Friday, November 21, 2008

Bitch Muse

Oh, so you think you have a difficult muse? Hehehehe...go meet mine over at Four Strong Women. She wields a bullwhip.

Four Strong Women

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

When an Author Looks Back


Looking Back at a Younger Place is Disconcerting.

When an author re-reads something they have written long ago it’s sometimes very disconcerting, at least I thought so. I thought I was the only one who looked at my once written, even once published books and thought, oh my good gracious how could I have let that go as a publishable piece? I don’t feel so bad any more after reading this from Aldous Huxley (Brave New World 1932 among other novels) This was in the revised/republished 1946 edition of Brave New World. “…Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment….”

He goes on more eloquently but it boils down to what we both feel after pouring over the short comings of a novel written at a younger more inexperienced time in an attempt to patch a faulty piece into a perfect masterpiece. That particular piece having missed that mark the first time around—should be repaired to a place where growth had taken me. To spend time trying to mend the artistic sins committed by that different person, the person I was then—is surely vain and futile. Its defect may be part of its charm.

I could rewrite the whole book as an older, perhaps wiser, other person. What might happen then though is I probably would get rid not only of some of the faults of the story, but also rid it of some of its merits as it originally possessed them.

So, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I leave well and ill alone and move on to ‘next’ with what I have learned and am able to create in my next novel, with much thanks to Aldous Huxley for making me feel less alone and imperfect.


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Monday, November 17, 2008

Hottest Sex Scene

I sometimes write as J. Emberglass. My Bedevilled series is full of hot sex, dark humor, the paranormal, and incorporates het and m/m. I'd appreciate it if you'd follow the link and check out my hottest sex scene enty. If you enjoy it, please vote for it. But be careful. The content will make your panties burst into flames!






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New Urban Fantasy Series from Loose Id


Looking for Some Touch by K. Z. Snow is Book One of the new Utopia-X series (m/m futuristic urban fantasy). It will be released Tuesday, November 18, by Loose Id.

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Pablo Creed—amateur poet, professional whore, and upstanding citizen of the Utopian Metroplex of Regenerie—wants a new job. The all-male Coven of Three—a trio of mismatched wonder-workers who live in Regenerie’s subterranean Undercity—needs a "Touch" to sexually spark its collective energy.

In danger of being permanently assigned to a sadistic VIP client, Pablo applies for the position. What he didn’t count on was his immediate, intense attraction to the gorgeous Win, one of the Coven’s members. Or the immediate, intense hostility of Tole, another member, who resents that attraction.

And Pablo certainly didn’t expect to be drawn into the center of a bizarre missing-person investigation that puts him in harm’s way.

He soon learns that the Coven of Three is not what it seems to be. That revelation will either send him fleeing to the desolate Interzone…or taking a chance on a sublimely sensual man who’s more unusual than anybody Pablo has ever known.

Monday, November 10, 2008

New Interview for Sapphire Phelan

I have a new interview out today. You can read it at Andrea Jackson's, the Paperback Reader's blog at http://www.pbdiva.com/.Just scroll down to the link for her blog to get to the blog to read it.
Sapphire Phelan

Saturday, November 1, 2008

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Good girls shouldn’t pick up strangers, especially on Halloween.
Becca loves employing her tricks and the adrenaline rush she experiences when she picks up men in bars. And on Halloween, when she’s out feeding her addiction, she gets more of a treat than she bargained for.

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The next great contemporary & urban fantasy writer!
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