Sleeping Stone!

Torquere Press is publishing my newest book, Sleeping Stone, and it's out today!



Jazz Stone is full of life and energy, the kind of person that others gravitate to, and when Chris meets Jazz, he's instantly smitten. But the course of true love never runs smoothly.

Just as they seem to find solid ground to stand on, Jazz's former lover Richard shows up, strewing an already rocky road with gravel. When Jazz has a serious motorcycle accident that threatens to end his life, Chris and Richard try to carry on without him. Can they find common ground of their own?

The fantastically beautiful cover is by Rose Meloche --
( Click to see a bigger version of the cover! )

-- and it's a really good story. I'm very proud of it.

You can order Sleeping Stone here.

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Additionally, chris_owen's new book, Natural Disaster, is also out today, in ebook and paperback formats. Natural Disaster is the sequel to Chris' immensely popular Bareback.

I am soooooo excited about this book. I love the characters from Bareback so much and I can hardly wait to get my hands on the sequel.

Lemon Bars

Lemon Bars

3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups flour
1/3 cup confectioner's sugar

4 eggs
2 cups sugar
4 tbsp flour
1 tsp baking powder
dash salt
6 tbsp lemon juice

Cream together butter, flour and confectioner's sugar. Pat into 13 by 9 inch pan. Bake 18 minutes at 350 degrees.

Beat together rest of ingredients and pour over crust. Bake an additional 25 minutes.

Sprinkle with additional confectioner's sugar.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

1/2 cup butter (or margarine)
3/4 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup graham cracker/wafer crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup milk (or soy milk)
1/4 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
12 paper or aluminum muffin liners

In small saucepan, melt butter. Once melted, stir in peanut butter, graham cracker crumbs, and sugar. Spoon into muffin tins lined with paper/aluminum liners. In a different pan, melt chocolate and soy milk together, stirring often. Spoon over the tops of the peanut butter cups. Garnish with chopped nuts if desired. Allow to set in fridge for 6-8 hours.

As you can tell by reading this, these aren't like traditional peanut butter cups -- the peanut butter layer has texture instead of being smooth, and there's just a layer of chocolate on top. They are excellent made with natural peanut butter. You need to store them in the fridge -- shortly after you take them out, the chocolate layer gets really soft. I guess if you used less milk/soy milk, that would be less of a problem. They taste great, though.

*Sigh*

It's been a long couple of days. We've had late nights, early mornings, and a ton of work to accomplish in a small amount of time.

Today I baked lemon bars because we had the ingredients for them. Not because I really wanted lemon bars, LOL. Oh well. Maybe I'll take them to my mom's or something.

I've been enjoying writing original fic, but I'm starting to miss fanfic. Or maybe I just miss the lovely, immediate warm fuzzies that posting fanfic results in, in the form of feedback. You don't get much feedback on published fic -- just the nature of the beast -- plus it takes me a lot longer to write anything substantial, and I can't post it in increments that draw more and more people in!

If I can manage to buckle down and finish the original story I've been working on (so that I can get it beta'd because it needs it liek whoa) maybe I'll be able to eek out a little time for fanfic...