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A Virgin Enslaved

[image error] Small town girl Beth Tyrell has always planned on losing her virginity on her marriage bed to a man who would love and cherish her forever. But when she meets her new boss, the stunningly handsome and mercurial CEO, Chris Morton, she experiences an all-encompassing, gut-wrenching libidinous 'I want to be taken right here on your desk' desire that she has never known.

What's happening to her? Especially since Chris is a damaged entity who has multiple 'friends with benefits' and a fervent vow to never love a woman again. Even more perplexing is his obvious desire for her - a desire so palpable it borders on obsession.

Then Chris proposes an arrangement to explore their mutual passion: "Try me out for seven days. No penetration, I promise . . . unless you want it."

In this complex passion game, one of them must succumb first, except that things rarely work out as planned.

A VIRGIN ENSLAVED is a 32,000-word erotic romance novel.

Excerpt:Gingerly, I take the handcuffs out. They are the police procedural type - cold metal and clinking chains.

I turn to Chris again. The sight of him naked is like the sun in my eyes - beatifically dazzling. I don't think I have ever seen such a beautiful man in my life. He should be immortalized in sculpture, on frescoes, on naughty calendars.

"You mean . . . on your wrists?"

He sits up, still seated, and puts his wrists behind his firmly muscled back. God, he's beautiful. I'll never stop thinking that. He's the epitome of sex himself. I mean, look at him. You can't help but think of sex when you look at him, and I'm thinking of myself entwined with that wondrous body right now.

But he's bad news, my inner voice hisses.

I know, I know, I know, but I still badly want to touch him.

"Are you sure about this?" I say.

"Yes." He stands up, his back to me. He has a tattoo on his lower back, inscribed in some runic language I can't decipher. I have a mind to ask him about it later, except that he's distracting me in the most distressing of ways.

His tight, tight buttocks are at my eye level, and they are quite a marvel to behold. He spies me looking at them, and turns to grin. "Do you want to touch them?"

I blush. I'm frazzled by such frank sex talk. Maybe it's a good thing that I put these cuffs on him. That way -

"You don't have to worry about me losing control," he says, finishing my thoughts. "You're the one in control now."

He says this in a significant tone. I take it that it's usually the other way around with him where women are concerned.

My hands tremble as I circle his wrists with the cuffs. I lightly brush against his buttocks as I do so - accidentally, mind you. A thrill of deep desire courses through me.

Click.

He's now manacled like a common prisoner.

He remains standing as I place my palms upon his butt cheeks. His flesh is warm and soft and hard and taut all at the same time. I can hear him take a sharp breath as I traverse the contours of his flesh, feeling its texture and tensile strength. I roam my hands down the backs of his thighs. A shudder seizes the area between my legs.

Hit my 75,000th sale!

Thank you, dear readers!!

Top indie authors June

This is the first time I've declared my numbers to iReaderReview

Top 100 indie authors June

And I'm at No. 50. I've had better months, but these lists only came out recently, I think.

Anyway, it's so nice to be in the Top 50, even though I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who never got captured.

Mysterious Desire

I have a new novelette at 16,000 words. It's an erotic romance :) Some of you may know that I have another far more successful pen name, Aphrodite Hunt, who writes straight erotica.

Anyway, I have decided to write erotic romances under Artemis Hunt to differentiate from my racier stuff.


Shy and innocent Liz Turner is trying to pay for college, and moonlights as a maid in a swanky hotel. But when a devastatingly handsome stranger barges into the men’s restroom she’s trying to clean – despite the NO ENTRY sign she has put at the door – it’s like kismet.

Violent sparks ignite the libido she never knew she had, and suddenly, he’s seducing her against the wall. Breathless and guilty, he leaves. She never expects to see him again, until she finds out that he is Alexander Vassar – half-American entrepreneur, Harvard graduate . . . and a European crown prince who is engaged to be married to someone else.

But Alex seems to mysteriously desire her and only her. Liz cannot understand it. Does he truly want her or is there an ulterior motive behind it all that will shatter her confidence and rapidly succumbing heart?

MYSTERIOUS DESIRE is a 16,000-word erotic romance novelette.

Hit 50,000 sales!

Thank you, dear readers, for making this possible. I just hit my 50,000th milestone. It's been quite a ride. During the 7 months or so since I have started writing erotica, I've had:

1. 12 stories hit the Amazon Erotica Top 100
2. 1 story hit the Amazon Top 30 Romance
3. I story hit the Amazon Top 15 Movers and Shakers
4. 12 books becoming All Romance Ebooks bestsellers
5. 12 books becoming Bookstrand bestsellers

Thank you for reading my stories and I hope you enjoyed them!

Psychotic has been banned from All Romance Ebooks

Great. I only thought this ARE and Bookstrand ban would affect Aphrodite Hunt, but it applies to Artemis Hunt as well.

Sheeesh.

Hit my 30,000th sale!

WOO HOO! Thanks to everyone who bought something from me!

I'm eternally grateful and hope you enjoyed it.

Hit my 20,000th sale!

Woo hoo, I reached my 20,000th milestone in 4 months, 4 days! Thank you to all of you who have given me advice and helped me along the way. Dec has been particularly good to me, and for those who are still on the fence on self-publishing, don't contemplate any further. Do it!

To recap, this is my journey since self-publishing on Aug 24th:

Aug (1 week): 14 (1 novel)
Sept:             44 (Added 2 novels at the end of Sept and a short story)
Oct:               977 (Started writing erotica shorts around Oct 8th. Uploaded 3 erotica shorts)
Nov:              4311 (added several more erotica shorts)
Dec: (as of 12 midnight 29th Dec)   : 14,753

Over 90% of my sales are Amazon. I have around 11 erotica shorts, novelettes and novellas altogether, and they form 95% of my sales. All except 2 are priced at $2.99.

So don't give up! Keep on writing! There is no better time to put out stuff than now!

My Xmas blog at Saffina Desforges!

Saffina Desforges

Ok, just 3 days left until the big day! Now, this next post isn't what you'd call creative and not isn't particularly cheery, but what it is, is the PERFECT epitome of this blog's theme AND absolutely true.
Read it and take heed. Over to Artemis Hunt .

Merry Xmas. It's been a tumultous month for me since we last chatted on this blog. My beloved mother-in-law died of lung cancer, only to be followed by my husband's aunt 10 days later from pancreatic cancer. This serves to remind me how fleeting life is, and how we should seize the moment.
Haven't decided to independently publish? Do it now before it's too late.
I haven't regretted a moment of it.
These are my monthly sales:
Aug (1 week)             14
Sept                          44
Oct                           977
Nov                           4311
Dec (as of Dec 8th 6 am)      2700 (Update 26 Dec: sales now stand at 12,378)

My top selling work (a short story) is in the Top 3 Erotica of Amazon US. I've been on the Movers and Shakers list periodically. As of today, I have 5 or 6 works in Amazon US's Top 100 erotica, mostly priced at $2.99. My works have been on Bookstrand's Top 30, and I stick out like a sore thumb amidst Bookstrand's own well-promoted Siren writers, who fill up almost the entire list. 7 of my works have earned the All Romance Ebook bestseller crown. My works have occupied the Top 1,2,3 and 4 spots of Amazon Germany's Top 100 English erotica list.
Erotica writers have written to me and hailed me a success.
How did I do it? Was it marketing? Pure luck?
Actually, I didn't do a single shred of marketing for my erotica shorts/novellas other than to cite every title down on each of their Amazon pages. It's actually pure luck.
It's true!
I know people don't like to hear about luck. But I made my own luck. I wrote stories in a series, and released them quickly, sometimes days after the other. I was determined to do what Joe Konrath said we must do – write until you get lucky. I wasn't even aiming for Amazon's Top 1000. I was just writing and writing and hoping to make a decent living without hitting a ball out of the park.
So, give yourself a gift this Xmas, and celebrate being alive. Do what you want to do. Don't look back. This past couple of weeks have taught me that life is really too short to spend regretting things you haven't done. If you are in doubts about self-publishing, just try it. Then you won't be in doubts anymore!
Aphrodite/Artemis Hunt

Thanks, Artemis. A very simple message.
Tomorrow, Leonard Hilley.
Saffi

My friend's post about me, heh heh

My friend, a very successful horror writer who lives in Australia, wrote this about me today. Thanks, TH! You never mentioned my greatest successes are from being Aphrodite Hunt rather than the more vanilla Artemis Hunt, however :)

http://tunkuhalim.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/who-is-artemis-hunt/

Who is Artemis Hunt?It appears that "Artemis Hunt has a husband who thinks all fiction is nonsense and all writers of fiction should get their heads checked for situational delusions."
That seems to be all we know about this mysterious author – although there's a rumour that she's got Malaysian links. I really doubt this though as her writing seems far too Californian!
But, if she is Malaysian, then Malaysia-boleh! because she's certainly one of the nation's most prolific and successful.
Great cover, huh?Recently, Artemis unloaded on us six e-books entitled:

The Body Snatcher Wears Lipstick
The Hunt For The Catalyst
The Ether World Chronicles: Beginnings
The Body Snatcher Wears Lipstick
Snow White And The Alien
Psychotic – A Thriller Short (by A.R Hunt)
You can get a rush from her books on her blog.
I'm in the middle of Snow White and the Alien and the writing's just great. There's no limit to this Californian's imagination and its Kindle-clicking good!
I'm going to give Artemis's husband a call soon, as I continue to type out my own novel, just to check on my own "situational delusion"!