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This might be of interest to those of you who have emailed me asking when/if Stay With Me would be available in print. I just contracted Songbird which will release as an ebook this June from Samhain and will be paired with Stay WIth Me in a print duet in early 2010. So good news for Stay With Me :cheer:

I’ve also just contracted the third Falcon book for those of you asking me what my plans were for the rest of the Falcon team members. Right now I’m thinking Mad Dog. Pretty set on him being the third story but don’t kill me if it changes! :lol2:

If all goes well those will release as ebooks in June and September of this year. I also have another story contracted with Loose ID called Sevren’s Rule which should also release this year.

Does anyone get the impression I won’t be crawling out of my hole much this year? :kap:

I’ve got my days and nights totally turned around. As a result I was up almost all night last night and this morning my ass is dragging. Usually my problem with insomnia is the result of my brain not shutting down at night when I go to bed. I can be bone tired but as soon as my head hits the pillow my brain starts churning. And it keeps it up until I either get up or just lay there and let it roll.

My doc prescribed me something to help me sleep and it was working really well but it gave me a headache every time I took it and I already have enough issues with headaches so I’m thinking the trade off isn’t really worth it. I’ll have to talk to him about it next time I see him.

On the bright side, I got some writing done last night/morning. Nathan and Julie are coming along quite well. As fun as they are, what I really wish is that I had a fast forward button to be through with January so I’d be done with the hellish deadlines of late and hubby and I would be on our way to Vegas :lol2:

Hubby and I got up Saturday morning, okay, we dragged out of bed because we were out playing poker Friday night and didn’t get in until the wee hours of the morning. We had to go into town to get my middle son a new bat because he started practice for his select baseball team today. After we got home, we started putting the desk together, and we spent hours and hours lol. Took a break to go grocery shopping and came back to cook and put together some more. We got everything but the cabinet with the drawers in it done last night and hit the bed late.

This morning my daughter (she’s sooo cute!) cooked up pancakes. She’s getting to be such a wiz in the kitchen. After breakfast hubby and I folded 16 loads of laundry that we caught up on at the end of this week lol. Then I had to cram in some pages while hubby put together the cabinets because I didn’t get anything written yesterday. Then we had to hurry out to middle child’s practice. Afterwards we ran into town to pick up fish for tonight’s supper and now hubby is cooking while I flop in front of the fire with the laptop to try and get the remaining pages written. Gotta love that man :hug:

But the desk is finished and I moved all my stuff in today. I have this really cool pin board that runs the entire length of one side of the desk. It’s awesome because I have pictures and papers I don’t want to lose pinned up where I can see them. I have lots of nooks and crannies and cubbies to keep all my notebooks and pens and office supplies (because notebooks and pens are VERY important)

To celebrate I think I’m going to go buy a few more notebooks *g*

ok a little early but still Im so excited! Hubby ordered me new office furniture for my office. A gorgeous desk with lots of cubbies and drawers to keep all my stuff in. The freight service just dumped it in my garage and now hubby has to put it together this weekend. I can’t wait!

Oh and UPS just delivered another Amazon order for me. Any day I get books can’t be a bad one :lol2:

I’m having a lot of fun writing Nathan and Julie’s story. If you read Sweet Surrender, you might remember that Faith took Nathan to Julie’s to have his ear pierced. In Sweet Persuasion, Nathan is hooked on her massages, and Julie? Well she’s hooked on running her hands over Nathan :lol2: Try as she might, she can’t quite get the message across. She wants him and wants him bad. In Sweet Seduction, the battle of wills becomes all out war. Nathan and Julie get their story and I’m having more fun than a human being should be allowed writing it. Here’s a little blurbage for Sweet Seduction, which releases in *gulp* ten months.

He was the stuff erotic dreams were made of.

Salon owner Julie Stanford wanted Nathan Tucker ever since she gave him his first massage. Getting paid to feel every inch of his body, stripped, oiled, and spread out in front of her? Stuff dreams are made of. But the sexy lug was oblivious to the signals she was sending—until she finished off his final rub-down with something extra. In fact, the best extra he ever had. Unfortunately, he came around too late. Now Julie’s moving on…

She was everything he’d dreamed of.

The woman was driving him crazy. She lit fire to his insides then ran like a scalded cat. And now she’s going to someone else to have all her fantasies fulfilled? Over his dead body… He’s more than willing to give her what she wants, and as soon as he pins the little minx down, he’d show her his own brand of sweet seduction.

Yes I am. I am propped in my bed doing absolutely nothing. I finished Amber Eyes Monday and I also got my galleys and copy edits done yesterday and Fedexed so I’d meet my deadline (today, yep) So suddenly I am caught up and wow, it feels pretty damn good.

I don’t catch much of a break because I have to dive back into Nathan’s story. (It’s due Feb 1) but as of Feb 1? I have months as in several months before my next book is due. Wow! Whatever will I do with all that time? Uhm well, let’s just say I plan to add a few more books to the list of writing lol. They’ll be fun, though. Nathan’s book is going to be a blast to write. He and Julie are so fun and Julie is a hoot. I should be getting their cover soon and if it’s as gorgeous as Damon’s cover was…

I thought I’d give you a glimpse, not at what I’m publishing this year, but what I’m writing. In some cases that translates to what I’m publishing this year but for the most part, not.

Sweet Seduction which does indeed release this year. October to be exact.
Sweet Temptation which will release early 2010
Songbird which should release this summer
The third Falcon book (this is a huge maybe)
Unnamed paranormal duet (yup, that’s all I’m saying right now lol)
Finish The Darkest Hour which releases late 2010
Kelly book 2 which also releases late 2010
Pillow Talk which releases October 2010

I have a few other things up my sleeve, but I haven’t decided on the “when” those will be written, but that’s my year so far.

The book is finished. :passedout:

There is truly nothing more satisfying than finishing a book. For me, it’s better than when a book releases. I love the feeling of accomplishment that comes with typing those last words. It’s amazing. A better high than anything else in this business. Well, it’s probably not quite as good as royalty checks, but it comes close :lol2:

This was Piers’s book, the third Silhouette Desire and the third in the Anetakis Tycoons trilogy. It was originally scheduled to release in September 09 but it’s been moved up a month, so there will only be two months between book 2 which releases in May and book 3 in Aug :whoo:

Also, I’ve had some people ask about Amber Eyes since I posted the cover down below. I’m working on a blurb for it. But the nuts and bolts is that it’s a sequel to Golden Eyes which released earlier this year. In Golden Eyes there is a mention of a “lost” sister, Kaya. Well, this is her story. She’s a cougar shifter and she has two yummy men she’s drawn to, Jericho and Hunter. The setting will be one that’s familiar to people who read my books. Colorado…Rocky Mountains.. Other than Texas and Tennessee, Colorado is my favorite place to write about :cheer:

Anyway, I hope to have something up on the website really soon. And if you haven’t read Golden Eyes and all about Duncan and Aliyah, you should definitely go check it out while you’re waiting for Amber Eyes. :hug:

says it all…

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I love Christmas Eve. I’ve always loved it more than the actual Christmas Day, and I’m not really sure why other than I think it’s because Christmas Eve was where all the action was growing up. Every Christmas Eve was a flurry of last minute Christmas shopping and wrapping. We always waited endlessly for my dad to get home from work because then we’d go over to my grandmother’s to open presents with her. When I was really young, we waited until Christmas morning to unwrap our presents at the house, but we changed that to opening them Christmas Eve. I’m not even sure how that tradition started. I think it might have had to do with my mom’s work schedule when she got out of nursing school. At any rate, Christmas Eve was always so much fun, and Christmas Day was more subdued.

And one of my favorite all time Christmas songs is Christmas Eve. I love Perry Como’s version the best.

So I’m wishing everyone the best Christmas Eve ever. Tomorrow will be pretty quiet. We usually go to my dad’s but this year we’ve delayed our get together with him and my stepmom until the day after Christmas. So I’ll be cooking. On the menu is a rib roast, a yummy ham, some homemade mac and cheese (I haven’t decided what else yet) Aren’t I so organized?

And as a spendiferous Christmas pressie to myself, UPS is going to deliver a buttload of boxes of books for me today. :hug:

Last time I was bitching because Fedex and UPS delivered work. But today they delivered goodies :woot: It was a trifecta of delights today with boxes of books coming via USPS, Fedex AND UPS. How can it get better, I ask?

I’m still typing my little fingers to death on Piers’s story. All pressies are wrapped. Shopping is done. Kids are home and I’m practicing selective hearing to the best of my ability.

Hubby called me this morning to say that it was snowing at work. How is this fair? He works like 5 miles from where we live. And it was NOT snowing here :idontknow:

I’m just glad it finally got cold because damn, we’ve run the air conditioner for the last week. Over the weekend it was so freaking humid and hot and sticky that I was ready to cancel Christmas or at least move it north.

And now it’s back to work. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season no matter what holiday you choose to celebrate!