Interview with me today at Top2Bottom Reviews: http://bit.ly/mXjFyp Also, a review of Dirty Kiss! (5 Kisses!) http://bit.ly/qdRnkt

With inspiration like this, do you have to ask?

 

Reviews are interesting things. Everyone hones in on different things when they read a book and funnily enough, the writer hones in on odd things in reviews. Writers live for and hate reviews. They scrape open our weaknesses and make our scabs bleed. It’s one thing to crit our own work but oh, when another does it, it’s painful.

Which is funny because often, the review (if done by someone who reviews a lot) speaks of both good and bad. But ah, being human, don’t we always focus on the bad? It’s that scab thing. Continue reading “Jerking The Reader” →

And Thank You.

This is Big Bang, a Korean group, that is one of my favourites on my rotation list. While I do listen to different genres of music, I find that when I’m writing, I need something either blues-oriented or Asian centric.

Hot cellists are hot. Bonus: Playing Welcome to the Jungle.

I do love these boys.

Dirty Kiss’s release date is fast approaching. I don’t know the official date yet but we’re gearing up there. The cover artist has been tapped for the book… the lovely Anne Cain whom I’ve worked with before and had a lovely experience. Someone asked me: “Why didn’t you design it yourself?”

Well, I wanted the full “author” experience.

And I also know how hard it is to find hot, pretty Asian boys in stock photos. :::grins::: Have fun, Anne! :::waves:::

I joined Goodreads. Odd thing that. Adding people I read. Books I read. Debating public face happy now that I’m Rhys Ford because really there is a certain diplomacy that one should take when representing a brand… in my case, Rhys Ford. Douchebaggery is not the image I want to project and God knows I’ll be chewing on my foot in no time, I don’t need help steering it past my lips.

Pray with me that I can sustain that. :::grins:::

I had a point to this post. And now it’s lost. Really, someone showed me a picture of a guy in a hideous outfit and it shoved all thought from my head.

I haven’t posted in two week! Wow. So much and so little has happened. Mostly what’s been going on is the horrible sinus headache from the back and forth of San Diego’s weather. Hot then cold and rainy. Always a fun thing.

Currently in the Rhys Ford household, the three dogs are asleep and I’ve just finished watching American Idol. This is actually the first time I’ve ever really followed the show. Why am I watching now? Steven Fucking Tyler.

Really I don’t think you can say Steven Tyler without using that as his middle name.

Aerosmith has always been one of my favourite bands. They’ve taken me through a lot of really hard times and I’ve celebrated many a happy moment with a soundtrack laden with Steven Tyler’s voice and lyrics. And let’s not forget Mr. Joe Perry. Yes, the Toxic Twins are combative and still remain best friends. You gotta love that in a rock star.

Been watching a lot of television. I really need to be writing. So, back to the grindstone I go.