Best Book Of The Week

Compromising Positions is up for Best Book Of The Week at Long & Short Reviews. I'd appreciate all the votes I can get!

http://www.longandshortreviews.com/LASR/recentrev.htm

E-Book Sale

Phaze is having a 30% off sale! My stories there are cheap anyway, but this makes them quite the deal! For Saturday through Monday, July 4-6, the 30% off code on everything is FIREWORKS09

I'm talking Moving...

at The Pink Heart Society today...

Samhain Blog

I'm at the Samhain blog talking about the plot devices real life throws our way...and not making much sense!

Perspective

I'm mired in finding-a-house drama, but it's not that big of a deal in the context of what some people have to go through. Last week my best friend felt healthy and strong, with an annoying bump on her breast. Tomorrow she's having a radical mastectomy.

Needless to say, house-hunting is on hold. So is writing. So is everything but joy and healing.

Graduating

My baby boy graduated kindergarten today. The girl was in a moo-ood, so I didn't get to relish it like I would have liked to, but it was warm and cuddly all the same. The kids sang some hilarious songs and Hayden ate 3 cookies.

I didn't get to picking out thank-you gifts for their teachers. Selling the house and buying another are taking all the energy the kiddos don't need. Nothing is left for social niceties or actually writing.

Life's a little full right now. Which is not necesarily a bad thing.

Finding IT

I need to find some time for myself. I have a book plotted out, I made it to a workshop this weekend that proved the book will work (yay me), so all I have to do is write it. I don't exactly see a place in my day to do that.

Hopefully, time will loosen this week. The appraisal on this house should happen, so should the inspection on what we hope will be the new place...and the boys finish up with school.

Maybe I'm completely deluded, but I am looking forward to summer. I'm an early riser, so I could get some work done ine the morning if I wasn't coralling kids into the van and waking the baby way before the princess would like to rise.

I like lazy summer days sprinkled with fun moments with the kiddos. It fills up my love cup, which makes writing happy stories easier.

Northwest Book Festival

1st annual NW Book Festival is June 27

Saturday, June 27, 2009
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
21860 Willamette Drive, West Linn, OR 97068
Over 40 authors speaking and signing their books at this premiere event...including moi!

I'm wishing...

at The Pink Heart Society today...

Naughty and Spice

It's raining at Naughty and Spice...

Cute Wins

I didn't watch American Idol this season...prepping the house for sale ate my TV time. But, I did carve out a night to watch the finale. What a great show. I'm actually glad I didn't have to choose between the two finalists, both so talented in different ways. Some entertainment news shows said it was too close to call, others were on Team Adam. Not having watched the show, it reminded me of last nights Dancing With The Stars, where cute edged out sexy.

Like most women in America, I voted a few times for Gilles. Even with as dead sexy as he is (and he IS) I admired how hard Shawn worked, on the dance steps, the performance, and keeping it all age appropriate. She's adorable.

Maybe it's the economy, or maybe it's the underdog mentality. Either way, two great results shows.

And it true front runner fashion, if I had been watching AI, I would have been on Team Kris.

I'm Talking Food Porn...

...at the Pink Heart Society today...

Inside the Outsides

I'm at the RCRW Authors blog today, talking about how writing is like staging a home for sale. Yep, I can tie anything together!

Starting Over by Jenna Allen

Starting Over by Jenna Allen

Jess and Scott haven’t had a conversation that didn’t end in a fight in months. Making up is fun, but the clock is ticking on their marriage. Is a cross-country move the cause of their problems, or the solution?

excerpt ::

The hum of the engines echoed in my ear. I never could sleep for long on planes. Maybe if I kept my eyes closed they wouldn’t be too puffy. I snuggled deeper into the pillow, only then noticing where my body had turned.

I peeked up at Scott’s sleeping face, his dark lashes fanning against his cheek. We hadn’t slept this close since before I found out he sold the apartment. Up until then I hadn’t been happy about the thought of moving, but I’d open to the possibility. Then the phone call came and the rug had literally been pulled out from under me. We were going, and to drive the point home, he’d sold ours.

It had been an amazing offer, and if we’d already agreed to the move, I would have been happy about it. As the days passed and moving became imminent it seemed silly to still be angry. I knew everything I held inside I wouldn’t be able to get over, so I let it out.

It was a New York problem. If Portland was to be a fresh start, I needed to leave it there, with the stack of delivery menus and perfect bagels.

I snuggled deeper into Scott, my head on his shoulder, lifting one of my legs across his. And then I realized just where my hand was. On the fly of his slacks. If there hadn’t been a blanket covering us, I might have been mortified. Instead, I was simply embarrassed and moved my hand back to my own leg.

“Now don’t do that,” Scott whispered against my hair, his warm fingers wrapping around my wrist and pulling my hand back to him. “I need to be reminded there are parts of me you like.”

Fictionwise

Compromising Positions is on the Fictionwise bestseller list for Samhain. Quite cool, but what thrills me? 32 reader ratings. 32 people read the book and took the time to say they liked it. Good peeps. I do wonder about it being listed as erotica/mainstream. romance/mainstream maybe. It's too happy ending for erotica IMO.