Curse You, Kindle!

I'm trying to organize my Kindle. If the Kindle was a paperback book, it'd be toast right about now. I'd have burned the damn thing for being recalcitrant and stupid and downright evil. I know it sneers at me when I have to go back to the beginning and start over. They need to invent a way to open another window when you're filing books. Or something. It's all very ...

AAARRRRRRGGGGHHH!!

So, here's to you Southern Comfort (that's my Kindle) - pffffffffffffffffttt!

Anti Depressants and Romance

Oh, I'm in such a good mood. I'm in a frolicking through the meadows while singing a happy song and attracting small woodland creatures in my wake, kind of mood.

I restarted my anti-depressants.

I take the 'happy pills' (what my daughter and I call them) because menopause is harsh and I got PMS badly because of it. I stopped taking them after I lost my insurance via unemployment and now I restarted (got job, insurance and happy pills... start dancing Disney squirrels!!).

Anyway, it got me to thinking... when I'm on the pills I sleep better, I feel better, I avoid the occasional moroseness that overcomes my usual sunny disposition. And honestly, I feel a little of ye olde lustiness. Without happy pills, I can see a hawt man and not wonder how large his baseball bat of love is. With the pills? Let's start swinging that thing!

Anti-depressants are wonderful things. I say that in all seriousness and would suggest most Americans would benefit from a large dosage of them. However, there is a side effect with some and that's a lack of sexual interest or the inability to orgasm.

Are you seeing my mind working here?

So taking the standard romance trope of the vaguely experienced heroine who has never had a proper O but then the hero swings his bat her way and she's orgasming so hard and so much that they're calling neurologists in to study her, well, it made me wonder what if it was just a chemical inbalance?

That made me wonder further, would anybody find that as interesting a plot twist as I would? What if there was a heroine who couldn't seizure whenever the mighty wang made its entrance and it just turned out the doctor had her on the wrong pill?

Seriously, would you read it?

More Visuals for Carolyn

The above is Kofi. He's from Africa (don't ask me where) and he's a high flyer and so adorable.

R. Truth. A total nutjob but hysterical. And look at that body! Holy Moly, look at that body!!

David Otunga. Harvard grad. Jennifer Hudson's husband. He wears bow ties for some strange reason.

Thea Harrison's Latest.

Lately I've been hanging out at Smart Bitches quite a bit, oogling the ads, and one in particular. That would be the ad for Thea Harrison's Natural Evil. It's a cute little ad and indeed I do thank her for it. :-)

http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog

Now I've read the book. Oh. My. God.

The heroine rules. A forty year old ex-special forces, with a touch of useful magic and common sense to go along with her physical training. Claudia can kick some ass, y'all.

Luis. Luis is ... hawt. Young and hawt. And determined. And loveable. I loved him, at least. *grin*

Love the ad, love the book, love the characters. Thank you, Thea Harrison.


For Sooz. :-)

It's weird, I tried to post this in a separate post, but it wouldn't 'take'.

"Come here, my beautiful one ..."

*Sigh*

Sale!

Hey y'all. Just discovered a Roberta Gellis sale over on Amazon. May be in other places too, but I'm too damn lazy to search them out. Sorry ...

Anyway, here's a link.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=roberta+gellis

Lordy, I just love finding sales! $1.49 - kewl, as the younger generation says. ;-D

More Short Fart Randomness

As a major Survivor fan, I'm HUGELY disappointed in this current season of Survivor. They started by dividing the teams as men against women and had them sharing a beach which was different and cool. But then they changed the teams up and there was team Buff against team Nerd and it was awful.

The other awful thing was that they had their first openly racist player and it was bothersome how much the people around him just didn't care. In fact, his behavior wasn't only tolerated, it was repeated by others.

I found him repellent and the team members who didn't shun him, just as bad. I don't know if I'll even continue to watch this season because it was so disturbing to see how easily people tolerated his hate and hate speech. What a vile, loathesome man!

On a positive note: have two books to read with black heroes and I'm wildly excited. I'm ready for non-white characters. In fact, I'm writing one.

Which leads me to what I've been pondering lately. As I posted awhile ago, I read the Travis series by Lisa Kleypas and was struck by it's complete and total awesomeness. It was that good and then some. Enough so that it made me want to write.

What I'm writing is similar to what that series is. I have a first person heroine, an alpha hero, mother issues. So does that mean I'm writing a Lisa Kleypas, Travis fan fic? Although it's based in California and not Texas.... and the heroine is black ... and there's no brothers nd sisters showing up....

But the thing is that Lisa Kleypas makes me want to write better and she makes me want to pull out the same feelings in my writing. So is it fan fic or dirivative or what?

I dunno. Maybe later I'll ask DA.

Spring!

Spring is here and I feel 100% better. Well, okay, 95% better. I like the cooler weather of winter, but ... but ... I just don't feel so chipper. But how could one live in the beauty that's the South in Spring and not feel their spirits lift? Check out the pics below - not the guy, although he's definitely worth checking out - but the flora of Alabama. And that's just the dogwoods!

Anywhoo, this time of year also seems to spring a lot of books. I just received a bunch of pre-orders not long ago and my open digital orders at Amazon is still amazingly full. I'm going to list them for you and give you links if the Link God will let me. Just the Amazon link, because let's face it, Techie Girl I'm not and why push my luck? You can find them at the seller of your choice after I point them out to you, right?

So, here we go. Fingers crossed the techie gods are in a good mood.

Unstoppable by Laura Griffin. Check the price on this one!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005O3167E/ref=docs-os-doi_0

She's a great romantic suspense writer.

Beguiling the Beauty by Sherry Thomas.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0072O00RK/ref=docs-os-doi_0

The Way Back by Stephanie Doyle, a Harlequin Super Romance. *Shrugs* It sounded good and the price was right, so I ordered it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YADCN2/ref=docs-os-doi_0

Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas. Okay, this is a summer book, but I wanted to make sure I got my order in. :-)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00779MN2A/ref=docs-os-doi_0

The Witness by Nora Roberts. This one is iffy because the price is outrageous!! Still, it sounds damn good and it is Nora ...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0074VTHBQ/ref=docs-os-doi_0

Another summer book - Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews. Can't wait for this one - Andrea's story.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0072NWKP6/ref=docs-os-doi_0

The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts. The second in the Boonesboro trilogy. Pricey, but not as outrageous as The Witness.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0074VTHQ6/ref=docs-os-doi_0


Thank God the release of all these books are spaced out a bit. But you know, I don't spend money on much these days except books, so I refuse to feel guilty. Besides, these books are getting a deal - two readers for the price of one, lol.

Do any of them appeal to you?