kate rothwell

1. yup, this is the goofy one. I had such good time writing a short contemporary for the m/m group , I wrote another novella. This one's called Game On and it's about a bright but stuffy lawyer and an adult who acts as like a teenager. * * * Grant knows his fellow lawyers think of him as a calm but distant person. At the moment he’s unusually furious: some guy has been swimming in his pool. Ned visits pools to jump-start his creativity. When one homeowner flips out, Ned's apologetic--and intrigued. When they meet again, Ned decides he has to convince Grant he’s not trying to ruin his life and career, and that the attraction of opposites can be very good...very, very good. * * * Anyway, Game On is cheap--99 cents. It's a novella, although reading it will take longer than drinking a cup of coffee so you get a far better deal than you would at Starbucks or even Dunkin Donuts. (I'm convinced that comparing coffee to books is legit. Both ...

I have over 350 greetings on Facebook, telling me that I should probably remove my birthdate. It's my oldest boy's birthday too--he's way too old.

hey how come no one's commenting on my JR Ward column?  I'm listening to Going Postal again, read by Stephen Briggs.  It's a fine comfort read. I used to grab Jane Austen when I needed a familiar voice. 

There's a whole page devoted to bloggers who write "wow it has been a while." If I find it, I will post it. I went to look for it and got millions of hits when I entered "sorry I've been gone so long."  In the meantime, I have to find somewhere to park this list of my books and this lets me.  How have you been? Fine, I hope?     As Summer Devon The Knight’s Challenge , contemporary dragon, novella, Samhain Learning Charity , gaslight historical novella, Samhain Revealing Skills , fantasy, Samhain Taken Unaware , contemporary alien, Samhain Unnatural Calamities , contemporary, Samhain Direct Deposit , contemporary novella, Total-e-bound Perfection, contemporary, light paranormal novella, Ellora’s Cave Invisible Touch , contemporary light paranormal novella, Ellora’s Cave Irrational Arousal, contemporary light paranormal, Ellora’s Cave Futurelove , time travel novella, Ellora’s Cave The Mad Baron , historical, Liquid Silv...

I'm going through all the Rhage and Hhorror and Ihmpohtence books. Yay J.R.Ward! It's a fun world, kinda flat, kinda odd with the rules which bend and stretch, except when they don't. But still, creative as can be and addictive. I like the fact that there aren't excuses made for bad behavior. Reasons for it, yes, but no one lets anyone get away with bull in the stories. This is not high literature and it is perfect summer stuff--assuming you don't mind a lot of dead bodies (they're not real people though. The usual dead guy is an evil minion called a Lesser, which means he smells like baby powder--a scent which JR Ward apparently HATES--and has black blood and has no soul so, ok. Dead is good.) Here is your basic hero: I'm a tough male who wears shitkickers and a wife-beater and leathers and I do fist bumps wit my bros. I don't act like a nancy [which makes me wonder -- Is JR English? Nancy? Plus all the talk of going to the loo.?] I kill cartoonishly...

I am still loving this Charlaine Harris book.

I'm listening to Jack Higgins, Bloody Passage, and this thing is dated. Not only does everyone smoke and drink all the time -- I got no problem with that -- but the gay character is called an "it", the one woman is gross, the other woman, the sister, delicate and blind and incapable of caring for herself. The main character a jerk. (I imagine the gross woman will end up falling under his spell.) I don't mind alpha, to a degree, but this guy is an uber-cool, superhuman strong and a proficient pill. The whole smart-ass thing got old with Spenser, too, and he was usually funnier. I've just done a few JR Ward books recently and they're the same kind of guy. Honestly, they strike me as one-note humans. They also smoke too. It's not badly written, better than the Pattersons I've read. I'm guessing this was written in the 70s. I have to check. be back.  Umm. Whu? 1999? But it seems like the Soviet Union is still operating. Really? That recent. I ...