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Review for Fugly

Jeff Erno, a lauded m/m author, just notified me of his new review of Fugly. You can read it at MichelenJeff Reviews by clicking on the post title.
I'm speechless. Doubly speechless, because there's a review of The Prayer Waltz just below this one.

About that workman with the great ass . . .

KZ Gets New Carpeting and Kitchen Floor;Dodges Jungle-size Houseplants Looming Over Her Desk

A man has been here for the past three days laying new floor covering pretty much throughout the house, which has been in a complete state of disarray for the past month in preparation for his work.

Was the wait (and the echo) worth it? Was he a hunk in tight, tattered jeans? Did a hint of buttliciousness show when he bent over? Hell, no. I got a 62-year-old man with a beer belly who drank two pots of ...

Sneak Peek

First, the newsreel before the show begins.

KZ Gets New Carpeting and Kitchen Floor;Dodges Jungle-size Houseplants Looming Over Her Desk

A man has been here for the past three days laying new floor covering pretty much throughout the house, which has been in a complete state of disarray for the past month in preparation for his work.

Was the wait (and the echo) worth it? Was he a hunk in tight, tattered jeans? Did a hint of buttliciousness show when he bent over? Hell, no. I got a 62-year-old...

If it's August 2 . . .

It must be time for
fugly

to appearat Liquid Silver Books

Got lucky again!

I am now eagerly awaiting a signed copy of Rick Reed's new Amber Allure collection, On the Edge. WOOOHOOO! (Click on post title to check this book out.)

Some of you might recall me mentioning here and there how addicted I've been to horror fic since I was a kid and how much I also love the eerie psycho-stews concocted by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine. But in the writing of RRR, I can enjoy gay eros in addition to a dose of chiller lit . . . in addition to some damned fine writing.

Perf...

How WAS that cover made?

Okay, the book is coming out next Monday, August 2, from Liquid Silver. But you already know that. What you might not know -- and what I certainly didn't know, because my ignorance about many things cannot be plumbed -- is how this incredible cover was made. (And it was painted . . . with tricks!)

Christine Griffin, the artist, was kind enough to post at LSB's "Coming Soon" forum and explain:

"My background is in traditional media, but when my kids came along, I had to put the paints away...

I can haz book to read!

I've tried a couple lately but couldn't get into them. For example, the highly regarded Perdido Street Station, a fantasy-steampunk rendition of a Hieronymus Bosch painting (that's how it struck me), proved too damned dense--dense with characters and concepts, places and plot points; dense with grotesquerie; dense with words. It's 722 pages' worth of dense. And, yikes, the prose! I felt I was eating my way through a fifty-pound fruit cake. What made it even more trying was that I couldn't con...

So . . .

Here's what's new. I'll keep this on the bright(er) side, since I'm sick to death of the dreaded T word.

First, I apologize for not visiting more blogs more often. Please don't take it personally. I've been busy, and endlessly harassed by you-know-what. I do pop in to see what's up from time to time, but I rarely post anymore. For some weird reason, whenever I use Word Verification or Captcha, those T's seem to get active. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. I don't know; I'm at a loss.

Mobry's...

I feel like an ancient Greek.

Not just because of my age, but because of the trojans I've been battling. Ad-Aware found nine (eight from one class, one from another) on July 9, then two more on July 11. This means that either a.) my computer "repairman" failed to thoroughly purge my hard drive or b.) the new stuff he installed on my system was infected. Needless to say, neither possibility inspires confidence.

Many other things about this dude also fail to inspire confidence, like a.) he admittedly knows nothing about ...

When good things happen to good people...

It just makes me smile. So here, in no particular order, is some really uplifting news about folks I happen to like. (Because, you know, life isn't all about dealing with #%#^&*@#* Word 2007 when all your documents are in Word 2003 and the *%$^#@*! program keeps shutting down because a certain person doesn't know what the eff she's doing and neither does her !*@#*# tech guy!)


Most excellent reviewer Val Kovalin will become most excellent author Val Kovalin when her m/m paranormal, Trinity...