Saskia Walker's Blog, page 145

Away from the desk

Hi Folks! Just about to leave for a holiday/vacation. I may be able to tweet, I may not. Hoping so! I'll be back at the desk on the 25th.

Take care of yourselves and have a good couple of weeks! :)

STEAMLUST animation by Nikki Magennis -check it out!

This animation has me in total awe. Nikki Magennis has made this wonderful piece of stopmotion artwork for STEAMLUST, a forthcoming anthology of steampunk erotic romance short stories. The book comes out in just a few weeks. What a talented woman she is! Check it out. I love it to bits!

Steamlust - an animated film from Nikki Magennis on Vimeo.

Find out more about the book here.

Reprint news: ALONG FOR THE RIDE

ALONG FOR THE RIDE, my first erotic novel, is available with a new cover and a new lower price. If you enjoy my work and haven't picked up this older title before, you can now download it for only $3.99/£2.81.

Soon after her arrival in London, Georgina Montgomery finds herself modeling privately for one of her art college tutors, the Austrian artist Calvin Rolf. They become lovers and when Cal introduces her to his Fleet Street photographer sidekick, Jason Sutherland, a steamy ménage à trois affair follows. Georgie discovers that being involved with two gorgeous men is a heady intoxicant, and she quickly casts all her inhibitions aside. She's in her element, but their idyll of sexual adventuring in London is interrupted because a paparazzi scandal threatens to erupt around them.

Jason has taken intimate photos of an old flame, Chloe Mac, now a pop star and media darling. His cousin is after the images to sell to the highest bidder, and Jason has to get to the photos in Scotland before his cousin does. Cal and Jason decide to hit the road, and Georgie comes along for the ride.

But the paparazzi hunt results in Georgie's kidnap, and danger ups the emotional stakes for everybody involved. Georgie has to put her new found sexual power and confidence to good use, and territorial claims of the heart are about to be made.

Warnings: This title contains explicit scenes that some readers might find objectionable including m/f/m, m/m, anal play and some BDSM.

Find an excerpt and reviews here.

Available from:
eXcessica
Kindle US
Kindle UK
Barnes & Noble
ARe (on sale at the moment!)
Smashwords

New free read! THE DEVIL YOU KNOW

Hi folks! I have a new free read for you. This short story was originally published as part of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF HOT ROMANCE and is now available to download as a solo short story.

Leonie Carlton went to the other side of the world to avoid Mike Racine, because she loved him too much to stay. Their impetuous, fiery physical relationship was passionate and fulfilling, but Mike wasn't the type to settle down.

After a year working on a coffee plantation in Queensland, Australia, Mike arrives on her doorstep. Despite her resolve to stay cool and distant Leonie is thrown into turmoil by her old lover from the moment he says hello. She knows she can't afford to fall for him again. But Mike has traveled the world to win Leonie back. The question is, how far is he prepared to go to get her to hear him out?

7,000 words in length, contemporary erotic romance.

Please note: this short story was previously published in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF HOT ROMANCE. It contains frank language and graphic m/f sexuality, including domination/submission and bondage.

You can read an excerpt here.

Available free from:
ARe
Barnes & Noble
Diesel
Smashwords


Also available from:
Kindle US
Kindle UK

Happy reading! If you enjoy the story, please consider leaving me a reader rating at the site you downloaded it from. :)

Saskia

Where I'm at, and a new recommended read to check out.

I haven't been on online much recently (not even on twitter, which is my most likely regular hangout these days,) so I thought I'd better say a quick hello. My online time is severely limited at the moment and I have a project to wind up in the next ten days. That has to be my priority when I'm at the keyboard. Once I get that done and submitted, I get to rest and recuperate for a whole two weeks in sunny climes -- a long awaited and much anticipated holiday! Yay!

Not that I actually sit in the sun of course, what with me being of a more gothic persuasion and all that (old habits are hard to break ;o) but there will be lazing around under an umbrella (coated in sun block) while reading, listening to audio books, chilling, and generally rebooting for the work that lies ahead (ie the next two novels in the Taskill witches series! Can't wait to get stuck in to that. :)

Meanwhile there's a couple of publications to mention. First up today brings a terrific new read from my awesome critique partner and friend, Portia Da Costa. Portia's new Spice Brief, ANOTHER CHANCE, is now available through the Harlequin site and the Mills and Boon site in the UK. It should arrive at other outlets in the coming weeks. I loved the story to bits, it's a rewarding emotional read as well as an incredibly sexy one too. Here's the cover and the blurb:

It's been a long time since Maud Piper has had a lover, particularly one who can give her what she really wants: the masterful hand of a strong, powerful man. The sting of pain that turns into pleasure.

Only Maud's late fiancé had been able to satisfy her. Not even watching her employers at Blaystock Manor, the Marquis and Marchioness, in their own rough love play brings her the release she longs for—until she is caught in the act by William Graves, the estate's ruggedly handsome steward. Can he give Maud another chance to experience the pleasure she craves?

The highly anticipated sequel to Portia Da Costa's Chance of a Lifetime.

Go here for an excerpt!



More reading news and updates before I head off to the Med.
Meanwhile, hope all is well with you guys.

Contest winners

Thanks to everyone who took part in the birthday giveaway!

There were ten entrants so the Man of the House was asked to shout out random numbers between 1 and 10.

The winners are:
5 - Victoria
9 - Angel
8 - Claudia

If you haven't left your email address, please get in touch with your postal address. saskiawalker (at sign) gmail. com with no gaps.

It's my birthday so I'm giving away presents!

Happy birthday to me. I'm three hundred and eleventy today! :o)

To celebrate, I'm giving away three print copies of NAUGHTY BITS 2, a Spice anthology that is filled bumper to bumper with hot naughtiness. For your chance to win, please leave me a comment on this post. (If you're reading this post at Good Reads or my author page at Amazon, please call by here to enter.)

Naughty Bits 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the successful debut volume from the editors of SPICE BRIEFS, delivers nine unapologetically raunchy and romantic tales that promise to spark the libido.

In this collection of first-rate short erotic literature, lusty selections by such provocative authors as Megan Hart, Lillian Feisty, Saskia Walker and Portia Da Costa will pique, tease and satisfy any appetite, and prove that good things do come in small packages.

Open until 6pm GMT August 18th when I'll ask the Man of the House to shout out numbers at random. No geo restrictions on who can enter.

Look how small I am...

Photo of me taken at the Liverpool Tate Gallery. I really am this small….

… I wish. lol!

"Robert Therrien is renowned for experimenting with scale. The artist conjures up a world of the unexpected by creating objects that draw attention to details usually overlooked in the everyday world. At the heart of this display is No Title (Table and Four Chairs), a colossal table and chair set that stands almost ten feet high. No Title (Table and Four Chairs) has a deceptively childish charm and visitors to Tate Liverpool are invited to walk around, through and under this spectacular yet somehow commonplace work."

Find out more here.

Publication day: PLAY FOR TODAY

*Please note, this is a rerelease of a previously published title.*

When I first started writing erotica one of the things I wanted to do was write plenty of erotic tales featuring committed couples, as well as those about the physical and emotional attraction between strangers meeting for the first time. In fact my second publication ever was a committed couple, "The Welcome Home" which appeared in the SEDUCTIONS anthology.

Today is showcase day at Walk on the Wild Side Books and this time the showcase title is my story, PLAY FOR TODAY. This novella is about a committed couple who are actors, and they are also heavily into sexual replaying in their intimate time together.

Here's the official summary:

Acting out their parts has never been so sexy…

Two upcoming British actors—Toni and Max—choose to take the slow boat to New York so they can learn their lines along the way. In the midst of a stormy sea, Max suggests they pass the time with a bit of sexy role play. As the rough seas take most of the passengers to their cabins, Toni and Max get into character for some erotic acting of the intimate kind. Soon their mutual desire collides with the forbidden affair of their characters—an inexperienced young woman and a wily seducer—with scintillating results.

10,000 words in length, contemporary erotic romance.

Please note: this naughty role play story has been previously published with a different cover. It contains frank language and graphic m/f sexuality.

This one is now available to read for just 0.99c (it may be a little more on Kindle US, and it's around 80 pence on the UK sites) Currently available from: Amazon, Amazon UK, ARe, and Smashwords. It will filter through to other outlets soon.

Here's an excerpt:

He lowered his head and kissed the curve of her neck inside the ruffed edging of her gown. The delicate touch sent wild electric threads darting under her skin. He stepped away, looking farther down the corridor at the opposite wall. He nodded his head in that direction. "How fortuitous, an auditorium."

Toni looked up and saw that the double doors were marked with a sign announcing it was the ship's cinema. She hadn't been inside and was quite curious. She followed Max through the doors.

"Perfect," he declared, gesturing at the small area in front of the rows of cinema seats. A heavy velvet curtain hung in front of the screen, panels of its fabric illuminated by spotlights that shone down from above.

"Step into the footlights," he invited, "and I'll allow you a chance to start over again in character."

"You will allow me a chance, huh?"

"If you will keep slipping out of character…I'll have to get tough on you."

"Is that a promise?" She strolled past him.

He reached out and hauled her back in his arms, quickly outlining her breasts with one hand, leaving her breathless. Max was every bit as horny as she was. Then he kissed her, sudden and forceful, hauling her in against him. His tongue probed into her mouth, making her long for him to probe other places, too.

"We can't really do this, not here, someone might come in," she murmured when they drew apart, even though she clung to him, the feeling of his hard body against hers making her needy.

"Life is all about the risk, is it not?" he said, reminding her what acting was all about. "It is a risk that you have to take, Mademoiselle Isobel, if you want to become a woman."

"You torture me with the possibilities." Laughing nervously, she glanced at the illuminated window at the back of the small cinema, where she supposed the projectionist might appear at any moment.

He ignored her remark, apparently intent on pushing her on with the task. "Do you remember what we discussed yesterday, about their first time alone?"

The question leveled her somewhat. She nodded, took the first seat on the row and looked up at him as he towered over her. God, her lover was gorgeous. At times like this, she longed to hold him. He was her perfect match and her heart ached for him, as did other parts of her. Going into character was now crucial. "I fear I cannot eat the breakfast that you have brought for me, Gerard."

"Are you ill, Mademoiselle?"

"It is a malady of some strange sort, yes, but not a sickness."

His eyes were filled with certainty, so darkly sexy. "If it is the condition which I believe you are referring to, I feel sure that I have the cure."

"Gerard," she exclaimed, when he dropped to his knees and began to push her heavy skirts up from her ankles. His action wasn't in the script. In the play, he asked her about her heart and whether it beat harder at certain times, as did his. Even though the suggestion of arousal was there all the time, their passion was realized behind a closed door. Not so in this dress rehearsal. He had his hand up her skirt already.

"Don't worry," he said. "Apart from the cook we are alone in the house, and she will not come up from the servant's quarters."

"Promise?" She glanced nervously at the doorway when his hands moved between her thighs, pushing her heavy gown up as they went, making her heart thud with excitement.

"I promise. Now, allow me to apply pressure to your…malady." His hands rested around her stocking tops for a moment before pushing her skirt up to her waist, exposing her.

Available to read for just 0.99c (it may be a little more on Kindle US, and it's around 80 pence on the UK sites) from: Amazon, Amazon UK, ARe, and Smashwords. It will filter through to other outlets soon.

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