Blog with Author Cathryn Fox

It’s Saturday, yay.  I was really lookig forward to sleeping in, then at 7:30 I heard the shower turn on, and thought, what the heck is going on?  I yell out, who is in the shower, and my daughter comes into my room in a panic, because she was running late for school.  That’s when I reminded her it was Saturday!  Off goes the shower and she crawls back into bed.  I remember doing that when I was a kid.  So we all slept in and then I got up and did a bit of reading for a friend.

Its so cold and rainy and yucky here today.  It’s really just a great day to curl up with a book.  TonightI think my daughter and I are going to see Baby Mama.  This looks so cute.  Tomorrow is mother’s day and my son has soccer in the city so I think hubby will take him and I’ll just stay home and relax with my daughter.  We were all originally going to go, but it’s supposed to be cold and rainy again tomorrow, so we thoughts we’d stay home and stay warm and dry.

Last night hubby and I went to dinner and I came home to a beautiful homemade card and gorgeous orange/yellow rose from my daughter.  She trekked all the way to the store with her friend while I was out so she could get it for me.  She said she also wanted to get me a chocolate cake but it was too hard to carry it home.  LOL.  Ah, it’s the thought that counts.   

Have a great weekend, everyone, and a great Mother’s day!

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Hubby the kids and I spent the weekend in the city.  We had a nice time, except our hotel was downtown in the bar section and the streets were pretty noisy until about four am.  So I didn’t sleep well and I’m still kind of cranky!

Oh, and I must mention that the kids and I got kicked out of the mall  <blush>  It was early, and the kids and I went to this lovely mall on Spring Garden Road ten minutes before it opened.  The place was quiet, not a soul around.  My 13 year old daughter asked if she could run UP the DOWN escalator, because it was something she always wanted to do.  I said sure, but warned her if she got caught, we wereg oing to get kicked out of there.  (There is a reason I know that.  LOL)  So my 15 year old son decides it looks like a fun thing to do too.  So I wait up at the top for them, to make sure the coast is clear, and they beginto run UP the Down escalator.  My son made it first and as my daughter was reaching the top we began to cheer her on, quite loudly, I believe.  That’s when the security guard came running from his office to yell at us, and kindly escort us to the doors.  Good times! Seriously, though, I think that was the highlight of their trip.

On another note, I received some good news yesterday.  Pleasure Control sold to Spain.  I think that is so neat.  I also found out that Primal Instincts, the Spice Brief that I co-wrote with Lisa Renee Jones will be an August release.  I can’t wait to see the cover.

Have a great Tuesday, everyone.  I’m off to make my page count.

Well I’m back from my research and soccer trip to New Hampshire.  We had a great time, except for the cold and rain!  My son’s team played soccer in near freezing temperatures, outdoors in shorts and T-shirts while the parents sat on the sidelines in hats, mitts, winter coats, blankets and umbrellas.  We froze, but the kids sure seemed to enjoy it. 

Our trip started out on a bad note, though.  I live 2 hours from the city, where my son was to meet his team and bus.  Twenty minutes from the house (with the car completely packed full) my car suddenly started acting strange.  The speedometer started going haywire, flipping all over the place, and the cruise control shut off.  We were worried it was an electrical problem and knew we couldn’t take it on a road trip.  So we had to turn around and hurry back home, switch cars and rush like mad to the city.  I was in total panic mode, worried we weren’t going to get my son to the bus on time!  All I can say is thank God the car didn’t actually break down on us.  Then we would have been in big trouble!

So once that issue was resolved we managed to get my son to his team on time and then we hit the road.  It was an extremely windy day and after about two hours on the road we decided to stop for coffee.  My husband and daughter ran into the coffee shop while I sat in the car and read over maps, hotels, with my confirmation numbers, my son’s schedule etc.  When they came back my daughter opened my door to hand me my coffee and my husband opened his door at that exact moment.  I mentioned it was a windy day right?  Well the two opened doors created a breeze and all my papers (had a stack of them) went flying across the parking lot.  Ugh!!  My husband and daughter scrambled, running around like mad to get them while I tried to hold on to the ones still on my lap.  Honestly, it was funny watching them.  I know that’s such a terrible thing to say.  LOL.  Then my husband came down over a muddy bank to get the last piece of paper and his feet nearly went right out from underneath him.  His eyes opened wide and he said…”Oooh” That was it, I burst out laughing and laughed until I had tears rolling down my eyes.  At least he had a good sense of humor about it, because my daughter and I teased him about it for the rest of the trip. 

So the trip continued, and I was able to stop and sign stock in numerous bookstores along the way, and always enjoy talking to the booksellers.  My agent called me on Friday while I was in the restaurant with some good news.  I’m hoping to share it really soon!

Now I’m home and armed with research of the NH area, I’m diving straight into my next project.

Sorry I’ve been so quiet.  I’ve been working hard on a couple of proposals and trying to get edits done before I take off to New Hampshire.  I’m really looking forward to getting away, and looking forward to doing nothing but shop and watch my son play soccer, which is the reason behind the trip.  Can you imagine playing outdoors in April in short and T-shirt.  It’s insane I tell you, insane!  

I want to thank everyone who’s emailed me about the Hotline.  I’m so glad so many of you are enjoying it.  I had such a great time writing about those sexy firefighters!  I’m  actually working on a paranormal idea now, which is very different from my light anthologies for sure.  I hope to tell you all more about it soon.

Well back to edits I go.  Have a great weekend everyone.

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
1. Financial Officer, Canadian Govt
2. Landscaper
3. Waitress
4. Writer

Four movies I’ve watched more than once:
1. Billy Madison or anything with Adam Sandler.  I know, I know!
2. Under the Tuscan Sun
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Groundhog Day

Four favorite places I’ve lived:
1. Montreal, Quebec
2. Churchill Falls, Labrador Newfoundland
3. Goosebay, Labrador, Newfoundland
4. Halifax, Nova Scotia

Four favorite places I’ve travelled:
1. San Diego, California
2. Florida Keys
3. New Hampshire
4. New York

Four places I most want to see before I die:
1. Germany
2. Caribbean
3. Venice
4. Tuscany

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Chocolate Brownies
2. Pizza
3. Chinese
4. Haddock (white fish)

Okay, I tag, Lisa Renee Jones!!   http://www.lisareneejones.com/blog/

I’m a fan of honesty.  I always try to be honest with my family, friends and to myself.  If I read a friend’s book and it’s not for me, it doesn’t mean it’s a bad book.  It just means it’s not for me.  I can always find something I like.  Always.  If a friend asks for a critique then I’ll tell them what works for me, or what doesn’t.  It’s ultimately up to them whether they want to make any changes or not.

So let me get to the reason for this topic on this beautiful Friday morning.  Something has been bugging for awhile now.  I haven’t said anything. I’ve kept it inside, but now I just feel like getting it off my chest.

A friend of mine read one of my books, and gave me a raving review.  I thought that was nice and it really made me happy. She, of course, didn’t have to give me a raving review just because she was a friend.  Then about a week or so ago, I was surfing the net, looking for reviews on some of my books for my website (hoping they were good!) when I came across a rating from this friend.  It wasn’t so good.  Was I upset about the low rating?  How could I not be?  No matter how hard we try to ignore bad reviews, they still sting.  But what hurt most was that this friend had raved about my book to me, then goes and gives it a low rating.  It really surprised me, and quite frankly, hurt me.

If this person wanted to give me a low rating, then fine.  Just don’t rave to me about my book.  I think it would have hurt less, and I would have gone with the theory that it just wasn’t for her.  Because I certainly understand we can’t please everyone all the time, nor do I try.   I wasn’t sure what this friend’s motives were. I’m still not.  All I know is she didn’t have to rave to me if she didn’t like the book.  I’m sad that she felt she had to, and I’m sad that I can no longer believe what she says to me. 

So on another note, I’m off to get my hair cut and colored!  blond?  brown?  red?  Oh, the possibilities….

Have a great weekend everyone!

Yesterday I went on the Playboy radio Playdate show to be a guest judge and to promote the Hotline.  It was fun and scary and I’ll tell you all about it!

http://www.playboy.com/playboytv/radio/ (On left hand side hit show description and audio, then scroll down to playdate)

First they have 4 million listeners….4 million freakin listeners and I just know I sounded like a boob!

Seriously, though, there were times I stumbled, especially when she talked about The Hotline. She was asking questions about what it was about, where my ideas came from etc. I sounded like an idiot, I know, talking about hot firefighters and how women loved them. But as I got into the playdate part, I got more comfortable.

Men called into the show and during the first segment we were asked a question and then sometimes given a multiple choice.  Questions like how long does a pig’s orgasm last.  One guy was too funny.  He said, well I’m a pig.  I guessed sixty seconds but boy I was way off.  It was, ironically, sixty nine minutes.  Tara pipes in…roll me in mud.  I had to cover the phone I was laughing so hard.    Another question was which animal has two sex organs.  I remember snake and scorpion as a choice.  I pipe in that man should have been on the list, thinking his brain and his penis were both sex organs.  But I don’t think anyone got that.  LOL.  So I guessed scorpion but it was a snake.  There were a few other questions to that segment.

In the next segment the men were given dating situations etc, and they had to say what they’d do to try to get that first date. I was the judge. So I was furiously taking notes as they talked. It’s very fast paced and I had to really concentrate to keep up. I had to give dating advice, tell the guys what they were doing right or wrong and if they would have gotten that first date  (none did) and I think I handled that section well.

Then the last segment, the guys had to win me over. I could get rid of the caller anytime I wanted, and they would bring a new guy in so I always had three guys going at once. One question I remember was to caller Ozzie, Tara asked him if he had to name a hero in a book what would it be. He said Ozzie. I said goodbye Ozzie. LOL. Another question to a guy was, which game show would you like to be on. He said Deal or No Deal. I said goodbye to him because I didn’t like that show.  Talk about a hard-assed judge.  :))

Then I had to ask one final question so I just asked the guys who their favorite author was. No one said Cathryn Fox. LOL. So I told them they all got it wrong, but picked Adam from NY as my winner because I really liked him and he was very intelligent. His favorite author was Dan Brown, and he said he was very…adventurous.

It’s a fun, don’t take yourself too seriously kind of show. Tara Mack is amazing, intelligent and very quick on her feet.  She really promoted and talked about The Hotline a lot and that was fantastic of her.

Oh, she asked me a woman’s biggest fantasy. So I know in erotic romance right now it’s two guys. So I actually said that. Poor hubby, he was like OMG you didn’t!!!

Then Tara said she’d never do that and I was like, oh, never say never…sheesh.

Then Tara asked me for my final piece of advice to guys and I said, treat your girl like the princess she really is.  God, I’m a dork.

I’d do it again, for sure, and next time I think I’d be more comfortable, because I’d know what to expect.

YAY The Hotline releases tomorrow.  I’m so excited!

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Seduced by Darkness, the highly anticipated sequeal to Into the Darkness is availble now.  Run don’t walk to your nearest bookstore to get this electryfing read!

From Romantic Times BOOKReviews Magazine, reviewer Gail Pruszkowski, for SEDUCED BY DARKNESS:

“The electrifying follow-up to Into the Darkness is a breathless read. Devlin’s intricate vampire society is filled with compelling personalities. The chemistry between the characters is explosive, and the horrific villain will give you goosebumps…and the ending will leave you begging for more…”

HarperCollins Avon Red
ISBN-10: 0061161241
ISBN-13: 978-0061161247
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: February 26, 2008

For eight hundred years Nicolas Montfaucon has dedicated his life to preventing the rebirth of an immortal evil. But now a terrible storm has assaulted unsuspecting New Orleans—and the beast walks the earth once more. “The Devourer” has been awakened, and there is only one in the besieged city who can help Nicolas defeat the foul creature—a mysterious and beautiful enigma who haunts the handsome Revenant’s erotic waking dreams and enflames his passionate obsessions.

Chessa Tomas is not an ordinary policewoman. A vampire, she works only at night, patrolling a seamy and unseen underworld of roiling chaos. Though Nicolas is sensuality incarnate, Chessa wants no part of him or his kind—but she cannot close her eyes to the unholy malevolence that would consume their world. And Nicolas has uncovered the secret lust that rules her—a steaming, uncontrollable desire he intends to unleash, bending Chessa to his will by making her most forbidden fantasies real.

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