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That R-word thing everyone’s doing today, & the State of the C.

Hello, out there, blogo-romancelandia-writer-sphere!

I hope everyone is recovering from the holidays and 2013 in general.

My year and holiday went out with kind of a fizzle, and that’s perfectly fine by me. Last night, the husband and I had a brief visit to one party, saw some lovely friends, and went home early for a quieter evening together alone. What’s obnoxious is that even in that light, I still managed to have an anxietything. I don’t want to be one of ‘those’ people – who go on and on a...

That Day One of My Geek Crushes RT/Replied to me on the Twitter.

Pls calm your pets RT @CC_Denham: I just startled my animals by gasping loudly. What in the fuck are you doing to me #AgentsofSHIELD

— Clark Gregg (@clarkgregg) December 11, 2013

Just had to save this for posterity. I’m not creepin’. Not at all.

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On anxiety, radio silence, and being a nutcase writer/artistic-type

First off, Happy Thanksgiving Day for us U.S. folks. That’s all I’ll say on it, since we’re already plenty flooded with holiday crap and Black Friday/Cyber-Monday jibberjabber.

Secondly, a disclaimer – the things I’m about to say here in no way are meant to indicate that I agree with, or think it’s okay for authors to behave poorly toward readers. Also, this might get long.

Okay, so.

I flopped out of NaNoWriMo this year.The Beard *might* get finished and into editing by Christmas, but it also mi...

Yummy Monday

I’ll just leave this here.

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Woooooo! Halloween music rec and NNWM

Happy Hallowe’en/Samhain/All Hallows Eve, y’all!

What can I say? My inconsistency is as regular and predictable as the tides. In all seriousness, though, I’ve had to step up the game on my dayjob work. My evening hours have been largely writing actual story stuff, and setting up a website for my piano business. Hopefully once that’s wrapped up, though, I’ll be able to get my head more regularly involved with an authorial blog presence.

In the meantime, I wanted to share with you my latest music...

Updates. And my first bona fide book-blog review!

Last weekend I took several days to house- and pet-sit for my mom, so she could visit with my brother (and go sailing with him on his boat in the beautiful weather, damn them both, but not really).

Mom lives in the mountains. Not where I grew up, although I grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains. And while I always claim Boston as my “home” - the first place I ever really feltat home and comfortable, something about those mountains always sings to me. And right now? Right now I’m in none of those...

Humpday Hotties and Toybox Horrors, or, “How to Cure a Tentacle Fetish.”

And here I was worried I was going to blow my load with this whole Wednesday Toybox thing.

Look, I’m not about kinkshaming (seriously – if you looked at my browsing history…). I mean, I could go on about why some of us find tentacle porn to be hawt. I could even link ya. So, I was feeling all clever and shit when I decided this week I’d find some tentacular toys to share. Instead, something strange happened. I got… grossed out.

I think it’s maybe because these are inanimate objects and just… no...

Wednesday Toybox / Humpday Hottie

I’m feeling a little dubious about today’s toybox picks. Maybe I’m just in a cynical mood or something, but they both seem a little silly and / or overpriced. Then again, this isn’t a review series so much as a look around at what’s out there. That said, let’s take a look first at the Leaf company. More vibes that don’t look like vibes. Leaf seems to be going for the ‘nature’ (as opposed to natural) look. I can’t help but imagine someone with too much money (or an endorsement, *cough*) making...

White Noise / Grey Matter / Monochrome Blahs

This was bouncing around my FaceBook feed recently. It’s just something I need to remember. You know, the reasons why we write.

The other morning, I woke up briefly from dreaming about listening to this man. And made a very strong mental note to go back and listen to more Kevin Gilbert again.

It’s just – I’ve been so disconnected and scattered and numb lately. It’s really fucking hard to make yourself write, or practice piano, or even read or listen when you’re in that place. And the problem co...

Wednesday Toybox, sans Toys.

Sorry, y’all – I’m calling this one in and just making it a humpday hottie. I have the FIL coming at some unknown time, I’m in a funk, and I need a shower and not in a good way.

WTF with the FIL, though. I’ve been part of this family for going on 8 years, and my husband’s parents still mystify me. They’re not bad people – I do love them, and even like them here and there. The FIL is a character – sometimes in a good way, other times in a completely fucking exasperating way. Like the fact that...