Because I've got nothing to post…
I’ll give away any book from my backlist. Make a comment before 12am Pacific tonight (that’s Friday night, the 23rd of January) and you’ll be entered to win your choice of books. ….GO!
w00t! The last freaking piece of Alejandro's character…
…just fell into place. Now I’m not fighting him any more, but it means some rewriting (but not too much, whoo hoo, because the key emotional elements are already there.) This was one of those things that you KNOW is there, lingering in the back of your head regarding motivation, and you KNOW something is […]
Nerves, they are wracked*.
I’m about to send my order in to the printer for promo items I’ll be mailing out this spring (I don’t have any releases, so I’ll just be promo-ing the series as a whole and mailing my little heart out). I always hate this part, when I finally close Photoshop and start making the order**. […]
This isn't a post about inspiration. It is about frustration.
There are other great inspirational pieces up today. Something big happened today, I guess đ *cough*like my dad’s 62nd birthday and I didn’t get him a present*cough* So, today I was standing in line at the coffee shop, and a woman (#1) was standing behind me. Another woman and a man come in (we’ll call […]
Angels' Blood and Demon Kings
Today is the last day to enter the contest for an ARC of Nalini Singh’s upcoming ANGELS’ BLOOD. I read an advance copy of this book … and it’s amazing. Fantastic. Darker than her Psy-Changelings, simmering with both violence and sexual tension, and with vivid worldbuilding that blew my socks off. And that doesn’t even […]
Ew! and LOL!: Paranormal romances have it backward!
In paranormal romance, typically it is the male who can smell the female’s arousal. But researchers have shown that it’s the chick who can detect the dude’s desire. From Fox News: Women Can Smell a Man’s Sexual Intentions Chen and her colleagues asked 20 heterosexual guys to stop wearing deodorant and scented products for a […]
Somebody just won at the Internetz!
I’m not sure who it is or exactly what it was or even why, but — Huge congrats! đ
Holly @ the Book Binge is looking for Demon Angel discussion questions.
Holly’s book group is reading Demon Angel, and I need book discussion questions. Do you know the kind I’m referring to? Here’s an example from Random House‘s website for The Road. Since I’m feeling decidedly unable to come up with intelligent questions, I’m asking all of you for help. So, have you got any for her — questions that […]
Maillllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiii! Where are you?
I just saw you quoted in a great post over at Racy Romance Reviews*. The only bad thing about online friends is when you don’t see them as much anymore**. *Even if I’d had a drink with you at RWA, dinner with you, twittered with you, etc — eviscerate my books if that is what […]
The real-life inspiration for every line of sexual-tension-laden dialogue I've ever written:
SETTING: Meljean’s kitchen, 10:25, about twenty minutes after she and her husband (who we will call Bobby) have returned home (and not having eaten yet.) COMPLICATIONS: Meljean doesn’t want to cook anything substantial or time-consuming, so she pulls out the mac & cheese (generic brand, because she likes that better, and in dinosaur shapes, because […]
Better than the amnesia kiss?
(Side note: I saw Superman II one billion times while I was growing up. This and Beastmaster, because they were on the same VHS tape. Yeah, and that bit of info probably explains a lot about me.)
Carrie Vaughn on Urban Fantasy
I’ve already forgotten where I saw this linked from because I was running through my Google Reader so quickly this morning*, but Carrie Vaughn has an excellent series of posts on Urban Fantasy. From the second post, “When Things Go Wrong”: 6. The book has a strong woman character. But only one. Youâd think a […]
Well, that's good to know.
I was sitting here thinking about how I was going to make a scene transition, and while I was pondering, I pulled out a hair and started singing it on my desk candle. The first four or five inches, it just did that crinkly/curly thing over the heat (about a half an inch over the […]
So it's settled — they are killing lesbian vampires.
Not lesbian slayers who kill vampires; the vampires are lesbians. And this is definitely on my short list of Movies To See this year.
WILD THING winners and release day!
Wild Thing releases today in mass-market format! New York Times bestselling authors Maggie Shayne and Marjorie M. Liu, and sizzling newcomers Meljean Brook and Alyssa Day discover the wild instinct in everyone with four stories of feral heat⊠WILD THING âParadiseâ Lucas Marsden has faced nosferatu before and survived, but he doesnât know how to […]
Reminder and a non-related poll about curling your eyelashes.
The Wild Thing giveaway ends tonight. Scroll down and enter for your chance to win. I was thinking about eyelash curling today, and I wondered: do people actually do that as part of their daily routine? Or is it just something that models do? I wear make-up pretty much every day, but I’ve never curled […]