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Guest Blog: Jess Anastasi

I'd like to welcome Jess Anastasi as part of the Noble Romance Authors "Timeless Desire" blog tour. Take it away, Jess…

Do you have any unusual writing rituals?

I always tend to need something to snack in with me when I sit down to write. Considering how much time I spend writing, this could become a very unhealthy occupation! For some reason, when my brain is working, I need to eat, I don't know if that brain power is using calories or something. But I try to eat stuff that's not too bad health-wise like rice biscuits or celery. Though I find myself eating chocolate a lot more often than I should…

What was your ideal career when you were a child?

Mostly I remember having absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with myself, even toward the end of high school when my friends were making big decisions about which university they were going to and what career they would pick. I didn't apply for university, I just figured I'd work something out eventually (lucky my parents were so laid back about that) and then it was actually the year after I left high school that I sat down to write my first book.

How do you get yourself in the mood to write?

A lot of other authors find this a bit odd, but I've literally had to learn how to turn my writing brain on and off like a switch. Its not about being in the mood, it's about when I have time. My parents own a business and I try to help them out when I can. I have 2 toddlers at home, so being a mom takes up a lot of time. I have to do all the usual mommy things like cooking, washing and cleaning (and cleaning, and more cleaning. And cleaning something five seconds after I just cleaned it because the kids walked past and messed it up again). My writing comes after all that, so when I find an hour to myself, I have to get into it right away. Every second I get needs to be used!

What's the best writing tip you've ever been given?

To avoid using 'was' at all cost! Okay, the occasional 'was' isn't going to matter, but I used to litter them all through my work. Like, twenty a page. Seriously, it was that bad. I've since learned that using 'was' can create passive writing, is usually an indication that I'm telling, not showing. Plus, if you take out was and use more words to expand on what you were trying to say with that one word, it can make for more in-depth writing.

What's been your biggest writing challenge? How did it turn out?

I don't know that you could technically call it a writing challenge, but trying to get an agent comes to mind straight away. And I don't know how its going to turn out because I still haven't managed to get one yet!

Thanks for having me on your blog, Lucy, and readers, please leave a comment so you can win one of the many great prizes on offer!

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Cadmiel, the Angel of Destiny, knows better than anyone what a bitch fate can be. Five hundred years ago, the only woman he ever loved was killed, shredding his soul and leaving a void in place of his heart. Now Archangel Michael comes to him with a shocking and forbidden proposal. He wants Cadmiel to travel back in time and save Emilyn. Though Cadmiel wishes beyond all reasoning to do as the archangel asks, messing with time goes against his own beliefs and the very foundations of angel lore. But Michael doesn't give Cadmiel a choice and thrusts him through time and space, back to 2012.

The first time Emilyn saw the gorgeous man, she was affected on a level she couldn't comprehend. Cadmiel isn't like any other guy she's ever met, and he makes her wish love at first sight were true. But there are forces at work she never dreamed real. In the space of a day, she goes from normal, every-day college student, to a pawn in an apocalyptic war between angels and demons.

Emilyn's very life is in Cadmiel's hands. Will he risk the future of the entire universe to save her, or let her die and destroy himself in the process?

Buy link: https://www.nobleromance.com/Books/337/Savior

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Jess has been making up stories ever since she can remember. Though her messy handwriting made it hard for anyone else to read them, she wasn't deterred and now she gets to make up stories for a living. She loves loud music, dumb movies, and a good book on a rainy day. Jess lives in regional Victoria, Australia with her very supportive husband, two kids, one spoiled border collie, and one seriously crazy cat.

Websites:

http://www.jessanastasi.com

http://www.jessanastasi.blogspot.com

At Noble Romance Publishing:

https://www.nobleromance.com/Authors/130/Jess-Anastasi

At Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&x=0&ref_=nb_sb_noss&y=0&field-keywords=jess%20anastasi&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&_encoding=UTF8&tag=lucyfelt-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

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As part of the Noble Romance Authors Blog Tour, we're giving away some fantastic prizes, including: a Kindle, some fantastic sex toys kindly donated by SexToys.co.uk, gift cards, author swag, eBooks and much, much more. Just leave a comment on this post (please leave your email address in the body of the comment), then hit the next blog on the tour by clicking the button below. If you visit each and every post today and leave a comment, you'll increase your chances of winning. Good luck! 

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Cyber Monday Specials

[image error]As it's Cyber Monday, reputed to be the busiest online shopping day of the year, All Romance eBooks have been doing some awesome discounts, including several of my titles. So if you want to bag some of my titles at a bargain price, now's the time!

Brick Dust & Bedsprings is just $0.75!*

Naughty Delivery is just $0.75!

Seducing the Myth is just $3.99!

Fang Bangers (containing one of my stories) is just $1.49!

I Kissed A Girl (containing one of my stories) is just $3.49!*

I Kissed A Girl II (containing one of my stories) is just $2.49!*

*These titles have best-seller stars, too!

 

Black Friday Book Bonanza Giveaway

The end of the year is creeping up, and it's time to clear some space on the bookshelves. What better time to give away books than the holidays? Instead of running out to the stores on Black Friday, stay in and win new or new-to-you books. The hosts for this hop are Heather from Book Savvy Babe, Jenn from The Bawdy Book Blog, and Lisa from Alive on the Shelves. The dates: 12:01 AM Friday November 25 through 11:59 PM November 27 (EST).

So, what are you waiting for? Follow the instructions on the below Rafflecopter to enter to win a $5 gift card for NobleRomance.com! (Open internationally) Then scroll down to the button to see the rest of the blogs taking part in the bonanza!

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Black Friday Fun!

Welcome to our Black Friday blog hop, organised by the super Cassandra Carr! See below for the huge list of prizes!

One random commenter (can be on any of the blogs) will win a Kindle Fire, along with all the prizes below! That's the easiest kind of shopping I can think of…

Prizes:

- Cassandra Carr: copy of either of my two current releases, Talk to Me or Head Games

- Kristabel Reed: back list copy of one of her stories and then on her own blog a $10 GC plus a copy of her newest release, Risque, a Regency Menage Tale

- Lucy Felthouse: back list copy of any of her single-title books

- Cari Quinn: back list copy of one of her books

- Leigh Elwood: two back list copies of her books

- Natasha Blackthorne: copies of her two Regency era novellas: Grey's Lady and Waltz of Seduction

- Amber Kallyn: e-copy of Dragos 1

- Camryn Rhys: Kindle copies of The Barn Dance and Off the Record – Foodie Erotic Romances

- Lissa Matthews: two of her back list books

- Misa Buckley: an e-copy of Ironhaven and To Reach the Dawn

- Lacey Wolfe: a copy of Ambers Muse

- Courtney Sheets: a $25 GC to Ravenous Romance and a copy of Kona Warrior – PDF

- Sara Brookes: an e-copy of one of my back list books

- Cynthia Arsuaga: a copy of an e-book, and on her own blog five book charm book tethers

- Louisa Bacio: .pdf copy of my first book in The Vampire, The Witch & The Werewolf series, and on her own blog a $10 certificate to Ravenous Romance, and each commenter will also be entered to win a Goody Bag of new Orleans treats

- Malia Mallory: one copy each of The ABC's of Erotica and Santa's Back Door Baby

- Cynthia Eden: a copy of Angel of Darkness (either print or digital)

- Carrie Ann Ryan: an e-copy of The Alpha's Path

- Jacquie Rogers: a Smashwords coupon for Faery Merry Christmas, plus on her own blog, a free copy of Much Ado About Marshals

- KT Grant: a print copy of Sweet and Sinful and an ebook copy of her next release, Xavier's Loving Arms

So what are the rules? Simple: visit as many of the blogs as you can and leave a comment for the blog owner. For every comment, you'll get one entry into the grand-prize drawing. Be sure to leave your e-mail address with every comment so we can find you if you win! And don't forget that several blog owners are giving away prizes specific to their blog, too!

So, what are you waiting for? Leave a comment here, then check out the rest of the blogs in the tour:

Book Review: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Article first published as Book Review: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead on Blogcritics.

As a lover of the Vampire Academy books, I was glad when Richelle Mead said she'd be writing more in the same world. In Bloodlines, we get to learn more about the Alchemists, a group of humans who act as a barrier between the vampires and humans – keeping the humans safe and unaware of the existence of the vampires.

Sydney was a fairly major character in the later Vampire Academy books, and if you haven't read any of them I would stop reading this review now as it's impossible to continue without giving something away from the previous books. Sydney aided dhampir Rose Hathaway in her escape from prison after her wrongful accusation of murder. For that, she was in serious trouble with the Alchemists who believe their job is merely to act as a bridge between humans and vampires – not to befriend vampires or dhampirs. Now, however, Sydney's thrown in at the deep end again – the sister of the Moroi Queen needs protection and must go into hiding, and Sydney is to live with her and protect her.

It's a job she doesn't really want to take, but feels she must redeem herself somehow, as well as protecting her younger sister from a life of servitude with the Alchemists. However, things are never easy and as Sydney settles into life posing as her charge Jill's sister, she quickly discovers there is much more going on than meets the eye, and she's not sure who she can trust.

Overall, this was a great introduction to a new series with some characters we already know and love, as well as some new ones. As a total fangirl of Dimitri Belikov, I was disappointed he wasn't in this book more, but there's still plenty of action and enough going on that I didn't mind too much. Bloodlines is a great tale of love, hate, betrayal, secrets and magic – and I'll definitely be continuing to read this series and look forward to the next book.

Available from:

Amazon UK

Amazon US

Book Depository

Waterstone's

Guest Blog: H.C . Brown

I'd like to welcome H. C. Brown as part of the Noble Romance Authors "Timeless Desire" blog tour. Take it away, H.C….

How did you start writing erotica?

I submitted Betrothed to the Enemy to Jill Noble and she asked me to spice it up. Well, for me the story will always take precedence over the sex scenes but I do enjoy writing them now.

What's your favourite published work of yours and why?

Always the last one, so Time to Live.

I am super critical of my work so, the last one I have written is the one I think is the best…so far

What's the best writing tip you've ever been given?

Don't assume your readers see what you see in your mind—show them.

Which author, erotic or otherwise would you love to meet and why?

I'm in Australia so I would love to attend a Romance Authors Conference in the USA and meet all the authors I have met via author groups…and the editors too.

What are you working on at the moment?

A M/M contemporary BDSM and M/F fantasy Romance.

What's been your biggest writing challenge? How did it turn out?

I believe writing BDSM was a challenge although, I enjoyed the research immensely. To be honest I had no idea of how the Master and sub relationship worked or the diversity of the BDSM scene. I believe having the opportunity to have an open and frank discussion opened my eyes. I hope I portray this understanding in my stories.

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H.C Brown is a multi published author of, Historical, Paranormal, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, BDSM, Time Travel, Action Adventure and Contemporary Romance.

"I write tender erotic romance, with Male/ Female, Male/Male and ménage…always with a happy ending."

H.C writes under the pen name Pia Moonglow for YA Fantasy.

Living in Australia, HC gets her inspiration from the beautiful Gold Coast beaches.

"Let me take you to a world of fantasy and romance with delicious Alpha Males to melt your heart."

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Time to Live

M/M, BDSM Erotic Romance

Seth Bannock is living a lie. Nothing in his life is working out. He likes women . . . he respects women . . . but when he tries to kiss a woman and she does that tongue thing, he wants to spew.

Confused by his body's reaction to the men at his gym, Seth seeks help from the only gay club he knows—Floggers. Is the man crazy? Seeking answers, the sweet, vanilla virgin marches into the BDSM club to speak to the owner, Rio Knight.

Realization that he has been on the wrong team all his life comes in the form of a six-foot-seven Adonis by the name of Matt Duffey. Instantly attracted to the leather-clad alpha male, Seth must leave his old life behind and embrace his newfound sexuality. Seth thought his life had complications before he met Matt, but nothing comes close to the rollercoaster ride in the big dom's arms.

Buy link : https://www.nobleromance.com/Books?author=40

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www.hcbrown-author.com

www.hcbrownauthoroferoticromance.blogspot.com

https://www.nobleromance.com/Books?author=40

Thank you for having me. Please leave your email with your comments to go into the draw for a prize. Then click on the tour logo to go to the next blog in the tour.

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Guest Blog: Bryl R. Tyne

I'd like to welcome Bryl R. Tyne as part of the Noble Romance Authors "Timeless Desire" blog tour. Take it away, Bryl…

Two rules on how NOT to write a story by Bryl R. Tyne

1. Don't overbook yourself and expect to turn out creative work, i.e. publisher A comes to you with a great anthology idea and asks if you'd like to commit to writing one story for it. At the same time, you're finishing a short story for publisher B, and you're 1/3 the way into a novel in an entirely different genre than you've ever attempted for publisher C, you work 40 hours per week at an evil day job that's just dying to find an excuse to can your ass, and you have another small side business you're diligently trying to maintain. To top all that off, you have a week vacation looming in your future and a family who's asking you, "What are we going to do for the upcoming holidays?"

Can we say, "STRESS MUCH!"? No one can be expected to produce under such conditions, not creatively anyway, and what about when edits roll in on top of all that and maybe a natural disaster or how about a family crisis? Sometimes, you just gotta know when to step back and say, "Enough's enough." The above example is not far from the truth of what I went through while writing IMMORTAL. Drink it in. Learn from it. The stress is sooooo not worth it.

2. Don't jump on every new bandwagon that rolls on by. Seriously, yeah, writing gay zombie time-traveling outlaws who marshal the plains of the Wild West sounds like a great challenge, but does it make sense for you? How many other WIPs do you have going? Is that idea even marketable, viably? How lucrative is that for your career?

It's much smarter and actually easier to finish the work you've started and turn it in before moving to the next. Who's to say the idea you already have going isn't the make or break you've been striving for? When I was asked to edit the Timeless Desire collection of stories, I thought it'd be great to get more involved and I ended up offering the group a story of my own for it. Well, now, I'm used to writing gay fiction, not so much romance, and then Halloween enticed me to put ghosts and vampires into the mix, and when I wasn't satisfied with that, I added an 18th Century historical touch… Lesson learned: Never do THAT again. While it was fun to write, and I actually ended up liking the story, the amount of research and time spent in crits with authors more familiar with the genres really put me at a disadvantage to getting IMMORTAL finished on time.

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IMMORTAL by Bryl R. Tyne

Found abandoned as a child and taken in by the Nevsky clan, the man Ivis now feels the call of the water, the sea, but Sefton and his family, one of the most influential vampire bloodlines in Russia, isn't about to let Ivis go. As Ivis's powers grow stronger—powers unknown to him—Sefton's instructed to detain Ivis at all costs to tilt in his clan's favor the balance of power in an endless struggle between the Bogdanov water gods and Nevsky vampires. Sefton's left with a choice: power or love. Which is the greater desire?

Link to excerpt: http://bryltyne.com/excerpt-immortal-by-bryl-r-tyne

Link to buy: https://www.nobleromance.com/Books?author=59

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[image error]BRYL R. TYNE is a wrangler by nature and a writer by choice. Balancing as many pronouns as hats, somewhere between the evil day job, editing, and helping a benevolent Sugar Daddy raise the last of seven kids, Bryl writes. Homoerotic romance is a favorite, but many of Bryl's stories cross genres. Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-fi, even Westerns, Bryl writes them all.

Website: http://bryltyne.com

Blog: http://bryltyne.com/blog

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2877215.Bryl_R_Tyne

CONTEST: Leave a comment to win a Bryl R. Tyne Swag-pack! One luck commenter will win a signed copy of Bryl's novella, TREY #3, so be sure to leave your contact emails!

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As part of the Noble Romance Authors Blog Tour, we're giving away some fantastic prizes, including: a Kindle, some fantastic sex toys kindly donated by SexToys.co.uk, gift cards, author swag, eBooks and much, much more. Just leave a comment on this post (please leave your email address in the body of the comment), then hit the next blog on the tour by clicking the button below. If you visit each and every post today and leave a comment, you'll increase your chances of winning. Good luck! 

Also click this button to check out the bonus blogs, where we'll be giving away some very special prizes! 

Eroticon 2012 – It'll Soon Be Here!

With Erotica 2011 being over for another year, it's now time to start looking forward to the next event, which for me is Eroticon, in March. You may have noticed the button in my sidebar, which you can click for more info.

Here's the skinny on Eroticon:

Lucy Felthouse will be helping sex bloggers and erotica writers write sex right at Eroticon 2012.

Lucy Felthouse is on the speaker line up for the UK's very first sex blogger and erotica writer's conference, Eroticon 2012.  The conference, on March 3rd in Bristol, will be helping experienced and aspiring writers to right sex write with discussions, workshops and inspiration sessions.

The schedule is packed with inspirational sessions and speakers, including writing and photography workshops, a publishers' question time panel, tech sessions and discussion panels on sex in the media and identity and ethics.

Lucy Felthouse, who will be a part of the marketing your work session and publishers' panel says;

"I was really excited when Ruby asked me to be a part of the first Eroticon. We don't have enough events like this in the UK and many of us can't keep skipping over to the US all the time, so it's brilliant to have something in the UK for sex bloggers and erotic writers. I'm looking forward to it."

The conference is the brain child of erotica author Ruby Kiddell, who explains;

"Having attended other blogging and writing conferences this year I felt there was a need for a safe and inspiring event wherein sex bloggers and erotica writers could meet, learn and talk about their genre and all to do with it."

Speakers and sessions confirmed so far include:

Maxim Jakubowski : Writing workshop, Publishers' panel
Zoe Margolis : Identity, ethics and sex blogging panel, Sex and the media panel
Hazel Cushion of Xcite books : Publishers' panel
Lucy Felthouse : Marketing your work, publishers' panel
John Tisbury :  Photography workshop

The conference will close with a cocktail party which promises to be an evening of sublime sauciness with readings from the UK's most exciting emerging writers.

With such a fantastic line up Eroticon will be 2012's must attend event for aspiring and experienced erotica writers and sex bloggers.

To find out more about Eroticon 2012 or to book tickets please visit http://conference.eroticnotebook.co.uk

Smut at Sh! Hoxton, Erotica 2011 and Men in Uniform

I am still recovering from the craziest, most exhausting and yet totally fun weekend! Yes, it was Erotica 2011 weekend!  The show is on at Olympia, London, once a year and I trekked down from Derbyshire to be there with lots of my author buddies, editors and publishers. Victoria Blisse and I also took advantage of the fact we were already in the area to do a reading at the super Sh! Women's Store in Hoxton Square on Friday night.

So, Hoxton was the first stop. That's me, complete with my yummy A Bit of Rough t-shirt and a copy of Seducing the Myth. The OH and I headed across London on the Tube and met Victoria Blisse, her lovely hubby and friend in Blu Bar, just opposite the sexy pink shop of Sh! Then K D Grace, fresh from an exhausting day at Erotica dashed in and met us too. So we chilled for a little while, then headed over the road to see the lovely ladies of Sh! and get everything organised for our evening of smut.

And smutty it was! Fellow Northern Bird Victoria Blisse was launching her new book, Tempting Rendezvous, published by Xcite. Therefore she treated us to some lush excerpts from her tale about rubenesque chick Leanna and her hot American hunk, Joe. It was sprinkled with Victoria's usual humour as well as the totally hot sex and fab storyline and the audience, including myself of course, hung on to her every word, as well as giggling at the appropriate moments. Ms. Blisse herself struggled not to smirk a couple of times, too, but she maintained her resolve throughout. It was a fun-filled evening, in which Victoria read from Tempting Rendezvous and a recent Xcite anthology we both appear in, The Look of Lust.

I read my erotic mermaid tale, Down by the Pool, from Seducing the Myth, as well as an excerpt from The Look of Lust. Both stories seemed to be received well by the audience, and I got a few sniggers of my own from some humorous bits in my own tales.

As well as reading, Victoria and I also had some goodies for the attendees, as well as a raffle. We also followed up our readings with a fun Q&A session which included lots of questions, including ones about our favourite genres, our muses, how we got started writing, and whether or not we like Twilight (an allusion to our respective vampire tales). Finally, we signed copies of our books and sent our lovely customers to give the fab Sh! Girlz some cash! Speaking of the Sh! Girlz, they were on fine form as always, making sure us authors and our wonderful audience were well lubricated (with champagne!) and fed. We enjoyed cupcakes, homemade cakes courtesy of Ms. Blisse and homemade Rhubarb & Custard Chocolate Cups and Clotted Cream Fudge courtesy of my skilled OH. Let's just say there wasn't much food left over!

It was then around the corner to The Breakfast Club where more food and drink was consumed, and more fun was had. Our group consisted of myself, my OH, Victoria Blisse, her OH, K D Grace and her OH, who slipped into Sh! straight from work, bless him. The influence of the three erotic writers was obviously enough, though, because the conversation was enough to turn some heads and have us dissolving into giggles on a frequent basis. Luckily, we didn't get into trouble and were allowed to enjoy our meals and drinks, before paying up and hitting the pavement to make our way back to our respective hotels for the night. It wasn't a sad goodbye, as it so often is as we knew we'd all be teaming up the following day for more smut-mongering. Hurrah!

And smut-mongering we did. En-route, OH and I bumped into Victoria and her OH at Earl's Court Tube station, then Lexie Bay and her fella outside Olympia Tube station. Once inside, we hit the Xcite stand, where Hazel Cushion was holding court and sellling smutty books at a very impressive rate. K D Grace soon arrived and there was much posing for photographs and perusing the naughty books, as well as exploring the show in general.

More smutters soon showed up, including Kay Jaybee and Rebecca Bond. Much chatting and catching up was done, but soon it was time to go and do some authorly stuff. The Xcite Reading Slam was held in the London Room, an echoey expanse of room which wasn't ideal… but still, reading is reading. There we were treated to tales from Victoria Blisse, yours truly, Kay Jaybee, K D Grace, a newbie author who's name I've forgotten and Lexie Bay – who bravely volunteered at the last minute, thusly popping her public reading cherry. Well done on your reading from Immoral Views, buddy! Unfortunately, towards the end there were multiple interruptions from people wandering in and out of the room and sitting down and chatting over the readings which was both rude and infuriating but we all kept smiling! It's just a good job looks can't kill

After the Reading Slam, there was an impromptu posing session with a bunch of soldiers. They were there on behalf of the "Soldiers Off the Streets" charity, and I'd already bought a wristband from them earlier in the day. But then I had the bright idea of giving them some business cards with Uniform Behaviour on them, due to the link with charity and helping returning soldiers. Then I had yet another idea for getting the Uniform Behaviour authors in attendance to do a group pose with the soldiers, thus getting some fab photos to help promote our mutual good cause! A good giggle was had by all, though it was impossible to get everyone to look at the same camera at the same time, so I've picked the best photo of the bunch!

Following our random photo shoot, there was time for more wandering of the show, photo taking, seeing people attired in all manner of clothing, and very little clothing, having a quick peek at the stage show, loo breaks and a mass sit down and drink/eat! All too soon, we were summoned back to the Xcite stand as myself, Victoria and Kay would be appearing on the afternoon's panel, along with Kitti Bernetti, and chaired by the inimitable Jane Wenham-Jones. We dropped off our bags and respective friends and other halves and sneaked off together to have a quick briefing about what to expect and how things would work, before heading back into the London Room to arrange the room how we wanted it. What followed was a very lively, fun panel which I really enjoyed. It consisted of Jane asking us questions, us asking each other, and also lots of input from the audience. We talked about writing in general, specific genres, pen names, inspiration, getting published and much, much more.

Overall, it was a very good experience with some very interesting questions raised, and answers given. I think everyone on the panel, as well as everyone attending definitely took something away from the session, and you really can't ask for better than that! After packing away, a debrief was given back at the Xcite stand, and then we all disappeared off for more looking around the show, and some fun photo ops. Me and my fabulous author buddies posed along the "Erotica wall" as we called it and I actually felt rather famous as multiple cameras were pointed at us. Granted, they were all being pointed by other halves and friends, but still! It was a tiny taste of what it feels like to be in demand, and it was good fun. As you can see from the pics, there was lots of giggling going on and I believe at one point we almost knocked the wall behind us over altogether, which would have been an interesting experience! Luckily, we all emerged unscathed, then the rest of the day/evening consisted of a second launch of K D Grace's super-steamy new novel, The Pet Shop, which flew off the Xcite stand at the speed of light, and more wandering around the show. Finally, we all reluctantly split off to go our separate ways for the night, and myself and my OH ended up in a restaurant in Hammersmith with Victoria Blisse and her OH, enjoying an absolutely delicious meal and more amusing chat, which also included some more plans for world domination. Good times!

All in all, it's been a fabulous, fabulous weekend for so many reasons. Seeing the Sh! Girlz is always a delight, so a huge thank you to them and the lovely attendees of the reading on Friday night. You all rock! It's also been great to spend time with people that I consider to be my buddies but I sadly don't see anywhere near often enough! Geography sucks! Then of course there were the fab events that Xcite let us loose on, and the signing opportunities on the Xcite stand, so a big thanks also goes to Xcite, who also rock. I met some great people too, including a few readers on the Xcite stand, so if you're reading this thanks for stopping by and saying hi to us all, and of course buying our books. We couldn't do it without you!

Now it's time for me to wrap up as this has to be the longest blog post ever – if you're still here, well done! I end with this:

Link to more photos on Facebook, if you're so inclined.

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Six Sentence Sunday – 20/11/11

[image error]Here are six sentences from my m/f erotic romance story Love Through Time, from Noble Romance.

Her smart appearance and the intelligence in her eyes indicated that despite her age, she was far from past it. "I'm Mrs. Thompson, house supervisor."



"I am," Emily replied, dropping her hand back to her side, "but please, call me Emily. It's lovely to meet you. So, house supervisor? Do you live on site?"

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