People are always asking what music, if any, I listen to while I write. Here are the most popular tracks on my playlist recently:

Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis

So Far Away - Staind

You and Me - Lifehouse

Selling The Drama - Live

I Alone - Live

Weapon - Matthew Good

20th Century Boy - Placebo

Lover’s Spit - Broken Social Scene

Teacher - George Michael

Fade into You - Mazzy Star

Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad - Def Leppard

Criminal - Fiona Apple

More Human Than Human - White Zombie

I’m so excited to share my news with you all. Lethe Press has offered to release a new print edition of Pyromancer. I have no idea when this will occur (I only received the contract this morning), but I’ll let you all know the minute you can order the new version.

Unfortunately, this means the paperback edition I released through Createspace will no longer be available for purchase. If you had your heart set on buying one soon, you might want to race over to Amazon and snap up one of the last few they have in stock. Cause once those are gone, they’re gone.

2009 has been a fabulous, busy year. I’ve typed my little fingers raw and appeared at several public venues. I even went on my very first airplane ride this year (yes, I’m a dork and woefully behind). Anyway, I thought I’d list the things I’ve accomplished this year (writing-wise) and my goals for 2010.

Published in 2009

Ebooks:

• Bottom’s Up: A Kinky Orgasm
• Bottom’s Up: Triplesex
• Chicken Ranch: Hunger
• Don’t Look Back
• Furtive Liaison
• Reckless Behavior
• Reckless Passion
• Tempestuous Relations
• The Hard Truth

Print:

• Don’t Look Back
• Furtive Ache
• Hard Candy
• Pyromancer

Pending releases in 2010:

• Daywalker Legacy
• Falling into Sin

Planned for 2010:

• Finish the final book in the Reckless series and finally get it submitted to my editor at Loose id.
• Complete the Chicken Ranch books and the remaining Bottom’s Up stories - there’s about four each waiting to be written.
• Finish the highly-neglected M/F story that’s been sitting on my hard drive, half finished for the last year.
• Write and submit a followup to Tempestuous Relations
• Work on Forever Mine, a long M/M/M paranormal I’ve been pondering for a bit.
• Write another M/M/F menage title.
• Possibly get around to starting the Bear-themed series I’ve never found the time to start (bear as in big, furry men - not the animal variety).

I know that probably sounds like a lot, but I might as well dream big, right? This time next year we’ll be able to look back and see what I’ve actually accomplished on that list.

And for anyone who’s curious, the link for 2008’s year in review is below.

http://www.amandayoung.org/2008/12/27/my-year-in-review/

I’m afraid I don’t have much to report on Reckless Determination this week. I had a spark of inspiration for another work in progress and I’ve been yo-yoing back and forth between the two stories.

Being self employed rocks. However, there are times when it also sucks big time. Especially for a procrastinator like me. When you don’t have a boss breathing down your neck, it’s very easy to wake up one morning and realize you’ve accomplished a whole lot of nothing lately. In an effort to build up a little accountability for myself, I’ve decided to start using a trusty little progress meter for my works in progress. Every Wednesday I plan to post and share what I’ve accomplished in the last week.

At the moment, I’m working on the fourth and final book in the Reckless series, Reckless Determination.

Reckless Behavior, the sequel to Reckless Seduction, has been accepted for publication at Loose Id. Here’s a little sneak peek at the rough blurb:

Love can bring even the strongest man to his knees. For Cody Bradbury, that time is now.

After six months with his lover, Cody yearns for monogamy. The threesomes he and Dante engage in are fun, but he needs more from the man he loves. Although Cody longs to tell Dante how he feels, he fears love and fidelity are two words missing from his older lover’s vocabulary.

Dante, on the other hand, doesn’t seem ready for commitment. However, the discovery of a naked man in his apartment comes as a shock to Cody. The cliché Dante uses as an excuse for his betrayal doesn’t go a long way toward helping his cause. Only two choices remain: walk away or fight for his man.

I’ve stolen the idea to do a year in review from the lovely and talented Katrina Strauss’s blog. Something about seeing what I’ve done for the last twelve months in black and white just thrills me. I suppose I’m easily amused. *laughing*

So here it is, my year in review:

Published in 08:
Ebook:
Eye Candy
GWM Wanted
Precious Ache
Reckless Seduction
Secrets & Lies

Print:
Shameful
Something More
Temperature’s Rising anthology

Contracted for 09:
Ebook:
The Hard Truth (sequel to Secrets & Lies)
Furtive Liaison - M/M
Don’t Look Back - M/F

Print:
After Sunset - M/M - a short story in the upcoming Cruising for Bad Boys anthology
Don’t Look Back - M/F
Furtive Ache - M/M

Out for submission:
Reckless Behavior (sequel to Reckless Seduction)
A Kinky Orgasm - M/M

Works-in-Progress:
Naked Longing - M/F
Gone, but not forgotten (tentative title) - M/M/M
Chaos (tentative title) - M/M

On the backburner for 09:
The Honey Pot series (big men, bigger hearts) - M/M
The Chicken Ranch series (male brothel) - M/M

That looks like a lot, I know, but I do write full time these days thanks to a very patient husband who doesn’t mind his wife having a built-in laptop, more often than not. Here’s to hoping 2009 will be an even better year. I hope everyone reading this blog is well and doing something that fulfills them as much my writing does for me.

My latest work in progress is finished. Reckless Behavior (the sequel to Reckless Seduction) was sent off to one of my editors this morning.

I’m currently sitting here trying to think up what I’ll work on next. I have several stories in motion, and a couple of new series in mind. Only time will tell what will catch my muse’s attention next.

In the meantime, here’s a rough little blurb for Reckless Behavior:

Love can bring the strongest man to his knees. For Cody bradbury, that time is now.

After six months with his lover, Cody yearns for monogamy. The threesomes he and Dante engage in are fun, but he needs more from the man he loves. Although Cody longs to tell Dante how he feels, he fears love and fidelity are two words missing from his older lover’s vocabulary.

The discovery of a naked man in Dante’s apartment comes as a shock to Cody. The cliche his lover uses an excuse for his betrayal doesn’t go a long way toward helping his cause. Only two choices remain: walk away or fight for his man. Conversely, Cody’s distrust may have already cost him the man he loves.