Good grief, where is January going? One minute it's Christmas and the next, we're two thirds of the way through January and not a lot to show for it. I can't believe how time flies so fast, as I get older. Just when I need it to slow down a bit. LOL
A lot of the time so far this month has been spent acclimatising myself to my new laptop, and to Windows 7 and various new programs. This is no hardship. I love new tech and I love fiddling with software and learning its foibles. I'm happy with my choice of laptop - a
Lenovo Thinkpad - and I've even grown to love widescreen now, after holding out for a long time with 4:3 aspect. The extra acreage is great for things like graphics, especially.
So what's happening in my writing life. Well, I just delivered my second Victorian erotic romance for
HQN. This one's called
DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, and it's a wacky conundrum of inspirations, including hints of Downton Abbey and an awful lot of Sherlock Holmes. The hero,
Wilson Ruffington is an eccentric genius who can be a bit brusque and capricious, even if his heart is basically in the right place. He's not a detective, but he does have something of Holmes' analytical method about him. He's a scientist and a consulting technologist, a polymath who's brilliant in all areas of learning. The heroine is
Adela Ruffington, and she's a second cousin, twice removed of Wilson, a woman who's as unusual in her own way as he is in his. Not exactly a beauty, with a crooked nose due to an accident [Wilson's fault!] and a few faint scars from chicken pox, she's been overlooked on the marriage mart, and being sensual in nature, she's taken control of her own erotic life in a way that's quite radical for a Victorian woman. But she's a New Woman, and member of the
Ladies' Sewing Circle, so she's far from an uptight prudish miss.
In other writing news, I've just had word that a couple of my stories are going to appear in the fabulous
Alison Tyler's next anthology for Harlequin. More about this as the details firm up, but my two stories are linked, about the same couple, and called
COME AT SIX and
COME AT NINE.
I've also been very active on the self publishing front, and have two recent titles that you might like to check out.
AN APPOINTMENT WITH HER MASTER - BDSM short story
DARING INTERLUDES - mini anthology of couples go wild stories
If you're in the mood for something wintry there's also
FIRE AND ICE, a boss and P.A. story with a cold and very hot erotic twist!
I'm also very excited about my next new release, this time from Carina Press, my first with them. This one is a very risque BDSM erotic romance novella, called
INTIMATE EXPOSURE. I hope you'll like its wayward and sexy hero,
Red Webster, a roguish photographer with more than one naughty secret. Publication date is
6th February.
