I am alive!

I had my Remicade treatment today (which took up almost four hours of the day!), and came home feeling better. Whether that's all in my head or not I don't know. (Some of it might be the large amount of liquid they put into me-- there's no doubt I've been dehydrated.) The doctor confirmed I lost about eleven pounds over the past week and a half, which gives you an idea of how sick I've been. I expect to start feeling truly better in a day or two, whereupon I will return to working hard. First up is a quick glance over the Dominance series to make sure it's perfect before I hand it off to my formatter, and then I'll get back to poor neglected Wolf in the City and Pawned. As always, I thank you guys for your patience!

Also, I wanted to show everyone my spectacular "box set" cover for Dominance, done, of course, by Carol's Cover Design:

The road to hell

I had good intentions of getting back to full-tilt writing, but my Crohn's got in the way. I was a little late on the Remicade because I didn't want a three-hour appointment right at the end of summer, while I was trying to get the kids ready for school, and when I tried to make an appointment I was told I had to see the doctor, which led to a two-week delay. Alas for me, I became horribly ill and wound up lying on my back for most of the last week. I have been about as sick as I've ever been-- too sick to even want to type on the laptop. All I've done is lie there and catch up on Supernatural... not a bad way to spend time, really, except I desperately want to get back to writing. (I did get two hours of writing done one morning. Yay?)

Clearly I must never be late for getting my Remicade treatment again. Lesson learned, I guess. Anyway, I have my treatment on Wednesday and should feel pretty good by next week, or if I'm really lucky, the weekend. At that point, writing-with-a-vengeance will recommence. In the meantime, I'm getting together a "box set" (in Kindle format) of my m/m erotic romance Dominance (which requires work on the part of my cover artist and my formatter, but not much on my part). No new material, so nothing for those of you who've already read it, but in case you haven't read it yet, this might be a good time to do so:-). I hope to have it up by early next week.

Again, I thank you all for your patience and beg your pardon for my stupid misbehaving stomach!

A billionaire parody by Jody Wallace

My friend Jody has a funny parody of the billionaire romance genre out, here.

Still working!

I am continuing to work hard on my writing every day. I have a lot of Wolf in the City done (about 18,000 words, now aiming at 25K words), and am getting rolling on Pawned. I also started a short called Summer Sun today. I have a lot of books in progress now, and I'll be trying to keep working on all of them!

Back to work

Somehow I couldn't seem to get much writing done this summer. I don't know if I had too many kids underfoot, or if I was a little burned out, or what. But the kids went back to school today, and I will be writing every morning from now on. I started out well today, getting some editing and writing done on Wolf in the City and Flawless. I hope to do a little work on Pawned today too. I intend to get several books out this month. Thank you all for your patience!

Yachting, billionaire style

Here's an article on the world's newest superyacht, which is 590 feet long. Its price tag? $605 million (and maintenance can cost ten percent of that figure a year). It's owned by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi. I think even Dom might be envious!

Not much writing done

I apologize for not posting and publishing more, but it's been a crazy summer. The kids have been underfoot (and so has my dad!). We've been visiting local museums like the Virginia Aquarium, the Virginia Zoo and the Military Aviation Museum. We even got a new puppy:

So alas, not much writing has been done, but I have intentions of getting back to serious writing in August. I have about five books in various stages of completion, but the ones at the top of my priority list are Wolf in the City and Pawned.


I hope I'll get at least a couple books out in August. Thanks for your patience!