On the tenth day before Christmas, my true love gave to me… Chicken’s second permit test A trip to the tree farm Another frickin’ edit Ten more blurbs a-writing Two college recruitment meetings A day of Christmas shopping One lost Clifford Journal My oldest’ son’s birthday A trip to buy his present A family sushi… Read More

AOkay– first things first.  Last night, Mate and I went to a traveling Christmas Party.  A bunch of people in the same neighborhood walked from house to house and drank a lot.  (I drank a lot of water.  It was COLD, and I was having more fun watching the drunk people walk, really.  Anyway, in… Read More

Heya!  Yes– the last post was pretty bleak, and there’s not much I can do about that.  Many of you know that I’ve been on leave from my job for the last fifteen months, and you know why.  You know why I’m so adamant that my work is not porn, and why I believe romance–all… Read More

So, I had to do something really unpleasant today, something that hurt hella bad.  And I don’t feel like writing about it, but I do have a soundtrack.  I tried to post it with youtube.com, but none of the links plugged in–I’ll just list it here. Bleed it Out–Linkin’ Park Requiem for a Dream–from the… Read More

Okay– I’ll admit it.  Sometimes, I look forward to Saturday Snark because really?  My real life just isn’t that interesting.   The little kids are cute:  Squish is sleeping with my old teddy bear and a couple of sock monkeys–she drags them from the bunk bed to our own bed in the middle of the… Read More

*snicker*  Yup.  That is REALLY the name. The Winter Mating Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters is out today on Dreamspinner’s site (soon to be followed, I think, by amazon.com, Allromanceebooks.com, and all of the usual suspects.) This is my third Dreamspinner Press Advent Calendar work– the first one was If I Must, a story about two roommates and… Read More

First of all, we had a lovely Thanksgiving.  All three of them.  They were excellent– there was laughter, and food, and more food, and mom even cooked and generally?  Everything you expect.  But the night before Thanksgiving we went to see The Muppets, and that’s the thing that’s sort of sticking in my head. The… Read More

Okay, so I have two upcoming releases in December.  I’ll talk about Fur-Bearing Critters next week–it’s part of the Advent Calendar, and it’s really hella cute.  I also have (sort of by request) this one here.  This couple is Ryan and Scott, and they were the couple from the Curious Anthology story, Shirt, as well… Read More

From my crazy family to yours.

Okay– first of all, does everybody know what that means?  That it refers back to the time when the country was using indentured bondsmen (and women) to do all the hard shit, people who had literally bartered years of their lives in return for passage and room and board?  I used it in a work,… Read More