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Winner!

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Dance monkey says… pre-empt?

The wait is over!Laura and I pitched an urban fantasy series a couple of weeks ago. I’m sure y’all remember me mentioning Good Touch from time to time. It’s along the lines of Patricia Briggs, but with my own voice / twist on the genre. Anne Sowards, my editor for the Jax books, compared me [...]

T13

13 Things a True Southerner knows 1. The difference between a hissy fit and a conniption fit. 2. How many fish or collards greens make up a mess. 3. What direction cattywumpus is. 4. That “gimme sugar” don’t mean pass the sugar. 5. When somebody’s “fixin” to do something, it could take 5 minutes or [...]

Squee!

I’m probably the last person to find this site, but… Have y’all been to Ereader.com? It’s a veritable garden of delights! Here, I can buy almost any book I want, discounted if I subscribe to the newsletter, and I get it right away. I can stash it on my Lifedrive to be read anytime I [...]

Guest blog – Pepper Espinoza

We’re playing musical blogs today. I have a guest here, and you can find me over at Jaci Burton’s place. Come on by, there will be prizes, just as there’s prizes here. Hello. I’m the Jamie half of Jamie Craig, often simply known as Pepper. The other half is writer Vivien Dean. We often divide [...]

What’s in a name?

So how important are titles, really? Would a bestseller by any other name still smell as sweet? Let’s examine some plucked randomly from the NYT list, past and present, and find out. NINJAS AND DEMONS by Dan Brown Huh. Is it wrong to say I like this one better? I bet I’d have liked a [...]

Rockin’ Girl Blogging Award

Back in August, April tagged me with this award. I didn’t see it at first; I was in Cozumel. She tipped me off to it last week, so I went to check it out. In her nomination, April said some things that made me blush and dig my toe in the carpet and grin like [...]

T13

13 Keepers These are all books that made my heart clench for various reasons as I read them. That’s what a keeper does, makes me feel something. Sadly I no longer have eleven of them, as I lost them in the flood. I’ll set about replacing them as I can. 1. Archangel by Sharon Shinn [...]

Guest-blogging / reader survey

For September and October, I’m throwing my blog open to anyone who wants a platform. If you have something to say and you need a place to say it, email me at ann.aguirre at gmail.com. You can use my blog to pimp your new releases. You can use my blog to bitch about a series [...]

Behold, on the 12th day of the 9th month…

We have a winner! Kat O+, come on down. Email me, Kat, and I’ll hook you up with your loot. If you’re afraid you might go into contest DTs now that mine is over, you might mosey over here: Win Five New BooksErotic Muses is a brand new group blog featuring fivespectacular authors, five days [...]