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A New Year

So I know I'm like 14 days behind but Happy (Belated) New Year!!! I hope you guys had a great holiday season with lots of mushy gushy time with your loved ones. Xmas is always my fave time of the year, though this one was a little stressful since I made the pilgrimage back home to the East Coast. Blame my absence round these parts on babysitting the cutest. niece. ever. She's all smiley and talking baby gibberish and just cute enough to eat.  Anyway, I'm back in Cali and it's January 14...

New Release!!

I hope yall had a great Xmas and got everything on your wishlist! I love the holidays but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't happy that Santa has come and gone.

Things have been pretty crazy in my neck of the woods so I had to push the next installment in the His Dark Lessons series back a day or two, but color me surprised...Amazon approved The Teacher in record time!



Cassandra Woods is in trouble. Now that her ex, Dr. Chance Crawford, is back in town, holding onto her anger over his betrayal is...

And the paperback winners are....

Becs (entry number 67) and Samantha (entry number 80)!!!

Please email your address to avaclairewrites[at]gmail[dot]com so I can fill your mailbox with a shiny autographed copy of the His Submissive Paperback! (and if you want me to sign it something specific and/or just my name, let me know that in the email as well)

A huge thanks to everyone that participated. Your comments, tweets/RT, and general awesomeness is the best darn xmas gift an author could hope for. And that's why I also have a bit...

It's here! It's here!

Someone at Createspace must have been feeling the x-mas spirit because my copies of His Submissive came five days earlier than they were supposed to!! :D

I am a bucket full of SQUEEEE!!!!!:






Don't forget to check out the details for my giveaway here for a chance to win an autographed copy!

His Submissive Paperback Giveaway!

In honor of Xmas and my kick ass fans, TWO lucky readers will get an autographed copy of the His Submissive paperback! :)

Check out the Rafflecopter below:a Rafflecopter giveaway

So basically, you can enter up to 6 times a day by either:
1. Answering one of the questions indicated in the Rafflecopter (worth 2 entries)
2. Follow me on Twitter (worth 1 entry)
3. Tweet about the giveaway (worth 2 entries)
4. Leave a comment on my blog (worth 1 entry)

You can enter via the Rafflecopter 12/12/2012 thru 1...

His Submissive Paperback

So if you follow my sparse ramblings on Twitter, you've already heard that the wheels are turning and all that jazz--the proof for the His Submissive paperback, containing parts 1-4 of Leila and Jacob's story, was approved! It should be live on Amazon.com in 5-7 business days!
(If you can't wait to touch the book in all of its shiny glory, it's up in the Createspace store and can be found here.)

Here's a peek at the cover:



Can't wait to get mine in the mail so I can take some pics...and give out...

New Release!

Starting a new series is always nerve-racking, especially coming off of one that so many people connected with...but it's also thrilling. The His Dark Lessons series is full of new characters with obstacles to face and I hope that you guys root for Cassandra and Chance to conquer them all!

Here is the cover, description, and excerpt from The Student:



Still reeling from the loss of her father, Cassandra Woods thought her biggest hurdle would be facing friends and professors she's been avoid...