Archive for February, 2009

Yes I have a warped mind. (Up too early, too much coffee, too much sugar. May need a lie down later)

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Do NOT get between a female writer and chocolate (cookies that is)…

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Yeah, not really seeing him as the Doctor either…

Well, it’s here again… silly o’clock.

For those people who know me well, they’ll be aware of this phrase. I used to work in Transport, a job which is very much get up extremely early and you stay until it’s done, hence the term ‘silly o’clock to silly o’clock’. My days of working for someone else are long gone, I work from home these days, seperating my time between writing and the admin for a small family business.

But silly o’clock’s still here. For some reason I cannot shake the habit of getting up at ridiculous times of morning. So five out of seven days I tend to get up at around half five to write. I tell people this and they go ‘wow, you’re dedicated!’ but I’m not really. Half five is fairly late for a transport planner. I’ve worked places I had to be in at 3am (that one REALLY cuts into your evening).

Then there’s the fact that you’re never a ‘real’ planner until you’ve had your first breakdown. So yeah, I’m nuts to boot It helps.

So, what news today whilst I’m high on caffiene intake and toast covered in nutella? Well, one of my friends, Marika, just got her first contract!! (link to her blog in the sidebar) I’m really really pleased for her, the story is a great one and I’m very much suspecting we’ll be seeing great things from Marika in the year to come.

This week I aim to complete both Sunlight, which is my solo project, and Doug and I are going to get Knight’s woman completed. Added to that I have two lots of edits to get done, for Dark Embrace and Playing with Fyre, both of which are part done. So I’m gonna be a busy little bee this week. LOL so what am I doing at 6am? I’m blogging of course!!!

Okay, I do need to hit the wordcount so I’ll catch you on the flipside!!

I don’t know what it is about time recently but it seems to be disappearing on me. I’m giving serious consideration to the theory we have something akin to the ‘sock monster’ in this house. Except, instead of stealing all the left socks, it’s stealing time!

Anyway, before I start to ramble too much about sock monsters and Garden Dragons (that’s a WHOLE other story) let me just give you a link to the February Forum Fiesta going on over at the Moira Rogers Forums today. There’s a whole bunch of authors in there giving away free stuff and basically around to chat to, so feel free to come join us!!

http://www.moirarogers.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=39

So, I’m in and out of forums today and generally having a tidy up around the site. It’s unreal how cluttered up this place gets (kinda like my house really!) so I need a good sort out and to make sure all the links work right and all the right images are in place *iz a complete control freak about stuff like that*

Other than that, I’m just settling down for the weekend. Hoping to get time to relax this weekend and perhaps watch the first series of the Tudors (which I’ve been meaning to do since christmas)

Hehehe, well I’m off again!! Grace, a paranormal (vampire) romance is now available from Noble Romance!!

Tuesday’s Child – Grace

Grace Solomon was a ballerina. Not just any ballerina, but the Prima Ballerina. Extraordinarily talented and as graceful as her name, she found herself catapulted to the highest levels of her art. Until the day a horrific car accident leaves her crippled, barely able to walk. Heartbroken, she accepts she’ll never dance again.

When enigmatic stranger Jaron Conrad turns up talking of a cure, Grace accuses him of being a crackpot and a quack. But could there be a possibility that he’s telling the truth, and if he is, does Grace have the courage to take a chance on him? The courage to pay the price, even if it costs her heart?

Read an excerpt

Click to buy!!

Look for the rest of the books in this collection.

Available now:

Monday’s Child – Kiss and Spell by Kris Eton

Coming soon:

February 18 – Wednesday’s Child – Marked by Tears by L. Shannon

February 19 – Thursday’s Child – Letting Go by Dee Carney

February 20 – Friday’s Child – Sexual Healing by Moira Rogers

February 21 – Saturday’s Child – Storm Saturday Night by Summer Alan

February 22 – Sunday’s Child – The Wise Guy by Lex Valentine

A sexy Rock Star. A man bent on revenge. One explosive love affair.

Zette Matthews, darling of the music industry, has it all: haunting voice, dramatic looks and curvaceous figure. Every woman wants to be her, and every man wants to be with her.

Unlike the rest of her fans, Jarrett Jansen isn’t content to adore Zette from afar. He intends to have her. Especially now as he finds himself in need of a wife before his birthday, or he’ll lose control of the business he’s run for years.

Revenge may be best served cold, but JJ prefers his hot, with a side order of pleasure, secured with a wedding band.

Want to read more? Head on over to Lyrical Press!

Rockstar released from Lyrical Press

Woohoo! This week is going to be a hell of a busy week!

First off I’m in the Cheeky Changeling over at http://changelingpress.com/ezine/meetmc0209.php talking about my Changeling Release, Moonlight & Magic. If inquisitive fae and hot n sexy demons are your thing, be sure to check it out!!

Then today is release day for Rockstar with Lyrical Press!!

“A sexy Rock Star. A man bent on revenge. One explosive love affair.

Zette Matthews, darling of the music industry, has it all: haunting voice, dramatic looks and curvaceous figure. Every woman wants to be her, and every man wants to be with her.

Unlike the rest of her fans, Jarrett Jensen isn’t content to adore Zette from afar. He intends to have her. Especially now as he finds himself in need of a wife before his birthday, or he’ll loose control of the business he’s run for years.

Revenge may be best served cold, but JJ prefers his hot, with a side order of pleasure, secured with a wedding band…”

Want to read more? Wander on over to Lyrical and buy the ebook!!

So… what else am I on with this week? Well, thanks to a girl at my kickboing class I’ve found a pole dancing class! I’ve been trying to find one for absolutely ages without sucess… well, other than one place who wanted me to book months in advance and wanted all the money up front. Sorry bud, I don’t do that sort of thing. Not when you’re only giving me a mobile and no fixed address.

This one though someone I know goes to, and it’s a turn up and pay on the night jobby. MUCH better. I’m rather looking forward to it, even though i have been warned that bruises in the first few weeks are inevitable. I’ll probably spend most of the classes on my backside laughing but heyho, it’s bound to be fun. Much better than step aerobics or something. Anything’s better than step *shudders* bores me out of my skull that stuff does!!

So… writing wise, Knights’ woman with Doug and my solo project Sunlight & Slavery are going well. Both are heading into the home straight now so we’ll be looking at self edits soon which is always fun Once we get to that stage I’ll start posting some snippets!

Okay, the boss is calling (My boss is three foot tall and stroppy in a mornings) so I’ll catch you all later!

So, I forgot it was Valentine’s day. Well, no that’s wrong, I didn’t forget. I just didn’t realise I had a chat scheduled for tonight as WELL as it being Valentine’s day. So, after being told in no uncertain terms that tonight is a no-pc night, I’ve had to cancel the live chat over on the LPI forums. Hopefully that’s not going to put people out too much :S although I figure a lot of people are going to be busy doing romantic type things with their other halves.

So, what did I do for Valentine’s day other than cockup chat dates? Well, I brought some wedding rings. No, I’m not getting married. Since I’m already married I figure the police would be interested in chatting to me if I tried to get married again.

But Mr Carter and I need some new rings. We don’t wear gold you see. I really don’t like gold rings but we used to. It was the ‘done thing’ at the time but when Mr C trashed his ring on site (he’s a plumber and mangled all the back) we took the opportunity to switch them out for a set of titanium rings. Then along came little ‘un which means I can’t wear mine because it doesn’t fit and titanium can’t be resized.

So today I brought new rings. They’re tungsten this time and not gold so no doubt some relative somewhere will turn their nose up as families are wont to do. But I’ll stick my guns on this one. A wedding ring doesn’t in my opinion have to be gold, even just a little research on the web reveals that gold is a relatively new material for wedding rings and I like the sheer durability of tungsten. It’s one of the toughest materials on the planet, apparently never looses it’s shine and isn’t easily scratched. I’d like to think my marriage to Mr C is a little like that. We’ve had tough times. Hell, we’ve had REALLY tough times but we’re still here even though certain folks only gave us six months (we’ve been together sixteen years now and married over ten). I could throttle him sometimes and although we’ve settled into a comfortable routine, that shine there still hasn’t worn off.

So yeah, tungsten works for me And Mr C got to pick them which made him a happy little bunneh today. I think he made a good choice…

Just anxiously biting my fingernails now to see if I got the sizes right and they fit!!!

So, a freind of mine did this over on facebook and I’m sufficiently bored and amped up on coffee thanks to a late night chat to catch the US timezones (I’m in the UK) and about an hour and a halfs sleep to actually *think* of 25 things. (Really I’m avoiding starting work)

1 – Is addicted to caffiene. Coffee or anything containing it.
2 – Eats bread and butter with rice pudding.
3 – can write html and css code.
4 – prefers coke over pepsi.
5 – has (currently) seven tattoos. Plans more.
6 – can actually draw
7 – Is chronically untidy
8 – has a ‘tidy up freak’ husband.
9 – Can weld
10 – Is a qualified massuese and aromatherapist.
11 – has seven corsets. This figure will no doubt increase.
12 – Is a star trek geek (no, doesn’t have a uniform)
13 – Favourite film is Guy Ritchie’s ‘Snatch’
14 – prefers cheese over chocolate.
15 – has been banned from Xbox due to beating the rest of the family at fighting games.
16 – Is prone to quoting from Monty Python, particuarly the african swallow’s sketch.
17 – will read anything if it stays still long enough
18 – has an ambitions list, things ‘to do’ each year. Aims to complete one per year. (This has lead to learning to weld, learning to massage etc.)
19 – Intends to complete a half marathon at least once in her lifetime (and then never run one again)
20 – Is a kick-boxer.
21 – Is a cover artist.
22 – hates piercings. Only has ear piercings and wouldn’t have those if her mother hadn’t had them done when she was 18 months old.
23 – Is a qualified markswoman.
24 – can read and write grid references to 64 figures.
25 – Knows the UK postcode system by heart.

I have to apologise, I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been literally buried in a new story, but in a good way. I’m writing with a freind and we’re just having such fun writing it I’m going to be sad when we’ve actually written it! We’re writing a sci-fi romance (think battlestar galatica here) and we’re happy torturing our characters. Torturing big time I tell you!!

So, let me introduce you to the characters…

First up we have Davin McAvoy. Davin is the boss, the wing commander on the base. He’s literally Mr Nice Guy, Mr Squeaky clean. He runs by the book, dots the I’s and crosses the T’s and he absolutely does not want an ex-con or a woman on his wing. But the instant he see’s Radha sparks, oh they fly!!

Then we have Radha Kaden. Ex-con, ex pilot who got chucked out of the academy a week before graduation for fighting. Radha’s always had it tough and it’s made her a tough woman. But beneath the hard shell is a woman with a soft heart. Mr Squeaky Clean really isn’t her type… or he’s too much her type. His gentle touch, the tenderness he treats her with are something she has no experience with. Which she finds dangerous and oh so addictive.