Angie (Nice Mommy, Evil Editor) was interviewed by someone, then offered to interview four other people (I was 5th in line so missed out), one of which was Jaci Burton. Then Jaci played along, answered Angie’s questions, and offered to interview four people. I was the last one in line for that one, so Jaci sent me some questions. Here they are:

1. If you could only eat one thing over and over again every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Whatever would make me lose weight the fastest and still taste great! Since I expect you actually wanted me to list a food item… um… man, this is hard! I think I’d have to say movie theatre popcorn (the actual stuff from the theatre, not Orville’s). It’s got fibre, so it’s kind of good for me, if I don’t think about the calories in the butter (real) I have to have on it. Plus, I’m assuming I can drink whatever I want, because you know I’m going to get thirsty with all that popcorn.

2. If you had to choose one age from 1 to your current age to live the rest of your life, which age would you choose?
30 – absolutely no question, it was one of the best years of my life and a year I felt good about just about everything. Although, as I say that, I’m not sure I’d really want to do that. Each year is different form the other, but they’ve all brought me here. Probably not supposed to get philosophical with the questions though.

3. If you could retrieve one favorite item from your youth, what would it be?
My smaller size? Is that an item? OK, I’m not even sure I have a favourite item from my youth. I still have my teddy bear, or rather my kids have it. I did just find a picture of me in my Peter Pan getaway boots, so maybe those. I really liked those.

4. What is the naughtiest thing you¹ve ever done?
Let’s just say it involved Baja, Mexico, and copious amounts of margaritas and leave it at that. This is, generally, a PG blog.

5. Would you rather eat a bug or wear an outfit to work that was 2 sizes too small for you?
I’ve already eaten a bug (or at least I think that’s what a witchety grub is *shudder*) and since I work at home… sure I’d wear an outfit 2 sizes too small for me. Who’s gonna know? It’s not like I have paparazzi peeking in the back window. Of course, if I worked outside of the home, I’d probably eat the bug. Is it bbq’d? Sauce?

Thanks, Jaci! I had a lot of fun answering these questions.

If you want to be part of the interview fun, follow the instructions below:

1 Post ‘interview me’ somewhere in your reply. I’ll do like Angie did and take the first 4 people who post. I’ll choose questions just for you (no, they won’t be the same ones I was asked).

2 Be sure to include your email address (which is required to post on my blog anyway) so that I can send you the questions.

3. You will update your blog with the questions and your answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will get to ask them five questions.

LASR gave Snowbound (by me) 5 books! Wow…

Here’s a snippet of the review:

With Snowbound, I became lost in the story and relationship and loved every minute of it.

To read the whole review from Lilac please go to the LASR reveiw here.

Thank you!

My RD friend, the lovely Gemma Halliday (author of the hilariously fun High Heels Mysteries), is helping out one of her readers who became homeless right before Christmas. Please see the story below:

Katy is a sixteen year old avid reader and aspiring author and illustrator who has won local awards for her artwork. Just before Christmas, Katy and her mother became homeless. They were evicted from their apartment and have been living in hotel rooms (when they’ve been lucky) or their car (when they’ve not been so lucky) since then. Katy has been blogging about life on the streets, and you can read all about how this incredibly sweet mother and daughter ended up in this situation here: http://destinationanywherebuthere.blogspot.com/ As
Katy states on her blog, “Homelessness has many faces. And sometimes it happens to have a computer.” Both Katy and her mother seem to have very positive outlooks, but it’s clear they’re in some real trouble.

That’s where this auction comes in. All proceeds will go toward helping Katy and her mother get back on their feet. This is a pair that are actively looking for ways to improve their situation, and just need a little push to help them get there. So, please bid generously and know that you’re doing a wonderful thing to help two wonderful people.

You can find the auction and info here:

Last weekend I read Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas.

I received this book when I was at Nationals in San Francisco last year and had the delight to chat with Lisa very briefly and she’s just a sweetie. My Nationals roommate told me what an awesome book it was, but, still, for some reason I put off reading the book. Part of that was because I was on a huge romantic suspense kick and/or chick lit/rom com. I didn’t want a straight contemporary. I could handle it in category length maybe but, for whatever reason, I didn’t want it in Single Title.

I also worried I wouldn’t like it. I didn’t really find the blurb compelling for some reason. So, I pulled book after book off my TBR pile and avoided this beautiful cover:

Time after time, I picked it up and set it back down. I finally picked it up and started to read.

All I have to say is… “I’m so sorry, Lisa!”

Truly, this book is lush and gritty and wonderful. Sigh. How I couldn’t have read this before I don’t know. I write contemporary romance. What the heck was wrong with me?

Well, I’ve read it now and… seriously? I bow to Lisa Kleypas’ awesomeness. So good. If you love contemporary romance, that is layered and real and, just–so good–go buy Sugar Daddy
. And don’t think she asked me to say that. Other than a brief two minute conversation at Nationals, which I’m sure she doesn’t remember, I’ve never even spoken to her. However, I’m now off to put more of Ms. Kleypas’ books on my To be Bought list.

Do you think it would scare her if I stalked her? Just a little?