Hello my friends!
We made it through another year. My how time flies. And if
you’re like me, you probably had a few New Year’s resolutions from last year.
Did you keep them all? Or did you do half, or at the very
least attempt at some?
I was pretty good this year.
My one New Year’s resolution, that had nothing to do with
writing was losing weight.
When I went to RT in 2011 and saw pictures of myself, I
wanted to cry. I was a whopping 193 pounds! YIKES! I’m only 5’7” guys, so that
was a lot of meat on this frame.
The hubster, the sweetheart that he is didn’t say anything
to me. As a matter of fact, when I asked him to help me lose the weight I
wanted, he looked at me and said: (Bless his heart). “You look great! I don’t
see it.”
I know love is blind, but really. But then again the hubster
and I have been together for over 25 years, not as a married couple, but just
knowing each other. So I guess when you see someone every day you don’t really
notice.
Plus the fact I carried this weight pretty well, as well as
can be expected for nearly 200 pounds!
Now as some of you know, the hubster is an ex bodybuilder.
He still works out regularly too, so for a 49 year old he looks damn good.
I’m 48 and I wanted to look damn good too! So he put me on a
strict exercise routine and modified my diet. The diet part was kinda hard.
Being that he’s Sicilian and can cook his ass off, the food he makes is
irresistible.
But he taught me how to eat, not deprive myself and still lose the
weight.
I started this journey in February of 2011.
I am happy to report that I am now a healthy and still curvy
143! Yes 50 pounds gone.
But really losing the weight isn’t the hard part. It’s
keeping it off. And that’s not going to be a New Year’s resolution, that is
going to be a lifestyle!
Okay, now on to book stuff resolutions.
There were a couple of books that I wanted to get finished
last year which I did, and one of them will be coming out January 18th.
The title of the book is LOVE THY NEIGHBOR’S NEPHEW Here is
the cover:
It’s a cougar story and it is smokin’!
My other book that is loooong over due is CABIN FEVER. Here is the cover for that one:
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It’s still in the final editing stage. I don’t know when
that one will be out, but it will be hopefully this Spring.
It’s a Ménage a trois story. Super hot! Super kinky.
Those two stories were my main concern, plus a couple of
others I got out there and I will put the links to those below
Here’s my main New Year’s resolution.
Self-publishing!
Yes, I plan to step out on my own with some books. What
genre will these be? It will vary.
If you’re like me you have several finished and unfinished
manuscripts on your hard drive or sitting on your shelf as a hard copy. I have four romance/erotica books that I am
working on simultaneously. I also have a couple of mysteries and espionage
stories (Those two genres are my passion)
This is new for me and I don’t know what the hell I’m doing
and how to go about doing it. But I see a lot of writers out there getting their
books out so I said, why not me?
In order to not jump in the pool with no life preserver, I
did buy a book on the subject. In fact, I bought several books, but this one is
the best one. It’s very inspiration. Not inspirational in the scene of being
religious, but in a way that tells me: “Gee, I can do this!”
It answers a lot of doubts that we as authors might have
about self publishing too. It’s a very
simple read, not too technical. There is a section that goes techie, but that’s
about how to format and upload your books and doing your covers. But that’s it.
So here’s the book and buy links. THE BUSINESS OF
SELF-PUBLICATION.
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It’s worth the price. At least I think so. In fact, I am so
sure and confidant now, that I know I will have at least five self pub books
out by the end of Summer!
Am I scared to step out on my own like this. Sure am, and
from what I read in this book, there is a lot of stuff that I will be doing on
my own that my epublishers did for me.
Will I still go through epubs? Sure, every now and then I
will have a book pop up with one of my epublishers. But I just want to see if I
can do this on my own too.
Now on the social network resolutions.
I go through this every year. I say that I’m going to update
my blogs, post interesting stuff, go to my other hundreds of social networks
and yadda, yadda, yadda.
SIGH. We’re going to try this again. But this time I have
help.
A mutual friend of the hubster and I has agreed to take
dictation from me and post.
YAAAAYY!
That is a big help, you just don’t know.
So, how often are these posts going be? At the very least
once a month. I mean, I think I can swing that.
What will my posts be about?
First of all I need to finish some series I started already.
The one being, Finding Love and Danger series about my relationship with my
Israeli soldier man.
I will also have more guest bloggers. AND by popular demand,
a blog explaining my relationship with the hubster, and a mutual friend of
ours.
They both did on blog on Lady Isis’s website. Here are the links to those:
And people loved it. So it’s time for me to explain some
things too. LOL!
So that’s it folks my New Year’s Resolutions. I know we have
the same ones over and over and we try to accomplish them, and I guess that’s
the important thing. This time I plan to finish them.
So what are yours? Leave a comment below and share. And
leave a comment with what you would like to see more in my blog.
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others you’ve probably never heard of.
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That’s it for now. Catch you cats later!
