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Peepers, apple blossoms, and starlight. If this isn’t a perfect spring evening, I don’t know what is. Going to sleep with my windows open now…

So peaceful!

And then, just as it got dark, a beaver swam by! Just lovely.

Full Moon tonight for my birthday! How special is that?

And here’s a short video I took. Listen to the spring peepers in the beaver pond.  This is my favorite time of year, for sure.

I’ve been crazy busy writing lately. After two releases in three weeks, you’d think I’d want to take a break from the computer, but I’m in a position I haven’t been in for a while with nothing in my forthcoming spot. I do have a novella, Webs, subbed and am waiting for a response, but I feel a little (very) antsy. I’m using this time to work on the Most Abandoned Novel in the World — Another Healing. I wrote a first draft of it, my trusty editor-friend told me I needed to take a closer look at it, so I instantly decided it was no good and buried it deeply in my files. Now I’m slogging through it again. Shortening and tightening are not things that come easily to me, the Queen of the Run-a-way Novel. But I’m trying. I’ve worked so long and hard on it that I NEED to get it out of my life. And then… I’m not sure what I’m going to work on. It’ll be fun to decide.

Here’s a video I shot a few weeks ago of two slightly amorous geese on the beaver pond near my house.

I’m live on the Torquere Press Live Journal today! Pop over, say hi, and enter into a drawing for a free copy of Night of Ceremony, next in the Notice Series, available on Wednesday!

To go the Live Journal click:
HERE

All kinds of exciting stuff coming up! I feel like I just barely got Silver Pearl launched, and here comes another!

It’s the next in the Notice Series. Yes, it’s about Varian and Josh.

It will be available one week from today, on April 10th.

Yes, I’ve made a book trailer for it. Watch for it to be posted soon.

I will be live on the Torquere Press Live Journal this Sunday, April 7th. I’d love to have people drop by and chat.

Stay tuned for the blurb and the excerpt and all that stuff!

I was driving up our road today when I saw something surface in a break in the ice on a beaver pond that was definitely not a beaver. I walked back with my camera, and after waiting very patiently for a long time, I got these shots of a lovely otter. This is the best look I’ve ever gotten of this shy, illusive creature.

Wow, what an experience! Guest Blogging was so much fun. I got many lovely comments and entries in the give-a-way, and many, many blog hits. It was just so cool to come home from work every day and see such positive feedback for my writing all over the place. Thank you so much, everyone, for supporting me and the blog sites and my publisher and m/m fiction and unicorns!

I’m on a Silver Pearl Blog Tour this week! Here are my stops:

(an interview)

Thank you so much for visiting my blog! Leave a comment with your email address here between March 18 and March 22 and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a free copy of Silver Pearl from Less Than Three Press. Tell me what you’re thinking! Ask me anything! I’ll announce the winner on Saturday, March 23.

Here is Silver Pearl’s official blurb:

Standing in a meadow late at night, not really certain why, Joel is shocked when he encounters a unicorn—one that turns into a beautiful young man. Joel aches to be closer to the unicorn, but everyone knows unicorns only approach virgins. After a brutal attack that left him broken and afraid, Joel is no longer that. 

Then hunters appear, determined to take down the unicorn, and Joel will have to overcome the horrors of his past in order to save his chance at a future. 

Here is the excerpt:

Moonlight lay silver over the meadow, catching beads of dew in sparkles like tiny stars balanced on each blade of grass, except where the shadows of trees made soft patches of shade. A barred owl soared down from a tamarack tree, a silent glide low over the grass, and then stroked the luminous air to vanish into a fir tree.

The young man standing in the shadows followed the owl’s flight with his eyes. Otherwise he stood as motionless as the barely breathing trees, a silent sentinel, nude but for a quilt around his shoulders. Waiting. Nervous.

Joel wasn’t even sure what he waited for. He just knew that sometime tonight, the moonlight would be answered. He swallowed hard, heart racing, hands clenched. Part of him wanted to run back home.

Perhaps he was finally going crazy. There was no logic in hiking up to this clearing behind his house, naked, in the middle of the night, wrapped only in a quilt. Just an urge to do it, and a feeling that at last, finally, everything that had made him different, set him apart, would be explained. Tonight was the night he’d been waiting for. And fearing. Something would happen. He wasn’t sure—

Warm breath caressed his shoulder. He was no longer alone.

Do not move.

The words were in his mind, clear, forceful, not to be disobeyed. Terror filled him, the familiar terror, far too ingrained to be ignored. Invaded! His mind this time, not only his body!

Oh, God, why had he come here? Why hadn’t he run? He wanted to be left alone; he was all right when he was alone, safe, alone—he whirled around, bringing one arm up to shield his face, clutching the quilt closer with the other.

A unicorn stood behind him.

All kinds of exciting stuff going on! I’m on a Guest Blog Tour, stopping in a new place every day, tomorrow through Friday. Check back here on my blog after midnight tonight for a list of where I’ll be and when!

AND if you leave a comment on my guest blog post, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a free copy of Silver Pearl. The drawing will be on Saturday the 23rd.

Silver Pearl itself will be released on Wednesday, which is also the first day of spring! What a perfect way to celebrate! One of the characters, Laburne, would be especially appreciative of that fact. He is very attuned to to things like the vernal equinox, believe me.

Have a wonderful week, everybody!