So, I wasn’t feeling too hot yesterday and decided to spend the day lolling about and reading books. I didn’t finish anything, but jumped around to a few different ones to enjoy favorite passages. Then I figured, why not share what I was reading with you? Maybe you’d like them, too!

First up? Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard. I love Jaine. I love Sam. They made me laugh, they made me want to smack them, and they had great chemistry. What more could I ask for?

Next, I went a little filthy with Robin Rotham’s BIG Temptation. Jillian’s repressed. Barett’s Mr. Domination Freak. These two are a big old powder keg–fun to watch explode.

Then it was the girl’s turn to be on top, in The Vampire Queen’s Servant by Joey Hill. This one, I hadn’t read before, so I was just diving in to the first few chapters. So far, verrrrry entertaining.

The last one was Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells. Unlike the others, this was women’s fiction along the lines of Practical Magic, with a little Steel Magnolias thrown in. Very poignant, but not overly sweet or melodramatic, which is good.

I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been online window shopping for classic cars and rockabilly clothes.

Don’t get me wrong, I could totally rock on with my socks on with some of the classic muscle car and rockabilly looks.

But instead of changing my whole image, I decided to content myself with buying a cute Murano glass ring. I love glass art. Really, really love it!

I feel good about being so restrained in my online shopping today. I’m just saying…it could have been much more drastic. Plus, I got one of the cousins a very cool baby seat thingie for the belly alien she’s about to hatch.

The funniest book trailers of all time? We have them here. Step right up, folks!

First up, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Book Trailer!

Then, not to be downplayed for awesomeness, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters!

If You Believe by Crystal Jordan

When it comes to her love life, the name of Aubrey Mathison’s coffee shop says it all: “Bean There, Done That”. There’s only one harmless man in her life right now—the homeless one parked outside the shop. Except the crazy things he says keep coming true.

She has to laugh at “You’ll meet your soul mate today”, though. Divorce taught her that men as gorgeous as sexy police chief Price Delacroix are not to be trusted. She’s totally up for a one-night stand, but more than that? No, thanks.

Price bears his own scars from the past, but he knows instantly that Aubrey is his. How to convince her he wants more than to be her personal jungle gym? Cut her off. That means no more mattress gymnastics—until she starts seeing things his way.

Aubrey is just as determined Price’s campaign to wear down her resistance is going to fail, no matter how wickedly determined he is. Until her resident prophet spouts a new prediction: her soul mate’s life is in danger…

Find out more here!

I grabbed four winners for my Win It Before You Can Buy It contest, two for the print book and two for the e-book. Thanks to all who entered, congrats to all the winners!

Under the Covers:

Cari Quinn
Danielle Yockman

If You Believe:

Chandra Ryan
Barbara Elness

So, today, I’m throwing a Win It Before You Can Buy It contest. Why? Because I have new books coming out. Two of them, in fact. One ebook from Samhain and one print anthology from Kensington. I have my author copies of both and thought, why not give some away?

If You Believe (eBook, Samhain Publishing)

When it comes to her love life, the name of Aubrey Mathison’s coffee shop says it all: “Bean There, Done That”. There’s only one harmless man in her life right now—the homeless one parked outside the shop. Except the crazy things he says keep coming true.

She has to laugh at “You’ll meet your soul mate today”, though. Divorce taught her that men as gorgeous as sexy police chief Price Delacroix are not to be trusted. She’s totally up for a one-night stand, but more than that? No, thanks.

Price bears his own scars from the past, but he knows instantly that Aubrey is his. How to convince her he wants more than to be her personal jungle gym? Cut her off. That means no more mattress gymnastics—until she starts seeing things his way.

Aubrey is just as determined Price’s campaign to wear down her resistance is going to fail, no matter how wickedly determined he is. Until her resident prophet spouts a new prediction: her soul mate’s life is in danger…

“Naughty or Nice” in Under the Covers (print anthology, Kensington Aphrodisia)

Dayna Sharp has the perfect job, the perfect man…the perfect life. So why is the prospect of marrying Mr. Wonderful so perfectly boring? It’s a question Dayna can’t shake when she brings her fiance home to meet her spectacularly un-boring family–and finds herself pursued by a bad-boy bearing gifts that could burn a hole in more than her Christmas stocking…

As always, I like to make it easy on you. Just comment on my post and tell me which one you’d like to win–or tell me you’re not picky and would take either to go in both pools. I’ll draw a few random winners from the comments and will announce winners Monday afternoon.

Yes! Today is the day! The day Supernatural season 5 premiers. The Brothers Winchester are back…and the Apocalypse has come! Lucifer has risen. And it’s the boys’ fault! Plus, they made an angel fall. A hot angel!

I’m not excited about this at all.

Neither is the Mad Madam M.

We haven’t been emailing back and forth about it all day at all. At. All. We’ve been very studiously working as the librarian and archivist we are, respectively. Uh huh. We are good little workerers.

To share the love (which starts at 9pm tonight on the CW…check your local listings for more details), here’s the awesome promo video. Weeeee!

I got a nod from my Kensington editor on my new book PRIMAL HEAT, which releases next November from the Aphrodisia line.

Yay!

You can pop over to the PRIMAL HEAT page I just created on my website to read the (totally unedited, so all mistakes are all mine and not the fault of any editor. Just sayin’) blurb and excerpt.

This book is my darkest yet. It’ll twist you all up and make you cry. Plus, dirty sex. Hey, I look out for you, don’t I?