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Shameless Summer Giveaway Hop

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First, a big shout-out to Jen at Red Hot Books, Brie at Romance Around the Corner & Michelle at Michelle’s Book Blog for organizing this huge undertaking! Thank you ladies!

And, as if the display below isn’t gift enough (yes, I’m teasing you), I am giving away a digital copy of Taking Her Chance (One Night With A Cowboy) and a Decadent book of your choice (2 sets, open to US and International winners)! There are multiple ways to win: Tell me who your shameless summer hottie is, follow me on twitter, and/or tweet about the giveaway and blog hop.

Taking Her Chance (One Night With A Cowboy)

Elizabeth Torrence spent the last nine years establishing her career and then building her advertising business from the ground up. The problem is to do that she had to walk away from the one man who could have been the one.

Chance Rogers, a star bull rider on the pro circuit had met the girl he wanted to marry back when he was scampering to rodeos between classes at the University of Texas. After only one date she refused to see him again. One failed marriage later, he is finally ready to try again. So he turns to a dating service to help him get back in to the swing of things.

When Chance walks into the room at the Golden Mustang Dude Ranch, Beth is determined that history will not repeat itself. Not hers and not her mother’s. But will she take her Chance or lose him again?

In keeping with the theme of this blog hop I present to you my tribute to shameless summer hotness…

I have always liked older men, and Daniel Craig definitely does it for me.

Okay so the trunks are atrocious…but Matthew is just so sexy.

Talk about broodingly sexy. Yowza Paul!

I like to picture myself in lieu of the surfboard. What??!!

Seriously, there just aren’t words…

Okay, so here is where you enter to win. Only entries in the form below (not the blog comments) will be counted. Good luck!

 

And of course, now that you’ve entered to win my prizes go check out all the other giveaways going on!


Not a Book Review – Maid For It by Lucy Rodgers

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I don’t do book reviews. I do however occasionally talk about a book that I really enjoyed. I found Maid for It by Lucy Rogers as a freebie on Amazon and I must say I really enjoyed this book. Now, I know there are some issues with the lack of a safe word, but damn it I really enjoyed these characters. And, I have to say due to the uniqueness of the scenario it works for me. Do I think this should ever happen in real life? Hell no! But this is fiction, and for me it worked.

Here is the blurb from GoodReads:

In fear for her life after witnessing a powerful drug lord gun down two rivals, Gabriela Marquez flees Sinaloa for the safety of the United States. No sooner does she arrive, however, than she’s arrested and threatened with immediate deportation unless she agrees to work for Maid for It, a company providing specialty housekeeping services to high-end clients. Gabi soon realizes the “specialty” services she must provide will be of a sexual nature. She should refuse, but she can’t risk deportation. Prostitution is preferable to death.

Her first assignment is in the home of Benjamin Hardcastle, a wealthy and reclusive computer security expert. He’s also Maid for It‘s most exacting client. Determined to please the heretofore unpleasable Mr. Hardcastle, Gabi keeps her past a secret. If he discovers the truth—that she’s been coerced into the role of sexual slave—he’ll send her away.

But what begins as a unwelcome obligation becomes an awakening to the incredible pleasures of domination, bondage, and submission. As Gabi discovers she truly is “made for it,” her secret looms larger, threatening her survival in an entirely unexpected way.

Catch it quick while you can get it free, and I have to say I will likely be looking for more from Ms. Rogders!

Decadent Publishing Sale at Amazon!

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99 cent SALE at Amazon on a few Decadent titles, including full-length novels! Scott Carpenter, Sahara Kelly, Maureen O. Betita, Susanne Saville, Diane Alberts.

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This runs thru the 6th. Enjoy!

Hello My Sexies!

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Wow, been a long time since I have been in. I have been very wrapped up with some health issues that have thankfully settled down, and of course writing. :) I hope that all is well with you. I am happy to say that I have been doing some reading while I was missing and I want, no need to share a new to me author with you all. As you all know, I don’t do book reviews, but I do promo authors I know and those I read and really enjoy. Cherise Sinclair is one I have read and really liked.

I picked up Club Shadowlands off the Kindle free bestsellers list and let it sit on my Kindle for a while. Then I decided I was in the mood for something sexy and I pulled up this book. Wow! It sizzled from the get go. I can’t tell you all how much I enjoyed this book and am now looking forward to the rest of this seriously sexy series. Here is the blurb:

Masters of the Shadowlands 1:  Club Shadowlands

 Her car disabled during a tropical storm, Jessica Randall discovers the isolated house where she’s sheltering is a private bondage club.  At first shocked, she soon becomes aroused watching the interactions between the Doms and their subs.  But she’s a professional woman—an accountant—and surely isn’t submissive . . . is she? 

Master Z hasn’t been so attracted to a woman in years.  But the little sub who has wandered into his club intrigues him.  She’s intelligent.  Reserved.  Conservative.  After he discovers her interest in BDSM, he can’t resist breaching her walls and unleashing the passion she keeps hidden within.

Master Z is just devastatingly sexy in this book, even as he is extremely demanding. He walks that fine line as an Alpha male, he does it well. I am going to pick up the next book, Dark Citadel, very soon. Read any good erotic romances lately? I’m always looking for something hot. :D

New Release: Bloodsong by Eden Bradley

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BLOODSONG, Book Two in Eden Bradley’s Midnight Playground series, is out today from Samhain Publishing! You can find it at MBaM, Amazon, and other retail outlets!


An ancient vampire, an ancient grief…a love that makes his blood sing…

Midnight Playground, Book 2

London, 2069

Aleron is ancient, powerful, immortal…a vampire who idles away his time playing at his favorite haunt, Midnight Playground. His favorite toys: beautiful young men. His game: BDSM, experiencing through the minds of his partners the sensations he can no longer quite feel himself.
The one thing he has vowed to avoid at all costs is love, especially for a woman. In a hundred years he has never been tempted to break that vow—until a lovely mortal woman enters his dungeon to watch him play. And his blood hums the ancient song of long-forgotten desire.
Raised in the Indian slums of London, exotic dancer Meeraj enters Midnight Playground a woman with nothing left to lose, numb to all but the most extreme forms of stimulation. As she watches Aleron’s blood play, she knows only his razor-sharp skills will satisfy. And she catches an odd mental glimpse of the grief that shadows his heart.
From their first touch, they are caught up in a whirlwind of exquisite agony that releases their emotions from the weight of the past. Exposing them to risks they’ve both fought to avoid. Love…and loss.
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Visit the Smutketeers blog for contests running all week long to celebrate the release of BLOODSONG!

Comfort Zones…

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I was reading a transcript of a workshop on writing erotic romance, and specifically dealing with BDSM. A very interesting comment was made about growth as a writer and your comfort zone.

I really liked the presenter’s comment that they could have never written their latest book back when they started writing. It just would have been too uncomfortable. It made me think about my evolution as a writer.

I started out reading romance. I found Thea Devine and others like her. Then last year I discovered Maya Banks, Crystal Jordan, and a number of other erotic romance writers. I had my eyes opened to something I enjoyed reading but also found titillating…exciting. Not in my usual wheel house.

I could never have imagined writing it then, but now I have made the leap and am loving it! So I am wondering about readers. How did you discover erotic romance and then did you make a leap from the more tame books to the kinkier? What drove that?

Sex Now or Later?

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I am new to writing erotic romance. I have read romance for years, but in the last few I have expanded officially into erotic romance as a reader. As a writer, I am brand-spanking new (*snicker*). I must say, I am really enjoying writing it. The real question will be does anyone want to read it?

On the third Monday of the month I will be joining the Excerpt Monday fun and give you a taste of some of my very raw writing. I look forward to comments and feedback when that post comes (that’s this Monday!).

Why? Why am I writing Erotic Romance? Well…because sex is an important and natural extension of a relationship between two people. Of course there must be more, and that should be shown; but the sex is important too. Sometimes it even precedes the rest of the connection.

There is something to be said for a driving lust that draws two people together for them to later discover how much they really have in common. How much they truly share on an emotional and intellectual level.

For me, it doesn’t really matter what order this happens in, just that both sides of the coin are shown in the story. My current novella actually shows a simultaneous development…but more on that later. :D

As a reader, do you have a preference for which order these things happen in? Should the emotional connection come first, or is it okay to get down and dirty and then find out you really like each other?

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