New covers

I'm pleased to unveil two new covers by T.M. Roy of TERyvisions:
Readers may remember these titles, which were previously available through Samhain. Samhain should be reverting the rights this month, and if all goes as scheduled, The Nerd Prince will be released in February and I'll Be There For You in March.

My iPhone

I finally joined the 21st century and got an iPhone. I love the thing. I use it in my car to replace the iPod, I am reading on the Kindle and iBooks apps (and without TOO much eyestrain-- I wouldn't give up my Kindle, but when I'm caught somewhere without it, the iPhone is an adequate substitute), and it even has a handy "Notes" app. However, as I said on Twitter, the autocorrect is really, really annoying. I went to Target to jot down some notes about what my son wanted for his birthday, and somehow "Darth Vader transformer" was translated into "Dearth Badger transformer." Um.... nope, that's not what I wrote. Not even close!

Of birthdays and anniversaries

I realized today that I just passed my second anniversary as an indie author. I put up my first book on Amazon on February 3, 2010. Since then I've sold 100,000 books (admittedly most of those were in 2011!). Not bad for a start, and I'm looking forward to seeing where we go from here.

Also, today is my youngest's seventh birthday. Even my youngest is growing up! *sobs*

Rearranging my office a bit

I was inspired by some pictures on a Kindleboards thread to rearrange my office a bit. I've decided to move the doggy crate out into a quiet corner of the living room, instead of my office, where it's been since we moved. I don't know if Impy will accept this-- he only goes in the crate at night, but he's slept in the office for as long as he can remember. But if he accepts it (and he's generally more flexible than Hero is), I'll move an armchair into that corner of my office. It's irritating to me that I have no place to sit and relax in there-- sometimes I edit by reading my books on Kindle, or sort through my mail, and a nice chair in my office would be welcome. So we'll give it a try, anyway!

*Hugs you all*

I still have two books in the top ten contemporary romances on iTunes! I can't believe it!

The last few days have been ridiculously busy, as my kids have half days at school much of this week, but I am striving to get All the Way up before my other books are returned to me. It's short, so I'm contemplating adding a bonus short story, the way I did with Home for the Holidays. Considering the month in which it'll be released, I'm thinking about adding a little Valentine story I wrote once upon a time...

Woot!

Right now, I have not one, but TWO books (Isn't It Romantic? and Unwrapped) in the top ten contemporary romances on iTunes! Not sure why I'm selling so well over there, but thanks very much to my readers!

Hallo there!

Been a while since I posted. I guess I needed a little blog vacation:-). Currently I'm working on wrapping up my short story, All the Way, and figuring out what needs to be done to fix up I'll Be There For You and The Nerd Prince, both of which I should get back from Samhain next month. I think they're both pretty clean from a writing perspective, but I did notice I'll Be There For You makes mention of arena football, as well as out-of-date cars and popular songs. That one will need a bit of editing, clearly, so I'll probably release The Nerd Prince first. Once again the brilliant T.M. Roy is doing my covers... I can't wait to see them!

I finally contacted Smashwords, because my two Christmas books never went up on iTunes, and Smashwords quite promptly fixed the issue. It's a little late for Christmas books, obviously, but I'm nevertheless pleased by how well they're doing. Unwrapped is at #13 on the contemporary romance list over there right now, which is great, and Home for the Holidays is at #32 on the same list. At one point today I had five romances in the top 100 contemporary romances on iTunes. My deepest thanks to all my lovely readers!

The tale of the tire

My kids talked me into going to see the Holiday Lights display on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach. It's about a forty-minute trip over there, and I whined and complained, but eventually agreed. Since it was the last night, there weren't very many cars lined up, and I congratulated myself on an easy, relatively uneventful trip. But as we pulled off the boardwalk onto the road, I heard a distinctive and unpleasant thump-thump-thump sound. I pulled over and checked, and sure enough, my right rear tire looked like this:Pacific Avenue in Virginia Beach is not the greatest area to be stuck in, but fortunately we were in a well-lighted location. We called AAA, and when the guy got there (quite quickly, too), he discovered this lovely big nail in my tire:I obviously wasn't going to find someone to patch my tire at ten p.m., and my van has a compact spare. So I had to drive home (all on interstates) at fifty miles an hour. Fortunately, it was late and there wasn't a lot of traffic. And we made it home with no problems, for which I was quite grateful.

Glad I have AAA. I couldn't have changed that tire on my own. I couldn't even FIND the tire on my own-- it's hidden under the van on the right side, which I never would have figured out in a million years. AAA is totally worth it.

Happy New Year!!!

I wish you all an awesome 2012!

Seeing Spots, again

Seeing Spots has made it into the top 10 of the Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost Free Books list on iTunes (and there's some tough competition in that particular subgenre!). It's currently #9. Yay!