Long, lazy weekend

Last weekend until school starts. Wooo. Since the hubby had Friday and Monday off, we headed to northern MN when his parents have a lake house. It's beautiful up here--even though I saw a tree that was changing colors already. So not cool.

Right now, the girls are with Daddy and Grandpa out on the lake fishing. The oldest kiddo is lazing around reading (really, he is SO my kid), while the youngest boy is running around crazy, making me exhausted just looking at him.

I'm getting ready to take my pen and notebook out on the deck and write. I'm kinda hitting a wall with the current WIP, though I know exactly what is going to happen, what needs to happen. Sometimes scribbling in a notebook makes things click for me. Don't know why, but I'm not going to question it.

So I'll get to enjoy the lovely weather--and the gorgeous sunset over the lake--and hopefully make some progress on the stubborn hero who is giving me fits. He's just lucky I *heart* him so much, or I'd kill him off. LOL

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

Hugs
~J

I'm outnumbered

Oy!

LOL I'm working on a vamp short right now--it's part of a series. And wouldn't you know it, the hero in the one I'm working on is clammed up tighter than tight, while the secondary characters (who will eventually get their own stories) are talking up a storm. And there is not an ounce of patience between them.

To be honest I wasn't expecting this to be a series. I'd originally written the first story for Total-E-Bound's Bite Me! collection (Lust Me, Trust Me, which is Fenlon and Sarah's story). Well I just had to write the story of Fenlon's partner, Jaecar. He was just so fun. That's the story I'm currently working on. The whole thing blossomed into something much more. I fell in love with this young man who showed up in their lives--how could I not write his story eventually? Then we met other vampires who worked with Fenlon and Jaecar, and they started talking... and well you get the picture.

That's the beauty of what I do. I never know where I'll be lead, who'll I'll be introduced to next. :)

So for right now, I'm hanging on and enjoying the ride...

~J

Off to bed...

last night's lack of sleep caught up with me. I'm off to bed now...at 8:30. That is unheard of for me. But I need it. LOL Sweet dreams all. Hoping to have sexy vamp dreams--it would be appropriate since I'm writing vamps. I think I deserve a hot vamp chasing me around as I slumber! :-D

Night all!
~J

No sleep, but lots of words

I could not sleep for anything last night. Don't know why, but it was not fun. LOL Bright side, I pulled out a notebook and started writing. Didn't feel like staring at the computer screen so I wrote long-hand. Sometimes that's what works for me, what gets the words flowing. I don't know for sure how many words I ended up writing, but I have 20 handwritten pages. We'll see how much that translates into when I type it all in.

The youngest son is off to day camp this week. He didn't want to do a "sleepover" camp, so I'll be dropping him off each morning and picking him up each afternoon. I think it'll be really good for him though. All too often he's hanging out with older kids (his sibs), so being with kids his own age will be great. Already when I dropped him off, he had become fast friends with a little boy who shared his birthday. LOL

Don't know how much I'll accomplish today, but I'm bound and determined to get more writing done. The laundry is nearly done--thank you, hubby!--but I do need to get it all put away and tackled the *gasp* bathrooms. Ick, ick, ick. But it needs to be done, in a big way!

Hope everyone's having a wonderful Monday. :)

~J

Birthdays and Fireworks

I had a fabulous weekend. Friday was my birthday--we won't mention age in this post at all, that you very much ;-) --and of course the Fourth on Saturday. The hubby and the kids made me a cake. I got a cool game for the Wii. :-) And otherwise had a lazy, lazy day. I didn't go on the computer, I didn't do house or yard work...nothin'. I read and and lounged around. Just lovely.

The Fourth was low-key. My family lives in another state, and we weren't going to travel again a few days after getting back from vacation. :) Most of the hubby's family was out of town for the holiday. So his sister & her fiance stopped by and we grilled out. Another of his sisters came by for a bit later (he has 7 sibs so really, most were out of town!) It was great. Very relaxing, though I did miss my family. I'm looking forward to our next trip up there later this summer.

But the relaxation is over. LOL Gotta jump back into the current work-in-progress. The goal is to finish it by the end of the week and submit to my editor. Of course, then it's on to the next project--the next Fey book! Yay.

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.

~J

New Reviews

Yay, I just received 2 lovely reviews from the ladies over at ParaNormal Romance for Waters of Fate. Here's a snippet from both reviews-

"WATERS OF FATE was a beautiful story. Ms. Jarman did an excellent job with all the important mechanics of the story, and the world she created for the Fey was amazing. Neiva was my favorite type of heroine-she knew what she wanted, but she wasn't going to chase after a man too dumb to know when he had heaven in his hands. Rhys was very noble, even if he was a bit thickheaded at times. He was so busy trying to do the right thing that he forgot to think about what was right for him. All in all, this was a great story!"

Reviewed by Beth Foster

"What a good story! I love confused men, women who know what they want and are determined to get it/him. A+++ to the author."

Reviewed by Nancy Eriksen

To read the reviews in their entirety, click here.

Thank you, Beth and Nancy, for the wonderful reviews. I'm so happy you liked Waters of Fate. Stay tuned because there's more from the Fey coming!

~J

I'm baaack

We just got home from a family vacation, and boy, was it nice. We went to Wisconsin Dells, and the kids had a blast at the water parks. The hubby and I did too! LOL Even though I got a tad sunburned in the process. LOL Getting away and spending quality time with the family was just what I needed. :)

I've been writing like crazy, even on the vaca. I'm finishing up another vampire story--a sequel to Lust Me, Trust Me. It's Jae's story and he is keeping me busy and hopping, let me tell you! I'm also working on a special project with my girl, Gwen Cease. I'll share more about that later, but I'll just tell you it's fun, fun, fun and hot, hot, hot. :-D

Now, I'm gearing up to work hard the rest of the summer. I'm writing, of course, and gardening to my little heart's content. We've been eating fresh strawberries--YUM--and our mulberries trees are full and the berries are nearly ripe. I've been looking up recipes for those yummy fruits. And I got baby tomatoes. Yay. I'm looking forward to making delish fresh tomato recipes. :-D This is one of my favorite things about summer.

Now, I'm off to fix supper and feed the natives!

~J