First of all, get your perverted minds out of the gutter you naughty, naughty children (geeze, growing up is a long hard process)! The only thing I am whoring out is my writing.

Second of all, I said "long" and "hard". Ha ha. Guess I haven't done as much growing as my prudish friends.

Seeing as how February is the month of loooove I am temporarily lowering the price of my novel, "An American Werewolf in Idaho" to $0.99 on kindle for the next two weeks to show my love for my terrific readers. If you are interested, check it out.

Thanks for all the continuing support, guys and gals. Here's an excerpt from chapter seven, titled, "Open mouth; insert foot"


My brain was frozen in an idiotic state. As he glanced around the parking lot I quickly dabbed the edge of my mouth to make sure I wasn't drooling like a dog. When he looked back at me I smiled again and nervously chuckled. My brain screamed at me to say something.

"It's nice out."

The weather? Was I really talking about the weather with someone I had never met? I could have smacked myself. Where had the verbal part of my brain run off to? The only thing running through my head was an inner monologue of things that weren't even remotely helpful.

Duh, me woman. You man. Me like you. You hot. We kiss now?

"I like the cold weather," he responded.

He didn't run away screaming. I was surprised.

Play it cool. Don't do that nervous girly jabbering thing you do. I was startled when I heard Kat giving me advice.

I swallowed a knot and cleared my throat and then made eye-contact with Jackson again.

"I like the cold weather, too. The winter can get brutal here, but I love the snow."

Crap. I was jabbering. I tried to get a read on his thoughts again.

Still nothing.

"You're new to Crossport, right?"

"That obvious, huh?"

"It's a small town. When someone new comes into town everyone notices."

God, why was I so nervous?

Just be yourself. Sean tried to help me.

That's the worst advice I've ever heard.

If I did that Jackson would surely run away in terror. I tried the 'play it cool' approach.

"So, I take it you moved from a place that's a lot more interesting than here?"

"I've certainly seen more exciting places. My family and I move around a lot."

"Military brat?"

"Something like that. We moved here a few weeks ago."