Visiting Lisabet

Hi guys!

I'm guest blogging on Lisabet Sarai's website today, and I would love for you to visit me there.  Odds are I could even respond to comments on her blog, unlike mine (#@%$*&).  I talk a little about Africa and irony and circular living, which I just made up.  Other people may call it karma:)

Check it out here: http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com/2011/11/wow-thats-ironic.html

More Pandora will be up soon, promise.  I'm finally bringing Robbie back into the mix, so that should be fun.

Awesomeness of Note: blogging and Brief Encounters

There are two things to chat about on this fine fine day.  Firstly, tomorrow the 29th I'm a guest blogger for Lisabet Sarai's Beyond Romance blog, to be found here:  http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com/.  I'm talking about the reality that is an ending, and how incredibly bittersweet it can be.  Why?  Because soon my husband and I will be finishing our 2-year Peace Corps stint and returning to America.  This is huge.  Epic.  It it both awesome and painful all at once, because we've done so much here and established ourselves in the community, and now we have to go back and rebuild our lives, and livelihoods, in the states.  Hard.  At the same time, we haven't been in America in what feels like forever, and the mere thought of some of the wondrous things we'll be able to find there (bookstores, anyone?) fills me with a slightly-guilty glee.  Sigh.  At least we're bringing our dog back.

Secondly, it turns out my story Worth It was included in the anthology Brief Encounters, edited by Shane Allison and published by Cleis Press.   Apparently it's out now.  Why didn't I mention this before?  Simple reason...I didn't know.  I'm not going to have the whole "technology sucks here!" excuse in the states so I'd better get all my mileage out of it now:)  My story features two young men getting it on in an airport on their way to, shocker, Germany.  Do I write from real life?  Are you kidding?  If I was a man this would be practically autobiographical:)  Here's the link info and blurb:  Brief Encounters.

Brief Encounters

69 Hot Gay Shorts

Edited by Shane Allison

Sudden Sex Stories: Short in Length, Long on Pleasure

According to editor Shane Allison, "the best sex is sex that happens in an instant, when we least expect it." In Brief Encounters: 69 Hot Gay Shorts, Allison has curated a delicously dirty set of tales that are thrilling, intriguing and always surprising. Among the scenarios in Brief Encounters: two strangers act out their own scene when the theater lights go out in Logan Zachary's "Back Row." A student's quest for an A includes seducing his studly professor in Rob Rosen's "Hot for Teacher." Erotica veteran M. Christian wastes no time in getting to the good parts in the raw and raunchy blow-by-blow tale "Safe Sex." This big, bold book of gay quickies is guaranteed to satisfy on every level.



Lastly, I will endeavor to give you another Pandora segment before June is out.  I know...that leaves me two days.  I know!!!!  ARGGG!!!

Blogging On Lisabet's Site

Today I get to guest blog on Lisabet Sarai's site, which just thrills me right down to the toes:)  Feel free to jump over and read, comment, say hi...whatever tickles your fancy.  The link is here: Beyond Romance blog.  I'm talking about the difficulty writers face (or at least I do) when it comes to deciding how much background research to actually write into a story.  As some of you know, I can be exhaustive that way, which can in turn be very dull.  This is why we beta, people.  So a friend can tell you "Cari, um...this sucks, here's why, but you can fix it!"  I've canned several stories or pushed them back because they were too much world building and not enough character building.  Anyway.  Check it out!

Other things in the works...Pandora Pt. 12 is getting finished today and will be posted tonight or tomorrow (speaking of betas, this story doesn't have one, I just put it out there...could be a mistake), I'm finishing the rough draft of the sequel to Treasured, and my man just finished editing my NaNoWriMo novella for me, so hopefully I'll be sending that somewhere soon.  And there's regular work too.  Go solar ovens!

Blogging on Lisabet Sarai's site

But first...

The upper half of the country was without internet/some cell phone service from Sunday until just now.  It's been one of those weeks when work is tough, heat is setting in and you don't want to eat anything, and all you can think it, "Goddammit, I wanna go back to America!"  Land of the cold, home of the wireless.  I know, bitch bitch, Cari, you asked to go to Africa.  You applied to go there, so don't whine now about how tough widdle you is finding it.

Well, fine.  Moving on then.

I'm guest blogging on Lisabet Sarai's blog this Saturday, on the concept of feast or famine in writing and in life.  We're really sprinting towards the famine times chez moi, and it's been on my mind.  Here's a link: http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com/.  Please visit me there, I'd love to get some comments from my friends and I will respond to you.

Thanks to Lisabet for letting me post!  Even if I am two days late getting it in!  Don't kill me!