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Furry Giveaway @ Riverina Romantics

Get F.U.C’d while indulging in a post Halloween candy coma

And no, I’m not talking about the naked kind, even if the idea of eating chocolate off body parts sounds fun. I’m talking about your chance to win a FUC swag package if you’re in the Canada or US or an ecopy of the FUC bundle if you’re outside North America.

Sounds almost as good as that Mars bar that’s calling you from the stash of candy your kids think they have hidden. (as if we wouldn’t sniff that yumminess out?!)

Pop on over to Riverina Romantics for your chance to enter.

And by the way… we have a tentative release date for Human and Freakn’, a new MFM story currently set to release November 15th. But, if B&N cooperates, that date could get moved up so be sure to join my mailing list so you’re one of the first in line to get your amazing copy.



Forget the dangers of the jungle. In peril is Ruth’s heart when two hunky shifters become determined to claim her despite her humanity.

I finally got a new release mailing list /newsletter set up

One of the most common questions I get right after, ‘When is the next book coming out?’ is ‘Where can I sign up for your mailing list?’ It seems there are readers out there that want to be notified when I have new works release. So, I finally took the plunge and set up an email newsletter.

Here’s the link to sign up – Click Here .

Been burned in the past with spam? Here’s my promise.

I promise to only use the newsletter to send you notices about new releases. Nothing else. I won’t be telling you about every contest or giveaway happening. I won’t be passing along dirty jokes or naughty pics. I won’t use it to tell you about my author friends, or what I ate for breakfast.

The only thing this newsletter will do is tell you when a new book comes out and give you the links to buy it.

Sound good? Then Click Here sign up and never miss a hot new story by yours truly again! lol.

Thanks

Eve

PS. For those wondering, the next story coming up is Human and Freakn’, a hot MFM set in the jungle releasing in late November. If you’re in the mood for some steamy loving, shifter style…you won’t want to miss it!

Are you afraid of the monster under your bed?

Maybe you should be…

A Free Halloween Short Story

Hosted @ Romance Book Junkies

I hope you enjoy my naughty teaser and Happy (early) Halloween!

Eve

Want a sneak peek at Human and Freakn’?

I’ve posted a rough excerpt on my other blog for those curious about the next installment in the Freakn’ Shifters series. Click here to check it out.

It’s slated for a mid to late November release depending on how edits go.



Eve

I want better romance categories!

First off, let me say, I love Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Allromance and all other online bookstores. What’s not to love? They sell books and I love books, BUT… of those 4 stores mentioned, only ONE has categories made to help romance readers shop properly. AllRomance, hands down, understands that romance readers don’t want all their stuff lumped together in a mishmash that makes it annoying to shop and buy. And trust me, that’s a shame, because romance readers are voracious so you’d think they’d want to make it easy for us to feed our addiction.

Now for my confession, while I occasionally buy from AllRomance, I freely admit to being addicted to Amazon’s one click option. I hate sideloading. I hate having to log in and jump through hoops to get a new book. That said, while I love buying books from Amazon, I hate using their website to shop for it. Why? Because their romance categories are woefully inadequate. Actually, they suck. Readers know what they like, or at least I do. For example, I am a big paranormal romance fan and yet, there is no way to get to a paranormal romance listing directly from the menus on Amazon, B&N etc… If I type it in the search box, I get some results, but not all the books I know belong there. It makes me want to scream. And I’m not even going to talk about the books in the romance category that don’t belong there. That is a whole other pet peeve.

I sometimes have to wonder how these bookstores class books at times too. Despite repeated requests, do you know Bunny & the Bear is classed under Horror and Erotica at B&N? Horror?!! Like seriously lol. And that’s just some of the wtf-ery us authors deal with when it comes to categories.

Having moaned about this on numerous occasions to my hubby, who watches me get frustrated trying to shop to feed my reading addiction, I’ve come up with some must have romance sub categories that Amazon, and others, really should add under the romance category. (Please note I am only going to mention the ones missing that I want to see lol. Feel free to comment and tell me which ones you’d like!)

Erotic romance, not to be mistaken with erotica. I am not going to delve into the difference. We readers already know the difference.
BDSM/Alternative Lifestyle romance, again not the erotica type but the long term commitment versions.
Science Fiction Romance which could (make that should) be subcategorized into Alien Romance, High Tech Romance, Futuristic Romance, Galactic Romance — and yes, they are different!
YA Romance. This one drives me nuts. I am an adult. I want to read romances about adults. All the teeny bopper romances cluttering the romance category drive me insane. I wish they’d put them in their own category or have a way to weed them out.
Paranormal Romance. I can’t believe this one doesn’t have it’s own listing. Sure, they have Gothic and Vampire (which by the way as an author I’ve never seen as an option to list my book in) but when I choose Paranormal Romance to list my books I end up in a general category titled Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost — all I have to say is WTF?
Fantasy Romance not to be mistaken with Paranormal. Again, very different! Fantasy romance has a setting outside of our world with elves, or magic, dragons and swords, you know fairy tale type settings.
Shapeshifter Romance. When I want a werewolf or bear to fall in love, I don’t want to have to wade through tons of vampire novels to find it. Give me a hairy beast! lol
Multi partner romance. This one gets misclassified so often it’s not funny. Yes, some people think it’s kinky and automatically relegate it to erotica, BUT not all MFM or more stories are erotica. Some truly are about the romantic journey to get there, not just sex (even if it’s fun lol). It deserves it’s own spot.
Romantic Comedies. Sometimes I don’t want a book filled with angst or drama, and the blurb isn’t always adequate to decipher if a book is going to be funny. Humorous romance is a class of its own and should be recognized as such.

Okay, I’m sure I’ve forgotten some important ones. So let’s hear them. What categories would you like to see when you hit that romance menu?

Stuff and more stuff

Fall is here and it’s gearing up to be busy.

I’ve got interviews, giveaways, a book release, an almost done WIP and plans to make for the conferences I’m attending next year.

First up, what’s online this week that might interest you…

A neat multi author interview for the upcoming, first ever, Indie Romance Convention coming in 2013 – Click Here!
An ebook giveaway of Freakn’ 3 just because I like them – Click Here!
A Goodreads giveaway of a paperback – Click Here!
Two other giveaways this week which I will post once they go live (and I don’t forget lol)
MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL!!!! lol. Already Freakn’ Mated releases this Friday October 5th and as usual I’ve done something interesting to the story which I hope you’ll like. I’ll post the links to the online stores as they go live so keep an eye on the page – Click Here!

I’m sure I’ve forgotten tons, so feel free to remind me lol. I’m off now to finish the last few chapters on Human and Freakn’, yes book 4 is almost done and book 5 is started because the story was just begging to be told. But to those who’ve asked, I’m tackling some aliens after this. I need some extra terrestrial love, MFM style lol. Hopefully just in time for the New Year if I get my fingers flying. Wish me luck and happy reading.

The countdown has begun!

Lucky him, he found his mate. Just one teensy, tiny problem. She was already married to someone else.

If that doesn’t make you curious then I don’t know what will. lol.

Freakn’ Shifters #3, Already Freakn’ Mated, has a release date of October 5th, 2012. In celebration, I’m giving away a paperback copy via Good reads.

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Goodreads Book Giveaway







Already Freakn’ Mated



by Eve Langlais

Giveaway ends October 18, 2012.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

Enter to win

 

 

Meeting the woman of his dreams would have worked a lot better if she didn’t already belong to another man. But Chris wasn’t about to let something like ‘until death do us part’ keep him from claiming his woman. He’ll do anything to win his mate, including throwing his attractive cousin at the pesky husband.

Despite the danger, and her marital status, Jiao can’t help falling for a handsome wolf. Honor says she should stay away, but her curious inner cat is flexing her claws and demanding they claim their man.

But Jiao isn’t the only one falling in love. When her husband finds himself head over heels with a she-wolf, will Sheng do the right thing and end the marriage sham? Or will the past catch up first and bite them?

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Read an excerpt HERE. And then mark October 5h on your calendar. Don’t miss this next exciting installment in the Freakn’ Shifters series.

And the five, new FUC Agents are …

Drawn in random order, here’s the five winners of SWAG from my FUC giveaway.

Comment 31 Pookietoes — A deadly, yet sleek, panther

Comment 2 DarkReader — A rare, fire breathing dragon

Comment 18 Lisa J – A don’t-mess-with-me Rhino

Comment 40 – Kaylynd – A majestic eagle intent on running FUC

And comment 66 – Angela — A polar bear/ Siberian tiger mix with great big fangs!

I have to say, some of those animal suggestions were fantastic!!! And one of you got the breed that I’m contemplating for our next hero right. But, that could change so I’m not saying anything else lolol.

Newly designated FUC agents, check your email for a message from me as I’ll need your address to send out your official FUC uniform.

To everyone else, it’s not too late to win some FUC swag. Two more giveaways are happening still :

Indie Romance Convention
Romance Book Junkies

What are you waiting for? Get FUC’d today!

Want to get officially F.U.C’d?

Croc and the Fox is officially released and I want to celebrate in a major way! So, I’m going to make five commenters into Official FUC agents. But what’s an agent without some type of uniform? Each of those lucky 5 winners are going to get a FUC agent tshirt, keychain, sticky note pad and yes, a FUC badge (if they ever arrive lol)***. I know there’s going to be a mad scramble to win this swag, but first, let me torture you with a glimpse of the third story in the FUC series, Croc and the Fox.

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(an excerpt from when Viktor rescues his fox)

She draped the blanket over her head and crossed her arms, her whole stance screaming stubborn.

“Now what are you doing?” he asked, no longer bothering to hide his exasperation.

“Ignoring you.”

“You’ve got to be freaking kidding me. I order you to come with me.”

“No.”

“You can’t say no. I’m in charge here.”

“We’ve already ascertained you’re not my father, nor a scientist, or a guard, which means I don’t have to listen to you.”

And then she clapped her hands over her ears and began to hum.

Screw this. Tired of talking with an obvious mad woman, Viktor leaned down and tore the blanket off. Before she could react, he scooped up the crazy redhead, upending her over his shoulder. She let out a squeak of surprise.

“What are you doing? Put me down.”

“No.” Arm locked over her thighs, her weight nothing on his bulky shoulder, he exited the cell.

“Where are we going?”

“Away from here.”

“Are you taking me to the labs?”

“Of course not.”

“Locking me in solitary?”

His jaw tightened. “No one will be locking you up, ever again.” Well, unless she broke the law, but he’d let someone else explain that to her when – and if – they ever released her to the world at large.

“So where are we going then?”

“Like I said, away from here.”

“But I don’t want to leave.”

“Too bad. I say you have to. And since I’m bigger than you, what I say goes.” A childish retort for her juvenile arguing.

“This is kidnapping.”

“Rescue,” he corrected.

“You can’t do this.”

“I can and am.” He jogged up the several flights of stairs, ignoring the strange looks he got from the other FUC operatives wandering the place, photographing and boxing anything they found of interest. He also ignored the former prisoner’s demands to put her down. To go away. And to do something anatomically impossible with himself.

“Where did you learn such language?” he finally asked, reaching the top level. The vulgarity of her speech, especially coming from such a delicate looking cutie, surprised him.

“The guards. The doctors. The others in the cells with me. I even know some of them in Spanish. Would you like to hear them?” she replied sweetly.

“Sure, my boys could stand to learn some new ones. Feel free to shout as many as you like because we’re going outside now.”

“No!” she yelled. Viktor stumbled as she buried her face in his lower back and wrapped her arms around his middle, tighter than the anaconda he dated a few years back.

“Can’t breathe,” he joked.

Her grip didn’t loosen in the slightest. Faced with a dilemma, Viktor didn’t immediately exit the building. If this were a soldier, or agent, acting like a great big wuss bag, he would have ignored the terror and thrown them out to meet the source. But, his mystery lady was a victim. Somehow he doubted Kloe, or his coworkers, would approve of him just tossing her into the sunshine given her fear. And, a teensy tiny part of him, didn’t want to scare her further. A tiny part.

What to do? Maybe if he asked nicely, which went totally against all his training, she’d cooperate. “Could you please let go?”

She shook her head against his lower back and clung tighter.

Ordered? “Let me go now!”

Another shake.

Someone behind him snickered. This was getting ridiculous. No more Mr. Nice Croc. “You asked for it.” Viktor slapped his hand on the rounded buttocks nestled so close to his face. The sharp crack echoed loudly as his palm met her barely covered flesh, but he tempered the strength behind the blow. Still, it had the desired effect.

She reared up with a screeched, “Ow!” and he swiveled her off his shoulder and onto her feet. But when she would have bolted, he manacled her wrists with one hand.

It didn’t stop her from twisting and turning, fighting his grip and intention. “Let me go, you bully. You can’t make me go out there.”

“Yes I can,” he stated calmly. He pulled her along, her bare feet sliding on the marbled floor to the glass doors leading outside. She cursed him out. Dug her heels in. It didn’t stop him from reaching the portal and kicking it open.

A shriek left her lips that made his ears ring and she reversed strategies. Instead of fighting him, she suddenly threw herself at him, jumped on his body, forcing him to release her hands to catch her. Freed, she wrapped her legs around his waist, her arms around his neck and buried her face against his shoulder. Short of a pry bar, he doubted he’d get her off.

Sigh. Why me?

Viktor braced an arm around her middle, leaving his other one free to hold up a middle finger to Mason who laughed his hairy bear ass off when Viktor walked out with his new, red headed, chest accessory.

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And it gets funnier as our lizard man fights his attraction to a red headed fox who just won’t let him go. Want a copy? It’s available for sale from the following places (B&N, real soon)

AllRomance
Bookstrand


Kobo
Smashwords


Amazon
Amazon.co.uk


Apple
Amazon – Print

Okay now that I’ve hopefully made you giggle, time for the contest rules. Leave me a comment with your email address and the type of animal you think would make you the best FUC agent ever! On August 23rd, I will have a random number generator choose five comments to officially FUC. (lol). On your mark, set, who want’s to be FUC’d first?

***And now for the small print. Due to shipping rates for items outside of North America, actual swag prizes will be awarded only to residents of Canada and the USA, BUT, international commenters aren’t out of luck. If you live outside of North America, you can still enter, but instead of a swag shipment, I’ll award you an ebook copy of the F.U.C bundle. Sound good? Awesome. Contest ends August 23rd

I finally got some swag!

And I want to give some of it away!

In celebration of the release of my Alien Abduction Bundle, I’m going to give away some t-shirts. For every 10 entries, I am going to choose a winner. So, the number of t-shirts I give away will go up as the entries do. Think we can hit 50 and giveaway 5 Alien Abduction shirts? I have no idea, but I’m game to try. So spread the word. And if by some miracle, we hit 100, I’ll even throw in a paperback copy of the Alien Abduction Bundle to one lucky winner. Who could resist 468 pages of purple alien fun?

So alien lovers… are you ready to win? Get ready. Set. Comment!!!

PS. Be sure to give me an email when you comment so I can contact you and get your info to mail your prize lol.

PSS. The contest will run until Thursday August 17th, 2012, 8am EST.

PSSS. Does anyone even use post scripts anymore? lol