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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 127th (Guy of a Different Color)

July 9, 2012 Chris 17 Comments

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be meeting Guy of a Different Color (GoaDC), so named because he reminded me of the Horse of a Different Color from The Wizard of Oz – he’s a slightly different shade every time you see him! 🙂

One night,

were hanging out with

, drinking beer to quench their

and mending their tattered clothes using

, when who should appear with some

but the

, yelling, “

, you

heathens!

had to deal with such recalcitrance – rest assured that you’ll be

. Bwa-ha-ha!”

Hmm. Anyone suffer a brain sprain reading that?

“You don’t listen!! I said no more naughty boys!!!!!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 126th (The Return of Pumkin Ravioli Boy)

July 2, 2012 Chris 16 Comments

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be catching up with Pumkin Ravioli Boy. (If you don’t remember how he got his misspelled name, you can find out here.) (You can hover your cursor over the covers to see how I used the title in the Misadventure.)

and those

, were

on their way home from a

, which had been the

for all of them. The

of the Desperate Fay King’s

made short work of the ticket when he got

with the police officer, using some

he’d learned while

with the

(who’d

him to go riding), right before his unplanned

in a

that left the Desperate Fay King without

, but with a painful new

in his spine.

*blink blink blink*

“This is my indignant about naughty boys look. As if you didn’t already know that.” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 125th (The Return of UYWHEG)

June 25, 2012 Chris 17 Comments

Congrats to Ria M, who won Saviours of Oestend (Oestend #2), by Marie Sexton! Saviours of Oestend is being released by Total-E-Bound today.

Congrats to garnetyuna, who won Full Circle (Sanctuary #5) by RJ Scott! Full Circlewas released by Silver Publishing on June 23.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be catching up with Undressing You With His Eyes Guy (UYWHEG). To make things more fun, I’ve only used covers from two different publishers.

remembered

all too well, as he’d been stuck

(

) at

had started a

with

over a missing

and a

flickered around the combatants until suddenly,

and the

exploded throughout the Buckhampton Country Club and only the timely intervention of the

saved the day.

Whew! 🙂

“You should be ashamed of yourself, Mom. I think you’re egging on these naughty boys!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 124th (The Return of Starey Glarey Guy)

June 18, 2012 Chris 12 Comments

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be catching up with Starey Glarey Guy (SGG), who has been very, very busy…

Says SGG, “First I was bitten and

, then

, and

, a

who was

and could

with just a glance, at

in the

. Although I was a

be sure, when the

finally settled into place one

night, I’m sure you could

for miles.”

Curses. I couldn’t quite make it work as a single spectacular run-on sentence. 🙁

*radiates disapproval and disappointment* -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 123rd (Slave Boy drops by again)

June 11, 2012 Chris 21 Comments

Congrats to Nette, who won her choice of Left in the Darkness (Haven Coffee House Boys #2) or Tagged and Bagged (EMS Heat #14)Â by Stephani Hecht!

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be catching up with Slave Boy yet again. Onward!

meat dinner was completely unsatisfying,

. Not even

with seasonings or his infamous

, and

sauce could improve the mystery meat meal – although who much cared (or remembered) after that sauce?! Maybe it was all that booze or maybe it was

and fanciful

, but after Sage went to sleep, he had

filled with

for

. Alas, when he awoke, there was no escape from

(no matter how he much he avoided

) – elves don’t

performing random

, so he was stuck in

with the

Um… at least it wasn’t a single run-on sentence, right?! 😉

“I have had enough!! I am going to smack that naughty boy with my Deadly Paw of Smacking!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 122nd (SOBJG, back again)

June 4, 2012 Chris 22 Comments

Congrats to Melissa E, who won Where Nerves End (Tucker Springs #1) by L.A. Witt! Where Nerves End was released on June 3 by Amber Allure.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll catch up a bit with Slouching Open Black Jacket Guy (SOBJG), for something like the ninth time. 🙂 Remember, you can always hover your cursor over the covers to see how I used the title in the Misadventure.

Once in a

, a

for a

goes very, very wrong and the

lead

– not just any treasure, but

– now

on a map for any

to find. If you think the one man was happy about that,

, how wrong you are! At first he was

with fury, burning with the

of anger – anger hot enough to start a

or anywhere else he happened to be

. But then he had some

to calm down, considered his possible

, and decided maybe things weren’t as bad as he feared. Maybe he was just in an especially dark frame of mind because he’d been

(

) during a

and gone down after a

, ending

Heh. You think your brains hurt – you should try writing these! 😉

“I… just can’t believe there are so many naughty boys!!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 121st (It’s Candy Cane Guy… again)

May 21, 2012 Chris 18 Comments

Congrats to Michelle, CursingMama, and Tracey D, who won King Perry by Edmond Manning!

Congrats to Peggy C, who won Still Waters (Sanctuary #4) by RJ Scott!Â Still Waters was released by Silver Publishing onÂ May 19.

Congrats to Paula S, who won her choice of More Than Pride (Supernatural Mates #6) or Switching Payne by Amber Kell! Switching Payne was released by Silver Publishing on May 19 and More Than Pride will be released by Total-E-Bound on May 28.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be catching up with Candy Cane Guy… again. And maybe I should warn you ahead of time that it’s likely you’ll get whiplash reading this one. 🙂

Said Candy Cane Guy, “It all happens

dream perchance – they think I’m just

, but ever since I fell afoul of

, I’m actually

from

unattainable. Instead of being the

and forming a

to become one of the carefree

, now I’m working a job

make ends meet. Asking people, ‘

‘ during the day and working

p0rn0 at night is a real drag, when I’d much rather be

, trying to appease his near-

appetites and waiting for him to tell me, ‘

!'”

Well. Um. Look! Over there!

*determinedly and crabbily ignoring the naughty boys* -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 120th (The return of the return of the return of Too Smooth Guy!)

May 14, 2012 Chris 12 Comments

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be catching up with Too Smooth Guy. Cover artists love to photoshop his pants… with alarming results that make his photoshopped hair look great in comparison! 😮

from

would require

, along with some

provided by

who got his power by

during the

). Poor Valor was captured under

during his

from

– he’d merely stopped for a cheap

beer, but somehow got caught in the

from that whole

kerfuffle and ended up

, and forced to search for

Hey, it rhymes! 🙂

*hoping no one will notice the train wreck before the rhyming bit*

*sigh* -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 119th (The return of ISSAYWMSSG)

May 7, 2012 Chris 20 Comments

Congrats to Helena and Maggie, who won Gambling Men: The Novel by Amy Lane! Gambling Men is being released by Dreamspinner Press today.

Congrats to Tracy F and Beth C, who won Acrobat by Mary Calmes! Acrobat is being released by Dreamspinner Press today.

Congrats to Yvette, who won Rogues (Brook Street #3) by Ava March! Rogues is being released by Carina Press today.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be catching up with I Shall Stare At You With My Smoldering Stare Guy (ISSAYWMSSG).

After the

, it was

for the

to grow weary of being

, so he snuck up behind

and yelled, “

!” Poor Peter was so terrified he dropped the

he was holding, then scanned the room, searching fruitlessly for

. Alas, all he could see were

, although… “There!” exclaimed Peter. “There!

!” But it turned out to just be his glass of

, fizzing quietly away in the corner by the

. “Oh, for…” muttered Peter. “If my nerves are this shot, they’d better just

, because I’ve obviously been in this

long. There aren’t enough

here to keep me away from my

any longer.”

The end.

Erm. Is it too late for my “SoC staff not responsible for any permanent confusion caused by reading this Misadventure” warning? 🙂

“Sooooooo disappointed once again, Mom!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 118th (The return of the return of Baddest Santa Guy)

April 30, 2012 Chris 14 Comments

Congrats to Ann Roberts, who won the grand prize in the Beat Your Winter Blues blog tour with her comment here!

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today weâ€™ll be trying to catch up with Baddest Santa Guy – and this time, he actually makes it out of bed. 😉

While