Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

Yep, Doris was right...Whatever Will Be, Will Be...the future's not ours to see.

So, why sweat it?

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
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New beginnings...

Speaking as someone who buggered up a lot of things in 2010, I look forward to 2011 with hope and positivity and yes, probably the fact I’ll mess something else up. But that’s okay. It shows a life well lived.

My wish for you in 2011 is you find the love of your life or get that job or house or baby or car or money or whatever it is you need and don’t be too hard on yourself. It’s just life. You’re not supposed to be good at it. You’re just supposed to take a crack at it.

Happy 2011

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
www.amarindajones.com
www.amarindajones.blogspot.com
Be daring...read an Amarinda book

Another great cover...

Another fantastic cover from Secret Cravings Publishing.

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
www.amarindajones.com
www.amarindajones.blogspot.com
Be daring...read an Amarinda book

Stuff…

* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
*The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(Wow!)
*A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes
(In my next life, I want to be a pig..)
*A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy...)
(I'm still not over the pig.)
*Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)
*The male preying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?)
*The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes!! Lucky pig! Can you imagine?!!)
*Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
*The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm......)
*Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
*Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)
*A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out . )
*Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
*Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

**thanks Sparky for the info….

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
www.amarindajones.com
www.amarindajones.blogspot.com
Be daring...read an Amarinda book

Have it the way you want...

I was doing some writing and banging out all these terrible, filthy, sexy words on screen. And the things the characters were doing to each other? Most interesting. As I wrote I thought back to when I started this writing gig. Then, I was subbing only to one publisher. Why? I was dumb and new. I’m still dumb but older. Anyway that publisher had strict rules about what words could be used to describe sex and other stuff. ‘Dick’ was never to be used to describe a penis. And ‘baby’? That wasn’t a term of endearment to them. They considered it somehow pedophilia to have the characters say something like -“Baby, I love you.”

That publisher was very limited in their views. I believe it was because they were the big fish in a small pond and they had power over the e-book erotica market. A lot of writers feared their wrath and were too scared to do anything but follow rules. Of course now the e-book pond has grown and multiple new publishers have arisen changing the market even more and for the better. How so? Competition. It’s a great thing. There are new genres, more open minds about the everyday reality of language and the use of words and bodies. It also means writers don’t have to agree to blindly follow the management of one mob. They can pick and choose who they send their work to and – more importantly – 99% of the time they can write the way they want without their ‘voice’ being changed to fit some publisher diva’s personal belief. Creativity should never be packaged in a box because someone says so.

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
www.amarindajones.com
www.amarindajones.blogspot.com
Be daring...read an Amarinda book

I love it when a publisher - Secret Cravings Publishing - actually listen to what you want when it comes to a cover. Perfect!

A-muse-me not…

"Ms. Jones can definitely write erotica! WHEW!!!"

http://bookinitalong.blogspot.com/2010/12/review-bad-girl-by-amarinda-jones.html

Erotica. How hard it is to write? Despite what some authors will say - you know the whole thing where they tell you writing is like a ‘muse’ ridden mystical journey into the core of ones being to bring out the inner yearnings of their soul– yawn - it’s not hard to write erotica. It is however mechanical and boring because it’s all about making it real and no one in real life when they’re having sex, to my knowledge, worries about hand placement, errant cocks, hair in mouth and or where tongues should be. So I tend to think, while that compliment and review was very nice – thank you very much – it’s all imagination and as I have said before many times everyone has it and anyone can write. It’s a matter of bum to chair and fingers to the keyboard. Wanna write? Do it. There’s nothing mystical about it. And you inner soul? Keep it in your shoe.

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
www.amarindajones.com
www.amarindajones.blogspot.com
Be daring...read an Amarinda book