Now THIS is my kind of Christmas card!

Send thanks to Amanda Young for leaving this little beauty at myspace.

Finally!

FB was convinced to read something for me.

Now he has been adamantly refusing to read any of my writing until such time as I could provide him with a lesbian work - just for his reading pleasure (Of course that got my back up, so see if I offer him that manuscript to read if it ever gets written!). So I was most surprised when I asked him to read over a current WIP (no gay sex in this one, he wouldn't touch that with a barge pole), he actually did. Then came back to me and said, "hey, this isn't half bad!". The surprise in his voice was most uncomplimentary, but I decided to be the better person and gracefully said thank you.

I will say that FB does put up with a hell of a lot of my burbling about writing, publishing, and general smack talk about things I want to do, but haven't quite got there yet with. Usually with the same aplomb as I deal with music talk...ahum, yeah, really? wow! that's interesting...so it was quite surprising when FB then says "so now that they have got together, what is going to happen? That is only the start of the story...right?"

Rutt Ro! Only the start of the story? Shit...this was supposed to be halfway through the story. (The original aim had been to submit it for the Amber Heatwave contest, then I thought maybe instead I would submit it for the Elloras 2008 Quickies since the heroine is named Pearl, and wears pearls as she is supposed to be a prissy preppy prude) "Half way through? Oh no, definitely not, there's way more story you can add after this. You need to find a bad guy, or maybe you can give this Grand Dame lady some evil plot - that shes manipulating The Magic somehow because she has secret plans for their offspring or something."

Bloody hell...not only have I got to come up with another 30k+ words I need to figure out a sneaky plot when this was supposed to be a short and sweet story? Did we just jump from lesbian porn to legitimate suggestions in one giant, big leap?

Oh, we didn't...FB is still waiting on the lesbian porn...

Wanna chat?

You may have caught some excerpts and Q&A from me at Joyfully Reviewed and Love Romances Cafe over the last few days. I will be doing a live chat at realmsoflove.com and romancejunkies.com on the 11th (this coming Monday) at 9pm est…yes, yours truly stuffed up a little and I will be a frantic woman for an hour as I chat at two places…talk about having a spilt personality!

These are dedicated LI author chat nights, so join me and a number of other amazing Loose Id authors - Flesa Black, Isabella Snow, Mechele Armstrong to name a few - to find out about new releases, contests, giveaways, and generally probe our brains for how and why we do what we do.

Midlife and sex...

I was wondering, as you do, why so much romance of every sort is about young/ish single people finding the right person.

Now you can look at me weird, but I was thinking about my Mum. Shes reasonably attractive, heading toward 55 - definitely not looking like it, most days (sorry mum!) - and to my knowledge doesn't date (and hey I have been out of the country for 5 years so there is ample opportunity to date with me knowing it but I have sisters who gossip it would have got back to me). Surely reading about hot little 20 somethings can't do it for her. I mean it's all good an well to have a fantasy life, but you need to have some basis in reality somewhere along the line...right?

Why is there so little about 40+ (unless they are the distinguished uber riche bachelor who hunts himself a trophy wife) men and women. And what about married couples. It's great and all to get your jollies, or your rocks off to great erotic romance then nab your hubby in bed, but what about some stories that have husbands and wives overcoming the evil dude, and having ultra hot sex along the way. Or about trying to keep your marriage and hot sex alive while trying to avoid the "hey, daddy is playing horsies with mummy, lets jump on board daddy's back, YEA HAW" moments.

What about dedicated husbands and wives who want to explore their sexuality...surely that can be made into a sexy romantic story without delving too far into the realms of straight erotica? Or of course turning out a complete and utter balls up and ending in divorce?

What? ...Your stilling imagining the whole "gi'up and ride em cowboy moment with the kid aren't you? I can't be the ONLY one that has happened to, surely?