Entries from February 2008

February 29, 2008

Leap year - leap into a new book!

In the BDSM lifestyle, Catherine Lanyard is an extreme submissive with serious baggage. For years, she’s avoided her pain and hidden dark secrets. Now, an experienced Dom has broken through her barriers and forced her to face her fear. Sex was always a give and take for Justin Travers. He’d always kept his “lifestyle” practices [...]

February 28, 2008

Romance? So who reads that stuff?

Ask many women and you will get a few different answers. For those that answer YES!! Great, wonderful, keep up the good work!!
Others will flat out REFUSE to consider reading anything associated with romance. This is a major pet peeve of mine. Personally, if you blindly refuse to read something because of it’s [...]

February 27, 2008

My Struggle as a Writer

Ever since I can remember, writing has always been a part of my life.  My mom is a published poet and words were always big in my household.  It wasn’t until I was about 12 or so that the idea of being a published writer really kicked in.  I started writing short stories and including small [...]

February 26, 2008

Did someone say cookies?

1:08 a.m., Tuesday, February 26:

These are different from AJ’s…chocolate chunk, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter and sugar with M&Ms, enormous and rapidly replacing the 13 pounds I lost between New Year’s Day and Valentine’s Day. It’s totally killing me - I was doing so well. Today I start yoga (signed up for it last week). I [...]

February 25, 2008

TMI alert

Okay, I think I’ve crossed the point where writing has over consumed my life. But in order to explain I have to enter the realm of TMI, so brace yourself.
Yesterday I was engaged in marital relations (I’m trying to be circumspect here) and after I had my…cookie (Is this code working?) my mind [...]

February 22, 2008

Forget the snow, have some FAIRY DUST

We’re looking forward to a nasty weekend weather-wise, here on the East Coast. Reports of snow and wintery mix. What it means for lots of people is time at home to relax and enjoy the cocoa. What it means for me is time at work to take lots of calls from folks not coming in [...]

February 21, 2008

It was a dark and stormy night

Such a corny beginning, isn’t it?
But beginning any project is the hardest part. Cleaning your house, going on a trip, even getting out of bed on a rainy day all takes effort. It is easy to let it slide, wait for some one else to pick up the slack. Riding on some one’s coat tails [...]

February 20, 2008

Getting in the Mood

Before I start, let me say, if you say the title and started to blush then good—cause that’s exactly where I’m headed. I know we’re all romance writers (okay, so maybe that’s an assumption of sorts, but in general, we all have written something with some kind of attraction in it, right?) But what we [...]

February 19, 2008

Zzzzap!

It’s been a long time since I read something that made me think, “Huh. I’d like to learn to write that kind of story.” My regular method of operation relies heavily upon instinct, things I’ve already learned. I read romance growing up, so I knew the ingredients that go into a romance, so I write [...]

February 18, 2008

Overwait

So we live in an immediate gratification world but writers so don’t live the same way. Waiting until we’ve torn almost all of our hair out is an every MS occurrence. But I’ve determined that even though I keep waiting and waiting (immediate is absolutely out of the question by this point and I’m [...]