A Life in the Day

Continuing with my Blog challenge : 100 Things Important to Me, I've decided to post today about personal reading interests versus professional reading interests. While these are usually the same (genre, pairings, etc.), my professional reading interests also include those of the editors whose lists I'm hoping to pitch my clients' works. Here are a few personal reading interests and how these then translate to my professional ones. My Personal Reading Interests include: M/M erotic romance in all sub-genres with my tastes leaning more toward BDSM and Sci-fi. Combine the two and do it well and I'm in reading heaven! Some of my favorites include Christine D'Abo's No Quarter . I also love it when books remind me of a world I'm already familiar with and enjoy. In this case, it was Star Wars with Han Solo and the Bounty Hunters. While the story is not fanfic, per se, it has a taste of the world I've always loved and explores aspects of the world I would ...

Here are some of my favorite first lines in books I've loved. In the deserted men's restroom at the back of Middleton Community College, Sam Keller knelt on the tile, braced his hands against Keith Jameson's thighs, and broke his mother's heart. - Special Delivery , Heidi Cullinan I'll write you every day. - Beyond Eden , Kele Moon I, Amanda Wilkinson, hereby give the instructors of San Francisco Sex University permission to fuck me in the ass. - Sex University: Physical Education , Louisa Bacio Jason Carrillo walked around the block a third time, working up his courage to go into the brownstone. - Rainbow Boys, Alex Sanchez The bomb detonated while Grier was still two blocks away. - State of Mind , Libby Drew From the second he set foot in my classroom, I knew he was trouble. - Allegro Vivace , Cat Grant You're going to want to split those bitches up. - Belle Starr , Belinda McBride You have to understand, Max, this has nothing to do with you."...

2010 flew by in a gust of work, work and more work. 2011 proves to be just as busy... always a good thing! :D My clients have been doing fantastic this year and in the next few days we'll start working on goals for the next 18 months. I'm really looking forward to 2011! Many of my clients were debut authors in 2010 and have had great success with their debut novels including Kele Moon and Diana Copland . This week is going to be fun to get back into the swing of things after the holiday break. Have several contracts to finalize and queries to open up to... not to mention a slew of status calls and emails to my clients. Things at home have been going well too. We ended the year on a high note with the entire family at home for Christmas. Though, my brother-in-law ended up in the hospital with a bout of pancreatitis. He will remain there for a week but is in good spirits and should be released back to active duty once his enzymes return to normal. His base was hit by a to...