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May 28, 2013
Beneath the Beauty Release Blast is today!
Many thanks to the lovely hosts of my release day blast and giveaway for Beneath the Beauty. There are brand new excerpts from the book as well as reviews on some of the sites. Plus each comment enters you to win a $25 gift card to Amazon or Barnes & Noble!
Here they are…
Pavarti K Tyler at Fighting Monkey Press
My Odd Little World
Sharing Links and Wisdom
Bianca Swan
Sexy Lady Anita Philmar
London’s Scribbles
Shelley Munro
Taylor Made Fiction
Romance Addict Book Blog
Musings and Ramblings
Krystal Shannan – Where Love and Destiny Collide
Pink Fluffy Hearts: Diary of a Coffee Addict
My Reading Obsession … and read her review in the post!
Day Dreaming Book Reviews
The Dan O’Brien Project
Bunny’s Review
Farm Girl Books
Crazy Four Books … and read Brenda’s review in the post!
Love To Read For Fun
Simply Ali
Deal Sharing Aunt
Queen of the Night Reviews
Just Jeannie’s Books and Bling
Tamaria Soana
The SkylarVerse
Under the covers book blog
Nightstand Novels
i love lady porn … and read her review in the post!
Desiree Holt
Dawn’s Reading Nook Blog
Melissa Keir- Sexy Between the Covers
Author Raine Delight’s Blog
United By Books
Janna Shay’s Fair Play
Bitchesbewritin
Books to Light Your Fire
Triad Literary Works
Rachel Leigh
Long and Short Reviews
As the Pages Turn
The Snarkology of a Romance Author
Wickedly Wanton Tales
Punya Reviews …and read her review of Beneath the Beauty here.
Danita Minnis
Black Velvet Seductions Readers Blog
Fantasy Powered By Love
Bad Barb’s Reviews
“…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
You can pick up Beneath the Beauty for only 99 cents from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. And if you haven’t started the series yet, the first installment, Beauty Touched the Beast, is also available for free from those places!
Thank you!
Skye
May 19, 2013
Welcome to the Wet and Wild Bloghop!
Welcome, naughty readers!
This is the Wet & Wild bloghop, where we have super fun grand prizes for your entering pleasure, including a $100 gift card to Victoria’s Secret AND a digital gift basket featuring my book, Wanderlust, as well as Fever by Maya Banks, Knight & Stay by Kitty French, Dirty Distractions by Cari Quinn, and The Girl in 6E by Alessandra Torre. PLUS I have a $15 gift card that you can win right here.
I’m thrilled to share with you my brand new release, Beneath the Beauty. This sexy serial kicks off in Beauty Touched the Beast with a scarred hero who doesn’t think he’s good enough for the sexy college student who cleans his house.
The best part is that Beauty Touched the Beast is FREE and the sequel novella, Beneath the Beauty, is only 99 cents. That’s damn cheap for a sexy, angsty story that reviewers are calling “heartbreaking” and “panty scorching.” Free and 99 cents is as accessible as I can make this!!
“…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
Now let’s talk about prizes!!! These are the grand prizes…
AND you can win a $15 gift card from me by commenting below. The Beauty serial has a) a tortured hero, and b) a professor hero, and c) an older-man-younger-man trope. What I’d love to know is, which of these themes is your personal favorite and if you can think of a book you loved with that trope, even better!~
Thank you for your support!! And don’t forget to stop by the other hops for more chances to win!
Psst… Beneath the Beauty is available early!
I’m going to keep this post short and sweet. Beneath the Beauty, the sequel that began in the hearts of my readers and worked its way into my own heart, is now available. If you have not read Beauty Touched the Beast or just want to do a refresher read, you can still get it for free from Amazon or B&N.
And now Beneath the Beauty is also available for the low price of 99 cents on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It’s sexy, emotional, and I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it.
Yours,
Skye
May 6, 2013
The Upcoming Beauty Serial
In late 2011, I put out a sexy story, Beauty Touched the Beast. It was short, around 6K words, but it was also free, intended as an introduction to my writing.
Reader response to Beauty was amazing. People really connected to Erin and Blake, but they wanted more of that story, not just my other books. I got the most amount of fanmail for that small story as for any of my other, longer works. Even now it keeps coming, which is so humbling for me.
Despite the requests, I wasn’t ready to write the sequel. It would have felt forced and that would’ve been a disservice to the characters… and to my readers. But it was always there, in the back of mind, formulating.
As I considered it, I realized the story (or stories) I had in mind didn’t fit into a regular book structure but were more episodic. And then the serial format came along and I thought hmm, yes. This could work.
So I began to write…
On May 20th, the second installment of the Beauty series, Beneath the Beauty, will be released. The last two will come out in mid-June and early July.
The first installment, the one that’s already out, Beauty Touched the Beast, will remain the same as it’s always been–6K words, and as long as Amazon price matches, it’ll be free. The upcoming three installments will be much longer, more like a short novella.
As for the rest, I researched serials coming out both traditionally and self pubbed and found that this length most often sells at $1.99 or $2.99. I found one at $3.99 per installment. I don’t think $1.99 is a bad price, because then the total is still under six bucks. Plus, a reader can choose to abandon ship at any point, meaning I’m assuming more of the risk (which is why serials tend to be priced higher).
At least over the summer, I’ve decided to price each installments at 99 cents. I reserve the right to raise them after that, but if you follow along as they are released, you’ll get the 99 cent price. In terms of length, the sum of the four parts is regular novel length. You’d be getting the whole thing for $2.98 which is actually cheaper than my standard pricing. For example, Wanderlust is a full length novel and it’s $3.99.
I feel good about this because I’m trying something new and I want my readers to be able to try it with me without breaking the bank. I’m actually writing the last installment now but so far they’ve been super sexy and emotional, so I hope you guys love them as much as I do!
Oh, and if you haven’t read the story that started it all yet, read Beauty Touched the Beast for free now!
May 1, 2013
Below the Belt on sale for 99 cents from May 1-3
My martial arts fighter romance Below the Belt is on sale for only 99 cents from May 1 to May 3rd, so if you haven’t read it yet, grab a copy now. The important thing about this book is that it has hot sex, but here’s the blurb to round it out:
“…what an absolutely dynamite heroine” – Rage, Sex & Teddy Bears
Martial arts champion Abe Montgomery is dead-set on winning gold at Nationals. Paris Rivera has sworn off men and martial arts. When these two meet, the chemistry is explosive.
Abe may dominate on the mats, but he’s fallen hard for Paris. The fight of his life looms ahead, not only for his dreams but for the sexy woman he soon can’t live without.
“This book is sweet and spicy! Romance written in a realistic way. No fairy tale endings. No promises that can’t be kept. Just straight up emotion and honesty.” – Have You Heard Book Reviews
The temporary price reduction is actually part of a group sale of indie authors in a variety of romance-related genres. Here are a few that I’m buying myself:
And you can browse the sale website for more books temporarily on sale for 99 cents here! Happy reading, everyone 
April 28, 2013
Cover reveal for the Beauty serial!
I have a cover reveal for the Beauty serial up today at Haydee’s Reviews! These covers are seriously steamy… my hottest covers yet, that’s for sure.
This is the cover for Beneath the Beauty that’s been on my site already, but the later ones get even sexier, I think.
Beneath the Beauty comes out in May… yes, let’s than a month away! And remember, Beauty Touched the Beast, the story that started it all is already out now and available free from most vendors:
April 20, 2013
THANK YOU!
Thank you to everyone who read/tweeted/reviewed Wanderlust and taking it into top #20 Paid Erotica Bestseller list at Amazon. Wanderlust is my first full length novel and I’m so beyond thrilled at the reception. I was worried Hunter was too dark, but you guys have looked into his blackened soul and found him worthy.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
April 16, 2013
Wanderlust is released!
Yay, Wanderlust is officially released! I was later with this than I’d hoped to be, so I am very grateful to readers who stuck around while I got my butt in gear.
So, let’s see. Compared to my “Dark Erotica” series, this is more of a character study and has less of a thriller aspect. I also think it’s a bit sexier… there’s more room to do that without suspense antics, I think. So hopefully that can help you decide whether this is right for you. It’s still very dark though.
Dark erotica is a tricky beast in terms of marketing, because it has inflammatory subject matter and because it’s still such a small niche (though a few dedicated bloggers are AMAZING).
As of right now, I’ve decided against a blog tour for this book because I figured Wanderlust is too “out there” for mainstream blogs even with warnings. And it’s really *not* a romance, even though there is crossover readership. At this point, I want to see if I can reach critical mass of my previous releases through word of mouth. We’ll see how that works out.
On that note, here’s what reviewers have had to say about it so far:
”It was emotionally harrowing yet had bursts of humour, so extremely dark and disturbing yet sensual.” – TotallyBooked Blog
“I loved the story; I loved that it made me feel, that it turned me on, turned me off, made me pause and think, twisted my stomach into knots, and, at times, believe it or not gave me some warm fuzzies that were well balanced by the realism of the protagonists’ struggles and my empathy for them.” – Haydee’s Reviews
“I love how Ms. Warren is able to make the angst of these two people so real…downright heartbreaking.” – Salacious Reads
“Reading this book, I had similar feelings to how I felt when I read Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas. I loved this dysfunctional couple and couldn’t get enough of them.” – Reader’s Confession
“I would say this was dark and disturbing…..and it kind of was but for me, when it counts, it’s a seriously sweet emotional book.” – Dark Reading Room
I’m so thrilled at the early reception! I know how fucked up Hunter is, so to see people say they wanted to hate him but couldn’t is pretty much… heartwarming 
He’s definitely my scariest guy yet (although that will change with the release of Don’t Let Go).
You can read Wanderlust from the following places:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
All Romance
Smashwords
Edit: Someone raised an objection to my content warning. I see how I was overstepping my bounds (previously read “Please do not read if you’re uncomfortable with the subject matter”). I’m sorry to those I offended. I’m changing that line to “Not intended for those uncomfortable with the subject matter or those under eighteen years of age.” Hopefully that works better, since it’s more about me and not what others should do. It will probably take a few days to get it done everywhere.
March 2, 2013
Excerpt: I had grown up fast, fumbling with mac and cheese before I was tall enough to see over the pot…
Thank you all for joining me in the first excerpt post for Write Club! I want to share the opening lines for my next release, Wanderlust.
I had grown up fast, fumbling with mac and cheese before I was tall enough to see over the pot, explaining away my excess absences to disinterested teachers. But there was so much I didn’t know, so much I hadn’t seen. That absence of knowledge had become an almost tangible thing, filling me up, suffocating me until I needed to walk away just to breathe.
Ironically, my innocence was my mom’s explanation for keeping me home. The world was too scary, and I wouldn’t even know how to protect myself. To hear her tell it, the streets were filled with ravening men who would rape me as soon as look at me.
Hmm… I wonder what’s going to happen next? God, I do love a good foreshadow. And be sure to stop by the other posters here:
Want to join in the next Write Club? You can sign up here. Thank you!
February 2, 2013
A New Proposal
Hi, awesome writers!
You’re receiving this email because you signed up for the Unofficial Six Sentence Sunday. I apologize for not contacting you sooner, but I’ve been thinking about this a lot. My concern was that the old format for Six Sentence Sunday was not a sustainable pace. Many participating authors jumped in and out each week, and from a moderation standpoint, the old SSS had six moderators and still said it was overwhelming. I didn’t want to start something that would be doomed to fail or blindly choose a format because it’s what was done before. I also talked with several authors to figure out what might work better.
I have a proposal that I hope you’ll try out with me, which I’ve nicknamed Write Club. I’d like to share excerpts once a month instead of weekly. You all may still share them on your blog every week, of course, and even swap comments with authors you already know. But we’ll all connect via the link list once a month, and that will allow new folks to join in. So that would be on the first Sunday of each month (which is also today). Then on the third Sunday of each month, we’d have a topic post, sharing our inspiration for our writing, our settings, etc.
That definitely changes the dynamic, I realize, and some people may drop off because of that. But the benefits might be richer. We would still be showcasing our books, maybe make some sales. We would be building community among writers, all while generating content for our blogs. It may not work out, of course, but it might, and if it seems like something you might be interested in, I hope you’ll give it a try. I have the signup for next month’s 6-sentence excerpt post below.
If you would prefer to stay strictly with the old format, you can check out the following alternatives (hat tip to Sarah Ballance):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/40164...
http://www.wewriwa.com/2013/01/welcom...
But I do hope you’ll stick around and see how this new format pans out. I would love to find a sustainable solution that provides all the great benefits, the community that we don’t want to give up. Thank you!
