Over the next couple of weeks, I will be getting In the Flesh ready for publication.  I’ll definitely keep you updated.  In the Flesh is the sequel to my ghost romance, Incorporeal.  Both books will be available for Kindle.  I’m also considering moving into the world of print, so… stay tuned!

I’ll try to post a blurb for In the Flesh early next week.  Oooh, exciting!

Contest Alert!

You can win this:

Chocolates and matching Attraction Bracelets from Energy Muse.  It’s easy, especially if you’ve read Incorporeal.  The question:  What does my hero, Natan de Manua do for a living?  In either incarnation?

Feel free to tweet away and send the answer, along with a contact email, anytime between now and February 9th.  I’ll announce the winner on the 10th and ship out your prize!

All right loves, be good and have a great Super Bowl!

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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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Penny Watson is very flexible.  No, get your mind out of the gutter, you librarian porn hound you.  That’s not what  I mean.

What I mean is, she’s willing to hike, walk, sail over water, take a bus, watch me eat raw oysters – although she didn’t try one, but she’s good with fish sauce.

Even if something isn’t quite what we’d hoped, she likes it.  She sees the good in it.

We’ve spent a lot of time discussing the life of a writer and the various frustrations we deal with.  There are so many ways to break down in the face of obstacles, large and small.  The trick is to bend, not break.  Make like the reed.

Or as Stoltzfus says to John Book in Witness, “Rest, Mr. Book, that’s the ticket.”

My prescription – Flexibility, Mr. Book that’s the ticket.  Be an option quarterback.  It’s too easy to allow yourself to become paralyzed by doubt, fear and indecision.  And then you get sacked.

Notice the approaching super-bowl appropriate sport’s analogy?  :)

Wednesday – off to the Marin Headlands and Rodeo Beach for semi-precious carnelian and jade.

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No way is this real.  I swear…no….way on earth is this real.  Tom, is this what I meant?  Seriously?

Where’s the deflate tab?

Author Penny Watson and I managed to get one hike in today, another is scheduled for tomorrow and then it’s off to a couple wineries and an olive oil tasting.

We’ve been emailing each other between bedrooms!  Ha!

All right, nighty-night.  I am beat!

Oh, finished up with In the Flesh.  Will get to edits later in the week.  Love, Julia

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Still working.  Be back soon!

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