Final The Beach House Pictures

Think I have like 13 entries for The Beach House, so get in there today if you haven't already.

First, the inspiration

And now the pictures

You'll know why I included the store and pecan rolls when you read the story.
And finally, a typical seaside restaurant in Morro Bay (like where they go in the story)

Wednes Musings

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

Monday Updates

Don't forget to enter The Beach House contest before the end of September 30th. I will announce the winner on Friday October 01.

Just working on The Impersonator. It's Africa Hot here right now. Supposed to be 108 where I work on Monday. Yeah. Sucks.

Hope everyone has a great week.

Now For The Dark-Haired Hunks

Manfred's Curse Cover

I absolutely heart this cover. It's purrfect. LOL

New Contest: The Beach House

I'm going to start the contest for The Beach House today.
So, without further ado, if you want to win a copy of The Beach House when it is released October 03, 2010, please leave a comment on the blog. Contest runs from Friday, September 24th to Thursday, September 30. Winner chosen at random on October 01.

Here is the official blurb (If you want to read the official excerpt, please vist Amber Quill Press, it's up there):

Beautiful model and actor Mason Adams rents a beach house for the summer in a seaside town to get away from his fast-paced, partying lifestyle in Los Angeles. After Mason nearly died from a drug overdose and served time in rehab, his agent is convinced the quiet life is the perfect way to get Mason’s life and career back on track.


Mason, however, isn’t sure the sedate life is for him—until he meets his neighbor, crime fiction author John Harding. Forced to retire from the fire department after a career-ending injury, John has found a new life in a modest beach house as a best-selling novelist. Life is good, but quiet and not exactly exciting, until Mason comes to stay next door for the summer.


Unable to resist the allure they feel for each other, Mason and John begin a torrid affair. But once the summer comes to an end, Mason knows he’ll have to face a monumental decision—choosing between exciting new career opportunities and his new life with the man who has stolen his heart.

The Beach House Pictures

You will see in these first two pictures the campground that John will mention to Mason in the book. I've stayed there myself when I was much much younger.                                                                            

There's one week left of pictures. I took this one because it reminded me of the kind of deck the guys  have in the story. Also, for those of you who read At Long Last, Morro Bay is where Scotty wanted to live and where he visited with Preston.  

Wednesday Musings

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman


Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym


If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne


Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson


Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

I Got Nothing

Nothing to report.

Still waiting for the cover for Manfred's Curse and The Naughty Ones (I think Naughty's cover will be a generic Christmas cover and will probably be a while before I see it).

I did get the first chapter of The Impersonator done so I made progress there. But really, not too much going on.

With The Beach House coming up in October, Manfred and Naughty in November and December, those will be the three books closing out 2010 for me. Everything else I am working on will be seen in 2011.

So, that's a pretty good year for me really at ten total releases. Can't complain about that. What I can complain about is how many stories I still have coming up to be written! Oy! LOL.

PS. The black kitty looks like Manfred in the story.

Eye Candy Sunday (Blonds Have More Fun)

The Beach House Picture

As I indicated last week I am posting pictures from Morro Bay where The Beach House takes place.

Wednesday Musings

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
- Lou Holtz

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
- Louisa May Alcott

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
- Sophia Loren

Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
- Edna Saint Vincent Millay

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
- General Sir John Monash

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
- Michael Evans

And the Work in Progress is...

Though it is true I don't always post on Tuesdays these days I decided to post today. As mentioned before I was working on Accidentally His when I decided to sneak in my short story, Manfred's Curse. And while I will get back to Accidentally His in the near future I've decided that I should really start The Impersonator , since I actually have a deadline for that story and it also happens to be the story calling to me at the moment. Hopefully I can sneak in pages on Accidentally His while working on it.

The Impersonator is part of a series Amber Quill will be publishing next year. And when I say series I don't mean the books are related to each other, they just share a theme, in this case a Masquerade Ball. Many of the Amber Allure authors will have stories out in 2011 with this theme, including obviously myself.

Here is the blurb I have come up with for the story but of course it is subject to change:

 The Impersonator (Masquerade)


Benjamin Pomeroy thinks his older brother's request for him to take his place at a Masquerade Ball given by their new boss at the Las Vegas Hotel they both work at is harmless enough. After all, he'll be wearing a mask the entire time and the only part of him that will be visible is his eyes, eyes just like his brother's. Benjamin hasn't met the new boss yet. All he knows is the boss is from New Orleans originally and is very fond of Mardi Gras, thus the Masquerade Ball to introduce himself to the more important employees of the hotel. Something Benjamin is not. His job is to impersonate Elvis at the front entrance of the casino. But during the ball, he'll be impersonating his straight brother while trying to ignore his attraction to their extremely attractive and openly gay boss, Maxwell Orton.

So that's what my current work in progress is, should you wonder what I'm working on now.

Blog Issues Update

Okay looks like the blog has been fixed thanks to Ava! Yay!

Monday News

I have news!

Last week, Ava March asked me what I was working on. Well, specifically she asked me if I was working on Accidentally His like I said I would be, but I had to admit to her that I was working on something else. I tried to be mysterius about it but Ava is persistant so I admited I had an idea for a short story and had decided to go with it.

As it happened, so did Ava, so she challeneged me, us really, I guess, to finish the story by Sunday night. This little story was remarkably easy to write, really, and the words just went to the pages. Lo and behold I finished Friday! Go me!

So, my news is, I have written a new short story, Manfred's Curse , and it's got a release date of November 07, 2010, from Amber Allure.

Manfred's Curse is my first shapeshifter story, but Manfred isn't a wolf, but rather a housecat. Anyway, so look for that little short story in November.

Eye Candy Sunday

Today's theme is...well you can guess!

The Beach House and Morro Bay

In under a month The Beach House will be released. I'm personally excited about this release (I love all my releases of course) because Mason is a personal favorite character of mine. I won't say he's my favorite but he's among them.

There's a couple reasons for that. Some of you may remember a few months ago when I was promised an interview by a certain gay male model. Said model actually was the one who approached me about it. It never happened...okay you know the saying about shit happening. I moved on.

But during that time my dear Shayne and I talked about this person and how Shayne thought I should write a story around a similar character and make the story end the way I would like it to...happily of course. And so with my beautiful Shayne's suggestion I wrote Mason who is a male model who has had some hard things happen in his life.

Anyway...he ends up in my favorite place, Morro Bay, where he meets John.

On a recent trip to Morro Bay, I took some pictures of places that appear in The Beach House and just the general town so when you read the story you can see it. So, over the next few Thursdays, I'm going to post the pictures I took there for your entertainment (at least I hope so).

Wednesday Musings

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Bill Watterson

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy

Monday Updates

I have great news!

The Naughty Ones will be published by Silver Publishing as part of their 25 Days of Christmas to be be released, obviously in December. It is slated to release December 12, 2010.

I'm pleased to be publishing this story with them. As I get anymore news on it, I'll post.

Twice in a Lifetime Is Now Available

Twice if a Lifetime is now available.

Sunday Eye Candy