Busy, busy day. Catching up on myself…
Marie Sexton's wonderful book Promises is in competition for Goodreads best books of 2010. Vote for her if you're a member. If not, sign up and vote. You have to go to the "Romance" page, then just click on the cover. If it can't be me (:D) at least it's someone who's an autobuy for me. And in my "Rereads" folder on my Kindle. She's wonderful. Did I mention the word "wonderful"? Cuz she is. And so is the book.
Another autobuy: Heidi Cullinan guest blogs on Whipped Cream Reviews here. In a nutshell—why she writes M/M romance. Goes for me too. (Hey, why do all the work when someone else does it better?)
Hopes & Fears, or as I like to refer to it, Rehabilitating Brian, is now available for download from Dreamspinner Press. It's a novella spin-off of Finding Zach, showing what happens to the antagonist, Brian the journalist, after his book is published. I shoulda used "Rehabilitating Brian" as the title, but it's too close to "Finding Zach." I mean, gerunds. Sheesh. Buy here.
Tomorrow, December 2nd, is Advent Calendar Day at Literary Nymphs Chat group . (Advent Calendar is what DSP calls the short stories and novellas it releases during the month of December. They can be purchased individually or in bulk, with a one-a-day download.) I'll be participating with an excerpt from Hopes & Fears, as will a bunch of other people from DSP. Literary Nymphs hosted another chat this past weekend that I had signed up for, but when I saw who was posting I got intimidated. There were something like 4000 messages (my phone battery died three times this weekend!) and they were from people like Josh Lanyon, Charlie Cochrane, Alex Beecroft, and Erastes. I mean, really. The authors I read before I started writing this stuff. Scary!! Bad enough I'll be rubbing virtual elbows with Marie Sexton and Heidi Cullinan and Ariel Tachna and all the other DSP authors tomorrow. I just couldn't get up the nerve to actually post to that other chat!! I'll post early before too many others show up and maybe my post will get lost in the shuffle. I can only hope…
I think there's another chat scheduled later in the month but I don't remember now (I have a cold, and my head is full of… other stuff). I will have an excerpt posted at a blog set up by the folks at Naughty in the Backseat, another blog, sometime after the 15th.
Oh, and today the Illinois House of Representatives approved a new law permitting Civil Unions for gays and lesbians. Now it only has to pass the Senate and it's expected to. Governor Quinn has already said he would sign it. It's not equal marriage, but it's a step in the right direction. And about frickin' time.
