A FRIDAY FUNNY

Do we have any fans of The Walking Dead in The Dungeon?  I hope so, because I found these recently & they made me chuckle.  Maybe because I am a fan. :rolf

FREE BOOK FRIDAY

Squee!  That’s right…the gorgeous author copies for my April Harlequin Desire, ON THE VERGE OF I DO, have arrived & I’m giving away an early autographed copy!  I hope you’re as excited about this as I am. :jumping

To enter the giveaway for this book, simply leave a comment to today’s post that includes the code FBF—for “Free Book Friday,” of course—to let me know you’re interested in the drawing. (U.S. residents only for the prize, please, but everyone is welcome to chat.)

Winner will be announced during our Happy Sunday post on…well, you know, Sunday.

Winner is responsible for contacting me with her mailing information—i.e. I will not be contacting you—so be sure to check back in or you might not even know you won! :curses

(If prize isn’t claimed within 14 days, another name may be drawn or item may be tossed back into the goody bag to be re-used for a future giveaway.)

Oh, yeah…you only wish Darling Dwayne & I were expecting, ’cause you know the baby would turn out to be devilishly cute in its own horned & evil kinda way. :muahaha

But alas, I am only asking for help coming up with a name for the baby in my current Harlequin Desire manuscript—tentatively titled A Baby in the Billionaire’s Boardroom. (You can help name Darling Dwayne‘s & my demon spawn…er, I mean, bundle of joy later. :winkwink )

So all while I’ve been working on Boardroom, I’ve been calling the hero & heroine’s three-month-old son Hugh.  And that worked for me for a while, even though I occasionally slipped into calling him Baby Hugh or Baby Hughie.

But lately, it’s just not clicking, so I’m starting over & asking for your help to come up with something I can really love.

There are a few caveats to tossing out baby names, though…

For one, I need to avoid repetition with other names in the story, so it can’t start with any of these letters:  A, B, C, E, F, J, M, R, S, T, V, or W.  (Yeah, I know—tie my hands much?  Why do you think I’m having so much troubling landing on one I like? :moon )

For another, it can’t be too unique or out-there.  I don’t mind getting a little creative, but remember that this is a Harlequin Desire, so the characters are pretty much filthy rich & more old-fashioned & reserved.  Plus, the parents’ names are Alexander & Jessica, so no going out on the crazy limb & naming their baby something like Moon Unit or Pilot Inspektor.  (No offense to Frank Zappa or Jason Lee, who were obviously smoking a little sumpin’-sumpin’ when they came up with their babies’ names. :dropmouth )

I’ve also been considering simply changing the baby’s name to Henry to stay with the same letter of the alphabet.  (And obviously because I’ve been watching a little too much Once Upon a Time. :winkwink )

So let me know what you think of that idea, as well as throwing out some baby name suggestions of your own!