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 Can't wait until Jan. 15th? Need to have the books in the Shifter Seduction Boxed Set now? Check out Juneau Heat Book 1 in the Urban Heat Series by Tressie Lockwood if you can't wait until the Jan. 15
Shiya flew to Juneau, Alaska to confirm if the man she's been chatting up online is truly a shape-shifter. This was to be her first job in the field. As a tech geek, she's used to staying behind her computer and gathering all pertinent information about the existence of shifters so her family--shifter hunters for generations--can go and do the dirty work. All Shiya was supposed to do was to seduce Birk into revealing himself. What she didn't count on was how hot the man was in real life. She couldn't deny their chemistry and the reaction her body had to Birk. When Birk suggests they act on their mutual attraction, she can't say no. Then he sets the stakes even higher. He wants her to make his best friend her lover too. Kotori is the hottest Native American Shiya has ever seen, and her lust is ignited even more, especially given the danger she sees lurking deep in Kotori's eyes.

Two lovers--her family doesn't have to know she took the seduction to something physical, right? And when her play is over, she can go back home to San Diego with no qualms. After all, they're just animals. Shiya's reasoning is put to the test when her heart gets involved, and her life in danger when Birk and Kotori reveal they know who she is. Shiya's family wants Birk and Kotori dead, and her lovers want to lure the famous hunter family to their deaths. Shiya is caught in the middle. All that's left is abduction and seduction until something gives

Six Great Authors all for the price of one.Shifter Seduction coming soon from Amira Press  Defying Pack Law – Eve Langlais Dana fled her pack and their laws to live on her terms, but the price of defiance was her happiness. Could it be that now older and wiser, she can accept the Lycan menage way of life? Or will jealousy and fear send her running again?

Surrounded by Pleasure - Mandy Harbin Attorney Krista Owens hopes to lose some inhibition and maybe, finally, her virginity, but she doesn’t know the men she’ll be staying with are mountain lion shifters whose instinct to mate with any available woman can turn deadly, or that the moment Toby Woods sees her his feral side will stop at nothing to have her.

Juneau Heat – Tressie Lockwood Shiya’s been chatting up Birk Rider online and agrees to meet him in face-to-face in Juneau, Alaska. When Birk suggests a threesome with her taking on him and his buddy Kotori Munro, she can’t say no to the sexy bear shifters, even if her family of hunters wants them dead.

Lycan Lover – S. K. Yule A party turns deadly, and Karen is stalked into the dark night. Ancient lycan, Anthony, saves her, and an instant, undeniable chemistry ignites between them. But will the fire last after Karen sustains a bite from a rogue, and she finds out Anthony is something she thought only existed in horror stories?

Three Fur All - Crymsyn Hart October has escaped her kidnappers only to run into the arms of two very sexy wolves. The more Mika and Elliot fight their growing attraction to her, the more they desire to show October a howling good time. Together they will risk everything to save the woman they love before everything explodes around them.

Theirs to Claim - LeTeisha Newton Zelina thought she was sworn off dating--until she woke up between a naked set of twins. Rion and Quin are determined to prove that Zelina is their mate in any way they can. If that means keeping her in bed--under them, over them, or between them--so be it.

 Hello Everyone, 
I am pleased to have Jason C. Conley on my blog today author of The Kingdom of Vosh: The Chained Princess:

Interior artwork in a novel is something that can only enhance the reader’s experience.  I’m not sure if it’s a dying medium yet, but it certainly couldn’t hurt to see a resurgence in its use in mainstream novels.  When I began writing this book, the artwork played a key role in developing not only the characters and settings, but the atmosphere, mood, and heart of the story.  I created all the interior artwork for the book over the course of a year or so as I wrote.  Ideas would be fleshed out, some dropped, some expounded upon.  But being able to see a creature, to get a glimpse of their eyes and see their furiosity or a machine’s texture, it’s inner workings, even if just a little bit, helped to bring me into this world I had created, and hopefully you as well. 
It is important for an artist, no matter the subject matter, to draw from life as often as possible.  No one’s imagination, or memory for that matter, is good enough to just remember how to draw a city, person, animal or vehicle and include all of the subtleties of life.  Things like shadows, light sources, texture, wrinkles,  they bring a picture to life and establish it in a reality of sorts that is believable.
Animals have a different musculature than people, a different way of holding their weight and moving.  So when designing a creature for the book, I tried to imagine what the closest real life animal would be and then began to study how it held itself.  Like the Great Teras below, I wanted a hulking, weighty brute of an animal, something low to the ground and heavy.  So I went off of pictures of both an American Grizzly and a Komodo Dragon.  This formed the base, something to expand upon and develop.  A starting point.


Vehicles have difficulties all their own.  They have moving parts, their form follows their function.  You have to believe that at one point somewhere, someone designed and fabricated and assembled this working, moving wonder of engineering.  What are they made out of?  What is their fuel source?  How do they get from point A to B without crashing into a burning spectacle?  Now, you can go too far with this thought process.  This is fantasy after all.  But it should have some basis and semblance of reality in order to transport the reader into your world.  Using recognizable parts in an unusual way is a trick that you can use to not only make it believable, but interesting and fresh as well.  I designed the Sky-Cleaver Airships below using fins from a lion fish for their side sails, and part of an old Soviet submarine for the galley below the balloon.

The use of light and shadow can take a make believe creature and cement it in reality.  The picture below of Vork looks like a photograph. It was made completely in Photoshop, drawn with a tablet pen with textures for brushes and shading to add depth and volume.  Light plays tricks on the eye, giving the illusion of solid shapes on a two dimensional plane.  If you believe that a picture has mass and weight by the way light bends around the subject, then you might believe that is a real creature.  Reality is subjective.  It has a lot to do with a person’s perspective, what they bring with them to the experience and how they view the world around them.  If I can pique your curiosity even briefly with creatures, vehicles, new landscapes or fantastical images, then I have you where I want you… and that is believing in a new world.
The Kingdom of Vosh: The Chained Princess by Jason C. Conley is now available!  Hardcover, Paperback, or digital.
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I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.
And remember, eat more beef. Save a turkey. 

Gobble. Gobble.

So what month is it now?

Right...it's November. We've already had the giving out candy month.

Now we're in the month to stuff the turkey.

Then comes the one with the big dude in red and candy canes. At least I think I'm on the right track. See this is what happens when the day job takes over, combined with our new puppy, Briar, and oh yeah, writing. Sometimes the world just seems to pass us by and we forget about all other things.


So this is just a little bit of what's been going on.

The puppy has been keeping us busy as we've had her now for two and a half months. She was very skittish when we first rescued her from the pound. She's six and a half months old right now and has bonded with our Border Collie/Lab Mix, Cadence. Morrigaine, our lab who is nine tolerates her. Now with the pack in the house, it makes for an interesting day and little time to write, but I do make the time.

On to the writing.

Let's see...I've had one publisher close after eight years so I got a few books back from them. Another publisher has contacted two books in an angel series I'm writing about fallen angels.

With a co-author, I've finished a book about dragons that could turn into a series. It just all depends on how much time we have between projects and our lives cause you know, it's not like we're at all busy.

Up until now, I have just finished my first contemporary novel with no paranormal creatures of events in it. I just wanted to see if I could do something different. The title right now is called Lube It Up. I know what you're thinking...but it's not what you think.

Besides that, I am currently working on the third book in the Fur World series to go along with Three Fur All, Passion Fur Three, and bringing in characters from A Cat For All into the mix as well. So that should be fun. No idea on when that will be done because I'm also writing two other books and editing two more as the time permits.

I'm branching out and heading back into my roots which is writing horror. So I'm writing a grim reaper series and am on the third in the series. I started researching and began the work of writing a novel that will spawn a series based on an undertaker and the bodies that show up at her work. And have another series planned about hunters of the supernatural. This one has been outlined, but I haven't started writing it yet.

Hopefully these will all go well and the two books will be done by the end of the year.

Plans for 2014?

Haven't gotten that far yet.

I'll let you know in June...maybe.

:)

To everyone that celebrates, have a Blessed Samhain and a Happy Halloween.

So here it is getting closer and closer to Halloween. Usually this time of year is the most that I miss being in Mass where it's chilly at night and in the early morning, not creeping up past 55 during the day. The heady scent of fallen leaves and the crunch of the dried ones underfoot. It reminds of me the long walks in the graveyards I would have with friends back in the day and the ghosts that we would try and capture. Or the seances that I took part in as a medium and the creepy factor that always clung to the shadows no matter where I was.

Nowadays, I have left the seances behind and don't hunt for haunts. But that doesn't mean all my ghosts are behind me. For a while, I've been trying to tune out or close the psychic door that is in my brain. Although any psychic will tell you that once a door has been opened it's hard to close, tune it out for a while, of course, but not completely turn it off. 
Sure I can still layout a deck of Tarot cards or glance at tealeaves and discern their meaning, but that holds no interest for me anymore regarding reading others. Now if someone asks me, well...that is negotiable. I'm open to it, even if lose my voice. I made a choice a long time ago to become and author and write instead of "read." I wanted to turn it all off and have a "normal" life with no ghosties. And I got that and still have that. My husband and I have been married for nine and a half years and I impressed him when we were dating by reading his palm and telling him stuff about himself that I didn't know. It was kind of comical at the time. 
I've scared his friends by telling them about the ghosts in their apartments. According to another ex friend of his, I turned my husband into the bad seed because he likes skulls and heavy metal as some of his interests and turned him from the church. But that is a different subject I won't go into. I've been discriminated against because  my religion, but I won't be burned at the stake. 
I have always accepted the fact that I am psychic even if people don't believe in it. That's their opinion, but I do know that it has helped me in writing my books. I get ideas from places that never see to make any sense. I write about the paranormal because I've had experience in certain areas of it.  
That being said, the only thing haunting me now are plot lines that won't go away and not having the amount of time I truly want to write. Oh well, can't have everything, right?
Although...I predict one day I will...hehehe

Hi All,
I wanted to share a preview of a revamped book I have coming out soon. This is not your typical vampire novel. With a bit of folklore thrown in, a demon giving this a scary twist, and some blazing undead sex, this is going to be perfect to add to any of your Halloween reading lists.


Coming soon from Purple Sword Publications: Reborn at the Crossroads.

What do you do when folklore stops being myth and vampires rise from their grave?

Blurb:

Beth Rivers has spent five years in an emotional cocoon from the death of her husband. One night she discovers an intruder on her land and shoots him. After bringing him back to her house, she realizes the wound has healed. Desire blossoms inside her for him. There’s something about him she can’t resist.

However, Travis wasn’t the only thing that awoke that night. Something darker was released also and its eyes are set on Beth. They must either face this nightmarish creature or be consumed by it.

Excerpt:


The shower curtain slid out of the way. She glanced up. Travis stood before her. Dried blood decorated his face and chest. His jeans were soaked with it and ruined. She couldn’t help the bolt of horror that pierced her heart. She scooted toward the back wall. A low growl spilled from his lips as he reached out to her.
“I won’t hurt you, Beth.”
“Is that what you told the four people you’ve killed? I heard it on the police scanner. Old habit from my husband.” She didn’t look at him.
Travis sighed. The curtain closed, but after a moment it reopened again. Beth wondered if he was going to do it now. She glanced up. Travis stood naked before her. Heat raced through her body. She tried to deny her feelings for him, but she couldn’t. Something between them overrode the crippling fear. Her entire being wanted him. The water from the jets blasted around her and onto him turning the water crimson. He knelt down again.
“I don’t plan on killing you, Beth. I don’t plan on killing anyone else.”
“I suppose you had some great epiphany after I left.”
He laughed. “I did actually. I remembered who I was. Elizabeth wouldn’t want me to behave this way. She would want me to forget all about that. I can’t help what I am. I don’t even know exactly what roused me from my slumber. I should be dead, bones and dust, but I’ve been given another chance with you. I have a hunger that must be satisfied. I’m trying to learn to balance that. In my life I was a doctor. I tried to heal all those I—”
Beth heard his words, but placed a hand over his mouth to quiet him. His lips were too sensuous forming around the words. Her lips replaced her hand and she captured him. The water poured over the two of them and all she could think of was how his cock would feel plunging inside of her. At that moment, it didn’t matter what he had done. Her mind pushed it all aside and she focused on the primal link and raw heat.
He pulled away and worked down her throat. Each nip of his teeth, she let him take her deeper under his spell. His fingers scraped along her back. His fangs grazed her flesh. There was no use fighting the connection. Maybe on the inside she truly washis wife reborn. She arched her neck waiting for him to strike, but the pain never came. Instead he cleared the water from her eyes and looked into them. His blue eyes smoldered with lust. There wasno hunger.

Hi Everyone,

I'm so excited about my new cover for Awakening the Beast coming soon with Amira Press.

It's soo pretty....

  Blurb:
Illiana’s ominous dreams demand she returns to her beloved forest. A sleeping force has awoken in the mountain she must investigate. Freeing Daruk, a dragon shifter, from the bowels of the volcano, he offers to give her and her mates a ride back to the forest.

Christopher has defended his forest against the vultures and lions who stole his home. He longs for Illiana’s homecoming and keeps hope alive for his pack and the raven flock.

Illiana joins forces with Christopher to drive the intruders from her home. Only a looming menace threatens to pull her apart from the inside and the outside. Together, they will face their troubles even if it means their lives.

I’m dating myself with the title of this blog, but I love a good hero.  There is nothing more alluring than a tall, dark and handsome man who bursts into the story and kicks ass.  Now I’m not talking about the sensitive guy that sends flowers to work or a brooding, sparkly vampire.  I want a big, burly dominant hero.  And I think all women have a secret part of themselves that long for that.  Women’s lib be damned.  All kidding aside, I decided to take this opportunity, as a connoisseur of heroes, to give a bit of a countdown of my favorite heroes in literature and film.  Keep in mind, these are just a few.  They are in no particular order, by the way…
1.       Bruce Wayne/ Batman, “The Dark Knight”:  Anyone who knows me will tell you, I have a Christian Bale problem.  I have since I hit puberty and no matter the intervention, I’m not likely to be cured.  My very first novel, Hellsong, stars an angel Saraqael who—I admit—is based on Christian Bale.  So you can imagine how excited I was when I heard that he was going to be playing Batman, my favorite childhood superhero.  Batman is a superhero for goths.  He’s dark, he’s brooding and let’s face it, kids—a little bit nuts.  The Joker is always quick to allude to the fact that Batman is just as crazy as he is, he just chooses to use his power for good rather than evil.  That straddling of the fence—the idea that at any second he could turn to the dark side—is a very alluring character trait of any hero. 
2.       Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights:  As you might have noticed, I love the anti-hero.  I would go so far as to say that Heathcliff is the grandfather of the Gothic hero.  If you’ve never read this book, you simply must.  If you’re going to write a good love story—especially a paranormal love story—you must have a working knowledge of Wuthering Heights.  Heathcliff starts out in the story as a sweet little boy who loves Cathy completely, but her disuse of him over time eventually twists him into a bitter and cruel man.  However, you can still see that glimmer of love in every evil little deed. 
3.       Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (and others):  Okay, I admit it.  I’m a sapio-sexual.  I love a man that is extremely intelligent and isn’t afraid to show it.  You will never see me adorning the arm of an idiot.  After all, beauty is only skin deep and I have to be able to converse with my fantasy man.  Sherlock is the standard by which all geniuses are measured and therefore, has a permanent place in the upper echelon of Lexxx’s Arsenal of Sexual Fantasy.  Thank you, BBC One.
So now you know a little about what makes me tick.  At least in a sexual sense.  Probably more information than you wanted, huh.  At any rate, my new release, Beast of Burden is available today from Purple Sword Publications!  Beast of Burden, stars a hero to end all heroes:  Cianan Marek.  He’s the epitome of an Alpha Male.  He’s strong, dominant, angry, angsty and beautiful. He’s a conglomeration of all my darkest fantasies, popped in the blender, shuffled around a bit and displayed proudly for your reading pleasure!  
Blurb:  Sascha had been a slave of Kaspar all her life.  Having never known love, she sought refuge in the pages of books and the kindess of her old master.   When he goes off to the marketplace in a neighboring town, he offers to bring her a gift.  All she asks is a single, red rose.  Little does she know that such a simple treasure will change her life forever.  
Rumored to be a scarred and cruel man, Cianan Marek has been searching for a kindred soul.  His life as warrior came to an abrupt end when he was attacked by werewolves in the Outlands.  Bitter and alone, he has been hiding a terrible secret since returning to Kaspar as Lord Governor.  In this adult retelling of the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, Sascha and Cianan learn the power of destiny and that some beasts lurk in the most unlikely of places.For more of my perversions, be sure to visit me at any of the following locales.    

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