Marian Tee's Blog, page 19

New Cover for Drawn: His Secret Toy --- Good Girls with Secrets #1

It's actually the first of two new covers. The second one may be out in June - it's taking a lot of time because it will include manga illustration. Just like the ones drawn by my favorite mangaka. So if you read Shinjo Mayu, you know what kind of drawing I mean. =D
But meanwhile - I love this cover!
Oh and just in case you missed out on my Twitter announcement, I'll release a bonus chapter once the manga-ish cover for Drawn is out in June. Meanwhile, I hope you can help me spread the word and recommend Drawn to friends and othe

The Date You've Been Waiting for

Drum roll, please------ According to my publisher, she will have When Fangirls Lie and A Royal Heartbreak out on the same day. Just like old times! :)

So thank you everyone for waiting this long. As mentioned way way back, I will raffle out advance copies of ARH - one for those who have commented here in my site, one from my subscription list, and one from my Facebook page. I also recently started a contest for ONE ADVANCE COPY FOR WHEN FANGIRLS LIE and you can still join that. Just comment on my post about it! 
Just a last few announcements---I lost my list of email addresses of those who want to have the old newsletter issues sent to them. If you are one of them, please give me your email address HERE IN THIS POST. just so I'll have an easier time listing everything. I will be working hard until maybe May 8 or May 9 on these two books, proofing them over and over. Just a heads up in case you guys think I'm gone and died again. =DI will post two new chapters on May for my free fan fic on Vampire Knight at fanfiction.net --- if someone would be kind enough to tell me how to reply to those who posted comments on my fan fic, I would really, really appreciate it. I still have a hard time figuring that site out, which is one major reason why I have a hard time updating my story there.For those who are still wondering about my Sceleri series (Heart's Stain), Park and Violet, Warning: Love Moderately - Part II, My Secret Professor Boyfriend, IT Girls Are Smart, Too --- we will get them all out this year. I'm just figuring out which to write first. Well, okay it is very likely I will jump into MSPB and IGAST next.Sequels to Death Loves Me Not, Drawn, and Evren - we'll get there eventually. Right now I'm prioritizing series or books that need their HEA endings. 
So there you go!

4th Newsletter and Site Updates

So for those who subscribed - you should see my fourth newsletter in your inboxes by now. And 4 is indeed the magic number as it also contains FOUR EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEALS. Did you guys like it? Any questions so far?
Personally, I am dying for those covers. They're soooo puh-rity. Or maybe that's just the biased writer in me. We like to think of our books as babies and these by far are my cutest babies. (I know I always say that. Just bear with me.)

Okay, site updates next.
I've added a new page here - MY RECOMMENDATIONS. It's basically a list of the authors I've read so far and loved. More often than not, I'll just write 1 review per author. That should really be enough since if I love1 book of an author, I'll likely love everything else she / he writes. Also, writing 1 book per author allows me to PROMOTE MORE BOOKS AND INTRODUCE MORE NEW & OLD AUTHORS.

If you have any author you'd like to recommend, just use the contact form here and let me know! Or post a comment anywhere.

Oh, and one last thing---

I'm back at the Top 100 Amazon Authors for Erotica! SQUEEEEE! Thanks everyone!

Can You Say Fan Fic?

But first of all - YAY! The Werewolf Prince and I is still in the Top 100 for free titles in Amazon AND it's #1 in Romance > Fantasy and Futuristic as well as #2 in Erotica. I LOVE IT!

So as another reward, I thought of digging up my one and only fanfic which I wrote years ago. My Filipino readers who used to follow my posts in the Girltalk forum and Storyweaver blog may recognize this. It's based on Vampire Knight, but no worries - it DOES NOT matter if you have never read the manga!

THE MORTEIA CHRONICLES

If you liked my previous excerpt for It Girls Are Smart, Too - my vampire New Adult romance, then you'll be glad to know that book and this fan fic features the same vampire-like race. CAROS - the same one I mentioned briefly in The Werewolf Prince & I and which will play a slightly larger part in the sequel.

Yes, I like tying my books all together.

Aaaaand...I'll try to update this fan fic every week or every other week or so. Depends on my free time.

Hope you find the time to check it out!

The LAST Teaser before A Royal Heartbreak is OUT

The Werewolf Prince and I is FREE again! And since I announced this on Facebook, you probably already know it. So far, it's at #93, which I am OVER THE MOON about. Thank you everyone - new and old readers alike!

As a reward, here is the LAST TEASER for A Royal Heartbreak before it goes out!!! Aaaaand before you guys ask---
Nope. Still no idea when A Royal Heartbreak will be out. I'm still hoping it's out by 3/20. But I am taking my time with the edits because we ALL know what happens if I don't take my time editing. =/Have not seen the cover yet so that's another thing to wait for.
Now, my friend Jackie says I've driven her nuts with all the teasing. In answer, I have this one last way of driving all of us nuts hahaha. Without further ado, the teaser----THIS TIME, THERE IS NO DOMENICO MORETTI IN IT. But...

...her jaw immediately dropped at the sight of the boyish-looking…giant standing next to one of the marble pillars in the hall, speaking with another member of the High Circle. He was tall – even taller than Domenico, perhaps by an inch or two.

His hair was an interesting shade of black, one that gleamed violet under the light. His skin was pale, his body lean and obviously hard as his form-fitting white formal jacket and breeches proved. The most eye-catching part of his attire was the lace cuffs that peeked past the sleeves of his jacket, something Misty had only seen Tom Cruise wearing when he played the old-fashioned vampire Lestat in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.

Lysander turned partially towards them, allowing Misty a glimpse of his face just before he bid the other man goodbye with a deep bow.

Dark perfectly sculpted brows, eyes the palest shade of lilac, cheekbones carved like a marble statue, and thin, equally perfectly shaped lips. That face was too beautiful for words.

“Be blessed,” the older man said before walking away.

She watched Lysander pull a lace fan out of nowhere. Every move he made was an execution of elegance, from the twist of his wrist to the snap of his ornately designed fan as it spread open with a flick of his long, thin fingers.

“He’s gay, right?” Misty blurted out.

Daryl smirked. “Oh, yes.” His answer dripped with sarcasm, but Misty wasn’t to know that, not until much, much later, when it was too late.

Misty’s words floated to Lysander’s ears, but he made not even the slightest indication that he heard the mortal speak. Only when he turned his back to them that Lysander allowed a smile half playful and half dangerous to touch his lips. It completely transformed his face, revealing the rogue under the princely guise, the man who fucked so beautifully he made every Faerie woman cry tears of regret the moment he withdrew his cock from between a woman’s thighs.

He closed his eyes, savoring the innocent interest in the woman's eyes. There was nothing so delicious as taking a woman's innocence. Virginity was just one of its many forms. There were so many others, and the woman gazing at him with curious wonder had it in spades. Her aura defined purity itself, and it aroused Lysander like he had never been aroused before.

Misty Wall.

He would have so much fun with her.

A Prize for Readers

THANK YOU for all those who checked out Warning: Love Moderately, which peaked at #4 in Erotic and cracked the Top 200 for all free titles in Amazon. In exchange, I've decided that THREE DAYS before the release date of A Royal Heartbreak, I'll be giving away advanced copies of the book - one for a randomly selected reader from my Facebook author page and another for a randomly selected name from my subscription list.

I don't have a publication date yet, and I haven't received any cover details from my publisher but I still have my fingers crossed that it will be out before March 20. =D In any case, it won't affect the prizes. Once I get a fixed date for the release, I'll make another announcement regarding the winners!

Thanks again everyone!

Download Warning: Love Moderately While It's Free

Since it's taking so long for Goodreads to update my blog here, I thought I should write another post.

Warning: Love Moderately is available for FREE THIS WEEKEND only. I haven't yet gotten around to making it perma-free so it will be back to paid on Monday. Hopefully I get that fixed soon.

But meanwhile I really hope you can download WLM this weekend. I'm super excited to hear what you guys have to say about it! :)

Download Warning: Love Moderately for FREE this weekend!

After a lot of trouble, WARNING: LOVE MODERATELY is finally live and available as a FREE DOWNLOAD this weekend!
Here is the link in case you missed my gazillion of shoutouts---
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BLSMKYO

It's something only my sister, sister-in-law, and I published on our own so I likely won't be able to market it as effectively as my publisher. If you have the time, I'd really appreciate it if you could share the link and get your other reader-friends to download it, too. :) A review would be awesome, too! But ultimately, I'm just super happy when I get to hear back from you guys and get to chat with you in Facebook.

Keeping my fingers crossed that WLM ranks as a free eBook so more people can enjoy it!

How (Not) to be Seduced by Billionaires is #1 in Erotica for Amazon.de

I KNOW THIS CAN AND IS LIKELY TO CHANGE ANYTIME, which is why I'm totally savoring the moment. Just please let me enjoy my fifteen seconds of victory, 'kay? =D
Like most writers (read: needy crybabies as my favorite author Mary Janice Davidson describes in her Goodreads blog post), I constantly check reviews and - as an indie author - Amazon rankings. In particular, I check rankings for Amazon US, UK, DE, and CA.
Sooo to cut the long story short, I started randomly checking rankings for the trilogy and imagine my SHOCK when I saw this. I mean, WOW.
Courted is #1Caged is #3Chased is #5Thank you guys!  A HUGE THANK YOU. xoxoxoxoxoxo

I also did some research. Initially, I thought Amazon.de only caters to Germany. But apparently, some of its customers are also from countries like Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. So to readers from any of those countries, THANK YOU! I can't say it enough. I'm over the moon about this!!!!

Now I can enjoy a good night's sleep. It's almost 11 pm here and I need to wake up around 4 or 5am. I'll be leaving for my family's mausoleum since it's the 1st death anniversary of my Angkong or paternal grandfather.

Anyway, good night / have a nice day everyone!

Warning: Love Moderately - My First Permanently Free eBook

By the time I have this post live here in my blog, those who have subscribed to my newsletter should have #3 in their inboxes. You should check that out since it has my 2 EXCLUSIVE Valentines gifts for you guys.
A new chapter of A Royal HeartbreakAn excerpt of Warning: Love Moderately.
I am soooooo excited about my new free e-book. It's actually more a novella, at almost 20k words, BUT I do want you to know several things about it...
It more or less has an HEA so you don't need to go crazy about cliffhanger endings.It will have a second (just that one) installment which will be out this March as well.It is a NEW ADULT erotic romance set in college.It is my first foray into the wonderfully dark world of BDSM. Well, okay it's more like BDSM-lite since my H/h just got legal at 21 y/o.It will be available in Smashwords and Amazon.
My sister - who is a whiz with online stuff - is formatting it already. If all goes according to plan, you can download it for free in Amazon by Friday - that would be the 1st of March. I really, really hope you guys would like it and IF you do, I'd appreciate a review. Well, okay, if you hate it, too, then you can of course review it still. We're all entitled to our own opinions. Just don't be too harsh, okay? haha.

Before I forget, here's the blurb .

As one of the heirs to the Christopoulos billions and his family’s political dynasty, 21-year-old Derek is used to living his life in the limelight. Add in his gorgeous looks and charm, and every girl has no problem seeing him as the hottest guy in uni---the very embodiment of a modern-day prince. Or so people mistakenly think.

Throughout his life, Derek has kept his darker desires leashed, waiting for that one girl who’d find pleasure in belonging to him, body and soul.

Jaike Hepburn’s unassuming looks hide a shameful past, one that forces her to run away from anything – anyone – that threatens her self-control. Derek is one such man, and the feelings he arouses in Jaike pushes her into the arms of his rival.

Jaike doesn’t trust herself with Derek, not when he is everything she desires...and fears.

But Derek believes differently. He knows it’s only a matter of time before the truth between them is laid bare.

She is his, and he is hers.

Aaaand here's the cover.

Now, mind you, this is  for the free short only. My co-author LM created it herself. If we had waited for a paid cover, we'd have to delay the release of the free short, which we totally didn't want to do. Expect a new cover for the 2nd (paid) installment. But anyway, I think this one is cool, too. It kinda sums up the story. :)

So anyway, come back once you've read the excerpts. I'd love to hear what you guys think!

Thanks again for the support!

I'm really, really blessed because of you guys.