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I can’t do a year end recap. I suck at recaps unless I have a gimmick like the time I posted the 22 funniest comments on my blog. I loved that post! Besides, my one year blogiversary is coming up and if I do a recap now, I’ll just be doing one again in a few weeks and regurgitating stuff you didn’t want to read the first time around. Now, if you want a good blog recap of the year, go read Dave’s. The one about the “Don’t You Know” girl had me in tears from laughing. And the one about Henry had in me in tears for another reason entirely. If I wore a hat, it would be off to Dave. He’s just awesome.

My first ever “official” author chat is happening today on a Yahoo group. It’s kinda weird because the group owner has computer problems and isn’t on. I’m her moderator so I’ve ended up moderating my own chat which is where the weird comes in. Mostly, I’ve spent the day thus far wondering how tough it will be to do these chats when I have to sit there and really plug my books. This one is just too casual. I even posted a photo of my purse… If anyone wants to drop by and ask me a question, I’ve promised that I will answer all questions truthfully, even the sexual and personal ones. Yeah, now everyone’s afraid to ask me anything. HEH.

Here’s the link. You just join, and set yourself on individual mail for the day and watch your Inbox for the chat mails. Later, you can just remove yourself from the group if you want. It is your chance to grill me like a shrimp on the barbie though!

Deadline hell has me in its unrelenting grip. The Wise Guy has almost 11K words on a story that should be between 20 and 30K. I’m letting things distract me, and I shouldn’t. I need to be more disciplined. Anyone wanna come over and spank me and crack the whip over me? I have porterhouse steaks and creme brulee ice cream…

It would not be a Wednesday if I didn’t give you a couple of Humpday Hotties… but I think I’m gonna go for something a little different today. Since it’s New Year’s Eve, here are some hotties making out. I hope you enjoy them and have the chance to make out with your hottie tonight.

Have a wonderful New Year’s Eve. See you next year!

This is gonna be a jam packed week for me. Two days at work and then it’s time to turn on the overdrive to finish The Wise Guy by next Monday. I’m just under 10K words so it’s doable if I don’t procrastinate.

One thing that will keep me from writing on Wednesday though is that I’m the guest at one of the Yahoo groups I belong to. It will be my first ever official author chat. People will be asking me about my writing, the books I have coming out, and all sorts of things. You are all cordially invited to drop by and grill me if you like. The chat takes place in email and you have to sign up for the group and set it to individual mail. After the chat feel free to remove yourself from the group if it’s not your kinda thing. Those of you who do come by and ask a question will be entered in a drawing to win a PRIZE! The chat goes on all day New Year’s Eve in email. Here’s the link to join:  Amethyst Winters Yahoo Group.

I have a little project cooking that I may be contacting some of you about. It’s for January and has to do with marriage equality and the movement to have Proposition 8 overturned.  Funny the things that get cooked up via email at midnight on a Monday morning when you throw together two erotic writers from Orange County and an editor from a publisher that does only male/male books. LOL Just so you know, the two erotic writers were me and Z.A. Maxfield (a woman who writes male/male books) and the editor was from MLR Press.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is looking forward to a fun New Year’s. To start off ringing in the New Year, I thought I’d post a really yummy Marcus today. I might have posted this one before, but it’s one of my favorites and it’s hot so… here he is!

All that pretty man and pretty ocean makes me want to be there. The see through when wet trunks just make things even better. Heh.

Have a great Monday!

You know that saying about how it takes a village? I’ve always assumed that since the sentence was never finished that it assumes it takes a village to do anything well… big. Last night I decided to make a video instead of making a recording of me and Nikki singing the Coventry Carol. It’s not that we can’t sing… we can, and we do it pretty well. It’s just that we were imbibing last night and I just couldn’t string the stanzas together properly. Go figure.

So I’m making this video and I’m thinking about all the books I have coming out in 2009 and how well Christmas Hookup has been doing in downloads. Then I realized how many people out here have encouraged me in the last six months to a year since I started wondering if I could do this. Going back to the inception of this blog (which is nearing it’s first blogiversary), I realized that there is a whole “village”, if you will, of people who have in some way influenced or helped me get to this point.

This video is for all of you. From Jester who helped me with this blog, to Justin, Karl, Gooster, Marty, and Vahid (and soon Hilly too) who let me immortalize their name and a few of their characteristics in my Darkworld characters, to people like Jennifer McKenzie and Susan Helene Gottfried who pushed me in the very beginning (and who keep saying it) by saying that this was something I could absolutely do. And then there are the people who constantly tell me in comments, IM or on Twitter, that what I’m doing is awesome and that I really can do it – Marty, Hilly, Britt, Becky, Jason X, and Dee Carney. There are people in my Yahoo groups who encourage me too and then there are the three ladies (Bar bitches really LOL) who have always been in my corner since before I came to blogging.

I want you all to know that there is no way I would be sitting here with 4 contracts for books due out in 2009, and the possibility of 3 more once the other Tales of the Darkworld are written (Yes, my publisher wants Vahid the black dragon’s story too. I knew that was coming. Vahid being such a sexy thang and all) without every single word or comment that all of YOU have given me.

This is MY Christmas message to all of YOU. I may not have been by your blog to comment, but you are ALWAYS in my thoughts. I wouldn’t be here plugging away without what you have given me… the gift of your friendship and caring.

One last thing before I go prep my ham… I have a confession to make. I suck. Bigtime. Sure, I have a thousand and one stresses on me and a fucked up car that just keeps falling apart no matter how much money I toss into the thing’s maw. But there is still no reason for me to be such a bonehead as to STILL have Hilly’s birthday present when the woman lives literally a few exits down the freeway from me.

The reason I suck so bad isn’t just because I still have her present and haven’t seen her in months… it’s because she is the sole reason I got so involved with all of you. She took me under her wing when I was afraid to meet bloggers, and she made me feel at home, warm and welcomed. She is the most awesome person on this planet and even though I clearly suck at showing it, I love the woman dearly. Thank you for bringing me into the PRB, Hilly. Many, many happy wishes for you this Christmas.

And for all the rest of you too.

You tell me, is it naughty or nice to look at these hotties on Christmas Eve when you’re on the brink of hanging out with family and/or friends? I mean really, if they get you wound up, won’t you then just sit through the festivities gritting your teeth, waiting until the moment you catch an O and get some relief? I’m teasing of course. All of you have much more willpower than that!

If I were to take stock this year, I would say I’ve been more nice than naughty, but I’ve had more naughty thoughts than usual. Take for instance, seeing a photo of the luscious Jason X on Twitpics. Dear God. The man is too beautiful for words. I wish they made him in blow up models so I could just buy one. Except that a goodly portion of his sexiness would be missing… I have to admit that probably a third of his attractiveness to me is that rapier sharp wit of his. Men with brains and a sense of sardonic humor are incredibly sexy. Probably is a good thing I write because lord knows all those lascivious thoughts in my head need to go somewhere so I don’t act on them and thus become truly naughty.

All you naughty and nice bloggers have a spectacular Christmas Eve. If I’m lucky and find the Christmas music I want, you can return here to tomorrow to be greeted by a photo of myself and the gorgeous DJ Stikki Nikki accompanied by a Christmas video which features us singing an old Christmas carol. So far, no luck on the music though so I’ll dig deeper when I get off work today, and maybe luck with be us.

Here’s today’s Christmas naughty and nice duo for you to enjoy…

Last but not least, thank you to everyone who downloaded Christmas Hookup. It is the #7 most downloaded and #8 top rated free book at All Romance eBooks. It is also the #1 most downloaded book at Pink Petal Books. It would be awesome if it had hit #1 on both of those charts at ARe, but I’m still excited by even being in the top ten. So thank you all and pass the word along! Have a wonderful Christmas Eve!

I’m feeling the Christmas spirit and no it’s not just the rum in my hot spiced cider, although that helps tremendously. I’ve had karma pay me back some good things this holiday season. I’ve had a few crappy things happen too, but I kinda figure that the crappy stuff is the stuff that always seems to dog my footsteps anyway. The good stuff was just weird and uncanny and made me feel really good about being an unselfish person.

So, since I am not selfish, I bring you yet another day of holiday hotties. Now, if you want my private stash of holiday hotties (the cumshots in Santa suits kinda kinky hotness LOL) you’ll have to just let me know in comments and I’ll email em to ya. Otherwise, this is what you’ll get from me…

Hope you enjoyed the holiday hotties! Happy Ho Ho!

The Christmas season brings lots of things our way: presents, parties, good food, good friends, family, a day off, and the thing that gets given more than anything else this time of year – germs. All those sick people who should be home are out buying presents, going to dinner and parties, and going to work. They are generous folk who just have to give each and every one of us the gift that keeps on giving – their cold. Dontcha just love it?

I’ve been dousing my hands with antibacterial gel every time I touch a doorknob or have to leave my desk. Geez. All I need is to get sick right now. It hits me harder than it does most people because of my stupid asthma, but you know, those gift givers out there just don’t seem to care. They are hell bent to give me their germs with a big Christmas bow on them… special delivery even. *sigh* There seems to be nothing we can do. And unfortunately, if I am given the cold, I will be forced to regift it because I can’t afford to miss work right now. It’s a horrid cycle. Every year I just hate it.

This time of year brings lots of things to spew about but I think I’ll refrain from the rest of it for now. I don’t want to be in a worse mood than I already am. Maybe if I’m nice the gods will take pity on me and my 99 temperature and sniffles won’t go full blown. It’s been the same for 48 hours so I’m hoping this is the extent of the gift I’ve been given.

Since it is the holiday season, I’ve decided that first off today we’ll have our usual Marcus and then some holiday hotties for those of any sexual persuasion. I will try to be back tomorrow, and on Christmas Eve, with more holiday hotties, but I have to make pineapple chiffon cheesecake when I get off work at 3 pm Christmas Eve so we’ll see. BTW, you are all invited to stop by my shack for some cheesecake, hot cocoa, and spiced cider with rum!

First up in photos is our Marcus for this Monday. Umm umm. He is just fine in this picture, don’t ya think? Wearing red for the holiday even!

Next, I have a couple of holiday hotties for you. Take out the drool bibs!

I’m still busy trying to crank out Sunday’s Child: The Wise Guy by the first week of January,  so wish me luck. It’s been a little tough getting motivated. Have a great holiday Monday!

It’s raining in SoCal so I think we need a wet Marcus today. What do you think?

I think the best part of this photo is that he’s not clean shaven. Not too many photos of him like that out there.

Okay, so if you haven’t read yesterday’s post you should. I was spreading some love and talking about my Christmas book. Even men might like Christmas Hookup. It has steamy sex and an O’Henry Gift of the Magi ending. No TVC, just a heart warming story with some sizzle to it.

To download the book you can click HERE. Add it to the cart and checkout, it won’t ask you for money, I promise! If you’re on Goodreads you can add this book to your shelf too!

I appreciate your support and your comments. Feel free to read it and come back here to leave me a comment about it. If you didn’t like it, tell me what you didn’t like. I want to know! If you did like it, tell me what you liked best. I’m not the type to hide and boo hoo if someone doesn’t like my work. I’m eternally curious about what people like or don’t like about it – so download the book, read it, and come and spew to me about it in comments!

I’m off to the day job in my poor broken car. I did get the busted window fixed just in time. Now, I need to get the parents of the kids who busted it to pay. However, there’s something going on in my front end so it needs to go to the shop. Just not when it’s pouring.

Have a great Monday everyone!