(Cough, cough, clearing of throat…)

Drumroll, please?

I am pleased to announce that AMIE STUART’S latest contribution to the Aphrodisia line of Kensington Publishing, MAKE U SWEAT, is now available!!

If you haven’t read any of Amie’s work, you are missing a treat. Her style is wonderful, draws you right into the story, and whisks you along to the end with incredible characterization, deft plotting, and hawt, hawt sex.

Links for buying and excerpts for enjoying can be found HERE.
A nice, simple contest for winning free copies can be found HERE.

So? Whatcha waitin’ for?! :-D

In response to a tag by Jordan (and I was always so nice to her, sob!)… ;-)

TOP TEN FAVORITE ROMANCE BOOKS:
(in no particular order, and yes, there are many more, and yes, I deliberately omitted those of close personal friends in an attempt to be objective…)

1) Jane Eyre~Charlotte Bronte
2) Born In Ice~Nora Roberts
3) Naked in Death~Nora Roberts
4) Pride and Prejudice~Jane Austen
5) Dark Lover~J.R. Ward
6) The Velvet Glove~Emma Holly
7) Incubus~Raine Weaver (hey, I said objective–not shtoopid)
8) Tim~Colleen McCullough
9) The Ladies of Missalonghi~Colleen McCullough
10)Bet Me~Jennifer Crusie

FAVORITE MOVIES
(can’t POSSIBLY list them all, but the ones that come to mind…)

1) Jane Eyre (the ones with Orson Welles and Timothy Dalton ONLY)
2) Raiders of the Lost Ark
3) Babe
4) Star Wars
5) Close Encounters
6) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (don’t be judgemental–check it out)
7) Lord of the Rings (I regard the 3 films as one)
8) Witness for the Prosecution
9) Fantasia (yes, Fantasia)
10) Alien

When farmer Rick Brown of Maryland was digging up potatoes recently, he discovered something that may set the Disneyfied world on its…ear?

Yes, it would seem that the petrified remains of an ancestor of our own beloved Mickey Mouse have been uncovered in a crude archeological dig in Maryland, USA.

A panel of scientists, scoffing all the way, are seeking access to the treasure, hoping to utilize DNA analysis to verify its origins.

Those in the know, however, are certain that it proves what cynics have suspected all along:
That ol’ Steamboat Willie, angry about the treatment he received from his captain, Peg-Leg Pete, did indeed dishonorably desert ship at first sight of Minnie “Hoochie-Momma” Mouse on the shore.
And all of Mickey’s so-called mirth has been a sad attempt to hide the shame of his ancestor, who may now be known as SpudMick.

And as if that’s not enough—I’m blogging at the CHICAS site today.
Please join us! :-)

Romantic suspense author COLLEEN THOMPSON is guest-blogging at the CHICAS site today.
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In the spirit of the current Olympics, I am rapidly approaching the finish line.

I’m now wrapping up the last freaking part of the last freaking chapter of the last freaking story of the freaking paranormal anthology I’ve been working on. I’m leaning into the tape at over 70k words.
Now, my language here may be misleading. I really like this book very much. It’s not completely traditional.
In other words, yes, there’s the expected HEA, and the loving couples retire to their vine-covered fairy-tale cottages. But there’s something lurking in the ivy that’s not quite right… :-)

What I really hate is what is to come.
Shopping it around. :-/
The pitching, the hoping, the waiting, the sense that you may be doing something wrong without knowing what it is, the sense that you know exactly what you’re doing but nobody’s interested…
Yeah. I hate all that.
But if it’s what you want, and what you’ve been working for, I guess ya gotta go for the Gold.
At least, that’s what I’m trying to tell myself.

I have a small confession to make.

I finally got around to seeing “The Dark Knight”, the new Batman movie.

Um…no, that isn’t the confession.

The confession is that I thought it was…
Okay. :-/

Don’t know what it is. Everyone I know who saw it was VERY impressed.
I thought it was good. Bale is hot. I liked Gyllenhaal. Caine is his usual great, Freeman is always phenomenal. So it definitely wasn’t the cast. And it was definitely better than the PREVIOUS movies. But it just didn’t GRAB me for some reason.
In fact, I’m afraid I actually fell asleep a couple of times. :-/

Ledger was, however, as incredible as reputed to be. And if he doesn’t get an Oscar nod, they should be ashamed.

Now running off to the CHICAS site to blog before the bat-hordes come after me.
Please join us! :-)

Author CAROLYN JEWEL is guest-blogging at the CHICAS site today.
Please join us! :-)