and anywhere other fine ebooks are sold!

“Really? I hadn’t figured you for the cowboy type. I thought you’d want a man dressed like Gordon Gecko. Eight-thousand­ dollar suits and ties made by organic free-range silkworms. Hand- sewn Egyptian cotton shirts.”

“Nah. I just want a man.”

“Any man?”

That stopped Brendan short, leaving his hand hanging in the air as he reached for a Henley T-shirt in a nice shade of olive green. That was odd. Usually the answer to that question was a resounding yes. “Not today, no.”

“I see.”

Brendan rolled his eyes. “You do? I don’t. Don’t take this personally, but usually I just want to hook up. For some reason, the only man I want today is you, Dr. Melovitch.”

“Color me flabbergasted.” Brendan shrugged his shoulders and continued shopping. “And call me Dirk.”

Brendan shuddered. “Honestly? I’m not sure I can say Dirk without laughing. A less Dirk-like person could not exist. Who named you? Clive Cussler? Dirk Melovitch.”

“It does have an odd ring to it. You’re not the first to mention that.”

“So you want to dress up like a cowboy now that you’re not my shrink anymore?”

Worry clouded Dirk’s expression. “Yeah…except…”

“Except what?”

“I think you need a shrink more than you need a cowboy, and if I were any kind of—”

“Don’t.” Brendan stopped him. “Maybe you’re right. But it’s too late for that, and I want you to be my cowboy.”

As we all know, since Friday Is Casual Sex Day on my LiveJournal Blog, that makes this the perfect day to celebrate the Return Of Activity To My Brain After RT. I’ll be choosing names off and on all day and announcing what my winners will receive in the swag contest on Twitter and in as many other places as I can think of. As I mentioned before, I have a rather limited number of T-shirts, Tote bags, even a mug or two, and LOTS of trading cards, and I’ll be sending those off to winners over the next few days.

THERE IS STILL TIME TO ENTER the contest if you haven’t already! So RUN don’t walk to your nearest email account and drop me a line to:

zamaxfield@yahoo.com

Please put Swag Contest in the subject line.

Good LUCK!

All day today, February 14th, 2011 I’m updating my LJ blog with my romance writing top ten songs, a previously super-seekrit, smexy playlist for getting myself in the mood to write romantic stories and sex scenes and the bits and pieces of the my work they’ve inspired.

You can check those out here, at my LiveJournal Blog:

http://zamaxfield.livejournal.com/

And there’s still plenty of time to send me a note at zamaxfield@yahoo.com to enter my T-shirt contest. I’m giving away one T-shirt, either the nice, safe one that matches my banner or one that sports the very intriguing naked-man-in-a-chef’s-hat cover of Stirring Up Trouble. You can find out more, here:

http://zamaxfield.com/2011/02/11/valentines-day-t-shirt-giveaway/

And finally, later today, you can read my Mechanical Monday post, also at LiveJournal, Social Networking Is Eating My Brain.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Alternatively, the winner can choose an X-large T-shirt with the cover of Stirring Up Trouble on it, which is more likely to generate a comment or two… Be the first kid on your block to cause a heart attack!

It’s going to be longer than I thought, YAY! I can’t tell you how much I prefer the way I can go into detail in a full length novel.

I need a better title than The Pharaoh’s Wife/Concubine. Anyone want to come up with one?  The blurb is on the “Coming Soon” page of my website, under the stupid title The Pharoah’s Concubine. Since it has nothing to do with Pharaohs or Egypt or Women, I figure we should come up with a better title.

Anyone want to try? Of course, the final word belongs to my editor at Samhain, but hey, she went with ePistols at Dawn when I wrote that, which I totally thought she was going to toss the second she got her hands on that manuscript so what do I know? Anywhoo, anyone who wants to help lead me in the right direction can email me at this addy:

zamaxfield@yahoo.com

Put “Title Suggestions” or something like that in the subject line. I’ll take serious or funny because I could use a laugh right about now!

ZAM

MLR Press has just announced that the anthology Because Of The Brave has been released in print. I’m very happy to see it available in its new format! The cover art is slightly different. You can find out more about buying it HERE.

an ebook copy of Jacob’s Ladder, St. Nacho’s 3.

I’ll be drawing names Tonight at Midnight Eastern Std. Time

Simply send a note to zamaxfield@yahoo.com

and put “Contest SN3″ in the subject line.

Good Luck!