Kiersten Hallie Krum

$25 Amazon.com Gift Card and Books in the Black Friday Giveaway You could use a $25 Amazon.com gift card, right? And more book boyfriends? How about a surprise present, too? One winner will receive all these prizes in the LadySmut Black Friday Giveaway happening today through December 1. Winner announced on Sunday, December 3 on this blog post and on the Lady Smut Romance blog Facebook page.

Running Full Tilt Into the End of 2017 Early last week, after about seven months of searching, first for a house, then for an apartment that would take me and my fur babies, I finally found a new home for all of us–that I will move into in around a month’s time. This means I have about six weeks (if I’m super lucky) to pack up the place where I’ve lived for the last nine years and move (in-state) to the place I’ll likely be in for at least the next seven or eight years to start.

Halloween was one of The Mother’s favorite holidays, which, on the surface, was slightly incongruous. But her beloved grandmother’s birthday was on Halloween, and her death marked one of my mother’s biggest life losses. So to honor her Gran, The Mother decorated our house with somewhat antique Halloween decorations. Every year, the same spiders and witches and ghouls on our windows, never anything truly scary and always with a bit of fun to celebrate the season, and, by extension, her beloved Gran.