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What sports car are you?? Porsche 911

I’m a Porsche 911!

You have a classic style, but you’re up-to-date with the latest technology. You’re ambitious, competitive, and you love to win. Performance, precision, and prestige – you’re one of the elite,and you know it.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Are you a talent, a lifer or a mandarin? Talent

You’re a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You’re determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You’re not afraid of a fight, and you’re not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you’re already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you’re not willing to settle for an ordinary life.

I’m a Talent!

You’re a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You’re determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You’re not afraid of a fight, and you’re not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you’re already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you’re not willing to settle for an ordinary life.

Talent: 56%
Lifer: 31%
Mandarin: 41%

Take the Talent, Lifer, or Mandarin quiz.

What is your high-concept movie? Hitch (2005) meets The Blair Witch Project

If my life were a high-concept movie, it would be Hitch (2005) meets The Blair Witch Project (1999).

Take the What Is Your High-Concept Movie? quiz.

How Sexy Are You?
Your Result
Seductive Sexy
You’ve got all the right moves without going over the top. Intimacy is a fun and enjoyable experience for you, so you don’t need to force it, and you don’t worry about expressing yourself too openly. You are confident about yourself and your sexuality and there is nothing sexier than a girl who is comfortable with who she is.

Naughty or Nice?
Your Result
Nice
You are sugar and spice, so the list you’re on is “Nice”! Christmas for you is a time of giving and sharing – the important stuff. You spread holiday cheer by being grateful for the real gifts in your life. Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!

If you enjoy contemporary romances that – make you laugh out loud, tackle sensitive life issues with compassion and grace, and introduce you to passionate couples who make you feel . . . love really does conquer all — then join me in the celebration of LaConnie Taylor-Jones’ new release, IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN!

For a limited time today – 12 NOON – 4 PM CST —Hopeful Romantic readers are invited to visit LaConnie Taylor-Jones’ website – http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/blog/ – to learn more about this new release and use the promotional code (HOPEFUL) to enter a drawing to receive one of 5 — IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN t-shirts — and for a chance to receive a FREE Amazon Kindle to be given away Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 12 NOON PST/2 PM CST/ 3 PM EST via LaConnie’s official blog website at http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/blog/. So join the celebration of IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN today!

Ladies, are you partial to sexy men who play smooth jazz? Can you appreciate a man who knows how to wine and dine a woman, right?

If you answered yes to the questions above, then let me introduce you to a man who is not only sinfully sexy, but he’s a Grammy award-winning jazz musician and he loves women – Raphael Baptiste!

Yep, he’s the protagonist in IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN by LaConnie Taylor-Jones that releases March 4, 2010. He’s truly a man worth knowing. So-o-o-o, I invite you to connect with Raphael now through March 4, 2010!

You can follow him daily or at your leisure at – http://twitter.com/RaphaelBaptiste

Enjoy!!!

It was my sophomore year of high school. On the back row of my physics class sat a boy with a killer Afro, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and flashing the shyest smile I’d ever seen. No, he wasn’t the captain of the football team or the boy every girl would give her eye-tooth to be seen with. Yet, the man-child society oftentimes lumps into the category preserved for Black males who are fatherless and being raised by a single mother—‘most likely not to succeed’, made this sista slow her roll for a long, hard, look.

Over the next thirty-five years, this boy, grew into a man. Somehow, he managed to bulldoze his way into my heart to become not only my lover, but my best friend. Six days after celebrating our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on January 7, 2009, he quietly passed way after an almost year-long battle with colon cancer. Although he’s absent from me physically, his spirit will forever be anchored in my heart.

As a romance author, readers often tell me the only place a woman can meet a beautiful, strong Black man is between the cover of a romance novel. To my dying day, I’ll dispute this argument. Why? I was blessed to meet my spouse live and in living color! Was his appearance like that of a cover model for GQ magazine with a Bill Gates portfolio? Nope, he was far from it. He was an average brother with a twinge of gray at his temples. Thank God, he had the good sense not to listen to his middle school science teacher who told him Black men didn’t have the intelligence to become engineers. He was the one, however, who delivered the valedictorian address to his senior class, and subsequently received a full scholarship to one of the top engineering schools in the country, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in chemical engineering.

He didn’t drive a luxury vehicle or go head off to work all suited and booted in the latest Dolce and Gabbana collection. He was the father of our four children and the one who occasionally headed out the door sick, but somehow managed to work all day to earn an honest day’s pay in order to support his family. He was the man my children were and still are proud to call “Dad.” He was the one who spoiled me rotten, in spite of my shortcomings. He was the man who honored and respected me with his whole heart and demanded the same from others on my behalf. He was the man who cried with me and for me. He was the man who celebrated my joys and shared my pain. He was the man I entrusted with my darkest secrets and deepest fears, which he safely tucked them away inside his heart and carried to his grave.

What was special about that day? Everything! Little did I realize then, but that chance encounter on a hot, summer day in August 1974 changed my life, forever.

Until next time – stay well and be blessed,

LaConnie

So how did you meet the love of your life?  Leave your answer below and be entered to win an autographed book from LaConnie!

About the author

Award-winning author, LaConnie Taylor-Jones, a native Memphian, is a health educator consultant and holds advanced degrees in community public health and business administration. The mother of four and resides with her family in Northern California.

For over twenty-five years, Ms. Taylor-Jones has been an avid romance reader. In the summer of 2003 a challenge from her husband made her seize the opportunity to blend her enthusiasm for teaching health, social responsibility and social justice with her love for reading the genre. Her experience as a health educator sparked a multitude of storylines and her romance, which she defines as the spirit of adventure, played a pivotal part in her road to publication. In a little over four years, she’s authored three full-length novels. In 2008, Ms. Taylor-Jones was the recipient of the 2008 Romance Slam Jam Emma Award for Debut Author of the Year for When I’m With You.

Ms. Taylor-Jones is an active member of the Contra Costa Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the African American Community Health Advisory Committee, Black Women Organized for Political Action, and the San Francisco Area and Black Diamond chapters of Romance Writers of America.

Visit LaConnie online

Website: http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/

Blog: http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/blog/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/LaConnie-Taylor-Jones/1528266571

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/the_novels_of_ltj

About the book (January 2010 Release date)

Tinsel Town is about to learn a few lessons from a Southern doctor with the courage to win the heart of a man who swore no woman ever would

If it doesn’t have a scientific basis, Dr. Laney Olivia Houston doesn’t believe in it —and that includes love at first sight. But she meets Raphael Baptiste. One encounter is all it takes; and she realizes her life is changed forever.

Jazz musician, Raphael Baptiste is no stranger to women or their beds. When an illness strikes, his life is thrown into turmoil. But the quiet Southern belle sees beyond his past and bitterness. She sees a man who could love. . .