Archive for February, 2005



Sunday, February 20th, 2005
Errand Girl.

It’s the weekend for errands.:doze:
And all except the grocery shopping are writing related. (I guess even the grocery shopping is because I can’t write for long with out my Diet Coke nearby. Caffiene and sugar are a must!):P

Today, I need to renew my RWA fees. I think I can do it over the internet since you can do almost everything over the interent nowadays. Do some website updates (:crazy: ) And WRITE!! (:D)

Yesterday, I arranged for some business cards and BOOKMARKS to be printed up. (Yes the bookmarks will be for giveaways!) Other giveaways fro future happenings I picked up include a journal, a Hunk Calender, Kissing Coupons, and The Hot Nights Honeymoon Box. I plan on giveing away alot of thing so keep your eyes open! I also emailed my webhostess because it’s time to renew my fees and I had some other things I might be adding to my services. Oh! and I finally submitted THE DEVIL INSIDE to LSB yesterday…so everyone cross their fingers please!! :hehe:

All that shopping and thinking about promotions has put me in the mood to give something away right now!! I think…uhmmm the first person tell me (in the comments section here on the blog) what Jacob does in the boardroom will win their choice of available title from Liquid Silver Books today! The answer is in one of the excerpts on my KISS and TELL page.

Saturday, February 19th, 2005
It’s here!!!

My very first cover for my very first romance! Isn’t it boo-tiiii-full???

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I think April outdid herself with this one! :D

What? You think I’m biased? :angry:

Well I might be, but check out some of her other covers here and I’ve no doubt you’ll be impressed!

And now…a small blurb to go with the cover.

GYPSY HEART

Traditional roles go up in flames when forestry officer Gage Dougherty moves from mountain to city in search of a “nice” wife, and meets bad girl Sable Castle instead. The free-spirited bartender is back in her hometown to help out a friend, and feeling restless. Deciding that a hot affair with the rugged and sexy Gage is the perfect way to make time fly, she sets her sights on him. But when passion turns to something deeper, can a man bent on settling down convince a woman that doesn’t believe in “happily ever after” to risk her GYPSY HEART?

COMING SOON!!!! :hehe:

Friday, February 18th, 2005
Whoo Hooo!!

It’s Friday and my weekend is starting off great! Last night at work I got a single red Rose from one of my regular customers. It was a late Valentines gift, and no…it doesn’t matter that he baught one for ALL the girls that work there…it just matters that he put a little card on each one with an individual message. So sweet! :)

Then today, when I woke up and checked my email there was an email from April, the cover artist at LSB with the cover for GYPSY HEART!! I’m not sharing yet, as I’m not sure it’s official yet, but I will say I’m happy with it!

I’m also happy because that means the chances of GH being released in March are really good. The final copy of the ms is done, and the caver art is almost ready…so here’s hoping it’ll be available for everyone soon!! I’m so excited, and nervouse. What if everyone’s tired of me talking about it and no-one is interested in reading it? (:O) What if people that have liked my erotica read it, and are disapointed because it’s a romance? ( ) Nah…that shouldn’t happen. (:doze: ) It might be a romance, but the sex scenes are still pretty hot. In fact, one of my cp’s said that one of them in particular ‘read’ like my erotica work ,and maybe I should tone it down. I didn;t. ;)

I figure these are good omens, for a good weekend. :hehe:

Oops! Almost forgot to mention that you should visit LSB becaue they’re offering 15% off ALL BOOKS for Valentines Week! It’s a great chancve to chek out some of their fabulous authors….even if MY story isn’t available yet! ;)

Thursday, February 17th, 2005
Questions

As you all can see, at the top of my blog I invite anyone to ask me anything. I’m not shy, and this is my SECRET THOUGHTS forum so I will tell you things I might not tell my closest friends.

Strange isn’t it? That I almost feel more comfortable telling the world my secrets, my feelings, but not the people that are close to me?

Anyway, here are a few of the questions that were emailed to me recently.

What martial art did you study?
Boxing was the start of it all for me. (About 15 years ago. I was 20 when I first got interested) After a year of boxing my trainer at the time introduced me to Kickboxing. I left Alberta and moved to another province, and couldn’t find any kickboxing gyms (remember this is a long time ago…before it became so popular) so when I called my trainer back home and said, “What do I do?” he said “Join a Karate school.” So I did. :)

I trained in Karate for a long time. (I still maintain a lifetime membership, unfortunatly it’s in a different province as I’ve moved again.) But after a while I wanted to explore other martial arts as well. I did Kung Fu for a whole month, (Not my style at all!) and almost three years in Jui Jitsu with an ex-military instructor that runs his own private security company.

All styles taught me different things about myself, and what my body and mind were capable of. I truly believe that the fact that I cannot find somewhere to train is the reason my weight has slowly gone up over the last five years. I try various gyms, and Dojo’s, but I’ve been very spoiled in training with some of the best, and I’m having a hard time finding someplace that I feel I might fit. Thus, I just go to the gym, and work out on my own…and it’s not a challenge, and I’m not learning anything, and I find it boring…so I’m not as vigilant about it as I should be.

What part of your body do you feel the most sensual about?
My Skin actually. And my hair. I’m like an animal that way. I love to be touched and petted, even if it’s just on the hand or the arm, or someone playing with my hair while I drift off to sleep. Often, when I’m distressed or upset, I find myself stroking my own arms or legs, (if I’m sitting) the feel of skin on skin is very sensuous to me so I try very hard to make sure that my skin is always soft to the touch.

I saw your picture and don’t understand why you think that you are having weight issues. I don’t mean to be too forward (or maybe I do) but it seems that from your picture, your breasts seem ample but not overflowing. You have a great personality, from what I can gather from your blog entries.

Thank you. I like to think I have a great personality too! *g*. And I do agree that personality is more important than looks. For me, it’s a matter of knowing what my body is capable of and how good it can feel, versus, how I’ve let it go. I don’t ever dream about myself as some slim model type. I don’t want that. I do LOVE having curves and being soft….feeling like a woman should. But, there are times when I let myself get TOO soft, and the curves just become roundness. LOL. It’s not completely about how I look (although I do admit that is PART of it) but about how I feel, emotionally and physically.

Physically, as I’ve gotten a bit older and gained a bit more weight, my body FEELS older. My body aches after an eight hour shift behind the bar like never before. My feet hurt, my back hurts, and I’ve managed to make injuries when I do work out a common occurrence. I think this is all tied in to the weight gain I’ve had in the last 5 years.

Emotionally, although I am often told I am pretty, and how great a personality I have, I often still feel unloved and lonely. I have friends, I have family, I even have lovers. But I’ve never been in a relationship, I’ve never “dated” someone, and I’ve never been in love. Somehow, rational or not, a part of me believes this is because of my weight. The fact that there have been years when I was in exellent physical condition, and none of these things happened, or the fact that overweight people everywhere have spouses and loved ones, doesn’t factor into my feelings when I’m sitting home alone on my birthday or New Years Eve. My weight becomes the excuse for my feeling unloved, and then I eat more.

It’s a vicious circle, and knowing about it is half the battle. That’s why it’s a constant struggle. Sometimes I just don’t care that eating junk is going to make me gain wieght. Soemtimes, I take what comfort I can, where I can.

Does this make any sense?

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
What to think?

I just finished LKH’s Seduced By Moonlight and am strangely awed by her ability to seduce ME.

To be honest, I picked up Caress of Twilight a while back simply because it was on sale real cheap, and I’d heard that The Anita Blake Stories were good. I read it, and thought it was okay, but not something I was going to seek out the sequel to. And I didn’t seek it out, but it (magically??) jumped into my hands at the bookstore the other day, so I brought it home.

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Promo’s!

Congratulations to Sherry D winner of our combined Liquid Silver Books Author CAN U CATCH CUPID CONTEST

Thank you to everyone for playing. I hope you enjoyed the hunt. I’ll be posting a new contest on my Sweet Treats Page at the end of the month, and also, if you want a chance to win more from me be sure to drop by This Forum on Monday, February 28 (between 9-11 pm est) to chat with me.

Maggie Casper and Lena Matthew’s are Liquid Silver books authors that hold Author Days on their forum as a way for us to get out there and interact with everybody. I’m truly excited about it as this will be my FIRST effort at something like this AND Maggie and Lena don’t care if I promote my Erotica or Erotic Romance, my LSB stories or my Black Lace ones…so you can be sure there will be a racy prize or two! I plan on doing a few giveaways so be sure to come and check it out. PLus..I just want company. ;)

On to regular things . . . I’m tweaking THE DEVIL INSIDE and will be submitting it right away, and I’m still working on that SURPRISE for you all. I hope to have it up at the end of the month! :D

I’m spending a lot of time thinking about promotions and such. I’ll be going to Reno for the RWA National Conference this year, and I’m hoping to have a few stories available to promote. I’ll be gettign business cards made, and probably bookmarks as givaways…but I’m still searching for that special idea to promote myself. Neither Black Lace nor LSB are RWA recognised publishers, so I won’t be part of the literacy signing. But I still want to put myself out there in a visable way, for readers, and publishers. After all, this conference is as much about networking as it is the workshops. I thought about dancing on the bar and offereing free shots of tequila to anyone that could name a character in one of my stories, but I’m not sure that’s the best way to go about getting my name out there. Any ideas?

Monday, February 14th, 2005
Inspiring

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Sunday, February 13th, 2005
More than writing.

Usually I get most of my writing done on weekends. I go grocery shopping at the beginning, and then I hole up in my apartment for three days, with the phone turned off, and no way for anyone to reach me (except email…which I can choose to acknowledge or not,) and I work on building my career. Sometimes I work on my website, (:crazy: ) sometimes I edit (:plain: ), sometimes I just think about my stories. (Yes, that IS working!) But this weekend was about more than writing for me. :)

It had been a hectic, busy, few days at work and I especially wanted to hole up and be anti-social. But, one of my co-workers mentioned that Leesa (another co-worker) was going to make it to our Saturday night Valentines Day party at the lounge. This was worth making an appearance for because I hadn’t seen Leesa in a few months (she just had a baby recently and this was her first night out since the birth!)

But, par for the course, once I was out I had a great time. You see, I’m one of those people that are hard to get to go out…. but once I’m out, I make the best of it. We played pool (Leesa won.:angry: But it was close. ;) ) We played air hockey. (I kicked ass and am undefeated!! :D) We had some shooters and did some dancing. :P All in all, a great night out.

Then today, I did manage to get a bit of writing related stuff done, (I got a sneak peek at Sylvia’s 3rd story for her Brava anthology…. Great Stuff!!!) Then I joined 15 members of my family for my uncles 60th birthday. It was surprisingly easy for me to feel social once again. I saw cousins that I haven’t seen since they were little and I realized just how fast time does pass. And how as much as I am my own person, I am part of a big family, even though we rarely get together. It was a nice, warm way to spend a Sunday evening.

Also surprising, was when I mentioned that I write erotica, I didn’t get as bad a reaction as anticipated. But I think that comes from the fact that as I’ve grown as a writer, and worked in different markets I’ve realize that this really is something that is NOT easy to do, and I feel pride in my accomplishments, and the way I feel about it can influence the way others do. Does that make sense?

Anyway, tomorrow is the busiest day of the year for the restaurant I work at, and even though it’s normally my day off, I have to go in. But I’m feeling pretty social, so it’ll be fun! Especially now that I’ve been reminded that Valentines Day is about Love, not necessarily romance.

Sunday, February 13th, 2005
Question

Who do you think is more depressed on Valentines Day. The woman that’s been in love and married for a few years, then divorced..or the woman that’s never been in love, or had a sweetheart on holidays such as Vealentines Day? :crazy:

Friday, February 11th, 2005
Friday!

Whoo Hooo! It’s Friday! :hehe:

I finished editing The Devil Inside and am submitting it to Liquid Silver Books tonite. And I have a secret project I’m working on for my website. Something that we can all enjoy. Next up is WILLING. Yahooo! Finally. I’m all caught up on my other projects.

Well, ok, not ALL caught up. But I feel ok about letting the others fall to the wayside while I move on. Only because I know myself well enough to know that I’ll probably take a break from the novel (Willing) to write a short story in there somewhere. Something full of sex and magick. ;)

So, now that my latest is ready to be subbed, I have to clean house. Maybe do some laundry and go grocery shopping too. Nothing exciting.

Anyway, I’m feeling pretty boring today, so I’ll just remind you all about the HUNT FOR CUPID that some of the Liquid Silver Books Authors are putting on. I’m one of them..so just find the cupid button on my website, click on it, and it’ll take you to the rest of the rules. Conest ends soon, and the chance to win more than 15 prizes will be gone, so go HUNT FOR CUPID!!!