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February 16, 2014
Weekend Writing Warrior – 2/16/14
This week, I’m sharing 8 more from The Art Lover!
Not daring to meet his gaze, she slipped one finger under the top button of his shirt and worked it free. “I need you.”
“Whoa, hold on a second,” he rasped, his fingers closing convulsively on her hips as she moved on to the next.
Kelsey shook her head, punctuating her stubborn refusal by loosening another two buttons before sparing a glance from under her lashes. “You’re perfect,” she whispered, yanking the tails of the shirt from his pants.
“What are you doing?”
She freed the last button then shoved the shirt over his shoulders, trapping his arms at his sides. “I’m going to paint you.”
The Art Lover – Available now for only $0.99!
Starving artist Kelsey Tecato takes being The Templeton Museum’s artist in residence a little too literally. By day, she puts on a show of painting for the crowds that shuffle through the galleries, but at night, her muse runs wild.
Mitch Jameson is a guy’s guy. A cop moonlighting as a security guard, he has little use for the artsy-fartsy stuff, but the mysterious Ms. Tecato’s sexy portraits call to him.
So does an interior alarm.
When Officer Jameson goes to investigate, he finds a paint-splattered goddess working on a self-portrait–in the nude.
A couple tubes of paint and a roll in the drop cloths later, free-spirited Kelsey helps Officer Jameson discover his passion for art.
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February 9, 2014
Weekend Writing Warrior – 2/9/14
I’m back! I missed you all!
Here are eight sentences from my latest release, The Art Lover:
“I promise you’ll like the trouble I have planned for you, Officer Jameson.”
He blinked but didn’t back down as she approached. “Seems any friend of Bert and Miri’s should just call me Mitch.”
She liked the sexy bravado that backed the insolent once-over he used as a defense. Raising her hand to her throat, she waited until she was sure his eyes followed. Her fingertips were coated in a shade of teal one could only get from a glob of canary smooshed with a bead of cerulean. Reverting to her favorite canvas, she trailed them from the hollow of her throat through the valley between her breasts, tracing the exact route she hoped his mouth would take. And soon.
The Art Lover – Available now for only $0.99!
Starving artist Kelsey Tecato takes being The Templeton Museum’s artist in residence a little too literally. By day, she puts on a show of painting for the crowds that shuffle through the galleries, but at night, her muse runs wild.
Mitch Jameson is a guy’s guy. A cop moonlighting as a security guard, he has little use for the artsy-fartsy stuff, but the mysterious Ms. Tecato’s sexy portraits call to him.
So does an interior alarm.
When Officer Jameson goes to investigate, he finds a paint-splattered goddess working on a self-portrait–in the nude.
A couple tubes of paint and a roll in the drop cloths later, free-spirited Kelsey helps Officer Jameson discover his passion for art.
Be sure to check out all of the fabulous Weekend Writing Warriors! See you soon!
Tagged: 8Sunday, erotic, romance, short story, warrior
February 1, 2014
Book giveaway!
I’m participating in the Whole Lot of Love Giveaway sponsored by ArkansasAuthors.com!
Enter to win books from:
Adrienne Thompson – eBook copy of Your Love Is King
Amy Matayo – winner’s choice of either an eBook or an autographed print copy of The Wedding Game
Cynthia D’Alba – Three eBooks of Texas Two Step: The Prequel (short story) and One eBook of Texas Two Step (1 copy to 1 winner)
Keri Ford – one eBook of Rough Ride (The Roughnecks, 1)
Lynda Kaye Frazier – winner’s choice of either an eBook or an autographed print copy of Rescued from the Dark
Maggie Wells – St. Blaise bundle (3 titles to 1 winner): Jumping Mr. January, February’s Fling, March Madness and a Love Letters bundle (2 titles to 1 winner) Love Letters Volume 1: Obeying Desire, Love Letters Volume 2: Duty to Please
Margaret Ethridge – eBook of Long Distance Love (1 copy to 1 winner) and Commitment (1 copy to 1 winner)
Mary Frances Hodges – an autographed print copy of Miss Mary Margaret. Book II
Rebekah Beene – an autographed print copy of Oh Beloved! Live in the Light of His Word
Richard Emmel – an autographed print copy of Louisa
Shannon Vannatter – an autographed print copy of Rodeo Hero and Rodeo Queen (1 copy to 1 winner)
Velda Brotherton – eBook of Images In Scarlet
Enter now!
Tagged: contest, Love Letters, Novella, short story, St. Blaise
January 15, 2014
Contest!
Want to win a Nook Simple Touch? Check out my giveaway!
And don’t forget to check out my latest release, The Art Lover. Available now for only $0.99!
Starving artist Kelsey Tecato takes being The Templeton Museum’s artist in residence a little too literally. By day, she puts on a show of painting for the crowds that shuffle through the galleries, but at night, her muse runs wild.
Mitch Jameson is a guy’s guy. A cop moonlighting as a security guard, he has little use for the artsy-fartsy stuff, but the mysterious Ms. Tecato’s sexy portraits call to him.
So does an interior alarm.
When Officer Jameson goes to investigate, he finds a paint-splattered goddess working on a self-portrait–in the nude.
A couple tubes of paint and a roll in the drop cloths later, free-spirited Kelsey helps Officer Jameson discover his passion for art.
Tagged: contest, erotic, romance, short story
January 1, 2014
December 29, 2013
Weekend Writing Warrior – 12/29/13
I’m working on a re-release of a short story I wrote for the Passionate Exhibitions anthology. Here are 8 more sentences from The Art Lover:
“Like this? Naked?”
“Nude,” she corrected automatically. “We call them nudes.”
She plucked three tubes of paint from the chest before gathering the ones they left scattered on the drop cloth. Kelsy scooped a gob of paint from the dropcloth and slapped it onto her palette. Mitch might have admired the brisk economy of her movements if he wasn’t absolutely terrified by the notion that she thought he would pose for her.
“Arms back over your head, please,” she ordered.
Coming soon!
Happy New Year, my friends. It’s been a blast hanging with you! Be sure to click here to read all of the posts from my fellow Weekend Writing Warriors!
Tagged: 8Sunday, erotic, romance, short story, warrior
December 22, 2013
Weekend Writing Warrior – 12/22/13
I’m working on a re-release of a short story I wrote for the Passionate Exhibitions anthology. Here are 8 sentences from The Art Lover:
“About time you showed up.”
A woman. The intruder was a woman and she’d been expecting him. Irked by the presumptuous amusement in her tone, he stepped into the open doorway and almost swallowed his tongue.
Alarm bells clamored in his head the moment recognition clicked. Kelsy Tecato. Artist in Residence and painter of hard-on-inducing nudes here live and in person, standing in the Templeton Museum after hours as if she owned the place.
Naked as the day she was born.
Coming soon!
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Tagged: 8Sunday, coming soon, erotic, romance, short story, warrior
December 15, 2013
Weekend Writing Warrior – 12/15/13
How about an oldie but a goodie? Here are 8 sentences from my first book, Seducing Steve.
“Steve, how long have we been friends?”
His brow puckered. “I don’t know… Eight, nine years?”
“And how many times have we come close to kissing?”
His heart stopped beating. A well-worn montage of near-kisses flashed in his mind’s eye. “We don’t kiss.”
“We don’t kiss because we both know once we start, we won’t want to stop.”
Erotic romance novelist Sara Wright yearns for passion that leaps from the page. After a marriage that proved to be more fizzle than sizzle, Sara’s writing reflects her growing frustration and also her secret passion for her best friend and muse, Steve Larson.
Steve Larson is anything but your typical romance hero. A redheaded computer nerd with a slow, southern drawl, Steve is neither a cattle baron nor a titan of industry. The one thing he does have going for him is that he has loved Sara from the moment he met her.
When she confesses that he has long served as her inspiration, Steve leaps at the chance to take things to the next level. Determined to be the man to make her fantasies come true, he takes a page from Sara’s own books and plots a passion so intense it threatens to consume them and the friendship they both cherish.
When friends turn into lovers, love can get lost in the shuffle. Fact becomes tightly cocooned in fiction as both Sara and Steve learn to balance their desires with the needs of their hearts.
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Tagged: 8Sunday, erotic, Novella, romance, warrior
December 8, 2013
Weekend Writing Warrior – 12/8/13
Here are 8 sentences from my upcoming Harlequin-E release Jump Into Love:
A few strange women had flitted in and out of Langley Sheppard’s life in the last few months, but not one of them had a bizarre fixation on chewing gum like tonight’s winner. Squinting through the sleet-spattered windshield, he attempted to peer into the harsh glare spilling from the glass storefront of the T-N-T mini-mart, hoping to catch sight of his date. The multitude of neon signs crowding the spotless expanse lit the puddles of slush in carnival colors. The store’s owner, Max Merida, believed in the laws of plenty. Plenty of light, plenty of cheesy merchandise crammed onto narrow counters, and plenty of mark-up built into every price. Apparently, his date believed in having plenty of gum.
Five minutes crept past since she bailed from his car, insisting he stay put. He could only figure choosing the right flavor was a deeply personal matter.
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Tagged: 8Sunday, coming soon, Novella, romance, warrior
December 1, 2013
Weekend Writing Warrior – 12/1/13
Hard to believe it’s December and we’ve been through a whole year of Hot Nights in St. Blaise! Want to see how it all started? Meet Beth and Spence from Jumping Mr. January:
Again he shrugged, as if it were remotely fair for him to be standing there looking like…Mr. January. “I missed you.”
“Spence—”
The toes of his boots stopped shy of the pointy tips of her shoes and she forced herself to hold her head high as his gaze swept from her hair to the spiked heels and back again. “That’s all there is to it,” he said, his voice soft, seductive, and oh-so-dangerous. “You can’t stop me from missing you, Beth.”
“We agreed—”
“We were stupid.”
When she pitched the idea for The Men and Women of St. Blaise Regional Medical Center fundraising calendar to her Board of Directors, Beth Watkins thought she wrote the perfect prescription for the small town hospital’s budget shortfall.
The moment she got a green light, Beth went after the man she wanted to be her Mr. January and so much more. She had no time to waste. Hunky EMT Robert ‘Spence’ Spencer was leaving for medical school within weeks of the photo shoot she arranged and there was no way on earth Beth was going to miss the chance to sneak a peek at her old high school crush in all his glory.
Focused and dedicated, Spence wants bigger things than his hometown can offer, but when brainy, sexy Beth Watkins breezes back into St. Blaise with a plan that includes getting into his pants, he finds she is the one woman who can offer him something he doesn’t want to refuse.
Be sure to check out all 12 of the Hot Nights in St. Blaise novellas – available now!
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Tagged: 8Sunday, erotic, Novella, romance, St. Blaise, warrior
