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Friday Recipe: Hot Cross Buns

This came in my email and as I've never tried hot cross buns, I thought I would. They look delicious (and in fact they were!) But they're rolls. No seriously, they're hot rolls. As much as I'm all about baking it myself, it takes a hell of a lot less time to make the Grands biscuits.

OK, they don't have the icing on them but still. They're hot, they're yummy, and they take 10 minutes. 12 minutes if you have trouble opening the container! None the less, here's the recipe for those non-holiday s...

Weekly Goal #14

Just because it's Wednesday does not mean I can't have a goal for the rest of the week. Believe me when I say I'd rather skip it but I like having goals. I like making them better than planning/missing them but I find that small goals push me to at least get those finished.

It's better than complaining about not moving forward!

So despite the mid-week-ness of it all, here are my goals for the first week in April, no foolin':


Chapters 1-4 of Aycliff's Vow (Chapter 1 is 98% finished)
Fiddle around...

New Release: Janine Ashbless

Red Grow the Roses by Janine Ashbless

Blurb:

"Maybe you'll be lucky. Maybe he's not human. He'll take you in his arms and you'll feel his strength – a strength that makes it impossible to fight him. But you've already lost the will to resist, that moment he looked into your eyes and showed you all his hunger and his promise. You knew then. You knew that this is what you are for – what we are all for – with our warm beating hearts and our aching sexual needs.

We are for them."

There are six...

Game of Thrones

Did you watch it? Have you anticipated it as much as I have? (Do you even know what I'm talking about?)

Game of Thrones...by far the best miniseries/TV show of the year. And it's only episode one. Last season I sat glued to my couch every Sunday at 9 to watch it and was never disappointed. Hell, I bought HBO for those however-many-weeks just to watch it! This season I plan to do the same. So on Sunday nights...you'll know where I'm at!

Winter is Coming

In case you missed it last year (my how the time flies!) I'm seriously addicted to Game of Thrones . Not just because of my love for Sean Bean but also because I adore any fantasy movie/series like this. LOTR? So there...own it on DVD in the 4 disc extended version.

Such is my level of geekdom.

But is it romantic? There's romance. There's even love, deep abiding love. And there's loads of sex. But it could never be mistaken for a romance. Never. It's well suited for the fantasy category! But wha...

Today I'm over at D.C. McMillen

And talking about a variety of things. I was offered the choice: Anything I wanted!

Um...

OK sure!

What sorts of fascinating topics did I have? Words with Friends addiction? Twitter App addiction? Seemed like a bad theme of addiction, so I decided to skip that.

Then it hit me; duh! I could talk about my new release, Covet: A Regency Ménage Tale. So I whittled down a excerpt, scouted for an acceptable avatar for my photo, and talked about 5 things on my bucket list.

Guest: Doris O'Connor

The unexpected series by Doris O'Connor

The Lure series didn't start as a series. It didn't even start as a paranormal. It was supposed to be a short erotic piece about a pole dancer who is watched by a mysterious stranger. Then that stranger, (Lucas) announced he was in fact a vampire and the pole dancer's boss (Ion) announced that he was a wolf shifter and …err…yes…lol.

If you haven't guessed by now I'm a panster. I hold on for the wild ride and go where the characters lead me. Once Ion had m...

Today I'm at Adriana Kraft's

And I've been interviewed ! Check out the awesome questions and ask one of me to be entered to win a PDF of Covet: A Regency Ménage Tale. The truest torment is wanting something you know you can never have. Charlotte Tremaine knew this feeling all too well. She covets the freedom to do as she pleases, but has never let herself dream of being with the man she loves. The problem is, she loves two men.
For the last three years, Charlotte has survived her stifling home life by living through...

Weekly Goal #13

Where has the time gone? I always heard about how time goes faster when you're older, but frankly I'm not that much older (am I?) and these days and months are zipping on by.

I hate to have a goal of stepping back and enjoying life, it seems like something that should just happen, but every once in a while I think e need to be reminded to literally stop and smell the roses. Or in my case (since I planted no roses) the many daffodils and tulips I do have. Most of which are blooming already and ...

Friday Recipe: Bread

I'm not really into making bread. Don't get me wrong, I love homemade bread. It's the time factor. Even with a bread maker it's still the time factor. But then I saw this cool book at the library (where I get a lot of books I'm not sure if I want to buy) and thought maybe...maybe I'll give it a shot.
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods by Jennifer Reese

So I went to my favorite recipe site and found a si...