Amie Stuart ~ On the Back Porch

TXU Energy Rate Hike–communists
Mommy’s My Bitch — I got your bitch honey
Back Porch Sex — Fewer risks of getting caught then Front Porch Sex
Cece’s Cuisine — My kids would disagree.
Amie Games — Oh look! I’m a game!
Slutty married Women bitchy–if she’s a married slut I doubt she’s bitchy, except to her husband who probably isn’t getting any.
Baron Samedi Phalic ERotic — And cute too!
Author of Dear Dogs and Cats — not I but I can relate.
Powered by Wordpress VIagra — so that’s what they put in the little blue pill!!!!!
Recipe for Chicken Encihillada Casserole — Yummity Scrummity. Sounds good!
Big Mouth Women — Yeah and what’s your point?
Authors Behaving Badly — Not here :flirt:
Amie Games — Look I’m a game again!
How to Draw Amie — Curves lots of curves
Amnesiatic — Hmmmmm as in Amnesiatic slutty married women?
Sex with a Wearwolf–can’t help you there dude.
Blue Moon Erotic Fiction — try HERE
Liarissa BLog — she’s a quiet blogger lately
Cat Got Laid Story — My cat never tells me stories about getting laid
Big Booty Pleasure.com — Obviously you landed in the wrong place
Alisa Valdes and Divorce–yes it’s true her and her main man broke up.
Dennie Hall Tattoo — I keep trying to talk her into hitting the tattoo parlor with me but she weenies out
Cece Big Lots — we’re not related
Violent Pleasure.com — *backing away slowly*
Putt Sex — Sex at Putt Putt?
Amie a Angel — awwwwwwww so sweet of you to say so!
femail dog fucking– anyone want to take a stab at what’s wrong with that phrase?
Blood Vessel on Penis — it has to get hard somehow
Pollie Nasty Angels–not sure I want to touch this one
Lynda Carter Pantyhose — try Ebay.

dont date him girl.com — Wish I’d thought of that

back porch ideas — like sex maybe?

jill monroe wrestling — what she’s really doing when she say’s she’s doing girlscout lockins.

Love it or leave it you gotta have it!!!!!!!

I’m over at SFC today talking about it.   

When will a truly perfect moment appear in which a risk is guaranteed to pay off? The truth is that right now is as good as it gets. The stars urge you to leave your fears behind and jump in wholeheartedly.

that is today’s horoscope!  Rather telling after yesterday’s blog post.

Also…todays post at The Lipstick Chronicles and Erica Orloff’s post are worth checking out.

In the vein of my last post on writing, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. I’ve officially fulfilled my contract for Kensington and debating what to work on next (besides the proposal with Raine), I’ve got to work on a proposal for something new and different (for me) this weekend and get it to my agent and I’m searching for something to write about, trying to make decissions since January is almost gone *blink*.

One big decission I made the end of last year-beginning of this year was to write stuff I love and feel really passionate about–something I’m pretty sure Jordan can relate to–because the pressure to produce can really eat away at that passion and it’s just to freakin’ hard to write something you don’t absolutely love love LOVE (the proposal with Raine would fall under this category). So what do I love? I love Once in a Blue Moon (hehe sybil knows where this is going). I WANT another book like that, desperately! Something I adore, something I can immerse myself in, something that lives and breathes and has a soul. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED writing Hands On and Kink–they were a load of fun but….I want to feel it in my gut. I want to feel the love…..
To that end yesterday I printed out the first 100 or so pages of my very first manuscript and sat and read most of it last night and you know what? I cried. I sat there in my car, waiting on the kids during basketball practice and I cried because you know what? It wasn’t just good, it wasn’t just fixable, it had a life, it had that SPARK that makes you go, “God I fucking love this job.” It had that indefinable thing that keeps you coming back again and again again, and I can’t tell you how much I’ve missed that. It’s not erotica, it’s not erotic romance, it’s…..should I let Sybil tell you? Ok it’s women’s fiction that just happens to have hot sex.

So the plan (besides deciding what to do with the proposal with Raine)? January–finish editing TCRA and send it to the agent or the epublisher.

February & March–write a proposal for a Bluebonnet anthology, write a novella and finish the proposal for Confessions (I have to do some interviews first–tyvm Emma)

Oh yeah and get some bookmarks made because I have a book release in um like 5 months I think. Funny a year ago I was ready to quit–sometimes I still question my sanity as it pertains to this business but good, bad or ugly I’m here…….So what are your plans for the rest of the first quarter of 2007?
PS…if you didn’t stop by SFC on Monday I sold a short story to Zane for her upcoming Caramel Flava 2 anthology! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Shiloh tagged me so here we go!

Contemporary, Historical, or Paranormal?
Contemporary nine times out of ten….then I think Paranormal second
Hardback or Trade Paperback or Mass Market Paperback?
Trade PB. I like the bigger size (and so do my eyes).
Heyer or Austen?
Heyer…I cut my teeth on regencies and still have a soft spot for them.

Amazon or Brick and Mortar?
Brick and Mortar but Amazon is so damned convenient sometimes.
Barnes & Noble or Borders?
BN because it’s closer.

Woodiwiss or Lindsay?
Woodiwiss……becuase she was my first, but Lindsay because she was my first futuristic romance
First romance novel you ever remember reading?
Shanna or a Rosemary Rogers book both of which were swiped from my mother–what was she thinking?
Alphabetize by author Alphabetize by title or random?
Depends on how many….autobuys go together by author name (IE Koontz, SEP etc), but I also group by genre if I only have a few of some authors.

Keep, Throw Away or Sell?
Throw away? that’s blasphemy! Keep or give away….

Read with dustjacket or remove it?
read with
Sookie Stackhouse or Anita Blake?
I’ve never read either……

Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
If it’s bedtime I aim for chapterbreaks.

“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”?
It was a dark and stormy night!

Crusie or SEP?
SEP (I’ve *gulp* never read Crusie)
Buy or Borrow?

Buy….I’m weird like that

Buying choice: Book Reviews, Recommendation or Browse?
I’m a huge impulse shopper, but also reviews and recommendations will make me look

Tidy ending or Cliffhanger?
Can’t we do both? (what Shiloh said LOL)
Morning reading, Afternoon reading or Nighttime reading?
Usually before bed but I keep a book with me for the kid’s basketball practice/dentist etc

Series or standalone?
Both

Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
Gosh I can’t think of any!

I’m tagging, Denise, Mik and Raine

I’ve been thinking a lot about what to work on next while Raine and I work on our proposal. I need to get something else to my agent, but I’m totally and completely stumped for a hot book idea. Erotic photography and magical vaginas have been done, it seems, along with a host of other ideas. Nothing feels fresh, or new or interesting (TO ME to write about) and though I have a few other proposals in progress, I don’t feel like working on them.   So it’s something new.  Or not…I can’t seem to muster any interest in the kinky or the profane.  And I swore to myself I wouldn’t tackle another Collier brother for quite some time (read a very very long time) but I was playing around with pen and paper and found a great heroine, then I found her a great conflict/backstory and then I tried to put her with a hero I’ve had waiting on the sidelines and it didn’t work. Better to find it out now than 200 pages in though.

*sigh*

Lucky for me, the one thing I learned writing NAILED was to do lots and lots of prep work.  Anyone know any sharp shooters?

*thunk*

Yesterday I took the day off. I wrote all weekend long, and cleaned house, but the one thing I hadn’t tackled was my room (I also spent all weekend changing various lightbulbs all over the house! SHEESH!). So when I got up yesterday and discovered I had no internet or cable because, of course, the cable was out thanks to something to do with ice stormsI took the day off. Folded, hung and put away all the clean clothes piled everywhere (thus eliminating two of Mr. Rowdy Cat’s favorite places to lay), finally opened the dust ruffle I bought in August and put it on the bed and hung the blinds I bought in October.

I also read a book–Lisa Gardner’s GONE which was probably one of her best yet. I can’t wait for HIDE!