As you can see, the blog has been spruced up a bit. Thanks Hailey!!!!!!!! Yes, Hailey Edwards, author extraordinaire, has graciouslly hacked into my blog and made it pretty. These are the reasons I love my friends. They make my blog pretty when I get too lazy to do it myself. LOLOLOL.

I added recent cover art and updated the books I have edited. I still need to post buy links of the cover art page. I am lazy. Sorry. I have been busy moving and becoming accustomed to my role as Art Director. It's exciting. Hope you enjoy the covers. :) The one in this post is my new personal favorite of mine. Yes, I apparently enjoy tooting my own horn. LOL!

Because being so awesome without non-awesome to keep one grounded can lead to an egoboost perhaps. And I know, I KNOW, I come across concieted online. It's all in good fun though. I am probably the most modest person you could meet if you met me in real life. But since online I can brag about myself without feeling guilty, I will do it anyway and you can't stop me! Well...you can try, but I will probably just ignore your post...because I can. I love the internet. Don't like something, you can remove it forever!

Anywho, guess who is the new Art Director at Breathless Press? Yep, that would be Her Most Awesometastic. AKA...Me.  THANK YOU BP, I never thought I would even be considered for such a role. But I love books and I love photoshop, so I guess this is the best of both worlds.

I have a few more covers to add to both the cover art page and the books I've edited page, but I am feeling a bit lazy since, and here is where the non-awesome from the blog title comes into play, I am moving this week. Into my grandparents' house. Trying (keyword there: trying) to get their stuff moved so my stuff can come in. But when I say they haven't cleaned the cabinets or windows, or throw anything away, since they moved in here in the 70s....I am not exaggerating. It is a nightmare. NIGHTMARE! Especially the size of the spiders in this house. And what is the number one thing that makes me afeared? Yup. Spiders. I loath them. They make me want to pee my pants and cry like a little girl, but I have too much dignity to let that happen. Instead I just scream like a bitch and flatten it with more force than necessary.

So I am going to go hang out in the house of horrors, cleaning, squishing demons...er...spiders, and will get those covers loaded by next week. Chao!

The cover I did for Honoria Ravena's Strapless (Breathless Press) was in an ebook ad in RT Magazine! It is in the the August 2010 edition :) I was shocked! Then I felt a wee bit smug. LMAO

My absolute favorite YA series in the world is back on bookstore shelves after several years of out of printness. The Forbidden Game is a trilogy, rereleased in a 3-in-1 volume, written by L.J. Smith who should be a recognizable name as The Vampire Diaries has become widely popular since the CW picked up a TV series based on her books. The only thing that could make me happier than seeing TFG back in bookstores is seeing it made into a movie. With TVD doing so well, that is promising for her other books. Night World would make a good TV show, but with Vamps and Weres involved, it may be too close to TVD and True Blood for consideration. Secret Circle, The Forbidden Game, Dark Visions, and NoTS & HoV on the other hand are far more original storywise and I can see them being immortalized on the silverscreen. *crosses fingers*

Those not familiar with The Forbidden Game, it is about a girl named Jenny who is throwing a birthday party for her boyfriend. They end up playing a game that causes their worst nightmares to come to life. The Shadowman, Julian, is making them play for their freedom. If they lose, Jenny is his forever.

And Julian is super sexy. He's the first fictional character I've developed a crush on, and this is the first book series that ever made me cry while reading. My love of books can be traced back to this series. Sure I read R.L. Stine like it was candy, but my true love from reading developed through a Shadowman's love for something he could never have.

Thanks to Hailey Edwards, I have managed to add pages to display my cover art that I have done with Breathless Press, and display the covers and buy link for the books I edited with Liquid Silver Books. There is also a widget to the right of the blog that has download links from Amazon.com to the books I edited.

Should I keep the Amazon list to only books I edited or did cover art for, or should it include titles I review or recommend on this blog as well? Let me know your opinions.

Haven't had an opportunity to blog for a while. It isn't so much that I had nothing to say, I just haven't had my computer. I was burning a few CDs for my car and a disc got stuck in the CD drive. I tried ejecting it every way possible, and it was futile. Tried restarting the computer to try again, and the stupid pile of junk decided to read the disc to boot from. Thus, my entire system crashed. (Story of my life. No seriously, this is like a once or twice a year thing for me almost.)

So Best Buy's Geek Squad geeks take my computer and my system restore discs and send it off to Kentucky because it is so dead that the local Savannah Geek Squad can't do anything with it. The computer is still under warranty, so I only had to pay like $140 to get my massive music file backed up to an external (I wasn't losing my tunes again, it just wasn't happening!) I also told them the only other file I needed was my photoshop files, and told them how to get to them, and the fonts.

A week goes by and I get a robot calling me to pick up my computer, so happily I go. Only they tell me that I need to bring in my system restore discs because they replaced the hard drive and it is like a new computer with absolutely nothing on it. So I get mad at them for not telling me that before letting me think my computer was ready for pick up, ask for my external, and take it home. I can't find the restore discs at all. Then I am looking at this file I got from them with my external harddrive, and alas: there are my discs. They had them the whole time and didn't use them.

I was livid. LIVID.

I brought them BACK to the store and gave them a piece of my mind. The dude calls me back 2 hours later and apparently the video graphic card is not working. They can't get an image to show up. So they sent it BACK to Kentucky for two more weeks. The motherboard and the power strip have been replaced this time. *sigh* So when I got the robot call to pick it up this time I called up there and made them check that it was ready to pick up, and what do you know? They still haven't put the restore discs in and got windows going. So I had to wait 3 more hours.

I got a robot call to pick up my computer 3 days after I picked it up. I think it was out of spite at that point. Bastards!

AND they saved my picture folder, which is awesome, but not the fonts, brushes, or gradients I needed for Photoshop. I was not pleased.

I just finished reading Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon, book one of the Chronicles of Nick. It is a Young Adult sorta prequel/spinoff of the Dark-Hunter series. It follows Nick Gautier as a 14 year old. I enjoyed the book a lot, though I have some concerns.

1. There are lots of information tossed out there that will be like candy to Dark-Hunter fans, but confusing to teens who have never read them. They won't have a clue who Jared is, or why he is significant. The same with Stryker. Not unless Nick of the Future, the Dark-Hunter, fully powered Malachai, accidently causes them to show up that early in the timeline due to his meddling, as Simi has shown up in Nicks life ten years earlier. Which leads me to...

2. Future Nick is centuries years old! And apparently has destroyed everyone he cares about because he couldn't let go of the anger in his life, towards Acheron and others. I am hoping that his attempt to change things in CoN will allow his path to change in the other series, because I am already constantly ticked off with him there and I am worried he is about to make me hate him if he doesn't get that worked out.

Is it worth the read? Yes. It is very enjoyable. It will make you laugh out loud throughout.

Oh, I never got the chance to come back and say my final thoughts on Everlong by Hailey Edwards. The book is excellent, very sweet and romantic. It makes you feel warm and fuzzy by the end of the book. If you haven't read that one yet, please do.