Got a couple of Amish Christmas romance plots out and paid for and I'm working on a Mail Order Bride one now. I'm certainly not ready for Christmas to be just around the corner ( Read more... )

Still no power on our side of the neighborhood pond...

( Helene Update )

Well, starting the third month with no job. Thank the gods I have an IRA that I can tap into without paying extra taxes! I'm applying to everything I can think of except for the Big Bad Two (CVS/Walgreens) because the very thought of going back there gives me nightmares. I might have to come up with an alternative job to tide me over until I can ( Read more... )

Leaving in a few minutes to head over to the sister's for a late Easter celebration. She just signed up for Paramount+ so we'll likely spend the day watching Star Trek shows. Before I head out, I need to take out a mortgage and fill up my gas tank ( Read more... )

Working on a historical/sci-fi/detective story for a new anthology. I figure Badi has been a PI for a good long time, so I'm using him again. I like his sarcastic attitude. Hopefully so will the editors of the anthology ( Read more... )

Just got back from my monthly massage. My masseuse and I agreed that it feels as if we can take a deep breath for the first time in four years. And we have the first woman vice-president in history ( Read more... )

4 more days of antibiotics ... I've got to start eating some yogurt to try and build my intestinal flora back up again! This is the first time I've taken nitrofurantoin and it's nearly as bad on the GI tract as Augmentin ( Read more... )

The conference is over!

I have had a pretty damn good weekend (other than the COVID thing) at the League of Utah Writers' Quills Conference. They did an amazing job of creating a virtual conference that felt almost like a live one. We even had a "bar" with rooms like "The Dance Floor," "Tall Bar Tables," "Comfy Chairs," "Closet with Skeletons," " ( Read more... )

I was reminded that erotica sells, so I set up a Patreon for JD Ryan as well. We'll see if he gets any patrons at all -- I'm not sure anybody even follows old JD on Twitter or Facebook ( Read more... )

My icon is something I'm not going to be doing for the next 2-3 weeks ( Read more... )