Wel­come! Hope you all had a great Valen­tine’s Day. This pic­ture is from Rus­si­a’s mete­or land­ing which was beau­ti­ful and also scary as hell.  Watch­ing the dash cams made me real­ize that the Russ­ian peo­ple are much calmer than we Americans.

Work in Progress News ~ Well, I fin­ished my short sto­ry, my cri­tique part­ners did­n’t hate it, so that’s a good thing. They sug­gest I tweak the last scene, so I’ll do that. Still unsure whether to pub­lish this guy while I write Dean’s sto­ry (book two) or wait until Dean is almost done. I’ll keep chew­ing on it. In oth­er news, I got the first draft of my cov­er for Tak­ing Her There. I real­ly like it. Fun and flir­ty. I asked for one change, we’ll see if they can accom­mo­date, then I can show it off! Excit­ing stuff.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ A new one from The Piano Guys. They also record­ed the instru­men­tal ver­sion, and I almost post­ed that, but this female singer Megan Nicole took my breath away. Some­one to watch.

 Tweet of the Week ~ I know I’ve shared this guys’ tweets before, but he’s just so good at these 140 char smiles!

Indus­try News ~ Looks like the Depart­ment of Jus­tice approved the Pen­guin and Ran­dom House merg­er, so it’s offi­cial­ly the Big Five. Still wait­ing for the Ran­dom Pen­guin Twit­ter account…

What I’m read­ing ~ Snow­fall by Cameron Dane: Togeth­er for four years now, Chris­t­ian and Jon­ah from A Fos­tered Love are still wild­ly in love and pas­sion­ate­ly attract­ed to each oth­er. Jon­ah has nev­er seen snow, and Chris­t­ian thinks he’s set in place the per­fect Valentine’s Day week­end away to show his man some­thing new.…

Today’s Tear­jerk­er~ A month or so old, but still awe­some. A lawyer moves in with his moth­er so he can let a home­less fam­i­ly live in his house for a year:

Book Snip­pet ~ from Retreat:

Jake chuck­led. “Do you like the truck?”

Well, that was ran­dom. Andria shot him a queru­lous glance. “Sure, the truck is nice.”

“Big, isn’t it?” He laid his right arm over the bench seat between them and smiled like a naughty child.

“Well … yeah … there’s plen­ty of room…” Andria looked into the back of the cab, where there was anoth­er seat large enough for three more passengers.

“Andi?”

She looked up. He divid­ed his atten­tion between the rough road and her mis­un­der­stand­ing eyes. He reached down and slapped his right thigh.

“Get your ass over here.”

Aaannnd she did. Okay folks, see you next week!