction is NOW open and will run through May 31st. Don’t miss the fun — this is such an easy way for us to join together to make a difference!
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There are SO many wonderful things to bid on, I hope you’ll take the time to go and find something you could use/enjoy while supporting this incredible event.
If you do live in the South Cal area, or you’ll be attending RWA in Anaheim in July, you can also bid on a special item donated by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane and myself. We’re going to take the top bidder and their friend out for lunch! I’m pretty sure there will be time to squeeze us for information regarding what’s up next in our series. Secrets? What secrets? 
The spot to head directly to that item is here.
By the way, I am giddy about this luncheon myself! Lauren is a good friend, but she’s also one of my idols, so WHEEEE for me getting to have lunch with her! 
By Vivian Arend
I vanished from the blog for the past week. Stopped by FB and twitter, but I’ve been trying to use my words to make progress on the first book in the Adrenaline series. HIGH RISK has rocks and trees and…wait, no sorry. That’s my burnt out brain flipping into Barenaked Ladies songs. (shall post on FB ow, because I must!)
Marcus and Becki are very hot together, but since it’s a big long story, I just hit the 1/3 mark and there’s a lot of sex, excitement, angst and adventure still to come. Fun, right?
After this book I will be finishing the 6th wolfie, which feels as if I’m having dessert the entire time I write it. I hope you guys continue to like the wolfies because they really are like candy for my brain.
Anyway, I’m in Banff, Alberta, where High Risk is set. I posted a bunch of pictures on twitter if you peek at the hashtag #VivVisitsBanff but for those non-tweeters out there, enjoy a picture!
By Vivian Arend
You know how sometimes things just happen? Well, this thing started a while back. I meet the lovely (and talented–she’s a NYTimes and USA Today bestselling author!) Thea Harrison last year at the national Romance Writers conference in New York. That was Thing #1.
Since then, I’ve got to know her a little better. So when Thing #2 happened–both of us ending up with releases at Samhain Publishing in early June, it was fated…
…that Thing #3 would occur. Since we both love to travel, we’ve decided to have a BIG ADVENTURE together. We’ll be traveling on a blog tour, sharing snippets from our stories and our other travels. Thea’s June 5 release is DEVIL’S GATE, book 3.5 in the Elder Races world. And on June 12 my novella returns us to the Granite Lake Wolves with WOLF LINE.
I hope you will join us starting May 30th. Just stop by here at my blog, or at Thea’s, and we’ll have the details on the next place to go.
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OH! For fun? If you want to post our cool banner at your website, or link via Facebook, or however you want to share, you definitely can! And if you come back here (to my main blog, please) and tell me you did? I’ll draw a name from all the commenters for a signed print copy of winner’s choice: Under the Northern Lights or Under the Midnight Sun. I’ll wait until just before the tour starts to pull a winner for this.
(And I do mean however you share…I know not everyone has a blog or Facebook. If you tell someone about Thea’s awesome book and my little wolfies–that counts, okay?)
By Vivian Arend
Silver Mine
Takhini Wolves, Book 2
If a tree falls in the forest, duck… (more…)
