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30 Days of Demons–Day 2, Even Demons Get The Blues…

Today’s special demon guest (I do, of course, mean demon guest writer) is Maree Anderson. Maree is the author of a hot new demon story–and she’s going to give that story away to a lucky commenter. Maree, welcome!

Demons: The perfect heroes for really bad girls!

I’m all about challenging myself with my writing, so when I spotted an email about the Red Sage Alpha Male Novella Contest on one of my writing loops, I figured I’d give it a go. I’d never written a novella before, and I’d never written for

30 Days of Demons–Day 1 with Anya Bast

To kickoff my 30 Days of Demons, it’s my pleasure to have national best-selling author Anya Bast here.  Anya’s got some great demon info to share  from her books and one lucky commenter will win a bag of goodies. (Anya, you rock!)

The Demons of the Elemental Witches Series

Demons seem to

30 Days of Demons

MIDNIGHT’S MASTER, the final book in my Midnight trilogy, will be released on June 30th. This book focuses on Niol, the powerful demon first introduced in HOTTER AFTER MIDNIGHT. Ah, I do love a good demon hero. To celebrate the release of Niol’s book, I’m launching a new contest…30 Days of Demons. This is a two-part contest with a ton of prizes.

Contest part one: See that lovely widget up there? Well, if you’d like to enter the first part of the contest, just share that image. Simply cli

Red Sage–15 Years!! Kidnap This Logo…

(Taken from the Red Sage blog)

Kidnap This Logo!

And You Could Win!

“To celebrate its Fifteenth Anniversary in June, Red Sage is throwing a party! Every party needs presents, and here’s a gift that could win you the July Secrets anthology and Calista Fox’s new novel, Object of Desire!

Here’s how to play the party game.

Anyone can play! All you have to do is “kidnap” this logo and post it on your blog or website. Copy and paste the jpg image of the anniversary gift to your own blog or website to kidna

Saturday Snippet–First Kiss

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Today’s Saturday Snippet focuses on that most important of moments in a book…the first kiss. Some first kisses can be incredibly romantic. Some can be incredibly sexy. And some can be, um, dangerous.

For my kiss excerpt, I decided to use a scene from MIDNIGHT SINS, the second book in my Midnight trilogy. A kiss should be easy for a succubus to handle, right? Well, not when the succubus finds herself falling for a human cop.

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“You feel it, don’t you?”  A whisper that seemed like a caress agains

Talk Demon To Me…

I wanted to go ahead and let everyone know that I’ll be launching a big contest here on the old blog–come back on Sunday for the full contest details!

MIDNIGHT’S MASTER releases on June 30, and I just had to do a contest for Niol’s book. So, I’ll be doing a two-level contest for that release. Level One–well, that will be like my contests in the past. I’ll make a handy-dandy widget about MIDNIGHT’S MASTER and my contest, and if you post the widget on your blog or myspace (etc), then you will be

Author Interview–Fran McNabb

Hi, everyone!  Today it is my pleasure to have my local RWA chapter-mate, Fran McNabb, as my interview victim. Fran is one fabulous and talented lady! Welcome, Fran! Thanks for answering my interview questions!

Photo by Hank Krieger

1.    Please tell us a bit about yourself and the genre (or genres) that you write.


I’m a retired English and journalism teacher so writing has always been a part of my life. I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and that coastal setting is used in most of my manuscrip

Prism Contest

I recently learned that HOTTER AFTER MIDNIGHT has finaled in the Prism Contest (sponsored by the FF&P RWA Chapter), in the Dark Paranormal category.  Wow.  I was so thrilled to learn this news!

There are so many great books listed in the finals.  Here’s the complete list, in case you were curious:

Dark Paranormal

Immortals: The Redeeming by Jennifer Ashley

Hotter After Midnight by Cynthia Eden

Mona Lisa Craving by Sunny

Erotica

A Mermaid’s Kiss by Joey W. Hill

Carnal Desires by Crystal Jordan

Siren Sin

Saturday Snippet–Defining Moment

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As I mentioned before, I’m going be doing something a bit different here on Saturdays. The fabulous Lauren Dane has organized a diverse group of authors–and we’ll be presenting “Saturday Snippets” for your viewing/reading pleasure. Each week, we will focus on different themes.

This week’s theme?  A defining moment.  I pulled this excerpt from my current release, IMMORTAL DANGER, because I really felt it showed a defining character moment for my heroine:

Maya.

For just a moment, she could hear his v

The winners! (And a free story!)

Thanks to everyone who commented yesterday.  :-)  I’m glad to know folks are looking forward to Niol’s book!

I used the handy-dandy random number generator to pick the following commenters:

Commenter #13 Beth

Commenter #10 PamK

Commenter #34 delitealex

Commenter #30 Amy S

Commenter #23 Lisa N

Congratulations!! I’ll send an email to the winners very soon. And if you didn’t win, stay tuned! More contests will be coming.

And, hey, here’s something for everyone…the fabulous Karin Tabke has a free short stor