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December 22, 2013

Why do we put ourselves through the torture of the holidays if...



Why do we put ourselves through the torture of the holidays if they cause nothing but misery at a time, when we should be at our happiest? These are the times when memories are made!


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Published on December 22, 2013 03:01

December 21, 2013

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Thianna D on TAKE MY BREATH AWAY!

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Thanks Serena for hosting the Took My Breath Away Book Blog Tour today!



It’s Day 4 of the Took My Breath Away Book Blog Tour and I’m excited to be on Serena’s blog. If you miss any days of the book blog tour, you can find links to them here.



For those who don’t know me – I write M/F and M/M erotica and erotic romance. Took My Breath Away is the second in the All They Ever Needed series. Logan and Christian are two of my favorite characters that I have written. They are strong, with great senses of humor, and had an instant attraction to one another in the first book All They Ever Needed. Now, they are moving to a deeper level in their relationship, moving just beyond their ‘spanking is erotic’ mindset and into the realm of ‘domestic discipline – what will that mean to us’ phase.



If you enjoy a good romance with some spanking and erotica to spice it up? You might enjoy the All They Ever Needed series.



How about an EXCERPT? Families can be the best and the most stressful things we have. Just ask Christian who just came back from a rather loud family dinner.



“How was dinner, Ba—” Logan’s words stopped as he saw him. “Holy fuck. What happened?”


Groaning, Christian just walked over to the sofa and collapsed next to him, leaning his head on Logan’s shoulder. “Tonight all the skeletons escaped the closets.”


“What does that mean?” Logan asked, maneuvering him so that Christian’s head was on Logan’s lap and he was combing through Christian’s hair with his fingers.


“Turns out Brian smoked marijuana in college, he cheated on Chelsea several times before they got married, he has two illegitimate children, and he threatened someone to get his first pastor position. On the flip side, Derrick has a cock piercing, and he and Jane have an open relationship.” A little gurgle escaped Christian’s lips. “He considers himself heteroflexible and has been with men before. And he also has an illegitimate child, but her mother is someone he has sex with quite often, and both he and Jane adore the little girl. Her name is Aurora and she is two years old.”


“Holy shit,” Logan murmured. “How’s your momma?”


Grinning as Logan had begun referring to her that way lately, Christian shrugged. “She was stunned, but she is a strong Southern woman. She sent both of them to their rooms without dessert, after demanding to meet her grandchildren, and then asked Dad why they’d never instituted corporal punishment because her sons were not the boys she raised.”


“Baby, that is a lot to hear in one night. How did it all just come out?”


“Derrick was trying to get Brian to stop making snide comments about you and me, and threatened to out him on everything. Well… everything came out anyway. At least I hope it did. I hate to think there is more shit out there we don’t know about.”


Took My Breath Away
Sequel to As Natural As Breathing


Length: Novel


Genre: Gay Spanking Romance


Series: All They Ever Needed




Sometimes taking control is what you need to do and sometimes the best thing you can do is give that control up.



In the summer between Logan’s junior and senior years of college, these two will find out more about each other and themselves than they imagined.



While unhappy to be missing four weeks of Christian’s company, Logan is thrilled to spend a month with his father’s relatives in New York.  A naturally gregarious individual, he is used to winning people over and getting things right. Unfortunately, the Mannettes are not what he expects and for the first time in his life, he finds himself seriously doubting who he is.



Christian has regained some of his old self-esteem and is taking on new challenges. Besides growing in the relationship he has with Logan, he takes the time his boyfriend is away to learn more about domestic discipline. He learns a little online but it is actually Gregory, Logan’s father, where he gains most of his information. Including the fact that his natural strength puts him in a leadership position he isn’t expecting.



When Logan returns to a strong, self-assured Christian, it is with complete relief. As discussions turn to domestic discipline and they realize their true roles within their current and future relationship, both of them are able to let their inhibitions go and together their connection grows surprising Logan to an epiphany.



You can find Took My Breath Away here.


ABOUT THIANNA


For Thianna D, reading and writing are as important as breathing and far more important than math or science. A storyteller from the time she could speak, she was always making up characters as a kid. As a teenager that turned to sci-fi and fantasy, as an adult to romance. It wasn’t until her fourth decade that she began writing erotic scenes within her stories.


Writing M/M came naturally to her; she wrote her first tale before ever having read one. “There is something about the amazing dynamic between two strong men falling in love and defeating anything thrown at them.” While she had written several BDSM stories involving men, As Natural As Breathing was the first full-length novel involving domestic discipline. In Took My Breath Away, its sequel, Logan and Christian further their relationship in very defining ways.


You can find out more of what is going on with her at:


Thianna D’s Blog


Thianna D’s Author Site


Goodreads


Twitter


Facebook


 


Tune in tomorrow to get the URL for the next stop on the Took My Breath Away Book Blog Tour. Now, get your entry for my giveaway:


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Published on December 21, 2013 11:01

"If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever..."

“If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

Gordon Ramsay”

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I’d love to know why, lol. :P


Read more via brainyquote: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/weekend.html#SzdcXk9uqFqpjWwE.99



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Published on December 21, 2013 07:01

Be the type of person you want to meet: seems so easy, but in...



Be the type of person you want to meet: seems so easy, but in practice, it’s tough!



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Published on December 21, 2013 03:01

December 20, 2013

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: BETTY CARLTON on MINE ALONE

MINE ALONE


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Charles was a Kincaid man. The Kincaids owned the town of Paradise.


Penelope was just passing through on the stagecoach. It should have been a routine lunch stop.


Except, when Charles saw her. he wanted her. So, he took her. There wasn’t a soul in town that would have stopped him. In fact, they’d help him if given the opportunity.


This is about an Alpha-male dominant who demands submission.


ABOUT BETTY CARLTON


Betty began writing after she retired from the work place. Her love of reading progressed to writing. She, with her husband, shares a home with their dog. All three call the Carolinas home.


Sizzler Editions has published four of her books. The others are self-published.


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Published on December 20, 2013 19:00

#Free on Kindle. Today and tomorrow only!
Grab your copy...



#Free on Kindle. Today and tomorrow only!


Grab your copy now!


With Mona gradually realizing that life is a fickle mistress, she knows she has choices to make.  Choices that will change her future forever.  And regardless of the chaotic tangle of her affair with Zane, she still wants and needs him to be a part of her present. 

But with news of their affair having hit the gossip columns, Mona knows there’s little to no chance of that occurring.  Where once the future was bright, now it’s bleak until the remarkable occurs.  A stranger who’s not so strange turns up at her door and offers her an alternative path. 

To Mona, being a kept woman was as unorthodox as could be, but what Zane’s husband, Jake Harris, suggests makes less sense than Martians taking over NYC.  In fact, he might as well propose that she turn green. 

But for Zane, is she willing to do the unthinkable? 

Is she willing to take on sex god no. 2 to retain no. 1? 

Find out in All That Glitters…



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Published on December 20, 2013 11:01

I have a real thing for rubies, that’s why I made...



I have a real thing for rubies, that’s why I made Mona’s engagement ring in Deck the Halls with Handsome Hunks a ruby cabochon. Lush. :D 


Rubies by MAURO CATEB on Flickr.



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Published on December 20, 2013 07:01

December 19, 2013

This is hard to live up to, but I’ll give it my best...



This is hard to live up to, but I’ll give it my best goddamned shot! :D


Your life is your message to the world make sure it’s inspiring



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Published on December 19, 2013 23:00

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