Love romance? Love Phaze Books? Head over to All Romance eBooks now through March 14! Buy any of my Phaze Books titles, We All Scream or Drawn to You, and get a 25% rebate! Phaze has lots of other hot I/R romances, too!

Free for Valentine’s Day, enjoy this hot short short, Be Mine, which is the follow up to Bottoms Up! The story follows LaSara and Danny a bit further into their relationship, and how they manage to stay entertained during a winter storm. Hmmm, what do you think happens?

Check it out at Smashwords and ARe, along with Bottoms Up!

A while I noted that the comic strip Funky Winkerbean touched on I/R romance with a BW/WM relationship. I sort of lost track of that storyline, but this evening it was brought to my attention I/R is making the comic book circuit as well. Check this out: could it be our friend Archie has decided not to choose between Betty and Veronica, but is now after one of the Pussycats? I saw it on the Archie website, and you’re seeing it here. That’s a kiss, folks! Now, I haven’t read Archie comics since I was in grade school (don’t recall seeing a lot of Josie stories, though I remember there was a cartoon), and I’d read all the hoopla surrounding the “Archie marries Veronica” thing, so this cover presents a very interesting development. I may just have to pick up this issue for myself.

Yes, I finally jumped off that bridge. I’ve had the Twitter account for a while – hadn’t done much with it because I’ve been writing. I realize, though, I need to concentrate on promo as well. So the other day I signed on for Facebook. You can be my friend there if you like. I also set up a fan page for Interracial Romance, which I hope you will join. It’s connected to another site whose URLs I purchased recently. The original owner was unable to upkeep, so I’m taking over and rebooting to a new site, mainly a place where people can buy I/R romances. I’m still trying to figure out how to get more eBooks up there, so we’ll see how it goes. I love the genre and am happy to help promote my fellow writers!

I promise!

I am now putting the finishing touches on We All Scream, my next release from Phaze Books. Then it’s off to polish Single Ladies edits, and then NaNoWriMo! I have an amazing idea for my NaNo novel. I can’t wait to get started on it. It will be interracial romance, of course, but something a bit different from the contemporaries I’m doing now. Hope you like it.

Just got word Drawn to You ranked third for the top selling books at Phaze Books for July! Thank you so much for your support! I’m finishing edits on We All Scream for a late 2009 release, then on to Single Ladies and another WIP. Woo hoo!

Next to writing, I love movies. Big screen, IMAX, Netflix…however it comes, just give me a bowl of popcorn and I’m so there. So when a fellow Phaze author, Leigh Ellwood, posted a challenge on her blog, I thought it was something I would like to do as well.

Leigh wrote: I’ll open a topic for discussion, and those of you with blogs who write about the same topic can send me your blog link and I’ll post it here. You’re not obliged to recip, but of course I’d appreciate it. Today, I am listing here favorite movies by decade. Please note, choose a favorite film from each decade, not necessarily what time dictated was the best movie. I imagine if enough people take this challenge we’ll find a vast spectrum of answers.

Quite true. Leigh listed favorite movies, one per decade, so I’ll do the same here. Feel free to do so yourself, and send Leigh the link. She’ll link you back.

Just be warned here, I hope you like musicals. I do!

1930s – The Wizard of OZ – It never gets old. The yellow brick road is bright as ever, the Wicked Witch still a nightmare inducer, and Judy’s voice…you won’t hear the likes of it again. I still tear up at the end, I am human after all.

1940s – Yankee Doodle Dandy – I don’t think you’ll find another decade so saturated with patriotic films. In the midst of World War II we have one of the best, and one of Cagney’s best. I admit I was a bit disheartened to hear how far off the mark this movie was in comparison to the real life of George M. Cohan, but I still tap my feet and hum along to the songs.

1950s – (tie) Carmen Jones and A Star is Born – This was a tough one, I couldn’t just pick one over the over, because each film brings a significant legacy to our culture. Carmen Jones presents a lead black actress who isn’t somebody’s servant…Carmen belongs to nobody! Vivacious and perfectly personified in Dorothy Dandridge. And A Star is Born is just magnificent, from the music to the dramatic love between Esther and Norman. How Judy didn’t get the Oscar that year is beyond me.

1960s – To Kill a Mockingbird – Loved this book in high school, adore the movie. I’d read somewhere once Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch had been voted the greatest film hero of all time, and I’d agree. This is an outstanding look at racial relations in the South in the time before Dr. King.

1970s – Star Wars – Who doesn’t remember the first time they saw this? I mean, the second the orchestra exploded as the title credits blasted through space, you knew movies had changed forever. I so wanted to be Princess Leia, what little girl wouldn’t?

1980s – The Color Purple – Just an incredible film. Heart-breaking and uplifting at the same time. Whoopi is amazing as Celie and Oprah just kicks ass! As many times as I’ve seen this, I can’t get through the ending without blubbering.

1990s – Titanic – I know, say what you will about the cheesy one-liners and Celine Dion, but I love this movie. It’s a love story, and I’m a hopeless romantic, okay? You do have to admit the special effects are something else, and Gloria Stuart was just so damned cute.

2000s – The Dark Knight – A tough choice considering the great range of epics done this past decade. But between the Harry Potters and Hobbits I went with this picture because I think it did something for the genre. You think of movies about superheros as mindless summer popcorn films, but The Dark Knight proved you can make a movie like this and set it on par with the Oscar worthy. And Heath Ledger…what can I say? So sad we lost him, but what a marvelous coda.

So that’s my list. Off to get linked!