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August 30, 2013
#MySexySaturday – He’s So Into You (Healing Hearts) – Part 7
My goodness! I can’t believe it’s another Saturday already! Actually, it’s week 14 of My Sexy Saturday Blog Hop. Yet, it thrills me every time I’m afforded the opportunity to share a snippet of my debut novella, He’s So Into You, with my readers. And as always, I get to share my idea of what the term sexy means. Did you miss out on last week’s snippet? Well, click here and you’ll get an opportunity to read it.
You want to know what I think is sexy? I’m glad you asked! Sexy is when a man wants to make it his business to ensure that his partner, his woman, gets all the pleasure he thinks she deserves. When he’s willing to put her needs in front of his own, and in so doing, her pleasure becomes his pleasure. This is illustrated in the following 7 sentences of my debut novella, He’s So Into You. *sigh* Jordan’s just too sexy for his own good!
My Sexy Snippet:
Jordan wanted to make tonight good for her, like it never was before. His grip on her hips was intense, the way his dick burrowed inside her was forceful. Raina was so fucking fantastic. He felt the walls of her pussy tighten and then the muscles contracted around him. She yelled his name over and over through her climax, and he continued to thrust wildly into her. Jordan knew it was only a matter of time before he too found his release. His balls stiffened and his heart beat heavily against his chest.
Do you want a sexy read during this long Labor Day weekend? Why don’t you try He’s So Into You?
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#NewRelease – Love Survives: BWWM Interracial Romance Collection (Volume 1)
Five bestselling stories and reader favorites for one low price of $2.99 (Limited time only!)
Five authors bring you the hottest white men and the black women who love them. Alpha males, marines and even a preacher, because why should you have to choose? This interracial romance collection includes something for everyone-from steamy, hot sex to Christian romance!
Collection includes:
Gents 4 Ladies by Dez Burke
An Escape to Love by Tali Martel
To Hold and To Heal by Naomi Lecroy
Love Heals All by Leona Jackson
Temptation or Faith by Shanice Booth
Gents 4 Ladies by Dez Burke
Desperate for a last-minute date to her bitch of a boss’s wedding, Tiana takes a friend’s advice and hires a male escort from a website, “Gents4Ladies” featured on the Wendy Williams Show. The website seemed completely legitimate and even explicitly stated that the men are hired for companionship only and that no sexual favors will be performed in exchange for money.
Jordan, a highly respected financial manager, is shocked and dismayed when a young woman calls his cellphone requesting his services as a male escort to a wedding. Realizing someone is playing a vicious prank on him by uploading his profile to a male escort site, he decides to go along with the farce in hopes of finding out who the culprit is. The only problem is Jordan thinks he’s being hired for the “total package”-dinner, dancing and whatever “other services” the lady desires…
An Escape to Love by Tali Martel
Wrongly framed for a crime he didn’t commit, convicted murderer Jake Hartford breaks out of prison and runs for his life. Making his way to Colorado he hides out in an old friend’s cabin, hoping to stay hidden until the manhunt cools down and he can make his way to Mexico.
Instead, a beautiful African American woman lands on his doorstep during a snowstorm and demands that he give her shelter. All goes well until she discovers he’s a convicted murderer and her heart is already on the line…
To Hold and To Heal by Naomi Lecroy
Three years after her brother’s death in Afghanistan, Nice is struggling to keep things together. Between caring for her alcoholic father and trying to keep the family’s Speakeasy Bar out of foreclosure she’s worn out and at the end of her rope. When a handsome stranger shows up full of apologies and promises she begins to feel a small flicker of hope.
Torn between family responsibilities and her own desire to feel wanted and loved, Nice soon must make a difficult choice that will change her life forever…
Love Heals All by Leona Jackson
Suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Alex returned home from Iraq with tons of baggage. Though he’d been warned transitioning back to civilian life wouldn’t be easy, he had no idea had difficult it could really be…
Jasalyn was grateful to Alex for saving her brother’s life in Iraq and made it her personal mission to try and heal the broken soldier. What she hadn’t counted on was his racist father and the demons Alex fought daily inside his own head.
Will Jasalyn be able to save the shattered soldier and find love for herself in the process?
Temptation or Faith by Shanice Booth
Chevaine was a country girl with strong faith in God. Pastor John McCrary came into her country to lead a congregation. Unexpectedly they were brought together by the very faith they both stood for. Fighting hard to resist temptation and with disapproval from the church and a jealous contender to deal with, their love would prove to be the key to the survival of a community.
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August 28, 2013
#NewRelease – Rapture at Midnight (Cynn Cruor Bloodline Series) Book 1 – Isobelle Cate
Blurb:
There is an on-going war between two breeds of immortal warriors who carry human, vampire, and werewolf blood, the Cynn Cruor and the Scatha Cruor. The Cynn Cruor wants to live in harmony with the human race. The Scatha Cruor wants to enslave them. Finn Qualtrough, a Cynn Cruor warrior is on a mission to find Dac Valerian, the leader of the Scatha Cruor responsible for the deaths of many, including his parents. When he pursues three Scatha warriors who can lead him to Dac, he happens upon a woman who awakens a desire within Quinn to claim her as his own.
She is the very essence of his immortal life.
Eirene Spence is an insomniac and a computer genius who loves walking in the park at midnight. She stumbles upon the Scatha Cruor and is almost killed until a handsome stranger rescues her. His touch ignites a hunger inside her that only he can satisfy.
He is her soul.
By some twist of fate, one of Eirene’s clients is Dac Valerian. She is able to tell Finn and the rest of the Cynn Cruor where Dac is hiding. Now Dac wants her dead.
Will Finn be able to keep Eirene alive and at the same time fulfill his mission? Will Eirene’s wish to be part of Finn’s life come true knowing that he is destined for someone else?
Excerpt:
Finn’s chest constricted with an unfamiliar emotion. The desire to please Eirene and see her happy replaced the need to simply slake his lust. There was a fissure on the wall he had built around his heart, allowing a ray of tenderness for the woman beneath him to shine through. He intensified the kiss and at the same time thrust hard into her. She cried out against his mouth, her breath harsh and staccato like. Finn moved, in and out, swiveling his pelvis against hers. Eirene lifted her hips, her head falling back in ecstasy.She made small sounds every time Finn’s pelvis moved against hers with quick thrusts.
Finn looked down at Eirene’s body, from her breasts and puckered nipples down to her stomach and her trimmed mound. Her entire body was flushed with the aura of intense arousal. He groaned when her channel clamped around his cock. Eirene’s breasts quivered faster and faster as Finn thrust harder and deeper, eliciting deeper moans and cries from her. He leaned over to latch onto Eirene’s exposed neck. He kissed and licked until he gently sucked the skin over her pulse, bringing the vein 54 into sharp relief. He sucked hard without using his fangs.
“Yes!” Eirene turned her head giving him her neck.
The taste of her blood filled Finn’s mind, exploding through his neurons.
Along with her taste came an astounding piece of knowledge.
Eirene was a Cynn Cruor mate.
The question now was whether she was his. His scent needed to be on her when a Cynn Cruor brethren smelled her. It was a scent undetectable by a purely human nose. If he marked her, then whether she accepted it or not, she belonged to him. She was his mate.
The taste of her salty, sweet skin drove him wilder. He knelt on both knees as he covered Eirene’s body with his. Finn held on to her hips, thrusting harder, deeper, and faster. He groaned as his balls tightened, slapping against her backside. Eirene’s cries came in puffs of ecstasy until she screamed her climax. Her weeping sex throbbed and gripped Finn’s manhood in a snug vice, milking him as he went in and out until he growled and finally shouted his release against Eirene’s neck, calling out her name. His seed spurted into her womb, bathing and warming it. His heartbeat pounded inside his ribcage, the warmth of their coupling spreading through him like the fire in a forge. He held himself up over Eirene with both his arms braced beside her head. He was about to withdraw from her when she placed her hands on his hips.
“Please don’t go,” she said softly. “Not yet.”
Finn let his forehead dip against Eirene’s even as she lifted her mouth for a long and sensual kiss. Eirene’s arms crept under his arms and over his back. By the Ancients, he loved the way her hands smoothed over his sweat-slicked skin. He felt her racing heart slowly turn to a semblance of normalcy as his own heartbeat thrummed back to a slower pace.
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Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: erotic romance, paranormal romance
#New Release – Rapture at Midnight (Cynn Cruor Bloodline Series) Book 1 – Isobelle Cate
Blurb:
There is an on-going war between two breeds of immortal warriors who carry human, vampire, and werewolf blood, the Cynn Cruor and the Scatha Cruor. The Cynn Cruor wants to live in harmony with the human race. The Scatha Cruor wants to enslave them. Finn Qualtrough, a Cynn Cruor warrior is on a mission to find Dac Valerian, the leader of the Scatha Cruor responsible for the deaths of many, including his parents. When he pursues three Scatha warriors who can lead him to Dac, he happens upon a woman who awakens a desire within Quinn to claim her as his own.
She is the very essence of his immortal life.
Eirene Spence is an insomniac and a computer genius who loves walking in the park at midnight. She stumbles upon the Scatha Cruor and is almost killed until a handsome stranger rescues her. His touch ignites a hunger inside her that only he can satisfy.
He is her soul.
By some twist of fate, one of Eirene’s clients is Dac Valerian. She is able to tell Finn and the rest of the Cynn Cruor where Dac is hiding. Now Dac wants her dead.
Will Finn be able to keep Eirene alive and at the same time fulfill his mission? Will Eirene’s wish to be part of Finn’s life come true knowing that he is destined for someone else?
Excerpt:
Finn’s chest constricted with an unfamiliar emotion. The desire to please Eirene and see her happy replaced the need to simply slake his lust. There was a fissure on the wall he had built around his heart, allowing a ray of tenderness for the woman beneath him to shine through. He intensified the kiss and at the same time thrust hard into her. She cried out against his mouth, her breath harsh and staccato like. Finn moved, in and out, swiveling his pelvis against hers. Eirene lifted her hips, her head falling back in ecstasy.She made small sounds every time Finn’s pelvis moved against hers with quick thrusts.
Finn looked down at Eirene’s body, from her breasts and puckered nipples down to her stomach and her trimmed mound. Her entire body was flushed with the aura of intense arousal. He groaned when her channel clamped around his cock. Eirene’s breasts quivered faster and faster as Finn thrust harder and deeper, eliciting deeper moans and cries from her. He leaned over to latch onto Eirene’s exposed neck. He kissed and licked until he gently sucked the skin over her pulse, bringing the vein 54 into sharp relief. He sucked hard without using his fangs.
“Yes!” Eirene turned her head giving him her neck.
The taste of her blood filled Finn’s mind, exploding through his neurons.
Along with her taste came an astounding piece of knowledge.
Eirene was a Cynn Cruor mate.
The question now was whether she was his. His scent needed to be on her when a Cynn Cruor brethren smelled her. It was a scent undetectable by a purely human nose. If he marked her, then whether she accepted it or not, she belonged to him. She was his mate.
The taste of her salty, sweet skin drove him wilder. He knelt on both knees as he covered Eirene’s body with his. Finn held on to her hips, thrusting harder, deeper, and faster. He groaned as his balls tightened, slapping against her backside. Eirene’s cries came in puffs of ecstasy until she screamed her climax. Her weeping sex throbbed and gripped Finn’s manhood in a snug vice, milking him as he went in and out until he growled and finally shouted his release against Eirene’s neck, calling out her name. His seed spurted into her womb, bathing and warming it. His heartbeat pounded inside his ribcage, the warmth of their coupling spreading through him like the fire in a forge. He held himself up over Eirene with both his arms braced beside her head. He was about to withdraw from her when she placed her hands on his hips.
“Please don’t go,” she said softly. “Not yet.”
Finn let his forehead dip against Eirene’s even as she lifted her mouth for a long and sensual kiss. Eirene’s arms crept under his arms and over his back. By the Ancients, he loved the way her hands smoothed over his sweat-slicked skin. He felt her racing heart slowly turn to a semblance of normalcy as his own heartbeat thrummed back to a slower pace.
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Small Actions, Deeper Characters, Better Stories!
Reblogged from Writers In The Storm Blog:
We are delighted to welcome back The Naked Editor, Tiffany Lawson Inman from hiatus! Whoop!
What do you do when your character needs to wipe his/her nose? Or wave goodbye? Or hold back a tear? Or close a door? Or smile?
Write the action. Simple. Right?
Is your character always in character? Is your character always in the moment?
August 27, 2013
Choosing The Right Distributor: Smashwords vs Draft2Digital
Reblogged from David Gaughran:
Since I started self-publishing in 2011, Smashwords has been the overwhelming favorite for savvy self-publishers who wanted or needed a distributor to reach non-Amazon e-bookstores. However, a new competitor called Draft2Digital launched a beta version of their service earlier this year and has been gaining popularity. In July, they hit 1,000 users, 10,000 titles, and 1,000,000 books sold.
I’ve been getting lots of questions about Draft2Digital, and experimenting with them myself, so I thought it was a good time for a side-by-side comparison as there are distinct pros and cons to each service.
Amazon's Recommendation Engine Trumps The Competition
Reblogged from David Gaughran:
There's an old adage that bestsellers are chosen rather than made, and there's some truth to that. The amount a publisher splurges on the advance has to be recouped before the book turns a profit. The more money that has to be recouped, the greater the marketing budget.
Sleeper hits are the exception for a reason. It's a lot easier to hit the bestseller lists when you are on the front table of every single Barnes & Noble than if you are spine-out at the back of a handful of stores (or gathering dust in the warehouse).
Categories, Key Words, and Tags, Oh My: Why should an Author Care?
Reblogged from M. Louisa Locke:
Two weeks ago I published my second historical mystery, Uneasy Spirits, and in the process I was reminded of how confusing it can be to determine the best category and key words I should use on Amazon to describe my book. Since there are several other authors who have been wrestling with the same question in the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative…
August 26, 2013
#Announcement – Secret Cravings Publishing Blog Hop – WINNER
DEBBIE LEMON is the WINNER of He’s So Into You.
Congratulations, Debbie!
Thanks, everyone, for participating.
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August 25, 2013
#Author & Book Spotlight – Pauline Saull – A Tropical Affair
I’m excited to have Author Pauline Saull visiting me on my blog. I first ‘met’ her in February when we were ‘virtual’ classmates while pursuing Writing Craft 101. We learned quite a bit, and I’m so pleased to announce that Pauline has had some releases since completing the course.
Today, she’ll tell us about the things she does for fun and what her family and friends think about the stories she writes. Of course, she’ll also tell us about one of her latest releases, A Tropical Affair.
So let’s get started.
Pauline, I’m delighted to have you here. Tell us a little about yourself.
Hi, Roxy. I’m retired, living on the beautiful warm Gold Coast in Australia, and consider myself very lucky to do so.
What’s your passion?
Writing… If I don’t do it every day I get withdrawal symptoms. I also love reading and walking.
What do you do to just kick back and have some fun?
Love discovering new places, lovely unspoilt beaches, picnics…simple stuff.
How did you become a writer?
I started when the children were young writing short stories for them. Later I decided to take it further and began submitting to magazines. I had enough rejection letters to paper the laundry ceiling, but that only spurred me on.
Which genres do you write?
Light romance, and for the first time, earlier this year, I wrote an erotic romance.
What do your significant others think about the stories you write?
I am encouraged all the way.
Tell us about your latest releases.
The very latest story sold was last week. Called The Purple Waistcoat, it will appear in print in an annual in the UK. One month ago I also sold a 50,000-word novella to an English publisher. That comes out in September and will be distributed to newsagents and supermarkets around the country. The story for Liquid Silver Books, A Tropical Affair, was released in February.
Is there anyone you give credit to for helping you write this book/story?
Not a person really. I suppose it was my interest in South America…though I’ve never visited…which prompted me to set the story in Venezuela, and I loved writing it.
What has the experience of writing this story taught you?
That I desperately needed help with grammar! I imagine the stories submitted in the UK must be edited because they read okay, but A Tropical Affair, had many mistakes. Hopefully I’ve learned to be a little more ‘removed’ from my stories…instead of writing what I deem to be acceptable phrases or words, I now read the MS with a stranger’s eye. When I critique myself, I take out quite a lot of stuff!
Please share some details about your book/story.
It’s set in Venezuela in 1860. I’ve already mentioned a love of the continent, and I remembered a lot about it from geography lessons at school, so thoroughly enjoyed researching things I didn’t know.
What can readers expect from you next? When?
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At the moment I’m working on a story set at the beginning of the war. Two Germans, Ruby, a talented musician, and Erich an architectural student, are for different reasons, sent to England. They meet at Hamburg station and on the journey form a strong attachment. The story follows their separation and the Long Journey (title) both make to be re-united, the people they meet along the way, and their eventual return to Germany.
Blurb for A Tropical Affair:
When a British heiress discovers her fiancée is not the man he pretended to be she’ll discover her sheltered upbringing has left her woefully unprepared to face a new life in Venezuela. The line between what is right and what you desire blurs in this exciting historical novel by Pauline Saull.
When charming Carlton Blake convinces Elizabeth Hall to marry him, she is carried away with the idea of a life in 1880s Venezuela. But, when she travels to her new home for the wedding, she discovers her fiancée is only interested in her inheritance and his exotic mistress, Rosita, a beautiful Carib girl. Desperate, Elizabeth accepts shelter from British expatriate and rancher, Theo Furey. Will the embers her protector ignites within her become a flame Elizabeth cannot deny?
Excerpt:
With a groan, winding her arms around his neck, Elizabeth gave vent to all the pent-up feelings for him she’d struggled to keep hidden. Pushing her hands through his hair, she strained her hips eagerly against the huge erection pressing on her stomach, urging him on. Theo’s tongue searched her mouth hungrily, greedily, hers flicking against it, as they devoured one another.
“I want you,” he broke away to say huskily. His eyes bored into hers. Her answer was to pull his head back to her and run her tongue along his open mouth.
“Elizabeth,” he moaned. Pulling the blouse from her trousers, his hand moved under it, finding her large, soft breast. Elizabeth sagged against him, her breathing ragged. Lowering her gently into the straw, Theo opened her blouse buttons, gazing at her lovingly. “Beautiful,” he whispered.
Taking a taut pink nipple between finger and thumb, he rolled it, tugged, bringing it to a hard peak.
“Theo!”
He looked into her eyes. “Do you like me doing that?”
Elizabeth nodded. “I never…”
He nodded. “I know. And how about this?” he asked softly. Lowering his head, taking it in his mouth, he sucked, playing it with his tongue, while his hand moved down to her trousers. Elizabeth felt her body starting to react. She moved her hips, not wanting the feeling building within her to stop. Kicking off her shoes, she watched him untie the trouser strings, raising her bottom helping him to pull them down and felt the wonder of his cool fingers on her hot moistness. It made her gasp. Carefully, Theo massaged the swelling flesh. She grabbed his hand, wanting it harder, and his fingers slipped inside her. She cried out. The sensation, one she had no control over, began to overcome her. Her hips bucked on his fingers as the explosion of feeling worked itself slowly, slowly to a crescendo, causing wave after wave of pleasure to flood her body. Theo gently held a hand to her mouth to muffle her cries. As it slowly receded, she held his head in her hands, awed with what he’d made her body do.
“You’re wonderful!” she said.
Theo pushed her legs apart and undid his belt. Taking out his throbbing penis, he rubbed it along the still-tender flesh, careful not to penetrate, and in seconds he felt the spasms start shooting through her body as Elizabeth’s second climax approached. This time, by withholding, rubbing again, stopping momentarily, using his fingers to gently squeeze the nub of flesh, he prolonged her climax. As she cried out his name, Theo released himself too, falling onto his side in the straw. Holding her, he, groaned softly. “My love,” she imagined she’d heard.
Shouting suddenly reached them. “Damn, damn!” Hurriedly standing, tying his belt, Theo helped her to her feet, holding her steady while she dressed. He kissed her tenderly. “I think I’m needed. The shearers must have arrived. Remember, what just happened is only the start, Elizabeth.”
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