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Christmas Eve Dinner

It's been a while since I posted foodie topics. It's impossible to go out to eat when you have a two year-old child.

Anyway, Hero Material and I finally (!!!!) got a chance to revisit our favorite French Bistro tonight for the glorious night out!

sparkling wine

first course

appetizer with pate and other delish things

fish course

meat course

dessert -- the best chocolate in town...OMG...

What are you having for Christmas?

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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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Guest Blogs, Reviews, Interviews and Appearances for Dec 26 - Jan 22

DATE
BLOG


12/26/2013
Book Boyfriend Reviews

The Book Vamps

Ex-Libris


12/27/2013
Unputdownable Books

Fabulously Girly Book Blog


12/30/2013
Crystal's Many Reviews

Mia's Point of View

Nyxx's Nook


12/31/2013
Queen of the Night Reviews


1/1/2013
My Fiction Nook


1/2/2013
HEA Romances with a Little Kick


1/3/2013
Hooked in a Book

Because Reading is better than real life


1/6/2013
Book Reviews & More by Kathy

Nerd Girl


1/7/2013
In the Pages of a Good Book


1/8/2013
Offbeat Vagabond


1/9/2013
USA Today HEA Blog

Deal Sharing Aunt


1/10/2013
Trips Down Imagination Road


1/13/2013
Brooke Blogs


1/14/2013
Bookkins


1/15/2013
There's This Book


1/16/2013
The Consummate Reader


1/17/2013
As the Pages Turn


1/20/2013
Reading Bliss


1/21/2013
Words of Wisdom

Book Harlots


1/22/2013
Gigi's Book Blog



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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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Website Update Fail

It's generally helpful to delete WP cache so the new design shows up properly, instead of hyperventilating about why the changes made to the site isn't showing up on any other device except my master computer (which has the admin access to the site). :sigh:

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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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Never Underestimate...

Never underestimate The Boy's capacity for creating laundry. 4 loads today alone...

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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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December 2013 Update

Sorry, it's been so long since I let you know what I've been up to. I know the last "monthly" update was August.

So this is going to be sort of a year-end review plus my plans for the rest of the year and early 2014.

2013 has been the Year of Never-Ending Construction Projects. I'll be so happy when I don't have to wake up to the noise of people drilling into concrete walls. But the good thing is that my health has been generally good, especially compared to last year when both Hero Material and I were sick for something like nine months.

So that means I've been more productive this year. I wrote 3 books (2 full-length novels and 1 novella) and just finished drafting another novel. They're all in the same series, which is going to be released early next year along with the relaunch of Carnal Secrets. I decided that the title and the cover just don't work -- too many people seem to think that because there's "carnal" in the title the book is erotic or something. Hence the change.

So here's the series information --

Series Name: Hearts on the Line

First Book: Vengeful in Love (previously Carnal Secrets; Natalie Hall & Alex Damon; hot billionaire boss w/ a secret agenda romance) -- to be relaunched in mid- to late December in print and e.

Second Book: Reunited in Love (Kerri Wilson & Ethan Lloyd; reunion, forced close proximity romance) -- early January (print & e)

Third Book: Redemption in Love (Amandine Monroe Lloyd & Gavin Lloyd, Ethan's younger brother; marriage in trouble) -- mid- to late February (print & e)

Fourth Book: Sweet in Love (Brooke de Lorenzo & Pete Monroe; falling for your best friend's younger brother) -- mid- to late March (print & e)

Fifth Book: Forever in Love (Catherine Fairchild Lloyd & Blaine Davis; a fallen gold-digger socialite and a billionaire's bastard bartender son) -- mid- to late April or early May (print & e)

In addition to the above titles, I'm really hoping to release three more books in 2014, all in the contemporary romance genre.

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I promise not to waste your time -- I only use it to send new release info and discount/sales information.

Thanks, and may you all have a great, fulfilling holiday season with your loved ones.

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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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Pete & Brooke - 8,264 words. ...

Pete & Brooke - 8,264 words.

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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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August 2013 Update

It's crazy how 2013 is more than half over. It's crazy...crazy I tell you!

I've been terrible about blogging. Mostly it's due to my being busy with things that required (and drained) a lot of my energy.

Recently, I've been super stressed, and I started taking phosphatidyl serine, which supposedly helps reduce cortisol (a stress hormone). I think it's helping me stay calmer than I would otherwise. It also supposedly boosts brain function, but I haven't noticed anything. However, cognitive benefits were tested on elderly people who had trouble remembering things, and I don't fit the demographic. If you want to try it, you can get a bottle from Amazon. It's not that expensive.

In July, I finished drafting one book (contemporary romance), and I'm working on another book that's tied to it (a novella). I'm hoping to release them all either December 2013 or early in 2014. It's going to depend purely on the editorial schedule and how healthy The Boy is for the rest of the year.

And just for fun -- and I haven't done any self-improvement that's mentally stimulating in a while -- I've decided to study Photoshop on my own. I have a few books on it, and why the heck not? I only did one unit so far, and I've already learned so much. (BTW - one of the books was written and published by Adobe, which called Photoshop "intuitive." *snort*)

On the reading front, I just devoured Ilona Andrews's Magic Rises. It's my favorite Kate Daniels novel now. Really loved it.

The plan is to finish the novella this month and start revising the novel I wrote in July.

I hope everyone's doing well, and have a great August.

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One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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Gavin & Amandine - Finished. Total words: 56,995. ...

Gavin & Amandine - Finished. Total words: 56,995.

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One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

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First Book in Nadia's Ever After Series: FREE!

Get A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1) Free!

Melinda Lightfoot, a preschool teacher with an unusual ability to flit in and out of fairy tales, never thought she would get into trouble...

...until the Fairy Tale Police arrest her while she is in Beauty and the Beast. They offer her a deal: Find Beauty, who left the story when Melinda trespassed into it, or be charged with the ultimate crime -- Fairy Tale Killer. If that's not bad enough the Beast tags along in search of his true love, and Melinda starts falling for the fairy tale prince. She must choose between doing the right thing and having her own happily ever after.

Warning: This title contains the following: Fairy Godmother, the Wicked Witch, dysfunctional fairy tale families, ax-wielding executioners and a happily ever after (or two).

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Available free from the following stores:

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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

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Writing Updates and Life Up Until May

Okay, mea culpa: I have totally neglected my monthly updates. I've had a bushel-basket of crazy real life crises and so on that totally drained all my energy.

My house in America had a water leak right before Christmas. The repairs were supposed to take 3 weeks. They finally ended in mid-April. The flooring had to be redone 2-3 times due to unimaginably bad workmanship by the crew. I can't even count the number of times the drywall had to be looked at again. It was a big challenge to manage it from Japan. I'm just glad it's over though.

The good news on the real-life front is that we moved in late January. We now have a bigger place, still river-front, and close to two big shopping centers. Sadly it's a bit far from Costco, but I'll live, esp. since I now have an actual office.

The new place, however, needed a new kitchen. The previous owner ripped out all the cabinet doors. I have no idea why. No, the doors weren't rotted or anything. And the stove didn't work quite right, and the fish oven/grill was really gross with rust all up inside it. Thankfully, ripping out the old kitchen and putting a new one in was done on time, with no major problems and very minimal supervision. The biggest angst we had with this particular job was deciding on the color of the new flooring.

Then The Boy got the chickenpox--he's okay now--and had some misadventures.

So since I had all these crises and issues, I didn't get to do any serious writing from January until late March. I didn't start writing again until late March, and very slowly, too.

The good news is that the sequel to Carnal Secrets--featuring Ethan and Kerri--are with a couple of betas. I've also outlined the 3rd book in the series featuring Ethan's younger brother, Gavin, so hopefully I'll be able to finish the first draft by summer if not sooner.

I'm hoping to release both titles this year before Christmas. If you want to know and/or get sneak previews, sign up for my newsletter below:

Hope everyone has a lovely May.

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Ever After Bundle: Books 1 & 2

One Kiss (Ever After Book 2)

Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist

The Last Slayer , an Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements

Carnal Secrets , a Contemporary Romance

Destiny Entwined , an Erotic Romance

A Happily Ever After of Her Own (Ever After Book 1)

How to Format Your Manuscript for Kindle and Nook: 3rd Edition



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Happy June, Everyone!