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Vlog: (Tip 1) Handy Tip for Life

Michelle M. Pillow: (Tip 1) Handy Tip for Life

Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.

Tip 1: How to handle cooking for Thanksgiving

Michelle’s YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow

About Michelle:

Michelle M. Pillow, Author of All Things Romance™, is a multi-published (over 70 published books!) , award-winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. Ever since she can remember, she has had a strange fascination with anything supernatural–ghosts, magical powers, and oh… vampires. What could be more alluring than being immortal, all-powerful, and eternally beautiful? After discovering historical romance novels, it was only natural that the supernatural and love/romance elements should someday meet in her wonderland of a brain. She’s glad they did for their children have been pouring onto the computer screen ever since.

She has been on the Amazon bestseller list multiple times, nominated for the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2011, the winner of the 2006 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, nominated for the 2007 RT Award, a Brava Novella Contest Finalist and a PAN member of RWA.

Publishers include everything from Indie to small press to big NY pubs: Random House, Virgin Books, Rouge (Ebury), Pocket Books, The Raven Books, Adams Media, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain, Running Press, Robinson, etc

Michelle is a journalist for Paranormal Underground Magazine. She has a BGS in History/Business with an English Minor, and a Photography degree. In 2009 she and fellow author Mandy M. Roth started their own highly successful self-publishing endeavor named The Raven Books.

Readers can contact her through her author website http://www.MichellePillow.com

For photography, visit http://www.PrettyPoisonPhotography.com

Join her email newsletter at http://www.michellepillow.com/newsletter/?p=subscribe

Visit Author Michelle M. Pillow

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The Raven Books

http://www.TheRavenBooks.com

Dragon Lords 5 His Highness the Duke

Brand New eBook Title (print coming later this year)

His Highness the Duke

by Michelle M Pillow

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Dragon Lords 5

Futuristic Romance

The would-be heroine…

Aeron wants nothing more than to continue to live out her very long, solitary life in a small metal room listening to communications for the Federation Military. It’s not glamorous. It’s not even charming. But it’s safe. There’s no chance of getting hurt.

 When she intercepts a communication about the impeding genocide of the Qurilixian people, she has no choice but to act. No one at the Federation seems inclined to do anything about the threat and suddenly it’s up to her to save a whole planet. Enlisting the help of her degenerate sister, Aeron finds herself signed up as a prospective bride to the very barbarians she’s trying to save.

The man who did not need saved…

High Duke of Draig, Lord Bron, is not looking forward to his seventh failed attempt at a marriage ceremony, but when he sees the lovely Aeron he knows instantly his years of waiting have finally paid off. The gods have blessed him with a life mate… or have they? His new bride is insistent she’s not there for marriage, but for a mission. It’s up to Bron to convince her to stay, or risk spending the rest of his life alone.

Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.

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Vlog: Advice of Aspiring Authors

Michelle M. Pillow: Advice of Aspiring Authors

Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.

Michelle’s YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow

About Michelle:

Michelle M. Pillow, Author of All Things Romance™, is a multi-published (over 70 published books!) , award-winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. Ever since she can remember, she has had a strange fascination with anything supernatural–ghosts, magical powers, and oh… vampires. What could be more alluring than being immortal, all-powerful, and eternally beautiful? After discovering historical romance novels, it was only natural that the supernatural and love/romance elements should someday meet in her wonderland of a brain. She’s glad they did for their children have been pouring onto the computer screen ever since.

She has been on the Amazon bestseller list multiple times, nominated for the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2011, the winner of the 2006 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, nominated for the 2007 RT Award, a Brava Novella Contest Finalist and a PAN member of RWA.

Publishers include everything from Indie to small press to big NY pubs: Random House, Virgin Books, Rouge (Ebury), Pocket Books, The Raven Books, Adams Media, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain, Running Press, Robinson, etc

Michelle is a journalist for Paranormal Underground Magazine. She has a BGS in History/Business with an English Minor, and a Photography degree. In 2009 she and fellow author Mandy M. Roth started their own highly successful self-publishing endeavor named The Raven Books.

Readers can contact her through her author website http://www.MichellePillow.com

For photography, visit http://www.PrettyPoisonPhotography.com

Join her email newsletter at http://www.michellepillow.com/newsletter/?p=subscribe

Visit Author Michelle M. Pillow

http://www.MichellePillow.com

The Raven Books

http://www.TheRavenBooks.com

Holiday Blog Hop – CONTEST for Kindle or Nook, $200 GC, Giant Prize Pack & Christmas Curse ebook by Michelle M Pillow

Michelle M Pillow’s Holiday Wish List

1. Eat pasta in Italy coupled with Cabernet Sauvignon.

2. Continue to avoid watching the movie Avatar while eating pasta.

3. Stay vigilant against the awaiting spider army in my basement. I will not go out like that.

4. Eat pasta in Italy with a nice merlot and accept that carbs are my friends. I will so go out like that.

5. Tell my family and friends (again) that I love them… while eating pasta.

CONTEST DETAILS: Dec 14th to Dec 17th, all 200 Bog Hop Authors will EACH be doing a giveaway (see bottom of the post for links to other authors). 18 years plus to enter.

TO ENTER: Comment on this blog post and tell me what you want for the holidays. To be entered for the prizes you MUST include your email address and preferred ebook reading format with your comment. If you don’t, your entry will be voided.

MICHELLE PILLOW BLOG PRIZE - Chance to win an ebook Copy of Christmas Curse by Michelle M Pillow

GRAND PRIZES – You as a reader can go to EACH blog hop stop and comment with your email address and be entered to win. Yep, you can enter over 200 times!

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

2nd Grand Prize: A $200 Amazon or B&N Gift Card

3rd Grand Prize*: A Swag Pack that contains paperbacks, ebooks, 50+ bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!

Christmas Curse by Michelle M Pillow

Kindle | Barnes & Noble |SONY | Smashwords|Diesel | Kobo |Eros

Contemporary Romance

Megan Sinclair believes she’s cursed. After all, every year she celebrates Christmas something bad happens—broken bones, chicken pox, house burning down. So after agreeing to finally go home for the holidays, she’s not surprised when her all-too-sexy boyfriend breaks up with her—and by note, no less!

Sean Morgan doesn’t believe in curses, but his girlfriend does. It’s her one fault. In all other ways Megan’s perfect for him, from her interesting mind to her gorgeous body. And the sex? HOT. But, because she’s convinced something bad will happen, he’s not too surprised when she leaves for the holiday without him. Convincing Megan that she’s not cursed may take some creative maneuvering, but Sean plans to make sure he turns her holiday luck around.

Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.

*Swag prize is for US only. See Blog Hop main page for details

Oh, Windows 8, Head>Desk

Windows 8 … Ok, so I finally loaded Office 2010 on it, and finally turned it on long enough last night to use the Windows 8 laptop. It’s not “horrible” but I don’t love it. Now, there may be fixes for my annoyances below, but I haven’t been on it long enough to find them. And, really, who wants to have to reprogram what was already working right in Windows 7?

Some things I noticed:

1. It forces you to get updates. You can chose between 1. All or 2. Important Only. In the past Windows updates mess up my machines so I always turn them off and only download them manually so I know what’s going onto my computer and can tell if there is a conflict. I’ve had Windows Oh So Helpful updates crash my programs before.

2 It makes you have a “special” Windows account. :/ Stupid. I have enough accounts.

3. It tries to integrate everything. Even things you don’t want to integrate.

4. The platform is set up like a tablet (which is annoying if you don’t have a touchscreen). If I wanted a tablet, I would have bought a tablet. Oh, wait, I do have one. It’s called an Ipad. I bought a laptop for work.

5. The platform is geared toward entertainment, and what I like to think of as the teenage gamer-you tuber crowd. Reminds me of the Xbox Live portal.

6. It left skype on (can’t sign out unless I open yet another account to sign into on skype) so I can “always be in contact with people”. Erm. I want to work. I can’t have everyone calling me on my computer all day. Never mind my irrational fear of the web cam coming on when someone calls before I had a chance to pretty up. (Yes, I know, there’s the invisible setting)

7. Easy to learn. The switch over was a mild annoyance, but it’s easy to navigate once you do it a couple times.

8. Did I mention the start screen looks like a tablet without touch capabilities? Scroll on that mousepad! ick. (you can buy touchscreen laptops, but they’re $$$$)

9. Office 2010 worked fine. Smooth. I actually like that program and upgraded my 2007 while I was at it.

10. For the most part it runs smoothly. HOWEVER, and this is a biggie for multi-taskers. If it’s running a task, it sometimes delays you opening the sliding side bars to go do something else. You’re left stuck on the screen watching the invisible spin. There might be some shortcuts I need to learn, but I don’t like the delay. I often run several things at once and the switching from program to program to yet another program isn’t as easy as pushing tabs.

Verdict so far. … I wish they would have left Windows 7 be. Or at least offered this only with touchscreen laptops once those become more affordable for the crowd who wants a giant ipad with a keyboard.

Michelle M. Pillow: Jacket Quotes

Michelle M. Pillow: Jacket Quotes

Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.

Michelle’s YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow

About Michelle:

Michelle M. Pillow, Author of All Things Romance™, is a multi-published (over 70 published books!) , award-winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. Ever since she can remember, she has had a strange fascination with anything supernatural–ghosts, magical powers, and oh… vampires. What could be more alluring than being immortal, all-powerful, and eternally beautiful? After discovering historical romance novels, it was only natural that the supernatural and love/romance elements should someday meet in her wonderland of a brain. She’s glad they did for their children have been pouring onto the computer screen ever since.

She has been on the Amazon bestseller list multiple times, nominated for the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2011, the winner of the 2006 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, nominated for the 2007 RT Award, a Brava Novella Contest Finalist and a PAN member of RWA.

Publishers include everything from Indie to small press to big NY pubs: Random House, Virgin Books, Rouge (Ebury), Pocket Books, The Raven Books, Adams Media, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain, Running Press, Robinson, etc

Michelle is a journalist for Paranormal Underground Magazine. She has a BGS in History/Business with an English Minor, and a Photography degree. In 2009 she and fellow author Mandy M. Roth started their own highly successful self-publishing endeavor named The Raven Books.

Readers can contact her through her author website http://www.MichellePillow.com

For photography, visit http://www.PrettyPoisonPhotography.com

Join her email newsletter at http://www.michellepillow.com/newsletter/?p=subscribe

Visit Author Michelle M. Pillow

http://www.MichellePillow.com

The Raven Books

http://www.TheRavenBooks.com

Raven Books Over Half-Million Self-Published Titles sold!

Yes, you read that title right. The Raven Books has hit the over a half-million titles sold mark! Now Mandy Roth did a great write up for Raven, our history, and an outline of our numbers in her blog post and she’s given me permission to repost that here (see below). But before I give the blog floor over to her, I thought I’d update my readers with my own personal bit.

For me, the biggest consideration in starting The Raven Books with Mandy was the fact I had so many backlist titles that I wanted to get out on the market. I’d made the choice to pull books like the Dragon Lords series, Lords of the Var series, Divinity Warriors series, the award winning Maiden and the Monster, Tribes of the Vampire series, etc, from their original publishers. Almost instantly the reader email started. People wanted, needed (even borderline threatened to get, lol) these book.

As Mandy discusses below, it was a risky move. So many people told us NOT to  self pub, that we’d be taking a huge step back after “finally” making it to NY. However, the fact remained: The readers wanted the books and traditional publishers weren’t going to be able to get the entire (over 30 book at that time) backlist out in a timely manner. Yes, I had offers to contract them traditionally but it would have been ten years before readers were able to get their hands on all the Dragon Lords and Vars let alone anything new in those series. That wasn’t acceptable to me. So, what the readers wanted, the readers got in the form of The Raven Books.

Turns out, The Raven Books was one of the best decisions I ever made in my writing career. Now I have brand new material as well as those backlist titles available in print and ebook from Raven. There’s a ton of stuff coming soon, too, like the brand new historical romance Lord of Fire, Lady of Ice (Jan 2013) by Michelle M. Pillow, and Let the Wild Out (March 2013) under the pen name Madelyn Porter.

Post By Mandy Roth

Michelle Pillow and I have decided to do an end of the year sum up each year. We think its important to keep our readers in the loop. After all, you’re the reason we do what we do. You’re who have made The Raven Books a success. Thank you so much!

The following center bit is taken from last year’s sum up. It tells the story of how Raven came to be so perfectly that I couldn’t possibly do it justice again… so of course, I just used it as is.

“It was difficult to decide to launch a self-publishing/small press endeavor. Even with the support of my friend and fellow author, Michelle M. Pillow, it was still a hard decision to make. So, let me put you in my mindset for mid 2009-2010. I’d had some issues with one of my publishers. I won’t go in to who or what but it’s safe to say that I did not elect to renew my time released contracts with them. Already many of my titles with them had reverted back to me. I’d down some outsourcing, re-releasing several with Samhain Publishing and Ellora’s Cave Publishing but I simply had too many coming out of contract at one time for either publishing house to get out in a timely manner. Plus, I would hear from my editors, this is great but I want some new (non-previously pubbed) work from you. I understood where they were coming from but my readers had other demands. My inbox was exploding with requests/demands for the next books in existing series. Many of the series at that point were out of contract and without a home.

The pressure began to mount as did the emails from readers. After talking with Michelle and realizing she was in the exact situation as I was, we thought, well, we could try publishing them ourselves. Keep in mind, this was still very “new” to authors. We’d already spent years being pointed at and singled out because we were at e-first publishing housing. (We’ve been published since 2004 and it was with an e-first/ebook publisher.)

I know I was actually told I wasn’t a “real” author because of the publishing houses I was with and that I needed to post my sales number to prove I was actually making any money. Insulted, and frankly ready to kick a few select persons straight in the teeth, I elected not to post my sales numbers. It was none of their damn business. I didn’t ask to see their income, asking to see mine was rude.

It was pointed out more than once that I might as well be vanity published instead of bothering with Samhain and Ellora’s Cave and other e-first pubs. I am NOT the only author who went through this. I believe the majority of us with these companies from nearly the start dealt with this. It was just the way it was. So, when it came to 2009-2010 time frame I’ll admit to being gun shy about wanting to publish my own books—re-release or not.

Michelle and I talked and talked and talked and decided nothing ventured, nothing gained. We’d stood up against the naysayers with small press and came out the other side smiling, we’d do the same with self-publishing. We’d already been heavily involved in The Raven Happy Hour. It actually comes from a nightclub in my Daughter of Darkness books that was hugely popular with my readers, so much so that it spawned into an online free ongoing story and an online hangout for our readers and fellow author friends. It was wildly popular and very time consuming. It already had a following, a name and we were known for Raven-ish promos so it was a no brainer to call our self-publishing endeavor The Raven Books.

It also was a no brainer to tackle new territory with Michelle. I am a cover artist as well as an author. I’ve done covers for many, many houses (over 500 covers to date) under the brush name Natalie Winters so we already had a professional cover artist at our disposal and I was already doing websites for so many people I lost count, why not do The Raven Books as well? Michelle worked hard teaching herself to format ebooks for us as well as countless other administrative tasks that would bore a normal person to tears. We put out a call and interviewed possible editors and final line editors. We found several we were comfortable with and hired them out on a per book basis.

We started small, hosting a shopping cart site, uploading our formats, having people buy directly from us. Then, one day we read a news release about Amazon opening its doors to indie/self-pubbed titles. We decided, why not? Barnes and noble did the same and then ARE and others did as well. By July of 2010 we were listed our self-pubbed titles on Amazon, BN, ARE and smashwords (who in turn sends to Sony and Diesel and others).

Putting the titles back in front of the masses was hugely successful. That was when we knew we had a “home” for our out of contract books. Self-pubbing!

More titles came out of contract and we went through the process of hiring editors to go through them again, doing edits, new cover art, new ads, the works. As we were able to get a fair number of them back in front of readers again we realized we could actually write something totally new and self-publish it. Immortal Ops 4 was the very first book I wrote totally with the idea I would publish it. Strategic Vulnerability didn’t just do as well as the other books in the series which I’d gotten rights back to and re-released, it did better!

From there other stories were born with the idea I’d be the one publishing them. It was amazing how creatively energized I felt. I knew I didn’t need to worry about certain things my other publishers would and wouldn’t allow in books. I had the freedom to write what I wanted and how I wanted it. Such an awesome and muse librating thing.

I also realized I could do a side project I’d always wanted to do but couldn’t without hurting my author name branding. I wanted to write contemporary westerns that were erotic. Now, the erotic part isn’t really a stretch for me. It’s the contemporary western part that was vastly different from everything written under the Mandy M. Roth name. Thus, my pen name, Rory Michaels was born. It was a great way to keep the branding I’d established and focus on a new one just related to contemp westerns. All the Rory books are new and never before released. And to date I’ve published several new (never before released) Mandy M. Roth titles as well (Strategic Vulnerability, Master of the Hunt, Winter Solstice and Adam’s Angel). *UPDATE… We’ve pubbed a hell of a lot more than these that are original now [image error] ) Also, I write under the names Reagan Hawk and Kennedy Kovit–both bestselling on Amazon.

Yesterday, I was finally able to sit down and go through my sales reports. I mean, really go through them. I decided to do every report from my top three sales vendors. The goal was to see what books/series were selling well and which had something left to be desires. I have many books and many series. I need to know when to pull focus. I figured this would be a help. Boy did it ever!

As I compiled the data from July 2010- Dec 2011 (from Amazon, BN and ARE) I was stunned at the unit sale numbers coming in. I already knew how much money had been made. I track that very carefully. But this was actual numbers of unit sales clear as day before me. In my mind I’d somehow thought I’d sold maybe 20,000 ebooks. (No, that number doesn’t jive with my income earned but I didn’t really think hard on it. I knew I was earning more per title than I had when they were with other small presses so I naturally assumed it meant a lower unit sales number than what it was.)

Much to my shock and delight, I saw that I was OVER 60,000 self-pubbed ebooks sold from Jul 2010-Dec 2011 *THIS NUMBER HAS CHANGED AND IS UPDATED BELOW* just at the top three. Note: not all my books have been out this entire time. They have been released over the time. I was over the moon with excitement. The number does NOT include any FREE ebooks giving away through KDP select (that total is around 10kish). The total is ONLY units sold and ONLY my selp-pubbed units sold. Not Michelle’s. I would never release her or any author’s sales numbers. None of my titles still with Spice, Samahin or Ellora’s Cave were factored into this. The over 60,000 does NOT include sales figures from the titles when they were with other publishers, these are ONLY the numbers from them being published by me. So be mindful, these numbers are on most titles that are re-releases and just a very few new works. These had already sold first and second editions at other pubs so I was stunned to see them perform this well for me.

To me this was a huge milestone. It added validity to all the hours, all the hard work, all the sleepless nights of getting the Raven going. We honestly have put in many 18 hour days. It also proved to me that we truly have the best community of readers, friends and fellow authors out there.

I’m sure someone will try very hard to dismiss this accomplishment or belittle it. Sadly, there are many who can only find the negative in things. That’s fine. I’ve been dealing with those people since I started writing just over 8years ago and since I was first published. I’ll be dealing with them until I drop, I’m sure. What matters is that I’m ecstatic over the numbers. They’re not what New York could move but they are what “I” could move and that makes each and every single one so VERY important to me. Thank you for helping me reach this personal milestone and for sharing this journey with me to date. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow will bring.

Are Michelle and I moving totally to self-publishing (Raven) only? No. We still have offers from large houses and still have titles with Harlequin Spice Briefs, Samhain Publishing, Virgin Black Lace, Pocket, Ellora’s Cave, Random House, Running Press, Adam’s Media and more. We love the Raven and the freedom it provides. But we also love what other houses provide us as well. Every experience we’ve had to date has helped to mold us into the authors we are today. These sales numbers for my self-pubbed titles are being shared because I’m proud of them and simply wanted to share with “friends, readers and fellow authors”.

I’ve always been extremely supportive of fellow authors and have always appreciated my readers beyond words. I hope these numbers inspire others and that we as authors/readers move forth together as a united front in the publishing community and continue to move the industry forward.”

Updated Numbers: Raven Jul2010-Dec2012 sold over a half million self-published ebook titles!

Michelle and I want to extend a giant thank you to all our readers. Without your support, your hard work and dedication with helping to spread the word about us and Raven none of this would have been possible. Thank you and Happy Holidays!!!!

Mandy Roth & Michelle Pillow

Thank you!

A huge thank you to my readers for making this year one of my best as an author. I couldn’t have done it without your support. I love that you take the time to share yourselves with me, and that you support my work as a writer.

Starting The Raven Books was one of the best decisions in my writing career. A huge thank you to my business partner and dear friend Mandy M. Roth for taking the journey with me.

I’m looking forward to a wonderful 2013 with lots of great stories. I have a lot planned this next year including:

Tribes of the Vampire 2: The Jaded Hunter

Tribes of the Vampire 3: Eternally Bound

Lord of Fire, Lady of Ice

Let the Wild Out (w/a Madelyn Porter)

Stolen Hours

Faire Justice

MORE Dragon Lords & Futuristics

…and more!

As always, let me know what you want more of. I do listen to reader requests and plan my schedule accordingly if there are enough of them.

Naughty Cupid: Trilogy

This Collection Contains The Following Stories:

Cupid’s Enchantment Book One
Contrary to popular belief, Cupid is not a cute little cherub. And he’ll take revenge on any who say differently. Just ask Ilar, Commander of the Lycaon guard…

Lady Rhiannon’s beauty is distracting suitors from her older sister and ruining her chances at marriage, so her father has her locked her away in a tower. Believing she is going crazy from the isolation, Rhiannon hears a frightful voice. The next thing she knows, she’s waken up in a strange forest pursued by mythical wolf men. And, worst of all, their leader is taking her home with him.

Ilar is irritated to discover an enchanted female–a human, their ancient hunters–disrupting his Lycan Guards. One sniff of this mortal’s enchantment and the men go insane, trying to kill each for her hand. Only in making her his lover can the spell be broken. Ilar has no choice but to claim the female for his own. But who knows what will happen when Cupid’s Enchantment is broken….

Cupid’s Revenge Book Two

Cupid’s livid. It’s bad enough he made two people fall in love, but now thanks to King Larus, the whole Immortal Realm knows about it. There’s only one thing a troll can do. Get Revenge.

Lady Mina and her sister, Sophia, are impoverished, starving and their castle is crumbling around there feet. Their father is dead, the servants are gone and it’s the dead of winter. Could things really get much worse?

After Cupid caused a great disruption amongst his lycans by bringing a human to their world, Larus has had to meet with the Council of Elders. He’s made sure it will never happen again. Or so he thought. Hearing two women scream-one whose enchanted to be madly in love with him and one who wants nothing more than to claw his eyes out-he’s quickly learning not to underestimate a troll bent on revenge.

Cupid’s Favor Book Three

‘Beware of trolls bearing favors’

When Lord Malak saves him from a sandpit, Cupid is honor bound to settle the lifedebt or risk being called upon later–even if the lycan noble insists he doesn’t want any reward for the deed. Simply breeding the man’s goats isn’t enough to repay such a price. No, for this he needs something more. Knowing the perfect gift to be revenge, Cupid delivers the one thing that seems to aggravate Lord Malak the most–Lady Sophia.

After being kidnapped and drugged by the horrid troll, Cupid, Lady Sophia just wants to go home–to a place where magic doesn’t exist and there’s no chance of being eaten by a dragon. But most of all, she wants to be rid of her escort, Lord Malak. The charming lycan swore to protect her and see her safely home, but it seems fate and a little troll have other plans.

Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.

It’s Pillow Baking Weekend!!

It’s our yearly traditional cookie/candy baking weekend at the Pillow house. First, the supplies. Next, super sanitize kitchen for all the prep work for the big baking event tomorrow. (some homemade cookies have to be in the fridge overnight)

It’s the one time people actually beg to get things out of my kitchen. I might not cook, but I can bake.

1. White Chocolate Pretzels

2. Lemon Cake Cookies

3. Sugar Cookies

4. Snickerdoodles

5. Chocolate Crinkles

6. Choc Covered Peanut Butter Ritz

7. Chocolate Covered Mixed Nuts

8. Peanut Butter Cookies

9. My secret brownie recipe

10. Choc No Bake Cookies

11. Various other flavored Cake Cookies

12. Gingerbread, maybe

13. Choc Chip

14. Macadamia Nut

15. Shortbread Cookies

16. A couple new recipes – like to try new ones to see if they’re added to the tradition list

It feels like I’m forgetting some… must get out the secret family book to make sure. mmmmm