Lou Sylvre, a fantastic author in her own right, pinged me today to tell me about the extent of the Goodreads M/M Romance Nominations. Cole and Jae were nominated all over the place there and I am…. fuck… humbled, aghast, dumbfounded, dumbstruck… no words really.

Because it’s all from you guys. Thank you.

Seriously, if I don’t win one thing, I’m totally good. The nomination list alone left me speechless. Thank you. So so so much. The cat thanks you even.

Vote here: http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=1af2af8b-773e-4236-ab9e-c4affac951c5

Please go vote for the best book in each category. I’m not going to say vote for mine ’cause, dude… there’s some stuff in there that’s brilliant and I’m going to vote for them over mine. Go with your gut and your pleasures. Group is here: Goodreads M/M Romance Group

Cole, Jae and I got tapped for the following categories. Seriously, you all are so much of the win. Snookies.

Favorite All Time M/M Author

Favorite All Time M/M Characters

Mystery/Whodunit

Best Tear Jerking Scene

Best Couple/MCs

Best Sex Scene

Law Enforcement/PI/Firemen/Military

I’m being profiled today on Jessewave. What that means is I ramble for a bit and then people can ask questions in the comments. Come on over. See me babble and fluster! *grins*

Heh.

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The Ninja Glock*

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Dirty Laundry, the third Cole McGinnis book in the series, has been contracted by Dreamspinner Press for release in April / May 2013. Thanks to all of you for making this possible. *hugs*

And a truly fantastic guy named Adam…

Dirty Laundry, the third book in the Cole McGinnis Mysteries, is off to Dreamspinners Press for consideration. Cross your fingers the review process goes quickly and they accept it post-haste.

For those who don’t know the process, DSP has the right of first refusal for any manuscript in the Cole McGinnis series. This means that while they’ve published the first two books, they are under no obligation to publish the whole series BUT they do get the right to review the books first and THEN decide to whether or not they want to publish it or reject it.

It’s a standard contract clause and one I’m used to. Now, every author has their own process on writing a book. Some submit a proposal and the publisher decided to award a contract based on that proposal. Since I hate pressure like that *grins*, I write the book first then submit it for review. In the case of Dirty Laundry, I did contact DSP to tell them I’d have the third book done in mid-to-late November just to give them a heads-up.

So, there you go. *grins*  Wish Cole and Jae luck. HWAITING!

I’m going to watch a few episodes of Nice Guy, a Kdrama, and ruminate over the next Sinner’s Gin plot.

As some of you know, we have a “recently” diabetic cat named Tam Lin or Tam for short. I named him that for a couple of reasons. Tam Lin was a bard and the cat goes through the house singing. Off-key but he sings. Secondly, as part of the legend, Tam Lin is turned into a burning coal and then tossed into a well. The cat is black… coal is black. So there you have it.

Tam was very sick a while ago. The vet thought he wouldn’t live through the weekend. Well Tam had other ideas. Fast foward to now where he’s pretty robust.

Oh, and I cooked a turkey yesterday.

If there is ONE thing Tam loves it’s roasted leezard. (We call all fowl leezards. We like to harken back to the times when they were dinosaurs and kind of give them street cred.) But yes, roasted leezard. His favourite. He loves chicken but oh… he has a special deep abiding love for turkey.

Since a major part of his diet has to be pure protein, he knew he was getting some giant leezard. But apparently it wasn’t enough. He had some last night and then followed me into the bathroom because he figured I’d dragged the giant leezard in there with me. The cat’s a bit off in the head.

He got some this morning for breakfast after his insulin shot and then proceeded to beg for more. Begging consists of standing under my computer table while I am writing and dancing on my feet. And meeping at me in a low growly voice.

No, he did not get any more leezard. There is a fine line between healthy portion and all-you-can-gorge. If allowed, he would shove his head inside of the turkey and eat his way out of the meat room until he puked.

The begging is hilarious but he’s going to have to wait until dinner.

Sinner’s Gin will be out on December 24th! Pre-order button should be up a week or so before then.

I’ll be working on the SG sequel, Whiskey and Wry next. Oh, that’s right…. first draft of Dirty Laundry is done. It’s in editing mode and then off to Dreamspinner.

I’ll let you know how that goes. *winks*