Monday, January 30th, 2006
How can you not love Dwayne Johnson? Here’s a man that not only is beautiful onthe outside. He’s so beuatiful on the inside that his smile is radiaint!! I hope it cheers you up this Monday Morning!
Archive for January, 2006
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
My Muse has been very sporadic lately. He’s comeout of hiding, and is kicking all other men out of my head. Where does he expect me to put them? Down on paper, so that they can find homes other than in my head. I have many many hero’s and ideas dancing around in my head. What to do? I think they’re all going to start fighting soon, then my idas will change. How do I control them? Really. I mean , I am not someone who can work on more than one story at a time. I think I’ll have tospend some time surfing the net for photos to match the men in my head. Then maybe they’ll be content to wait their turn. What do you think? If I share them with all of you, thikthat’ll be enough for now?
Friday, January 27th, 2006
Y’all know I love sayings and quotes…surf on over to Saskia’s blog and check out the ones she’d got posted.
They’re great!
Friday, January 27th, 2006
OK Folks. Since the cover and Blurb is posted in the coming Soon page, I guess it’s time to tell you that I’m re-releasing GYPSY HEART with Samhain Publishing in the spring. You can hop over there and check out the new cover. I think it’s beatuiful and I’m very happy to join the Samhain team.
Look for some more excitng things from me there, I’m working on plans right now!!
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
“We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?”
I thought it was funny, yet sort of true. 
I had a crusty old man of a customer the other night. He sat at the bar and went on and on about education and how it’s so important, and don’t get me wrong, I agree with him. But, it felt like I was being lectured by my Father. Part of me wanted to say “Hey buddy, I’m not uneducated, and there’s more to my life than working behind this bar.” But the other part of me just didn’t care what he thought.
Normally I delight in telling people like him that I have an alternate career, one that is ‘respected’ . Instead, I just let him continue to think what he wanted to think, because really, why ruin his day? He was obviously having fun with his feelings of superiority, and I was more sad that people still judge by looks and jobs than anything.
The next night I had a guy come in, and stand at the front door yapping on his cell phone. To get this image right you need to know that there are tables right near the front door. and one of our regulars, K, sits there every day after work and quietly has a few beers.
So after this new guys stands there yapping for a good solid four minutes K leans over and tlls him to take his conversation elsewhere. I think it’s understandable, (but he should’ve told me if the guy was bothering him…not said it himself) Talking in cell phones when others are having quiet time is rude. But this guy gets even louder and curses at K. Just as I get ready to open up my mouth and tell them to take it ouside the new guy comes and sits at the bar, still yapping loudly on his cell phone, and orders a beer.
Now If a customers is sitting at table talking on his cell phone, I will NOT go over to take his order. I think it’s rude. If/when he’s ready to order I’ll serve him, but it’s not my job (plus I think it’s rude of me) to interupt his obviously very important covnersation to take a drink order.
So, New Guys yaps on his phone and in the middle of his sentence orders a bere from me, as I debate how I want to handle it, he say’s into the phone. “Nothing, just some idiot Yahoo being an asshole. Do you see me caring?”
I lean forward and say, “No, But I see Me caring.”
So he gets off his phone, I serve him his beer. He gives a lot of pouty arrogant attitude. I tell him, and I tell K, that it’s over. I don’t want any comments between them. K, knows me well, and knows I will kick him out, so he stays quiet.
Alls good for a bit, then New guy, gets up when I’m heading over to K with his bill and grabs the bill from my hand and says, from the bar, nice and loud. “Hey buddy, I’m gonna pay your bill to show you what a nice guy I am, and what a low class thing that was for you to do.” All K say is “Sasha.” I tell New Guy to sit down and shut up.
K pays his bill, leaves. New Guy asks me.
“Why is it ok for a redneck like him to call out slurs to a nice business man like me? I come in here fairly often and that loser was rude.”
OK here you go. “First of all, he’s not a redneck and calling him names isn’t what a nice busniessman would do. Second, he was right, it’s rude for you to stand next to his table while he’s tryingto have a quiet drink and yap on your phone. Take it outside or to the back hallway, away from people. Third, it was unnnessesary for you to make a scene when he asked for his bill, after it had all been settled for a while”
*pout* “I was just tryingto show him how low class he was.”
“You standing up and calling him low class was tacky. If you really wanted to show him class, you would’ve either dropped it when I said drop it, or just sent over a beer, through me, and left it at that. But standing up and tryingto look like a the big man by calling someone else names only made you look bad.”
What I didn’t say was, K was a regular who came in every day, not only to watch pay per view hockey games, and K is an executive in a pretty big company, who always sit’s quietly to decompress after work. Just because he was wearing jeans and a denim jacket did not make him a redneck…as anyone in Alberta should know. What I didn’t say was I also asked another of the customers who was nearby what had been said. The cutomer told me K had asked him to talk elsewhere and New Guy had responded with immediate profanity and name calling.
So, my point is…where’s the fountain of smart? Why haven’t people learned that you can’t always judge a book by it’s cover?
Oh, and New Guy, the “businessman” went out for a smoke and never came back to pay his bill. Yup. Real Classy. 
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
What is it about the tease that’s so hot?
You know what I’m talking about. That tingle you get between your thighs when someone exciting catches your eye, or when you catch his. The lingering looks, the hair toss, the silent communication. That time when your blood heats up and your body tingles and you feel the magic of “what if”, the possibilities of what could be. It’s almost intoxicating.
I flirt a lot. Men and women alike flirt with me. I love it. It makes me feel more beautiful and sexy than any compliment ever could. It doesn;t matter that I’m flirting with a guy that’s fifteen years younger than me, or a woman, when I have no interest in the same sex. All that matters is that air of anticapation, the “what if?”, the possablilites that float in the air.
These things fire up my blood and get my juices flowing south…and that makes me FEEL attractive and beautiful and sexy.
Maybe one day soon I’ll stop remembering that I’m out of shape, and that I don”t always feel that way…and go for it. Maybe one day, I’ll consider the possability that I might not be single forever.
Maybe one day…I’ll let the mental walls down and invite someone in to get to know me.
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
It’s Live!! The new Secret Thoughts Website is Live!
Okay, it might not be a big deal to a lot of people but it is to me. Secret Thoughts is my monthly eZine. It’s full of hot excerpts, free reads , intersting articles and Hot Pictures. So…if you’re not on the mailing list already…get on over to that NEW WEBSITE click onthe January Cover onthe home page for the January issue, check it out!! Then Sign up to get the rest delivered right to your inbox!
Yes, you do have to sign up to get the issues. The wesbsite is just to tease you all about what’s coming each month. For now. I might do more with the Website later, but for now…it’s just there to show off the eZine.
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Check out My new Blog. :)
Thanks so Much to Beth, Frauke, and Sylvia …allwho helped me get this up and running. :)
What do you think? The same, but different. Let’s give it a try. :)
I’m playing with websites this weekend…so keep an eye for something new tomorrow too. :)
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
“This is a remarkably engrossing, erotic, romantic story. Transplant is what every erotic romance should strive for – a well told story that engages the reader�s imagination and senses and leaves just enough room at the ending for a possible reader demand of a sequel. “
~5 Kisses from Romance Divas!
YAY!! I’m so happy. I was starting to get worried a bit about Transplant. It scraped into the AQP Bestseller list for Oct-Dec at number 10, and I’ve heard from one reader who really liked it…but there’s always that worry.
Why is that? Why do we worry so much about what others say, or think? I mean, Of course we want readers to like our stories, to buy them , to talk about them…but at the same time..I liked the story…so why do I worry so much? And Is it a bad thing?
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
That what students call it when they pull a couple of all nighters in a row to get ready for a test right?
It’s what I’ve now dubbed my final days before a deadline. I wish I could say I’m a steady writer. That I plan and follow through, that I do so many pages a day, but the fact of the matter is…I plan, then promtly fall off the plan. I’ve discovered that I really really suck at planning anythign more than a couple weeks ahead. I had 6 weeks to write this novella, and I knew what I wanted the story to be, yet somehow, I only got half of it written in 5.5 weeks, and did the other half inthe last two days before the deadline.
Cramming. :crazy:
However, I do think the cramming actually helps the story, in a weird way. It helps me turn off my internal editor, and stop thinking so hard. That way I can just listen to the characters, and tell their story. Now I wait to see if it’s makes sense to anyone who reads it.
Thank God for my cp’s Beth and JJ.
JJ who did marathon races with me to keep me writing, and Beth who was there until the last minute to re-edit my stuff so that John, My editor at Kensington, doesn’t totally think my grammar sucks.
Thank you, my Friends!!
