Chicks-n-Scratching

Fall has arrived and I was caught unprepared. It’s been so hot here up until this week that the sudden cold caught me unawares. We still have all the summer sleeveless shirts and shorts out. I had to go digging for my daughter’s long sleeved shirts and jeans and a light jacket for her to [...]

*sniff* I’m sick. I have this headcongestionchestcoughrawthroatfeversnottydrippynose thing from hell. The past four days have consisted entirely of my sitting on my ass, staring mindlessly at the computer screen and blowing my nose. I have not written, even though I am less than 5,000 words away from finishing a book. I have not read, although [...]

so a little background. GN/DH got a new job (hooray!) and we’ll (eventually) be moving up to where the new job is (DC area). In the meantime, GN is up there during the week and home only weekends. I’m teaching 3 different classes for 3 different colleges. One of those classes is (depending on which [...]

BLOODSONG, Book Two Eden Bradley’s Midnight Playground series, is out today from Samhain Publishing! You can find it at MBaM, Amazon, and other retail outlets! An ancient vampire, an ancient grief…a love that makes his blood sing… Midnight Playground, Book 2 London, 2069 Aleron is ancient, powerful, immortal…a vampire who idles away his time playing [...]

I love love love autumn. It is normally my favorite season. Now since I left the mountains, I approached this season with some fear. I mean, my mountains are a memory . No more hillsides and peaks full of color. Back in Appalachia, there was a festival called the Apple Harvest that I used to [...]

So Inez and I were talking the other day – SHUT UP! We talk! – and I was whining about being woefully uncreative and not having ideas for a blog for this week. Jokingly, Inez suggested I do a post on sex toys. Well, I did a T-13 on my other blog on sex toys, [...]

Cursed with the sight and rumors of witchcraft, Rosalind’s only chance at an ordinary life is marriage to Lucien, Viscount Hastings. She doesn’t expect love, only security and children of her own. Determined to go through with the wedding, she allows nothing she encounters at the gloomy Castle St. Clare to dissuade her. Recently returned [...]

So, my daughter’s bus stop is literally right across the street from our house. We’re in suburbia, not any sort of rural atmosphere. But that bus stop harbors wildlife aplenty. These pics aren’t from the bus stop, but they’re the same animals! What are some things we’ve seen at the bus stop? I’m glad you [...]

I know I can’t. What is it that I can’t believe? Well, I’m glad you asked. I can’t believe that it’s already September 13th. I know I’ve said it before – at least once a year around this time – but really, is it just me or are the years moving by at warp speed [...]

13 texts from the site Texts from Last Night because no matter how bad my day is, these make me smile. I was boring in College. I worked. And how do these people not have alcohol poisoning? (619):  Dude, she literally stopped, mid fuck said “I want soup” got off my dick and make top [...]