Wins the free ebook for my April 5th give-a-way! Give me a shout Ronda, and tell me which one you’d like!

Ben Storms knows fire. A hot shot, he’s not afraid to fight fire with fire and walk into the belly of a blaze to put it out. Only one thing has ever frightened him—how he feels about Hadyn O’Hara, a fellow firefighter. The largest wildland fire in decades brings them together for a hot time. Too bad Fire is a jealous bitch and doesn’t want to share Ben. Hadyn breathes in the spirit of Fire after an injury and sets Ben’s heart ablaze—with dire consequences to them both.

I’m pleased to share that I’ve signed the contract for “Consumed” and I’m going to be a part of Liquid Silver Books’ fabulous firefighter series called Hearts Afire! I had some amazing help with research for this novel from a Bellevue, Washington paramedic/firefighter who shared his vast knowledge with me in prose that make me think he’s a poet at heart. And it was my high school sweetheart (a Battalion Chief in the Bellevue Fire Department) who connected me to my source. It’s kind of cool to blindly email one’s first love–after 30 years–and say, “Hi, I need help” and then receive said assistance in abundance. Blessed abundance. Thank you Pat and Marty. You guys rock.

4/5/09 book give-a-way: Post a comment about my “Consumed” trailer or shoot me an email with your comment and I’ll enter you into the drawing. One book, one winner, pulled at random. Thanks! And Happy Birthday to me!

I am testing the new spoiler tag.
Hi, Ce. I’m glad you’re doing better!

Crystal B! She wins the Amazon.com gift certificate and her choice of ebook from the Darragha Collection!

Congrats, Crystal!

And the first review is in! Mrs. Giggles gave Half-Were House an 86! Read the review!

Peeps!  This contest will run 2/23 (release day) through 2/27.  Enjoy!

Half-Were House will be live at Liquid Silver Books after 5pm Pacific Time on 2/23/09.  A buy-link will be on this thread at the Liquid Silver forum.  Please do feel free to use it!

Answer one, two or all three questions correctly to be entered into a drawing to win an Amazon.com gift certificate and any ebook from Darragha’s backlist.

1)  What is the name of Blaze’s cat?
2)  What is the name of her mother’s pet shop?
3)  What does she order in the Chinese restaurant before heading into the bowels of the sewer system to find Jack?

Answer one question correctly and you’ll be entered to win a $10.00 gift certificate.  Answer two questions correctly and you’ll be entered to win a $15.00 gift certificate.  Answer all three questions correctly and you’ll be entered in a drawing to win a $20.00 Amazon.com gift certificate.

Each entrant submitting correct answers will also go into a drawing to win a free ebook from the Darragha Collection.

Please send answers to darragha @ gmail. com (no spaces) with the subject line: HWH contest.  Oh, and there are clues scattered about my Facebook (you’ll have to make me your friend) and this website…

My daughter’s hairstyle that inspired my character’s hairstyle in my story, “Tail Over Whiskers” in the “Half-Were House” anthology due out 2/23/09 from Liquid Silver Books.

Krys at Benjamins is the fabulous stylist who did my daughter’s hair. Benjamins: Home of Kilted Cutter.

Title: The Orca King II
Author: Darragha Foster
Genre: GLBTQ
Hearts: 3.75 / 5
Reviewer: Susan
Date: 12/20/2008

http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.asp?ReviewId=2918

ONE-POINT DARES

1) Run one lap around the office at top speed.

2) Ignore the first five people who say ‘good morning’ to you.

3) Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and
say, “Just called to say I can’t talk right now. Bye.”

4) To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your
ears and grimace.

5) Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say,
“Sorry, I really prefer it this way.”

6) Walk sideways to the photocopier.

7) While riding in an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.

Say to your boss, “I like your style” and shoot him with
double-barreled fingers.

9) Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask, “Did you get all
that, I don’t want to have to repeat it.”

10) Page yourself over the intercom (do not disguise your voice).

11) Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the
nozzle (there must be a ‘non-player’ within sight).

12) Shout random numbers while someone is counting.

FIVE POINT DARES

1) At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice
to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (5 extra points if you
actually launch into it yourself).

2) Walk into a very busy person’s office and while they watch you with
growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.

3) For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as “Bob.”

4) Announce to everyone in a meeting that you “really have to go do a number two.”

5) After every sentence, say ‘Mon’ in a really bad Jamaican accent. As
in “The report’s on your desk, Mon.” Keep this up for 1 hour.

6) While an office mate is out, move their chair into the elevator.

7) In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly
and mutter, “Shut up, all of you just shut up!”

At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, “As God as my
witness, I’ll never go hungry again.”

9) In a colleague’s DAY PLANNER, write in the 10am slot: “See how I
look in tights.”(5 Extra points if it is a male, 5 more if he is your boss)

10) Carry your keyboard over to your colleague and ask, “You wanna trade?”

11) Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: “Do
you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, it’s gone now.”

12) Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, “I can’t talk about it.”

13) Posing as a maitre d’, call a colleague and tell him he’s won a
lunch for four at a local restaurant. Let him go.

14) Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig, etc) during a
very important conference call.

15) Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk.

16) Hang a 2′ long piece of toilet roll from the back of your pants
and act genuinely surprised when someone points it out.

17) Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuits,
smashing each biscuit with your fist.

18) During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.

19) Arrange toy figures on the table to represent each meeting
attendee, move them according to the movements of their real-life
counterparts.

And if that wasn’t enough for you… How to keep a healthy level of
insanity:

1) At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a
hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2) Tell your children over dinner. “Due to the economy, we are going
to have to let one of you go.”

3) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

4) Put your waste basket on your desk and label it “IN”.

5) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten
over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

6) Finish all your sentences with “In accordance with the prophecy.”

7) Dont use any punctuation

Use, too…much; punctuation!

9) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

10) Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.

11) Specify that your drive-through order is “to go.”

12) Sing along at the opera.

13) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don’t rhyme.

14) Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.

15) Five days in advance, tell your friends you can’t attend their
party because you’re not in the mood.

16) Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, “Rock Hard.”

17) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream “I Won! I Won! 3rd time this week!!!”

18) When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot
yelling, “Run for your lives, they’re loose!”

I’m so proud of my kid.  She’s 16.5–attending community college instead of regular high school.  Last week there was a pro-life silent protest against third-term abortions on campus.  She whipped out a piece of notebook paper and wrote PRO CHOICE in red ink and stood on the wall for an hour.  She had good dialogue with the pro-lifers and did not allow hecklers to make fun of either side.  She wanted to make sure that both sides of the issue were represented.  The community college is near a retirement community.  Some old guy walked by, lit up a cigarette and said to her, “That’s the best sign I’ve ever seen.”  Then he walked off.  The same day as this protest, the local Planned Parenthood received a bomb threat.  “nuff said.

In a rain storm of Biblical proportions, in a borrowed trailer, with the husband, the daughter’s boyfriend and the daughter all frantically trying to finish a new horse stall built into an old barn, Kayak arrived at the Foster Family Farm. His new home. Too many issues at the professional stable he’s been at, and the desire to save about 80.00 a month in boarding fees, had us seek a new residence for the pony. Enter the brother and sister in law with the farm.

The daughter pulled her wet, filthy horse from the field at the stable and we carted him to his new home. And he liked it!