Category: Maya’s Older Posts

Got a release date for Reckless today. Reckless is a short story included in Samhain’s Red Hot Summer anthology. J.T. Summers from Brazen is the hero and his heroine is set to drive him bonkers :rockthefuckon:

Anyhoo, June 3 is the date.

I mailed off Be With Me ahead of deadline today :whoo: That’s one more thing crossed off my to do list.

I have several ideas percolating in my poor overtaxed brain. All while I’m trying to write about poor Catherine, Rhys and Logan. I’m making them suffer because they’re making ME suffer. :sumo:

Speaking of suffering…my husband as the GOP debate on. Now tell me what did I do to deserve this? Haven’t I suffered enough? I guess I’m not a good republican because I’d rather go back to the dentist than listen to this.

Sometimes a Cadbury egg just makes everything right.

Yes, I realize that it’s not even Valentines, and I have no idea why my Walmart is stocking cadbury eggs and Reeses peanut butter eggs, but hey, I’m not complaining. Easter candy rocks the socks off valentines candy anyway.

This week is really slugging by for me. I feel like a sloth. I’ve been getting all the little shit done which is good since I’ve done little else, namely the BIG things like finishing my novella….

I’m getting spoiled. I just got back from a week long vacation to Vegas with hubby but I’m already ready for another one. Somewhere. Anywhere. A girlfriend of mine and me are planning a trip the last week of Feb, so hopefully I won’t have too long to wait :whoo:

But hey, it WAS my sole resolution at New Years, to spend more time with people I love this year. :hug:

So I put up a contest post today to celebrate my birthday and first I got emails from readers because they can’t post to comments and now the entire site is down :cursesign:

Isn’t that typical? And I’m on my way out to the dentist (boy do I know how to celebrate)

At any rate, I’d offered a contest to win an a PDF ARC of Sweet Surrender over there. So if you find yourself over here because WM is uncooperative, feel free to enter here and I’ll count it as an entry even if WM later comes up. Super J will be on the job as soon as he can I’m sure.

So to enter, all you had to do was guess my age, which isn’t a heavily guarded secret, and I’m pretty sure it’s been mentioned a few times in passing. Contest is open until tomorrow morning sometime, and I’ll announce the winner shortly after.

If you don’t like or can’t bring yourself to read an electronic copy, then not to worry. I’ll be offering a print copy soon :weee:

for the next two weeks! Proposal, novella and a 100k galley to proof. Oh and a book to write in Feb…

:sumo:

I did manage to finish Be With Me and send it off to my agent and I’ve been mulling over one of the proposals I need to write. I’d forgotten about a project that’s due on the 20th *sigh* so that has to be up first today. I also got Golden Eyes back from my editor last night because I asked for it to come back to me one more time before it goes off to line edits (more of my analness) so I have to go through it one more time by this weekend. And to think I was supposed to be working on Stay With Me this week…

In the line of suckage…I’m worried i have another kidney stone :crying: I’m putting head in sand and hoping I don’t have an agonizing pain attack that tells me quite plainly that I DO have one. Me and pain don’t get along.

I’ve already managed to mark off a few things on my list which makes me very happy :rockthefuckon:

But on to the things I haven’t got done yet…

Put finishing touches on Be With Me so I can mail it in.

Galleys for Beyond the Night *groan*

Work on Stay With Me

Proposal for Into the Lair

Did I mention that my daughter is home from school all week and that she decided it was a good time to get sick? *sigh*

Oh and there is a mountain, I mean MOUNTAIN of laundry because hello, I’ve been gone since the first of the year.

:crying:

Loved the trip out to West Texas. It’s such gorgeous country. We’re talking ends of the earth here and where we hunt? No lights for miles and miles. Just big skies and lots of stars.

I bagged the biggest :rockthefuckon: heh!

So it’s back to work today. I have a ton of stuff to catch up on this week *sigh*

In the meantime, I have two new covers to show. One is for my Feb release, Into the Mist and the other is for my March release, Golden Eyes.

Here’s Into the Mist

And here’s Golden Eyes

Just put the finishing touches on one of the two novellas I have to write this month. Up next are revisions on a story and the galley for a 100k book (oh joy) and then I have the second novella to finish and a proposal to get done by the end of this month.

We won’t even talk about what’s up in Feb. But yay for a leap year! lololol That gives me one more work day :help:

Tomorrow we’re headed to West Texas, BF West Texas that is, to hunt for a long weekend. My daughter is psyched. She got a really good one last year when we went out west.

Six hour drive means plenty of work time, but BF Texas means no internet, so I’ll have to find a hot spot SOMEWHERE so I can email my revisions in.

Hope everyone else has a great weekend!

The bad: I’m back from Vegas :crying: I’m bummed it’s over with. We had SO much fun. I won a few poker tournaments and hubby cashed in two so it was great. We didn’t sleep much so I’m struggling big time and I have a ton of work to do to catch up.

The good: LSU woooo! :rockthefuckon: Kicked some Ohio State ass. :whoo:

Been sorting out cover art for two upcoming books and I should be getting the cover for Be With Me just anyday now :pray: I’ve gotten a glimpse of the preliminary art work for Into the Mist and once we get the kinks out, it’s going to be gorgeous.

Hopefully I’ll have several gorgeous covers to share this month.

Fedexed my contract back today and Be With Me will follow it shortly just as soon as I’ve ironed out all the blemishes. It’s a busy, busy month!

We’re going out to West Texas hunting this weekend but I’ll have to bring work with me since I already blew off the entire first week of this month. :oops:

Hard to believe it’s nearly done with. 2005 was a bad year for me. 2006 started rather poorly but turned around in a huge way by the summer. As great as 2006 was and it will still go down as such a memorable year, 2007 was even better in a different way. 2006 was about “getting there” 2007 was about ENJOYING being there. Make sense?

2007 was a hell of a lot of fun. I hit the RT conference and got to hang out with Karin and a whole slew of really fun people. Also hit the RWA conference and got to spend a lot of time with the Writeminded girls and again hung out with Karin. Went to Carmel in October to again hang out with Karin :whoo: We got into a car wreck on the way to the airport and I had to hang out a little longer than we’d PLANNED but hey, we had a great time and are totally going to do it often.

It was also a busy year writing wise. I wrote 8 stories this year, well nine months of the year since i didn’t do shit last January or for two months this summer. Sold more books to write in 08 :rockthefuckon:

AND I took the first step in realizing a huge dream of mine. Hadn’t really planned that for 2007 but hey, why wait any longer? I’m making it a goal in 08 to realize that dream. :weee:

As for 2008, I full expect this to be an even better year than 2007. What can I say? Life is good. Enjoying the ride and the moment.

Amy and I are going to Lori Foster’s shindig together, and really, how much fun are Amy and I together? (look out) We’re also going to RWA this summer in San Francisco. And I’m starting out 08 in Vegas with hubby where we plan to act like kids and have more fun than human beings should be allowed.

In writing, in the first half of 08 I have four books scheduled to write with another in the works for this summer.

For me 2008 is totally going to be a year of enjoying life to its fullest, having fun and making sure I see my dearest friends and spend time with them. Yeah, I’ll be working hard, but you know? My job is a hell of a lot of fun, so don’t feel too sorry for me :woot: