I don’t use the word blessed, because I don’t consider myself special, nor do I think God chooses to bless certain people while ignoring others.  However, I can say that I have been fortunate enough to spend significant face time with two authors I’ve met on line.

A little over a year ago, author Mia Watts visited me.  She and I first met in a superficial way via our shared publisher, but we really met when I read her gorgeous prose in Claimed By Darkness, and I just had to tell her how magnificent her writing is.  Claimed is the only M/M romance I’ve ever read or, for that matter, will ever read.  Just the facts, ma’am, no insult intended to all you readers of M/M.  I compared her prose to Lord Dunsany.  Wordy, evocative, lush, sensational…

Anyway, Mia let me drag her up a mountain, to the beach, all over our little valley.  She’s the same in person as she is on line, genuine, funny, enthusiastic, loyal, sweet.

Now I’ve met author and book blogger, Penny Watson, up close and personal.  I loved having her here.  What you see over at her site or read in her books, is exactly what she is.  Like Mia, she’s genuine, warm, funny, enthusiastic… not quite as sweet, she’s a bit on the spicy side!  And it’s funny, we originally met over food, and man, we ate some great meals (Morimoto anyone?) during her visit.  She read my contemporary, Beauty and the Feast, and contacted me.  The circular nature of author interactions is really very interesting!

I’m amazed I’ve had the opportunity to meet two such talented, creative, intelligent authors.  They are exactly what the genre needs to show the world that romance is not for dummies.  Penny’s most recent release, Sweet Magik, is a thinking woman’s Christmas romantic fantasy, i.e., librarian soft porn, as it was recently referred to in The Paris Review.  Damn girl, that kind of publicity is priceless!  Green with envy here…

Anyway, Penny, I am so glad you came!  Missing you already!

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It’s all you boys and goyls.  You are the reason I maintain this blog and you are the reason I write books.  Give yourselves a big old pat on the back, or maybe some rich dark chocolate from me.

Hey, I’ve been giving away my books on Goodreads so you might want to check it out.  Just finished a giveaway for Pushing Her Boundaries and once it’s approved, Beauty and the Feast will be listed.  Then I think maybe Anytime Darlin’ and Come Back To Me.  Maybe even my four book science fiction series, Daughters of Persephone.

If I could figure out how to give away ebooks, I’d list my ebooks too.  Anybody know how to do that?  If you do, let me know.

Okay, back to In the Flesh.  The climax awaits!

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Doesn’t she have the most perfect name for a romance writer?  Diane Story.  I love it.  Please welcome my guest, Diane.

I met Diane at a local RWA chapter meeting when I was asked to speak about writing erotica.  My topic, as it turned out, was words to avoid.  I used visual aids.  Apparently words to avoid piqued Diane’s interest and she is putting out some smokin’ hot stories!  I wish Diane the best of luck with her new career.

Diane’s website:  http://www.dianesstorys.com/

You can buy Diane’s books here:  http://www.bookstrand.com/diane-story

and here:  http://whiskeycreekpress.com/authors/Diane_Story.shtml

Blurb for “Dagger’s Lust”

“Will you protect me and stand at my side when my husband discovers we’ve been having an affair?” 

Dagger would never forget those words spoken to him two hundred years ago. It was the day Belinda died and he became a werewolf. Unable to accept her death, he seeks the help of a shaman. Soon, she is reborn as a ShapeShifter with the ability to shift into both a werewolf and a Dragon. Braccus is the pack’s alpha male, and his time on earth is running out. He needs the magic of Belinda’s Dragon to continue his reign. Dead or alive, she would be his.

Dagger can’t forget the shaman’s warning. If Belinda doesn’t remember their past, they will die. Casual sex is not on his agenda as he realizes that only his love and their lovemaking can bring her back. Will their struggle for love eventually overcome the odds?

Blurb for “Crystal Dreams”

A calendar built by the Mayans sets a prophecy in motion, and for humans to move forward the third and fourth dimensions must merge on December 21, 2012.

Jillian is a fourth-dimensional woman who lives in a world where life and love coexist in metaphysical harmony. When her father begs her to marry a man she does not love, she reluctantly agrees. Ellery is a third-dimensional man who has the gift of metaphysical healing. However, Ellery’s spirit is torn. His physical being still lives in the third dimension, but his evil counterpart is in the fourth. As their worlds begin to crumble, Ellery and Jillian realize that fate has brought them together. Putting aside their own beliefs, they must decide if they will allow their worlds to end. Or can love guide them to a harmonious resolution?

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I was chatting with my author friend Penny Watson about a link author Amarinda Jones posted over on her own website, and I realized something.  I’m no prude, but I am old school.  I want romance with my sex, not porn, not incest, not barely legal boobalicious babes gettin’ it on with they step-daddies.  Eww.

Ya’ll read what you want.  But honey, ain’t ‘nuf Benjamins in the entire world to get me to cross over.  Mmm-mmm.

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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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