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All Romance Twelve Bundles of Christmas

As part of their 12 Days of Christmas bundle deal, All Romance Ebooks has the Beauty Series compilation on sale for 50% off. If you haven’t read it yet, now is the time to grab your copy. And if you have read it, you can pick up another one for a friend. All Romance has a handy gifting button. Everyone could use some sexy Professor Blake in their lives

And as of this morning, the Beauty box set is actually a bestseller on ARe, so that’s awesome!

Remember, the sale is only for one day. You can grab the deal here.

Don’t Let Go is out now!

Don’t Let Go is available now on Amazon! Here is the blurb:

Books page as they become available.

Announcing the upcoming Valentine’s Day Gift Hop

Attention authors of sexy romance and bloggers! I just opened sign ups for my next bloghop, The Valentine’s Day Gift Hop!

The way it works is that each site offers a short post about Valentine’s Day and a small giveaway (like a book or gift card). There are also grand prizes (provided by me), and every comment on every stop is entered to win those. I’ve done gift cards in the past, but this time I’m doing a Kindle Paperwhite and a digital gift basket.

If you’re ready to play, sign up here: http://www.skyewarren.com/hop/

Yours,

Skye Warren

PS. And please share this on twitter and Facebook and wherever, because the more authors and bloggers we get, the more fun it will be!

The Beauty Series compilation is live!

The Beauty Series is available as a collection of sexy novellas in this new adult romance between a professor and his student.

Erin cleans Mr. Morris’s house twice a week to pay for college. When she interrupts him in a private moment and hears him moaning her name, she refuses to hide her feelings for him any longer.

Blake Morris is scarred both inside and out. When he receives an offer to return to teach at his alma mater, he knows this is his chance to reenter the world–and to be worthy of the woman he loves.

Except the class he’s teaching is the last one she needs for graduation, so they can finally be together. Secrets and shadows lay in wait along the path, and it will be up to Erin and Blake to forge their own happy ending.

“…an intriguing and sexy beastly hero, a vulnerable young student who coaxes him out of his shell, and a romantic and erotic storyline that is sure to satisfy readers. Another winner from Warren.” – Penelope’s Romance Reviews

“I love this “Beauty and the Beast” story that Skye Warren has crafted. She puts a twist to this classic tale that makes it different and deliciously erotic.” – Nina’s Literary Escape

You can get it now from Amazon now!

Plus, a print version is on its way!

Call for Submissions: Take the Heat

I have a new project I’m working on… an anthology. If you’re a writer, listen up! If you know writers, please share this!

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Take the Heat – Hardened criminals on their sexiest behavior

Editor: Skye Warren

Deadline: December 31, 2013

Theme: Criminals, illegal activity

Word Count: 4,000 – 6,000

Payment: $100

The ultimate bad boys, criminals have the power to capture our attention and waken our darkest desires. Celebrate the illicit in short story format for this taboo contemporary anthology. Put your own spin on the following scenarios or surprise readers with a new one:

- A jaded cop arrests a street walker only to find himself seduced

- A CEO catches a thief in the act—and exacts his own punishment

- A cold assassin finds one target he can’t bring himself to terminate

- An escaped fugitive takes a hostage who just might save him

- A new arrival at the prison stirs up lust in a long-term inmate

Make it sexy and shocking, erotic and thoughtful. A strong plot and well-crafted writing are musts. Twists and mindfucks appreciated. Angst welcome. Romantic elements nice to have. Any variation of genders, pairings, and sex practices accepted, but please refrain from submitting incest, bestiality, or rape as titillation, and all characters should be over eighteen.

The anthology will receive marketing support, including print advertising, review exposure, and event placement. A one-time payment of $100 will be made for each accepted story. Preferred word count 4,000 to 6,000 words. Contract is for 3 years exclusive rights and non-exclusive rights thereafter.

Accepted stories will be professionally edited, but please ensure that your submission is complete and polished. Include the title, your name, pen name, mailing address, email address, and bio on the first page of your manuscript. Format the document in Times New Roman font, 12 point, double spaced, black font, in doc or rtf format.

Submissions are due December 31, 2013. Send your story to skye@skyewarren.com with subject line TAKE THE HEAT.

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Permission to forward granted (and please do share with writers you know!) If you have any questions, please direct them to skye@skyewarren.com. Thank you!

Sweetest Mistress Gets a New Cover!

Sweetest Mistress, my BDSM novella, gets a brand new sexy cover:

And the even cooler news is there’s a sequel in the works, a new set of characters, another book of fem dom BDSM and told from the hero’s POV. That book will be titled Cherry On Top. I’m still working out the release date, but it will either be late this year or early 2014–it just depends on how my editors and everyone is booked for the holidays.

You can get Sweetest Mistress now with the pretty new cover from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Beauty Becomes You is released!

Beauty Becomes You, the final installment in the Beauty serial, is available now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks, and Smashwords!

With the end of semester approaching, Erin and Blake decide to lay low. After all, they have all the time in the world after that. Except Blake’s future at the university is up in the air and trouble is brewing back in Erin’s hometown. When the couple is tested, they will have to trust each other to forge their own sexy ending.

“…an intriguing and sexy beastly hero, a vulnerable young student who coaxes him out of his shell, and a romantic and erotic storyline that is sure to satisfy readers. Another winner from Warren.” – Penelope’s Romance Reviews

Read Beauty Becomes You now:

 

  

I’m keeping the novellas at $0.99 through the end of August, which combined with the free prequel short story, means you can get the full series for only $2.98. That is a full length novel, longer than Wanderlust and cheaper too! You’ll definitely want to pick them all up at this special pricing. After that they’ll go up to a rate closer to other novellas and serials.

Here’s the full listing so you can grab them if you missed one:

Beauty Touched the Beast (free): Amazon | Barnes & Noble | ARe | Smashwords

Beneath the Beauty: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | ARe | Smashwords

Broken Beauty: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | ARe | Smashwords

Beauty Becomes You: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | ARe | Smashwords

I loved writing Blake and Erin’s story. Sexy and poignant, they really worked for their happy ever after, and I was honored to take them there.

If you’ve enjoyed the Beauty series, it would be a huge help to me if you would tell a friend about them–in person, on Facebook, or leave a review. I would very much appreciate anything you could do

Wanderlust on sale!

Wanderlust is on sale for 99 cents on Amazon for this week only. Wanderlust has never before cost less than its retail price of $3.99, and I don’t have many sales, so if you’ve been thinking of reading this, grab it now!

Evie always dreamed of seeing the world, but her first night at a motel turns into a nightmare. Hunter is a rugged trucker willing to do anything to keep her–including kidnapping. As they cross the country in his rig, Evie plots her escape, but she may find what she’s been looking for right beside her.

Wanderlust is a dark erotic novel that explores dubious consent, captivity, and power play. Not intended for those uncomfortable with the subject matter or those under 18 years of age.

“Brace yourself for an unlikely and intense love story. There are no heroes in this tale, only disturbingly beautiful monsters.” – Romantic Book Affairs

Read Wanderlust now: On Amazon US | On Amazon UK | On Amazon Canada

Wanderlust is still available from other retailers, including Barnes & Noble and Kobo, just not for the sale price.

Updates, or Where the Heck is My Release?

Hi all,

So I’ve been getting a few questions about the last Beauty installment, which is totally fair. I had two release dates floating around, the 8th and the 15th (today) and now I’ll miss both of them. I’m so sorry about that! First my kid got sick and then I caught it–nothing serious, but I wasn’t even upright enough to finish edits. Now I’ve lost my voice, but at least I’m sitting at my computer and ready to work. I’m going to work like crazy to get the edits completed, get it proofread and formatted, and upload it as soon as humanly possible. Or by this weekend, ideally, though some of it depends on how prettily I can beg my proofreader to help me quickly. I’m aiming for a week, and I’m so, so sorry about the delay.

As a consolation prize, I do have a new, free story out with the M/M Romance group as part of their Love Has No Boundaries event. You can read CAGED in the Goodreads group here or download the files to read it here. It’s dirty, sexy, dystopian romance, so hopefully it can tide you over for a week until BEAUTY BECOMES YOU comes out.

And again, I’m so sorry! Getting sick kicked my butt, but it wouldn’t have affected the release if I hadn’t already been running behind. I usually have my releases formatted and polished and ready for upload a week or two in advance of the release date, but that didn’t happen here. I am going to work my ass off to the final Beauty installment out ASAP and also to plan more padding in future releases so this won’t happen again.

Yours,

Skye

Winners!

Whew, I’ve had a BUNCH of giveaways recently, so I’m rolling them all into one big post. For our Wet & Wild bloghop, the grand prizes winners were…

The winner of the $100 gift card to Victoria’s Secret is:

From Paloma Beck’s stop, Wendy Hoffman who said, “Anything as long as its Hot!!”

And the winner of the digital gift basket is:

From Laura Kaye’s stop, Sophie Rose who said, “Dangerous Submission by Lori Toland because I’m still dipping my pinky toe into the BDSM world.”

The winner of my stop’s $15 gift card to Amazon was Denice!

I also had a guest post on Novel Reflections of my Top Five Favorite Traits in a Romance Hero. The winner of that $10 Amazon gift card was Adnana. (But still go read the post, it’s fun!)

I gave away a copy of Wanderlust at Amber’s Reading Room that went to Dawn.

AND I had a big release blast for Beneath the Beauty with Goddess Fish tours. The winner of that $25 gift card was bn100. The host who wont the random $25 gift card was Melissa from the Snarkology.

That’s all, folks! It’s been a super busy month here at Casa Warren and will probably remain so until the Beauty serial is finished. Then I’m looking forward to a little R&R before Don’t Let Go comes out toward the later part of the year.

Yours,

Skye