Tag: Noon and Wilder

  • Happy New Year!

    What’s on tap for 2013? I have a full year planned for you, so let’s get started:

    Happy Fifth Anniversary to My Blog!

    We\’ll take a peek at:

    • Favorite posts
    • Top five best – readers’ choice
    • Revisit guests and interview them

    Happy Fifth Anniversary to the Writer’s Retreat!

    • Focus on the blog
    • Interview founding members, where are they now?
    • Festival of Picture prompts and other events
    • Relaunch of the Forum, March 1, 2013

    A Year of Stash Busting!

    • TKGA Master Knitter
    • Full stash list and tools list
    • New designs and launch of website

    Noon and Wilder Coming Out Strong!

    • Highlight books and stuff we have planned
    • Redesign of the Noon and Wilder website

    A Blog A Day Keeps the Blues Away

    Belly, Belly, Belly

    • Belly dance, costume, strong core, teas to support the belly, and mehndi on the belly
    • Belly balm
    • Extra special body day
    • Belly cleanse
    • How to hide or show off your belly, depending on your preference

    What are you excited about in 2013?

  • Happy Naughty New Year!

    For this year, I thought I’d use the prompt generator. Here are my prompts:

    These are your characters:
    Werewolf, Archaeologist, Vampire
    These adjectives describe them.
    Assign one to each character.
    Flippant, Sweet, Picky
    This is your setting:
    Pharmacy

    Archie wandered through the aisles, looking for the charcoal tablets. Why Tiroll insisted on the stuff, he’d never know. He insisted it cut the flavor of the drugs that humans took, so he could hunt at more places. Archie preferred the seedier dives down by the docks, but Tiroll liked the lights and sounds here.

    “Excuse me.”

    The voice came from behind Archie as he looked behind the diarrhea medicine. “A moment, please.”

    “Aren’t you a werewolf?”

    Of all the nights… He retracted his head from the shelf and turned to find a short, balding man dressed in an impeccable periwinkle suit with a silk bowtie that matched. The aroma of expensive cologne came off him in a discrete cloud and Archie tried to hide his inhalation.

    The man bent forward. “I’ve found evidence of your kind all over the city and tracked you here.”

    This little pouf tracked Archie to the drug store? He wanted to laugh. He glanced around but knew no one stood nearby. “And you decided to confront me all by yourself, is that it?” He sucked on his right eye tooth.

    The little man paled but rallied quickly enough. “I know you won’t hurt me.”

    “Oh?” Archie chuckled. “And how do you know that, little man?”

    “Because you’re vegetarian.”

    Archie blinked. “Beg pardon?”

    “Vegetarian.” The man frowned. “I saw you go into the Hari Krishna restaurant.”

    Terrific. The one time Archie agreed to do recon for Tiroll, he had to get followed by a frumpy, more fastidious Columbo. “And you think because I like Karma-free food, I’m vegetarian and won’t eat you?”

    “Please.” His expression turned wheedling. “I’m finishing my doctorate and just want to interview you.”

    Archie found the charcoal tablets and turned to leave. “Buy me a latte and you can have ten minutes of my time.”

    The little man vibrated with excitement all the way across to the café. They sat down at a small table in the corner by a window.

    “I’m Maximillian Pierpont.” He pulled out a leather-bound journal and gold pen. “And you are?”

    Fully capable of eating you? “Archie Walker.”

    “And you really are…” He swallowed. “You’re one of them?”

    “One of what?”

    “A werewolf?”

    Archie grinned at him. “And aren’t you the least bit scared?”

    “Of a vegetarian?”

    “I was hunting, Max. Not going there for the cuisine.”

    “It’s Maximillian.” He swallowed again, and this time his Adam’s apple bounced. “What were you hunting?”

    “My master wanted a young vegetarian for a snack and she went there for dinner, so I followed.”

    Maximillian’s eyes grew large. “Your master?”

    “He’s a vampire.” Archie let his smile grow to Cheshire proportions. “He likes softer flesh.”

    “To kill?” This was whispered.

    “Actually, no. That was part of our agreement when I consented to stay with him and guard him. He doesn’t kill, and neither do I.”

    “Can I… can I meet him?”

    Archie blinked. “Why?”

    “I’m an archeologist by training. Imagine what it would be like to interview such a being who has lived so long.”

    “He’s young, for a vampire. Only two-hundred forty-eight. He’s not very… approachable.”

    “I’ll manage.” Max practically bounced in his seat.

    “You just might, at that.” Oh, yeah. Tiroll would like this one.

  • Writing Series

    Join me at Samhain Publishing today, for some thoughts on Writing Series.

  • The Noonhour Special Broadcast

    I know, I know, it\’s not Saturday.  But I couldn\’t wait!  I had the privilege of being interviewed by Kristi Boulware, the General Manager of Torquere Press.  I am tickled to bring you my first podcast interview!  Thanks Kristi!

  • Around the Web with Aunt Noony

    I have three, count it, THREE, posts for you today – in honor of Twosday, of course!

    The first is at my publisher Torquere Press\’s blog, Romance for the Rest of us:

    The second is over at the Taurus\’s hangout, and is this week\’s Tasty Tuesday:

    The third and final post is over at Kharisma Rhayne\’s, where she gave me a great guest post today.  Thank you, Kharisma!

  • Join Us for Dinner!

    I have two more posts for you on the Torquere Press LiveJournal today, as part of my Thanksgiving Day series.

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  • It\’s Thanksgiving, and All Through the House…

    Join me at the Torquere Press LiveJournal today for festival meal planning ideas and tips, recipes, and a healthy dose of gratitude.  It\’s Thanksgiving with Aunt Noony!

  • It\’s Thanksgiving, and All Through the House…

    Join me at the Torquere Press LiveJournal today for festival meal planning ideas and tips, recipes, and a healthy dose of gratitude.  It\’s Thanksgiving with Aunt Noony!

  • Step Into the Mists with Me

    Join me today at Beyond the Veil and step into the mists of history.  Find out what an Irish-American Marine vet and a Daughter of the American Revolution have in common.  History.  It gets personal.

  • Join the Tauruses for Tiger Tiger and NaNoWriMo

    Join me today at the Noon and Wilder blog, Taurus and Taurus.  We have an update on TIGER TIGER and the editing process, as well as some NaNoWriMo conversation.  Stop by!

  • Sunday Box Talk: The Next Big Thing

    For today’s offering of Sunday Box Talk, I offer you the Next Big Thing, an event where participating authors share their insights on their current in-progress novel. My agent provocatrix is Meg Allison, fellow author at Beyond the Veil and \”wife, mom, and published romance writer\” (love her tag line, don’t you?).

    I know talking about my favorite subject, my writing, isn’t exactly about the boxes of life, but here’s how I’m thinking of it: my life centers around my writing and my family or home. I think ruminating on that for a while is a useful exercise when we’re thinking about our boxes and why they’re there.

    So, without further ado, here are my Ten Interview Questions for the Next Big Thing. Stay tuned at the bottom for links to some other participants in this event.

    TNBT: What is your working title of your book?

    Noony:  Our next book is called BOUND BY FIRE.

    TNBT:  Where did the idea come from for the book?

    Noony:  I was at my coauthor Rachel’s house and we were talking late one night. She has a print over her desk of a dragon at the portcullis of a castle and he is talking to a castle denizen. Of course, the assumption is the dragon’s there to eat the occupants, but I got to thinking, what if the dragon were an ally?

    TNBT:  What genre does your book fall under?

    Noony:  Fantasy M/M romance.

    TNBT:  Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?

    Noony:  We actually selected models to play the two main characters, and use a lovely site called Beautiful. It’s a labor of love by two men in Europe and is one of the most professional sites on the internet for erotic male photography. If you haven’t checked it out, take a visit (not work safe and make sure you’re over 18).

    TNBT:  What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

    Noony:  Gosh. Good question! I always find these exercises tough. We struggle over the blurb for the books we write and I hope, someday, they’ll get easier. Let’s see what I can come up with for now:

    Will Vanya, apprentice to an unscrupulous sorcerer, be able to free himself from a powerful binding with an elemental or will he become bait for a dragon?

    TNBT:  Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

    Noony:  Neither. We are targeting a specific house for this one, but we do not use an agency right now.

    TNBT:  How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?

    Noony:  Not very long; the first draft only took a month or two. The challenging part has been the ending and bridges in the middle. I’m finding the endings are the most challenging part of any project.

    TNBT:  What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

    Noony:  Some of the elements of the MYTH ADVENTURES series by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye influenced us, as well as the early Harlequin white-covers where the romance is between two people brought together by arrangement.

    TNBT:  Who or what inspired you to write this book?

    Noony:  My inspiration comes from many different places, especially my coauthor Rachel Wilder and the crew of Writer Zen Garden. I love you guys.

    TNBT:  What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

    Noony:  There are snakes, and bears, and sorcerers, and dragons. What more could you want? Oh, yes. The smut. Lots of lovely smex.

    Be sure to check out some of the other participants in the Next Big Thing:

    Kimberley Troutte’s Blog

    Selena Robins Musings

  • The Power of Gratitude

    Wonder how to utilize the power of gratitude?

    So glad you asked!  I have just the thing for you.  Join me at Torquere Press\’s Blog, Romance for the Rest of Us, for my take on how to harness the power of gratitude.