Accidentally Were? is now available at All Romance eBooks!

Pearl and Rex have even made the front page What’s Hot list!!
If you’re a ARe fan, you can find all my books listed here. I’m going to hazard a guess that AW? will be up at Fictionwise sometime in the next week, too.

Tea for Three has been doing well at Fictionwise, going up and down in the later half of the Top 10 highest rated list for Loose Id. If you’ve purchased a copy of any of my books at either site, I’ll beg shamefully for you to go add your review of the story. It’s horribly tacky, but it’s a great pump to an authors ego to see their name in flashing lights

No, not with another man (hubby might be a little peeved if I did), but for another story!

I’ve gotten word that Curious Intimacies should be released by Ellora’s Cave on Friday, Sept 19th, 2008. Yay!!

Now I just have to wait on the cover

“Prophecy smophecy, Pandora’s jar my arse.” Shaun muttered to herself as she yanked on the old, pitted, sadly-lacking-in-chrome door handle on her car. “I know some Greek mythology and I saw Tomb Raider, Pandora had a box, not a jar, and Pandora let all the evil out into the world. I’m so not all about the evil.” Although, there was a certain sort of piquancy to the Pandora myth and how she was the first woman — a beautiful evil — sent down by the gods to punish men.

She had to use her whole hand to press down the button on the handle, and then when it unlatched use both arms to pull the door open. No swift getaways in this baby; the damn door weighs a tonne, let alone the whole car. The car was new — well, it was a ’58 Edsel Bermuda, so it was new to her — and since it was definitely a work in progress, she had a lot of kinks to work out, or at least learn to work around.

“Not evil. The jar wasn’t anyway, whether Pandora was evil is still open for debate.”

Having opened with a groaning, metallic creak the car door reached the point in it’s arc where is moved freely. Taken off guard by the words coming from over her right shoulder Shaun wasn’t paying all the attention she should to the heavy door and as she twisted to face the speaker she was jerked around and into the door with an “oof” of stolen breath. Pain shot up her arm from where she’d twisted then fallen on her wrist, and she cried out, pulling her wrist up to her chest to cradle it.

“Hey, are you okay?”

When she looked up, it was into Jak’s concerned face. “Yeah, just sort of landed funny.” Shaun shook her hand out, trying to relieve the sting in her wrist, “Like when you land on your funny bone — stings a bit like that.”

Fingers, smooth and slightly cook to the touch, wrapped around her wrist and stilled her movement. “Let me feel.”

Jak’s fingers ran over her skin, pressing firmly, yet gently, easing the taut tendons when he came to them. He concentrated on her wrist with intensity, and his touch was oddly the most intimate, sensual single thing she’d experienced in her life. “Nothing broken I don’t think, just a light sprain.”

Caught up in the sparks flooding her system from the vampire’s touch, Shaun was embarrassed to realize she was staring up at him, mouth no doubt wide open, while he patiently waited for a reply. His lips flirted around a smile as Jak watched her back.

“I–It’s–that is, I’m sure you’re right.” She jerked her hand out of his and absently rubbed her fingers over the skin he’d touched, not sure if she was trying to rub the tingles in, or rub them off. Like little butterfly wings they danced along in her blood stream fluttering in her belly… and lower. She tingled in places even she’d not been able to make herself tingle before, let alone one of her loser boyfriends.

“It’s late, I better go.”

Shaun turned, and moved to slide onto the big bench seat only to freeze in place when a growly, rough voice yelled out, “What the hell is that heap of junk?”

She straightened, the fluttering butterfly wings in her belly stuttering to a halt as plain old annoyance took a hold. Trust Rob to ruin a perfectly good moment.

“It’s not a heap of junk, it’s a classic.”

“No it’s not, it’s a rusted out clap trap–”

“No, it’s not. It’s an Edsel.” Shaun moved down the side of the car and ran her hand tenderly along one of the fins that stretched down to the rear. Then turned back to Rob with her hands on her hips. “Clarabell’s in the middle of a bad hair decade, but I plan on fixing that.”

Despite the rush of early this year (Jan and Febs releases) 2008 has been pretty damn slow for me. I’ve had a lot of trouble getting on track and getting my fingers to the keyboard, despite all my best efforts.

What makes it so hard to sit my arse in that chair and type? One was I let my little reading addiction get away from me. I read fast. Really fast. And there’s this little thing in my head that says “we’ve done enough of that, let’s read a book” — much like some people have the ‘must clean, NOW’ deal going on. Frankly, the must clean thing would be a hell of a lot more useful!

But I’m endevouring to get myself on track.

I’ve put about 4k on the AW? sequel this week, finally getting the first sex scene down on paper. I really want to get it done and to my editor in the next two weeks. I think we are done with edits on Curious Intimacies, or at least the editorial ones. This is my first book with EC so I assume I’ll get line edits back to go over. CI is a short little story, and it seems I’m finally getting a clue with this writing lark, so edits weren’t strenuous. No release date yet, but I’m hoping for sometime this year (fingers crossed!).

Next on the list from there? CI2 - It makes sense to send that to EC regardless of contractual obligations, then there’s this trio of stories I started working (outlines, not editing) with my LI editor on at the beginning of the year. They revolve around three guys who might just possibly be selling themselves a little short.

Which ever way you want to put it Mrs Giggles has reviewed Red Skirt, Cool Fountain, and Accidentally Were?

I’ve been out of the country the last few weeks, and horror of all horrors, I didn’t take the laptop! So I’ve had to wait to do an update.

All in all, with a 79 and an 81, I think I did fairly well on Mrz G’s scale of hot or not. I was totally stoked that she got the whole poke in the side of the paranormal genre that I was aiming for with Accidentally Were? She had this to say:

…Accidentally Were? is a comedy that also pokes some fun at its whole over-the-top mate-mate-mate premise. Poor Rex is a man who has been trying to avoid falling into the mate-mate-mate trap for so long, only to find himself mated with Pearl when he has only - okay, some - good intentions when it comes to helping her get used to her new life. Pearl is a heroine who for the most part has no idea what is going on, but she doesn’t let these Were folks push her around too much. She and Rex make a pretty fun pair… Full review Here.

And this about Red Skirt :

…Red Skirt, Cool Fountain has some very scorching hot love scenes here, but at the same time, I find the developing relationship between the three characters a most fascinating one. Ms Douglas doesn’t just focus on the characters in the bedroom, she also has them exploring their relationship outside the bedroom… Full Review Here

And since Mrs G isn’t blogging any longer, I’m going to put a picture up here that I caught on my cellphone (hence the crappy picture) while on the way to breakfast recently. No, I’m not trying to be a suck up, but you’ll have to admit, it’ll give you a grin if not a giggle all of your own..

2008 Eppie Award finalist Tea for Three is available now at Fictionwise and All Romance eBooks for those readers who prefer to buy their books from those venues.

I’ve been waiting, and waiting…and some more waiting to finally have a fuller length novella up at these two venues, so I did a bit of a butt wiggle in my chair when I saw these links

Now, I just need to figure out how to update the author bio at FW and just how I can update the listing to show it was an Eppie Finalist.

It’s not a high tech gadget company, it’s not a publisher, and it’s not a bookseller like Amazon. In fact it’s an initiative designed to bring computers/reading/schooling into the lives of third world countries that looks to be bringing the next step in eBook readers to those that really count–children.

The One Laptop Per Childs XO laptop is about to have an overhaul, and here is what they’re planning to do for $75.00:

Yes, you’re eyes aren’t deceiving you, that is a split screen laptop with a virtual keyboard no bigger than a trade size paperback.

And how does this relate to eBooks? Well, take a look at this next picture and you’ll see exactly how it relates:

Turn it on its end, open an eBook, and voila! Two screens that operate like the open face of a book.

And for $75.00, not only will I be buying one for me, but one for my son, and the corresponding amount of units for donation, and most likely a few more units for donation. At $75 (heck even the $188 as it stands for the current model) I’m not risking a lot to give so much.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it, at $300+ for a Kindle, Sony and the Cybook that can’t compare utility wise…

Information gleened from :

laptop.org,Gizmo.com, and the BBC

I don’t know much else at the moment about the hows and whens about my first release at EC, but I thought this was kind of cool :
http://www.ellorascave.com/AuthorsBio.asp?AuthorCode=ADou

Small minds and all that

It’s been a while since I got itchy fingers and redesigned my website. But a few days ago I started with a goal of making a ’splash page’ as a static front page instead of the wordpress blog, and some sweary words and a very late night later, voilà!

Considering I did all of it myself I’m pretty pleased (Seriously, I’m cheap if you need a new website designed!)

Of course, now that I have changed things around a bit, I’ve no excuse to get back to some writing… I’m so failing at the sweat70 challenge this time around… le sigh. Procrastination, thy name is Anne.

Now that I have the paperwork back, I can tell you all that I’ve made a new sale. Curious Intimacies, an erotica styled short story will be published by Ellora’s Cave as part of their Exotika line.

I’m not sure of details of release time etc yet, but I’ll let you know when I know more