release day!

it's officially release day!! wooooooohoooooo!! 

that's my girl.... cari quinn has book two of the hunk du jour series coming out today and man do i love this story! jenny makes me laugh, cheer, and even pump my fist a time or two in this story.

okay, so jenny's pumping her fist a time or two for a whole different reason. ;)

ty's made the mistake of taking the lovely jenny for granted. fears and doubts have twisted the only thing he's ever truly wanted in this life. and in turn, to hold onto the man she's loved for so long, jenny's done 9723 naughty things in the bedroom to keep the lust alive. but instead of holding onto him, it's had the opposite effect on their relationship.

just  how do you keep the spice alive without alienating the one man you love to get so creative for?

welcome to the dilemma that is ty and jenny's relationship. it's a wild ride to realization, with a swift exit into trustville. fundamental lies and half truths can ruin any relationship. cari quinn knows just how to ratchet up the passion and throw a few twists and turns into a story. i might be biased, but i gotta tell you--she gets better with each and every story she tells.

jenny and ty have the hallmark cari stamps of snark, sexy appeal, and complicated characters. in a world of erotica where characters can easily fall as flat as the cliched cardboard cutouts that litter ereaders around the world, cari never fails to give you something extra special.

so give Ex Appeal a try. and while the book stands alone completely, seeing the mastermind behind hunk du jour make a cameo might just get you interested in book one, Full Disclosure with holly and alex. but then again, i know you already purchased book one...right?

right?

;)

oh yeah, and congrats, cari on another release. you go girl!!

i love this...

i've been stumbling around tumblr and have found a few gems of visual inspiration, but this one got to me. the wild ride i've been on all year makes this especially poignant.

goals are well on target this week. i went for 4 chapters edited/rearranged for 100 thousand reasons thanks to some new conflict and some subtraction of love scenes that just weren't ready to be there. changing styles mid-stream is a bit of a pita, but the story is already stronger for it.

thank god.

lol

3 chapters down--1 to go. looks like i might just go for 5 or 6 chapters this week. ;)

inspired...finally

so i've been treading water lately with this whole writing thing. the doggie paddle, you see, is very easy. and at heart i'm lazy. lol i wish i could say otherwise, but i really am.

then the other night in my google alerts...yes, i have to have google alerts on my very favorite crit partner because she sucks at the sharing thing. anyway, she writes this awesome post about How Twitter Can Help the Shy Writer and wham! i'm all over the bloggesphere and twitter trying to set myself up.

i've been very slack with the writing thing since the whole show-down with cancer happened back in march. i suppose it took some time to get the bullet out from between my eyes. it really was my sole focus for 3mos, so it's only right that it took 3mos to get my shit together. and oddly enough it was exactly 3mos since my mom's death last night.

so it's all about me this weekend...well, and lucy and jack. my mfc & mmc get to come out and play again! yay!