It’s finally here. My first day back to “work.” Kids are off to school, Superman’s out saving lives. Minor kerfluffle this morning when the bus didn’t come and I had to drive the male spawn to school. Bah! But it was made up for by:

1. Watching Jericho with the girl spawn.
2. Exercising. No, I don’t like it, but I like that I did it.
3. Home made cinnamon bread for breakfast and homemade turkey soup with peanut butter bread baking now for dinner. I iz domesticated.
4.

Yes, my copies of Pleasure and Purpose have arrived! And boy howdy, are they ever PRETTY. Wow. I have a foil-embossed cover, ya’ll. I think this is one of those “moments.” Yes. The ones authors wait for. My first foil-embossed coverrrrrr!!!!

So for those of you who were notified you were one of the first 15 to repost my video, I’ll be contacting you to get your addresses so I can send your books. (International winners, I’ll do my best to get to the post office this week, too, so your books are there ASAP!)

If you weren’t one of the first 15 and you sent me a link to your blog or website where you posted my book video, don’t forget, you’re in the running to win a copy of P and P as well! And it’s not too late, if you want a chance to win a copy, please read the contest entries and follow the directions to be entered for your chance!

If you’re in the running for a copy of No Greater Pleasure, I haven’t received those yet, and probably won’t for another month as it’s an October release.

And today, now, I begin work on a book with the working title THREE MONTHS. It’s not a romance. It’s not erotic. It will be my first release for MIRA. I wrote it about 6 years ago. My stomach is sort of eating itself with anxiety about whether I can take the 6-year-old book and polish it up and expand it appropriately to become a viable, publishable novel that will satisfy myself, my editor…and my readers.

New readers, maybe.
But old ones, too.

I wrote this book so long ago I didn’t have a cell phone.
I didn’t have an iPod. So therefore, no playlists.
This might have been the first book I wrote on my first Mac.
To research this book, I threw my kids out a car window. (Don’t worry, Superman caught them.)
I wrote this book just after 9-11.
I wrote this book when I still had children in diapers.
I wrote this book when I thought I might never be published.
I wrote this book to save my sanity.

Now, let’s see if I can rewrite this book to make it good.

M