Squee!!

I got something in the mail today!!

A signed ARC of....


Seductive danger and steampunk adventure abound in the gritty world of the Iron Seas, where nanotech is fused with Victorian sensibilities—and steam.

After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power — and fear — of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession.

Mina can’t afford his interest, however. Horde blood runs through her veins, and despite the nanotech enhancing her body, she barely scratches out a living in London society. Becoming Rhys’s lover would destroy both her career and her family, yet the investigation prevents her from avoiding him…and the Iron Duke’s ruthless pursuit makes him difficult to resist.

But when Mina uncovers the victim’s identity, she stumbles upon a conspiracy that threatens the lives of everyone in England. To save them, Mina and Rhys must race across zombie-infested wastelands and treacherous oceans — and Mina discovers the danger is not only to her countrymen as she finds herself tempted to give up everything to the Iron Duke.

I'm supposed to be reading something else right now, but so far I can't pull myself away from this one.

Much thanks to Meljean Brook for running the awesome contest that I won this in.

Hump Day Hottie With a Twist.....

I know several of my blogger girls put up weekly Hottie pics. Some are weekend pics and some like my girl Bells do a Hump Day Hottie feature. Well, I decided I wanted something purty to look at today and I wanted to share some hottie goodness with y'all and honestly these girls have me beat with the male hotness, so I decided to change it up a bit and post one of my all time girl crushes for your delectation and sighing pleasure:

We're totally soul mates. She just doesn't know it yet. Brad is our cabana boy. It's a good life......

The. Best. Damn. Thing. Evah. Amen.

This is teh awesome. I am so in love with Occupation: Girl blog, it's ridiculous and unhealthy.
I want to marry her. I want to have her growth-accelerated-half-vampire-mutant babies. I read her movies in 15 minutes and die. Just die. Her recaps of the Twilight books and movies are just, so, so awesome. There are also other fun things she links to like this goodness here. I have literally spent hours of my life reading this shit. AND I DON'T REGRET IT. It's so awesome. Anyway, tell me Russell isn't lookin at K-Stew like, "Imma rape you." Tell me that. Also, if I had mad photoshop skillz I would totes make an icon of one of those pics sayin, "Imma rape you." Poor K-Stew. She was startin to look kinda freaked out, like Russell's internal monologue of bondage fantasies were leaking into her head and R. Patz and Taylor and the other nameless guy were too busy in their mutual love fest to notice. HA!
Anyway, just had to share all the goodness that this is. Truly. Good times. I cannot wait now for Midnight Sun. Cannot wait.

Something Meaningful

So, Valentine's Day is coming and it's become over commercialized if you ask me. The meaning of love and giving has been lost somewhere along the way. It is; however, a special treat for kids everywhere that will be exchanging Valentine's and spreading love with pure hearts. In the spirit of this I bring you a chance to do something meaningful on Valentine's Day for kids everywhere. If you have kids or are a super cool Aunt/Uncle/Godparent/whatever I encourage you to check out these cards that have been designed by kids for kids for save the children. The link to the Valentine's Cards is here. If you click on the link for the homepage, you'll also see that they are taking donations for Haiti relief as well.
I, for one, am going to have my kids each pick out a design they like and am going to purchase cards from Save the Children. I love the idea that other kids from around the country designed them and that proceeds go to help kids in America that are starving and have needs. In all of our need to help other countries we should never forget that there is poverty right here in the USA and children that fall through the cracks, resulting in them not receiving an education and suffering from hunger and medical needs.
Thanks for checking these out. I hope your Saturday is a good one and that in the face of all the tragedy around us, you take a moment to just savor life and the fact that you can.

Much love

Massive Cover Love

Ta Da! The wonderful Ilona Andrews said I could post the cover here for all of us to drool over. I am so frickin excited! This cover is teh Awesome! You do not even know.

Ok, deep breath. If you all have not read the Kate Daniels series yet, you know who you are ::cough KC cough:: you need to getcha ass down to the bookstore and getcha some of the hawtness that is Kate and Curran. And oh yeah, Ilona is a great author and all around sweetheart so there's that, too.

I'm gonna go drool some more....

Oh, and follow Ilona and Gordon at their blog Ilona Andrews

Honestly, you'll love them.

I'd Like To Thank All The Little People.....

And I don't mean midgets. I'm more of a pygmy lover myself, but I digress.

Woo hoo! My first award! Aww....you shouldn't have, but if you try to take it back I'll bite you.

Much love to my girl Claire at Ramblings of a Book Bitch
Thanks sweetie!

*edited to add* Thanks also to my sweet girl Tigris at Tigris Eden Smooches!

The rules are easy. You have to list 10 honest things about yourself and then pass it on to 10 other honest bloggers.

Hehehe, you might want to brace yourself. I'm feeling a little too honest tonight ;)


1) I luuuurve spicy food. I mean, I want to be sweating, panting, nose running and eyes watering. And then.....I want to do it again.

2) I happen to be bi-polar. It's a pain in the ass at times, but I honestly don't know how I'd see myself without it. I am very annoyed, though, by the way it is handled and displayed in movies, t.v. and books lately. It seems to be popular to have the token bi-polar person lately and it's starting to piss my shit off. Don't mess with me, I'm currently off my meds.....

3) My favorite drink is a margarita. On the rocks. With salt. Ahhh.....heaven.

4) I used to get a brazilian bikini wax. The woman who did it and I used to joke and laugh like crazy while she was working on me. We'd be discussing music, marriage, and exchanging stories while I was on my hands and knees with my a....well you get the picture. I used to always tell her that if my gyno had a sense of humor I wouldn't mind going so much, lol

5) I rode horses for years and at one point had ambitions to make a career out of it. My life took a different path, but those were some crazy days....

6) I kinda like girls. Not enough to be gay, per se, but probably more than I should ;)

7) I love Prince. I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan. He was very talented, but as Keri Stevens on Twitter says, "Prince is an itty bitty purple god." Well said, sister. Well said.

8) I think I truly got into my love of erotica through Ellora's Cave. My love for menage and m/m truly....um...blossomed there. :P

9) My favorite color is blue. Bet ya thought it was pink, lol

10) I secretly long to be a published author one day. For now it's just a nebulous dream, but maybe someday it will be more...

Well, hope you enjoyed your bit of trivia experience.

Now it's time to pass on the fun!

Here's my list of 10 bloggers I want to award this to:

Jamie at Teflon Panties

Jo Jo at JoJosBookCorner

K.C. at smokinhotbooks

Tasha at Heidenkinds's Hideaway

Mandi at smexybooks

The Vixen at Fiction Vixen

Donna at fantasy dreamer's ramblings

My girl at Kindle Vixen

Wendy! at The Book Lush

Larissa at Welcome to Larissa's Life


Have fun ladies. I know I did ;)

Besos