JUST ANOTHER JUDGEMENT DAY (Nightside #9): Simon R. Green HUNTED BY THE OTHERS (H&W Investigations #1): Jess Haines A KISS BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE (Remy Chandler #1): Thomas E. Sniegoski GREYWALKER (Greywalker #1): Kat Richardson SHAKESPEARE’S LANDLORD (The Lily Bar…

I hope you all had an awesome Christmas break. I know I did. :) Hubby was home for five days and we made the most of it. There was much hanging around, walking, some workouts, a lot of yummy meals, some reading while hubby played PS3/Xbox games, and we even managed to squeeze in a few…

’Tis the season for ho-ho-homicide. Secret McQueen, book 2.5 It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The season for mistletoe, Christmas lights…and a killing spree. When Secret’s friend, Detective Mercedes Castilla, asks for help to solve a series of murders longer than a string of li…

You can’t keep a good Secret for long. Secret McQueen, Book 2 After cheating death twice in one night, confessing her true nature to her werewolf soul mates and being asked to kill one of her closest friends, Secret took a much-needed vacation. By running away. Now she’s back in tow…

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is used to danger and adventure; they follow her at every turn. But when international murder hits dangerously close to home, this could be more explosive than exciting... Once Stephanie steps on the plane from Hawaii to Newark, she hopes to put her hellish h…

... and hubby's last day of work until next Wednesday. Yep. This festive season, he gets five days off with us. So we're all very excited, and looking forward to hanging out together, catching up on some TV shows, going for walks, working out, enjoying some nice meals, getting…

Justine Jones is a hopeless hypochondriac whose life is crippled by fear…until one day when a handsome, tortured mastermind named Packard peers into her soul and invites her to join his psychological hit squad. Justine resists until she gets a taste of the peace Packard can promise. At f…

Hey! How are you today? Can you believe we're only days away from Christmas? Oh, and the new year is just around the corner too. O_o So, this is my daughter's first week of school holidays and so far it's been going great. She's just started reading The Hunger Games a…

Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'. Normal girls don't lose time, or have something inside them that makes them capable of remarkably violent things. Her behavior has already cost her one job, so when she's offered the lofty position of companion to Phoebe, a debuta…

Charlotte Silver has been through hell. Her mom’ s in a coma. She may have caused the death of a young man. And now her friend Avery wants her to tackle going to Prom? Not going to happen, even if she is dying to spend some alone time with her boyfriend, Noah. Instead, Charlotte needs to…

Yeah, this week has felt so disjointed that most of the time I didn't even know what day it was. Like yesterday, I was convinced it was Friday. Obviously I was wrong, because it's Friday today. O_o The reason I'm feeling this way could be for several reasons: * My usu…

Introducing the Flipback: Excellent pocket-size edition of Stephen King's all-time classic - a must for both collectors and newcomers alike. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her …

Seriously. That's what it feels like around here. We have one or two hot and sunny days, then spend the next few weeks drowned with rain. Saying I'm sick of it doesn't actually capture how much I wish summer would just settle in. I feel like I'm in a constant state of…

As the background Wizidrical Power slowly builds after the Big Magic, King Snodd IV of Hereford realises the man who controls Magic controls almost anything.   But one person stands between him and his plans for power and riches: Jennifer Strange, sixteen-year-old acting manager of Kazam.…

As soon as Abe stepped out into the bright sun, she felt the intensity of Sebastian’s gaze on her. It itched at her skin until she couldn’t help but roll her shoulders. If he stayed this close to her, they’d never make it out of this without hitting the wall she so desperately wanted to …

Greetings! Yolanda has kindly given me time on her blog to tell you about The Watchmaker’s Lady , my forthcoming erotic steampunk romance e-novella from Red Sage Publishing . In this story, a watchmaker in 1840 New England falls in love with a beautiful clockwork automaton, but how long…

Yeah. It did, because the sun was shining first thing this morning. I couldn't believe it, and am really hoping that it sticks around for a while. I am so over the rain. Seriously over it. Anyway. I had certain goals that I wanted to achieve today... and I did! I'm so happy t…

With only two weeks of school left, I have to be ready to seriously tackle what's left of my self-imposed deadlines for 2011. And what exactly is that? Well, I want to finish the third draft of Sierra Fox #2 before my daughter's last school day for this year--which happens t…

In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam!, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcer…

The bad thing about having an awesome day, is that the next one will probably be pretty crappy. Which is exactly what is happening to me today. I had a great day yesterday. I didn't get too much writing stuff done, but I did go through the Word doc and changed something that will…

Really, go away.  It's been raining all this week, and it totally sucks! I'm so over it. I have to wear my raincoat every single day and it's cold, too. We're supposed to have moved past the cold, shitty weather. O_o <--- I took this photo this morning, during my d…

Seriously. It's now Thursday, and the rain hit on Sunday afternoon. What does that add up to? Too many rainy days . In some cases, it happened to be endless rain. :( Looks like it's not raining right now, but it's still very dark out there. I've said this before: …

But this gorgeous picture of my cat, Loki, should brighten things up. :) Seriously, isn't it beautiful? My daughter took it. We surprised her last month and gave her a digital camera for her 11th birthday, and she loves it. She takes heaps of excellent photos, but most of them ha…