I’ve been following him on Twitter for a while now, and after checking out the site, I can see that there’s quite a bit to him. Writer, Producer, and a NINJA! That’s just awesome right there!

Best known for his Lawson Vampire series (the 5th book is due in 2011 from St. Martin’s Press) and his work on eleven novels in the bestselling Rogue Angel series from Harlequin/Gold Eagle, Jon writes an incredibly varied array of exciting stories…

Be sure to check out his site today for the launch! He’s got a bunch of goodies to give away today!!

http://jonfmerz.net/

In more awesome news, otahouse.com is now ours! For those of you new to my blog, Otahouse is my main group of friends from college. A random group of college students from an anime club that were drawn together in a search for roommates, and therefore create OTA (from the word otaku meaning geek in Japanese) and House.

Main Members of Ota minus Eric

This is from our Christmas (Rockmas) 2007 dinner and gifts night. Left to right: myself, Linuxjosh, Bastion, Shika, Amanda, Sean, Mukura, and Rock.

We did a lot of crazy stuff together: Midnight trips to the beach (an hour’s drive away); crazy drunken parties some which involved a yaoi paddle – plz, don’t ask; random road trips to out of state conventions; and one of my favorites – playing out in the rain during a hurricane.

Linuxjosh tried to buy otahouse.com a few years ago in order to create a home forum all of us who were about to go our separate ways, but the url was already taken then by a random production company that we’d never heard of.  So imagine my surprise yesterday when I received an IM from him saying he had finally bought it!

Linuxjosh has left the design of the site up to me but I haven’t really figured out what I want to do with it yet.  A photo gallery is going to be a must have as well as a forum, but other than that I’m still thinking.