Samantha MacLeod's Blog, page 14
March 7, 2018
Freebies for Your Snow Day!
I’m not sure about you, but the predictions for tonight here in Maine are getting worse and worse.
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So hey, it looks like I’ll be stuck at home tomorrow with a fresh 6-12″ (of snow), along with a large percentage of the Eastern seaboard!
If you’re with me in the snow, and you need a little something to keep you warm, I have so got you covered.
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I’ve teamed up with a group of other like minded filthy authors to offer you our hottest, sexiest, naughtiest stories – including the dirtiest thing I’ve ever written, my erotic M/M/M retelling of an actual Norse myth.
The best part?
All the stories are free!
It’s time for an early night…
Click here for the naughtiness!
I’ve also got Persephone Remembers the Pomegranates listed as part of two fantastic free book fairs.
If you like paranormal romance and urban fantasy, then congratulate yourself on your superb taste, my virtual friend!
And head over to these sites to find a new favorite author or two…
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Magic Book Deals Free Urban Fantasy & PNR
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Fantasia Book World Free Fantasy Romance
With any luck, that will keep us all entertained until the next big storm…
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February 28, 2018
Sexy and Spellbinding!
The lovely Tina at A Reader’s Review Blog named The Wolf’s Lover one of her TOP READS for the year!
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“The novel is beautifully written in terms of both language and form and the storyline is strong, entwining romance, mythology, tension and suspense,” she writes.
“The themes the book deals with — the cycle of life and death, love, family — are deep. The strength of the story and the characterizations are matched by the quality and depth of the erotic lovemaking scenes between Vali and Karen and the myriad of emotions they evoke.”
Awwwwww, thank you, Tina! 
February 26, 2018
Just the Naughty Bits…
Despite having just moved into a new house, and getting prepared for an epic British snowstorm (apparently the forecast calls for up to 4″), the always delightful Janine Ashbless found a spot on her awesome blog for Karen and Vali from The Wolf’s Lover!
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If you’d like to read the naughty bits, you can find a super steamy excerpt right here.
Happy Monday, my friends!
February 21, 2018
The Wolf’s Lover
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Five years after her divorce, Karen is a wildlife biologist studying wolves in Yellowstone National Park. But when the wolf she tranquilizes turns into a man – a man she recognizes from the recurring dreams which have haunted her for years – her rational, scientific world gives way to something stranger and more dangerous.
The man is Vali, son of Loki. He was imprisoned thousands of years ago, cursed to live inside a wolf’s body. Now Vali tells Karen he’s being hunted…and he’s hunting as well.
Because something has awoken beneath the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone, an ancient power that could spell the end of everything, unless Karen is willing to risk her life, and unearth the secrets of her past, to save her world.
Find The Wolf’s Lover on Amazon!
What Readers are Saying
“I loved, loved, loved this story. Definitely the best one yet from Samantha MacLeod.” – Zena, Goodreads
“This story is sexy, romantic and also full of great action and impossible to put down-I loved every minute of it and cannot recommend it strongly enough!” – Jayne, Goodreads
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February 12, 2018
How Long Does it Take to Write a Novel?
The very best answer to this question comes from one of the greatest American authors ever, naturalist and iconoclast Edward Abbey:
“All of the years that you’ve lived.”
But this wouldn’t be much of a blog post if all I did was quote Edward Abbey. It would just be a page from one of my high school journals. 
February 7, 2018
My Early Work
According to my mom, I’ve always been a writer.
And she mailed me a big box of old sketch pads to prove it.
When I was a kid, I used to sit down for hours with a sketch pad and a box of crayons. But I wasn’t drawing. I was writing.
The catch was that I couldn’t spell very well. Or at all, really. (Full disclosure: I still can’t spell worth a damn.)
So my dialog bubbles were just scribbles.
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Mom claims I’d then “read” the stories to her and, no matter how many times I re-read my book, the story would never change.
Looking back now, a solid 30+ years later, I can’t remember the stories.
I’m not even exactly sure what all those pictures meant. (Is that a devil? Was my mom, you know, worried about me?)
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But I’m starting to think I might have been destined to write paranormal romance…
After the big kiss, of course, comes a grand exit on a magical red dog-like creature.
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But hey, at least the story had an HEA.
January 31, 2018
You Could Use More Thor
You know what?
I think you could use a bit more Thor in your life.
And, as it turns out, Thor is only too happy to oblige…
Claiming Thor’s Hammer , my highly erotic M/M/M short story, is now available everywhere!
So, whether you shop on iBooks or Barnes & Noble, Kindle or Kobo, a filthy night with Thor is just a click away.
Find Claiming Thor’s Hammer on Amazon and elsewhere.
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All of Asgard depends on Thor…
And his legendary hammer, Mjölnir, to protect them from their foes. So when Thor returns one night without his hammer, refusing to say how it was lost or where it may be, all of Asgard is at risk. Loki tracks Mjölnir to the muscular arms of the fearsome warlord Thrym, who reluctantly agrees to a deal: Thrym will return Thor’s hammer in exchange for Freyja, the most beautiful woman in Asgard.
There’s only one problem with Loki’s plan. Freyja refuses to marry the ruthlessly handsome Thrym. Low on options, Loki insists he can still retrieve the hammer. All it takes is wrapping Thor in a wedding dress obnoxious enough to allow him to pass for Freyja.
Once inside the dark confines of Thrym’s castle, however, things take an erotic turn not even Loki the Trickster could have predicted…
(Yes, this is inspired by an actual Norse myth.)
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January 28, 2018
Airplane
Her husband is waiting for the turn signal to the highway on-ramp when Stacey first sees the plane. The minivan reverberates with the tinny clack-clack-clack of the signal, somehow audible even above the radio and the movie blaring in the backseat, the one with the snowman who sings about loving the summer.
And why not, Stacey thinks, as the cartoon’s voice rises in grating counterpoint to the clack-clack-clack signaling her husband’s intentions, and the half-heard reports of human suffering from the calm-voiced reporter on the radio.
Don’t we always love the things that will destroy us?
It’s cold, and the the January sky above the windshield shines a deep, bruised blue above the greasy smear of city lights. The little, silver airplane hangs in that dark gloaming, suspended like an angel, lights twinkling from its outstretched arms.
The kids would like to see that plane. Well, her boys would, at least. The baby may or may not be interested.
Hell, her husband would probably like to see the plane too. He’s one of those men who feels a sort of kinship for all types of machines, as if he can tell the difference between a Boeing 747 and an Airbus 320 thanks to a deep, instinctual affinity, the same unexamined, insistent urge that must have driven his prehistoric ancestors to the best fishing grounds or the sweetest berries.
Is the plane coming or going, Stacey wonders. She can’t tell. Perhaps it’s just hovering, trapped between places forever.
She pictures herself opening her mouth, calling attention to the flashing lights, the outstretched wings. Look, boys! An airplane!
The song from the backseat crescendos. Stacey’s lips refuse to open.
We don’t have to share everything, she thinks. Some things can belong only to me, like a smile passed between strangers, or a distant memory that makes only me smile.
Or just how often the bright smiling face and dancing hazel eyes of her first lover still fill Stacey’s dreams, his youthful body forever just on the cusp of twenty years old. Or was he only eighteen that night on the beach, with the fireworks and the stolen wine? The night their bodies came together, those fleeting, burning minutes that live forever in her dreams, even now, even with years and children and the wreckage of two broken hearts between them.
The things that will destroy us, Stacey thinks.
The plane sinks through the sky. The traffic light flicks from red to green. Their van rounds the corner, and the airplane disappears.
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January 26, 2018
ARCs Available!
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Interested in the forthcoming urban fantasy romance The Wolf’s Lover?
Not ready to spend .99 to preorder a copy?
Willing to write an honest review?
Let’s Work Together!
I’ll send you a free copy of The Wolf’s Lover in exchange for your honest review posted sometime during the week of 2/21.
Check out the form for more details.
Still not sure? You can download the first eight chapters of The Wolf’s Lover, for free, right here.
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January 25, 2018
The Trickster’s Lover
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A graduate student at the prestigious University of Chicago, Caroline dedicates her carefully planned life to a serious, academic study of mythology.
Until a god shows up in her bedroom.
Loki, the enigmatic and irresistibly sexy Norse god of fire and lies, appears late at night in Caroline’s apartment, cuts her clothes down the middle, and rocks her studious world in ways she couldn’t even imagine. The next morning, she’s convinced it was a dream–until she sees her clothes on the floor, cut in two.
When Loki’s appearances stop as suddenly as they began, concern for her lover leads Caroline to Val-Hall, the ancient home of Óðinn’s army, where she must put everything she has learned to the test. If she fails, there’s far more than Loki’s life at stake.
The end of the world is on the horizon, and only a graduate student in Norse mythology can prevent it…
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What Readers are Saying about The Trickster’s Lover
“God meets mortal in this super sizzling romance from Samantha MacLeod.” -Tina Williams, A Reader’s Review
“A brilliant novel about never giving up on someone you love.” -Sarah, Goodreads
“I got completely wrapped up into this story and couldn’t put it down. It had a little bit of everything – fantasy, intrigue, action and lots and lots of steam!” -Kim, Goodreads
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