Niceness....

I have decided that I'm going to try and be a bit nicer from now on, and not give in to my envious, curmudgeonly and chainsaw-wielding thoughts... Being a grumpy malcontent doesn't do anyone any good, least of all me.

So here, have a metaphorical pie of loveliness and benign thoughts from me, and enjoy your day! :)

Not much here today, but...

There's a teasing micro excerpt of my current WIP - Another Chance - over at my Portia's Prose blog!

Maud has had one taste of William's clever erotic skills... and now she wants more!

Motivational

Hoping this'll work better than moaning and whingeing all the time! LOL

Credit crunch....

Times are hard, and I'm reduced to Tesco's 'value' chocolate digestives for my mid morning treat. Still yummy, though, but I yearn for the days of Hotel Chocolat and luxury muffins and whatnot... :(

Any road up, I know I've been a very poor blogger lately, so will attempt a bit of catch up here...

So, what's happening...

At the moment, I've got the contracts for my next two Spice Briefs on my desk. These are ANOTHER CHANCE & A GENTLEWOMAN'S RAVISHMENT. Another Chance is about further naughty goings on at Blaystock Manor, which is featured in CHANCE OF A LIFETIME, my first Spice Brief. This time it's Maud the archivist who's having some sexy, spanky fun with William the hunky estate steward. Hee hee! A Gentlewoman's Ravishment features Prudence Enderby, who gets a shock when her forbidden erotic fantasies about being kidnapped and ravished by a fabulously horny brigand start to come true!

Another Chance is nearly complete, but Ravishment is yet to be started. They'll both appear sometime in 2010, Ravishment in Spring, probably, the month after its sister story, A GENTLEWOMAN'S PREDICAMENT is published, and Chance, later in that year.

My next publication, due out on 1st May, is TWICE THE PLEASURE, the first in my Risque Reunions trilogy for Spice Briefs. I'm hoping that the other two stories in this trio appear in consecutive months... Twice is about Caitlyn, who, returning to her old high school college for a ten year reunion, meets up with the beau she was besotted with back in the day... and who unfortunately didn't seem to be besotted with her, because he was besotted with his best male buddy! But all is not as it seems, and the three old college mates come to an erotic and deliciously wicked understanding.

What else have I been working on recently? Well, my first ever full length historical erotic romance! This is a first for me, as I've always been shy of attempting something that needs so much research, and have also always felt that I'm a person very much rooted in the contemporary... But the idea of writing a historical was suggest to me, and really took my fancy, so I thought I'd give it a shot and have written a proposal for a hot historical set in the late Victorian period. I must stress this is only a proposal, and not a commissioned work... so it's in the lap of the gods as to whether it'll meet the approval of an editor... In these tough times, when publishing opportunities are at even more of a premium than ever, I'm going to need the crossed fingers, toes and miscellaneous other extremities of all my friends and fans if 'victorianoid' is to succeed!

I've arrived!

Wahey, I now have my own author page at eHarlequin!

New excerpts available!

My web site has been woefully out of date in terms of excerpts lately, so I'm attempting to catch up and post some. In the last couple of days I've added tasters of the following:

KISS IT BETTER - Black Lace due June in UK/Aug US

TWICE THE PLEASURE - Spice Brief due 1st May

SHADOWPLAY - Black Lace reprint due November in US

Hope you enjoy them... :)

Actually, I'm a moggie...

You Are a Bengal Cat

You look wild, but deep down, you're really quite sweet. You are curious about the world around you, and you love to explore. You liked to swim and climb trees as a kid... and probably still do! You are confident and energetic. You are ready to take on the world.

What Breed of Cat Are You?

Another draft cover

Rather nice, isn't it? The text/font may change a bit, but the image is cool! Love that she's wearing black lace knickers... LOL

This collection includes my story FIREWORKS INSIDE which is story about some naughty goings on in a cupboard... :)

Shadowplay reprint

Here's a draft version of the new cover for SHADOWPLAY. It will be available as a US only reprint in November.

As it's over ten years since I wrote this one, I'm not quite sure what happens in it! LOL It's a women's erotica novel, where a sophisticated husband and wife take a country holiday and explore new sexual horizons, but other than that, I'll have to re-read it myself to find out what occurs. Plenty of shagathonics in it, that's for sure... ;)

Sorry...

Sorry it's been rather quiet here lately. Am grappling with writing stuff and life stuff and time just seems to get away from me.

Here's a rather mad picture of Kuffer as a placeholder... and I'll be back when I get any interesting news of any kind... :)

I have been mainly...

watching this for the last couple of days and have been completely fascinated by it. Strangely enough, I still don't know whether I actually like the central character of Lillie Langtry. She was the Victorian equivalent of these celebrities who are famous just for being famous, and who got ahead by looking pretty and sleeping their way to the top. It's hard to tell if this is a true representation of the real woman, but it is compelling viewing. Lillie had her share of triumphs and tragedies and a lot of love affairs, and does seem to have been a shameless self promoter who sometimes caused pain to others and/or exploited them for her own advancement. And yet, she was feisty and used her own form of power in an age when men were pretty much in control of everything.

All in all, I think I admire Lillie more than like her, but it's the mark of fine programme making and intriguing subject material when you find you're not exactly rooting for the central character all the time, but you just can't stop watching anyway.

New Short Story Sales!

Thrilled to announce two new Black Lace short story sales!

The Distraction will be in the Misbehaviour anthology and Fireworks Inside will be in Sexy Little Numbers. :)