Another Story Acceptance!!

BOOYAH! Well here’s the good news I’ve been holding back on! Remember my m/m May/December romance story What You See? Well I believe I can let everyone know now, it was accepted by Noble Romance Publishing! I just received the contracts today! I’ll of course let everyone know when it’s actually available for purchase and where you can go online. Will now do the happy dance and have some Snicker Bar Ice Cream.

I think I may have finally solved the problem concerning the beginning of Silver Thorn but I may end up re-writing the whole chapter but it’s all good. I’m still working hard on it and it’s still not quite the way I want it but I’ll find a way.

I know it's a secret but I got such a kick out of this, this morning. Listen and you'll see why.

The Don't Quit Your Day Job Podcast - Highly Recommended.

Don't Quit Your Day Job

Also have some good news I hope soon or I may just spill the beans beforehand. Just want to be sure of things first.

Slight news...

Sent out my story, Diamond in the Rough, wish me luck. Waiting to hear about my newest work, What You See which was sent out a couple of weeks ago. Hoping to hear within the next few days. And hopefully, I'll have some good news soon about my previously accepted story, Paint. First time I don't mind the weekend ending.

More detailed info later...

Memorial Day

A beautiful Memorial Day morning. Worked in the garden some more and still dealing with the bees. Below is a little paragraph I wrote last year about my grandfather who was a veteran of both WWII and Korea. Thought it bared repeating.


We should take a moment, of course, to honor those who risked and gave their lives so we could have this nice day.

My grandfather fought in two wars. He was respected in our family and taught me a lot. True we had our differences and arguments when I got older but that was normal. I think he and I would have clashed mightily on many a topic if he were alive today. He was very old school-woman's place is in the home-male. I can predict his reaction to the letter about a woman running for president and his granddaughter writing yaoi for that matter. Still the respect is there.

We should all take the time today to remember that loved one who took on the ultimate challenge and perhaps made the ultimate sacrifice..

Updates!

I just submitted a recently completed story, titled What You See. A M/M, May/December erotic romance. Wish me luck.

Officially on vacation – well a long weekend and pretty much didn’t do anything today and I liked it!

Now, I’m going to start my next work, a sword and sorcery erotic fantasy. I’m on a roll here.

Spending a lot of time of Twitter. Drop by if you want and follow me if you feel like it.

Now it’s time to assemble the new grill and maybe give it a workout tonight. Unfortunately, a honey bee decided to make her nest right outside my kitchen door by boring a hole in the doorframe of my utility shed so that’s going to make being in the back yard difficult. Not sure what I can do about it. Any suggestions?

Silver Thorn is still in the process of being beta’d and while that’s happening, I’m trying to get some more shorts out as previously stated. My query letter is still up at the EAA site. Please feel free to have a look.

Everyone enjoy your long weekend!

Debut Author Contest

I came upon author Cindy Pon's blog and her book Silver Phoenix, with its beautiful cover caught my interest, since I also read and write fantasy. This is her debut novel so first off I'll offer congratulations and second I'll let you know about this contest she's having, which, if you haven't guessed, I hope to win, since her book sounds quite interesting. Hmm...I hope she doesn't mind that her book is being presented on a blog about erotic fiction!

Anyway, there are a few things you can do to enter, for one what I'm doing by placing her book cover here and linking back to her blog. The author also asks that the prizes be mentioned which are:

*An original framed brushpainting.
*A $100 gift card to a book store of your choice as well as a signed
copy of her novel.

There are other ways to enter and the author also mentions there may be other prizes depending on how many enter, so I say give it a shot. Who wouldn't want those prizes?

CJ

Small update...

I know it's been a bit since I've given any real updates. That's because I'm focusing my attention on Silver Thorn, currently being beta'd by two very nice ladies. I'm trying to work on the new story that's a May/December type thing. Don't know why but a lot of my stories come out that way. I also mentioned on Twitter how another idea has been kicking around in my head, an erotic M/M vampire tale which is really different for me since I've never done a vampire story.

When one works two jobs one tends to get exhausted so sometimes it's hard to work on my writing. And this past weekend when I had hoped to relax, I ended up having to run around getting my car fixed.

So now I'm off to bed soon. Once again watching the League of Extraordinary Gentleman. This Sunday it's supposed to rain so I'll have an excuse to stay in and maybe get some work done.

CJ

Query Critique

I just posted my query letter for Silver Thorn at the EAA Blog at: http://community.livejournal.com/erotic_authors/104284.html

Any advice on how to improve it would be greatly appreciated. I will now have some ice cream...