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Eyecandy Monday

Today the weather has turned hot. So hot that in fact I didn't put any clothes on until 3pm.
I still drank coffee though ;-)

Galley slave

Well, after all these months, suddenly everything is happening RIGHT NOW!

I am about to start the final galley edits on Cover Him with Darkness, and apply the last touches.
This is my final job. After that, the book is done and I cannot change anything.
Oh, the responsibility...


There are angel wings in the page-breaks!
:-D

Horny handed ... if only

Two wheelie bins filled with hacked up bamboo ... results in a load of blisters.
Damn it, I'm going soft. I used to have hands like trowels, I tell you. I could cut down trees with a karate chop.

Still, doing this is a lot better for me than slumping in defeat over my keyboard and weakly cursing Pinterest/my website host/Yahoo mail, which has been my main pastime the rest of this week.

There is nothing that stresses me out faster than tech going wrong. Argh.
Sometimes I think I may be in the wrong job...

Order, order!

Did you know, if you pre-order a book on Amazon they apparently order three more into stock? Pre-ordering genuinely helps authors get distribution and notice.


Coincidentally (ahem) I now have TWO books available for pre-order ... and double-coincidentally, yes, they're both due out on October 14th!
Yay!

Fierce Enchantments is my third collection of red-hot erotica shorts:

Amazon UK : Amazon US


Cover Him with Darkness is my latest paranormal erotic romance novel:
Amazon UK : Amazon US

Eyecandy Monday

I just handed in my copy-edits for Cover Him with Darkness :-)
Time for a celebratory glass of wine, eh?

Dang, he sure has purdy eyes

I'm catching up with Deadwood at the moment. I rather like Seth Bullock.

Partly because he's one of the very few characters in the first series that could reasonably be described as a physically attractive human being, but also because he has seethy eyes. He constantly looks like he's trying to hold back a tidal wave of rage.




There has to be Seth/Sol slash out there somewhere, surely?

One night stand

This is the night stand on my side of the bed ... and these are all the books on my "to read" heap :-(


Yes, I buy WAY too many books.

And if you are an author scanning this photo in order to spot your own titles - all I can say is Sorry. I read really slowly :-(
Blame Facebook...

Cover Him with Red Ink

And this, gentle reader, is why we need human editors and not just automated spell-checkers:

The ULTIMATE author nightmare. No, really, I'd have contemplated topping myself if this were mine.So anyway, this week I have been tackling line-edits for Cover Him with Darkness. It's not an unpleasant task at all, I find - this is the stage where we dot the 'i's and cross the 't's, and there are no big sweeping changes or re-writes to worry about. I'm just polishing, really. But I do have to concentrate, so it's not the sort of thing I can do late into the evening.

Caffeine is my friend. My bestest friend, hoo boy yeah yeah yeah!
I had a marketing meeting with Cleis yesterday about the book too - via Skype. It went really well, I thought. They are putting in so much work behind the scenes! And they are the first publisher I've had who are arranging my blog tour for me. YAY! Excuse me a moment while I weep with gratitude ... and I do mean that :-)

Oh, for those who wonder ... it's pronounced "Clee-is." It's only taken me a decade to find out!

Eyecandy Monday

I thought these went well together :-)

Here am I