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.

And as February Draws to a Welcome Close

Well Friday has arrived again. And not a moment too soon for my sanity. Also the end of February, too. I've decided it's one of my least favorite months.

Don't forget to send me questions for Ashtyn Long. Don't be shy. He's not.

Hopefully you've had a chance to notice my cover there for Still the One on the side. I like it, it's pretty, but I have to confess the guy with the long hair really does not look like Malcolm in the story as he is more muscular than our Malcolm is. Oh, well. It's a nice cover anyway and I like the way New York was worked in since that is a big part of the story. All in all, I think it's a good cover.

Tomorrow is excerpt day and I think I am going to focus on Trust. I know quite a few of you have read Trust, but there are probably some still on the fence because Brad starts out the story cheating on Justin. Believe me I am aware how easy it is not to sympathize with a cheater. To me it is a difficult if not impossible thing to forgive, thus why I really wanted to write a story where the reader couldn't help but not only forgive the cheater (Brad) but even like him better and root for his happiness. I think, at least from what I've heard from most readers, I accomplished that with Trust.

Anyway, that's my plan at this point, subject to changes of course. Sunday I'll have another lovely eye candy picture and I'll bet you can guess who it will be.

Speaking of Tea...

As I noted in a comment yesterday, I am going to be making Wednesdays "Musings" days to go along with Saturday excerpts and Sunday Eye Candy. Just trying to put some structure into the blog.



Since I have some Ashtyn news I figured I could post his picture. Lovely, yes?

EH (and others) interested in seeing Ash's teapot. I asked Ash about that and he advised that photographer David Vance has a coffee table book called, Ashtyn, wherein there are pictures of his teapot. On Ash's facebook page on the lower left corner there is a link to purchase the book. I, of course, have already ordered my copy. Purely research purposes, naturally.

And Another One Done

I finished Still the One and so Ash agreed to celebrate with me. Wasn't that lovely of him?

Happy Friday

Continuing on these very cool pictures. I love the expression for this one too.

Ava, what do you think? Couldn't he be Raphael in From Afar?




Everything's okay. Still on track to finish Still the One this weekend and I already know it will be released April 11, 2010.

Hope everyone has a good weekend ahead of them and look for an excerpt of Ava March's From Afar. It's one she has chosen just for my excerpt day so you won't see it anywhere else

If There is a Worse Day Than Monday...It's Tuesday

I am not fond of Tuesdays. It's too far from the weekend on both ends. And since I feel like crap and had to work anyway, this Tuesday is particularly cruel. Therefore, I had to have Ash.



Well after what I thought was a slow start on Still the One, I actually managed to get about 1,200 words done yesterday. Considering my sick state of mind (I know how is that different from usual) I'm not sure it makes a ton of sense, but it's progress.

To make the Pax it has to be at least an Extended Amber Kiss which is 11,000-17,000 words. The Best Gift was actually only an Amber Kiss at 10,000 words so this story has to be longer than the original. I'm thinking this story will be on the lower end of the Extended Amber Kiss word count but we will see.

I am behind my fellow authors of the pax too. As far as I know only one other of the five of us hasn't turned in their story already. And the other author has 8,000 words done to my 1,200.

I'm not terribly worried. As most of you know I'm a pretty fast writer. See backlist of 4 day books, Pulling Away and Stone of Wrath. I'm pretty sure without even looking I wrote Only His Heart in less than a month. The Only books have been admittedly easy because none of them have complicated plots. They are just relationship stories. No outside forces are trying to rip the guys apart or any of that. Still the One is likewise a relationship story.

The nice thing about Malcolm and Dusty having been together for 5 years is I was able to have their first sex scene of this book in the first chapter. I thought I'd get it in right away and believe me the boys did not mind.