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And you never know, he could be coming for you!

Now available at AmiraPress.com

It should have been an easy mission. Orbit around the Earth’s atmosphere, unseen, beam down to my mate’s location, claim her and bring her back home. So of course, everything went wrong.

It started with the ship’s teleporting unit malfunctioning. No problem, I’d manually disembark and using my warrior skills, locate my intended and bring her back to rendezvous. I wish it had been that simple.

The earthlings were more advanced than I expected, and a chase ensued–those barbarians used loud creatures with sharp teeth to track me. A pit of deadly liquid later and I found myself face to face, actually liplocked, with my very first human female.

Lusty thoughts and bodily urges overcame me for this delectable tanned beauty. There was just one major problem, she wasn’t the mate my ancestors chose.

I’ve always prided myself on completing my missions, but for the first time in my life, I want to disobey orders. Is the happiness I find in her arms and smile worth the possiblity of exile from my people?

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Now available at AmiraPress.com

Alien Mate 2

For more information and an excerpt please click the book link above.

I do hope you’ll check out Alien Mate 2 for more probes of a pleasurable kind.

AND coming soon, interviews with Chastity Bush and T.K. Toppin. I’ll post the dates next week.

Now I’m off to eat pizza and watch Astroboy. I just know I’m going to snort pop out my nose when he shoots out his butt. I saw it on the previews and spit something out I laughed so hard. Ladylike I am not! ;P

I don’t have the patience to hold a garage sale, but boy, do I love shopping at them. This past weekend, we packed up the kids into the minivan, grabbed our change, and off we went to prowl the neighborhood looking for the handwritten signs. Kind of like a treasure map, we follow the tiny writing with the arrows to the spot crowded with cars and other treasure seekers. We pile out of the van and browse amongst the mismatched dishes, books and various junk that has been cluttering someone’s closet and garage.

My little four year old got the best deals. Trotting around with her little black purse filled with coins, she was shopping cuteness at it’s best. Her first purchase was a mini tea cup, saucer and tea pot. When she inquired how much, the owner said to me “You do realize that set is Royal Albert. You can’t let her play with it. It should be on a shelf.” I restrained myself from rolling my eyes and asked again for my daughter, “How much?” A dollar fifty later my daughter was the proud owner of a fragile tea set and just so you know, she drank tea with it that very same afternoon. HA!

It always cracks me up how the owners of the unwanted treasures either overprice or try to dictate how their rejected belongings should be treated. If you love it that much keep it, else I’m giving it to my four year old to play with. Can you tell I’m not into the whole name brand thing?

Anyways, we garage saled for about three hours and at the last street sale, I saw it. An exercise bike. Almost thirty seven and chained to my desk for hours a day, I’ve noticed my body needs some work. Actually it could use a major overhaul, but I’m lazy. A few weeks back, after grimacing at myself in a bathing suit, I told my husband I needed an exercise bike. He laughed at me, of course, and said why not join a gym or get a whole body system. I’ll admit it, I’m lazy. I don’t like to exercise, especially not in front of people. I also get bored easily. To me an exercise bike though is the ideal solution, not only can I sit on it mindlessly pedaling, but I can read at the same time. I might not end up with a ripped body, but if I could fit in my clothes again, eventually, I’ll be happy.

Now back to the garage sale. We pulled up and I was bouncing in my seat. Hubby ask how much I was willing to part with. I told him up to $20. I pretended disinterest as he wandered over to ask the price. The owner stated $10. At this point I was almost giddy. That’s half what I was willing to pay. My hubby though suddenly decided he was going to be frugal. He hadn’t bargained at any other place, but here, with my bike waiting for me, he haggled. I walked away with the girls in tow, unable to listen. When I eventually turned around he was loading the bike in the van and I heaved a sigh of relief. As we were leaving, I asked “So how much did you get it for?” $5!!! Yes, I got my lazy girl exercise bike for only $5. Laughing, I bought the family Burger King. It’s all right, I have a bike to burn it off now.

Other purchases that day included a stainless steel bread box for $2, a nail system that files, buffs and dries for a $1 (I couldn’t believe my eldest parted with her buck, she’s pretty frugal), a basketball for a dime, records for 50cents each. All in all we spent maybe a combined $20 and came home with a ton of treasures including Operation a la Simpson–after only 2 days I can see why they got rid of it.

Do you enjoy garage saling? What’s the best deal you ever got? And who else out there is a lazy exerciser?

I dream of clear blue water in my pool. I haven’t seen that in 2 summers, instead we swim in a haze. We’ve shocked, we’ve flocced, we’ve poured algaecide, we’ve balanced but our water stayed cloudy.

For a little history, when we bought this house almost 5 yrs ago, the above ground pool came with it. Our experience with pools until we inherited our above ground, involved the little kiddy kind you filled with a hose and emptied nightly because of grass and possible toddler pee. We had no problems with our hot weather oasis the first few years. We’d add chlorine pucks when the floating bucket was empty and vacuumed. Piece of cake, or so we thought. Then last summer our troubles started. The pool water got a whitish cast about mid summer and no matter what I did,  I couldn’t make it go away. I blamed it on the high amount of rain water that fell. But this summer when we opened the pool, even without the rain, the pool just wouldn’t clear up. I hate asking for help and no I’m not a man lol, but I’d Googled as much as I could and nothing was working. My hubby filled a bottle with water and took it to the pool place. They gave us some alkaline stuff, told us to shock etc. We did it all again and backwashed and vacuumed. Then finally on the third trip to the pool store they asked when was the last time we changed the sand in our filter.  Um hello? No one ever told me you had to change the sand in your filter. Sure enough, when we wrestled the sucker open, the sand was this almost solid mass. The parts that weren’t like a rock were just mush. Ewww! Hubby vacuumed out the sand, filled the filter up with new sand and now 16 hrs later, I’m almost afraid to say it in case I jinx it, but we can see the bottom. Mind, the pool’s not a 100% clear yet, but it’s the closest it’s been in 2 summers. The pool place said it might take up to 2 days to fully filter the crap out. All I can say is about bloody time.

All this hassle though has made my husband discuss changing over to a salt water pool sometime in the future. A friend of ours who had one in the past said it was the easiest pool to maintain. Not only that but research says it’s easier on skin too. The only drawback is the price for the unit. A thousand dollars. Ouch. But, considering the few hundred dollars I’ve spent in the last two years trying to clear the damned water, not to mention all the chemicals needed to keep it balanced, it might be well worth the investment.

Does anyone out there have a salt water pool? If yes, tell me what you think. Is it worth it? And if I accidentally pee in the water does it change color? LOL just kidding. Although after three kids sometimes holding it in can be a tough battle.

We are now heading into day three of a heat wave in southern Ontario and is it ever bloody HOT! Especially since we don’t have air conditioning. Our lovely house has no furnace or ductwork making it very expensive to even think of installing for the moment and our windows are too tall for window shakers. Ceiling fans are running non stop as are about 6 other smaller fans lol. The dehumidifier is keeping the basement cool at least and the pool out back is coming in handy for reducing body temperature. But I got to say the constant muggy heat is fraying on tempers. The children are picking at each other and crying way too easily. My jumbo box of popsicles is almost empty and my patience has disappeared. Grrr.

Whew. I’m done whining now lol. It’s been a few years since we had a nasty heat like this and I need to vent. On a positive note, I just got two new contracts from Liquid Silver. 

One is for Snowballs in Hell, the sequel to Lucifer’s Daughter and my first ever menage story. Woo! The story won’t end there though. I found out in the epilogue of this one that there will be at least one more story coming. I’ll be working on that one in the fall.

Also picked up was Crazy with Ella who hears voices and the vampire who is intrigued by her. This is another story that only announced at the end that it wasn’t quite done. I”m real excited to see what will happen in the sequel for this unique story. 

In the meantime, I’m slowly finishing my Halloween short about a women haunted by a pair of horny ghosts. LOL. As if I needed more sweat.

How are you all fighting the heat? Are you one of the lucky ones with blessed cool air pumping through your vents? I like to stand over a sink full of ice cubes and close my eyes as I feel the cold wafting up. My husband just shakes his head. He does that alot around me lol.