September 26
I can’t begin to tell you all the things that have transpired since I last blogged but the highlight was my receiving the cover for my first print book, HARD AS NAILS, an anthology of my first four ‘Hot and Henderson’ stories. My heart still races every time I think about that hunky foursome—Jason, Tom, Andy and Luke—together in all their male yumminess in one volume that is now available!
Excitement reigned supreme as I hurried to opened the file and gaze upon the finished product from the creative cover artists at Ellora’s Cave. I was prepared to be impressed. I was not prepared for the Twilight Zone moment that washed over me.
Staring back at me was a pair of smoldering eyes, a firmly set mouth and a chiseled-to-perfection chest I had seen before. Five months earlier, in fact, at the Romantic Times conference in Pittsburgh. Of course, last April those eyes were relaxed and accompanied by an easy grin. And that chest…a little more impressive when it’s real life and less than a foot away, ladies. Not only did I experience the thrill of my first print book’s cover…I had the additional rush of actually having met and chatted with Christian, the model who graces the cover of HARD AS NAILS. I believe this turn of events is the only thing that could make my foursome better.
Christian and I had a lovely talk about goals and dreams and, here’s the Rod Serling moment, how he’d love to be on the cover of one of my books when I was fortunate enough to have one go to print. I smiled politely but assumed the chances of that happening were slim to none. In fact, I think I had a moment of believing I heard Billy Squire’s voice in my head, lightly singing “Stroke me, stroke me.”
Some might call his visage on my cover bizarre. Some might call it dumb luck. I’m calling it my karmic reward for possessing mad conversational skills and refraining from mauling the poor guy in public. As the currently annoying phrase goes: it is what it is. And I’m more than content with ‘it’. So content, in fact, I’m sharing my photo from RT of my cover man in the flesh for you all to compare and enjoy…and try to ignore the woman standing next to him; she’s clearly in the midst of a testosterone-induced haze.
THE CAKE BABE
A little leftover frosting, an urge to go pantiless and an errant bouquet toss set the stage for a delicious quickie.
LOVE’S ALLY
Months of covert mutual attraction come to an incendiary culmination in this novella that proves all love sometimes needs is a little assistance.
HALLOW’S EVE HUNK
It’s an evening filled with secret desires, skeletons in the closet and more than a few things going bump in the night.
TWISTED STEEL AND SEX APPEAL
When it comes to love, it’s never too late to teach the professor a new fantasy or two in this scorching older woman/younger man short novel.
