L. M. GONZALEZ, Writer

The flower for June is the rose, so it seems only fitting that The Wild Rose Press hosts a Roses Blog. You can have any color of rose you want nowadays - use floral paint and you can get green roses for St. Patrick's Day, blue roses for the blue in your 4th of July bouquet and orange for Halloween or Thanksgiving. The natural color of roses are red, pink, white, yellow and the newest color, a pink rose that fades to white, called a Latin Lady, as my friend, the rose connoisseur, tells me it is called.

New things are hard to accept. Who wants blue roses? Really! However, sometimes, change is good. Sometimes. Change is essential. Sometimes, something happens in your life and you just CANNOT remain the SAME. So, you have to CHANGE. Somehow. Because... how... can... you... remain... the same...?

This past weekend I went to West Texas to visit my dad and my sister, who lives with him and takes care of him. I bought a pair of shades. Now, I've never been one to call attention to myself, but this past Saturday, I had to buy shades because I'd forgotten mine at home. I bought this pair.

Yes, they're blue, like the blue roses. Now, I saw some conservative-looking shades in browns and blacks, but somehow? the blue called to me. Actually, there were some pink shades that were shouting out to me a little bit louder, but I ignored them. What would my son have said? As it was, he called my spanking new blue shades, "those preposterous shades you're wearing". What does he know?

On my home page, you can see me in a straw hat, well here's me in my newest straw hat - and my BLUE shades.

So, what am I trying to say with all this "preposterousness"? Sometimes, you have to change. You have to change even what you write. You may like to write about heroines who have lived a little, have experienced life, but all of a sudden, you feel you'd like to try to write a historical - during the Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's time. Why not? Well, yes, you have to do the research, but what writer doesn't like to "do the research"? Or, you may want to write a time travel, set in 1955.

I did just that in my upcoming short story, A LOVE FOR ETERNITY. At the beginning my heroine is 70 years old. She travels back to 1955 to change her destiny where she is 18 again.

Blurb:

At eighteen, Christina Ramos meets the love of her life, yet she allows her mother to talk her into marrying someone else. Widowed fifty years later, Christina finds herself transported back to 1955 to that magical day she first meets Joe Morado.

Second chances don't happen very often, and this time she vows to stay with the man of her dreams forever. No matter what.

Because a love that transcends time is A Love for Eternity

What has caused you to make changes in your writing and/ or reading?

Whoever makes a comment their name will be put in a drawing and the winner will win a pdf copy of my first book, TOO LATE FOR ROMANCE? which features a heroine who has lived a little yet has never managed to grow anything and who is content with her life the way it is until she meets Matt Cerda in her wilting rose garden.

Please go visit these authors and check their blogs, smell the roses and possibly win a prize tomorrow, June 30:

Amber Leigh Williams

http://www.amberleighwilliams.blogspot.com/

http://authorsstudio.blogspot.com

Betty Hanawa

http://www.bettyhanawa.blogspot.com/

Christine Clemetson

http://christineclemetson.blogspot.com

http://findagreatromance.blogspot.com

Teri Wilson

http://freewebs.com/teriwilson/apps/blog/

Rebecca Savage

http://grgiall.blogspot.com

Hywela Lyn

http://hywelalyn.blogspot.com

Jenn Francesca

http://jennfrancesca.blogspot.com

Joyce Moore

http://joycemoore.blogspot.com

Liana Laverentz

http://lianalaverentz.blogspot.com

Linda Hope Lee

http://LindaHopeLee.blogspot.com

Laurie J. Edwards

http://lje1.wordpress.com

Dawn Wilson

http://noveltrails.blogspot.com

Susan Vaughan

http://plotsandthoughts.blogspot.com

Tanya Hanson

http://tanyahanson.blogspot.com

Tina Gayle

http://tinagayle.blogspot.com

Laura Hogg

http://traveltheages.blogspot.com

Bess McBride

http://willtravelforromance.blogspot.com