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I found this "Back of a Business Card Cartoon" at GapingVoid.com
It's crude...sue me...I laughed.
And today, I needed a laugh

Playing Hookey

After hubby being gone all week for business and conference calls all morning...I kidnapped him this afternoon and we hit a Mexican Restaurant for lunch and then watched Wanted and then Barnes & Noble ... we bought Jim Butcher "Fool Moon", Bee Wilson "The Hive", Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin "Skinny Bitch in the Kitchen" and Sara Douglas "The Serpent Bride"...

So all in all a lovely afternoon...
Here's the trailer for Wanted and Angelina Jolie is just as incredibly HOT as ever;)

Different Strokes...

Tonight I was talking on the phone to Sir Hotness, business trip...again, and we're talking about my current WIP...
One girl...two love interests...one male, one female...

and I was telling Sir Hotness that I'm really enjoying the girl/girl scenes because I've written so many male/male scenes and so many female/male scenes that it's nice to be challenged...

He didn't really understand. So I had to spell it out. "There's only so many ways you can stick a dick in someone."

Anyway, I think he's still laughing...

But it is true. With girl on girl sex I get to be a little more creative;)
And hopefully, my readers will like the girl-girl twists...

Any feedback, one way or another?

Today Is The Day...

I want to add this disclaimer right at the top of my blog. JC Penny does not approve this message. Now, that said. Obviously, their ad company thought that they should jump on the "Sex Sells" bandwagon and did use the JC Penny brand...all the way to the Cannes Lions Awards where they won with this ad.

I just want to say, as the mother of three daughters, and having been a teen myself at one point... I was not offended ... you might be.

Without further ado...here is the ad:

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Surfing Net...Should Be Writing

How's come when I wake up highly motivated to write, I can't just open my laptop and WRITE?! Oh no, couldn't be that easy...because I feel like I should at least check my email (and the news). I mean, who knows what might have happened in the world during the five and a half hours I was sleeping?

Then once the email is opened and I've scanned the news, it's like Pandora's Box...I can't stop myself...I'm off to Twitter and Myspace, You Tube and TRS Blue...and then a round of blog checks to see what everyone else has been up to in the five and a half hours I was sleeping (Keeping in mind that this is the repeat of the insanity from right before I fell asleep)

Am I the only one?
Are we all clearly addicted?

Anyway...from You Tube...trust me at 2:30a.m. This was hilarious...

Also a serious subject, so ladies just in case your guy isn't checking his own balls...maybe you could lend a helping hand...just a thought.

The New E in Erotica

There is an article at Publisher's Weekly that anyone and everyone interested in E-books, E-publishing, and E-erotica especially needs to read.

I never thought that a mainstream publisher would actually come out and admit that the erotica writer's found in the emerging e-erotica industry are STELLAR WRITERS! So, I love this quote!
Quote begins here: or Read entire article Here

"The consumers were far ahead of me,” says Kate Duffy, editorial director at Kensington, which launched its erotica imprint, Aphrodisia, in 2006. “For years I thought of e-publishing as something people did because they couldn't publish with us. But then we started seeing all of these stellar talents that had first been e-published. It wasn't that the books were in any way inferior—that was my prejudice. It was a different way of accessing consumers, and it would behoove me to investigate.”

Of course I commented at the end of the article. I think we all should.

YES! E-Erotica Authors are stellar talents and it is about time the publishing world decided to take notice!

Summer Solstice

We are lighting our solstice fire to celebrate...so whether you call it Litha, or Midsummer's Night, or merely the Summer Solstice...blessings to you!

That's What We Call Wednesday Night...

Borrowed this from Daily Bedpost:All About Sex With Em and Lo
since while you are reading this...I will be chasing a 2yr old and 4yr old...

My grandchildren make me realize just how lucky my children are they survived
the experience of childhood...If there are any grandparents visiting, would you agree that every surface in the home should be bubblewrapped?

Busy Days Ahead...

Today I pick up my grandbabies...they are spending the night but first...we are going to see KungFu Panda...I'm fairly psyched. If we survive that, we may try to also go see Horton Hears a Who...but really it depends on the attention of the 2 yr old...I've been told that popcorn is the secret...but I am so danger phobic I'm worried she'll choke or something... eegads...

Then Thursday my middle daughter is coming to spend the day. It is her birthday. I don't get to see her as much as I'd like but I understand her demands for independence and I admit I am very proud of her. I'm only afraid that if she really did need help she wouldn't ask for it...

Yikes, on to Friday...Sir Hotness and I are going biking. There's a huge bike trail that he has been aching to take me on and so Friday has been set aside as the day...

So if I appear absent, I apologize...it's just there are some pretty busy days ahead:)

Sex Is Everywhere...Church Included

Just when I thought the uproar in Texas had died down...comes this report:
Polygamy Grows despite Shocking Arrests which is actually an old story (my link takes you to the original) but that is making the Internet reruns...
Quote starts here: "For all that attention, it appears the number of people in polygamist communities has actually increased. Polygamist marriages have been growing steadily since the 1800s, says Mary Batchelor, acting director of Principle Voices, a nonprofit group that advocates for Utah decriminalizing polygamy. She says most polygamists are living within the general population.

"You wouldn't be able to tell them apart from anyone else," she says. (Roxy thought...maybe it's just the pastel dresses and fifteen children clinging to the women's legs but I think I'd notice...oh, maybe she's talking about the non-religious polygamy...where the relationships are based on the fun of sex and not the baby making.)

There is no census data on polygamy, but Principle Voices estimates that there are 37,000 people, including children, who live in polygamy in the western United States and British Columbia. That's up from 30,000 in 2000, according to the group's informal survey of fundamentalist groups and independent fundamentalist families." (Okay, the article is disclaiming that there are all kinds of polygamists running around the US...) more article quote: "There are also Christian and Muslim polygamists in the United States, along with immigrants from places where polygamy is common, such as certain areas of Africa and some Islamic countries."

Now fighting back, a religious view that claims that hot sex is what God really intended...and of the monogamous kind as reported here: Christians Promote Holy Hot Sex In Marriage

I'll let you go there and check it out...there were just too many quotable quotes...

For those of you following the Chronicles of Surrender, you will know that I address the issue of religious based sexual guilt through Celia's eyes...there are just so many sexual taboos...so much sexual guilt...can any of us ever say we've sparred of guilt every time we've had sex and it drifted from what we might have considered "normal?"

I can see why the preacher who had the sermon titled "Make You Marriage Sizzle" is attracting new, younger crowds...

But still, for me...there's a bit of a flaw...because many times from somewhere in the back of my head comes the voice saying, "You can't do THAT!" I wonder if that is God or my mother talking????

Book Release Coming!

It's all shaping up for the release of CONTROL at Loose-Id Publishing. The release date appears to be July 22...baring unforseen circumstance.

And here is the cover by Marci Gass!!! Yay, my newest baby finally has a face!

I Am Now The Proud Owner...

Of a bicycle!

Actually, I am failry excited...because I didn't realize when I married Sir Hotness that he likes to bicycle...and once upon a time...two decades ago...my bicycle took me everywhere I wanted to go...by choice...even after baby number one...then came baby number two and I had to trade in my bicycle for a car and two car seats.

I'm not sure I'm ready to give up my car completely (although it is on permanent loan to my teenager with the understanding that when I need it...I get to use it), but I am ready to lower my impact on the world's energy crunch...

I took a maiden voyage across the road and realized that although you never forget how to ride a bicycle, shifting gears is another story...I'm a bit rusty...I should have gone for the automatic.

Oh well, have wheels...will travel...even if I limp along awhile!

A Sexy Feel Good Story

Male New Jersey Barn Swallows have scientists and female Barn Swallows paying closer attention. It seems that a few years ago some scientists took some of their lighter colored feathered friends under their wing and helped them become sexier to the females in town by dying their light bellies a darker shade of brown that the females preferred...

The results were immediate.
The lighter colored guys with their newly colored bellies started getting a lot more sex. The scientists assumed it was just because they were now fashionably acceptable...

But it seems there's more to this story. They recently repeated the test:
(begin quote) "This time they found out that the more attractive appearance, at least in the bird world, triggered changes to the animals' body chemistry, increasing testosterone.

"Other females might be looking at them as being a little more sexy, and the birds might be feeling better about themselves in response to that," said study co-author Kevin McGraw, an evolutionary biology professor at Arizona State University.

McGraw said the findings are surprising, in part because the hormonal changes occurred after only one week.

The study was published in Tuesday's edition of the journal Current Biology.

In the 30 male barn swallows who were darkened, testosterone was up 36 percent after one week, during a time of year when levels of that hormone would normally drop.

At the same time, testosterone levels in the 33 birds that didn't get the coloring treatment fell by half, said lead author Rebecca Safran, an evolutionary biology professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder." (end quote)

So does this mean that clothing really does make the man? I know that when I look good and feel good about myself, I feel sexier. I assume it works that way for men too...but I wonder if a new shirt would in someway affect testosterone levels in men? Or maybe it would take something a little closer to the flesh, like working on their six-pack. I think there needs to be a study...

Yeah, I'll Have One Of Those...

Here's to forgetting yesterday...
Though today was slightly better...
Tomorrow, I'm hoping for awesome, amazing, incredulous...

Oops...

Okay, so I'm infamous for multitasking, so imagine the pile on my lap...laptop, book of the day (Murder of Angels by Caitlin R Kiernan), cell phone...camera...and then imagine the glass of ice water sitting beside me just waiting for the inevitable...

Yep, cell phone took a dive...

Oops.

It's drying out, but I think it's fried completely.

Roxy Harte Interview...

Catch the Roxy Harte Interview by Joyfully Reviewed...
Since the interview...
I am no longer a real estate agent...I am writing full time.
Old Dog, new Tricks has been retitled Control and is comiing soon from Loose-Id.

I wish I had a release date...I'll let you know as soon as I know:)