Hot H.A.M. in a Kilt, Baby!

Many thanks to Auntee's Reviews of Victoria Dahl's Bad Boys Do on GoodReads, whose male protagonist wears a kilt to work in a brewpub. This photo  definitely fits the description of Jamie Donovan. It's enough to get me to liking beer, ale or anything associated with a brewpub. Pour me another mate, I looooovvve kilts!

Year of the Dragon - It's Here!

Year of the Dragon                                                                                         

A Geek Grrl s’ Tale of Overdue Romance

by Alexis Thacker

The last three years have been a bad-life hack for Geek-girl entrepreneur Rachel Seychelles. She's suffered through miscarriage, a broken marriage, betrayal by her best friend, and to top it all off her ex-husband is orchestrating her ouster from the successful web apps company that she built. Left insecure, vulnerable and untrusting, Rachel is faced with rebooting her entire life.

Her personal Escape key comes in the form of a science fiction con in New Mexico; which Rachel flees to before making one last attempt to slay the merger dragon, rescue her employees, and her fragile sanity.

There she is reintroduced to passion and fire in the arms of a familiar stranger, Ian Redfield – unbeknownst to her the now tremendously transformed man she deserted fourteen years earlier. His spark reignites in her the creativity and fight needed to save the business. However, Ian cannot forgive her youthful abandonment and conceals secrets that could either shatter or save her. Has she found a knight to aid in her battle, or instead a much deadlier dragon?

Click here to Read the sample pages now.
Available on ebook August 23rd, 2012 and paperback in October.

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This Week's HAM Sandwich Filler

H.A.M. - the other white meat.

Greek. Today, Tomorrow, AlwaysTheo Theodoridis

http://www.theodoro.eu/

How about another one for good luck?

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!

I love it when good things happen to people, even to those I've never met or have no connection whatsoever. Today I'm stoked because another self-published author made good. As in, got her novel(s) picked up by a major publisher.

Colleen Hoover's self published books - 'Slammed' and 'Point of Retreat' are now being published by Atria (Simon & Schuster). Congratulations! Another great success story built on killer Kindle/ebook sales (and great stories, of course). She's celebrating by giving away signed copies and a Kindle Fire.


While I'm not the fannish type, I can't believe how swept up I became with her stories. The inclusion of lyrics by the Avett Brothers at the beginning of each chapter of 'Slammed' pulled me in because of my love of music and introduced me to a band that I wasn't familiar with, but now can't stop listening to (gotta love a banjo with a cello).

Anyways . . . I enjoyed the books. I only downloaded them this past Monday and only because I was doing research on best selling self published books. I never intended to enjoy my work so much. Why not, you say? Well . . . because . . . the truth is . . . that I hate poetry. Yep. Slam or otherwise.

Until this week. Perhaps my mind wasn't open enough or I was just being my usual cynical self believing that any fool could write some crazy, over-personalized words and recite them with a mediocre sing-song rhythm, then proclaim themselves ' a poet'.

Don't let this get out - I was wrong.

Okay, enough of that. As I was saying, I enjoyed the books. Wished they were around when I was a teen, but the thought that a teenager today will appreciate the stories of making a way past death with life.

Before I lose it again, many happy returns to you Colleen Hoover. You were one slick piece of research. Professional editing will only make it slicker. I look forward to . . .  more.

Colleen Hoover
Slammed
Point of Retreat
The  Avett Brothers Band

Guess I Never Appreciated Ray Bradbury As I Should Have . . .

F*@k Me Ray Bradbury  2011 Hugo Award Nominee for "Best Dramatic Presentation: Short

Jangsara is an extremely talented amateur makeup artist that gives great DIY tutorials  on her website that can make you ready for any Con.  I can't wait to try out the Spiderman eye look she demonstrated last month. 

Geekologie and Fashionably Geek have nice displays of her Avenger Characters Eye Makeup, but go to her site for even more looks like Poison Ivy,  Urban Graffiti, Sad Geisha, even Barbie. 

Fifty Shades of Zane . . . Grey by Alexis Thacker

The Hottest Western You’ve Never Read!

The line for pony rides starts on the right.

A historical urban western erotic romance, destined to be self published and change the way you think of Mormons. And erotica. And common sense.

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO READ IT!  Come on, you know you were thinking it too!
What some people will do to actually keep from finishing our serious projects. It's my mashup of random Zane books, Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage the ever popular Fifty Shades of Grey, not to mention a teeny tiny shot from Zane Lamprey (host of Drinking Made Easy - 'cause you've got to be seriously loaded to read this crap).

Join the fun - add your own additions and chapters in the comments or send them to me and I'll add them to this glorious book in the making - bound to be a major motion picture nowhere on the planet.


This hot, steaming sack of serial starts here today! Get it now before we undercharge on Amazon.  FREE (so who would pay?) I'll get it into .mobi and pdf in a few days for those of you who actually want to taint your e-readers with this mess. 

Don't forget the drinking game. Take a shot whenever you see the following:

• holy crap
• Oh my
• Laters baby
• inner goddess
• grey eyes

Here's the first ultra-exciting chapter below the jump (click on the Read More link)!


WARNING: Coarse archaic language alert! Boredom may ensue.
Bonus points if you can tell what Zane stories we vandalized.