Sadie Jay

Time's getting away from me. So much to do and not enough time to do it! But that's always December. The writing has gone on hiatus, but hopefully I'll be able to get back to it after Christmas. Right now I have too many cookie orders to bake and I've been running back and forth to doctors' appointments with my mom. It takes a lot out of a person! This week's snippet is from my current WIP, Cut Shot , which starts at Thanksgiving and takes place through the following holidays. Jed, who isn't out to his family, is showing his love interest his childhood bedroom. Not surprising, they end up on the bed, making out:  Ian allowed himself to be manhandled and pulled back across the bed until he was trapped against Jed’s chest. He sank his hands into Jed’s muscled forearms where they were wrapped around him, holding him. “I wish you didn’t have your shirt on,” he mused aloud, imagining Jed’s tattoos under the material, recalling the way he’d run his fingers over th...

This whole year has been unsettled (probably because of my day job situation) and I feel like I'm slogging through water on autopilot. It's definitely been one thing after another, with this last week being filled with hospital stays and doctors' appointments for my mom. Sadly, it has left little time to devote to my writing. I had every intention of publishing Blind Ante and Cut Shot months ago and then hit Delicious hard, but life said no. Hopefully, I'll be looking for beta readers for the first two very soon. Deep breath, right? Things will get better.  The last chapter of Blind Ante , before the epilogue, takes place on Thanksgiving day. (And since it's Thanksgiving week in the USA...) Jordan and Reese have just survived a fire. Reese's sister, Raven, takes over—as she is wont to do!  It was Thanksgiving day. Somehow, in all the chaos, both Jordan and Reese had forgotten. Raven bundled them into her car, the rest of the family having left after being as...

I don't have words for this last week. So I'm just going to leave it at that. I did go spend the night with my daughter and her partner over the weekend (they live 3 hours away). Sometimes you just need your family.  This weekend's snippet comes from Like Cracks in the Sidewalk . It's 1995. James and Val are taking a walk during the early days of their relationship. Told from James' POV: Val's face was smooth, relaxed. I’d not noticed how tense he normally was until he wasn’t. How had I missed that? I ran my thumb across his cheek-bone, forgetting where we were, and tilted my head as I leaned down to kiss him. He parted his lips without any hesitation, drawing me in, and it was sweeter than any kiss in all of history. The birds chirped their song over our head and the wind rustled the leaves, and yet, the only sound I heard was the small moan Val made at the back of his throat as he pressed against me. Every second was magnified and expanded, wrapping us in a bu...

Yesterday was the last day of this year's Farmers Market. It's been a challenge this year, more so than the last two summers. I've simply had too much to deal with. It's felt like I've been on autopilot for the last two months. Maybe I'll get my groove back, now! I imagine at this point I won't get Blind Ante out before the end of the year, but miracles have happened, I suppose. The inspiration for Blind Ante was my aunt and uncle's (and now my cousin's) trailer, surrounded by a few acres of woods. It's a place the extended family gathers. It's one of my happy places, to be honest. So, even though the trailer is old and shabby, it's more than a backdrop for the story. Like The House in the Headphones trilogy, the trailer in this story is a character in its own way.   Staying quiet wasn’t easy. Reese’d never noticed how noise traveled through the trailer, even though it’d been his home for ten years, and he’d spent large chunks of his ...

It's Bisexual Awareness month, and to celebrate I'm going to snip from my books with bisexual characters. I should have started at the first of the month, but there was traveling, accompanied by Covid. 1 star. I do not recommend! Hopefully, my life is going to become more routine once again.  Snipping from Fangs for Everything Young Rollie doesn't know that Alex is a vampire, and as things heat up, Alex is "explaining" some medical conditions that affect him sexually, as it's their first time being intimate. But Rollie misunderstands and things almost end before they begin. Told from Alex's POV:     “ Y ou’ve done this before, right?” [Rollie asked.] Again, there was that embarrassed flush.  “Had sex? It’s been a while, but I had a girlfriend when I was younger. So, yes?” And that wasn’t a lie, or even the truth stretched.  Rollie stiffened. “Wait! I thought…” He frowned, his thick eyebrows drawing together, and there was an edge o...

I knew this summer was going to be a challenge, and I wasn't wrong. I've had too many irons in the fire and it's felt like everything has gone a little sideways. No major disasters, but enough to feel like it's two steps forward, a step-and-a-half back. I got home from the Rainbow Readers Cruise last weekend—which was wonderful, by the way—but as per the new normal, I tested positive for Covid. I'm supposed to head to Kansas Wednesday for GRL, so fingers crossed I'm testing negative by then. I'd consider canceling now if I wasn't going as an author, but I decided to take the plunge and "just do it" this year. I have swag and books and preorders. Everyone, send me your good vibes!  Rooster in Key West. It was too hot to do much exploring, but we walked around the market area for a bit.  Posting the opening of Fang for Everything  today. I probably have before, but it's a book I'll have available for sale at GRL, so I'm featuring it a...