The Dynamic Trio - Blog

It’s a totally gorgeous day. My husband is home installing our new computer (WHEEE!) and my kids are reasonably well behaved. Nice huh? Add to that a swanky new excerpt brochure Frauke designed for me and already some good words added to RELENTLESS and I’m a happy camper.

Pumpkin muffins are the devil. Why are they so good? Our local grocery store has a bakery inside and their pumpkin muffins are sin and I love them. They’re the size of a softball though and I’m quite sure they’re a zillion calories but I can’t make myself care (She says washing it all down with diet coke). I wouldn’t even go to that part of the store (also where the cupcakes live and we know my position on cupcakes) but to access the fruit and veg it’s the natural path unless I go to the front of the store and back around, which makes my loop all wrong. It’s a plan of course, to make my ass even bigger by the corporation that owns Top Foods. Hmpf. Damn them and their delicious baked treats.

AND for yesterday…

I finished copyedits on Undercover. Whew. And I still like the book even if I really don’t want to look at it again for at least six months. It’s always iffy when you look at a book after you’ve looked at it what seems like a zillion times so it’s a relief I’m happy with it still.

I finished Jeri Smith-Ready’s Wicked Game last night. It’s been a while since I’ve been this totally gonzo about a book. I just really loved it. It’s smart, the writing is clever, tight, sexy in the right places, tense in others, scary here and there and totally original.

Ciara is a smart but not perfect heroine. A grifter (oh how I love twisted characters) trying to go straight for a host of believable and layered reasons. Her job at this funky radio station makes sense. The way she acts with the vampires makes sense. The way she interacts with Shane her sort of boyfriend/vampire makes sense. I liked her a lot because she was accessible in a really wonderful way.

The mystery/suspense element was well done. The worldbuilding was clever and believable and the romantic sub-plot handled well and in proportion to the story. On top of all this? Jeri is a really, genuinely nice person, which is all too rarel.

Wicked Game is a really good book and if you haven’t grabbed it yet you really should. You won’t be sorry at all.

And lastly, my husband is home from his business trip so yay! A long weekend without copy edits or a super close book deadline, a new book opening up in front of me to write, time with my family - it’s all good.

It’s a totally gorgeous day. My husband is home installing our new computer (WHEEE!) and my kids are reasonably well behaved. Nice huh? Add to that a swanky new excerpt brochure Frauke designed for me and already some good words added to RELENTLESS and I’m a happy camper.

Pumpkin muffins are the devil. Why are they so good? Our local grocery store has a bakery inside and their pumpkin muffins are sin and I love them. They’re the size of a softball though and I’m quite sure they’re a zillion calories but I can’t make myself care (She says washing it all down with diet coke). I wouldn’t even go to that part of the store (also where the cupcakes live and we know my position on cupcakes) but to access the fruit and veg it’s the natural path unless I go to the front of the store and back around, which makes my loop all wrong. It’s a plan of course, to make my ass even bigger by the corporation that owns Top Foods. Hmpf. Damn them and their delicious baked treats.

AND for yesterday…

I finished copyedits on Undercover. Whew. And I still like the book even if I really don’t want to look at it again for at least six months. It’s always iffy when you look at a book after you’ve looked at it what seems like a zillion times so it’s a relief I’m happy with it still.

I finished Jeri Smith-Ready’s Wicked Game last night. It’s been a while since I’ve been this totally gonzo about a book. I just really loved it. It’s smart, the writing is clever, tight, sexy in the right places, tense in others, scary here and there and totally original.

Ciara is a smart but not perfect heroine. A grifter (oh how I love twisted characters) trying to go straight for a host of believable and layered reasons. Her job at this funky radio station makes sense. The way she acts with the vampires makes sense. The way she interacts with Shane her sort of boyfriend/vampire makes sense. I liked her a lot because she was accessible in a really wonderful way.

The mystery/suspense element was well done. The worldbuilding was clever and believable and the romantic sub-plot handled well and in proportion to the story. On top of all this? Jeri is a really, genuinely nice person, which is all too rarel.

Wicked Game is a really good book and if you haven’t grabbed it yet you really should. You won’t be sorry at all.

And lastly, my husband is home from his business trip so yay! A long weekend without copy edits or a super close book deadline, a new book opening up in front of me to write, time with my family - it’s all good.