Serena Akeroyd's Blog: All Things Serena! , page 307
September 30, 2013
XRATED INSPIRATION
As an erotica writer, it’s only natural that I find some inspiration in...
As an erotica writer, it’s only natural that I find some inspiration in the… shall we say steamier side of life. To find out what inspired the #NaughtyNookie series, then check out this link, here.
It’s a link to posts I like on tumblr. A tumblr account is necessary. Sorry!
And be warned, it’s FOR OVER 18s ONLY!!
That said, enjoy ;)
Simone: Part One: Fall Into Love
Simone: Part Two: Crazy Little Thing Called Lust
Simone: Part Three: All That Glitters… COMING SOON!
September 29, 2013
FALL INTO LOVE IS AT 0.99$ ON AMAZON.COM
To celebrate the upcoming launch of the third part of the...
FALL INTO LOVE IS AT 0.99$ ON AMAZON.COM
To celebrate the upcoming launch of the third part of the #NaughtyNookie series, I thought I’d lower the price of Fall Into Love; the very first installment of Simone’s love life! At 99 cents, if I do say so myself, it’s a bargain! :D
Here’s what people have said about Fall Into Love:
(Find more reviews on Goodreads)
This is a short bout of smut, and I was perfectly happy to accept that, its a case of instalust, and well, it goes from there. We don’t learn much about the characters, but what we learn is what they indulge in [and that] was needed. The ending left me a bit like woah - what has happened here…come on part 2 I need to accept you into my life, like…now!
I enjoyed this book. It had everything you would love in erotica. It was steamy, and passionate. I also love the twist in the end. I seriously didn’t expect that! All I kept on thinking was OMG I wish I had the other book already!!
Simone: Part One: Fall Into Love
Simone: Part Two: Crazy Little Thing Called Lust
Simone: Part Three: All That Glitters… COMING SOON!
September 28, 2013
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: S. A. HUNT
THE WHIRLWIND IN THE THORN TREE
WHEN ROSS BRIGHAM COMES HOME from...
THE WHIRLWIND IN THE THORN TREE
WHEN ROSS BRIGHAM COMES HOME from Afghanistan, he reels at the news that his father Ed, a famous fantasy author, has died. After the huge funeral, Ross investigates his father’s death, accompanied by two of his father’s fans, ex-athlete film student Sawyer and Noreen, a girl with a broken home and a stunning destiny.
Together, they discover a passage that leads them to the desolate reaches of Destin, the outlaw-infested parallel world in Ed Brigham’s gunslinger novels. After a devastating encounter with a strange black tornado, Ross is captured by a desperado and force-fed a hallucinogen that sends him on the vision quest of the Kingsmen, the warrior gunslinger caste of Destin.
There, he embarks on a quest to save his friends and prevent a secret war that’s been raging since the beginning of time. Rebelling against the pact they made with the gods for immortality, the Muses have turned from inspiring art to inspiring atrocities — and it’s up to Ross, Sawyer, and Noreen to put a stop to it before every dimension in the multiverse goes up in flames.
Inspired by the wainscot and portal classics he grew up with, S. A. Hunt’s The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree is the visionary beginning of a series that will dive into the metaphysical center of what it means to create…and what it means to destroy. Join our protagonists as they go from modern-day Earth to the sands of an exotic parallel world, where a climactic battle will take place on the shores of consciousness…and challenge the rules of the written word itself.
ABOUT S. A. HUNT
HELLO. MY NAME IS SAM. I’VE been writing and making art for about twenty years (thirty if you count my childhood).
I was born and raised in one of the many middles of nowhere, the backwoods of Georgia. I was a crap math student in school but blew everything else out of the water; toward the end of high school I was named a “Mentor of Poetry, Prose, and Performance” by the National Creative Society (it’s not a huge distinction but it certainly sounds like one, which is why I enjoy it so much).
I’m also a US Army veteran, a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom in Camp Arena (Herat), Afghanistan, where I served as a 88N/31B (Logistics - Primary / Military Police - Secondary). There I received a promotion to Specialist and a Joint Services Achievement Medal for my outstanding performance and my contributions during the spring floods.
And now, I’m an author. The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree is part one of the War of Time and Space series.
September 27, 2013
QUOTE TIME!
A cynical view of the weekend :D
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with...
A cynical view of the weekend :D
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
John Sununu
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/friday.html#ppaR12AGIOdWrbXq.99
September 26, 2013
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: JOE BRUNO
WHITEY BULGER - THE BIGGEST RAT
Contrary to popular opinion, rats are...
WHITEY BULGER - THE BIGGEST RAT
Contrary to popular opinion, rats are born and not made. People think law enforcement ‘turns’ people into rats by persuading them to ‘turn state’s evidence,’ as the old saying goes. There is a difference between the verb ‘rat,’ which is what a lot of people do, and the noun ‘rat,’ which is what a lot of people are. Real men don’t rat because they still have to look at themselves in the mirror. The reason they don’t rat is not because of some oath of silence (omerta), or because they are afraid of being killed, but because they simply ARE NOT RATS. The people who rat (the verb) do it because they ARE RATS (the noun). The people who rat were born rats and simply do what they were born to do when the circumstances benefit them. It’s really that simple.
ABOUT JOE BRUNO
A Vietnam veteran in the United States Navy, Joseph J. Bruno started out in the newspaper business in the mid 1970’s as a sports columnist for the New York Tribune. Bruno’s sports articles have also appeared in Penthouse Magazine, Razor Magazine, Boxing Today, Boxing World, International Boxing, Referee Magazine, & Inside Boxing.
Joe Bruno’s mobster series “Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps” finished runner-up in the 2013 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent Ebook Awards in the category “Nonfiction.”
In 2000, Bruno’s first novel Angel of Death was published by iUniverse.com. Bruno’s second novel “Find Big Fat Fanny Fast” was published in 2010. “Snakeheads: Chinese Illegal Immigrant Smugglers - A Screenplay” was published in 2013.
Bruno’s true book crime book “Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 1 - New York City” was published in June 2011. Other books in this series include, “Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 2 - New York City” (December 2011), “Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 3 - New York City” (March 2012), “Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps - Volume 4” (December 2012), and “Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps-Volume 5 - Girlfriends and Wives” (April 2013).
Other true crime books by Joe Bruno include, “Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple - From the Black Hand to Murder Incorporated” March 2012), “The Wrong Man: Who Ordered the Murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal & Why” (May 2012), “Mob Wives - Fuhgeddaboudit!” (August 2012).
Joe Bruno’s most recent book is “The Biggest Rat: Whitey Bulger’s Decades of Deceit” (September 2013).
Boxed sets written by Joe Bruno include, “Joe Bruno’s Mobsters - Three Volume Set” (March 2013), “Joe Bruno’s Mobsters - Five Volume Set” (April 2013), “Joe Bruno’s Mobsters - Six Volume Set” (September 2012), and “Joe Bruno’s Mobsters - Eight Volume Set” (April 2013). Snakeheads: Chinese Illegal Immigrant Smugglers - A Screenplay — Big Fat Fanny: The Biggest Mafia Killer Ever - A Novel - Two Book boxed Set” (2013)
"Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps Volumes 1-5" are consistently ranked in the top 100 on Amazon in the genre "Organized Crime," as is "Joe Bruno’s Mobsters - Six Volume Set," and "Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple."
Visit Joe Bruno’s website Or www.mobstersgangs.com
Joe Bruno’s Facebook page “Mobsters, Gangs”
September 25, 2013
5 STARS ON GOODREADS: CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LUST
As a writer, there’s nothing better than...
5 STARS ON GOODREADS: CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LUST
As a writer, there’s nothing better than having someone love what you’ve slaved over and I thought today, I could share a review from a reader who has enjoyed both part one and part two of the #NaughtyNookie series!
Simone: Part One: Fall Into Love
Simone: Part Two: Crazy Little Thing Called Lust
Simone: Part Three: All That Glitters… COMING SOON!
September 24, 2013
KEYWORDS FOR KINDLE
I received the Kindle Direct Publishing monthly newsletter yesterday and it...
I received the Kindle Direct Publishing monthly newsletter yesterday and it reminded me of a link I’d seen in a Facebook group that I’d lost and really wanted to share. This urged me to find it again, because it’s pretty damned important and I’d never read the link before.
Now, this is the NEWSLETTER LINK.
And this is the link from the Facebook Writer’s Group.
Keywords when categorizing your book are so important, as obviously, it’s how readers find you according to words that match their own preferences. But, according to this page on the Kindle Direct Publishing website, if you want your title to appear in a certain sub-category then there is at least ONE keyword from the list required for your book.
So, if you’re theme is a rich guy and a secretary, then you might want to include billionaire or rich in the keywords. Sounds simple, but rich isn’t exactly the most descriptive keyword for a book, it isn’t in my opinion at any rate! But you get my drift :)
Now, the link is aimed at my genre; romance. But there are more. Find them here. They’re for SciFi, Mystery, Children’s, YA etc.
Definitely an imperative look if you’re thinking about self-publishing or are already self-publishing and want to tweak your search keywords!
Hope this helps! It did me!
For my first novella, I used:
Love Triangle, International, Erotica, Romance, Wealthy, Chick Lit
And if you’d like to know more about my series, #NaughtyNookie, then here are the links!
Simone: Part One: Fall Into Love
Simone: Part Two: Crazy Little Thing Called Lust
Simone: Part Three: All That Glitters… COMING SOON!
September 22, 2013
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: SARA STARK
DUE FOR RELEASE ON AMAZON TODAY! (September 22nd)
AN UNTOLD WANT
As...
DUE FOR RELEASE ON AMAZON TODAY! (September 22nd)
AN UNTOLD WANT
As if being born into a family of witches in a small Georgia town isn’t enough to brand her a social pariah, Maggie MacAllister came home from college with a PhD, baby Liz, and no husband. In the fifteen years since, she has allowed the Jacob’s Creek campaign of whispers to mold her life into a wretched existence.
Even though Maggie sees herself as rational, even scientific, she still attempts to impose logic on a situation of legendary proportions, the MacAllister family curse, but try as she might, a stroll through the family cemetery is proof enough that any man who loves a MacAllister woman dies in the prime of his life. Maggie commits to being single, but when her sixteen year old daughter, Liz, nearly dies from a self-administered abortion, Maggie is thrown together with JD Seaborne, an attractive, younger man with a teenage daughter, Desi, and psychological ghosts of his own. Despite striving to protect JD from both the curse and the neighbors’ censure by pushing him away, they become emotionally, spiritually, and eventually physically entangled.
ABOUT SARA STARK:
What can I say? Writing is an acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Sara Stark is Nellie Williamson’s alter ego. Nellie grew up on a farm outside a small town in middle Georgia, but having been married to a Navy man for nearly fifteen years (and now divorced, thank goodness), she has lived in most parts of the US at one time or another.
Nellie has spent the past twenty-three years in the crazy and demanding world of Corporate America. So when the morass of making a living got boring, as a creative outlet, she took up writing fiction, and Sara emerged. Nellie still lives in Corporate America, at least until Sara publishes more.
Their current home is in Seattle, Washington, and Nellie has certificates from the University of Washington in Literary and Popular Fiction and has attended three writers’ retreats. Her novel, An Untold Want (also referred to as Counting Crows), was also a finalist in the Mainstream Literary Contest at the 2012 Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association (PNWA) Conference.
IAN
Also by Sara Stark: Couillon, a Novella
September 21, 2013
HALLELUJAH! ALL THAT GLITTERS IS COMPLETE!
I’m currently feeling like this - Hallelujah!
Lol....
HALLELUJAH! ALL THAT GLITTERS IS COMPLETE!
I’m currently feeling like this - Hallelujah!
Lol. All That Glitters… is complete. I’ve just finished editing it myself, it has winged its way to my beta-readers and then, it will be going off to my proofreader. Amazon, watch out for part three of the #NaughtyNookie series!
I’ve been fortunate to receive some magnificent reviews on goodreads for the earlier parts of the series. Find them here!
This last week has been super hard, knowing how much I had to finish before it was out and now, I’m feeling on top of the world. I’m going to take my dog for a walk and then fall into yoga to work some kinks out of my back. But if I were you, I´d take the opportunity to indulge in some Naughty Nookie! :D
Part One: Fall Into Love
Part Two: Crazy Little Thing Called Lust
ps. Here’s my dog! How cute is he? This is his new den :D Lol!
September 20, 2013
FANS ALREADY…
Okay, that sounds mega cheesy lol, but two people, TWO real people asked me...
Okay, that sounds mega cheesy lol, but two people, TWO real people asked me yesterday when book three of the Naughty Nookie series was out. How awesome is that? Okay, it isn’t ten million. But those two wonderful folk have read my work, enjoyed the tale and are gagging to know what’s happening in part three of Simone’s tale.
I think that moment of knowing what I write has a following, even if it’s only a small one, was better than selling my first book. Braingasm. Lol.
All That Glitters… is on the brink of completion and is due to be sent to my beta readers and then the proofreader! Woohoo. I hope to have it out at the beginning of October, so not long to wait for those of you who want to know what’s happening in Simone’s tangled love life!
If you still haven’t read any part of the #NaughtyNookie series, then what’s stopping you? :P It’s the weekend, raunch it up a little ;)
Part One: Fall Into Love
Part Two: Crazy Little Thing Called Lust
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