Anya Bast

Jennifer Dunne did this face recognition thing over on her blog and I thought it was cool. I’m being a lemming.

I uploaded this picture of myself:

And got the following results:

Shannon Elizabeth 68% — I had no idea who this was, so I looked her up. Shhhhaaaaa…in my dreams!! So, I know something’s wrong with this thing right off the bat! But, hey, she’s into animal rights and rescue and stuff. Cool.

Joan Cusack 66% — I adore her, but I don’t think I really look like. Er…I’d take her brother in a heartbeat though.

Naomi Watts 64% — I didn’t know who she was either because I’m not culturally oriented that way. Turns out she’s the actress in King Kong. Again I say…er…yeeeah…probably not. King Kong made me cry like a big dork, btw, fakey stupid huge cochroaches and all.

Patricia Arquette 62% — OMG! I adore her too! I can almost see this one. I think it’s the similaries in coloring.

Alyson Hannigan 59% — Three times with the adoration!!

Jessica Lange 58% — Four times!!

Jennifer Aniston 58% — Again I must say…in my dreams.

Josephine Baker 58% — This one is just too cool. I don’t even have anything to say about it.

Jessica Alba 58% — I had to look this one up too. I don’t look a damn thing like her.

Now, the thing that strikes me is…none of these people even look alike. I mean, take this picture of Joan Cusack and Jennifer Aniston together:

They’re both lovely, but there’s little facial similarity there.

I did run a second photo of myself and that gave me different results. There was only one person that came up twice:

I’m going to take that to mean I must look the most like her in a face shape, eye shape, eyebrow arch, nose and mouthish kind of way.

Mostly I think I just look like me. :)

I love this cover!

ADVANCE REVIEW:

“Anya Bast really knows how to write hot love scenes… Enjoy a touch
of danger? Want your own personal heat wave? Anya Bast’s Tempted by
Two is perfect.”

- Elise Lyn
eCataromance

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BLURB:

Miranda has been traumatized by events in her past and shies from
emotional commitment. She does affairs, not relationships. But soon
she finds herself confronted with not one but two men who claim that
she’s the one for them…forever.

Marco and Theo, two full-blooded Tylwyth Teg fae, are desperate to
make Miranda theirs. And even if they’re feeling jealous of each other
and possessive of her, they know they must join forces in order to win
Miranda’s heart back from her fears. In order to show Miranda that
she’s in “good hands,” Theo and Marco convince her to spend a weekend
in sexual submission to them.

One weekend of incredible sex with two gorgeous, strong and dominant
men? Miranda doesn’t have a problem agreeing to that. Although
anything more might be problematic. Especially since there’s
someone…something that intends to make sure Miranda, Theo and Marco
never get their happy ending.

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Thanks, Lauren. Really. Thanks so much. You give me your book Giving Chase when I’m under a deadline. I spent the whole day reading it today. That’ll teach me to open it and “just take a peek”.

Get moving on Shane’s book, woman!

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Blurb:
This is my first romantic suspense and the first in a contemporary series about the Chase Brothers.

Some small towns grow really good looking men! This is the case with the four Chase brothers. The home grown hotties are on the wishlist of every single woman in town and Maggie Wright is no exception.

Maggie has finally had it with the men she’s been dating but a spilled plate of chili cheese fries drops Shane Chase right into her lap. The sheriff is hot stuff but was burned by a former fiancée and is quite happy to play the field.

After Shane’s skittishness sends him out the door, Maggie realizes that Kyle Chase has had his eye on her from the start. Now that Shane has messed up, Kyle has no intention of letting anything stop him from wooing her right into his bed.

Despite Maggie’s happiness and growing love with Kyle, a dark shadow threatens everything—she’s got a stalker and he’s not happy at all. In the end, Maggie will need her wits, strength and the love of her man to get her out alive.

A Movie….

J and I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang last night. I was skeptical at first because J’s recent choices have left me wondering if I shouldn’t revoke his status as Netflix Master (He who decides which movies to order), but Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was pretty damn good. It’s part noire detective story, part comedy, part mystery. The main character is an ex-thief turned accidental actor who ends up in L.A. and is played by Robert Downey Jr. (I’m attracted to this guy’s fucked-upedness). Val Kilmer plays a gay private eye (Gay Perry) and Michelle Monahan plays the sweet yet slutty love interest who has been obsessed with a series of pulp fiction P.I. novels since she was a little girl. I loved all these characters and the acting was fantastic.

It’s cheesy (esp. the ending) and cliched in places, but the dialogue was fast-placed and clever and had me laughing through the whole thing. Plus it’s got that edge of dark humor that I love so much. Definitely worth a look if you like this kind of movie. I don’t often talk about the movies I see, which means I really liked this one.

Two Books…

The Compass Rose, by Gail Dayton
The Barbed Rose, by Gail Dayton

These are two of the only Luna books I’ve been to swallow whole so far. On the surface I’d say this particular line would be right up my alley — significant fantasy with a touch of romance. Maybe it’s the books I’ve been selecting. *shrug* In any case, I found myself totally caught up in the “Rose” books and I’ll be watching for the release date of the next book about Kallista Varyl and her ilias.

The stories center around Kallista Varyl, a Naitan with the ability to direct lightning and a commander in her country’s military. When war breaks out and her people are getting the snot knocked out of them, she calls upon her God and is imbued with massive amounts of magic in return. She’s also “godmarked” with the symbol of the compass rose on the back of her neck. Throughout the first book she discovers other people who are also godmarked and finds that they each carry magic in them which she has the ability to direct. Each godmarked person lends a different quality to the magic as a whole — joy, order, creativity, ect… They all of them marry each other and form an “Ilian,” a family. Together they must defeat something far more powerful than simply a neighboring country who wants to invade them.

The books are incredibly well-written and I loved the characters….and there are a lot of them. I kept waiting for Dayton to lose control of all of them, but she never did. Each character is as well-fleshed out as the next. I’m really looking forward to the next book.

We had satellite internet installed yesterday and I’m in luuuurve. SO much better than dial-up. We live in the boonies, see, and satellite was the only fast internet service available to us.

They networked both our computers too, so my laptop has wireless Internet now. I can sit outside and pretend to write, while incessantly periodically checking my email and surfing the web. How cool is that?

Speaking of writing, I’m about halfway through with WITCH FIRE now. I’m so excited about these characters and their story. It’s been a while since I’ve allowed myself to be sucked so completely into my character’s heads. I’m incredibly happy that Berkley bought this book not only because (duh) BERKLEY BOUGHT MY BOOK, but also because I get to finish this story.

I love these characters so much and I’m very grateful I get to tell their story. :)

…is so PRETTY. I want to make a big juicy post. Alas, there is dinner to fix, movies to watch, husbands to cuddle and words to write.

Dear Author gave A Change of Season a very nice review today. Thanks Jane!

The first paranormal erotic romance I’ll be publishing with Berkley Sensation will be called WITCH FIRE.

I like it!