Category: Maya’s Older Posts

Samhain Publishing is celebrating their second anniversary (has it only been two years??) and all this weekend and for the coming week, the authors are coming out on the Samhain Cafe to post excerpts and fun contests etc. (You do not have to “join” the yahoo loop in order to read the messages and excerpts) I’m doing my Wish List contest again, which gives readers a chance at winning five ebooks of their choice, but you’ll have to hop over to the cafe for details :lol2:

I’ll be around today starting at 2pm Central time and then again on Monday, Wed and Thurs to discuss my past, current and future releases.

And psssst. Just a little over a week until Long Road Home releases :whoo:

When a member of the CIA’s premiere counter terrorism unit discovers the woman he loves is a suspected terrorist, he’ll go to any lengths to uncover the truth.

Jules Trehan disappeared without a trace three years ago much to the dismay of her parents and Manuel Ramirez. A counter terrorism specialist, Manny has utilized every agency resource in his attempt to discover what happened to Jules, to no avail.

As suddenly as she disappeared, Jules reappears in a small Colorado town. Injured in an explosion, she’s hospitalized, and Manny rushes to her side, determined not to ever let her go again.

But Jules has one last job to do or Manny’s life will be forfeit. A mission she must complete, even if it means betraying the only man she’s ever loved.

You can go here for an excerpt.

and the next it’s already Saturday. :beam:

Things are tight for me right now, writing wise, which means no reading, no slacking, no whining. I’m happy with my progress, though. Turned in one of my projects a week or so ago and I’m on schedule to turn in another around Nov 10ish. Then I have a short deadline for my next Berkley book, but the nice thing is, it’s the only book during that time frame that I have to concentrate on. I’ve been sorta juggling two for the last little bit, and I don’t juggle well. I’m linear to a T. I can’t write on multiple things at a time. I’m a line em up and do em one by one type of gal.

I won’t even think of the books in queue after the Berkley book lol. I have three more to write before June 1. But once again, like last year, once I get to June, I’ll have a gap of time. Sorta weird how that works out. Summer seems to be my slow down period. Good time for vacation, I’m thinking :woot:

Can you hear the excitement oozing through your computer monitor?

This weekend was the youth hunting season, so we took our three children out Saturday morning. Only problem? I’m sick with a cold and running fever. It really wasn’t that cold Saturday morning. Just chilly. But since I was running fever, it felt like it was 30 below. I was miserable. Told hubby no way I was going back out Sunday morning. We hunted the morning and afternoon Saturday and just the afternoon Sunday. I would have preferred to spend the weekend in bed, but the kids were way excited and I wasn’t going to miss out taking my daughter hunting.

She’s SO funny. Very serious, and I have to say, I’m really proud of her. She handles herself so well. She listens to direction, she absorbs it and acts accordingly. She’s careful, and most amazing is that a seven year old girl can sit in a tree stand and remain completely still and quiet for as long as she does.

She’s also a competitive little hussy. Her brother bagged his deer Saturday evening. She was crestfallen because she hadn’t gotten a shot. After Sunday passed without her getting her deer, I made her a deal that she could have first dibs next weekend when the regular season opens (when I would normally take the shot)

So as of now, it’s boys 1 and girls 0. My daughter’s solution? She might not get the first, but now she’s informed her brothers that she’ll bag the biggest. :purplelaugh:

today I’m guest blogging with Cece and company at Naughty and Spice. Talking about Menage :rockthefuckon: and I’m giving away a couple of books, so head over if you’re so inclined!

Edited to add: On a completely different note, I was also recently asked to guest blog at the I Heart Presents blog by one of the eharlequin folks who er uhm know of my rabid obsession with them, and I just noticed that blog went up today. So you can check me out there as well and see me frothing at the mouth and drooling like a mad dog :eatchoc:

The novella that would not end and went 50, yes FIFTY pages over my goal is now completed. :worthy: Yesssss.

To reward myself, I went and bought 13 ebooks from harlequin. Never mind that I still haven’t read last month’s purchases or that the December books go on sale next week and I’ll be lined up like a crack addict wanting to buy more. I’m kinda liking having this TBR pile.

I also have two ARCs that I cannot WAIT to read. The second Sydney Croft book and the first Larissa Ione single title. *Rubbing hands together gleefully*

Usually after finishing a book, I’d reward myself with a reading binge, as in do nothing but read and read and read some more, but I can’t do that yet. Not until I finish Into the Mist. Then I’ll give in and let myself read a few books and first on my list is the Sydney book and Larissa’s books. Cannot. Wait!!! I seriously loves those girls’ writing whether together or separately, they just fucking rock.

over at Writeminded :woot:

And thanks for all the well wishes after the accident. Apart from a few headaches and residual stiffness in my neck and shoulders, I’m just fine.

I have a deadline looming (and another and then another) lololol so I’m going to be writing lots. Which makes me happy because it means I’m employed :rockthefuckon:

I’ll be finishing one project up in a few days, and I just love this story. Love the hero. It’s really his story. He took over from the start. He’s done most of the talking, and he’s a hoot to listen to. I’ll be sad to let him go. But then I get to dive back into Into the Mist and revisit Tyana and Eli along with Maddox, Damiano, Jonah, Ian and Braden :lol2: It’s no hardship, I tell ya….

And THEN, then I get to wrap myself up in a story I love. A story I can’t wait to write. It’s one of the stories I just sold to Berkley. I love this story already. I’ve loved it ever since it first started whispering in my ear, and yes, it’s that story I was talking about awhile back when I said I started working on something I had no business working on because I had so much other stuff to work on. Well, it pays to listen when the characters start loving on you, because my Berkley editor pounced on that story. And SO, I get to work on it right away instead of pushing it back for several months :whoo:

I was supposed to get home Thursday night. That didn’t happen. On the way to the airport Thursday morning, some asshole rearended me and Karin, totaled her car and then fled the scene. He knocked us into the car in front of us. SHE fled the scene. My introduction to California drivers? Not going so well. NO one even stopped to see if we were all right. Fuckers.

So we spend the afternoon in the ER. I have to call my husband to tell him Im going to miss my flight (obviously) and he spends all afternoon trying to get me onto another one. (Gotta love him) So Karin’s husband takes me back to the airport to catch an 11:35 flight out of San Francisco only I had to fly all the way to Atlanta before I could hook back to Houston. Got into Atlanta at 7 something in the morning, then had a five and a half layover because all the flights to Houston were booked. I’m tired, sore as hell, stiff and cranky.

Finally get into Houston at 1pm and then have an hour and a half drive home.

The good thing is both Karin and I were wearing our seatbelts, otherwise we would have ended up on the hood of her car. Jerkwad never even braked before impact. No skid marks, no squeal of tires, no nothing. Just wham.

Even better, however, is that an off duty cop witnessed the accident, chased down the asshole after he drove around us and careened across four lanes of traffic to hit the next exit. :nunchuk:

Much cursing abounds. It’s not pretty.
:cursesign:

Hubby is grilling steaks and I’m packing for Cali. Leave first thing tomorrow morning :whoo:

Tonight is game night. LSU plays Florida. In Louisiana, we loathe all Florida teams :sumo: I mean why else would I have rooted for AUBURN last week :huh: I mean Auburn? They’re only one step above Florida teams.

So we’re hanging out, cooking yummy food and we’ll be tuning in for the kickoff :banana:

Tomorrow? Hopefully some gorgeous California weather. :weee:

I was supposed to start back on writing the stuff I had to stop writing on in September when I had some stuff crop up that I needed to get done ASAP (How’s that for a confusing sentence) Anyway, Monday was THE day I was supposed to get back to the schedule.

Uhm, it didn’t happen that way. :sack:

Not that I’m surprised. I would have been MORE shocked had I actually started writing when I was supposed to. Everytime I come off a big project or something stressful, or just a big writing binge (September was one big ole writing binge from the word go) I usually suffer let down and don’t do much of anything for quite awhile.

Tuesday was more of the same. I mean I did get SOME work done, just not the writing on the actualy project I’m supposed to be working on. It all evens out in the end, but it can be frustrating.

At any rate, I finally got it in gear yesterday and got quite a bit written. Today I knuckled down and got a lot more done, and the day is only half over. I have to go get the rugrats in about half an hour, but I’ll have more writing time after they go to bed tonight. If I manage to log in another productive day tomorrow, then I’ll be back on schedule and Monday and Tuesday’s slackerdom will be all erased :woot:

Side note: Only two more days until I fly to Cali :whoo: