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Death on the Side of a Mountain

1/24/2017

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My little corner of the world is making it hard for me to love her. Yes, I knew they got real winter here, when I agreed to the move. Yes, I knew what the work would entail, when I agreed to the move. Yes, I thought I had more time before those things had me spiraling.

I'm on day 15 of consecutive snow and I am WEARY! No, I'm SAD!

I joke about it quite often, but click the link, because SAD is a very real thing.

Now, I know no one likes a whiner. Secondly, the whiner doesn't need "Pollyanna" fixes or pep talks. Sometimes she just needs to experience her feelings and get it out.

It is quite difficult to feel motivated for anything beyond my bed or my couch. The sun has only broken through sporadically (an hour or two per day), but it isn't particularly cold either. Honestly, it's just BLAH and that's exactly how I'm feeling. I take a healthy dose of vitamin B and D to offset my mood, but I'm going to need to kick things up a notch and add the gym back into my mood stabilizing rotation. I am not one of those people that enjoys the gym.

Symptoms of SAD 

I write, when I have a micro-burst of energy or creativity and I LOVE to get out, when I can. The change of scenery helps more than anything. I walk around my job to get those steps in and I'm depriving myself of carbs (instead of binge eating them the way I truly desire), because frankly gaining weight isn't going to make me feel any better. I may or may not, also be compulsively online shopping (more on that later). 

This is why I left NYC thirteen years ago for sunny Arizona. However, the dangled carrot of living abroad and a lucrative job offer made me believe I could once again live with snow, or the threat of it. A threat was all it's been, for the first two and a half years. Flurries here and there, a short drive to work, a parking space in front of my door, and a late morning start, these were things I could work with. That all got monkey-wrenched at the end of last year. My day starts 90 minutes earlier (UGH!), it hasn't stopped snowing for 15 days (I mentioned that, right?), and my parking space is in a lot that is a block away and they never shovel it. Also, my close to work location has been relocated up the side of a mountain. You haven't lived, until you've nearly died, driving up that hill.

So, that's where I am, in this moment, right now.

If I'm being honest with you and myself, it isn't all bad, it just isn't ALL GOOD!

Here are some shots of things that have been VERY good since Christmas (and the snow that started upon my return to Japan).





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Dangerous Interference   by   BJ Wane

1/19/2017

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About the Book:
  After her sister goes missing, Alena Malloy travels to Blue Springs, Maine—her sister’s last known location—to track her down. As she begins her search, however, Alena’s efforts quickly bring her into conflict with Randy Janzen, the local sheriff, and Nash Osbourne, a Scotland Yard detective involved in the case due to its similarity with a recent disappearance in the UK.
  Randy and Nash make it quite clear to Alena that they expect her to avoid interfering with their work, and when she defies them one time too many she earns herself a painful, embarrassing spanking. The humiliating punishment ignites a powerful desire in Alena, and despite her sore backside she finds herself yearning to be mastered more thoroughly. 
  The two stern, handsome lawmen agree to share Alena, and soon enough she is begging for more. But when Alena’s continued meddling in the investigation puts her life in grave danger, will Randy and Nash be able to protect her?

 
Publisher’s Note: Dangerous Interference includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.

Excerpt:
 “Oh, good Lord.” There went those tingles dancing their way down her spine when both men leveled those identical, intent gazes on her, forcing her to mutter aloud without even realizing it.
  “Problem, Alena?”
 “Nothing you two getting up and leaving won’t solve,” she returned, as sweet as her cinnamon roll while making a mental note to have a serious talk with her girly parts later about who was in control.

 “One would think you don’t like us, luv,” Nash put in before turning a charming smile upon Carlee when she returned and set a cup of coffee in front of each of them. “Thank you, Carlee, and don’t you look pretty today.”
  Carlee gave his broad shoulder a playful slap. “The gals back in London might fall for that, but we’re a bit smarter over here.”
Alena sure wished she could lay claim to having an ounce of brains when she heard either that British accent or Randy’s low, commanding voice. Trying to ignore the way her heartbeat had accelerated and the uncomfortable dampness in her crotch, she plopped another bite of cinnamon roll in her mouth, this one with a good amount of melted icing on top that had her chewing with slow relish.
 “Shit,” Randy groaned, the look on Alena’s face as she ate responsible for the uncomfortable shift of his cock. Luckily, Carlee’s next statement took his attention off the lust she could inspire with the simplest things and returned it to why they had stopped in the diner when they spotted her bright red head inside.

 

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Lullaby Lake   by   Garnell Wallace

1/13/2017

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About the Book:
  Their haunted pasts could put an end to their future.

  Leaving her high profile, tumultuous marriage was the hardest thing Jade Lopez had ever done. Under a cloud of scandal that became tabloid gold, she moves back to her hometown in South Florida, with their seven-year-old daughter Isabella and the memories of a love she'd thought would last forever.
  The façade she’d called a life begins to crumble under her family’s questions and her strict Chinese mother I-told-you-so eyes. Jade had always fought to define who she was, but she’d never thought abuse and divorce would be part of it. Nor could she have imagined that the last night of her senior year in high school, an act of kindness down at Lullaby Lake, would now come back to destroy her.
  Jade's leaving was a wake-up call for her husband Gabriel. A famous Cuban musician, living in the limelight had become his passion-until he's forced to live without his wife and child. He tries to repair their fragile relationship by moving back home to Florida and the past he'd rather leave behind. He and Jade had both continued the violent history of his childhood, but he’s ready to give his life in order to give her a better one with their daughter.
  Through anger, bitterness and a fiery passion they've never been able to deny, Gabriel and Jade must fight their own demons to find a love that is strong enough to conquer everything, even a supernatural stalker, and the darkness lurking in Lullaby Lake.


Excerpt:
   Gabriel dropped his bag on the floor. “You don’t have to leave, Jade. This is still our home. We can both spend the night here.”
   She shook her head. “I prefer to stay with friends.”
   “Didn’t you listen to the weather report? It’s going to get real bad in about two minutes.”
   She hadn’t listened to the weather report. She’d been too busy trying to get rid of all evidence of their lives together.
   Even now the wind wailed loudly, and for the first time, Jade noticed how cold and dark it was. She didn’t want any of her friends driving during a severe storm to come and get her. She had no choice but to stay, although she didn’t know if spending a night with Gabriel was any less dangerous than braving a raging storm.
   She walked to the guest bedroom. There was no possible way that she could even look at the bedroom in which they had shared so many passionate days and nights. Even though it had been stripped of almost everything except the bed, it was still their room.
   She could feel the memories closing in on her. With unfulfilled dreams and no sense of who they were anymore, they’d torn each other to shreds then parted ways. But as they stood in the small confines of the guest bedroom, wondering why they felt more alive now than they had in weeks; the dam that Jade had kept on her emotions finally broke and she was confronted with the pain of how unhappy she’d been without him.
   She sprang from the room. “I have to get out of here,” she threw over her shoulder. “I have to think.”
   Gabriel grabbed her arm. His touch burned her skin. She pulled away even though her body cried for her to sink into his warmth.
   “Don’t be stupid, Jade. You of all people know what these storms are like. You could die out there.” As if to drive his warning home, the wind howled, making the house and Jade tremble. Still it was not enough to stop her. She headed for the door. Her hand was on the handle when Gabriel grabbed hold of her.
   “Do you think I’m such an animal that you can’t spend a night in the same house as me?” he asked angrily.

About the Author:
  Garnell Wallace lives in the Bahamas, a beautiful little country in the Caribbean, a region with its own romantic ideals. Though the reality of any place is always more complex than the usual touristic jargon, it is easy to find the magic of a laid back island lifestyle when sitting on a white sand beach with her laptop and characters. She loves using the rich, exotic cultures of the many countries which comprise her little piece of paradise in her stories and venturing to new places around the world. She often writes about the shades of gray between people, creed and cultures in an effort to find the human experiences common to us all. She loves mixing passion and the paranormal, erotica with empowerment. She has been published in various paranormal and erotic anthologies including Making the Hook-up, Obsessed, and Best Women’s Erotica of the Year Vol-2 (2016) all from Cleis Press. She has one title with Blushing Books, Forever My Demon, under the name Suzette Wallace.

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The Laird and the Sassenach   by   Ashe Barker

1/5/2017

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About the Book:
  After her half-brother attacks the kinsmen of Blair McGregor, Lady Roselyn of Etal is brought before the stern highland laird to answer for her reluctant, unwitting role in the crime. Once she has told her story, she throws herself at his mercy.
  Blair soon realizes that Roselyn is as much a victim of her half-brother as anyone, but his people’s demands for justice cannot be ignored entirely, so he strips the young Englishwoman bare and chastises her firmly with a switch applied to her naked backside.
  The painful, humiliating punishment both assuages Roselyn’s guilt and leaves her yearning to be even more thoroughly mastered by the handsome laird. Though Blair makes it clear that she is free to return home, she instead chooses to remain with the him in his castle… and in his bed. Their passion soon blossoms into romance, but can the highlander protect his beautiful Sassenach when the villain who caused them both so much pain tries to tear her away from him?
 
Publisher’s Note: The Laird and the Sassenach includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.

Excerpt:
No excerpt today because(!) you can read chapter one for free HERE!
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Author Q & A:
1.So, tell us a bit more about Blair. He’s stern and sexy, with a twitchy palm, but what else is there to know?
Well, I think you just about covered the basics there. Blair has a strong sense of duty, and of justice. He knows that he has to satisfy the demands of the McGregor clan who expect to see justice done but he is unwilling to do so at the expense of an innocent woman. Blair is determined to know the truth and to apportion blame where it should lie, but he is also an implacable enemy. If he discovers that Roselyn is to blame he will not hesitate to make her answer for her crimes.
2.How many books have you written? Are they all historical or spanking fiction?
I have over forty titles out now, and they are all erotic stories. About a dozen of them are historical novels. Some have more of a BDSM vibe going on and some are spanking/domestic discipline. At first I wrote just contemporary stories, then I started adding a few historicals and sci-fis. I love the variety.
3.Why do you enjoy writing historical fiction?
History was my favourite lesson at school, though some periods are more fascinating to me than others. I always preferred the medieval or even earlier times, though the Victoriuans were an interesting bunch too. In many ways life was simpler in the past, if a lot more brutal, and of course some of the moral issues we would have to deal with in a contemporary setting don’t apply. Inequality was the norm. Women were expected to obey – or else. A spanking author can have a field day.
4.What advice would you have for writers who decide to try their hand at erotica?
I’d tell them to have a go, but to have a decent thesaurus to hand. And an internet connection. Youtube is the erotica writer’s friend.
5.If you had to describe yourself using three words, it would be…
Resilient. Creative. Calm.


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