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May 17, 2016
Temptation Tuesday – Bearing The Ink
It’s finally coming…
Bryson City, North Carolina. It was her home. It was her childhood. Now it’s the key to a horribly reality.
Poachers. Unscrupulous hunters take the lives of full blood animals and shifters alike. Sport for most. Revenge for one.
Confronted by a man she believed to be dead, Bex, her newfound family, and Gus by her side, face down a stunning realization that nothing is as it seems and dots connect pasts to presents.
They’re all targets. They’re all in danger.
But love conq...
April 26, 2016
Expectations and The Wrong Words On The Page
I canceled the pre-order for The Billionaire’s Heiress. All of you know that by now. Some of you have emailed me about it and I appreciate your understanding.
The book wasn’t ready. The words were all wrong. I hated the characters. And I hated the circles I’d written, revised, edited, and re-written myself into. I wouldn’t put out a book that I hated.
There are penalties, of course. Loss of readers who might have wanted to try my work. The loss of pre-order privilege at Amazon for a year. Bo...
April 25, 2016
Glass Houses and Shit!
Kyle and Samantha Busch, image courtesy of FoxSports, Nascar. Related artlcle: http://www.foxsports.com/nascar/shake...
Yes, I said Shit. I’ll say it again. SHIT!
Wondering why? Okay, a little background…
During the Nascar race yesterday in Richmond, on the last lap, Kyle Busch was about to win. He was THIS close. He was bumped and moved out of the way by his teammate, Carl Edwards, who went o...
April 18, 2016
Music Monday – Born This Way by Lady Gaga
The woman has her own style, you can’t deny that… And there’s depth and soul to what she says in all her music… And she’s brave, she’s out there, and she’s beautiful.
And her message… Be who you are….
April 4, 2016
Music Monday – Centuries by Fall Out Boy
I’m Back! Miss me? I fell off the wagon but I’m catching up…
~lissa
February 29, 2016
Music Monday – Election Day
I don’t usually wax political on my blog and I’m not going to start now, however; given the current climate and that it’s an election year…
~lissa
February 26, 2016
Author Friday – Samhain Publishing Closing Its Doors
This news was announced this afternoon and it has come as a shock and a heartbreaker for many, if not all of Samhain Publishing’s authors, editors, cover artists, and readers. It’s a devastating feeling. Though I haven’t published with them in a couple of years, as fate would have it, I had a couple of titles planned for submission for them this year. One of those is Abe’s Law, Book 3 in my Bar Next Door series. With Samhain closing, I will not be able to submit the book to them and will have...
February 25, 2016
10K Weekends For Writers – Week 8
The weeks are going by faster and faster. It’s a wonder anything gets done at all. Especially this week. It was my birthday Monday and I didn’t do anything. My son came down with the flu this morning and it’s been a little rough. Hopefully, he’ll be better in the next few days.
I spent today working with pencil and paper and I’m always surprised how it helps the thoughts come out a little different. I’m always surprised by how much I can write when I do so on paper. I also wrote a bit in Eve...
February 23, 2016
Temptation Tuesday – The Billionaire’s Heiress
I placed a kiss on her shoulder and pushed inside her. She was still tight, still wet from the all night sex – in every position on every available surface – marathon. Dawn was just breaking the sky.
I’d taken one look at her last night in the restaurant bar and made an instant, insane decision. I’d already been stood up by my business partner and didn’t feel like going home batting zero for a thousand.
No, I’d wanted the woman standing nearest the door, looking for all the world like she w...
February 22, 2016
Music Monday – New Moon On Monday
Today is my birthday and as such, I am picking a song at random. It is one of my forever favorite songs and it’s by my first head over heels in love with them all but especially Nick Rhodes fangirl crushes, Duran Duran.
My birthday always makes me nostalgic and I tend to think back on all the birthdays before. I went to see Duran Duran in 1984 on the Seven and the Ragged Tiger tour and the birthday I had just a few months before was to be the last happy birthday that I would have for the next...
