Amy Ruttan

I’m guest blogging today over at Kelley Nyraes about my CP release Fox’s Bride and some pirate slang. Arrrr.

Love to see you!

I did a Thursday Thirteen. *GASP* It’s been so long since I’ve done one.

Anyways it’’s posted over at Six Degrees of Sexy. Come on over and say hi!

I am very excited!! Christine’s newest Eternal Bond series The Bonds that Heals Us is out today. WOOHOO!!!

Here’s the blurbage:

Sara Fergus has been so busy saving the lives of others, her own life has passed her by. But when a mysterious alien captain crash lands his ship on the Eurus colony, Sara feels an unexplained attraction to him and decides to throw herself into an unexpected love affair. The last thing Davin Jagt wants is to walk into a relationship with anyone, let alone a feisty human doctor. But when he is force to stay on the colony, Davin can’t help but be drawn to Sara’s strength and spirit. As long as he can hide the true nature of his healing abilities from her, everything will be fine. When a group of miners on the planet begin to exhibit unusual behavior, Davin must put his fears aside and work with Sara to save their lives.

So now go. What are you waiting for? Go buy and enjoy book two!!!

Also stay tuned for a great contest featuring Six Degrees of Sexy and all the releases we have coming out this month.

Well, I’m back safe and sound. I’m absolutely exhausted and broke.

One mall we went to was Great Lakes Crossing. OY but that mall is over a mile to do the loop. We started walking it at 12:30 and ended up back at the spot we started at 4:10 p.m., mind you that’s fast walking and going into stores. YIKES. It was insane.

What I thought was cool was walking into a book store and ACTUALLY seeing EC and CP books on the shelves. They don’t sell them up here in Canada. So picking up some of my friends books and holding it in my hands (and buying) was very cool.

I also bought a lot of Sarah Jessica Parker and Sex and the City clothes. YAY!!! I was very happy.

All in and all it was a good trip. Now, back to reality. I came home to the final line edits of Love Thy Neighbor sitting in my inbox that I have to get done. Also right before I left for this trip I made a marker of 65k and I only have 15k to go. So I want to get working on my current WIP again. I also have some other projects I am trying desperately to finish. GAK. So many words … so little time.

How are you?

I’m breaking through the Black moment of my current WIP and before the black moment happened they made love.  It was a pretty intense, emotional scene for me.

So tonight I needed to kick back and share a favorite FUNNY love scene with you. I couldn’t find it in English, sorry, only Spanish; but I am sure that most of you have seen this.

This is the current state of my mind. LOL.

I’ll also be gone for  a couple of days. Going on a girls weekend with my Aunt, my cousin (who’s more like my sister) and my Mom. No kids, no hubby muwahahahahaha. So have a good weekend y’all and I’ll see you on Monday.

I was so excited to learn that Hard Candy, Madonna’s new cd, was released today.

I am OBSESSED with the new song 4 minutes. I love it. I hope when I’m fifty I look as good and move as good as Madonna. You know what the bonus is (I know how can their be a bonus with Madonna), well Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

Guess what I’ve been listening to all afternoon. It’s interesting to write a historical with Madonna, Timbaland and Timberlake in the background; but whatever, it works. Ok I’m off to listen to 4 Minutes again, over and over and over. Also Kanye West is on here in a song called Beat Goes On, I haven’t listened to it yet, but I am a major fan of Kanye.

Enjoy the video, as I said I hope I look as good and move as good as she does at Fifty. She’s break dancing in whore boots! I adore her.

I think I’ve been tagged for this before and I think everyone in blogdom has been tagged.

 So I’m going to do it, because I need some diversion from my current WIP which I am steadily working at right at the moment. Also I have a huge paper cut between my index and middle finger which is driving me crazy.

 Not that, that has anything to do with my the 7 things meme I just thought I would add it.

Ahem *throat clearing* Seven Random Things:

1. I have such an eclectic taste in music. I love it all. Right now my faves happen to be Timbaland, Kayne West and Within Temptation. I have a huge music list I listen to over and over again when I’m writing.

2. When I have a shower I listen to Timbaland shock value. *Blushing* I like to rap in the shower. My favorite song to sing is Give it To Me or Bombay from the Shock value cd.

3. I am shy, and if pressed to speak in front of a crowd I will hyperventilate on you and pass out.

4. I am a Trekkie. Not to the point of William Shatner reeming me out at a convention (see you tube post below for one of the funniest SNL bits, sans the recruitment for the role playing game. LOL!); but I am obsessed with my Trek. Voyager is my favorite. I loved their quest. Exploring the unknown for real and struggling to survive 60,000 light years from home and in Borg territory.

5. My brain candy book, meaning the books I read for sheet relaxation and brain candy is any Connie Mason. Man, her books are enjoyable.

6. I’d rather have a bag of potato chips or a bowl of pasta over chocolate.

7. I have one vice, Diet Coke, and I’m not giving it up. Nope never.

And a bonus: A cheap drunk. It doesn’t take me long. San Francisco here I come.

So with the writer strike over my favorite show has finally returned The Office.

I’m worried though, because Jim and Pam finally got together this season, my worry, I know how American TV operates.

They are going to break up Jim and Pam … in envitable. My example every Soap Opera, Friends, and I’m fearing the same outcome for Sex and The City. Big and Carrie or Miranda and Steve (which I won’t be able to handle).

 This is why I like romance. Sure the characters have their black moment but they don’t mess around with other people. See above for examples of messing around. Plus the characters always get back together again and have their Happily Ever After. A good writer will make the reader think that they won’t though that’s the niche. I’ve come close to throwing books at the wall thinking characters wouldn’t get together. I almost did in JR Ward’s latest. Although I wasn’t satisfied with the outcome Vishous still got his “HEA”.

Anyways, I’m worried that Jim and Pam will break up and they will boink other people for awhile and I can tell you if that happens they’ve lost this fan.

I’ve been thinking about the black moment alot recently. My black momen is about to happen in my current WIP; so I’ve been accentuating the negative recently.

How do you feel about HEA? Have any good HEA’s you want to share for this poor soul stuck in the black moment. PLEASE!!

Oh yes, I found my groove thang last night. The last couple of weeks I had been struggling, and I mean struggling to get the words out. It would feel like I wrote thousands upon thousands of words only to discover that I wrote like three. LOL!! Well, not THAT extreme.

I found my groove last night. My hero has been in a horrible bloody war. A war that still gives him nightmares. In the company of a party he is requested to tell about his battle. So instead of using dialogue I had him describe in a narrative what was going through his mind.

He was speaking to the other characters; but to the reader it was more in depth. Instead of a long winded speech the reader is taken to his memories. The smells, the tastes, feeling his fear … how he waits to die.

I end it when he realizes that the only thing that got him through was the memories of the heroine; but he keeps that to himself and realizes that the room is silent and everyone is hanging on his every word. Looking up he only see’s the heroine’s eyes full of tears.

Of course I wanted to hit 3,000 words last night. I only managed about 2200 give or take. It’s because of the depth of the description. I actually had to put myself as a writer right there on a battlefield with a Zulu spear sticking out of me, waiting for death.

It was an interesting excercise to say the least and it got my groove thang back. Which is very important I finish this project by May 15 or I don’t get anymore ice cream. It’s a bet me and Christine made. Finish our current projects or no ice cream.

Oh yes, I am going to finish and then I’m going to get me a giant ice cream cake and eat it all by myself. Muwahahahaha.

Got any goals? Need motiviation? How are my fellow sweaters doing?

I’ve been having internet issues. Grrrr.

So this is long overdue.

The winners of the my April Newsletter contest are:

Virgina H: Who wins a Fox’s Bride Mug

Jane V: Who wins a Book tote bag

Eva S: who wins a T-shirt!!

Congrats! Email me with your address on where I can send your loot at ruttanamy @ gmail dot com (no spaces).

I’ll try to get to blogs in a few days on my lunch at work when my internet won’t be so screwy louey. I’ve got to fly right now. Got to get my May newsletter ready.

Sign up by April 30th for a chance to win an E-book copy of Love Thy Neighbor and Fox’s Bride which are both being released in May. I’ll announce the winners in my May 1st Newsletter.

I’m also doing a contest with my Six Degrees of Sexy Sisters. I’ll give you more details later.