Ava March's Blog, page 16

The Magic Touch

As it turns out, I didn't need hubby to pull files off my old laptop's hard drive. All I needed was one bored kidlet. I had set the old laptop on the couch in the basement (serving as a sort of visual reminder to hubby that I needed him to work on it) and it drew the kidlet's attention today. As she peppered me with questions ('Can I have it?' 'No. It's broken.' 'What's wrong with it?' 'It died'....), she opened the lid and started messing with it (i.e. randomly pushing buttons).
And the damn ...

One Step Closer

I just finished writing chapter 7 of His Client (go me!!). It had lots of kissing and other fun stuff in it, so I thought the above cookie would be fitting. Other than being one more chapter closer to finishing the book, I don't have much to report. The next few weekends should be pretty uneventful for me (with the exception of Father's Day this Sunday - must celebrate the wonderful hubby *g*). So hopefully I'll be able to get a lot of writing done and get Jasper and Nate's book done by the ...

Story Behind the Story - Most Likely to Succeed by Shawn Lane

Stats: submitted to Amber Quill 0n 02/04/09. AQ is different but contract was processed on 02/19/09. Published 04/11/09.

Originally, Most Likely to Succeed was supposed to be part of an Amber Pax collection with the theme of Business Matters, but not enough authors signed up for the theme to create a Pax. Fortunately, Amber Quill used my story anyway, because for a long time it was my best seller there and on All Romance eBooks. It was the number one best seller for the month of April 2009.


Lit...

Updates and Bloggy Plans

I'm happy to report the begging worked. *g* Shawn Lane is going to do a Story Behind the Story post on Most Likely To Succeed sometime this weekend. Be sure to check back in the next couple of days to get the scoop on Thomas and Clark's book. Devon Rhodes and Stephani Hecht also agreed to do posts. Not sure which books yet or when (I left it up to them), but definitely in the near future. Somewhere in there I'll do posts for Convincing Arthur and Object of His Desire . So that's the very...

Story Behind the Story - Bound by Deception

I was mulling over ideas for blog posts the other day and decided to start a new topic - Story Behind the Story . The idea is to share background information on specific books. Little known facts, pre-publication stuff, how a book came to be written, etc, and also answer any questions from readers. I'm thinking nothing long or extensive. Just snippets of info people might find interesting. I'm planning to invite author friends to come visit and do posts on their own books. So it won't be just ...

A Productive Vacation

I'm back from vacation and rockin' the house wireless connection. I love you internet! I shall never take a strong connection for granted again. I've got Pretty all loaded with my backup files. The backup CDs included my ebooks file - yeah! - but didn't include my cover art/photoshop file :( The inlaws are shipping the dead laptop to me since I didn't want to lug it on the plane or pay to check it at the airport. So it will be a few days before I find out if hubby can pull my data off the...

Meet Pretty

Meet Pretty! He's my shiny new laptop. I will admit, he wasn't a 'planned' addition to the family. My other laptop died today. One minute I was typing away on chapter 6 of His Client (finished chapter 5 last night - go me!), and the next...nothing. Seriously. Just died in mid-sentence. Went completely black. No power, no blue-screen-of-death. Nothing. Hubby thinks something 'blew' in it (yeah, he's an IT guy and he used that oh, so technical term). No amout of removing the battery...

Rockin' the Tutu

It's an absolutely beautiful day here - 80 degrees and sunny. Another bonus feature of my 'office' (besides the fact it's very peaceful and quiet) is that I can open the garage door on days like today. So nice to be able to sit and write with a lovely breeze.
Writing-wise it hasn't been terribly productive. It's only Sunday afternoon, so there's still hope I can make some nice progress before the weekend is officially over. I got bit by Devon's plot bunnies yesterday afternoon as I was...

Inspiration

I've been a busy writer this weekend. Finished up a chapter in His Client last night, and jumped ahead to the last chapter and did some work on it. Smex scenes are the hardest for me to write. I just finished a chapter that is one long smex scene, took me almost a week to write it, and what did I decide to work on tonight? More smex. Odd, the way I get inspired to write smex when I don't need to do it right at that moment. I didn't argue with the muse, though. ;)
Speaking of smex and...

Links, News, Laughs & a Pretty

Congrats to Devon Rhodes on the release of Neighbors by Day, Naughty by Night !! It's her new m/m/m story, which can be found in the Necking anthology.

For any fellow authors out there who haven't stopped by Shawn Lane's blog today, she has a great post on how you should just Don't Do It .
Another head's up for fellow authors (this time, for GBLT authors). Rainbow Romance Writers, a Romance Writers of America online specialty chapter, will soon open their first published author contest . Yes...