Light from a police car parked at the corner.

The face of publishing now

This is the trend:  50 Shades of Grey-type stuff, Vampires, self-published stuff in those genres that gets popular.  The daily industry newsletter I get, Publishers Lunch, has this in its roundup of recently completed publishing deals:

"Fiction: Women's/Romance Tara Sue Me's fanfiction.net success, first posted in 2009, the Submissive Trilogy, an erotic portrayal of a relationship between a wealthy CEO and a young librarian, beginning with The Submissive, now out as an ebook (with a trade paperback in June), followed by The Dominant in August 2013 and The Training in October 2013, to Claire Zion at NAL, by Red Publishing in Australia, which published the first book down under in 2012 (world).
UK and Australian rights to Headline, in a pre-empt."
 

Hoboken at dusk

 

Happy Valentine's Day....

When I was a single gal and I was contemplating the frustrations of love, and I couldn't sleep, I used to listen to these two songs.   Click the first one, and after, the second one (that one takes a bit to get going).   Ball your fists and listen to the raw emotion.

My winter storm names

Asnowstorm
Bigsnowstorm
Cowabunga-Asnowstorm
Damnitnotagain
Excellentanothercrappystorm
Frigginstorm
Goodgodnotmoresnow
Holycowmoresnow
Idioticstorm
Jeanine
Keith
Lookasnowstorm
Mymysomuchsnow
Notagainjeez
Ohcrap
Putzystorm
Quitsnowingalready
Reallyyougottabekiddinme
Snowstorm
Tim
Ughitssnowingsomemore
Verybigsnowstorm
Whatta storm
Xavier 
Yuckitssnowingsomemore
Znowstorm