Welcome to my daily blog. If this is your first time, I'm a romance writer and a misplaced city girl currently living in the wild Sierras. I tend to have a lot of I-Love-Lucy moments that I share here but sometimes we talk about books, TV, and our favorite cookies. Okay, my favorite cookies. In any case, please feel free to comment by clicking on the Comments at the bottom of any entry. If you're too shy, that's okay, just know I love having you.

Goodbye Summer, we hardly knew you

September 6, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

I’d like to beg you to stay awhile, dear Summer, but I’m afraid to bother you. You’ve been quite coy. And, might I say, a little bitchy.

Thanks for this past weekend, you really did great. You even made the teenagers smile. Well, one of them anyway, and believe me, that alone is quite the feat.

So I guess what I’m saying is, don’t be a stranger.

(I know I say this nostalgically about every season as it passes me by, but I really think summer’s my favorite. You?)

Things I did this weekend but do not recommend

September 5, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

Playing chicken with the garage door. In the car. And losing.

Eating an entire rack of Pringles salt and vinegar chips, and then trying to outrun Frat Boy.

Not doing a full body check in the mirror after dressing, which is how I missed the fact that there was a big hole in the seat of my jeans, revealing much more of myself than I’m comfortable with.

And then, as a stupidity bonus, flashing a certain Alpha Man just as a teen came into the room behind me.

You?

Today’s Writing Inspiration

September 1, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

Brought to you by “Y” for yowsa.

You are welcome.

Middle Guest Blog

August 31, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

Yeah, so Youngest got sick and my mom didn’t finish her book so here I am, blogging to you from my college dorm because I’m her favorite. No, really.

I have Physics and Engineering homework, so we’re going to make this short and not exactly sweet.

9 Things I Hate About Everyone:



1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time… I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?



2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.



3. When people say “Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too”. Damn Right! What good is cake if you can’t eat it?



4. When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you’ve found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?



5. When people say while watching a film, “did ya see that?” No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor!



6. People who ask “Can I ask you a question?”… Didn’t give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?



7. When something is ‘new and improved’. Which is it? If it’s new, then there has never been anything before it. If it’s an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn’t be new.



8. When people say “life is short”. What the hell??? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!!! What can you do thats longer?



9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks “Has the bus come yet?” If the bus came, would I be standing here???

(pilfered from the internet because I don’t have my mom’s talent for making stuff up)

Name That Book

August 30, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

You know the drill. Name the book, and I’ll draw names for a winner, who can pick their choice from my backlist. Yes, you can cheat. I even left the heroine’s name in the excerpt to help you, just because that’s how I roll.

Also, I’m on deadline and it’s possible it’s going to kill me, so it was lovely knowing you all.

Excerpt:

She wasn’t okay. He could feel the tension of her body against his, in the quick quiver of her limbs, though that might just have been the same unwelcome erotic awareness he’d felt.

Still felt.

With Harley, he’d always felt it, though he’d gotten good at ignoring it since they subscribed to two very different philosophies in life. His being to live as uncomplicated as possible, including romantic entanglements.

Hers being the opposite. She was complicated as hell, and she played for keeps.

Know it? Then comment. Don’t know it? Guess. Because what the hell, it might be your lucky day.

How I deal

August 29, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

We had strawberries. We had chocolate. It was a marriage made in heaven, especially for someone on deadline (which, by the way, if September 1 could not get here, that’d be great).

Anyway, a woman on deadline needs her dessert. Hence the sign.

So feel free to visit. Do not feel free to take my chocolate covered strawberries.