Erin McCarthy's Blog
March 3, 2018
Are you ready to HOOKUP?
The Hookup releases May 8th!
When genius Sophie Bigelow wants to solve the equation of sex she turns to sexy Maine lobsterfisherman Cain Jordan... who gets an A+ for showing her the perfect hookup.
Preorder now:
Amazon: https://goo.gl/JGvqVT
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The Hookup
When genius Sophie Bigelow wants to solve the equation of sex she turns to sexy Maine lobsterfisherman Cain Jordan... who gets an A+ for showing her the perfect hookup.
Preorder now:
Amazon: https://goo.gl/JGvqVT
B&N: https://goo.gl/DLAtdq
Kobo: https://goo.gl/rCJ2yW
The Hookup
September 6, 2014
SHATTER available now!
SHATTER, book 4 in the True Believers series is now available in both print and ebook! Read this emotional conclusion to my New Adult series.Kylie Warner prides herself on being optimistic, but after finding her best friend in bed with her boyfriend and flunking chemistry, her upbeat attitude has taken a dive. Even an impromptu hook-up with her sexy new chemistry tutor only brightens her mood slightly. After all, it's not like she'll ever see the tattooed scholar again…
While he's a whiz at complex equations, Jonathon Kadisch has trouble when it comes to figuring out women. So when Kylie tells him that she's pregnant after their night of passion, he's at a complete loss. He's prepared to be a good father-unlike his own deadbeat dad-but he's less prepared to fall for the genuine and alluring blonde bearing his child.
With emotions running high, Kylie wonders if Jonathon's devotion is out of growing love or looming obligation. And when heartbreak threatens to tear them apart, Jonathon will have to fight for the only girl who's ever made him feel whole…
GREAT DEAL on You Make Me!If you haven't bought it yet, it will be available for a VERY limited time along with NINE other books at the amazing price of 99 cents! That's less than a buck for ten books. Ten cents per book! UP ALL NIGHT, this special box set, is up for preorder on iBooks now and will release September 15 at all retailers.
LET ME IN, Book 3 in the Blurred Lines series is also up for preorder on iBooks, with a September 25 release. Cheers!
Erin
June 4, 2013
TRUE bonus scene
Coming soon, a FREE bonus scene for TRUE, from Tyler's point of view! The scene will be available on my website by July 1, so be on the lookout for it. :)
Also, the second book in the series, SWEET, will be available in October 2013. Amazon has it listed as a November 17 release, but my publisher has bumped it up (yay!) to October. Actual date TBD.
Here's the back cover blurb:
Jessica Sweet thought going away to college would finally make her free of her parents’ constant judgments and insistence she play chastity club role model for their church events, but if anything, the freedom has made her realize she can’t go home and be a hypocrite anymore. Tired of dodging their questions, she stays at school over the summer and lands in an unexpected crash pad: Riley Mann’s house.
Sarcastic, cocky, and full of opinions, Riley is also sexy personified with tattoos and biceps earned from working as a roofer all day. Not the right guy for her even if Jessica was looking for a relationship, which she is definitely not. But Jessica knows that Riley hides the burden of having to raise his younger brothers behind that grin and as she helps him get his house in order for a custody hearing, they begin to fall hard for each other, and she is forced to question what she’s hiding herself.
Jessica has never had a problem getting naked with a guy, but when it comes to showing Riley how she truly feels inside, her fear of rejection may just ruin the best thing—the best guy—to ever happen to her…
Also, the second book in the series, SWEET, will be available in October 2013. Amazon has it listed as a November 17 release, but my publisher has bumped it up (yay!) to October. Actual date TBD.
Here's the back cover blurb:
Jessica Sweet thought going away to college would finally make her free of her parents’ constant judgments and insistence she play chastity club role model for their church events, but if anything, the freedom has made her realize she can’t go home and be a hypocrite anymore. Tired of dodging their questions, she stays at school over the summer and lands in an unexpected crash pad: Riley Mann’s house.
Sarcastic, cocky, and full of opinions, Riley is also sexy personified with tattoos and biceps earned from working as a roofer all day. Not the right guy for her even if Jessica was looking for a relationship, which she is definitely not. But Jessica knows that Riley hides the burden of having to raise his younger brothers behind that grin and as she helps him get his house in order for a custody hearing, they begin to fall hard for each other, and she is forced to question what she’s hiding herself.
Jessica has never had a problem getting naked with a guy, but when it comes to showing Riley how she truly feels inside, her fear of rejection may just ruin the best thing—the best guy—to ever happen to her…
February 7, 2013
2013 Releases
I had a super productive writing year in 2012 (I kind of want a cookie for that) so plenty of releases coming up in 2013.
March- reissue of HEIRESS FOR HIRE, with a new cover, with the most adorable photobombing poodle.
March also is the release of SEEING IS BELIEVING, a sequel of sorts to HEIRESS, featuring Piper Tucker all grown up and seeing ghosts.
May- TRUE, my first new adult romance.
July- FANGS FOR NOTHING, sequel to The Fangover with Kathy Love.
July- HOT SUMMER NIGHTS, an anthology with Carly Phillips, Jaci Burton, and Jessica Clare.
December- FULL THROTTLE, Book 7 in the Fast Track series, featuring Rhett Ford, Nolan's naughty younger brother.
Sometime in the fall, my second new adult romance, with characters from TRUE getting their own intense love story.
Those are the set-in-stone releases, maybe more squeezed in come fall. Thanks for reading!
March- reissue of HEIRESS FOR HIRE, with a new cover, with the most adorable photobombing poodle.
March also is the release of SEEING IS BELIEVING, a sequel of sorts to HEIRESS, featuring Piper Tucker all grown up and seeing ghosts.
May- TRUE, my first new adult romance.
July- FANGS FOR NOTHING, sequel to The Fangover with Kathy Love.
July- HOT SUMMER NIGHTS, an anthology with Carly Phillips, Jaci Burton, and Jessica Clare.
December- FULL THROTTLE, Book 7 in the Fast Track series, featuring Rhett Ford, Nolan's naughty younger brother.
Sometime in the fall, my second new adult romance, with characters from TRUE getting their own intense love story.
Those are the set-in-stone releases, maybe more squeezed in come fall. Thanks for reading!
February 4, 2013
Excerpt from TRUE, new adult on sale May 7th!
TRUE by Erin McCarthy
When awkward girl meets hot guy...
That was when I realized that was why I’d always been slightly nervous around Tyler. He was what people always accused me of being- there but not present. Easy going, but distant. Smiling, but intense. Maybe it was the alcohol, my ears still buzzing, my insides hot but my skin cold and clammy, but for the first time I didn’t feel uncomfortable around him.
“So are you really a virgin?” he asked, sounding genuinely curious. “Or were you just saying that?”
No longer comfortable. It went away faster than you could say Awkward Moment.
Why he thought I would want to talk about that made no sense to me at all. I was drunk, but I wasn’t insane. If I hadn’t even told my roommates until that night, why the hell would I sit in Tyler’s car and spill my guts? I wasn’t the confessional type. I never had been.
So I just looked at him.
“I’m going to take that as a yes.”
I wanted to tell him to mind his own goddamn business. To stop pressing a girl he didn’t know for intimate details about her sexual experience. That it was rude. But I remembered that he had in fact saved the very virginity he was questioning, so I didn’t want to be a bitch. I just shrugged. Really, what difference did it make? I was already a collegiate abnormality. Likes to study! Hates to Talk! Won’t go tanning! See this freak show exhibit in her natural dorm habitat…
But I actually surprised myself by opening my mouth and saying, “Yes, I am.”
My admission silenced him for a second, but then he drummed his thumbs on the steering wheel as he put the car in PARK in front of my dorm, which was a seventies built tower of glass and steel, the lamp post flooding into his car, showing even more clearly how dirty and ancient it was, a slot for a cassette player crammed full of what looked like parking tickets.
“Do you have a purity ring or whatever?”
Now that I was in, and the beer had loosened my lips, I said the first thing that came into my head. “I prefer to call it my hymen.”
Tyler let out a laugh. “No, I mean one of those rings you wear on your finger…” He looked at me, understanding dawning. “Oh, wait, you’re being sarcastic, aren’t you?”
I nodded.
Which made him laugh harder. “Rory, you are an interesting chick.”
Interesting wasn’t exactly a riveting compliment, but he hadn’t called me a freak, which was how I felt sometimes. Like I had been assembled in a different way altogether than everyone around me, and while I liked the end result, everyone else was confused as to how to interpret my very existence. They watched me, suspicious, as if I were a Transformer and they were waiting for metal arms to spring out from my chest cavity.
I didn’t think that I’d ever seen him laugh before, or maybe I had just never noticed, my attention focused on Grant, who I had thought was more likely to fall in with my plan of exploring human mating and relationships. But then again, Jessica and Kylie tended to dominate all conversation in a group setting, so maybe their own perfectly affected laughter had drowned out Tyler’s.
But for some stupid reason, I liked to think that he was laughing just for me.
Which was when I knew I was even more drunk than I realized and I needed to get away from him before I sat there blinking at him like a baby owl indefinitely. Before I put some sort of hero worship onto him that he might deserve, but which didn’t mean a damn thing. Before I substituted one pointless crush out for another.
I shoved open the door, half falling out, clinging to the handle and the remnants of my dignity, like he could hear my stupid thoughts. “Thanks,” I said over my shoulder, barely glancing back as I exited the car, clutching my bag.
There was no response and when I struggled to slam the heavy door, which seemed to weigh a million pounds and required more coordination than my icy fingers had, I realized that he was just staring at me. There was a cigarette in his mouth, and he was lifting the car lighter up to it, his hand guiding it to his destination without thought. As he sucked on it to catch the paper and tobacco on fire, his eyes never left mine.
The smile was gone. There was nothing but a cool scrutiny.
I shivered.
Then I walked as fast as I could to my dorm, digging in my bag for my swipe card.
Once inside, I paused at the front desk to check in and I glanced out the front doors.
His car was still there, and I could see the shadow of his outline, the tiny red glow of his cigarette.
When awkward girl meets hot guy...
That was when I realized that was why I’d always been slightly nervous around Tyler. He was what people always accused me of being- there but not present. Easy going, but distant. Smiling, but intense. Maybe it was the alcohol, my ears still buzzing, my insides hot but my skin cold and clammy, but for the first time I didn’t feel uncomfortable around him.
“So are you really a virgin?” he asked, sounding genuinely curious. “Or were you just saying that?”
No longer comfortable. It went away faster than you could say Awkward Moment.
Why he thought I would want to talk about that made no sense to me at all. I was drunk, but I wasn’t insane. If I hadn’t even told my roommates until that night, why the hell would I sit in Tyler’s car and spill my guts? I wasn’t the confessional type. I never had been.
So I just looked at him.
“I’m going to take that as a yes.”
I wanted to tell him to mind his own goddamn business. To stop pressing a girl he didn’t know for intimate details about her sexual experience. That it was rude. But I remembered that he had in fact saved the very virginity he was questioning, so I didn’t want to be a bitch. I just shrugged. Really, what difference did it make? I was already a collegiate abnormality. Likes to study! Hates to Talk! Won’t go tanning! See this freak show exhibit in her natural dorm habitat…
But I actually surprised myself by opening my mouth and saying, “Yes, I am.”
My admission silenced him for a second, but then he drummed his thumbs on the steering wheel as he put the car in PARK in front of my dorm, which was a seventies built tower of glass and steel, the lamp post flooding into his car, showing even more clearly how dirty and ancient it was, a slot for a cassette player crammed full of what looked like parking tickets.
“Do you have a purity ring or whatever?”
Now that I was in, and the beer had loosened my lips, I said the first thing that came into my head. “I prefer to call it my hymen.”
Tyler let out a laugh. “No, I mean one of those rings you wear on your finger…” He looked at me, understanding dawning. “Oh, wait, you’re being sarcastic, aren’t you?”
I nodded.
Which made him laugh harder. “Rory, you are an interesting chick.”
Interesting wasn’t exactly a riveting compliment, but he hadn’t called me a freak, which was how I felt sometimes. Like I had been assembled in a different way altogether than everyone around me, and while I liked the end result, everyone else was confused as to how to interpret my very existence. They watched me, suspicious, as if I were a Transformer and they were waiting for metal arms to spring out from my chest cavity.
I didn’t think that I’d ever seen him laugh before, or maybe I had just never noticed, my attention focused on Grant, who I had thought was more likely to fall in with my plan of exploring human mating and relationships. But then again, Jessica and Kylie tended to dominate all conversation in a group setting, so maybe their own perfectly affected laughter had drowned out Tyler’s.
But for some stupid reason, I liked to think that he was laughing just for me.
Which was when I knew I was even more drunk than I realized and I needed to get away from him before I sat there blinking at him like a baby owl indefinitely. Before I put some sort of hero worship onto him that he might deserve, but which didn’t mean a damn thing. Before I substituted one pointless crush out for another.
I shoved open the door, half falling out, clinging to the handle and the remnants of my dignity, like he could hear my stupid thoughts. “Thanks,” I said over my shoulder, barely glancing back as I exited the car, clutching my bag.
There was no response and when I struggled to slam the heavy door, which seemed to weigh a million pounds and required more coordination than my icy fingers had, I realized that he was just staring at me. There was a cigarette in his mouth, and he was lifting the car lighter up to it, his hand guiding it to his destination without thought. As he sucked on it to catch the paper and tobacco on fire, his eyes never left mine.
The smile was gone. There was nothing but a cool scrutiny.
I shivered.
Then I walked as fast as I could to my dorm, digging in my bag for my swipe card.
Once inside, I paused at the front desk to check in and I glanced out the front doors.
His car was still there, and I could see the shadow of his outline, the tiny red glow of his cigarette.
September 13, 2011
UNWRAPPED on sale 9/27
Hey folks,
I'm thrilled to be in the upcoming anthology, UNWRAPPED, along with authors Donna Kauffman and Kate Angell. Release day is September 27th.
Here are the details:
http://www.erinmccarthy.net/unwrapped/
I'm thrilled to be in the upcoming anthology, UNWRAPPED, along with authors Donna Kauffman and Kate Angell. Release day is September 27th.
Here are the details:
http://www.erinmccarthy.net/unwrapped/
April 20, 2011
Kindle release: first time in print!
Hi folks,
I just released a previously unreleased book on Kindle at Amazon. This is the first time "That's Amore" has been issued in print, or in this case, ebook. I wrote this book years ago, before I became published. I hope you will check it out and let me know what you think :)
http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Amore-ebo...
I just released a previously unreleased book on Kindle at Amazon. This is the first time "That's Amore" has been issued in print, or in this case, ebook. I wrote this book years ago, before I became published. I hope you will check it out and let me know what you think :)
http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Amore-ebo...
March 27, 2011
My new website :)
I have updated my website, so come check me out:
www.erinmccarthy.net
Hope you stay awhile and check the place out and let me know what you think :)
www.erinmccarthy.net
Hope you stay awhile and check the place out and let me know what you think :)
March 7, 2011
Win a copy of The Chase
Hey all,
I have a new contest at my website for a copy of book 4 in my Fast Track series.
Just visit my website: www.erinmccarthy.net and click on the "contest" link. Running through 5/31.
Good luck :)
I have a new contest at my website for a copy of book 4 in my Fast Track series.
Just visit my website: www.erinmccarthy.net and click on the "contest" link. Running through 5/31.
Good luck :)
February 9, 2011
SLOW RIDE cover & blurb posted at my site
Well folks I know I haven't been around much. Holidays, writing, winter, it all caught up with me and I've been a bit bogged down. But I'm excited to share the cover for book 5 in my Fast Track series. You can find it in the Members' section at my site:
www.erinmccarthy.net
And Happy Valentine's Day to all of you :)
www.erinmccarthy.net
And Happy Valentine's Day to all of you :)
