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On the Fifth day of Squirrelmas, My true Love Gave To Me

Nathan doing his best to be sexy for Vince. Did it work?

On the Fourth Day of Squirrelmas, My True Love Gave to Me

A backrub from the sexiest massage therapist that Nathan has ever met. (Not that he has wide acquaintance with massage therapists, but he’s head over tail for Vince.)

Also, I have a guest post today at Joyfully Jay. Hopefully the Rafflecopter will work.

On the Third Day of Squirrelmas, My True Love Gave to Me

That feeling when you know you’re the most important person in the world to that special someone in your life.

Be good to each other.

#Rainbow Snippets : Nuts About You

Nuts About You is a novelette of mine, coming out on January 7. It’s the story of Nathan the weresquirrel, his crush on one of the customers at the Bulk Mart that Nathan works in, and the Night Of The Fateful Shoe. This excerpt comes from a chapter titled “The Watcher in the Bird Feeder”; It’s safe for work.

Next week’s won’t be.

On The Second Day of Squirrelmas, My True Love Gave to Me

A story of heartwarming kindness.

It’s the story of Mittens the squirrel. He was found at the side of the road, possibly the victim of a hit-and-run. He has some brain damage, and probably wouldn’t have made it, except for the kindness and care of Chris and his wife, who took Mittens in and have been looking after him. They fed him with a syringe, and got medicine for him from a local wildlife rehabilitator. Six days after taking him home, he was walking–although with difficulty–and eating, but he still needed help to drink.

Now he lives in the couple’s Christmas tree.

Original Buzzfeed Article

Original Reddit thread (yes, there’s a reddit forum for squirrels)

I grabbed this picture from the Buzzfeed article:



So that’s Mittens.

And there’s your Squirrelmas heartwarming story. I’m sure these are the kind of tales told around the Christmas tree in squirrel families.

On the First Day of Squirrelmas, My True Love Gave to Me

The aftermath of squirrel New Year’s Eve.

I do hope that Vince is around to pick him up and take him home.

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Nathan’s been crushing on one of his regular Bulk Mart customers for a while now. In squirrel form, he sits on Vince’s bird feeders, munching on seeds and enjoying the eye candy. Until the day Vince notices him raiding the feeder…

On pre-order now! Releases January 7. And it’s got a 50% rebate at ARe for today.

Happy New Year! What are your plans?

2015 saw me finally get back into my writing stride–sort of. When I look back at my spreadsheet, I see lots of months with daily average wordcounts below 500. When I look into the months, there are far too many days where I wrote nothing. But still, somehow, I made my wordcount goal–185,000 words. Not a huge amount, given that there are many people out there who regularly get over 500,000, or even a million, but it was a good goal for me. The same number of words I wrote in the last year before my husband passed away and life kind of went off the rails.

So not bad.

This year, I’m going to bump that up a little bit. Not much, just to 215,000, but the goal is to set the bar just a little farther than I know I can reach. My actual wordcount for 2015 was 202,000, so the new goal seems reasonable. I’m also going to plot a lot more. I think I’m getting the hang of it, although I’m still a total amateur, but it worked really well for Flesh Market, and seems to be working for Worship the Moon.

My specific bookwriting plans for this year are to finish Moon and Alpha Squirrel, which have already been started. Then I need to start from scratch with Proud Flesh (Bodies and Souls 2) and The Wall Nuts (Nutty Romances 3). Once those are done, there’s the third Bodies and Souls, and a third Witches and Wolves, neither of which have permanent names yet, though B&S 3 is going under the project name Weregild. And somewhere in there, I want to finish off the second world fantasy The Emperor’s Favorite, and lay out the plot for a goofy Halloween story about a guy who inherits a rundown German castle from a dead friend, who then shows up with all his ghost buddies. Hijinks ensue.

As for immediate stuff? The Seven Days of Squirrel start tomorrow, wherein I shall bombard you with pictures and memes of squirrels doing weird things that make me laugh, in honor of Nathan’s and Vince’s re-release into the wild on Thursday.

So that’s it for me. What do you plan to do differently this year? Where are you going to stretch or redirect yourself? What personal bests are you going to leave behind in the dust?

It’s getting late here now and I can hear my pillow calling to me. Good night, sweet dreams, and I wish you a squirrely New Year.

All Romance Best Seller! Nuts About You is #49!

Haha, you don’t normally see people getting excited about being #49 on a list, but I’m absolutely chuffed, to borrow the British saying. Nuts About You is still on pre-sale, but people seem to be entertained enough by the concept to buy it anyway. I think everyone will be happy when they get their copy–anyone who’s ‘met’ Nathan thinks he’s adorable.

And I’ve just made arrangements with the editor for the sequel to Nuts About You, called Rise of the Alpha Squirrel, where Nathan has to find his inner alpha to defend against all the shifters who want to take their chances with Nathan’s hot man.

Nathan’s been crushing on one of his regular Bulk Mart customers for a while now. In squirrel form, he sits on Vince’s bird feeders, munching on seeds and enjoying the eye candy. Until the day Vince notices him raiding the feeder…

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Nathan's afraid to introduce Vince to other shifters. After all, who wouldn't want to steal good-enough-to-lick-all-over Vince? But Fate--and boyfriends--have a way of cracking all your best laid plans.

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Nuts About You is in the Top 5 Rom Coms at ARe!

Woohoo! Thank you all for your faith in my little story. I love Nathan, and Vince, and the two of them together are adorable squared.

(And omg, look who else is on that list! I don’t think I’ve ever been on a list with Josh Lanyon before. I need to go lie down…)

NUTS ABOUT YOU

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Nathan’s been crushing on one of his regular Bulk Mart customers for a while now. In squirrel form, he sits on Vince’s bird feeders, munching on seeds and enjoying the eye candy. Until the day Vince notices him raiding the feeder…

Fireworks is Live!

I’ll admit it, I kind of screwed up. Trying to upload to different places and different times, so it would show up on the right day, and all the resellers had their act together and it’s popping up all over the place. So, if you read Sexmas and want to finally see where Carter works, or watch Thilo being so earnest you kind of want to smack him, it’s available here: