Enbrel, Or My Disappearing Mondays

Don't be too surprised if I disappear on Mondays.

Enbrel, the TNF blocker that I take to try and manage my anklyosing spondylitis (or AS) makes me sleepy. So sleepy, in fact, that I wind up nodding off within two hours of giving myself the injection. And I'm pretty much out of it for the rest of the day, no matter what my plans might have been. I'm on my eighth injection as of today, and without fail Monday has become Napday.

(Don't you wish your Monday was Napday?)

So if you see me online on Mondays bright and early, and I'm chipper and talkative, and then I just... disappear, this is why. I'm currently covered in small, fuzzy animals while the Murder-Death-Kill channel plays in the background. (And don't think Dusty hasn't muttered about subliminal messages while I nap to things like Wives with Knives, Fatal Vows or Deadly Affairs. He'd like it much better if I put on... well, use your imagination, because my blog is PG-13 and his preference is not.)

So it's off to do my Napday injection, then fight with the dog over which of us gets the sofa.

See you tomorrow!

NEW RELEASE: The Hob, The Gray Court Book 4!

Robin's here! Robin's HERE!

THE HOB

The Gray Court Book 4

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Length: Novel

ISBN: 978-1-61921-381-4

Robin Goodfellow has met his match.

When the Black Queen kidnaps one of the White Queen's nephews, Robin Goodfellow is sent to ensure that the young prince safely returns to the bosom of his family. True to his role as Oberon’s Hobgoblin, he is ready for anything…except meeting his truebond, the very delicious, very human Michaela Exton.

Michaela has dreamed about a flame-haired rogue named Robin Goodfellow since she was a little girl, but everyone knows Puck doesn’t really exist. In real life, it’s a dark-eyed man named Ringo who makes her heart beat faster.

She is closer to her dream man than she thinks, and nobody knows it better than Robin, who wears the guise of Ringo. But there’s competition for her love in the form of Lord Raven, who holds a secret that will rock the foundation of Robin’s world. As a Black Court delegate does the unthinkable, leaving an enraged, grief-stricken Robin hanging onto his humanity by a thread, only Michaela has the power to bring him back from the killing edge—if she survives.

Warning: This book contains explicit sex, graphic language, Robin Goodfellow and... Really. Do I need to say any more?

Purchase links can be found on my website!

WINNER

And the winner of the contest for an ARC of The Hob is....

Nicolette McCormick!

Congratulations, and enjoy your book!

The next ARC contest will be for Hecate's Own, starting in early March.

Cons, Contests and WIPs

I'm finalizing my 2013 convention schedule (and my family vacation schedule) this month, and my late Spring is looking pretty swamped. I'm signed up for the Romantic Times convention in May, the Frederick Book Fair (also in May), and Lora Leigh's RAW in September. I'm planning on attending Lori Foster's Reader Author Get-Together in June, but since registration doesn't open until March I can't definitively say I'll be there until I'm officially signed up.

Whew. I'm getting tired just thinking about all that.

I will have posters for all of the cons, especially Lori's where they were extremely popular. I can't wait to order The Hob in poster format. I'm so hanging Robin, Bunny and Julian in my office.

If there's any particular type of promo you like to collect from an author, let me know and I'll look into it.

So long as I can close my suitcase, that is.

Speaking of The Hob, there's only one week left until it's release. And there's less than one week left to enter the contest to win an ARC.

How can you resist those eyes?

Anyway, the contest is still open. If you haven't entered, now is your chance!

As for my work in progress, it's going slowly but steadily. The head cold I developed slowed down my work on The Fire Within, so I'll probably not have it done and off to the betas until the end of the month. I've also gotten the second round of edits for Throne of Oak, the second Maggie's Grove novel, and that will be turned in any day now. I'll be starting Stripped Bear the beginning of February, two weeks past when I'd hoped to.

Poo.

So now it's time to play catch-up and see if I can shave some of that time off, but only after I get the edits done and turned in.

Then again, maybe not.