Oh, sorry. Soo busy! I'll be off for the next three weeks - huge wedding coming up and I'm helping my parents move to a new home.
I will be back after July 4th.
I'll miss you! Julia
Friday, June 10, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Apparently I'm an "Addict" and you might be too!
I’m serving hash this week. I have no news worth reporting on my WIPs other than they are stilling whipping me and I’m valiantly WIP-ing back.
I did sneak off with my husband to see Hangover 2 and laughed my head off. I was so in the mood for stupid and the movie really delivered the dumb bomb I so badly needed.
Added bonus Bradley Cooper is hot! Jeepers, creepers where did Bradley get those eyes? As if the eyes and the smart charm weren’t enough, apparently he speaks fluent French… sigh. That’s nice, I like that. I don't know about you but that Youtube video of Bradley Cooper on French television makes me want to buy a Rosetta Stone language course, bad!
Now I can’t wait to finally see “Bridesmaids”, everyone I know already saw it and loved it. Actually there are a lot of interesting movies this year, unlike other years when there was little I cared to see. I expect to be at the movies again soon taking a bunch of little boys to see the Green Lantern. (Psst it’s not completely selfless, Ryan Reynolds stars…)
I did get a nice surprise earlier this week. Lupa at You Gotta Read Reviews gave “Owned By Rome” a great review. Thank you Lupa!
The Ladies at Ellora’s Cave Redlines and Deadlines Blog brought this item to my attention: Kimberly Sayer-Giles warning against romance addiction
Also if you frequently read, write or just enjoy the occasion romance novel you must be warned: Beneath that steamy book cover hides a thrilling gateway drug to hell! According to Salt Lake City based Life-coach Kimberly Sayer-Giles romance can be addictive and ruin lives. At least that’s what she says in her hardboiled article about the perils of romance addiction. Her main caveat with reading romance novels was they caused “physical sensations so pleasurable the reader would want to repeat the experience.” (Duh!) She reasons you could be left panting for what you cannot have and harbor unrealistic expectations about love, which is true if you think you are going to marry a billionaire Vampire Navy SEAL. So the next time you’re jonesing for a hunky, steamy does of Alpha male please take Ms. Sayer-Giles advice and take up a wholesome hobby instead of reaching for an addictive novel.
(This is the actual link. You must read this nonsense for yourself)
I left a comment on the Redlines and Deadlines blog regarding Ms. Sayer-Giles…(Its mean but I’m a pervert who reads and writes romance.)
Well that’s my hash!
XXOO Kat
Another Self-Publishing Blog
I’m watching all my friends self-publish their books and having so much success. I’m jealous. I won’t deny it. I’m also lazy. I could be one of them. I’m just too lazy to put in all the effort – right now. I have plans, though. I have a goal for the end of the year. I don’t like to set goals because the procrastinator in me always sabotages those goals.
At the end of this year I’ll be getting the rights back to one of my favorite books. I know this book will good if I self-pub it. That’s my plan when I get it back. I’ll give it a once over, see if it needs any editing or if I should add to it. I’ll find a cover artist and I WILL self-pub it.
There’s also one other book that I plan to work on to self-publish. I’m not going to overwhelm myself. I have two wips that are close to done. Once they’re done and off to my editors I’ll work on the full-length. The book is technically written, but needs a LOT of editing. I have a lot of research to do too.
So I don’t have plans for a bunch of books published the second half of this year, but it’s not about the quantity. I want to produce something special to ME. :o)
How about you? Any plans for self-publishing in the future? Do you have the desire to at least try it once?
At the end of this year I’ll be getting the rights back to one of my favorite books. I know this book will good if I self-pub it. That’s my plan when I get it back. I’ll give it a once over, see if it needs any editing or if I should add to it. I’ll find a cover artist and I WILL self-pub it.
There’s also one other book that I plan to work on to self-publish. I’m not going to overwhelm myself. I have two wips that are close to done. Once they’re done and off to my editors I’ll work on the full-length. The book is technically written, but needs a LOT of editing. I have a lot of research to do too.
So I don’t have plans for a bunch of books published the second half of this year, but it’s not about the quantity. I want to produce something special to ME. :o)
How about you? Any plans for self-publishing in the future? Do you have the desire to at least try it once?
PS...This is my new cover for my next release from Ellora's Cave coming this Friday, June 10th.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Nibble on my cherry, LADY VARNEY's RISQUE BUSINESS
LADY VARNEY’S RISQUE BUSINESS is a bit of funny business that I hope you enjoy!
A nibble of my newest cherry?
Of course! (Copyright 2011, Cerise DeLand.)
Available at Resplendence, but also at Allromanceebooks.com where I am dying to rise on the list. Help me out, will you? http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-ladyvarney039srisquebusiness-549359-160.html
He hurried her along the hall and into an alcove. “While I am relieved to hear that you are not pregnant—”
“Hush! Are you an idiot?”
“Mad, delusional, a cretin in the mix!” He stepped inside a tiny hallway lined with cupboards and closed two doors on either side of the four foot space. “Call me any name you like, my Puss. You are driving me out of my head!”
“Well deserved, too!” she blustered as he pulled her into his arms and she once more felt the marvelous sensation of being captured by him. Held against his warmth. His might.
“Not by half, you minx. You cash my bank notes. But you will not receive me at home. You avoid me at church. Walk around me in the Park. I am reduced to waylaying you like a highwayman at a party on Wednesday afternoon!”
A laugh bubbled up from her throat but she squelched it. “We have nothing to say to each other.”
“No,” he said with dour tone. “We have so much to say that only this will do.” He caught her chin, wrapped one arm around her waist and kissed as he had that first night in her drawing room. Long and lavishly. Repeatedly. Killing her reason and her resolve.
Her fan slid from her fingers. Her hands pulled him closer. These past weeks, she’d pined for him like a schoolgirl. She’d relived every moment in his arms, in his bed, even in his rose garden at his cottage. She had cried and mooned and railed at fate for what she could not have.
He took her mouth with ravenous delight, trailing kisses across her cheek and down her throat to her bodice. His hands molded her to him and suddenly, she felt his fingers lift her skirts and slide to her pussy. Caress her seam. “Darling, I am so delighted you wear none of those ridiculous pantaloons. You are so plump and wet for me,” he murmured and what words came next became a serenade of all the endearments he had declared in his cottage and all that still lived in her heart.
He undid his flies, and plunged up inside her. Against the cupboard, she braced herself and gave over to the rapture of his possession.
He was warm and turgid and—
Something shattered.
Tinkled all around them.
“Don’t move,” he warned as he held her tightly.
“What?” she asked soundlessly, her cunt so full of him, her breasts so needy of his kisses she thought she’d scream.
Blinking repeatedly to clear his vision and his head, he glanced about them. “Dear god, sweetheart, we’ve broken the family crystal.”
She surveyed the tiny room and the astonishing wreckage. “Justin. Oh, hell! We’re in the butler’s pantry!”
Friday, June 3, 2011
Late again, but I have an excuse!
This is me today.
My computer has a bad case of the hiccups! Driving me crazy! It seems par for the course, no big surprise considering how insane my life is right now.
Okay - news - dreamed about the ending of Incorporeal last night - my paranormal WIP. I wrote an ending and did not like it, so I deleted it. I feel like I've got it. Yes!
I think we're going to a ballgame tonight. We'll see if the rain holds off. Have a wonderful weekend one and all! Love, Julia
Okay - news - dreamed about the ending of Incorporeal last night - my paranormal WIP. I wrote an ending and did not like it, so I deleted it. I feel like I've got it. Yes!
I think we're going to a ballgame tonight. We'll see if the rain holds off. Have a wonderful weekend one and all! Love, Julia
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Sensations
Whew!! I have another release on the horizon! Sensations will be available November 9, 2011 at Resplendence Publishing. I chose June 30th as the deadline for submitting the final manuscript, and gosh darn it, I feel more than confident I'll be finished before that!
This book was not the one I thought I was going to be subbing. Why? Because it was never meant to be a completed story! Let me explain.
I was about 7k in a WIP. My muse was leading me to create a darker, more mysterious plot than I'm used to writing. As I've talked about on other occasions, I have to write a book in order, from beginning to end. After struggling for hours to finish a single paragraph, I stormed away from the computer and headed out to the garage to share my frustration with my ever patient hubby. My freakishly long rant can be summed up thusly~ "I can't do this, what was I thinking, this is too hard, why can't I just write the sex?" I'm pretty sure I stomped my foot and pouted. Hubby looked up from whatever manly project he was working on, and silently raised a questioning eyebrow. Eureka, my problem was solved!
I grabbed a beverage, went back to my writing cave and opened a new file titled Pure Sex. Words began to flow effortlessly from my brain to my frantically typing fingers. In no time at all, Sensations was 2,500 words, I was in love with the characters, and I knew exactly where the story was going! The very best part???? I'd not written any sex!!!!
A few days later, I re-read hubs the original WIP, then I unveiled Pure Sex. I was a bit nervous when he didn't immediately comment. Finally, he said, "The first one is good. I like the people, and the setting's cool, but I can't really tell what you're going for."
"You and me both!" I responded with a harrumph.
"The second one is your next book."
"Why?"
"Because you were smiling as you read it. I hear you in every word."
See why he heads my Research and Development Department? No bullshit, no making things more complicated than they need to be.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!!
Tessie
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
WIP-Wrecked on a Rocky Shore!
I can’t believe it’s June already. I didn’t get a spring yet. The pilot light of our furnace was blown out last month but we still have a down comforter on our bed. I can’t remember a spring ever being this cool.
I’ve had a too-busy-in-a-not-fun-way-so-called-spring, but my WIP carousel of chaos is twirling at top speed. I currently have six WIPs on my desktop that I continually trade off between. Sometimes I work on a single WIP for an entire week uninterrupted, and sometimes I switch between three WIPs in a day. As long as the genres are different, I can keep it straight. I never allow myself to feel too blocked or bored. The moment I get bored I close the WIP. If I still have time left in the day I trick myself into writing by opening a fresh WIP and saying, “no pressure, let’s just take a peek…” lol
I try to add 1-2k each day to at least one of the WIPs, and sometimes a bit more if the day job will allow it. I really want to finish a couple of these because I can feel new ideas and fresh projects crowding in that I know will require a little love and attention also.
I have a feeling June is going to be a high-energy, big idea month not just for me but for all of us. I predict the muse of June will be bold. This might be a great time to put your dreams in black and white and do some practical reflection about how to make them real. That’s the energy of June our mid-year point—it often provides a not so gentle reminder to get hopping with projects. It’s June 1st, so ready or not I guess we will find out soon enough if I was right…
Remember to dream big, and have a great June!
XXOO Kat
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