Archive for writing
New Cover and various news
First of all, I got the final cover for my January release. My story, Where the Devil Dances, is part of the year long Hearts Afire series featuring firemen (or women…which ever one the author picks…lol) Bonnie and I are kicking off the series with two hot m/m romances for you. Check it out here. While you’re there, browse through all the coming soon books and see the Hearts Afire books coming out in the next several months as well.Second of all, I know some of you have noticed the newest Coming Soon cover posted on the sidebar of my blog. Yes, Allergies will be published by Amber Allure, the GLBT imprint from Amber Quill Press. It’ll be coming out in the beginning of April in ebook form(tentatively…lol…most dates I give you will be tentative dates from all my publishers.) with the print version releasing a couple of weeks later. (again tentatively) Amber Allure is where I’ll be sending Nick of Time when I finish it. 🙂
Thirdly, (is that a word..lol) I wanted to thank everyone who bought Home of his Own this year. It is in the Top 8 Best Sellers at Liquid Silver Books and it’s all because of you. So thanks bunches. 🙂 If you want to check out the other best sellers, click here or here. Tina at LSB was gracious enough to post all this information for readers and authors.
Fourth, I want to thank everyone who has stopped by my blog throughout the year. It doesn’t matter whether you leave a comment or not. Or even if you email me personally to tell me what you think about what I’ve posted every day. I’m thrilled that you make my blog a daily stop for you. I’m hoping you’ll continue to do so in 2009. I have a bunch of great books coming out next year and this is the spot to catch the covers and excerpts and eye candy. 🙂
Last, I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve. May 2009 be the best year of your life so far and may you read a ton of awesome books.
It’s a snow day…
The snow is coming down fast and furious this morning…and it’s only going to get worse until about noon. So I’m working from home today. I thought I’d post this really quick and then I’m going back to bed to snuggle under my blankets until a more reasonable time of day. 🙂
I hope you all are safe and sound, especially those are getting hit by snow and ice storms today…and all through the weekend. 🙂
Oopss..I forgot to let you all know that Samhain is holding a survey…click here…..they want to know what your favorite Samhain book and cover of 2008 was and also, what book and cover ever published by Samhain is your favorite.
So if you bought books at Samhain, please vote and it doesn’t even have to be mine. I’ll never know…lol.
Also, I would like to know how you would all feel about something. I would like to submit Nick of Time and get it contracted for release next year (hopefully..depending on the publisher’s schedule), but if I did that, I would feel compelled to stop posting installments here at my blog. Just wouldn’t feel right. It’s different when it’s something that’s already finished, imo.
Now I would give you a different story to read and start it as soon as I made the decision to submit Nick before it’s finished on the blog. So there wouldn’t be a delay between stories.
How would you feel about that? You would get Nick of Time eventually (and with options of print or ebook format…maybe), but there would be a delay to find out what happens with the guys and the book until the book was released by the publisher.
Please tell me how you would feel about that. Your opinions do matter to me. 🙂
Happy Wednesday
Don’t have much to say today…lol. The writing is coming along fairly well for both stories. I’m hoping by the end of the month that they’ll be very close to being finished. Oh I might have good news concerning a different story soon. 😉 Don’t want to say anything too soon, might jinx it.
Managed to make it to work over the snowy roads and it looks like we’ll get more by Friday. Ugh! I really don’t like snow.
Enjoy the eye candy. I picked him because of his beautiful eyes. There was just something mysterious and in a way, brooding about them.
Have a great Wednesday. Those of you in the snowy parts of the country stay warm and safe. Those of you without snow…just stay safe. 🙂
Happy Friday
Hello everyone, I thought today I’d post the pictures I’m using as inspiration for Max and Derek in His Heart’s Home. 🙂Here is Derek St. Martin…or what he looks like in my mind:
and here is Max Furlo:
Pretty nice, huh? lol
Writing is going well on His Heart’s Home. I’m almost halfway done with it…which makes me happy. 🙂
Hope you all have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.
Happy Friday
Well, Friday is here and it’s been a good week. Bound by Love came out and debuted at #2 on Samhain’s Top Ten Bestseller list. Woo-hoo! And now it’s at #1. Thank you to everyone who has bought it. I really do appreciate it. Of course, a few of the other books released this week are sneaking up the list as well, so my spot is in jeopardy…lol.
I finished final line edits on High Line, so hopefully that’s done and I should be hearing about final line edits on Where the Devil Dances soon. I have 2500 left in Ghost and that can be sent to my editor. Then it’s on to His Heart’s Home. Once I finish that one, it’ll be a toss of the dice to figure out which story I’ll work on next. I have a list, but sometimes things get rearranged on it to suit my muse. Sam is a very flighty muse and he tends to flit from character to character and I have to work hard to keep him on track. 🙂
Hope everyone has a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.
Black Friday…
Doesn’t really mean anything to me. I don’t leave the house until a normal hour on the day after Thanksgiving, if I leave at all…lol. But for all you crazy shoppers out there who get up at insane hours for the great deals. I hope you got some. 🙂
Today, I plan on doing as much writing as I can before tonight when we’ll be having some friends over for movies, dinner and maybe a little Rock Band. 🙂
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. If you don’t celebrate the holiday, I hope you had a marvelous day as well.
Happy Hunk Day
Happy Hump (or Hunk) Day, everyone.
If you traveling today or tomorrow for that matter, have a safe trip and enjoy the holiday. Eat lots of food…lol. but don’t forget to be thankful for what you have as well. 🙂
I plan on doing a bunch of writing this weekend…since I have a four day weekend coming up. Need to finish my St. Patrick’s story and the next Home story because I have four guys in my head, jumping up and down, begging for their stories to be told. I had to promise that they would be next if they’d just let me finish these two…lol. They weren’t happy, but I managed to placate them enough that they’ve back off a little. (And doesn’t that make me sound crazy…lol)
Hope you all have a great Wednesday.
Oh and there will be an installment of Nick of Time posted tomorrow. 🙂
You Love My Blog and a New Cover
I received this award from three people. All of whom are wonderful and I’m honored that they all love my blog so much, they gave me an award for it. 🙂 Sloane Taylor, Jambrea Jo Jones and Vivian Arend are awesome writers in their own right. Sloane has several books out already. Jambrea’s first (but definitely not last) book will be out Dec. 9th and Vivian’s debut book comes out in March (maybe…I’ll get back with the definite release date soon…lol)
I know I’m supposed to do at least seven blogs that I would award this to, but at the moment, my brain is completely fried and I’m not coming up with anything, even though there are ones I check often. Sorry, maybe if I can think of some later on, I’ll list them..lol.
Second item of interest is I’ve got a cover for High Line. And it’s beautiful. 🙂 Anne Cain did another marvelous job on it. I think she really got Garrett and CJ down. Check it out.
Hope you all have a great weekend. I’ll be writing my fingers to the bone to get some stories done. 🙂
.jpg)
A New Coming Soon
I had to give you all some eye candy for the day since I’m not doing a poem or anything today. Didn’t have time to write one over the weekend. 🙂 Finished up the second round of edits on High Line and worked on two blurbs for two Loose-Id books I have coming out next year. One you know about…Dreaming of Dragons. The other one is the next announcement I have…lol.
So I’ll be finishing it up in the next couple of weeks along with His Heart’s Home. I also got the first scenes or so of my third Sports book, Defensive Line. (That title came to me last night and I couldn’t believe how fitting it was for the story.) DL is going to be about an injured football star and Jess, the waiter you heard about in Out of Bounds and will get another glimpse of in High Line. Turst me, there’s a lot going on in this story, but I’m hoping it’ll work out in the end. 🙂
I have a couple other stories I’ll be working on as well, but once Ghost is finished, I’ll focus all of my attention on HHH to get that one done by the end of the year. 🙂
I hope you all have a great Monday. It’s cold here and there’s snow on the ground. Yuck!
What’s Up?
I’m working on my second set of edits for High Line. I’m hoping to get those finished tonight or at least most of them done before I stop to watch Life. 🙂 I love that show. I don’t watch a lot of regular television, but there are three shows I like to watch plus Dexter on Showtime. I try to dvr The Mentalist, Life and Eleventh Hour. I’m also making myself a note to tape Fringe and check that out.
Hope you all have a great day. 😀
