Wednesday, April 29, 2009

NEGLECTED!

Shame on me!

One of my favorite ever bloggers celebrated her blogversary. Sarah Rain on the Roof,who I ADORE...here's JL's Nate. Just for you. To borrow. Temporarily. You know what he's holding in that hand of his. Merow.

And if you haven't been to DIK to pee pee dance with laughter--go read the RomanceBot2000 interviews...srsly. Do go look. Best posts ever.

Monday, April 27, 2009

SPRING


No really! It's beautiful and the tiny little leaves unfurled their delicate selves from the buds yesterday. G and I spent a fortune at Home Depot, we planted stuff, raked, carried things from here to there, and today, I have plants in pots outside my front door!

Everywhere the daffodils are in full bloom. It's inspiring. Inspiring me to work today. So enjoy your Monday--I plan to.

Friday, April 24, 2009

WINNERS

Following Meljean Brook's winner selection process, I used Random.Org and the following folks have won prizes.

The winner of the signed copy of Smart Ass: Close Quarters is--Holy Wow--

Katiebabs



The winner of Men of Smithfield: Happy Ending is none other than--

Renee
"buttered popcorn with peanut m & ms thrown in the tub"
I want to sit next to you at the movies! I love that!

Thanks to everyone who left comments!

Here's a lovely vid to keep you smiling today.

Not. Safe. For. Public. Perusal.



Have you seen this before?

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Miss Doreen


Has asked some essential questions!
She is also giving away a copy of Happy Ending.
Click on her photo.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Spring Dish



And I guess it ain't me.

Admittedly I've gone up a dress size ::cough:: since I started writing one year ago...but G said the word "plump" tonight and I'm now left wondering if I should continue making his favorite rhubarb dessert. The one that bubbles and oozes with cake and sugar and butter.


MEN!

However, the rhubarb does look so very inviting.

Mmmmm.....and he does like the curves.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

In for a Penny....


...in for a pound.


Two Books! One Week!
Ai! Yi! Yi!


Smart Ass:Close Quarters, from those saucy folks at MLR Press (mwah mwah) is now available at B&N and Amazon! Crikey!

I'm guessing that you all know about Gobsmacked (which makes its official print debut here!) but I thought I'd give a little shout out to Amber Green. This is her first Turner & Turner story and it's called One Good Turn.

When his parents get a gander at the sex tape sent by a blackmailer, they offer Kendall Turner a few weeks of "rest" in a cushy clinic. No, he says, and hotfoots it across the lawns of the family estate. KT isn't his own worst enemy anymore; there's a new candidate for the title. Suddenly, Kendall's on the lam, trying to outrun a murder rap. Helping -- by locking KT naked in their motel room -- is his cousin Turn. KT has some issues: he manages to censor himself only when he lies, he's been in love with cousin Turn since forever, and he really would rather kill himself than get more rest at another clinic.




I should give a signed copy away. I think I will! Let's see...leave me a comment about your favorite smart ass beta and I'll use some scientific..er...method to select a winner.

Ed Note: Examples of Smart Ass Betas are: Adrien English, Mark Meehan, & Prince Peyton Townsend.

Yay! It's book week!

PS All you folks at RT--HAVE FUN!!

Monday, April 20, 2009

MLM: Happy Ending by... me.

I'm finally crossing the line and pimping here at Noseinabook.


The Cover


The Blurb

He was everything I never, ever wanted. And I wanted him badly.

All Seth really wanted was a simple massage—was that too much to ask? When his usual therapist is replaced by a sexy young masseur, Seth finds himself obsessed with the unpredictable - and wholly inappropriate - David Cooke. Pushed to the breaking point by forces both mysterious and not so mysterious, Seth must lose his rigid control to find the happy ending both he and David deserve.

The Excerpt

The covers were gently placed back on my shoulders, and I was gripped with a firm hand on either arm, then the sides of my waist, hips, thighs, and then calves, until the blanket was drawn up and away. My left side out in the open air, ass down to my foot completely bared. The coolness of the air was lost to the heat coursing through my veins as those tantalizing hands kneaded the muscles of my thigh with determination and indisputable skill.

I groaned again, utterly turned on. Oh man. It was almost like the guy was doing this on purpose. I glanced over my shoulder only to see him caressing warm massage butter into the pale flesh of my inner thigh. His fingertips disappearing in that crevice, nearly touching my balls. His hands were smaller than I thought, but broad. His head was bent slightly, curls framed the frown on his brow, and even in that get up, even now noticing that ridiculous earbob—or whatever it was called, a gauge?—I wanted to fuck him. Hard. The words Boy Butter began to hum inside me. I plopped my head back down.

Oh, this was not good and completely out of character, even for me. At least this past year.

“Mr. Weston? Everything all right?” David’s voice was as sultry as smoke in the room.

I rolled my forehead against the head rest trying to get a grip. “Fine.”

“Because we can stop if you’re feeling uncomfortable.”

“I said fine.” No surrender.

Screw it, I lifted up and set my dick straight. Why not? It wasn’t as if this guy didn’t know what kind of equipment we both had. Or were interested in. I figured we were on the same page with our sexual orientation. I tried not to stroke off, just got more comfortable and then sprawled, boneless, onto the table. In for a penny; in for a pound. If nothing else, my body was in the game and my mind was off my troubles.

“Keep going.”

The massage therapist continued his work by sweeping his slicked hands down my thigh, and along the length of my calf. He worked the shea butter into the sensitive skin of my heel and then over my hypersensitive foot. Thumbs dug into the tender arch and holy mother of pearl, I reared up off the bed in exquisite pain and pleasure as the ache was funneled straight down my body and out through my toes. “My God. Again.”

I was panting.

“Excuse me?”

“Do that again. That was amazing.” I was starry eyed and breathless.

“Uh. Are you okay?” He seemed worried. This is what he did for chrissake, and now he was alarmed that I was enjoying it?

“Fine. Do it. Again.”

The Link

(available 4/24)



Did you all have a nice weekend? We did. Date night was great: Lobster Ravioli and a lovely, light, local vineyard white wine. Then, Swedish fish--which G did not steal from me-- and a late showing of State of Play.

Good times.

I'm going to give out a copy of Happy Ending (but not until Friday, cuz I've got to follow the rulz) out to some one~ YAY FREE BOOK~ I'll pick a winner by the end of the week. All you need to do is tell me your favorite movie candy.

P.S.

LOOK!
He's fabulous.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

YAY!

Three Cool Things!

  • The 'coming soon' for Happy Ending is posted on the AMP website. I should have a cover...maybe tomorrow. Sew Exciting.

  • Tracy, ahhhhhhromance, has read and blogged about tons and piles of romances for a solid year--it's her blog birthday! Or is it called a blog anniversary? Is it a birth or a union or birth of a union? Idk, but give her a pinch and a squeeze.

  • It's going to be +60 degrees tomorrow! Plants, containers, walking will ensue. But more importantly: The New Russell Crowe Movie Is Out!! Hooray! It's not the Robin- Hood- look-at-my- mighty- cod-piece movie, but still.


He's like cupid!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Perils of Phone Loss













Dumptity tinkly dooo!!!


::check brand spankin' new shiny black phone::

Apparently Random Phone Number: HI from joes crab shack.


::?????:: Me: Are they dancing!

AR Phone Number: Not yet!

5 minutes later.

Still Random Phone Number: They are singing ymca!



I have no idea who that was, but I'm reasonably sure it was someone I know. I like Joe's Crab Shack. It's in California.

Were you in California yesterday? If so, and you texted me, please let me know.

I need to program my phone, but, all my numbers are in the dead phone. Hm. Should have backed that up.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Onward!

Ok so that Amazon thing is now not actually sorted out but, at the very least, folks have their ranking and we have an almost but not really explanation / apology.

Er. Yay.

Today is Tuesday, and this dude will serve as my sinspiration. I'm writing all day...although I've been informed that I need to do some errands for G-man AND I'm going to my first b-team girls jr.high softball game. YAY!



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Monday, April 13, 2009

Got My Letter From Amazon

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Amazon.com.

This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error
for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.

It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay &
Lesbian themed titles - in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in
a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body,
Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem
impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It
affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing
the books from Amazon's main product search.

Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of
fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to
implement new measures to make this kind of accident less
likely to occur in the future.

Thanks for contacting us. We hope to see you again soon.


Sincerely,

Customer Service Department
Amazon.com

Just Another Manic Monday



I'm out of the office today...er...the home office. However: here are the links in yesterdays post regarding the Amazon filter bullcrackey : You can read the latest over at DA...TPig has some thoughts on the matter, heck, we all do. SB is Amazon Rank Googlebombing them. Please doooo eeeet.

I'm doing my best to keep up, but truly, there's nothing I can add on my digs that DA et all aren't able to do a far, far better job of.




Here's today's post-- which seems stupidly self centered now that we're all pissed at Amazon.


It's Monday &
two things stand in my way.



Number one.
The Cutie Laptop. In a single year-- I've worn the protective coating off the mouse pad and some of the keys. I heart you hp pavilion tx 2000. Tiny and light weight, it's stylish, fast and formidable. They say that cleanliness is next to Godliness, yes? Well, I decided to get the dust and funk of the last year outta my keyboard for Easter. Good thinking. I'm using a tool that isn't appropriate for the task, right? So Mr. G decides to show me that I can easily pop the keys up on my baby-doll laptop. Oh. You know where I'm going with this. I popped the wee keys up and they fell off. FUCK. So now I'm taking my laptop in to ... someone... to clean it, find out why it's not running up to snuff, and get them to stick the m,n, and comma keys back on. WAH.


Number two.
The cell phone.With unlimited internet, I check my email obsessively, I text BigGirl all the fricken' time (and Rosie and Tracy and sometimes Katiebabs, and my cousin, and my nephew, and...you get the picture, right?), I never use my home phone (I probably don't even know where it is) and I carry this thing with me everywhere. If you've had lunch with me, you know that I check it surreptitiously (under the table) while I'm chatting with you. It's awful, but that's why they call it an addiction. MY phone is chipped up and nicked up from dropping it (butterfingers!). Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I dropped it down not one but two flights of stairs Saturday (carrying laundry--stupid housework!!) and it's dead. SHIT. But people keep texting me, so it's jangling and I can't read the texts! Or answer the phone! Or call anyone! Or check my email! Or blog on it!

::paper bag:: I'm not happy about that!





Therefore today I'm out of the office. I'm packing my various electronics and I'm visiting: Best Buy, Sprint, Staples and probably the pharmacy for some kind of tranquilizer.

Heh.

I'll be back!

PS here's a random guy checking my equipment for me. Mmmmm... man panties!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Yes. I'm effing outraged, too

So this whole GLBT/Erotica non-ranking bull-sheet from Amazon has me both pissed off and confused. You can read the latest over at DA...TPig has some thoughts on the matter, heck, we all do. SB is Amazon Rank Googlebombing them. Please doooo eeeet.

Stupid homophobes. So do something constructive. Blog about it. Tweet. Write a letter. Add the link from Sarah and Candy.

I'll be following this closely and hopefully, we can make some kind of sense of this tomorrow.


~lbea

Friday, April 10, 2009

Happy Easter

I had a pedi and a fabulous new haircut today-- angular and above my shoulders (the color is auburny/brown yum yum yummy)--and it perked my little self right up. I've been instructed to celebrate the finish of book two edits (done and DONE) before I hurl myself full throttle into 'prep school' revisions. Yes, I know that was supposed to be last week, but Happy Ending came back and it took up some time. But it's ready for April 24th release! ::crosses fingers::

What's new? What did I miss??? I started filling out that smarty pants book meme and...er...boiled down, I have: Shakespeare, French, Austen. Hardest book? 120 days of Sodom. I don't recommend that to anyone. Boo. Favorite book at age ten? Are You There God it's Me Margaret. Book I've read the most: Mist of Avalon. Huh. Both those books are basically about having your period.

funny.

Have a great weekend. I'm taking a few days off to be mom/wife/Easter bunny. Be good! And if you can't be good-- take pictures!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

ZOMG THEY WINNED!!!

Hooray for CJ and Christine and Jennifer Y!!


Yippee Ki-yay!




Ok still writing. I'll try and reply to comments from yesterday in a little while. I was just a teensie weensie bit excited.

Monday, April 6, 2009

ManLoveMonday: Writing Day


Sorry Ladies and Gentlemen...I've finally finally reached a point where I can revise the pesky Prep School Book. Sheesh-- this one has been such a bear. I've put my thinking cap on, and I'm nose to the grindstone for the next few days.

What do you think of the name Casting Couch? My POV character, Michael, is an English teacher and drama coach at swanky Dalton Prep (located in Smithfield, natch). Unfortunately for Michael, his former boss and one time fling, security specialist and former marine Max Douglas, is on the scene--hired to protect a high profile student. Let's just say that the artsy Michael and the militant Max have different styles of leadership.

Do they doooo eeeeet on Michael's funky old couch?? Could be. Could be.

Don't forget to vote at Da bwaha. Vote for Iron Kissed!! Go CJ! Go Christine (2nd chancer!).

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Luck Be A Lady




(1)Connecticut
vs.
(2)Michigan State



I'm not a basketball kind of girl, but this is our ONLY claim to sports fame here, plus I've got nothin' to blog about and those penis straws are freaking me out. I may have mentioned that G is Joe-UConn- BA and MBA. He doesn't gamble and he doesn't watch sports, but he bet $20 bucks on UConn and that is significant. G gambling? HA! I hope he wins.

And speaking of winners, don't forget to vote CJ's slate over at DaBwaha!

Have a happy day, folks. Tonight is date night and G and I are having us some Sticky Toffee Pudding. Mmmm. I'm a lucky lady, indeed.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Click on the Pic...


...to see what I'm up to today.


Wednesday, April 1, 2009

I've Made a Huge Tiny Mistake

I'm concerned that I may have had a run in with..dum dum duuuuum!!!




But it smelled fine! It was already prepared and so I chucked caution to the wind and now...the...wind...has....chucked caution back at me. IDK. I feel a little icky sicky. I'd feel worse if it was the chicken, I'm thinkin' so I'll just take a tums and bravely start revising my prep school lovin' book.

Look at this answer, though.

OK so the winner of the Josh Lanyon book is:

Tracy!