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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Wild Card, 2006. Winner of "best oral sex scene" - Scarlet Magazine. Amanda's Young Men, 2009. Excerpted in Scarlet Magazine; Juicy Bits. Sarah's Education, 2009. Hit the #1 spots on Amazon.co.uk adult fiction & adult romance best seller lists. Jade Magazine bestowed the best cover art, 2009 award on Sarah's Education. "Get Up, Stand Up!" which appeared in The Cougar Book (Logical-Lust) won me the title 'Story Teller of the Year 2011' at The Erotic Awards, London, UK. Sarah's Education took the #3 spot on a list of the 30 most titillating titles of all time, as reported in English Daily Mail ;Female; Nov. 12, 2012. Debutante, a petite novel for e-publisher Imprint Mischief, (Harper-Collins) pubbed in 2012. I tutor writing students and am a member of the WGC. D.M. Thomas said: Madeline Moore writes great sex without metaphor and that's not easy to do. Kris Saknussemm said: You're a good egg, Madeline Moore. I am a good egg who writes great sex without metaphor! Yippee!

Saturday 15 October 2011

My Car and Me - A short short silly silly story

I was hanging out at Kristina Wright's blog admiring her babies and her work ethic, not necessarily in that order, and I realized I missed blogging. So here I am!

Hmm. A few moments have passed while I tried to think of what to write about.

Well, this week I had to purchase a new muffler for my car. No, you silly Brits, I don't mean one of these:


Such a beautiful painting by Kristin Kemper which you can buy here

and I'm not talking about the brolly, either, as you Brits call an umbrella, or in this case three umbrellas from
playle.com:


So we're perfectly clear, now, that I'm not talking about this, which I would have been much happier purchasing:

Correct?


I'm talking about this stupid, expensive ugly essential thing:


which you may purchase here

It ate up all my earnings for a week of tutoring writing students.

This blog has already made me remember why I took a break from the blog.

Here, this helps:


You can see more of the same here

So I was pretty grumpy about spending money on car parts until I got home and found this in my trunk:


And then I felt much better.

The End

xoxo Madeline Moore