Winners!

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Yeah, yeah, yeah… I’m late with this.  I’m always late for everything these days.

At least I remembered!

From last week’s Men of May Blog Hop, I have two winners:

Laoighis

and

Sionedkla

I apologize for the lateness of this announcement.  If you haven’t already, please check your emails.

 

Men of May Blog Hop

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MY MAN OF MAY

I signed up for this hop, then went over and over in my head what man (or men) I planned to talk about.  Then, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there’s one in particular that I don’t talk about enough.

My husband.

Corny, isn’t it? But it’s true.  He’s one of the most important men in my life… so today I’m going to tell you a little bit about how we met. (And yes, it involves men…lots of them).

There’s also a giveaway…but we’re going to wait a minute for that.

Way back a million years ago (or, 2001), I met some people online.  I was just discovering life outside my own head (scary thought), and wound up as part of a Yahoo!group.

Remember Moulin Rouge?  Yeah, I kinda had a thing for Ewan McGregor.  Still do, actually.

Anywho, I met some great friends through that group.  And because I’m a hideous namedropper… Alexandra Christian, Amy Ravenel, and Selah Janel are the ones I’ve managed to hold onto.   So, over the years we’ve sort of grown up together.  We’ve shared strange loves and dislikes of various men…

We’ve argued over some…

and swooned over others…

but in the end we always keep coming back to that first pretty, little picture.

Yes, this has a point.

It was ultimately because of Ewan McGregor that I met my husband.  I’d decided to come to town one weekend in May 2002 to actually meet Lexxx face-to-face (I’d already gone to Indiana that January to play with Selah – more on that later), and didn’t have a clue that by the end of the weekend I’d meet the man I was going to marry.

But I did.  As I was getting ready to leave that Sunday, her husband’s best friend (Tally Johnson, by the way…because he would never forgive me for not throwing him props in this story, too) appeared, mumbled something incoherent, and disappeared.

That night when I got home, I got a message from Lexxx… “Bill thinks yer cute.”

And thus started the six-month pre-relationship courtship.  We talked constantly, stayed up all night, compared notes on everything… and when he got home after finding out that his divorce was final, he went to sit on Lexxx & Tally’s couch and call me (he lived on the other side of the wall at the time – it was a duplex).  He asked me out, and on November 2, 2002, we went on our first date.

Talk about hilarious – for some stupid reason, neither of us knew how to communicate that night.  We stumbled through a fabulous dinner and a scary movie… and agreed to go out again.

In March 2003, I moved here to be with him…and a few other reasons (like school) but we won’t get into that.  That October, we went to a bar in Columbia to celebrate Halloween.

He ran four other pirates out of the building.

My husband, Bill, dressed as Jack Sparrow

On December 20, 2006, he proposed.  Coincidentally it was the night after we bought our house…but still.  He came into the bedroom that night, giggling like a maniac, and kept saying “you know what I’m going to say.”

“No, I don’t.”

“Yeah, (gigglegiggle) you do.”

“No, I don’t.”

And he shoves a ring up my nose.  Literally.  It was dark and he couldn’t see where my face was, and missed the suave, romantic mark by about a mile… the giggling did him in, really… but I said yes.

On November 3, 2007, we were married.

The newest edition

At one point we were that annoying couple that was constantly all over each other.  Now we fight like crackheads over a pipe, but that doesn’t mean we don’t love each other.  To the outside, untrained eye we look like we hate each other.  We say awful things and throw stuff and our house generally sounds like a warzone, but that’s just how we show affection.

Yes, we call each other names.  Yes, we throw things at each other.  But it’s all in the name of love.

Gross, huh?

~+~+~+~

AND NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY

So, now that you’ve read all of this, leave me a comment and tell me about your favorite man.  Any man – family member, significant other, actor, writer… doesn’t matter.

And while you’re at it, leave me an email address, because you just might win stuff.  I’m supplying two lucky winners with a book – your choice of my backlist – in PDF form.

ALSO… be sure to check out more from The Men of May Blog Hop!

Guests? Reviews? I Gotcha.

So… now that I’m finally getting back on my feet (or back in the chair, whichever is more appropriate), I’m ready to start accepting guest spots again.  Posts will go out this afternoon to the appropriate sites, but for those of you who read, you saw it here first. *insert cheeky grin here*

Standard rules apply – Mondays and Thursdays are available unless it’s a holiday or some other important event (blog hop, release day, or my birthday).  Other days are negotiable for special events (again, blog hops, release days, or birthdays).

Excerpt posts, guest blogs or any manner of randomness is welcome.  I’m also offering two types of interview:  A personal interview, and a character interview.

PERSONAL INTERVIEWS:

Will consist of twenty questions chosen from a list depending on your genre, current release, and backlist.  A minimum of five will be personal, five about your backlist, five about your current release, and five totally random.

Interviews can/will also include a cover photo, blurb, and buy links.

CHARACTER INTERVIEWS:

This is the tricky one.

I want cover art, a blurb, and an excerpt showcasing the character to be interviewed along with some basic information about the character (name, general personality and disposition, and role in the story) up front.  Once I go through that, I will then choose ten questions from my stash to ask your character.

AND ABOUT THOSE REVIEWS…

Because I’m a sucker for a good book – any book, to be perfectly honest – I plan to start a weekly feature – book reviews.  All reviews I provide are fair and honest.  No, I can’t be bought.  Schmoozing me isn’t going to garner brownie points toward a five-star rating.  I call it like I see it.

HOWEVER – If I can’t provide at least a three-star review, I choose not to post a public review.  I will, however, email you in private and let you know how I feel and why.  I won’t be mean – that’s not in my nature.

Reviews will start and run every Friday (well, Fridays when I have actually finished a book and have had time to write the review) and will stay public on the blog indefinitely.

If you have a book you’d like reviewed, EMAIL ME.  I read all genres and will turn nothing away.  While m/m and f/f are not my first choice, I will gladly read and give a fair review.  I’m telling everyone this now simply to clear up any potential misunderstandings.

I prefer PDF or some other format compatible with my Nook, that way I can take them everywhere with me.  No, I don’t share eBooks.  I don’t email them out or give them to sharing sites.  I keep them, because chances are if I like something I’m going to read it again.

So, there you have it.  I’m making more work for myself, and loving every second of it.