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Comfy Chairs? Yes, Please!

Who doesn't like a comfy chair? Nobody , that's who. The wonderful Elin Gregory invited me to squish myself down in the comfy chair and answer a few pointed questions about books, bears, and I also managed to work beer into the discussion.

Like the alliteration? I'm kind of proud of it.

She asked excellent questions and I tried to live up to them with my answers. If you're interested in the aforementioned topic:


And don't forget the book: (#50 on Amazon short reads!)


Then come over and visit. I'm...

Twitter Takeover? That's not very nice, is it?

Yes, it is I, @AnyPennyH who will be snatching the @Dreamspinners twitter account and leading Le révolution! Sorry, I'm going to see Les Mis in a couple of weeks and I'm somewhat ridiculously excited. But I'm giving books away today, so you should be ridiculously excited. Or not. Free books always give me a book-boner. But I think we have established I'm odd.
 
Twitter Takeover. For one precious hour I become @Dreamspinners. 7pm Central time.

I'll tag my tweets with #DSPtakeover and Stor...

How is Purple Rose like a Tea House?

Quite a puzzler isn't it? Or is it? It isn't.

Because it is one!

The Purple Rose Tea House, managed by the lovely Charlie Cochet, is hosting a guest blog from yours truly. It contains pictures of unknown, never-before-seen on this planet flowers, foreign scenery, and new book giveaway opportunities.

Or maybe that's hyperbole.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

It also has details about Winter's Risk, an excerpt, and my secrets of airbending exercise routine.

And those facts are solid as granite. (Or gravity,...

All the Good Blog Titles Are Taken

Coffee and Porn in the Morning?

HOW GENIUS IS THAT?

What better things could encapsulate a romance blog so perfectly? Nothing , that's what.

Coffee and Porn in the Morning was the very first m/m romance blog I ever followed, so when I decided to kick off the Winter's Risk blog tour there, in their sacred server space, I knew I had to step up my game. Way, way up. It's time for the big leagues...

I've had my ceremonial coffee and browsed through their archives for some hot, sexy pictures to start t...

Winter's Risk Promo Tour

On a scale of one-to-terrifying, organizing a promo tour falls squarely on the terrifying end. But with the encouragement and friendly advice from the brave souls who have gone before, I managed to email strangers and ask if they'd pretty-please mind a guest post. Ten stops is a nice number for a first blog tour, right?

Here is a list of all the lovely sites kind enough to allow me to babble about my new releases.

June 19th  - Cup O' Porn
June 21st  - Purple Rose Tea House
June 24th -...

Winter's Risk and Misadventures of Mislaid Men are finally touchables!

Step right up, step right up! I have important announcements to make. I wrote a thing and now it's an official, book-shaped object that you, my darlings, can buy and read on the electronic device of your choice. Because that's how awesome I am. Kindle, Ipad, all varieties of phone, I got'cha covered.
Isn't it beautiful? Paul Richmond painted the cover and I am in awe how well he captured the book.

'Veteran park ranger Alexander Doyle is tracking a nuisance bear when he runs across obnoxious env...

I Finished a Novel...kinda!

Not a novella, not a short story, a 70k novel! Hurrah! Minimum work-count achieved!
It's done, I'm finished. THE END
Except... I've got these notes in brackets scattered throughout the text...
(Add conversation between Mother and Lily to est. motivation)
(Write bad sex scene between Jasper and ex-boyfriend) <-- This is harder than writing a good sex scene, I'll have you know. Probably why I skipped it in the first place.
(Research courtroom procedure)
(Give Jasper some friends)
(Awkward - re...

Why Won't They Just Talk?

Writers are readers. Huge readers. I started reading romances by nicking my Grandmother's Nora Roberts and LaVyrle Spencer books. Probably younger then I should've, but there were worse ways I could have been spending my childhood, rather than curled up with a good book. Now I'm writing them, isn't that a plot twist?

Ironically enough, the book I'm working on now is the sort of book that drove me batty as a prepubescent, never-been-kissed, reader.

Character A assumes a thing, Character B is hur...

Published!

Who's published? Me, baby! I'm published! Whoohoo!

*ahem*

I'd like to thank the academy- sorry, wrong speech. A long time ago I made a sacred vow not to start blogging about writing until I'd written something worth writing about. As in, someone is going to pay me money for it. There's a contract and everything. That's a good standard, right?

It's been a long time coming (ooh). If you count all the way back to the beginning when I was flailing around with fanfic, it's been about twenty years. I...