then, the very week it was going to be in the 70s and 80s for the first time? Bam! Head cold — major head cold. I spent four grueling days on the couch, cough drops and tissues my only company, and although I felt better over the weekend, I still needed two naps a day to felt alive.

I won’t complain because a week ago Saturday, I spent my afternoon with the wonderful women of my local chapter of the Romance Writers Association. I can’t tell you how refreshing a time I had. Years ago, when I was just starting to break into erotic short fiction, I went to a couple of writers conferences, and I can’t tell you how out of place I felt. Erotica was just too underground an entity for either literary fiction or quasi-genre circles. I can’t tell you how good it felt to tell other writers I wrote erotic fiction in completely comfort. Thank you CORW members!

But I should also thank all you readers out there. Whether you’ve been with me from the start or have found me through the cross-over, genre bending worlds of erotic romance, I owe a lot of my dogged persistence to you.

Now that my persistence is getting back to normal, I’ll be blogging more. Keep an eye out, won’t you?