Home again

Home safe and sound
We got into a blizzard around Booneville.
We blew a fuse and lost instrumentation on the east side of Columbia.

We had a nice lunch with dakiwiboid and reannon and her Kiddo.

Bun drove from St Louis to Memphis with no rearview (we were packed to the roof) and no instruments. Brilliant girl.

A roundup

Val Kovalian named three of our books in her top five list at JesseWave's

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Thanks to you, SHELLSHOCKED is running second in the Goodreads Poll

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Preditors & Editors
ALIVE ON THE INSIDE is up for best horror. Of course, I'm up against Stephen King fercryinoutloud!

NIKOCHAN is up for Erotica novel

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Reviews:

CURSE OF THE PHARAOH'S MANICURISTS is a Recommended Read at Fallen Angel Reviews
"...a fast-paced, sexy story that's a rollicking good adventure and a ripping yarn!"
and "the overall result is like reading an H Rider Haggard pulp fiction novel" (SQUEE!)

Elisa reviewed SHELL SHOCKED

Rainbow Reviews gave ALIVE ON THE INSIDE 4 stars. "This is the kind of book that makes Stephen King leave the lights on all night."

Sidney at Goodreads gave ALIVE ON THE INSIDE 4 stars. "There are many more scenes that take you well out of any comfort zones and read this book... If you dare." A commentor adds "Definitely not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach."

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We have cover art for "Showdown at Yellowstone River." That will be appearing when it's finalized

Books for 2010

1) Hawg. Stephen Shrewsbury. Stephen is a lovely man, smart and funny. And this book is totally gross. It's the book he wrote when he couldn't place his well-researched and written historical novel. It's a page-turner and quite possibly the goriest thing I've read. Lots and lots of horrid gorey deaths. Massive rapes. Kinky sex. Drug use. Small town corruption. Bad Formatting. (I counted at least a dozen editing errors and more formatting ones) As I tweeted "When [name drop] and Shrews sever penises it's all in a day's work. When I do it, I'm a crazy radical manhater."

2) Deviations III-Discipline. Jodi Payne and Chris Owen. More fun, this time in Paris, with Tobias and his sub, Noah. Hot and sexy.

3) Urban Gothic. Brian Keene. Not so hot on this one. Keene is hit or miss for me. When he hits, he hits big. When he misses, it's because he's being derivative. And this time.... Let's just say moving The Hills Have Eyes to inner city Philadelphia and crossing it with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre did not improve it. Go read Ghoul or Dead Sea instead.

Movies for 2010

1) City of Ember. Steampunky SF about kids escaping an underground city. Entertaining. Bill Murray is not aging well.

2) Cats. Musical based on TS Eliot's Poetry. Plotless, but entertaining. (rewatch, hadn't seen it in years)

3) Hopalong Cassidy. Old TV episodes.