The Air Fairy is teeming with creative energy. She loves all art, music, stories, imaginion, anything that helps her escape her own boring reality. She pours all her emotion into what she does, which makes her an extraordinary artist. Her natural exhuberance gains her many friends, but she likes being by herself doing what she does best, dreaming! She’s friendly, but sometimes seems distant компютри and often loses herself (or others) in her thoughts. She might seem eccentric, but it’s just her being herself, which is what everyone should do!

Edited on 13 January - But Photobucket didn’t like the image! Too racy for them.

I’m just about to set up a What I’ve Read in 2008 page and looking over my 2007 page I’m finding it hard to say which books were my favorites. Certainly Barbara Samuel, Shana Abe, J D Robb, Judith Ivory and Harlan Coben remain my favorites, but I also like Nalini Singh, Phillip Roth and the first of Sara Douglass’s new fantasy series. But there were lots of others I liked including Anna Campbell and Paula Roe. Not to forget Ruth Wind. Or Donna Leon. Or Suzanne Brockmann. Or Elizabeth Hoyt.

How was your New Year? Mine was very quiet. I like it like that.

WOW! This story blew me away! It definitely isn’t a dull read. It’ll keep your heart racing and certain places will definitely feel a distinct pull. High marks all around. Keziah Hill is one to watch!

Thanks Melisa!

And Australia has a new government! That’s put me in a good mood especially since one of the first acts of the new Labor government was to sign the Kyoto Protocol.

But all this change has meant my writing has suffered badly. I’m living in two places and don’t have a desk at one so I can’t seem to find my footing and develop a routine. But it will come. In the mean time, I’ll concentrate on morning pages to kick start my creativity.

Barrick never dreamed when he paid the best matchmaker in the galaxy
to find his mate she would choose one so… different. Alycia is a
headstrong, opinionated, melt in your mouth delicious distraction.
She’s nothing he wanted and everything he needs.

Excerpt:

She hadn’t been paying a lot of attention. Not until she heard the
leaves crunching. The GPS hadn’t shown any cats nearby but the hair
on the nape of her neck was standing on end. She could swear that
there was one in the tall yellowed grass to her left. She didn’t
chance a look over to make sure. If it was a male, he might take the
direct eye contact as a form of aggression.

Her bike wasn’t that far away but, counting the time it was going to
take to start the thing, she wouldn’t make it. But what was the
other alternative? Stay here and be dinner? Not freaking likely.

Alycia took a breath, hoping to slow down her thundering heart. One.
She darted a quick look over into the grass. It shifted. There was
definitely something there. Two. She bent down towards the water
again. Three. She pivoted and took off in the direction of her ATV.

She was almost there but something was right on her heels. She
yanked the key from the lanyard around her neck. Jumping on the
bike, she jammed the key into the switch and turned it on. The motor
roaring to life didn’t drown out the sound of the tiger’s roar.

With a small squeeze of the handlebars, the bike jerked forward. She
raised her head in time to see the tiger launch at her. Her hands
instinctively flew up to protect her face. It hit her squarely in
the chest, knocking her onto the ground. The air whooshed from her
lungs and her head bounced on the ground.

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