But I do have a FREE BOOK for you!

My son’s tribute to Ferlinghetti:

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I’m hoping that by Saturday afternoon my book of poetry, Poems of Love and Hate, will be available for your Kindle!  Yes!  I’ll post a link as soon as the book is up.  (Should be active now.)

I could not have completed this small yet gargantuan task without the help of J. W. Manus.  First, she created the cover.  Second, her persistence is beyond belief; poetry is tough to format for an ereader.

Plus my short Cougarish short story, You Might Just Get It, is free from March 10-15.  If you have a Kindle, please enjoy.

Kate has locked herself out of her new apartment building for the third time in a week. She’s on the stoop in the rain, barefoot, shivering and soaked to the skin. Her neighbor, Eric, arrives home in the nick of time and lets her in. That’s twice now he’s saved the day. When he invites her for a quick supper, how can she say no? 
Eric has been waiting for an opportunity to get to know Kate. His kitchen window faces hers across the courtyard and he noticed her right away. How could he not, with her lovely halo of short curls and her beautiful smile? When he finds her stranded on the stoop, he gets to play the hero. When she agrees to his dinner invitation, he hopes he’ll get to play a lot more than that. 

I am reading two, count ‘em, two dynamite books – Sunshine, by Robin McKinley… which I am totally excited about, and Coming of Age in Mississippi, by Anne Moody.  I hear this nonfiction book is great, and it will help assuage some of my disappointment with The Help.

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Lately, when I read a new book, it’s one and done. By that I mean one chapter or even one single page  and I’ve already come to the conclusion that the book is a DNF. Yeah, I know, there’s nothing new under the sun. But there are new ways to tell old familiar tales.

I am loving Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. This is the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as told through the eyes of their contemporary, and their very much doomed, Machiavelli, Thomas Cromwell. Ms. Mantel hooked me with her very first sentence:

“So now get up.”

Six hundred and four brilliant, shining pages, and I am savoring every single word.

As you know, you have until midnight Sunday, the 18th, to participate in both the Stuff Your Stockings Blog Hop and my own giveaway, so be sure to leave comments and your email contact.

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I’ll be in and out for the next few weeks.  I mean there are the holidays, there are the kids, and there’s my dad getting a new knee for Christmas so I’m heading up to help out next week.

In the meantime, you can get some killer books by following this (see the Stuff Your Stockings button on left) Blog Hop.  Here is the link.  Each author is running his/her own giveaway.  If you leave me a comment and an email contact, I’m giving away one print copy and one e-copy of Captured, my award-winning Science Fiction Romance.

Also, I’m running my own giveaway through the 18th as well.  Leave me a comment and you can win a tote containing one copy of each of my print books.  International readers can win a pdf copy of my entire backlist.  Unless of course you’d prefer the pdf copies.  Same thing – a comment telling me which you are entering, or both, and an email contact address.

Happy Holidays and good luck!

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You Might Just Get It

Kate has locked herself out of her new apartment building for the third time in a week.  She’s on the stoop in the rain, barefoot, shivering and soaked to the skin.  It’s fortunate that her neighbor, Eric, arrives home in the nick of time and lets her in.  That’s twice now he’s saved the day.  When he invites her for a quick supper, how can she say no?

Eric has been waiting for an opportunity to get to know Kate.  His kitchen window faces hers across the courtyard and he noticed her right away.  How could he not, with her lovely halo of short curls and her beautiful smile?  When he finds her stranded on the stoop, he gets to play the hero.  When she agrees to his dinner invitation, he hopes he’ll get to play a lot more than that.

This is a hot, fun, quick, cougar-ish work.  Go.  Buy.  Have fun.

You Might Just Get It for Kindle.  Enjoy the Jimmy Thomas cover too!

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Just finished Getting Off, by Lawrence Block (see review).  Darkly funny, terrifying and so very engrossing…hubby’s reading it now.

Finished Blue Jeans and Stilettos, by Jordyn Meryl, C. Deanne Rowe, and Magnolia “Maggie” Rivers.  Heartfelt, touching, real, sort of old fashioned romance – I wish these three ‘Writers of the Lake’ all good things.  They’ve decided to follow their hearts and take the road less traveled.

Just started…and can’t stop…the fun, the fantastic, the deliciously sexy holiday romance, Sweet Magik, by Penny Watson.  It’s not available yet, but dang, you gotta get you some of this Christmas goodness when it’s released in November with Wild Rose Press.  I’m the first to admit I’m not big on holiday stories unless I’m at the movies, but I am LOVING this book about Oscar Klaus and Kiana Grant.  It doesn’t hurt that Penny appropriately throws in some German – foreign language in romance is a major turn on for me.

I picked up two books recommended by Aaron Pound over at Dreaming About Other Worlds – Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, both by Dan Ariely.  Since I tend to be irrational, or rationally irrational, I can’t wait to be vindicated.

Oh, I’m a quarter through my yearly reread of Shogun, by James Clavell.  It’s one of the four books I read every year. The other three are Dune, by Frank Herbert, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott.

On the writing front, In the Flesh, the sequel to Incorporeal, is coming along nicely. Using this as part of the story:

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