I'm a guest blogger today!

Hey, I'm guest blogging today... over at Milady Insanity's place!

Find out just how mad I really am, and why I have so many dumb pseudonyms... and comment for the chance to win a prize!

Watching the Detective... today!

WATCHING THE DETECTIVE is out today in the UK!!!

Okay, you'll have to buy an anthology with stories from a bunch of other writers in it to get The Detective... but they're all good authors and I'm sure they're all excellent yarns... even if there are no gorgeously big and strapping NYPD detectives in them. :)

Here's an excerpt and the buying links and whatnot....

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Telly: World at War
Choc/Yummy: Carrot Cake
Mood: slightly better
Writing: bit of Gothic Heat
Reading: just finished Lover Awakened - JR Ward
RSI/FMS: fairly sore


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how I feel...

This is a bit how I feel at the moment... I'm so zonked out thinking about writing, web design and promo, and so completely incapable of doing any of them, due to the aforesaid zonkedoutness... that I was reduced to scrubbing out the shower and mopping the kitchen floor this morning because my brain just couldn't cope with any higher functions.

And now, of course, I feel physically knackered too. It doesn't take much housework to **** me up... All I really want to do is to sit around reading LOVER REVEALED by J R Ward all day, but I have this freaking demon inside me that howls all the time saying I must be doing this, or I must be doing that... and it torments me so much it makes me crazy and I can't do anything at all!

I am so messed up at the moment...

Suite Seventeen out in the US today!!!

SUITE SEVENTEEN - Portia Da Costa

Acting purely on instinct, I coil my arms around him. I can't believe this is happening and I can't believe what I'm doing. This new, different, impatient me takes the initiative and presses her tongue against his lips, demanding entrance.

He laughs, the sound deep and rough in his chest, and he admits me. Then a second later, it's like he throws a switch and he takes total control.

When vibrant, forty-something widow Annie Conroy espies her new neighbours Maria Lewis and Robert Stone having kinky sex in their back garden, she decides it’s time that she too woke up and smelt the erotic roses. And where better to begin her daring adventures than the luxurious Waverley Grange Country Hotel, and its hidden den of iniquity, the chintz-clad but wickedly pervy Suite Seventeen?

Under the stern but playful eye of exotic master Valentino, Annie quickly discovers the shocking hidden depths of her own sensuality, and surrenders herself body and soul to his outrageous games of power. But when the Waverley’s entire future hangs in the balance, and Annie has the means to help save it, dare she gamble on going one step further… and giving her heart to the mysterious man who’s come to control her?

"...this deliciously seductive story... is hard to put down" ~ Romantic Times, Four and a Half Stars, Sept 07

'Suite Seventeen contains all Portia's trademark treats from the arousing narrative, a wicked blend of deviant episodes, and an undercurrent of pragmatic and poignant romance.' ~ Ashley Lister, Erotica Readers and Writers Association

'I am grinning from ear to ear having savoured every last dripping word...' ~ Ann, poet and blogger

'a cheeky and very lovely read' ~ Madelynne Ellis, bestselling author of A Gentleman's Wager

ISBN 0352341092

Published by Black Lace in June 2007 [UK] and August 2007 [US]

Read an excerpt at PortiaDaCosta.com [NB. excerpt is NC
17 and suitable for adults only.]

Suite Seventeen is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

a picture [of sorts] paints a thousand words

today...

This is out...
from TOTAL-E-BOUND...

I should be celebrating but I feel a bit....


About nothing in particular...

He's a bully but I don't care!

Mr Blue is very cross with me because I didn't write at all yesterday! I don't know how it happened, really... I meant to, but I just couldn't get into the groove, and a trip up into little town, to do some errands, really disrupted my day. It wouldn't have bothered a normal, professional writer... but it did me because I'm easily thrown by breaks in my routines.

And I'm not likely to get much done today, as I need to catch up with some outstanding web work, and I'm suffering huge, huge guilt pangs at not getting these tasks done straight away for my clients. It *is* getting harder and harder to balance the two sides of my working life... I'm managing at the moment, mainly because I need the money, but I accept that there may come a time when I have to reluctantly give up the design and focus on writing. I would miss it, if I had to do this, because it's another way of being creative, and one that can be exercised when I'm in a state of emotional turmoil, because it's not affected by my emotions in the way my writing is... *and* my web clients are all so nice... but it's getting to be more and more of a struggle to reconcile the two things. :(

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Telly: UK TV History
Choc/Yummy: Tesco chocolate brownie
Mood: oppressed
Writing: nothing yet
Reading: Lakeland catalogue
RSI/FMS: achey, weary


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A fun new Yahoogroup!!!

Literagasm - for fans of romance and erotica eBooks!

This group is for discussing erotic romance eBooks, the good, the bad and the ugly! We'll give you an honest opinion on the best and the worst, to help readers to decide which eBooks to spend their hard earned pennies on. We'll help readers to chat to their favourite authors and authors to tell them what's new 'n' up 'n' cummin'!

LITERAGASM
v.the climax of excitement esp whilst in the act of reading

Sign up now and join the fun... print book discussion welcome too!


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Strange how things turn out...

I must have done something right with SUITE SEVENTEEN because not only did I get my fabulous Romantic Times review... "this deliciously seductive story... is hard to put down..." but I've also got another super smashing review at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, courtesy of top man Ashley Lister!

Ash is a long time supporter of me as writer, and like the lovely reviewer at RT, he really seems to get where I'm coming from with my stories and characters...

But I really find this good response to S17 extremely reassuring... I had a real struggle with the sukka at many stages of the writing, and for a lot of the time I thought it was total crap... and it's ended up as something that's been pretty well received so far, both as a romance novel and an erotic novel.

So it just proves that even if a book seems like a steaming pile of horse plop while you're writing it, there's still a possibility that it might turn into something reasonably worthwhile eventually... Which means there may be hope for Gothic Heat too... :)

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Don't forget Portia's Promos - new stuff being added all the time!

This just in!!!!

Just discovered that SUITE SEVENTEEN has got a lovely, glowing four and a half star review from Romantic Times!!!

Not sure I'm supposed to post details of the review until the magazine is actually out... but to say I'm well chuffed is putting it mildly! :)

This is...

... my degree of tiredness and lack of co-ordination today!



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Telly: Time
Choc/Yummy: turkish delight
Mood: knackered and sleepy
Writing: nothing
Reading: lover revealed
RSI/FMS: see mood


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Here's proof...

... that people do actually read my books! This is my friend, poet and blogger Ally, reading during her holiday at beautiful, peaceful Harrison Lake near Harrison Hotsprings British Columbia Canada.

It looks like a gorgeous spot for quiet reading and contemplation... and I'm just hoping that Ally found the book worthy of the glorious surroundings. :)

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Telly: The Race for Absolute Zero
Choc/Yummy: Lindt
Mood: okay
Writing: 1.2K Gothic Heat
Reading: Lover Revealed - JR Ward
RSI/FMS: sore wrists and stuff


Don't forget Portia's Promos - new stuff being added all the time!