Monday, March 30, 2009

Good News!!



Sooo, I have good news. A few weeks ago I entered the Manic Readers writing contest. Each week they post twenty percent of the entries for readers to vote on. The top two entries for each week will be read by an editor with NAL. Guess what???? Yep, I was one of the top two for my week. Can you see me doing the snoopy dance? Well I am. LOL. There is one more week and after that the ten winning entries will be judge and an editors choice and readers choice will be given! Here is the blurb for my entry. What do ya think?

Professional dance instructor, Layla Christensen shouldn’t have trouble staying on her feet. Unfortunately her pesky hormones affect her balance every time her sexy neighbor his around. Life escalates to a whole new level of mortification when Dr. Feel Good shows up at her dance studio with a mysterious six year old resulting in her falling out of a perfect pirouette and right on her face.

Dr. Ryder Evans never expected to be a dad but when Peyton stepped into his life nine months ago he couldn’t have been happier. Now he just has to figure out what the hell he’s doing. Lesson one: When you sign your daughter up for dance class, don’t imagine all the positions her dance teacher can stretch into. Lesson two: It’s considered bad form to hit on said teacher in a room full of six year old girls and their mothers.

Oh yeah, he has a lot to learn and Layla is just the woman to teach him.


I also just signed a new contract for a novella, Harder They Fall which will come out in February 2010! This is fun story, with a HOT alpha hero. I'll share the blurb on that one soon!

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Who'd have thought? LOL



I've always been more of a panster than a plotter. I start with a basic story idea, give the story two characters, a basic history and conflict and write. I let the story unfold from there. Even though that has basically always worked for me I have run into troubles from time to time. I've written myself into corners or realized that something doesn't fit and had to go back to change it. I've decided to try and shake things up a bit by being a bit more conventional. I have a story that I really need to finish. While my fingers danced on the keyboard yesterday waiting for my characters to tell me what they wanted to do next I realized I spend a lot of time doing that. Waiting. Starting a line and then hitting backspace.

Unfortunately, that isn't getting my story written any faster.

So I decided to try and plot out my whole book this time. I got out my trusty notebook and pen and started writing. Ideas popped into my head I hadn't thought about and I wrote them down. I organized things in the order they should happen and before I know it I had most of my story on paper. You know what? I think it's really going to help. Don't ask me why I did see it before but I think it will be much easier for me writing off an outline rather than searching my brain while I write. Don't get me wrong, I always know a few key scenes that will be in my book but I usually file them away in my head while I write and now I have them on paper, where I can see them, in some logical kind of order. Who'd have thought that would be so helpful. LOL. Sitting back now, yeah, I should have known this a while ago. Makes perfect sense but I'd always just seen myself and a pantser kind of author. Now that I'm getting busier, with deadlines I'm realizing that some times you have to step out of what you've always done. Some times you have to look for a different way to do things and in the end, it just might be a better way. I definitely think my time at the keyboard will be more productive and being a mother of two children not yet old enough for school, I need that.

Are you a plotter or a panster? Have you always been that way?

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

I'm a slacker

I KNOW I've been sorely neglecting my blog lately I've just had a lot going on. Things are crazy for me right now. We've just moved so I'm still getting things together from that. I hate moving. Always takes a lot out of me. I promise I will do a better job here. I've got to get back into the swing of things. I think everything is just so blah right now that its dragging me down with it. Anyway, just wanted to let you know I'm still around and I know I'm a slacker. Hopefully I'll be back with something much more interesting soon. LOL.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Unexpected Mr. Right in PRINT

Book two in the Fridays at Luciano's series is now available in print! The ebook version is still available as well!








Since Tabitha Harris was a child, she’d dreamed about finding her true love. Instead, she usually ended up with a broken heart. The familiarity with such men helped her keep her distance from the handsome and available Nico Valenti. The man had “heartbreaker” written all over him and she didn’t want to waste her time or her heart. Tabby was a new woman.

Nico can’t get Tabby out of his mind. Sure, he loved women, loved them all, as often as he could, but he’d never met one that held his interest for long. He had to spend more time with her, even if it was on her terms of a “no sex” relationship.

So, how does a one-night-stand kind of man get to know a woman of changed interests? Can Tabby and Nico meet in the middle long enough to get to know each other, let alone give their newfound feeling a chance?

Excerpt: ADULT

Nico carried her to the bedroom. Setting her on her feet he didn’t waste any time undressing her. He didn’t want to give her the chance to change her mind. It would kill him. He pulled her robe completely off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor. Her nightgown followed seconds later. She stood in front of him in pink g-string panties and nothing else. “Damn woman, you’re going to be the death of me.”
He couldn’t stop staring at her, soaking her in from her cute, red painted toenails to her frazzled hair. Delicious. Her skin a smooth, milk chocolate that smelled of lavender, begged to be touched. Her rounded breasts were pert, with hard pebbled nipples. Damn he wanted to taste them. And he would. First he needed the dark curls he saw beneath her pink panties uncovered. And he needed her to do it.
That would be her final concession. He had to know this is what she really wanted. That she desired him and wanted to proceed to the next level as much as he did. “Take off your panties.” The urgent scratch in his voice didn’t surprise him.
“I-”
“Do it, Tabby. I want to watch you ease that sexy scrap of cloth down those long legs. I need to know this is really what you want. No regrets.” She looked apprehensive at first but the looked quickly turned into one of excitement, eagerness. Hooking her matching, red painted fingernails in the strap on the side of her panties she began to lower them.
Hell fucking yeah.
Her slender waist bent and she lowered the g-string down her legs. When she reached her feet she stepped out one foot at a time before straightening to stand beautifully naked in front of him. “Cosi Caldo, cosi bella. Li Voglio.” Nico eased her back on her plush bed. When her head rested on the pillows he started to kiss her. It was a short, demanding kiss before he moved down to her neck, kissing the hallow spot at the base of her throat.
“What…what does that mean?” she asked breathlessly, running her hands through his hair.
“So hot, so beautiful,” he lowered his hand to cup her mound. “I want you.”
“I want you too.” The verbal admission almost sent him over the edge. He teetered there the whole time, but that, hearing those words almost did him in.
Nico rested between her thighs. “I don’t know where to begin,” he admitted. “I want to taste every inch of you, Tabby. How do I decide?”
She sighed, a sexy sigh as her eyes drifted closed as if waiting for him. Nico kissed her lips, “eeny,” her left breast, “meeny,” her right, “miney,” then he eased down her body until his mouth was inches from her core. He lowered his head and licked. “ Mo. ” Damm she tasted good, wet and sweet. This is where he needed to be. He had to start here.

Available HERE

Monday, March 2, 2009

Interview with my kiddo

I stole this blog topic from my friend, Amy Ruttan. This is an interview with my five your old daughter.


1. WHAT IS SOMETHING MOM ALWAYS SAYS TO YOU? You can't buy a new toy every day.

2. WHAT MAKES MOM HAPPY? When I say I love you so much and I give you hugs and kisses.

3. WHAT MAKES MOM SAD? When I'm not there and I don't give you hugs and kisses.

4. HOW DOES YOUR MOM DO TO MAKE YOU LAUGH? Make funny faces

5. HOW OLD IS YOUR MOM? Um, bigger than me.

6. HOW TALL IS YOUR MOM? Taller because she "grewed" and ate some healthy food when she was a kid.

7. WHAT IS YOUR MOM’S FAVORITE THING TO DO? Take me places and go grocery shopping.

8. WHAT DOES YOUR MOM DO WHEN YOU’RE NOT AROUND? Um, she just, stays home and does writing and stuff.

9. IF YOUR MOM BECOMES FAMOUS, WHAT WILL IT BE FOR? For me!

10. WHAT is YOUR MOM REALLY GOOD AT? She's very good at writing.

11. WHAT IS YOUR MOM NOT VERY GOOD AT? Not very good at climbing on the slide.

12. WHAT DOES YOUR MOM DO FOR HER JOB? writing

13. WHAT IS YOUR MOM’S FAVORITE FOOD? Salad and macaroni and cheese

14. WHAT MAKES YOUR MOM PROUD OF YOU? when I'm nice to my sister

15. IF YOUR MOM WERE A CARTOON CHARACTER, WHO WOULD SHE BE? Little Bill (?)

16. WHAT DO YOU AND YOUR MOM DO TOGETHER? We do school work and play.

17. HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR MOM THE SAME? we both like books.

18. HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR MOM DIFFERENT? Because I play with my toys and you do writing.

19. HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR MOM LOVES YOU? Because you give me hugs and kisses every day.

20. WHERE IS YOUR MOM’S FAVORITE PLACE TO GO? To see the 100 Monkeys (a band I like)