Monday Updates

Managed to get another chapter done on Twice in a Lifetime this past weekend. I think I have one chapter to go, maybe two. I don't think I'll be done by the 15th but hopefully by this weekend. Then I can get it and the forms off to AQ. Then, I'll move on to the next project.

You know what they say about never saying never, but anyway....

Things I Will Never Do:

Write in first person

Write another ménage (see backlist, did one), whether m/m/f or m/m/m

Write a brutal rape or physical attack (this does not include the aftermath of any such events)

Add a third to an established couple (yes this basically falls into the no ménage category but I wanted it said).

Write a sequel where one of the heroes of an established couple cheats. No one-night stands, no two-month affairs.

Write another cheater. I loved Brad. Really. But it was hard to make a cheater into someone sympathetic. I don’t think I’d be capable of doing it again. I love angst but not that kind. No.

Write another het romance. Um, sorry, really not interested.

Have a great week.

Monday Monday

This promises to be a short week at the evil day job as I am off Thursday and Friday. Looking forward to it greatly.

I'm making some changes again to the blog. Sunday will remain for eye candy but I think I'll be dropping excerpt day. I'll leave it up to whim if I post anything on Saturdays. Wednesday Musings will be a day I will be posting poetry or quotes that move me at that particular time.

Mondays and Thursdays will be for updating my progress on current works in progress.

Other days...whatever I feel like if anything.

Update on the Ashtyn Long interview. He's pretty much disappeared so I am guessing there will never be an interview posted. I am disappointed since he was the one who approached me, but since I can't force him to answer questions, well...Sorry. I'm rather embarrassed by the whole thing at this point.

Anyhow, I didn't get as much done on Twice in a Lifetime this weekend as I hoped. I goofed off A LOT. Bad Shawn.

Memorial Day

We Honor Their Sacrifice

Yes, Another Monday

I've already heard from a few who enjoyed reading Only His Heart so thanks for that.

I only have about one or so chapters left on The Beach House. So I should meet my goal of having it done by May 31, 2010.

That's about it for me. I hope this week goes reasonably fast as it's a three-day weekend coming up here. I know many of my pals have plans. Shayne and Jack are going away for the weekend (plus extra). Ava is going to visit family. Me...I am staying home.

Yep...It Is Monday Somewhere

So the weekend was a mixed bag for me.

I did manage to finish another chapter of The Beach House. That’s good. It took me way too long to write it though. Hopefully the rest will go better or I won’t meet my deadline of Memorial Day (MY deadline, not AQs).

Saturday I went to a party and of course there was a young man who attends the Coast Guard academy to inspire me. Very polite. I mentioned him to Ava and of course she insists he will have to be a character one day. We’ll see. He’d have to make his appearance next year along with the Elvis Impersonator Vegas story (that’s two different stories, lol).

Also this weekend I ordered myself a new laptop. Yeah, yeah, really there isn’t anything wrong with the one I have. The keys sometimes stick but it’s nothing I couldn’t live with. I have absolutely no excuse for it. I just wanted to. Sigh. Bad, bad me.

I still didn’t get to spend any time talking to Shayne. I need a bff who isn’t so busy, I guess. Ah, well. Such is life.

I desperately need to go grocery shopping and probably should have gone on Sunday, but I didn’t. It’s one of those things I tend to procrastinate about. How about you? Anyway, I will probably stop on the way home from the edj.

Not much going on this week. Contest for Only His Heart is still on through Friday. Hopefully writing-wise will be productive. I’d like to get two chapters done by a week from now at least. Wish me luck!

My God...Back to Work

Not really much to report for Monday. I am up to almost 10,000 words on The Beach House, though. Go me! It's got quite a ways to go on it though. Still I'll make the deadline. I actually got about 1,000 words done while on vacation.

In another couple of weeks, Only In His Heart comes out. So NEXT Monday, I'll start the contest.

Hope everyone has a good week. I predict the evil day job will be insufferable this week since I'll be catching up.

Alas a New Week Begins

Thanks to everyone who read and enjoyed Only in His Dreams. I hope those who still have it in their to be read lists will enjoy it when they get to it.

Here's a picture for you.




Now that I am in wait mode to learn the fate of Pieces, I am going back to the fourth book in the Only Forever series, His One and Only.

Hope everyone has a decent week. It's my last week at 44.

March Has Arrived

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was a mixed bag.

Friday night was good because I watched one of my favorite movies and cried. Saturday was cool because it was spent with family and friends.

Sunday…not so much. I was depressed and feeling sorry for myself. I got pretty much nothing done except laundry and a short trip to the store. Probably not a good idea to drive as I was in a bit of a fog, too. I watched movies and television and convinced myself I never wanted to write again.

I don’t have those days often but Sunday was one of them. I'm better now. I hope the rest of the week is a little brighter.

Oddly enough when I went to change my hottie calendar (I forget the actual name but it’s full of hot men) to March there was Ashtyn. This very picture. Small world. Had no idea Ashtyn was there for my birth month.



I’m feeling old. I’ll be 45 this month. Originally I thought about getting a tattoo to mark the day but now I am beginning to chicken out.

Have a good week.

The Beginning of Another Week

Well I didn't make as much progress on Only His Heart as I would have wanted to over the weekend. I did finish another chapter, but I really need to have it done by this coming weekend or it's going to be unfinished for a while as I will most definitely need to turn my attention beginning February 8th to Still the One (due March 1st). Anyway, so one chapter this past weekend compared to three the weekend before is not great. I have no excuse either than I caught Ava's lazy-itis. lol.

Obviously Still the One has a real deadline and Only His Heart has a self-imposed one, so this week really is the last one I can devote to Only His Heart before things get very serious.

I'm pushing Only His Heart because it would be simply lovely if it could be scheduled for May because than my only stories would come out one each three months in a row. Wouldn't that be lovely? And I know Still the One won't be out until June. Wouldn't it be grand to have four months is a row of releases? I think so.

The weekend wasn't complete laziness. I did get through the first seven chapters of Sinful. Originally this story was a het fantasy medieval historical (good versus evil, sorcerers, magic, warriors with big...swords). I have been convinced to turn it into a gay fantasy medieval historical romance but this has not been easy. Original plot elements have had to be discarded altogether because it simply won't work for two men. So, getting through converting the first seven chapters was certainly progress.

I hope that everyone has a good week. I know many of my regulars are having icky weather, so stay indoors and stay safe.