Second, Cora and I will be in Second Life tomorrow for a *live in voice* free tarot reading event starting at 7pm SLT (Pacific). So stop by if ya can and let’s have some woo woo fun! :D

Cora and Cassandra will be doing *live in voice* free tarot readings in Second Life

this Saturday, July 17th at the newly redecorated Midnight Moon Café in SL. We hope you’ll join us for fun.

FREE
Tarot Reading Event
7pm SLT
The Midnight Moon Cafe in Awen
SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Awen/144/34/23

And third, my mother was in the hospital this last week. She was rushed to ER and they found she had congestive heart failure and had possibly had a stroke. I am happy to say she was released from the hospital today and is now home resting. Whew. Had us all scared a mite there.

But as always, she rallies and is now fiesty as ever, givin’ ‘um hell and biscuits, rofl.

I am making some headway on my latest projects, but admittedly not as much as I’d hoped this week, due to staying up at the hospital with mom as much as possible. She may have gained a new reader for me though, lol. One of the nurses is apparently a big Gena Showalter fan. Not that my work is anything like Gena’s, but it is paranormal. :D So mom gave her one of my cards with my links on it.

Finally, I plan to (with Cora’s help) migrate my blog over to blogger. Yes, I know, only seems a few years ago, WordPress was the thing and everyone was migrating their blog here from Blogger, but I can’t design or write or understand WordPress, especially the CSS or is it CFS format? See I don’t even know. lol. So Blogger will be easier for me to do and hopefully I will keep up with it better and update it more often.

I’d love to have my website redone, but I keep putting it off until I sell one of my urban fantasy books. This design is great for where I was and what I was doing back when, but now it feels a little dated and not headed in the direction I hope to take my work in the future, so watch for the construction signs because after July, I plan to get busy redecorating the place. :P

Until next time…

Cass

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Today’s agenda: Writing, writing, writing, and then more writing! My heroes have a burning fire to get ‘some’ and are on my case, bitchin’ at me! rofl.

If you follow me on Twitter, thanks. I love my tweetettes. It’s over capacity again, though, so consider this your wake up tweet from moi, and enjoy! :D

Excerpt: The Deal Breaker, ©2010 Cassandra Curtis, All rights reserved.

Ryan pulled aside the curtains and glanced out the bedroom window at the workers trimming hedges and mowing the manicured lawn. None of them looked a day over thirty. Each one tanned and buff in a way no gym membership could replace. What other tasks did these guys do for her ladyship? Her body was lush and ripe, all smooth curves and heat. No way those men could work here and not appreciate Athena’s many assets—well, unless they were all gay. It would make his job easier. It was obvious she was starved for attention, stuck on this island.

It’s none of your business what she does with her employees, you’re only here to get that contract signed.  After the deal was made, maybe he’d get invited back and really explore her…island. Ryan chuckled to himself and stripped off his sweat-sticky clothes as he walked into the bathroom. He’d been so busy these past few weeks, he’d neglected his other needs, and now those needs were demanding he take care of business or risk embarrassing himself in front of Lady Athena.

He sniffed the bottle of spicy shower gel on the counter and debated using his own. The label read Archimedes Island Guest Bath. Would she be disappointed if he didn’t use their local product? Was he willing to risk it? In business negotiations, he’d often found the little things meant a lot, so he turned on the waterfall shower and stepped under the warm spray, soaping his body with the guest shower gel, his thoughts returning to Athena Thanos.

Ryan pictured the raven-haired beauty on the four-poster bed, each wrist and ankle tied with the silken ropes, her luscious body spread like a feast and helpless to get free, but he knew she wanted it, wanted him and trusted him to give it to her. Every moan told him so. No matter how much she squirmed and cried, she’d also begged him not to stop.

A strange, gasping sound caught his attention, forcing him to stop mid-stroke. He shoved the curtain to one side, checking the room. The door was closed. Must have been the plumbing pipes. A place this old probably made all kinds of noises. He inhaled the warm scented shower mist and pulled the curtain shut, then continued stroking his cock. The foamy lather ran down his neck and chest, over his stomach and between his legs, making his body tingle under the pounding spray.

Until next time…

Cass

Since I’m primarily a paranormal author, the switch to a contemporary always throws me a little. I find myself wanting to toss in a shapeshifter or a ghost just to mix things up, lol. The only other contenporary I’ve written is Compulsion, an ebook I did for Amber Heat. If you’d like to learn more about that book, go to my books page and scroll down to the single titles. It’s a quickie, around 11K.

Well, I must love you and leave you now…the gym and my swim class awaits. It’s my time to pretend I am a mer in RL, lol.

::waves a fin::

Until next time…

Cass

Congratulations, Feydra! Your name was drawn at random from among all the members of my SL group. Your prizes are a $500L gift card for Bootgasm, an $800L gift certificate for a photo session with premier SL photographer Aria Ireton, and a mer tail of your choice from Deep Sea Dreams!

How is that for awesome? ::pom pom swish::

Thank you to Kaffe of Siren’s Song for hosting my reading event Friday night. And thanks to everyone who attended. ((hugs))

Special Reading Event in SL with Cassandra *Sharktooth* Curtis

Friday, June 18, 2010

6pm SLT (pacific)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Underhill/200/52/9

I will be in Second Life tonight reading from my paperback erotic paranormal, Shifting Tides. The material is for a mature audience, so please only 18+ yrs old can attend. The event will be in *live* voice, so bring your headphones or sound card with you.

The location is underwater, so feel free to come as a mermaid or merman, or wear scuba gear, but it is not required. :)

I will be in my mermaid persona, swimming around and flashing my fins. heehee. I hope ya’ll can attend, since it’ll be fun. :-)

Also, there is a contest going on right now in SL for my group there, Midnight Moon Cafe Authors and Fans, so enter by joining my group and you could win a $500L gift card for Bootgasm, plus a photo session with Aria Ireton worth $800L, and that’s not all! You’ll also have your pick of any mertail at Deep Sea Dreams! Awesome, right?  So if you want to take a swim in deep water and explore SL in a new way, join my group.

How to join: Once in SL, go to search and type in my SL name, Cassandra Sharktooth. Click on the View Profile button and then scroll down my groups until you see the MMC Authors & Fans. Highlight the group name and then click the info button on the right side of the groups window. There will be a join this group button. Click it and you are done.

Or you can go to my shop in Tokara or in Awen and click on the pearl orb to join my group. To find my shops, simply click on my profile and go to my picks. :) You’ll see Trilla’s Treasure Friends Mall and Cassandra in Awen. Click on them and then teleport to the one you want. The pearl orb is at both shops.

Until next time…

Cass

Honorary werewolf Debbie G. writes: Have you written a sequel to The Midnight Effect? I can’t find it anywhere and I really liked your werewolves.

Hi Debbie! Thank you for reading The Midnight Effect and so glad you enjoyed it! I have to admit, I have not written a sequel for that story and probably will once I finish my current projects. Sorry for the delay.

Honorary Shimryn Mermaid Jennifer K. writes: Shimmer is the first thing I have read by you and it made me go on Amazon and buy the rest of your books! I was wondering if you were going to continue writing the Shimmer story and release it? I would love to find out what happens next in the story! Thanks!

Hi Jennifer! Thank you very much for buying my backlist and so happy you enjoyed Shimmer and hope you like the rest of my offerings equally well. As a matter of fact, one of the projects I am currently working on is a follow-up to Shimmer. It takes place on the Shimryn home world and explores their culture in depth. I hope to finish it by this Fall. :)

Honorary Boto Dolphin Shapeshifter Megan L. writes: Hi Cassandra! I just finished Soul Of The Sea and wanted to know if you plan to write a love story for Gavin and Melissa.

Hey Megan! Thank you for purchasing Soul Of The Sea. I hope you enjoyed it. At this time, I have no plans to write Gavin and Melissa’s story, but I never say never, so I may decide to revisit them and see what they’re up to. Hopefully something naughty and book-worthy. ;)

Until next time…

Cass

Very excited to report that my ebook novella The Deal Breaker was released today! Woot!

Eccentric recluse Athena Thanos owns Archimedes Island, a tropical paradise she can never leave. Cursed by the Goddess Hera, the moon and tides control her prison. Corporate player, Ryan Palmer is sent to negotiate a huge deal. But Ryan doesn’t know the hand he’s been dealt by fate or that he is the key to breaking Athena’s curse. Will he agree to her demands once he understands the risks?

Here is the link to learn more about it and to purchase it:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/16538

I wanted a different feel to each avatar, expanding on a variety of themes that reflect the various sub-genres I write about, yet wanted to make certain the photos were enough of a similarity that readers could tell all of the avatars were me, well, the me that resides in Second Life. lol.

What do you think? Not bad huh?

I especially love the mermaid ones. :-)

To have your own fabulous photo done in SL, send a notecard to Aria Ireton in SL.

It seems like I’ve been writing on my sci-fi romp forever. Actually, when I look at the calendar, I started the project back in November of last year. I spent four weeks going over the plot, checking for potential holes, building the backstory and filling out the cast of characters. Then I created the skeleton outline, my own personal diagram and trip tik so I could navigate the storyline and not get confused or lost along the way—which I did anyway, of course…

Then when the holidays hit, my mother became very ill and I dropped most of what I was doing and focused on my mum. When I wasn’t at her place, I played house in Second Life, putting up holiday decorations on my dream villa and taking a breather from my writing, planning to regroup in January.

Of course, nothing ever goes as we plan it, does it? Only a couple of days after Christmas 2009, my life did a 360º and everything I thought I knew had changed. I won’t go into the details of my tailspin, but it took me several months to regain my footing and even want to write something more creative than a grocery list. My nerves were shot and I felt up in the air about so many things, basic things I thought I had nailed down. Like where I would live, where my home was and who I’d be sharing it with.

I did a lot of growing as a person and realized some of the fault lay at my own door. I’d become complacent. And fallen into a serious rut. The person I used to be had changed over the years and I wanted her back!

So I started going to the gym again, I worked out, I started eating right and taking my vitamins. And as I lost weight, I realized I needed new clothes, so I rediscovered the love of shopping for wearable items. You see, before I hated clothes shopping because nothing ever fit the way it should, due to my size. But having lost two dress sizes made enough of a difference, that I could now shop with ease and find something that fit me without a struggle. Was I skinny? Hell no! I have a gene pool full of obese people, but at least I could see a glimmer of daylight.

I started writing again, small things, mostly angry letters I didn’t send and a few that I did. lol. Then, as I was going through the cancer scanning again, facing my own mortality yet another time, I realized I needed to get back at my writing or else give it up and admit defeat.

Now, I’m sort of stubborn in case you didn’t know, and the idea of simply giving up pissed me off. So like everything in my life, I fought and I pushed through my own angst and mental barriers by picking up the threads of a story I’d pushed to a back burner the year before. The story was a departure for me, almost pure erotica and probably the kinkiest shit I’d ever attempted. ::insert blush here::

I decided at the onset that I wouldn’t try to publish it through my usual avenue and would branch out a little and try something new since it was a new kind of story for me, especially since the ebook was also going to be below the word count required by Amber Heat, my publisher.

Earlier in the year, I’d uploaded my freebies to Smashwords, to reach a new audience of readers, and the response was incredible. Thousands of downloads and even a few nice reviews came from the effort. So I decided to create a couple of stories I’d place on Smashwords for sale and release them as 99¢ ebook specials.

The first of these stories is The Deal Breaker, and will be available to purchase on Smashwords starting June 11, 2010.

With most of the hard edits done on Deal Breaker, I returned my attention to my sci-fi romantic comedy, Earth to Elena. I’m happy to say the first draft is complete and now I’ll start the second of my 99¢ ebook specials and will try for a July release depending on how it goes. That way Elena can sit and ‘cure’ and I can get a little distance, so when I pick it back up in a couple of weeks, it’ll seem fresh again and I’ll be able to spot the mistakes easier…at least that is my hope. ::wide grin::

Not sure where I’ll send the story, since it’s less erotic romance and more romantic comedy. E to E (as I’ve nicknamed it) is also a full fledged novel, sitting at just under 100k, so that will also make a difference. But before I look at where to send it, the story will have to go through its paces, which in C.C. speak means about three to four drafts. Yeah, I know. How some authors can do a single draft, then simply edit and be done has always astounded me. I wish I knew their secret. I have to reread the story from scratch, agonize over ever sentence and red pen the printed out version until my fingers bleed ink. lol.

Oh yeah, I did move out of my house, just not the one in RL (at least not yet, lol). Nope, I moved out of the Villa I had in SL, so those pictures I took of myself there are bittersweet, but nothing lasts forever and in the case of SL, that is doubly true I’ve found. For the hell of it, one day I went through all my landmarks, some 200plus of them, and went to every location. I found that well over half no longer existed or had been changed and were now something completely different. Nothing like going back to your favorite hat boutique and finding it’s become a virtual gay country western bar. lol. Ahh well, cie la vie.

Until next time…

Cass