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.

Frazzled

August 28, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

I’m frazzled. Book due. Oldest and Middle and Special Edition all gone to college. One of the cars died. Like dead dead died. So instead of just hunkering down and writing, I went surfing. On the net. Luckily for you, I found a pic of my hero and heroin messing around at the water falls.

Isn’t it nice of me to share? I just love the way he’s leaning into her … probably I should finish that book.

Oh! And before I lose what is left of my mind, I wanted to tell those of you who have written and asked me when my books will be made available as audio books, that day has arrived! You can buy Simply Irresistible as an audio book at Audible.com or iTunes. The Sweetest Thing is coming any second now.

Animal Attraction

August 25, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

Meet Dell.

Coming 10/1 to a store near you, in Animal Attraction.

You are welcome.

Feel free to make my day by preordering at B&N or Amazon. Go ahead, I’ll wait …

You back already? Now maybe you could tell us what you’re reading in the meantime. I’m still reading Dark Lover by JR Ward. Well not today I’m not, since I’M TAKING MIDDLE TO COLLEGE, SOB!

Hump Day

August 24, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

Youngest was having a very bad, no good, rotten, awful day. After all, she’s losing her sister to college in a few days. So she drove herself to the store to get something that will never leave her.

Ice cream.

Except … the ice-cream was blocked off. You could see it, you could drool over it, you could cry for it, but you couldn’t touch it.

Just about the cruelest thing I’ve ever seen…

Youngest had to turn to chips. How about you, what do you turn to when you’re having a very bad, no good, rotten, awful day?

Best Of

August 22, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

(One of my favorite posts from last year, not because of what I wrote, but because of the answers I got to my question. I’m going to run it again because I loved hearing what you all had to say.)

Okay, so I’m swamped and out of control and have NO business blogging today but I need your help.

What am I swamped with? A book due on the first, five teenage girls needing my attention before they take over the world and not in a good way, basketball summer league including two different teams in a town an hour away, and a flare up of SUMMER-ITIS.

And don’t even get me started on Frat Boy. Who managed to eat an entire package of salami including the plastic. Since he’s not dead, I can only assume he has a stomach of iron.

And a severe eating disorder.

But forget about him. I need your help. What, if any, endearments are acceptable in a romance, from the hero to heroine? My two favorite heroes of all time each have very two distinct forms of endearments they use. Janet Evanovich’s Ranger calls Steph “babe” and oh my God does it work for him. And JD Robb’s Roarke calls Eve his “darling” in that too die for Irish accent. But each of these names are so deeply ingrained in my head as Steph and Eve, they’re off limits to me.

And everything else is sounding cheesy. Or maybe I’m just hungry.

So help. My question is this — and let’s make it twofold for shits and giggles, shall we? Tell me what names your significant others have called you, and then tell me what your fave is. In the real world, and in fiction, or just in general.

Go.

One of those weeks

August 21, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

This is my last week with Middle living at home. She leaves for college on Thursday.

I am not ready. That is all I can say about that because whenever I try to say more, I get something in my eye. Dammit. There really aren’t enough cookies for this…

Great first impressions

August 19, 2011 | Filed under: Stuff

You know it’s going to be an interesting day when your first glimpse of your new neighbor is him peeing in the woods. Good times.

Yes, this really happened yesterday.

And I really really really hope that he doesn’t know my name or that I have a blog.

How about you? Most awkward moment? If you’re like me, and you have at least one awkward moment a day, just pick your favorite. Go.