Of Ice and Men

Check it out! Shots on Net has a new cover: It's beautiful! What do you think? And with the cover redesign comes the print cover: All thanks to my friend and fellow author Joss Conlon. Thanks, Joss! He worked on Game On for me as well. Any author needing a cover should definitely shoot him an e-mail: design@jossconlon.com The print version will be available soon . Maybe I'll do another giveaway.... As always, I'll keep you posted!

Melanie Ting and I go way back, to when we were anonymous authors posting serialized stories on-line. We talked about writing and bonded over hockey and cats—which, incidentally, are two of Mel's favorite writing topics. She's just released her second full-length novel entitled Hockey Is My Boyfriend, Part One . The synapsis: Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell exactly what a guy was like… before you went on a date with him? Kelly Tanaka can. After years of playing hockey with guys, she believes that how a guy acts on the ice is a good indicator of how he’ll be as a boyfriend. So far, she’s only used this superpower to help her girlfriends, because Kelly’s not really into dating. However, when blond and beautiful Nicklas Ericcson comes along, her theories are put to the test. But then tall, dark, and smoking Phil Davidson insists he’s a better hockey player and a better potential boyfriend. What’s Kelly to do? Hockey Is My Boyfriend is a smart and funny journ...

Congratulations to the five winners who entered the Game On Goodreads giveaway! Your autographed copies are all set to be mailed on Monday. Happy reading!

How is it possible that this year—this wonderful, unbelievable year of gifts and firsts—is halfway through?! I can't believe it. I'll save all the reminiscing for New Year's Eve; instead, I'm reflecting on the stuff that I didn't get gone. Ugh, that doesn't sound very positive, but it's not that bad, I swear. I'm behind schedule on writing The Back Up . I'm currently rewriting the beginning... for the third time. Sigh. I wish that I could be the kind of writer who plows through a first draft and goes through a couple rounds of editing and rewrites. But I just can't . It's definitely a flaw I tried to work on. Instead, I agonize over the words as I write them, deleting and rearranging and rewriting as I go. That's why I'm stuck back at the beginning. On top of that, June has been a very busy month, loaded with distractions and diversions. Oh yeah, have I mentioned Pinterest? Oh, the pictures! I'm late to the game, but feel fr...

I'm very excited to announce that my latest release, Game On , is now available in a paperback edition from Amazon! I'm so happy, so proud, so amazed to see my name in print for my very own book. As I've said before, this has always been a dream of mine, and it's coming true! My goal is also to release Play the Man and Shots on Net in paperback this summer. As always, I will bombard my blog, Twitter, and Facebook with updates on those statuses. Meanwhile I'm also working on my next novel, The Back Up . I'm having a lot of fun creating Lincoln Reynolds's world and plotting out what's going to happen to him. Once I get the first draft finished, I'll do a cover reveal to celebrate (that is, if you haven't already seen the sneak peek at the end of Game On ...).

I was reviewed—and now I'm interviewed! Ms. Ting interviewed me as during her stint as the Substitute Reviewer on the All the Things Inbetween blog here . She says I'm funny!

The lovely and hilarious Melanie Ting has been reviewing books for the blog All the Things Inbetween . Her review of On the Surface and interview with author Kate Willoughby went live last week. I don't know how she has time to read books, let alone review them! On top of writing her own novels. Phew. I'm exhausted just typing that. And this week, Mel's reviewing my book Play the Man ! Read her glowing review here . Haven't read Play the Man yet? Check out the links in the sidebar to the right for buy links. That's enough shameless promotion for now. Stayed tuned for my interview with Mel!