Writing, reading, traveling, politics, dogs, blogging, music, my ipod.
Music
Incubus, Pinback, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Green Day, Evan's Blue, The Cure, Panic! At the Disco, Vampire Weekend, Tantric, Amy Winehouse, She Wants Revenge, Audioslave, Evanescence, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Cornershop, Spoon, The Bravery, Chevelle, Three Days Grace, Seether, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red, The Ranconteurs, Finger Eleven, Breaking Benjamin, Muse, Bush, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, LimpBizkit, The Offspring, 311, Cake, Beck, Counting Crows, Third Eye Blind, Collective Soul, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Primative Radio Gods, Portishead, Garbage, Butthole Surfers, Sublime, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Velvet Revolver, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac (and any variation...), Thompson Twins, Cyndi Lauper, Go Gos, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Pat Benatar, Depeche Mode, John Mellencamp, Eric Clapton, Pretenders, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones
Books
Michael Thomas Ford, Max Brooks, Bob Smith, Christopher Moore, Joe Coomer, Christopher Buckley, Chris Owen, Jodi Payne, Ally Blue, JL Langley, Laura Baumbach, Erin Hart, Chris Kenry, Timothy James Beck, Timonthy Lambert, James Lear, Erastes, Drew Ferguson, Alex Sanchez, Robin Reardon, Kemble Scott
I also like American and English classic literature.
In the spring of 2006, I discovered gay erotica. The first thing I read was an anthology called 'Hearts from the Ashes' by Ally Blue, JL Langley and Willa Okati. After that, I was hooked!
By June of 2006, I started writing what would be MISS ME? Now I have several things that have been published. All are available through Torquere Press.
MISS ME? (novel - ebook and print also available on Amazon, B&N and Borders)
UP IN THE SMOKIES (novelette)
ASK NICELY (short story)
CRISTOBAL (short story)
COMING OUT FOR CHRISTMAS (novelette)
ROVER (novel - ebook and print -release date April 8, 2009)
My newest release, "Immortality is the Suck" is available today from Loose id.
Adam Bertoni, former vice cop, undercover ATF agent and bad bad boy
doesn't know which ticks him off more; that somebody set him up, that
his friend Peter has to watch him die, or that he woke up undead.
Immortality is just something he wasn't ready for.
OH! I know how much you live by your iPod - imagine drowning it, never to play another dancing-through-the-house-in-your-undies jam. Two weeks ago, I was driving back home from visiting family and managed to dump a liter of ice water into my leather satchel man purse and soak my camera and iPod. The camera seems to have recovered but the 'pod is lost. Woe to me.
I've been reading Celia Rivenbark (Southern humorist) lately. Good stuff.
I've also started a project to collect 4 generations of family recipes into one book so I'm typing all night long; my grandma and great-grandma left sacks full of loose paper scraps with recipes handwritten on them plus newspaper clippings, etc. Those will form the bulk of the book and then I'll throw in some other family favorites from the younger generations. And yes, I'll have more than one Bundt cake recipe to contribute.
I was down in Houston County today for my cousin's wedding in Porter Springs. VERY country-fried affair and the 3-hour drive down was boring as hell but at least I got to see her. And she finally go to meet Michael in person. She would totally dump her new husband if she could "straighten out" Michael.
Aren't they quelle divoon?! I think I'll wear them again for Easter in the Park, a huge mostly-gay event up here. I've got to go buy my Easter bonnet, too.
We'll see about Facebook. I'm not convinced.
Did your profile-hijacker change your email address, too? Could they just do a password reset or something and email it to you? I want you back on myspace!!
I thought you were going to get a new profile if you couldn't get it unlocked. I don't like facebook because you can't check anybody out without being their friend. And I have more friends who are only on myspace, and only a couple who are only on facebook.
I don't even have time for myspace most of the time. I would never get around to facebooking. You're not going to run off and leave me like our friend did, are you?
Although I quit celebrating birthdays when I reached 600, that’s not to say that I’m not able to wish anyone, still young enough to celebrate, a Happy One (pick your own definition of “one”). And may you have many more. (Okay, I know this is early, but when you're as old as I am, the memory does begin to fade, so better early than never -- I hope). —Vlad.
--This is just a short note, from the olde vampyre himself, in thanks for welcoming FAMILY DRAQUAL into your life. --Hugs (if you dare get that close). –Vlad
Hi Mel! Just sending you a little instant message to say how great it is to have you as a friend. I look forward to finding out more about you and your work. Click here to check out IM, my suspense novel about a serial killer who uses gay Internet hook-up sites to lure his victims. Click here to watch the trailer for IM. Or visit me at www. rickrreed. com
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