Niiiice!!! In the top 10!

I tell you, it's the cheapest things that can make a girl happy

Now up at ARe..

Accidentally Were? is now available at All Romance eBooks!

Pearl and Rex have even made the front page What's Hot list!!
If you're a ARe fan, you can find all my books listed here. I'm going to hazard a guess that AW? will be up at Fictionwise sometime in the next week, too.

Tea for Three has been doing well at Fictionwise, going up and down in the later half of the Top 10 highest rated list for Loose Id. If you've purchased a copy of any of my books at either site, I'll beg shamefully for you to go add your review of the story. It's horribly tacky, but it's a great pump to an authors ego to see their name in flashing lights :)

Review

Accidentally Were? was a funny, erotic and fascinating book. It has everything that I look for in a great book-love, sex, humor, sex and adventure. Pearl (Miss Priss) and Rex (Mr. Proudly Plaid) were extremely well-written character who could easily have been my neighbors-if Weres existed. Ms. Douglas had a wonderful grasp on her craft and allowed me to suspend disbelief. Rex had planned to be a bachelor, but as soon as he and Pearl first made love, I knew that he was doomed. I strongly suggest that you have a toy or a partner when you read this book -- you will need one. I would have loved to have been there and watched them. There were secondary characters who fit into the plot and helped move it along. I could not stop reading from the moment that I started. Enjoyable does not begin to describe Accidentally Were? Ms. Douglas is one of my newest favorite authors. Relatively new, she has an amazing voice. More, please, Ms. Douglas!

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Marcy Arbitman
December 21, 2007

Okay, my ego likes hearing 'amazing voice', and new favourite author :), and as for the more...it's in the works!

Accidentally Were? - Available Now!

ISBN: 978-1-59632-575-3
Cover Artist: Anne Cain
Erotic Paranormal BBW Romantic Comedy

Available now at Loose Id!

With Murphy’s Law, Magic, and Fate working together, Pearl and Rex don’t stand a chance. When Miss. Priss in pearls meets Mr. Proudly Plaid in flannel, there‘ll be more flying than just blue sparks and fur.

Pearl Gordon wakes up after her first ever one-night-stand to an empty bed, a plethora of love bites, and every stray canine in town serenading her bedroom window? Something’s not right -- neither the dogs, nor the strange canine tooth marks in the middle of all the hickeys she now wears around her neck.

When her pal Shaun can’t come up with any better excuse than she was bitten by a werewolf — seriously, as if! — Shaun suggests Pearl double check with her neighbour, Rex Dixon. After all the handsome, burly, bear of a man might be practicing as a vet, but he also trained as a GP.

Angry that a Were in heat was so stupid as to sit herself down in the middle of his waiting room, Rex reacts. Only there’s a few things he doesn’t know about Pearl, and it seems Magic is about to poke a pin in the side of his confirmed bachelor balloon. There’s a prophecy to fulfil and Fate’s out hunting, and she’s loaded for Were-Bear.

20 days and counting!

Accidentally Were? will be available in 20 days, WAHOO!! Do I sound a little excited? I'm really looking forward to this book because it's got a lot of me in it. Not that I've ever been bitten by a Were-Bear, or had packs of dogs lusting after me, or indeed had my Dad tell me about a mysterious prophecy... though I can say I did come close to hurling on someone's shoes while pregnant.

So make sure to book mark it, put the date on the calendar ... heck sharpie it on the back of your hand, because it's going to be a fun read!

At Loose Id Nov 20th

A new cover...

Hairy, bear of a man? Check
Plus sized woman? Check. Who's wearing her signature pearls? Check
Blue, sparkly magic stuff? Check!

Now I'm off to update some webpages :) since this will be out at the end of November!

A little something from a wip ...

I decided I liked Robbie, who's a side character in Accidentally Were. I also got a giggle out of Shaun, Pearl's younger, goth princess friend. Then, of course, I had this very mean thought that Shaun would bug the shit out of Robbie ... and a new story was born.

So a little bit from the first chapter ...

Robbie Diedrickson cursed the day his friend and Beta had found his mate.
Not because he was unhappy that Rex had found love and had a cub on the way, but because much-to-curious-for-her-gothic-shitkickers Shaun Engelstead was now his problem.
Little gothic riding hood, sitting on a gravestone absently knocking the heels of her red Doc Martins together like she was Dorothy wishing to go home, was giving him grey hairs -- and being just this side of forty, he didn’t need her assistance in that department.
Robbie snuck a look around the other side of the tree he was hidden behind, and looked to see if Jak was in position.
Jakov Pieter was a vampire; a real one, not one of the playing at it types with fake teeth he’d seen hanging with Shaun and the rest of her Goth friends. It hadn’t taken much convincing to get his old friend to help him out with his plan to scare his little gothic princess. Jak was always up for a good practical joke, and getting to act all Bela Lugosi was right up his alley.
It wasn’t that he was angry with her. Much. After all, if she hadn’t sent Pearl to Rex to find out about Pearl’s strange canine shaped love bites, they wouldn’t have found each other and the whole chain of ‘wonderful’ events that led to Rex mated and about to be a daddy wouldn’t have happened. But, and there was always a but when Shaun Engelstead was involved, now that she’d been proved right about Weres existing, she was determined to prove Vampires were real, too.
Wasn't it enough that every time he turned around Shaun he tripped over her -- she was like a kid with candy, and the Pack was her Pop Rocks. Pack meetings, she was there; a Pack party, yup you guessed it, she was there. He had a feeling she probably knew more about the minutiae of his pack than he did, and he was the god damned Alpha!
And that was why, at two am on a Friday morning, he wasn’t tangled up in the sheets with a date, but crouched behind a fucking pine tree waiting to put his ‘scare Shaun shitless and get her to stop poking her nose in’ plan into action.

It's been one of those weeks.

I've been bad and not updated, but fact is, I was feeling pretty crappy about a number of things and would only have brought y'all down. But today is the start of a new week, so here's wishing for it to be a bit more upbeat.

I've been plugging along on RSCF's expansion. I think I've come up with a workable solution to my do they/don't they dilemma. Shock and awe is great, and I was thinking the 'OMG what did we do' morning after might be the thing, but somehow that's not what I wrote, lol! I think for these guys they need to work themselves towards the final act, so to speak :D. Hubby is off to see Cape Canaveral with his friend from England today, so who knows, with the house to myself I might just get to that last scene today.

Would be nice to see it completed, as I've not quite felt like I've got much done lately. Which is odd - I finished FWB (which finally got through to EC with a little help, yay!), and I finished Accidentally Were? before that (tentatively a Early Nov release), and I'm working well at finishing RSCF ... but these were all stories I'd started earlier in the year and were bound and determined to finish. Maybe thats it, I've not really started anything new ... though I do have some plans afoot!

Sex Magic

I've been working on my blurb etc for Accidentally Were? and though I was purposefully taking a stab at lots of Romance staples like "oops, gee look at that ... I'm pregnant", and "Soulmates ...WTF you talkin'bout Willis?" I've just realised that instead of poking fun at the old favourite - The Magic Va jay jay - I've come up with something not often heard of:

Magic Sperm.

It wasn't till I was trying to be witty and pithy with my blurb (frankly I suck at blurbs, especially ones trying to sell you a comedy) that I realised I'd failed in one of my goals while also perversely exceeding my plan.

Magic Sperm ... much better than a magic va ja jay, I think.

Finished and emailed

B if you're reading - go check your in box, hehe.

Man it feels good to get the story down, the polishing done, and the email in the sent box!

Accidentally Were? here's hoping you make everyone else laugh as much as you did me! (Damn but I'm good at some cheesiness!)