February 7th, 2010
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Your True Love’s Name Is Ryan I. |
 Now you just have to find this person! |
February 5th, 2010
So, in my effort to remain faithful to my vow of no writing for a month, I’m working my way through many seasons of many shows that I own on DVD. I may even resort to ordering some through Netflix.
A few selections from my current list…
- Sex and the City: This is an old favorite. It actually helped inspire the attitude for my very first heroine. Of course, I rewrote her when I realized I couldn’t pull off a fashionista–being a non-fashionable girl myself. Still, there was some really great stuff in those seasons.
- Firefly: Oh, how I love this show. Space Western. Dude. Original, beautiful, the best ensemble cast ever put together on any show I’ve ever watched. This was the show that cemented my love of Nathan Fillion.
- Alias: Smart, kick ass chick who saves the world. Need I say more?
- Supernatural: Pretty men. The apocalypse. Pretty men. Paranormal beasties. Pretty men.
- Taken: The show that made me love Dakota Fanning when she was a wee teensy kidlet. Also, and old fave an old flame hooked me into. Nostalgia gets ya every time.
- Bourne Trilogy: Okay, technically not a show on DVD, but there are three of them, so it’s kinda long. Plus, Matt Damon.
- Castle: A show I started watching because of my aforementioned love of Nathan Fillion. Totally different show than Firefly, but I still love it. And him. He’s funny and talented. Loves.
February 4th, 2010
I survived the first day of instruction, and it went really well. That’s always a nice kick off to the semester, so I was pretty happy about it. Right now, I have way too much to do at work, so the break from writing is a total blesing because I don’t have to feel guilty about not making word count every day.
Maybe I should go on writer’s strike every February and September, since those are the worst teaching months for me. Hm. Much consider for future guilt-saving.
February 3rd, 2010
So, I’m taking the whole month of February off of writing. I need a little vacation. I’ve ordered my friends to administer severe spankings if they catch me writing this month (though how they’d know if I was lying, I’m not sure, but that’s beside the point).
However, I’m plotting out some new stories, so the writing process hasn’t come to a grinding halt. Here’s my current to-do list.
Plan out:
- 2 new contemporary short stories
- 2 new paranormal/futuristic short stories
- 2 new single author anthologies
- 1 new paranormal novel
- 1 new paranormal proposal
Librarianista stuff:
- Prep lectures and teach 15-20 classes (Feb and Sept are the busiest library months for teaching. Very bad idea to have any fiction writing due then.)
- Work on outliney thing they require for the first year of your tenure process.
- Start research for 2 scholarly articles on library stuff (that would bore anyone who wasn’t a librarian to utter tears).
February 2nd, 2010
I got my acceptance for my new novella, Wasteland: The Wanderer, from my awesome editor at Samhain Publishing. Yay! It’s officially official!
P.S. I can’t believe it’s February already. Where’s the last month gone??
January 31st, 2010
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Your Name Comes from Saturn |
 You are a hard worker, and you take your responsibilities seriously. Some people may find you to be cold, but your sense of humor is hard to pick up on at first. You have always been an old soul, and you tend to be the teacher in most relationships. |
January 28th, 2010
Dare to Surrender by Lilli Feisty
HE MEETS HIS MATCH.
SHE MEETS HER MASTER.
Art gallery curator Joy Montgomery has never liked her body’s generous curves. And she’s always been too shy to explore her wild side. But tonight, everything is going to change…Desperate to save her job, Joy approaches bad-boy artist Ash Hunter and asks him to exhibit his erotic work at her gallery. Ash agrees on one condition: Joy must pose as his model. But business soon turns to pleasure, as Joy experiences a passion beyond her wildest imaginings and Ash finds more than just inspiration in his voluptuous new muse.
Buy it: Amazon ♦ Barnes & Noble ♦ Borders
January 27th, 2010
I mean this is the most sincere possible way. I needed some sunshine today like you won’t believe. It’s been a craptastic couple of days for a plethora of reasons that I won’t bother going in to, and we’ve had rain dumping down on us for weeks (which I am so glad is not snow, but still, there’s been no sun), and then today, when I needed it the very most, we got sunshine. It was only for a few minutes, but I happened to be standing outside for it and got a face full of happy light. I am lame, but I was really happy about it. Sometimes you just need a little ray of sun, ya know?
January 26th, 2010
Wicked Sexy by R.G. Alexander
Something magic this way comes…
Wicked ³, Book 1
Callie has always known the Abbotts were different. Witches, though they call themselves “Magians”. They are her second family. Harrison Abbott has been her best friend since they were children. Tucker Abbott, her life-long crush. And their brother, Tyghe? A magical pain in her backside.
When the Abbotts need her human perspective to solve a mystery, she doesn’t hesitate. Especially since it means getting everything she ever wanted. A chance to be one of them, to have magic, even if it’s only temporary.
Someone is attacking young women at Triune, a ritual that helps Magians find their perfect threesome—the match that will complete their magic and their hearts. Callie expected to be dazzled by her first glimpse into the Magian world, but the bone-melting desire between her and the Abbott brothers isn’t part of the plan.
Nor is the decades-old secret that makes her the target of a killer…
Warning: Explicit sex, magical dresses, mind-reading rooms and mind-boggling threesomes.
Buy it here!
January 25th, 2010
So, over Christmas, the Mad Madam M said she wanted a desktop image of Treasured, which is her favorite cover of mine, and a book she help me come up with the concept for.
I emailed the super fabulous cover artist, Anne Cain, who I love like a fat kid loves cake, and said I’d like to commission her to make this present for M. Then I thought, why should just M and I enjoy the awesomeness of Anne’s work? So, she made me a couple of different sizes, and I’ve added these to my Extras page.
Here they are! Downloadable desktop images for Treasured. I want to hug them and squeeze them, pet them and call them George. Soooo preeeeetty!
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