Well, here we are, mid-Octo­ber already. I guess if I only post once per week the weeks seem to go faster. So far, not enough snow to actu­al­ly shov­el, so I’m still in denial about win­ter com­ing. Also, Octo­ber is the best month for base­ball! And my favorite play­er Derek Jeter is in the post sea­son look­ing as sexy as ever sigh swoon They just won the divi­sion series, so bring on the championship!

Favorite Song of the Week ~ I could­n’t help it.

Work in Progress News ~ I changed the start­ing point of this wip three times. Final­ly I got one that’s per­fect. I can always tell when it’s right when the words just flow. Now I’m just hop­ing the flow keeps flowing.

Back­list News ~ All my titles (except At Ease, but that’s the pub­lish­er’s choice) are avail­able at iTunes again! Com­pa­ny Ink got a new cov­er to com­mem­o­rate the occa­sion. What do you think? Sub­tly sexy. Thanks, Booknib­bles!

Indus­try News ~ You’ve heard of Spo­ti­fy, a sub­scrip­tion ser­vice for music? Well, what do you think about the same con­cept, but for books? Per­son­al­ly, I’d be all over it. All you can read for one month­ly price. I’ll be keep­ing my eye on this com­pa­ny: Oys­ter

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Absolute­ly noth­ing out of the ordi­nary this week! Just the usu­al folks look­ing for my books for free. Which reminds me of a tweet an author sent out some time ago, but for the life of me I can’t dig it up so I’ll para­phrase: “It takes a barista 3 min­utes to make our $6 cup of cof­fee and we tip him. It takes an author over a year to write a book and we balk at pay­ing $4.99.” Deep thoughts.

What I’m read­ing ~ Dream­spin­ner Press keeps putting their titles up for free for one hour only. I was lucky enough to catch the tweet that announced Heart’s Home. I do love shifters and his­tor­i­cal m/m, so I snatched it up. I’m not fin­ished with it, but so far I’m lik­ing it. Great dia­logue and I love how the MCs have their own voices.

Hero Quote ~ Are you guys sick of read­ing my hero quotes? Should I switch to hero­ine quotes? Bad guy quotes?  Let me know. For now, here’s one from Cody in Wyoming Solace:

 “I know it’s wrong. You’ve been hurt, and you prob­a­bly don’t want to have any­thing to do with…a man. God help me, it doesn’t stop me from want­i­ng you. But I swear I’d nev­er do any­thing to hurt you.”

Okay, now  I’m going to get back to writ­ing. Have a great week­end and week!

Well, that’s it. Snow’s in the fore­cast.  I guess I should just be hap­py, I mean this sum­mer’s wild­fires were a direct result of the dry win­ter last year, so per­haps it’s a good thing. I’ll take up com­plain­ing about wind instead. Just kid­ding, I’d nev­er shut up.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ This should bring back some mem­o­ries. It’s nice to hear some music played by…yanno… musi­cal instru­ments and stuff.

Work in Progress News ~ Every week I write this sec­tion, I’m embar­rassed by the lack of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and I swear to do bet­ter the fol­low­ing week. This is why I don’t announce my word counts. I’m plug­ging away though. I actu­al­ly bought some pro­mo­tion­al mate­ri­als for Ris­ing Heat. So now I real­ly have to fin­ish this before the end of the year. I can do it!

Back­list News ~ Sto­ryfinds is fea­tur­ing my free reads on their site! Looks pret­ty good there, huh? Also, I’ve pulled a few books from Apple iTunes, but I’m work­ing on get­ting them back up as soon as pos­si­ble. If you’re an iOS user and are look­ing for For a Price, Cov­er Sto­ry, or Com­pa­ny Ink, rest assured they’ll be back up short­ly. Until then you can find a DRM free epub ver­sion for your iProd­uct at Smash­words or Barnes and Noble.

Indus­try News ~ Speak­ing of Barnes and Noble, this week they  announced their part­ner­ship with Microsoft. It looks like a col­lege text­book type of LLC. I hope some­one gets deep into the dig­i­tal text­book mar­ket! Those suck­ers are heavy! [source]

What I’m read­ing ~ So I caved, and bought a Kin­dle Paper­white. I. Love. It. Very sim­i­lar to my Kin­dle Touch, so there was­n’t much of a learn­ing curve. Any­way, I tried it out on quite a few books lol. I also start­ed one that was so bad that I did­n’t fin­ish (and that’s say­ing some­thing, I’m a com­pul­sive fin­ish­er) so I won’t men­tion that one. So instead I leave you with this YA by a very tal­ent­ed author with some great blood run­ning through her veins (she’s my cousin) Amy Kath­leen Ryan (yes, I did just drop her name) If you like Hunger Games, you’ll love this book (series) and so will your teen. It’s been very well reviewed. (I just set the record for the most paren­the­ses in one blog post I think.)

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ There are two good ones this week. This one: “tempt­ing tes­sa dirty?” (the answer is yes…kinda) and one that intro­duces a new word into my vocab­u­lary because I think it’s awe­some: “olivia eurot­ic” Eurot­ic! Isn’t that great? Now I’m going to write an erot­ic sto­ry about Euro­peans. Typos for the win.

Hero Quote ~ From Jake in the free read Treat, the pre­quel to Retreat:

“I can go slow.” He slid one hand around her waist, the oth­er up her arm and around her neck. “Or I can pick up the pace just a bit to get just where I want to be. Christ, Andi. I want to kiss the hell out of you right now.”

Well? Think there was any hell left in Andi when he got done with her? Click the cov­er to down­load the sto­ry for free and find out.

Well, what do you think? Web­sites are redesigned. Now Olivia and Alan­na share a blog, which cuts down on my blog­ging time by half! Also removed sev­er­al pages from Alan­na’s site which were just sit­ting there, often dupli­cat­ing infor­ma­tion. Please look around, any input is help­ful! I know this water map has noth­ing to do with my post, but I want­ed to share it.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Ush­er. ‘Nuff said. Not sure why there’s not a real video for this but enjoy star­ing at his face for a few minutes.

Work in Progress News ~ Don’t hate me, but I’ve been work­ing on a dif­fer­ent wip this week. Some­times just a few days away from a work helps me get back into the groove. I got a few pages on my work that does­n’t even have a hero name yet (it’s a sto­ry fea­tur­ing a sexy pilot, so I call it…um…Pilot.) This will just be a short (12–18K) sto­ry for Olivi­a’s “men in uni­form” line.

Back­list News ~ At Ease end­ed up a final­ist at the Swirl Awards in the Novel­la cat­e­go­ry! With the awe­some books At Ease was up against, I’m very pleased at its place­ment. Check out the oth­er inter­ra­cial books that the Swirl Awards rec­og­nized at their Web­site.

Indus­try News ~ Barnes and Noble announced two new tablets. The pro­mo­tion­al video makes them look real­ly good! I might be swayed by the epic music though. Price is right, so I’m hop­ing thou­sands more peo­ple will jump on the ebook bandwagon!

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Well this is new. “naked women tree” I’m pret­ty sure that search found this pic­ture that I’ve post­ed before.

What I’m read­ing ~ I read Out of Focus, a book about an estab­lished dom cou­ple look­ing for a sub third. I loved the way L.A. Witt han­dled the inevitable feel­ings of all three. Each chap­ter was writ­ten in first per­son, from dif­fer­ing main char­ac­ters. An inter­est­ing way to han­dle POV.

Hero Quote ~ From Josh in Tempt­ing Tes­sa, my free read pre­quel to Tes­sa’s Pride:

“I know you want me, Tes­sa. I’ve seen the lust behind your eyes. Don’t deny it. Each time I caught that look, you’d turn away. If you had kept look­ing, you would have seen the same lust in mine.”

Tes­sa’s bust­ed! Thanks for stop­ping by. Have a great week

Howdy! Fall is here whether I like it or not. I’ve been wear­ing a fuzzy fleece jack­et all week to write. Trees are begin­ning to change col­or, which is good because we usu­al­ly get a freeze before we get any col­ors. Base­ball is wrap­ping up (Go Yan­kees!) and Foot­ball is breath­ing new life into my lit­tle col­lege town.  It’s all good, but I’d still pre­fer a three sea­son summer.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ I just learned that the Pet Shop Boys released a new album! So I go on the look­out for one to share with you here, and find this video. A great expres­sion of inclu­sion and accep­tance. Win­ner.

Work in Progress News ~ Plug­ging away on Dean. I also have a ten­ta­tive title, which is pret­ty big news. I usu­al­ly don’t get one until I’m done with the book! Since the book is about an ex-cop, and to go with Falling Star, I came up with Ris­ing Heat. What do you think?

Back­list News ~ Speak­ing of, Falling Star got a new review last week. Ana’s Attic said: “I have read so many good “rock star” romances this sum­mer, and this ranks way up there on my good list. I read it in one day, and didn’t want to put it down.” 4.5 stars.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This one: “kale and alexa o brien” is obvi­ous­ly from when I talked about my friend Tri­na M. Lee’s urban fan­ta­sy Alexa O’Brien Huntress series. I’ve made it no secret that Kale is my favorite character.

What I’m read­ing ~ I wait­ed so long for San­dra Brown’s new book. Usu­al­ly I tear right through them, then turn around and re-read it. This time I stretched it out for almost two full days. Low Pres­sure is just what I expect from this author. Great cast of char­ac­ters and twists galore. Sigh. Now I have to wait for her next one. Write faster, Sandra!!

Hero Quote ~ Jake, from Retreat:

“You come near me, and I for­get every restric­tion I’ve forced on myself.”

I think that’s called Propin­quital Amne­sia.  (I just made that up, but it sounds pret­ty good, yeah?)

Back to work for me. I hope you all have a great weekend.

It’s the mid­dle of Sep­tem­ber. Do you know where your sum­mer went?

Favorite Song of the Week ~ I’ve had this song stuck in my head for three days, so I’ll post it here in hopes of shar­ing the earworm.

Okay, as usu­al, the first time I see the offi­cial video is when I post it here. I’m too much of a roman­tic to say I liked that one. Sor­ry guys.

Work in Progress News ~ Ugh. No news. I worked a lot at the part time job the last two weeks, I don’t think I’ve writ­ten a word in days. When I’m away from my wip, I feel guilty, like I’m cheat­ing. Next week will see my new refo­cus strategy.

Indus­try News ~ I’ve men­tioned the Espres­so Book Machine (EBM) before, and what impact I think it might have on the book indus­try. This week, On Demand, the mak­ers of the EBM, announced they’ve part­nered with East­man Kodak, and the company’s POD tech­nol­o­gy will be made avail­able to retail­ers who have Kodak Pic­ture Kiosks, includ­ing drug­stores and super­mar­kets. [Source] This is big, guys. Imag­ine being able to pick up a fresh­ly print­ed book at your friend­ly one hour pho­to. While you wait. I’m so glad I live in this decade!

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ “erot­ic twit”. No, I’m seri­ous. That found me. ME! I’m not a twit, people!

What I’m read­ing ~ Am I the only one who pre­pares for a favorite author’s new release by re-read­ing his/her back­list? This past week I re-read one of my favorite San­dra Brown books because I sim­ply can­not wait until Tues­day, when her new one comes out. Play Dirty is a real­ly good roman­tic sus­pense that has sev­er­al twists, which I’m very fond of.

Hero Quote ~ Trevor, from Pre­View:

 “You know, the only way to prove you’re for real is wait and see if Vic­to­ria dies. I’m not will­ing to do that.

That’s all I’ve got for you this week. Every­one have a great weekend!

Wel­come! The bite of autumn is in the air. I’m not very hap­py. I’m hop­ing for anoth­er warm stretch before the snow flies.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ In direct con­trast to last week’s song, I give you Tay­lor Swift’s We Are Nev­er Ever Get­ting Back Together.  If you don’t yet know, Tay­lor is known for writ­ing breakup songs after split­ting with her famous boyfriends. This one is report­ed­ly about Jake Gyl­len­haal.  It was filmed with one cam­era in one take, so keep that in mind:  I love it, but what’s with her band wear­ing Fur­ry costumes?

Work in Progress News ~ I moved a few scenes around on Dean’s sto­ry. I think I tried to add too many dra­mat­ic scenes in a row, and they start­ed to clash. Not much word count this week, I’ve been busy with the part time job. Let’s hope the stars align next week!

Back­list News ~ Did you know that you can buy one of my paper­back books, and get an ebook ver­sion free? Details are at Dark Moun­tain Books.

Indus­try News ~ Big news from Ama­zon, as they announced what I hint­ed at last week. Kin­dle Paper­white will be avail­able soon for $119, and they’re also show­ing off two new Kin­dle Fire mod­els. Kobo also announced new eread­ers, includ­ing a back­light­ed device, and a tablet. Isn’t this an excit­ing time to be a read­er? Also big news in the DOJ Ebook Set­tle­ment. A judge has approved the set­tle­ment, so now three US pub­lish­ers will have to nego­ti­ate new con­tracts with e‑book retail­ers, giv­ing them the pow­er to dis­count at will. Will be inter­est­ing to see how this plays out

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week it was “tall josephine sexy”. I can usu­al­ly fig­ure out why terms found me, but that one stumped me.

Hero Quote ~ Mar­cus, from Posi­tion Secured:

“It was damn hard to con­cen­trate on that perp when I knew you were there. I don’t know how many times I won­dered if you were naked under that robe before I focused on my job.” 

Like the cinecov­er? Pret­ty cool, huh? Thanks to Booknib­bles for ani­mat­ing all my cov­ers.

What I’m read­ing ~ No time for any­thing new this week, so I’ve been re-read­ing some of my favorites. This one, Envy, is one of my favorites from my favorite author. So many twists in this roman­tic sus­pense that I couldn’t put it down if I want­ed to.
 

Woah. Sep­tem­ber already. Can you believe it? Labor Day here in the states. I took this pic­ture dur­ing this week’s camp­ing trip. I had fun, but there’s a species of bird (or frog, I’m not exact­ly sure) that sounds just like a human whistling. That kept my dog alert all night long, which in turn kept me awake.  Also, sleep­ing on the ground is best left to those under twenty.

Favorite Song of the Week ~  I can’t get this out of my head. Though I’m on HIS side, I get a kick out of her frus­trat­ed grunt.

This says US ver­sion. I won­der what the rest of the world gets!? I can’t find any­thing else.

Work in Progress News ~ Work­ing away on Dean. I think I’ll get a lot more done start­ing next week when the kids go back to school. At least that’s the plan.

Indus­try News ~ Sev­er­al arti­cles popped up this week regard­ing authors buy­ing reviews. A cer­tain author (the first self pub­lished author to sell a mil­lion Kin­dle books) admits to shelling out sev­er­al thou­sand dol­lars for pos­i­tive reviews. Not only do I find the prac­tice immoral and deceit­ful, I also don’t have that kind of mon­ey. So you can rest assured that all reviews on my books are legit. In oth­er news, just when you thought you had the lat­est and great­est in eread­ers, this gets leaked: Kin­dle Paper­white, (or some­thing) a Kin­dle with back­light! Looks pret­ty darn cool.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ I have two inter­est­ing terms this week. “kz sxsy ten­der” and “hairy brynn”. I love you, Internet!

What I’m read­ing ~ I love every­thing that Vivien Dean writes, so when I saw one I hadn’t read popped up, I grabbed it and devoured it in one night. Price of a Tat­tooed Soul  is a time trav­el sto­ry, so it has the best of con­tem­po­rary and his­tor­i­cal, with a great plot and great cov­er (sor­ry, word­press freaked on me, I can’t seem to post it, but click on over to see.)

Hero Quote ~ From Eric, the fire­fight­ing hero in Last Call:

“There’s a sexy-as-hell woman offer­ing her­self to me. Of course I want to. Espe­cial­ly if it will help rebuild her ego. I’m sworn to serve the cit­i­zens of this city, you know.” 

Well that’s it for me. You all have a great day, and for all my fel­low US folks, have a great Labor Day Weekend!

Hey guys! It’s the last week of sum­mer here, kids are so excit­ed to get back to school. I’m plan­ning one last hur­rah, tak­ing them camp­ing. That means all the s’mores I can eat, then sleep on the ground and dream of all the bugs that can get inside the tent. Fun!

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Né-Yo is pret­ty much bril­liant. He writes all his own music and lyrics, along with writ­ing hits for sev­er­al oth­er artists. The video? Not sure how I feel about it, oth­er than to think that that woman is gor­geous! See for your­self. Don’t miss the end:

Work in Progress News ~ Plug­ging away on Dean. I dis­cov­ered the antagonist’s moti­va­tion. What a weirdo! I was going to leave word counts here, but I might be total­ly embar­rassed at my lack of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Then again, it might spur me into actu­al­ly buck­ling down and get­ting some­thing done. I’ll think about it.

Back­list News ~ Com­pa­ny Ink was reviewed at Pearl’s World of Romance. I appre­ci­ate Pearl for tak­ing self pub­lished works for review. Some don’t, espe­cial­ly short sto­ries.  Here’s what she thinks: Pret­ty cool lit­tle pic there, huh? Click it to head over to Pearl’s World. She does a great job review­ing. Thanks, Pearl!

Indus­try News ~ It looks like Barnes and Noble is going to the UK, and Ama­zon is head­ed to India! The more the mer­ri­er, I say. Ama­zon also offered to pay me in Indi­an Rupees. I’ll have to keep that in mind.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This one cracked me up: “she riped and she roared”. Oooh kaaay.

What I’m read­ing ~ All right, I nev­er thought reviews would sell me a book, but that’s exact­ly what hap­pened here. From folks at Goodreads to those on Ama­zon (click the cov­er). It’s an old­er book, I’m just late to the par­ty. I just hope that all the 50 Shades fans find well writ­ten books like this after the craze wears down.

Hero Quote ~ from Nick Web­ster, from For a Price:

“Just know that I’m hap­py sim­ply hold­ing you like this. Don’t feel like you have to do any­thing else. I don’t want you to wor­ry tonight, or when­ev­er you’re with me. I’ll nev­er force you to give more than you’re will­ing to share, and I’ll nev­er be dis­ap­point­ed. Understand?”

What a guy, huh? Thanks for stop­ping by. Have a great week!

Howdy! Wel­come! I’m right in the mid­dle of a blog hop this week­end, so check it out by click­ing the ban­ner. It’s a lot of fun, and there are a ton of prizes up for grabs.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ I’ve been try­ing real­ly hard to focus on my work this week, so I’ve been lis­ten­ing to a lot of clas­si­cal. This might be one of my favorites by Lud­wig Minkus, Don Quixote. I found one where Mikhail Barysh­nikov head­lined the bal­let. You’re welcome.

Work in Progress News ~ I’ve put a few K into Dean. The hero Lance is an ex cop, and I’m strug­gling with his per­son­al­i­ty. Or maybe he’s strug­gling with mine. At this point I can’t tell. I just keep plug­ging away.

Back­list News ~ There’s a new site that allows me to sell my books direct­ly on my site! It’s called Gum­road. Check it out! —> Fine Print I put a buy link for each of Alanna’s books and Olivia’s books on the buy pages. Pret­ty cool! Also, for you Kobo cus­tomers, I’m now using Kobo’s direct to cus­tomer pro­gram Kobo Writ­ing Life for my qual­i­fy­ing titles.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ I found one that was pret­ty inter­est­ing. It showed up before as well, and I com­ment­ed on it in a pre­vi­ous sta­tus post. This time I actu­al­ly Googled the term, and I found what they were look­ing for. It’s NSFW. Also, I don’t dri­ve naked. That’s dan­ger­ous in Wyoming weather.

What I’m read­ing ~ I can’t remem­ber why I picked up Reck­less (Nashville Nights #4) by Cheryl Dou­glas, but I’m glad I did. This has a clas­sic romance feel to it, with the hero Ty being the one who fell for the hero­ine Avery, and he had to fight to win her. Maybe I just enjoy see­ing a big strong cow­boy on his knees.

Hero Quote ~ From Carter, a hero in Flipped.

“Shh. Don’t say a thing. If you start talk­ing too much like you always do, then I’ll start think­ing too much like I always do. No talking.” 

Okay folks. Now head on over to the JustRomance.Me blog hop and get your­self entered to win a prize or two. We’ll be rehash­ing the hop on Sun­day night at 7pm EST over at Gem Sivad’s Chat Room. I’d love to see you there! Men­tion this post and I’ll throw in a free back­list book.

Hap­py Sat­ur­day! Like many through­out the nation and world, I spent Sun­day night glued to my com­put­er watch­ing NASA’s Rover Curiosity’s suc­cess­ful land­ing on Mars. I got goose­bumps. I hope my British read­ers aren’t offend­ed by this pic­ture. I just had to. I mean, look at the Eagle’s expression!

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Bad Lip Read­ing just gets bet­ter and bet­ter. They cov­ered Coldplay’s  In My Place. Renamed it Yeti. I’d love to see a behind-the-scenes video for BLR.

Work in Progress News ~ Wrote a few K into Dean’s sto­ry, the sec­ond in the Earth Scents series. I’m a lit­tle wor­ried about fol­low­ing a m/f book with an m/m book. If I have any read­er opin­ions, I’d love to hear them. Oth­er­wise, I’m just chug­ging away. Dean’s sto­ry will be writ­ten either way I guess.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week, I found this par­tial phrase: “her hands moved low­er”. I always won­der if these are things I typed in pre­vi­ous flash fic­tion sto­ries? Those four words must have struck a chord some­where somehow.

What I’m read­ing ~ I don’t remem­ber why I picked this one up. Sure, Jen­nifer Prob­st is a best­seller and all, but I’m usu­al­ly not swayed by that. The Mar­riage Bar­gain is a con­tem­po­rary novel­la, with a whole lot of 80s Har­le­quin flare. We have a bil­lion­aire, a strug­gling work­ing class girl, an arranged mar­riage, and even a sneaky dead uncle’s will. I admit, I loved it. Snap­py dia­logue, and excel­lent writ­ing. Entan­gled Pub­lish­ing is on my short list of poten­tial publishers.

Hero Quote ~ From Derek in Fine Print. This is where he changes the rules on poor Kara.

 ”If you real­ly want­ed to have a ster­ile con­cep­tion, you would have gone to a ster­ile sperm bank, and picked one of the ster­ile vials of sperm, with no strings attached. This way, we’re skip­ping the mid­dle man. We can bypass the lab and maybe even enjoy our­selves a lit­tle bit in the process.” 

Kara han­dles it pret­ty well though. Okay folks. Time to get back to it. Have a great week!

Hel­lo! It’s August already! This sum­mer is going wwaaay too quick­ly. Here’s what I’ve been up to all week:

Favorite Song of the Week ~ This is Krizz Kaliko fea­tur­ing Rittz and Chamillionaire.Not sure why I can’t get enough of this song. I don’t even know the words. Yet.

Work in Progress News ~ I’ve been pid­dling away on this pilot short sto­ry, but this week’s search terms are steer­ing me in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion. Lots of queries for the sec­ond Earth Scents book, so real­ly, I should write that! So that’s my focus for next week.

Indus­try News ~ Last week at the Nation­al Romance Writ­ers of Amer­i­ca con­fer­ence, the high­est hon­or bestowed on a book from the RWA, the RITA award was announced. This year for the first time ever, the RITA was bestowed on a dig­i­tal first book. In fact, this is the first year that any dig­i­tal book won a RITA. Con­grat­u­la­tions to Fiona Lowe, her edi­tor Char­lotte Her­sch­er, and her (and my!!) pub­lish­er Cari­na Press.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ I don’t know who this is, but she’s got a cool name: “alan­na romance writer wayne nj”. Sor­ry you won’t find her here though.

What I’m read­ing ~ Long await­ed, and worth every minute. A Younger Man by Cameron Dane. As I linked to Ama­zon just now, I read the one review there. I total­ly agree with every­thing that review­er says, so if you’d like my thoughts, she put them succinctly.

Hero Quote ~ From Adam in Falling Star:

“No. I’m not going to feel you up in the fuck­ing back alley. I’m going to con­trol myself, even if it kills me.” 

Lan­guage, Adam! My my. Okay folks, have a great weekend!

It’s the end of July, and the begin­ning of the Olympics in Lon­don! Can you believe my RT roomie Dee Car­ney is THERE!? I keep scan­ning the sta­di­um seats for a glimpse of her. I’m so jealous.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Sur­vival, the offi­cial song of the 2012 Olympics by Muse. What do you think? Won­der­ing why they didn’t play this song once dur­ing the open­ing cer­e­monies? I can’t answer that.

 Work in Progress News ~ After fin­ish­ing my Wyoming Solace Gal­leys (it will be released in print on May 7, 2013!) I opened the pilot wip. I know what you’re think­ing, and you’re right. So I start­ed all over. I think this one will stick. Stay tuned.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Noth­ing excit­ing this week, but look­ing at what found me, I would like to men­tion that there’s a dif­fer­ence between “erot­i­ca” and “erot­ic romance”.  Olivia writes erot­ic romance, but nei­ther of us writes erot­i­ca. Just thought I’d help out there.

What I’m read­ing ~ One of my top five fave authors of all time has a new book com­ing out Mon­day. I’ve been get­ting ready for it by read­ing books one and two in the series. Grey’s Awak­en­ing is book two. I just love the emo­tion that Cameron Dane puts in every book she writes.

Hero Quote ~ From Bo, the cov­er mod­el hero in Cov­er Story:

“Don’t be afraid of the cam­era. I’m going to do my best to make you for­get that it’s there.”

On Wednes­day, you’ll find a fam­i­ly favorite recipe I post­ed for the Romance­Cooks web­site. Be sure to check that site out, it’s got yum­my treats and great book info.

Enjoy the Olympics, and have a great week!

Howdy! This week in Wyoming we cel­e­brate our state­hood. Wyoming is 122 years old this month! We like to cel­e­brate this with car­ni­vals, street dances, and of course–rodeos! It’s a buck­le bun­ny’s par­adise here. This pic­ture was tak­en by my young niece as she sat in the stands at the Laramie Jubilee Days Rodeo two years ago. Good, huh?

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Lady­smith Black Mam­bazo, made famous via Paul Simon in the 80s cameoed on Sesame Street as mup­pets, but their sound is intact. The alpha­bet nev­er sound­ed so cool:

Work in Progress News ~ Thanks to some Twit­ter prod­ding, I joined in a #1K1hr. And while I did­n’t get to a K, I did get some words down on Dean for the first time in what feels like for­ev­er. I’m also still work­ing on my gal­leys for Wyoming Solace. When does school start again?

Back­list News ~ I noticed that my book Com­pa­ny Ink is sit­ting all lone­ly on Ama­zon with­out any reviews. So I’m offer­ing it up to any­one who’d like to read it in exchange for an hon­est review post­ed on Ama­zon or any­where else. Holler if you want to give it a try! olivia @ oliviabrynn.com

Indus­try News ~ Ok, it’s stretch­ing a bit to use this as indus­try news, but what could I do with this tech­nol­o­gy and a romance cov­er? Wheels are turning…

 Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ I did­n’t catch this one in time to find out where this term took this Googler: “coco lip lock”

What I’m read­ing ~ I woke up way too ear­ly one day, and could­n’t bring myself to get out of bed. I found this book close by, so I re-read parts. End­ed up spend­ing much too long read­ing with­out my con­tacts in. It’s worth it. Lin­da Howard is in my top five fave authors, and this his­tor­i­cal west­ern is one rea­son why. Dra­ma, romance, and great characters.

Hero Quote ~ from Tyler in At Ease:

“I can’t get enough of you, girl. Did you dab some crack behind your ears or something?”

Have a great week­end, everyone!