Just saw the trailer for the new Disney Christmas movie SAVING MR. BANKS, which is about the efforts of Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) to convince P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to allow him to make a movie of her books recounting the adventures of MARY POPPINS. Travers was adamantly opposed, not wanting her characters to be turned into an animated film.

Their clash and Disney's subsequent convincing her to allow the live-action movie has been documented in a couple of books but Hanks and Thompson, and MARY POPPINS, are such favorites of mine, and seem so right for the characters that I can imagine it will be hilarious, heart-breaking and end on such a joyous note as to push all the buttons a great Disney film is famous for pushing.

I look forward to it with great anticipation. And dream of the day some Hollywood producer  would want to make one of my stories into a movie!

Getting It All is out!

My new book in the CoveHaven erotic Romance series is out!

For years the available ladies of CoveHaven have attempted to get handsome widower MATT BARTHOLOMEW back into the dating game. A 'secret admirer' gift seems to have finally re-awakened his interest in the opposite sex. The local town hottie, CHRISTY SWANSON, proposes an informal contest to see who might first bed him among herself, DOROTHY ARDMORE, Matt's pre-marriage flame and a widow herself, and the young and enthusiastic, but socially inept, LUCY DRAKE. Sexual adventures among the group, abetted by an enterprising newcomer to the town, a muscular young masseur, arouse long-hidden fears and fresh appetites. All ends happily—after all it's a red-hot CoveHaven Menage—but with whom and in what combination? 

Do check it out at Secret Cravings Publishing for a steamy excerpt!

http://store.secretcravingspublishing.com/index.php?main_page=book_info&cPath=4&products_id=642&zenid=8ece9fc5a5715ea3f288e5912ea8f979

Turned in the ms for the second book in my CoveHaven menage series, GETTING IT ALL, (FFM), mid-month and sent in my first rewrites this weekend. Hopefully, my editor will be pleased. Should be out in July. Have started on the third MMM book in the series, WANTING MORE.

Attended Alice Orr's Pitch Perfect and Blurbalicious seminar last weekend at RWA/NYC and got fired up to really sail over the top in pitching and blurbing my books. Came up with a blurb that even got me going. You'll have to wait and see if it gets you going, too!

A deer rammed the car -- welcome to the spring mating season, I guess. In the middle lane of the Taconic surrounded by Memorial Day home-going traffic. That deer really must have wanted a relationship with that Toyota. Poor deer. Some relationships just don't work out. Poor Toyota. Lets just hope the little green gecko can wave it's magic wand and keep it going another 13 years.

Spring is finally here. Had to have two beloved evergreens that we had planted and nurtured for twenty years taken down. Some evergreens live forever, some don't. One thing about nature...you just never know.

 

A new anthology from Cleis Press edited by Shane Allison is just out with one of my stories. 

Great group of writers! 

Wrestling at the frat house, toga parties, plenty of pledge paddlings, and initiations of the sexy kind will have every man on campus lined up to join the fraternity! Shane Allison returns to the campus for another set of page-turning, arousing adventures featuring hunky undergrads getting it on. A bunch of great writers with Troy Storm's DUMB FUCK leading the way!

Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Pledges-Erotic-Stories-Shane-Allison/dp/1573449318/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366749348&sr=1-1&keywords=pledges+cleis

From the Central Park Conservancy... a lovely cherry tree. There are thousands more to come!

The daffs are in full bloom, the tulips are tulipping, the west side of Manhattan is bursting with pear blossoms and the cherry trees in Central Park are beginning to bud. What a lovely, lovely day. Oh. And the writing's going good. The rains come tomorrow, but that'll be nice for getting more writing done.
Happy weekend, all.

Waited up and sure enough around midnight--just like Cinderella--my book appeared! HAVING IT ALL by TROY STORM, Secret Cravings Publishing. Do please go the website and check it out. It's under the New Books for April carousel -- and there's a bunch of goodies there. There's also an excerpt, the very first 1003 words that, hopefully, will give you a taste of what's to come and will whet your appetite to see how Syble, Stephen and Chad's story plays out.

The final edits were painless and my editors wonderfully supportive. I'm truly excited about the book. My first in a long time. The first of four menage stories that take place around a small town called CoveHaven in the mid-Hudson valley.  Beautiful country.

Each book is independent, which turned out to be a bit more complicated that I had expected. I have all the general outlines, and intended to merely reference a peripheral character from one book to the next to loosely tie the stories together. The intention was to have four books that it didn't matter in which order your read them.

But once I got to fleshing out the stories, I wanted much more involvement between the characters and their tales and that couldn't happen without spilling the plot beans.

It would have been much easier to have written a series, beginning with one book and progressing to the next and then the next. But, not this time. Maybe next.

Maybe my readers and blog followers could help. Would you rather read a series of stories that are loosely tied together progressing from one book to the next? Or so you prefer to be able to pick up any book in a series and know it didn't really matter in which order you read them?

Leave a comment and thanks for your help.

Thought for a minute there spring had sprung. But winter snapped back for a last couple of bites. The better half tells me it's always like this in April. Appears I will never learn.

Hope you're having a good spring, or enjoying a final winter bite!