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Jane E. Jones

The cover artist is Valerie Tibbs and she did a fantastic job

I miss her so much. December has been so difficult, to put it mildly, for the last two years. I only hope next December is better.

Also, great news about Sanctuary! I received a contract offer yesterday from Loose Id, and am very, very happy about that! With a release date of April, 2010, I’ll have plenty of time for NaNo, Sanctuary edits, and concentrating on Etsy as well as the other books I have right now in submission.

I’ll keep you updated:)

A groom in lust, an unwilling bride, one night of dominance both won’t forget.

Tanesha did the sensible thing when her Brazilian family arranged a marriage of convenience to another jaguar shifter. She made a run for it. Now living a cushy life as a call girl in Manhattan, she lost her virginity and her desire to have a lifelong mate in the same second. Up until the crashing stock market robs her of all her savings. Broke, she considers returning to Brazil.

Danilo, bitterly scorned when his virgin bride escaped from under his nose, is none too pleased to hear of her plans to return to Brazil. Gone is his desire to marry, even if a promise given still binds him. Seeking her out, he brings one million dollars, a leather cat-o’-nine whip, and the heated determination to settle a score.

And on her knees—the smacking sound of leather against her bare skin—Tanesha fights against surrendering to the carnal attraction toward the shifter she once scorned.

Jaguar’s Claim by Amy Redwood. Read excerpt here.

I’m off to watch Monster’s Ball again; I’ve watched it before but a very long time ago.

I hope everyone is having a great night.

I made up a lot of different things for Etsy to have a little shop going while I was doing rewrites, because I knew I wouldn’t be making anything else for awhile.

I’m off to put on headphones and listen to music while I finish rewrites on Sanctuary, which, by the way, I’ll be putting out under the name Cassidy Hunter.

I put my dolls on Etsy if you’d like to take a look. Some of them, the yarn dolls, are really a piece of cake to make. Especially when compared with the doll I’ve named December, and her doll, Christabel! Here they are:

I made December the little doll named Christabel, and knitted her a crossbody bag that looks sorta like a demented frog, but she likes strange things. You can probably tell that from looking at her big crooked eyes. She’s wearing some jewelry, too.

Anyway, she and Christabel and the yarn dolls will be up on Etsy soon.

And the yarn dolls…

I also made tiny pink girl yarn dolls with purple boy dolls, and I’ll post those as sets. They’re safe for little kids, unlike Ms. December who has beads and all sorts of little kid un-friendly stuff.

Fun fun

But sometimes I’ll hear something that brings it back full force and it’s like a train hitting me.

My seven year old nephew, who witnessed the killings, told my niece the other day, ‘After I got out from under sissy, I had to walk over mammaw and pappaw, then I ran down the hill and called the cops. After all, they did shoot my people.’ And my heart broke all over again.

I hope you all had a great 4th! The last couple of days have been gloomy and wet here, so I’ve been writing quite a bit. What else can one do on a rainy day?:)

I really want to get Sanctuary wrapped up in the next few days so I can start on the new book.

Anyway, for those of you curious about the giver of flowers, come on over to my website. I’ve posted a photo

The internet makes it easy for people to steal; music, movies, books…

As writers, we work hard at what we do. Very hard. And believe me, every sale counts. It’s discouraging to see so many books being downloaded for free. If you want the book enough to read it, please buy it. Don’t steal it. As author Lynn Lorenz points out, you wouldn’t walk into a B&N and steal the books off the shelves.

She writes:

“What we have to do is to attack the companies that advertise on the sites that offer pirated material.
Bring them to the forefront with a campaign like #Amazonfail, letting everyone know that such and such promotes the crime of illegal downloads.

And remember, as I’ve said before, it’s supply and demand. Pablo wouldn’t have wasted a moment of his time if the hordes of people clamoring for a way to steal music, video, books an movies weren’t so damn loud and insistant.

So, at the bottom of this pit lie the readers.

That’s right. Readers.

The same people who would never dream of walking into a B&N and stealing a book off the shelf, much less fifty books, but think nothing of downloading their equivalent from a pirate site.

Whe the demand stops, so does the piracy.”

Author Roscoe James wrote a fantastic post about the issue on his blog. There are some great comments there, too.

There are many loyal readers out there who buy the books and support the authors. We so appreciate you. Thank you