OMG!!!

I just got the best news!!! Total E Bound just put Melting Melinda into audiobook!! This is my first audiobook ever and OMG it sounds awesome!

Okay, going now to finish listening to it. How weird. I rarely read my stuff, but I had to listen. Never thought of hearing this in an Australian accent. ;)

Interested in a cougar male/female story? Check it out HERE.

melting mia? I think not...

Financial reports annoy me. You would think that being someone who appreciates order, who keeps a log of hours and a calendar for projects of all sorts, I'd enjoy the columns and rows of an excel spreadsheet. Not so. While I'm not incompetent with creating formulas for data, I protest the idea that excel can issue a "bad girl, no no Mia" bong if it doesn't like my information. If it were human, I could appeal to its logic. I could convince it WHY column E5 and C5 can be multiplied with G5 to get the result I wish for and NO IT BLOODY WELL ISN'T CIRCULAR!

I am considering a lovely outing with my laptop, Oscar. I rather think he will enjoy a swim about now.

Other shit: I'm awaiting the cover for Mind F*cked. I saw the proof and it is possibly the best cover I've ever had. I cannot wait to share it with you. I'm especially pleased because I picked out the gents on the cover by attaching their stock photo links to my cover request. And the script is stellar.

Other-er shit: My editor, Courtney, sent me edits of both Mind F*cked and She's Got Balls this morning. Both are to be completed and submitted this week. This is the same week I am to be well into Faery Surprising, a book I haven't begun yet. Well, not exactly true. I've begun it but word counts under 1k don't matter.

Other-er-er shit: My other editor, Michele, has asked me if I'm on schedule for the three books TEB would like to see. As I am yet completing Melting Melinda (and had planned to be finished Sunday), have not started the other two (needed January and March) I should say, "No, dearest editor, I am not." HOWEVER, my lovely calendar had allowed some leeway this summer of six weeks, knowing that the boss had many long hours planned for my day job. I'm pleased I did that because where I might have been far off schedule, I am merely smack on. Huzzah!

I'm eating my pork loin sandwich, lays chips, and washing it down with cool milk. I know it's early for lunch but I missed breakfast and I'm starving. And. bored of math. I've already seen my boss glare at me twice so I had best finish up and return to work.

Sometimes it's a crap-shoot

The untitled work for TEB is temporarily titled, Melting Melinda. I had decided on Here, Kitty Kitty, changing all the names in the story to make the heroine's name Kitty. Then decided that was annoying and might suggest a shifter story, which this is not. After changing them back again, Melting Melinda was the best I could achieve. Likely my editor will not care for it--as she shouldn't--and I'll require another title with sexier connotations.

At present, I've got nothing.

I finished Melting Melinda yesterday. Sadly I was informed that the BBM (Big Black Moment-point when all hell breaks loose and it is even minutely conceivable that the hero and heroine shall not unite after all, even though they will) was not terrible enough. This by my critique partner. In review, I had to agree. MM is back on my desktop for more work. I anticipate completing it today and turning it in to my SEP (Scary Editor Person).

MM is the cougar/cub story for the TEB anthology out in January. No, I'm not that ahead of schedule, rather I had a couple of weeks between larger projects and this was a tidy little break.

Other shit: Still awaiting Mind F*cked cover. I fear it will be a while longer yet. Release is not for another three months. Patience is a virtue and well appreciated by creative cover artist sorts.

Note to self: "Mia, stop grumbling and complete Melting Melinda before SEP has to ask for it."