…and talking about my life as a pool girl. Be sure to scoot on over there and keep me company. Ask me questions! Rag on me if you like. I’ll be checking in all day since all I’m doing is sitting at my desk and writing all dang day long! Here’s the link: All-A-Blog

Progress on Texas Men

I was a last minute replacement on Renee Bernard’s Internet radio talk show last night. Of course, I was nervous and paced very fast, trying not breathe too heavily into the phone so you all wouldn’t think I was some kind of perv. I think it went well, even if I couldn’t stop giggling. Listen for yourself! It’s only 15 minutes! My Interview at Canned Laughter and Coffee

Progress for Texas Men

After dealing with ten days of house guests, life’s starting to settle down around the old homestead, which means I have time to attack the huge stack of work that’s been growing babies in my inbasket.

I have over 4000 emails in my inbox to contend with—so if you’ve written me recently, I’m getting to you, I promise! I have a work in progress that’s getting whittled down, page by page, but now I really need to dive headfirst and “get ‘er done” (don’t you just hate that phrase!).

Like I needed to take time away from the keyboard, but today I went to a local writer’s meeting. Okay, I live in a small town, so I wasn’t expecting writers who are balls of fire, but I knew I was in trouble when every one of them were poets. I don’t write the stuff. I appreciate some classics (Shakespeare’s sonnets, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Browning), but I haven’t a lot of patience with the form because frankly, I want to tell a bigger story.

But I wanted to connect with local writers. So I went. I didn’t know I’d be expected to vomit a poem. The challenge was to write a poem with 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the next, 6, then 8. Here it is, and now you’ll know why I never aspired to be a bloody goddamn poet.

You’d think that would have been more torture than a body could stand, but I promised to come back next month. I even accepted an assignment to come up with another poem. Now, poems are flying through my mind, but nothing I can bring to that group because they’re all kinky as hell.

I complain, but I really enjoyed visiting with the little group, although I should have known I wouldn’t find any other erotica writers when I realized we were meeting in a rest home. :ohh:

I’m talking about cowboys on the Aphrodisia blog today, so come and keep me company!

Also, I loved the comments you left regarding my latest little poll (see entry below). Didn’t think about adding Kyle Schmidt to the list because I was looking for blond men, but add a few highlights to his hair, and I think he’d be great!

I have a winner from my latest little contest. I think I’ll bundle up some more gifts from my RT stash and send them to…Jolene! So girlfriend, send me an email so we can settle on your choice of books. Email Delilah

I’ll be playing “list mom” at EC’s chat loop all day today. If you’d like to come hang out, my fellow moms (Myla Jackson and Shayla Kersten) and I will be posting sexy excerpts from your favorite EC authors, running scavenger hunts for prizes and hosting one live chat!

If all you can manage is the live chat, plan to be at your PC around 11 AM CST. I think I’ll be sneaking in to steal the Fallen Angel’s chat room, but if I have to change locations, send me a message for the URL.

In the meantime, place your vote for your favorite actor to play Quentin, the handsome blond vamp from the My Immortal Knight series. Enter a vote, post a comment, and you’re entered to win a PRIZE. I haven’t decided what to give away yet, but you can tell me what you want in your post!

19 votes total

Brad Pitt (37%, 7 Votes)
Daniel Craig (26%, 5 Votes)
Leo DiCaprio (21%, 4 Votes)
Cillian Murphy (11%, 2 Votes)
James Spader (5%, 1 Votes)

Not the sexy post you expected from the title, huh? (I have dibs on that title BTW!!)

And it took me two days to post the pics, so sue me! I’m entitled to be grumpy today—it’s my birthday, and don’t bother asking how many candles will be on my cake (let’s just divide a century into two parts and assume the first half has some meaning to me!!!).

On a happier note, I have pictures I took of a recent excursion on Lake Hamilton with some writer friends of mine. Here’s Captain Cyndi, who invited us to stay at her house which sits at the edge of the lake.

Can you tell if Shayla’s having fun yet? She’s as grumpy as I am about having my picture taken.

“The Shade” was dutifully taking notes as we careened around the lake.

Lake Hamilton is in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Probably the greatest concentration of wealth in our poor state lies at its edges. The houses are amazing. This is the one I want to buy when one of my books gets picked up by Playgirl and is made into a series of naughty movies, all artfully done, that cross over to mainstream DVD buyers as the “smut you must have!”

Since I was the one carrying the camera, I have the power of THE CROP! Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me…

My daughter asked me yesterday what I would have been if I hadn’t chosen to be a writer. Now, keep in mind that I’ve already been an Army officer, an accountant, a project manager, a teacher…what else would I want to be?

If I were younger, I might love a chance at being a war correspondent. Put me where the action is, and while I might be scared (I was scared spitless a time or two during Desert Storm!), the adrenaline rush would keep be trucking. It’s the only thing I can imagine would give me more satisfaction than what I’m doing now.

Are there any things as a writer I still want to try? Well, of course I want to make a bestseller list, but I enjoy writing exactly what I’m writing now. But I would like to try my hand at writing a screenplay. So why not go for it? I want to take a class first to learn how to put one together (and I know me–if I shell out $ for a class, I’m damned well going to finish!). So, maybe that should be my next stretch goal–by next summer enroll in a screenwriting class and finish a screenplay! I’d also like to try my hand at travel writing, so maybe I’ll look for opportunities that aren’t terribly far afield and see what it leads to!

What about you? What secret ambitions do you have?