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New Bundle: JCP Sampler

May's JCP News is live! I'm rolling out a special JCP Sampler for readers new to my writing who'd like to try the various series. There's also a little treat on the PsyCop site.

Sad news: I've had to cancel my UK Meet participation this year because of a scheduling conflict in July. GRL in Atlanta is still on--hopefully I will get to meet lots of you there!

Sadder news: I've botched the coding on the "update your preferences" link YET AGAIN. I've done some heavy research and I will get the damn link right next month!

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Channeling Morpheus Special: Payback $1

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The guy who’d wanted the light was smiling. Still standing practically on top of me, too. Staring me right in the eye.

You’d think that would be all. He asked for a light. I didn’t have one. And then he would move on. But maybe it was more than that. Maybe he’d just been looking for an excuse to talk.

He slid himself onto the barstool beside mine. I did my best to look nonchalant. He was…amazing. Tall and lean, with ripped up jeans and spiked blond hair, earrings, a snake tattoo on his neck and chipped black nail polish. And he wanted to talk to me.

Couldn’t I have run into him any other night? Like, a night that I didn’t already have a date with a vampire?

“Got a name, Mister Lung Association?” he asked me.

“Michael.”

“Michael, Michael, Motorcycle.” He tucked his cigarette behind his ear and shook my hand. Well, more like he jammed his hand toward me, and I either had to shake it or be knocked off the barstool. “Wild Bill.”

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Fab Cabin! JCP's b-day in the woods!

I had a most excellent adventure for my birthday this year, joined by clarelondon and our fabulous friends Cindi, Mike, David and Marc. I've always wanted to vacation in a cabin. Weather was forecast to be 60 degrees in Wisconsin all weekend. So, of course, it ended up looking like this:
Since Clare was visiting from the UK, I told her not to worry about bringing spare sweaters or coats, since I was driving and I'd bring her some of mine. And then I was so busy packing the car and so excited to see her, I proceeded to FORGET the bag that held my clothes. However, the cabins were beautiful, we had a roaring fire, and I was undaunted.

Elvis greeted us outside Denny's the next morning. I was pleased such a prominent American luminary turned up to welcome Clare to the midwest.


Back at the cabin, games and hijinks ensued. I'm not a gloating winner...no, not at all!

Friends love you even when you forget your clothes and scream like a banshee when you win the game

We also snuck in a little trip to the Ho-Chunk nation, to view the cultural and ethnic, uh...ok, we went to the casino to eat at the buffet and play a few slots.

Clare won 10¢ - don't tell customs.

I was treated to not one birthday celebration, but two! First, the traditional and mortifying all-sing where the staff pours out of the back and scares the crap out of you...

And then, back at the cabin, the flaming malt loaf. This may be more of a British tradition.

Such a fantastic weekend it tuckered me right out.

Sigh...I miss you guys already.

Now Where's this Train Go?

Argh, I just had such a dumb dream. I was in Chicago trying to take the El somewhere, and it was one of those obvious stations like Belmont that I've been to a million times. But I was in line for a ticket and I didn't know how the tickets worked anymore. I ended up having to get in line twice, and the second time around when it took my cash it printed out handwritten slips of paper and play money instead of train tickets. I finally got up on the platform and realized, as I was getting on the train, I didn't even know which direction it was going.

What a relief when Puffy initiated my wakeup pester.

JCP News April 2013

I'm back from turning 45 in a cabin in the snowy woods! Best birthday EVER.

My April newsletter just hit inboxes - it features a Sticks & Stones Crash flash fic called Half Off.

Also, a heady three-way kiss from Payback made Saucy Wenches Book Club quote of the day this week!

Turbulence Collection ebook giveaway

Hop over to Elisa Rolle's LJ and comment for a chance to win an ebook copy of the Turbulence Collection.

Your Update is Being Installed...

The very large, very old iMac that I thought was going to die two years ago finally bit the dust. I thought if I needed a new graphics card, it was a matter of the repairman popping one in. Alas, it’s soldered to the motherboard and it’s not cost-effective to replace.

I took a look at how many hours a day I spend seated, and I’ve been keen on using my standing desk again, where the now-dead computer was in residence. The standing desk has fallen by the wayside, which I can tell by the way the room seemed to clutter up while I wasn’t looking. I don’t want to move my big graphics computer there, since it’s impractical to stand while I’m working on graphics. But since I’ve got a billion computers, I figured I’d set up something else for now.

There’s a part in one of the early PsyCop stories where Vic starts his crappy laptop and it downloads updates for half an hour. Well, evidently I’m using Vic’s laptop now. Not only did it download updates for half an hour last night, but this morning I accidentally uninstalled Scrivener when I meant to be uninstalling the old beta versions of the program…and then it effing updated anti-virus for another half hour. AAAAGH.

I think it’s done now. One can only hope.

Mustache Brothers

Dang, it's been a long, long, long winter. It was still snowing here as of yesterday. (Maybe even today...haven't looked outside yet.) I spotted this random image in my iPhoto folder and got very homesick for summer. Is that a thing? Summer-sick? I'm feeling it now.

I can't wait for Circus World's summer season to begin. It feels like it's a million years away.


I wonder how the Ringling brothers told one another apart. All I'd be seeing is "the guy with the mustache. Oh wait, it's the other guy."

Glamor Shot

Tongue out, check. One eye open, check. Asleep? Yup.

Many computers, one writer

I tend to feel a bit puzzled when I see that someone's computer died and took everything with it. I'm one person. I'm embarrassed to say that not only do I have redundant automatic backup, I have five computers.

One was supposed to run my TV and that thing stopped working right away. I've never had luck with ASUS machines. I don't know what to do with it. One is an old XP laptop that runs really slow and wrist-burning hot. The other is a slightly less old XP laptop that I use whenever I need to run something that doesn't run on mac. Then I have my old big iMac and my new big iMac. I bought the new big iMac when the old one was looking at retirement and starting to throw funky lines of colorful stuff across the monitor. I figured it was mostly dead. It surprised me, then, and ran for a couple more years!

Until today. However, I've become attached to it as my "standing desk" computer and I think I'll just see if it needs its graphics card replaced. iMacs run hot too, and sometimes parts of them fry. But they're very fixable.

Anyway, it feels really good to feel like I can fix stuff at my leisure rather than "OMG I JUST LOST MY LIVELIHOOD." Even the document I was working on when old iMac went funkadelic was automatically saved, cos scrivener is awesome that way.