janedavitt

Gambling On Love is now available from Riptide, revised and updated.

To celebrate, there's a blog tour with prizes! I'm giving away a $25 Amazon voucher to one winner and four others will receive their choice of one ebook from my backlist.

http://riptidepublishing.com/events/tours/gambling-love-blog-tour-jane-davitt

Today, the tour kicks off in style at these sites. There's a blog post from me at MM Good Books too, explaining why this book won't work for everyone, but I hope it hits the mark for some of you.

Sinfully Gay Romance

Boy Meets Boy Reviews

Diverse Reader

Guilty Pleasures

and
MM Good Book Reviews

Many thanks to the sites for hosting me; much appreciated!

...though super nervous. The two Gr 11 English teachers at Lauren's school asked me to come in and talk to their classes today about writing and my love of reading. Went really well. The kids were friendly, polite, and asked lots of really good questions.

So glad it went well. Now I can relax after fretting all week :-)

Out of the blue, some guy took me to task for my negative review of a book on GR that I posted years back.

It was the book that the Surveyfail guys wrote. I defended my review (he was all, but you didn't REEEEAD it!!! and I was all, didn't bloody need to, thank you) then browsed some of the Surveyfail links. Sadly, many links dead now, but ooh, that was a quality wank! :;munches reminiscent popcorn::

Got back yesterday after two trouble-free flights and a wonderful five days relaxing. Very hot here and double jetlag means my body isn't sure what the hell is going on, but I'll soon adjust.
( trip )

Eleanor has a Redbubble account where she uploads art and it gets put onto stuff. I asked her to upload a photo of mine and I bought it as a chiffon top, very light and cool.

So happy with how it turned out! Though it needs ironing :-) It's a maple leaf on the pavement outside the Ottawa Parliament buildings.

( T-shirt )

so I guess I can voice my opinion and it's one of sheer disgust at the gamble of buying your way into power by promising a referendum that you assumed would go your way.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

And coming out of the EU was deeply stupid.

Devastated. The implications are huge and scary. Scotland is now unhappy; I'm guessing if they could vote today the result would be different than last time; they'd pull out of the UK and join the EU as a separate nation.

Oh, this year. I can't even.

Comments off. I'm venting from 4000 miles away.

A friend of ours for many years, Rob, lost his battle against colon cancer today. He was one of those people who are the focal point in any room. He was tall, handsome, kind, always smiling, and he made you feel special and interesting.

He was a therapist who dealt with some high profile cases because he was so good at his job. He had a wife and young son and I can't imagine what they're feeling right now, or his dad and stepmother, lovely people who've already suffered losses themselves.

When he found out about the cancer, his first reaction was to fight it, to raise money to research it, to go on with his life. I never once heard him complain.

He said when he went, to raise a glass to him. We'll do that. And shed some tears.No, many tears.

http://rkattenhornteedoffatcancer.weebly.com/about-rob.html

Thank you all for the outpouring of sympathy for Macallan's loss. I won't reply individually because I'm tearing up thinking of him, but the family read them all and were very touched and grateful.

::hugs you all::

David and I got WAY behind on SPN and decided to watch an episode a night to catch up. We just watched the one where a kiss seals your fate.

Am I the only one who was hoping for a Sam/Dean smooch b/c Sam didn't want Dean to die? A desperate, grabby, hard kiss that left them reeling?

Say it isn't so!

A year ago my friend and I signed up for a gym. It was 30 mins away but they assured us a new one would be opening five mins away from my house in September and we could transfer our membership then. It's taken until now, but the new place was finally open so we went to transfer.

It's a $25 fee. Well, okay. Then she tried to get us to go from the basic $10 a month fee to the $20 VIP package to avoid the transfer fee.

I said no, wasn't interested in guest passes, massage, tanning; I basically just want to do the Zumba.

Oh, she said, Zumba classes aren't covered and by the time you pay for them singly, you might as well pay the VIP fee and get all classes included.

Needle scratch time. We've NEVER paid for Zumba/yoga at the other location. We told her and she got sniffy and said we should've done and it was breaking the rules. I checked when I got home and the website does say classes are extra but Jackie and I could've sworn they were all included and we never got asked for money; just beeped our card and walked on in.

I decided to cancel altogether. I haven't been going and it was just getting pricey. I was told since I'd been a member for six days over a year I needed to give them 60 days notice in writing.

Me: Please give me a piece of paper.

They handed over s sheet and I wrote on it: I want to cancel my membership, signed and dated it, and left.

Never again signing up for something so hard to cancel.