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May 10, 2013
Quickie
This weekend I'm visiting TAWNY WEBER'S blog for a Quick Six.
And giving away a copy of BRASH.
Super easy to win, come play!
May 8, 2013
COVER REVEAL: Italian Affair
Isn't this a stunning cover?
Congrats Annie Seaton on your upcoming release with Entangled Publishing's Indulgence series (and sequel to Holiday Affair.)
Release date: June 10th 2013
Blurb:
Free-spirited sex therapist Brianna Ballantine has four days to find a fiancé so she can inherit her birth mother’s Italian villa. Commitment is not on the agenda. Writing her sex therapy book and signing legal papers are. And once all is said and done, she’ll return home to Australia.
For finance guru Tomas Richards, relationships have been a bad investment—give him stocks and shares any day. When Tomas offers a marriage of convenience to help Brianna secure her inheritance, the sizzle between the sheets promises an affair to remember, despite family complications at every turn.
But Tom must convince Brianna to stay, and make this Italian affair a lifelong commitment.
Pre -Order
Barnes and Noble…link http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1115250853?ean=9781622661374
Amazon link….http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Affair-ebook/dp/B00CNTTEAI/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1368016768&sr=8-10&keywords=annie+seaton
May 5, 2013
10 year anniversary book launch!
This week sees my 10 year anniversary since I got 'The Call' from Kimberly Young at Harlequin Mills and Boon that launched my publishing career.
To celebrate, I'm launching DO IT WRITE, a little reference book packed with gems I've picked up over the years, as well as some easy 'how-to' stuff with sample synopses, etc...
It's at a special introductory price of $0.99!
Currently available on AMAZON but with all retailers by the end of the week.
Happy writing!
May 1, 2013
Bargain books, dirt cheap!
For 3 days only, check out the amazing books on offer at the BOOK LOVERS' BUFFET , many from bestselling authors, all for only $0.99!
Including BRASH (discounted from $2.99 for 3 days only)
and CRAZY LOVE, discounted from $3.99.
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo)
April 29, 2013
New release: BREATHE FOR ME by Natalie Anderson
I'm thrilled to welcome one of my closest writing buddies to my blog today.
Natalie Anderson writes great contemporary romances for Harlequin Kiss and Entangled Publishing, and BREATHE FOR ME is her first indie release.
I was lucky enough to beta read half this book and it had me hooked!
Now, over to you Natalie...
Thanks so much Nicola for welcoming to your blog today so I can share some
details and an excerpt of my newest release.
BREATHE FOR ME, my first indie hot contemporary
romance, released this week. It’s the first in a planned series…
Here’s the blurb for Xander’s story:
The last thing Chelsea Greene wants is to
be rescued, but that’s exactly what happens when she’s caught wearing nothing
but her swimsuit during a midnight emergency evacuation drill. Turns out her
‘hero’ is a former lifeguard who has no hesitation in offering the kiss of life.
So not happening, right?
But for emotionally chastened Chelsea, one touch changes everything. She
discovers a desire to satisfy this arrogant, demanding tease. Unable to express
her own fantasies, she finds unspeakable pleasure in serving his.
Xander Lawson exudes easy charm. He likes a woman unafraid to match his
appetite for unfettered fun. He doesn’t do complicated or emotional. But the
raw need emanating from fragile Chelsea compels him closer. He can’t resist
spinning a sensual fantasy world around them.
As passion spills outside their carefully selected boundaries, Xander learns
Chelsea’s stronger than he first thought. But is she strong enough to handle
the intensity he’s always kept hidden?
In this scene, Chelsea’s been caught out in a fire drill just beyond
midnight. Her handsome-as neighbor has given her a carry down the stairs. Now
that the drill is over she and the other residents are returning to their
apartments and her ‘hero’ has oh so kindly loaned her his tee-shirt so she
doesn’t feel so exposed in only her swimsuit…
Wearing his shirt was worse than underwear. She saw a few sly looks, and
knew just what half the people in the lift were thinking, given most hadn’t
seen her in the building before. Same as what she was thinking.
That she’d come from his bed.
The elevator stopped on every floor of course, people taking a painfully
slow time to exit. She was awkwardly aware of him standing too close because of
the crowd. But even as it thinned he didn’t step away. As she was sandwiched
between him and the wall, she couldn’t back away. She grew hotter and hotter as
insanely inappropriate thoughts raced through her head. She stared straight
ahead.
Get a grip, Chelsea.
It was clear he wasn’t similarly afflicted—not with the joking words he
shared with another resident. The heat burned in her cheeks as he walked with
her out onto her floor—his hand on her back. Oh so polite. Except for
the inordinate amount of skin they were both displaying.
As soon as the elevator doors shut behind them, she stopped and turned
to face him. Oh mamma, it was damn hard to verbalize anything when confronted
by that body.
“You really don’t need to see me to my door,” she said huskily.
He merely walked around her, strolling along the corridor before turning
back to face her, right outside her apartment. His smile was shameless. “You’re
wearing my favorite tee-shirt.”
“Oh,” she glanced down and walked the last few paces to her door—where
he already waited.
Suddenly he was standing closer than he had in the elevator. She could
feel the raw denim of his jeans brushing the outside of her thigh. Wicked
laughter danced in his eyes. Too overwhelming.
She looked down at his bare chest. A sprinkling of hair. Flat brown
nipples that she could easily reach with her tongue. And a tan. And she’d
already experienced the warmth of it, and the hard strength. It was a chest for
touching, admiring, tasting. She’d have it beneath her, above her, his arms
around her. He had such sensuality emanating from him—challenging her.
A frisson of aggression rippled through her body. She’d never been
challenged this way. Never met anyone so blatantly wanting with just a look and
a smile.
She didn’t want blatant. When she got back in the scene, she’d be taking
it very, very easy. Not squaring off with some playboy. She lifted her chin and
pulled the tee-shirt off in a quick movement, letting it dangle on the end of
her finger.
“Thanks,” she said, totally feigning moxie.
With a grin he lifted the shirt from her crooked index finger and hooked
it into his belt so it hung like a rag down the side of his leg.
“My pleasure.” The polite rejoinder sounded way too intimate to be all
that polite. It sounded dangerous. And tempting. He leaned closer, bracing his
arm on her doorway—so he took up even more of her vision. Dominating.
“What are you doing?”
“Making a move.”
Oh my. How was that for blunt? “Isn’t there some code of ethics that
stops you superhero rescue guys from getting involved with the people you
save?”
“Not that I’m aware of.”
“There should be. Women might mistake gratitude for lu—something else.”
“You think you’re feeling ‘something else’ for me?”
“I… no.” Somehow she held eye contact. The way he was looking at her
sent flickers of heat along every nerve cell.
“Anyway, I didn’t really rescue you,” he said. “You’d have slid down the
banister or something if you’d had to. Really it was all an excuse to get my
hands on you.”
“Oh, so you’ve no ethics then.”
“Guess not.” He had that total ‘whaddaya gonna do about it’ look on his
face.
And it was obvious what he was going to do about it. The laughter
in his eyes was wicked—and mesmerizing.
It was a game. She got
that. Except the sizzle that she felt wasn’t entirely playful. It was intense.
And as she stared up at him the smile in his eyes and on his lips faded as a
predatory look hardened his expression. She raised her hand. Pressed her
fingertips on his mouth. To stop him? To touch him? She didn’t really know.
BREATHE
FOR ME is $2.99 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Breathe-Me-Be-Xander-ebook/dp/B00CJ3UPTW
USA TODAY bestseller Natalie Anderson
writes fun, frisky, feels-good contemporary romance for Harlequin Mills &
Boon, Entangled Publishing and independently. With over twenty-five books
published, she's been a Romantic Times Award nominee & a finalist for the
R*BY (Romantic Book of the Year).
She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand with her husband, four children and what
feels like a million ducks. Find out more at her website http://www.natalie-anderson.com and
be sure to sign up for her newsletter. You can also find her on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authornataliea
Wishing you mega sales, Natalie!
Natalie Anderson writes great contemporary romances for Harlequin Kiss and Entangled Publishing, and BREATHE FOR ME is her first indie release.
I was lucky enough to beta read half this book and it had me hooked!
Now, over to you Natalie...
Thanks so much Nicola for welcoming to your blog today so I can share some
details and an excerpt of my newest release.
BREATHE FOR ME, my first indie hot contemporary
romance, released this week. It’s the first in a planned series…
Here’s the blurb for Xander’s story:
The last thing Chelsea Greene wants is to
be rescued, but that’s exactly what happens when she’s caught wearing nothing
but her swimsuit during a midnight emergency evacuation drill. Turns out her
‘hero’ is a former lifeguard who has no hesitation in offering the kiss of life.
So not happening, right?
But for emotionally chastened Chelsea, one touch changes everything. She
discovers a desire to satisfy this arrogant, demanding tease. Unable to express
her own fantasies, she finds unspeakable pleasure in serving his.
Xander Lawson exudes easy charm. He likes a woman unafraid to match his
appetite for unfettered fun. He doesn’t do complicated or emotional. But the
raw need emanating from fragile Chelsea compels him closer. He can’t resist
spinning a sensual fantasy world around them.
As passion spills outside their carefully selected boundaries, Xander learns
Chelsea’s stronger than he first thought. But is she strong enough to handle
the intensity he’s always kept hidden?
In this scene, Chelsea’s been caught out in a fire drill just beyond
midnight. Her handsome-as neighbor has given her a carry down the stairs. Now
that the drill is over she and the other residents are returning to their
apartments and her ‘hero’ has oh so kindly loaned her his tee-shirt so she
doesn’t feel so exposed in only her swimsuit…
Wearing his shirt was worse than underwear. She saw a few sly looks, and
knew just what half the people in the lift were thinking, given most hadn’t
seen her in the building before. Same as what she was thinking.
That she’d come from his bed.
The elevator stopped on every floor of course, people taking a painfully
slow time to exit. She was awkwardly aware of him standing too close because of
the crowd. But even as it thinned he didn’t step away. As she was sandwiched
between him and the wall, she couldn’t back away. She grew hotter and hotter as
insanely inappropriate thoughts raced through her head. She stared straight
ahead.
Get a grip, Chelsea.
It was clear he wasn’t similarly afflicted—not with the joking words he
shared with another resident. The heat burned in her cheeks as he walked with
her out onto her floor—his hand on her back. Oh so polite. Except for
the inordinate amount of skin they were both displaying.
As soon as the elevator doors shut behind them, she stopped and turned
to face him. Oh mamma, it was damn hard to verbalize anything when confronted
by that body.
“You really don’t need to see me to my door,” she said huskily.
He merely walked around her, strolling along the corridor before turning
back to face her, right outside her apartment. His smile was shameless. “You’re
wearing my favorite tee-shirt.”
“Oh,” she glanced down and walked the last few paces to her door—where
he already waited.
Suddenly he was standing closer than he had in the elevator. She could
feel the raw denim of his jeans brushing the outside of her thigh. Wicked
laughter danced in his eyes. Too overwhelming.
She looked down at his bare chest. A sprinkling of hair. Flat brown
nipples that she could easily reach with her tongue. And a tan. And she’d
already experienced the warmth of it, and the hard strength. It was a chest for
touching, admiring, tasting. She’d have it beneath her, above her, his arms
around her. He had such sensuality emanating from him—challenging her.
A frisson of aggression rippled through her body. She’d never been
challenged this way. Never met anyone so blatantly wanting with just a look and
a smile.
She didn’t want blatant. When she got back in the scene, she’d be taking
it very, very easy. Not squaring off with some playboy. She lifted her chin and
pulled the tee-shirt off in a quick movement, letting it dangle on the end of
her finger.
“Thanks,” she said, totally feigning moxie.
With a grin he lifted the shirt from her crooked index finger and hooked
it into his belt so it hung like a rag down the side of his leg.
“My pleasure.” The polite rejoinder sounded way too intimate to be all
that polite. It sounded dangerous. And tempting. He leaned closer, bracing his
arm on her doorway—so he took up even more of her vision. Dominating.
“What are you doing?”
“Making a move.”
Oh my. How was that for blunt? “Isn’t there some code of ethics that
stops you superhero rescue guys from getting involved with the people you
save?”
“Not that I’m aware of.”
“There should be. Women might mistake gratitude for lu—something else.”
“You think you’re feeling ‘something else’ for me?”
“I… no.” Somehow she held eye contact. The way he was looking at her
sent flickers of heat along every nerve cell.
“Anyway, I didn’t really rescue you,” he said. “You’d have slid down the
banister or something if you’d had to. Really it was all an excuse to get my
hands on you.”
“Oh, so you’ve no ethics then.”
“Guess not.” He had that total ‘whaddaya gonna do about it’ look on his
face.
And it was obvious what he was going to do about it. The laughter
in his eyes was wicked—and mesmerizing.
It was a game. She got
that. Except the sizzle that she felt wasn’t entirely playful. It was intense.
And as she stared up at him the smile in his eyes and on his lips faded as a
predatory look hardened his expression. She raised her hand. Pressed her
fingertips on his mouth. To stop him? To touch him? She didn’t really know.
BREATHE
FOR ME is $2.99 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Breathe-Me-Be-Xander-ebook/dp/B00CJ3UPTW
USA TODAY bestseller Natalie Anderson
writes fun, frisky, feels-good contemporary romance for Harlequin Mills &
Boon, Entangled Publishing and independently. With over twenty-five books
published, she's been a Romantic Times Award nominee & a finalist for the
R*BY (Romantic Book of the Year).
She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand with her husband, four children and what
feels like a million ducks. Find out more at her website http://www.natalie-anderson.com and
be sure to sign up for her newsletter. You can also find her on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authornataliea
Wishing you mega sales, Natalie!
April 26, 2013
Vote for Best YA Cover
SCION OF THE SUN (releasing November this year) is up for Best YA cover on Aussie Owned & Read.
You can vote for my fab cover HERE.
Thanks!
April 21, 2013
National Readers' Choice Awards finalist!
I'm thrilled to announce MARRYING THE ENEMY is a finalist for the NATIONAL READERS' CHOICE AWARDS.
This prestigious award is notoriously hard to crack and I'm so excited that with my 10 year anniversary in publishing coming up, the favourite Harlequin book I've ever written has finalled!
And the timing is great, with the sequel to this book, HER DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, my first Harlequin Kiss, releasing next week.
If you love strong-willed heroines, sexy alpha heroes, sizzle in the bedroom and jewels, check out this duo!
Marrying the Enemy on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Nook
Her Deal with the Devil on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Nook
April 18, 2013
Weekend Book Club: It was Only a Kiss
You may think I'm biased in saying this, considering I write for Harlequin Kiss, but I'm absolutely hooked on this series!
It's fun, flirty and distinctive, with a lovely modern edge to all the books.
If you haven't tried one, please do. I'm sure you'll be hooked too.
I'm an avid reader and don't give 5 stars to every book, but this one thoroughly deserved it.
Here's the blurb:
The most distracting boss of all ...
For driven businessman Luke Savage success is the only option. So when gorgeous marketing intern Jess Sherwood waltzes into his office and casually informs him that his newly inherited vineyard has an image problem he's outraged! She's naive, overly ambitious, a know-it-all And all Luke can do to stop her talking is kiss her senseless.
Eight years later the vineyard needs a boost—and Luke needs a hip new marketing strategy to save it. Jess may drive him crazy but she's the right woman for the job. Their only problem is how to keep their minds on work and off that kiss.
I'm hugely impressed by Joss Wood's third category romance. It's the first book of hers I've read and won't be the last.
This book is sweet and sexy, with two strong-willed characters going head to head.
Loved the sparks they created!
And the secondary characters (the heroine's family) were hilarious.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
What are you reading this weekend?
April 15, 2013
Book Lovers Buffet
If you're a book blogger, make sure you sign up for the Book Lovers Buffet to win great gift card prizes.
Entry is simple.
Fill in a short form, then spread the word about the book sale between May 1-3.
Easy!
Sign up HERE
Entry is simple.
Fill in a short form, then spread the word about the book sale between May 1-3.
Easy!
Sign up HERE
April 14, 2013
New contract!
I'm thrilled to announce I've signed a contract with
ENTANGLED PUBLISHING'S Brazen series.
These books are sassy and sexy and oh-so-readable.
My first, tentatively titled SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY, will be released in October this year, with the 2nd book in the series out in Feb 2014.
Sleeping with the Enemy is one of those rare magical books that flew from my fingers in 15 days. Revisions are about to land any day now and I can't wait to tighten and polish this story.
And I can't wait for you all to read it!
These books are sassy and sexy and oh-so-readable.
My first, tentatively titled SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY, will be released in October this year, with the 2nd book in the series out in Feb 2014.
Sleeping with the Enemy is one of those rare magical books that flew from my fingers in 15 days. Revisions are about to land any day now and I can't wait to tighten and polish this story.
And I can't wait for you all to read it!
