And Now A Word From Gabrielle Evans...

It was a dark and stormy night.

Okay, no it wasn’t. In fact, I think it was bright, sunny, and about two degrees hotter than the fires of Hell in Texas. So, a little strange to be talking about Christmas and elves, right? But that’s when the idea for Who Needs Christmas? was born.

When Joyee first told me that she had this idea for a series with twelve elves who hated Christmas, of course, I thought she was brilliant. Then she goes on to explain there will be twelve books, released in twelve days, and she’ll have them all finished by such-and-such date.

At this point, I think my reaction was something along the lines of, “Are you fucking insane?” Which, honestly, was a stupid question, because Joyee never does anything unless she’s going all in, balls out. I might have even said something to that effect. I probably did. I’m pretty uncensored where she’s concerned. (Love you, snookums!)

Considering that I get bored if I write more than three books from the same series in a row, I couldn’t even begin to imagine writing twelve. It was such a fabulous idea, though, so completely original, that I couldn’t help but encourage the insanity.

Then she sent me a list of the elves’ names. I think I might have ruptured something from laughing so hard. Next came the subject of titles. Joyee likes to give me way more credit than I deserve here.

I think my major contribution to this part of the project was suggesting “Screw Santa” instead of “Fuck Santa.” Somehow, I just didn’t figure that one would fly. After offering numerous titles for the second book, I finally gave up and growled, “Well, hell’s bells!” Yeah, so my cursing became the second title. Go me!  Flush the Twinkles was actually just the fact that I can’t hear. Because when Joyee said lights, “You know, lights that twinkle,” I instead heard, “tinkle.”

Seeing the final product and holding the first book in my greedy little hands (on my e-reader) was incredible. After all the hard work and many hours, pouring everything she had into these kinky little elves, it was so amazing to see it all come full circle.

So, Bravo! Joyee. Your talent and dedication is inspiring. And this series is hot enough to short-circuit my Kindle. All I can add at this point is, “Next, please!”

-- Gabrielle Evans

We'll go easy today... What was Gabrielle's first Midnight Matings called?

Same rules as before, contest ends Dec 18th @ noon, MST

Let's do a signed cover calendar today. Good luck to everyone!!

Today's release is Down With The Tunes!