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May 31, 2012
A Few of My Favorite Books – Day Seven
Every single book is a challenge.
~Nora Roberts
Winner of Richelle Mead’s Storm Born is Colleen C. Please email me your information (I’ll need an address you’d like it shipped to).
Each day from now until June 8th, I’m going to run a giveaway for a different paperback/hardcover book each day. Some of my favorite genres, my favorite authors and my favorite books. Entering will be as easy as leaving a comment, but please read the guidelines before entering.
How about an exciting erotic romance from Karin Tabke:
A sizzling tale of an undercover cop who shows a little skin to get in with the mob — and the sexy mafia princess who gets in the way….
Curvaceous and feisty, Francesca Donatello is the owner of Skin, an upscale woman’s magazine and her pride and joy. To boost sales, she’s decided to feature a smoldering male centerfold in each issue — even though it was once forbidden by her rigid father, a recently murdered mob boss. He always doubted her ability as a businesswoman, and now Francesca is even more determined to succeed. So when she meets sexy, charismatic model Reese Barrett, she knows he is perfect, and perfectly chiseled, for the job.
From the moment Reese sheds his clothes for the photo shoot, business becomes pleasure, and both are overcome with unadulterated desire for each other. But what Francesca doesn’t realize is that Reese is a cop who’s using her to infiltrate the Donatello family and find out who murdered her father. Even she is a suspect. But it soon becomes apparent that someone wants Francesca as dead as her father. As they dodge bullets and bodies Francesca and Reese shed secrets and inhibitions — and learn that they must trust each other to survive.
Simply leave a comment between now and 9 pm (EST) today to be entered for a paperback copy of Lorelei’s book. No need to leave an email (I hate SPAM as much as the next person). Through the magic of Random.org, I’ll announce the winner of the previous day at the beginning of each new post & the winner will be responsible for contacting me directly. The winner will have five (5) days to contact me before a new winner is drawn.
Open to All (international included)
Good luck!
May 30, 2012
A Few of My Favorite Books – Day Six
No two persons ever read the same book.
~ Edmund Wilson
Winner of Lorelei James’ Cowgirls Don’t Cry is Catherine Lee. Please email me your information (I’ll need an address you’d like it shipped to).
Each day from now until June 8th, I’m going to run a giveaway for a different paperback/hardcover book each day. Some of my favorite genres, my favorite authors and my favorite books. Entering will be as easy as leaving a comment, but please read the guidelines before entering. 
How about a sexy-as-sin urban fantasy from Richelle Mead:
Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants…
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl’s got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy–one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie’s first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.
Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne’er-do-well, and the ones who don’t want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her…
Simply leave a comment between now and 9 pm (EST) today to be entered for a paperback copy of Lorelei’s book. No need to leave an email (I hate SPAM as much as the next person). Through the magic of Random.org, I’ll announce the winner of the previous day at the beginning of each new post & the winner will be responsible for contacting me directly. The winner will have five (5) days to contact me before a new winner is drawn.
Open to All (international included)
Good luck!
May 29, 2012
A Few of My Favorite Books – Day Five
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can
ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
~ Emily Dickinson
Winner of Kerrelyn Sparks’s Vampire Mine is Kacey Hammell. Please email me your information (I’ll need an address you’d like it shipped to).
Each day from now until June 8th, I’m going to run a giveaway for a different paperback/hardcover book each day. Some of my favorite genres, my favorite authors and my favorite books. Entering will be as easy as leaving a comment, but please read the guidelines before entering.
How about an smokin’ hot cowboy romance from Lorelei James:
Jessie McKay has accepted her marriage to Luke McKay wasn’t perfect. After two years of widowhood, she’s ready to kick up her bootheels—until Luke’s younger brother shows up to spoil her fun. But if Brandt thinks she’ll ever take orders from another McKay male, he’s got manure for brains.
Brandt McKay has avoided his sweet, sexy sister-in-law ever since the night he confessed his feelings for her weren’t the brotherly type. Unexpectedly faced with proof of Luke’s infidelity, Brandt is forced to ask for Jessie’s help in taking care of Luke’s young son. Jessie agrees on one condition—she wants Brandt’s boots exclusively under her bed for the duration.
The sexual heat that’s always simmered between them ignites. Brandt is determined to make the temporary situation permanent, proving to Jessie he’s a one-woman man. And Jessie is shaken by feelings she’s sworn never to have again for any man…especially not a McKay.
Simply leave a comment between now and 9 pm (EST) today to be entered for a paperback copy of Lorelei’s book. No need to leave an email (I hate SPAM as much as the next person). Through the magic of Random.org, I’ll announce the winner of the previous day at the beginning of each new post & the winner will be responsible for contacting me directly. The winner will have five (5) days to contact me before a new winner is drawn.
Open to All (international included)
Good luck!
May 28, 2012
A Few of My Favorite Books – Day Four
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Winner of Rachel Caine’s Undone is Layna Pimental. Please email me your information (I’ll need an address you’d like it shipped to).
Each day from now until June 8th, I’m going to run a giveaway for a different paperback/hardcover book each day. Some of my favorite genres, my favorite authors and my favorite books. Entering will be as easy as leaving a comment, but please read the guidelines before entering.
How about an uber-sexy paranormal romance from Kerrelyn Sparks:
Nothing on earth can make this vampire fall in love…
After 499 years of existence, Connor Buchanan has arrived at an inescapable conclusion: he is a cold-hearted SOB. He’s been watching his friends—those poor romantic fools—plummet off the cliff into love like a dazed herd of sheep. But not Connor. He knows that love leads to nothing by heartache.
Until Marielle…
She is an angel cast down from heaven for disobedience. Trapped in mortal form, she finds a protector in Connor, a Scottish vampire haunted by a dark past. Marielle hopes to heal his broken heart and earn her way back home, but suddenly she has these…feelings. This strange yet pleasant physical yearning—for a vampire! Is this the work of a demon luring her into hell, or has this angel found heavenly bliss?
Simply leave a comment between now and 9 pm (EST) today to be entered for a paperback copy of Kerrelyn’s book. No need to leave an email (I hate SPAM as much as the next person). Through the magic of Random.org, I’ll announce the winner of the previous day at the beginning of each new post & the winner will be responsible for contacting me directly. The winner will have five (5) days to contact me before a new winner is drawn.
Open to All (international included)
Good luck!
May 27, 2012
A Few of My Favorite Books – Day Three
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
~ John Wooden
Winner of Sydney’s Croft’s Seduced by the Storm is Tracey D. Please email me your information (I’ll need an address you’d like it shipped to).
Each day from now until June 8th, I’m going to run a giveaway for a different paperback/hardcover book each day. Some of my favorite genres, my favorite authors and my favorite books. Entering will be as easy as leaving a comment, but please read the guidelines before entering.
How about a little unique urban fantasy from Rachel Caine:
Once she was Cassiel, a Djinn of limitless power. Now, she has been reshaped in human flesh as punishment for defying her master—and living among the Weather Wardens, whose power she must tap into regularly or she will die. And as she copes with the emotions and frailties of her human condition, a malevolent entity threatens her new existence…
Simply leave a comment between now and 9 pm (EST) today to be entered for a paperback copy of Rachel’s book. No need to leave an email (I hate SPAM as much as the next person). Through the magic of Random.org, I’ll announce the winner of the previous day at the beginning of each new post & the winner will be responsible for contacting me directly. The winner will have five (5) days to contact me before a new winner is drawn.
Open to All (international included)
Good luck!
Six Sentence Sunday – 5/27
Sharing more from the story I showed last week, a post-apocalyptic erotic romance. The hero (well, one of them anyway *ahem*) and the heroine meet for the first time. This ain’t no meet cute. 
Shit.
As that gaze stayed firmly on hers, recognition clicked into place. April knew him, or at least of him. His reputation was legendary. Roth McAllister had once been a vigilante hunter with over two hundred dragon kills under his belt.
Double shit.
For those new to this, the rules are simple:
1) pick a project – a current Work in Progress, contracted work or even something readers can buy if you’re published
2) pick six sentences
3) post ‘em on Sunday
See? Easy. Want to play? See the site for information on how to do just that: http://sixsunday.com
If you have a Twitter account, you can add the hashtag #sixsunday to your tweets when you tweet a link to your Six Sentence Sunday post. If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us!
May 26, 2012
A Few of My Favorite Books – Day Two
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
~
Author Unknown
No winner yesterday.
Each day from now until June 8th, I’m going to run a giveaway for a different paperback/hardcover book each day. Some of my favorite genres, my favorite authors and my favorite books. Entering will be as easy as leaving a comment, but please read the guidelines before entering.
How about a little erotic superhero romance from Sydney Croft (the writing duo of Larissa Ione and Stephanie Tyler):
Danger is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
They met in a steamy Florida bar—then spent a night of mind-bending passion. Two secret agents who each possess unique telekinetic gifts—and whose combined sexual powers leave neither of them unscathed. For ex–Navy SEAL Wyatt Kennedy, assigned by the Agency for Covert Rare Operatives to the most treacherous mission of his career, the woman in black leather and lace has just become more than a one-night stand. Because Faith Black is the sole barrier to the success of his mission—and not even Wyatt’s legendary seduction skills can penetrate her deep cover.
Faith’s psychic gifts make her one of the world’s most dangerous women—but she hides a secret pain she shares with no one. Until Wyatt. And Faith has an agenda of her own: using her unique powers to save someone close to her—a move that pits her against a man she thought she’d never see again. For as a deadly hurricane is unleashed across the eastern seaboard, desire reignites between Faith and Wyatt, exposing secrets that thrust them both into harm’s way. With the hurricane sweeping closer—and their erotic hunger for each other growing—these two wary hearts must come together to heal, to trust . . . and to harness the power of a storm that could consume everything in its path.
~*~
Simply leave a comment between now and 9 pm (EST) today to be entered for a paperback copy of Sydney’s book. No need to leave an email (I hate SPAM as much as the next person). Through the magic of Random.org, I’ll announce the winner of the previous day at the beginning of each new post & the winner will be responsible for contacting me directly. The winner will have five (5) days to contact me before a new winner is drawn.
Open to All (international included)
Good luck!
May 25, 2012
A Few of My Favorite Books – Day One
“Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.” ~ Bono
I thought I’d have a little fun over the next two weeks. Why? Well, today marks exactly two weeks to my birthday and you’re getting the gifts instead of me. Each day from now until June 8th, I’m going to run a giveaway for a different paperback/hardcover book each day. Some of my favorite genres, my favorite authors and my favorite books. Entering will be as easy as leaving a comment, but please read the guidelines before entering.
So to kick things off…a little assassin Urban Fantasy:
Spider’s Bite (Elemental Assassin, Book 1) by Jennifer Estep
My name is Gin, and I kill people.
They call me the Spider. I’m the most feared assassin in the South — when I’m not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don’t use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride.
Now that a ruthless Air elemental has double-crossed me and killed my handler, I’m out for revenge. And I’ll exterminate anyone who gets in my way — good or bad. I may look hot, but I’m still one of the bad guys. Which is why I’m in trouble, since irresistibly rugged Detective Donovan Caine has agreed to help me. The last thing this coldhearted killer needs when I’m battling a magic more powerful than my own is a sexy distraction . . . especially when Donovan wants me dead just as much as the enemy.
~*~
Simply leave a comment between now and 9 pm (EST) today to be entered for a paperback copy of Jennifer’s book. No need to leave an email (I hate SPAM as much as the next person). Through the magic of Random.org, I’ll announce the winner of the previous day at the beginning of each new post & the winner will be responsible for contacting me directly. The winner will have five (5) days to contact me before a new winner is drawn.
Open to All (international included)
Good luck!
May 20, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday – 5/20
Thought I’d share something I’ve been hammering away at for the past few weeks…more than likely, a post-apocalyptic erotic romance. I mean, during dark, desperate times, what else are people left to do?
“Hey, Roth, hand me the knife, will you?” April glanced over her shoulder when he didn’t answer. She recognized the unfocused, glazed look in his dark eyes, and was even a little surprised to discover she didn’t mind him gawking at her. Knowing he would hate himself later if he allowed himself to give in, she released the rope and moved to slide off the hood of the truck–well out of his reach.
His hand clamped around her ankle, stopping her. “I know I said…” he trailed off as his lips drew together in a fine line.
For those new to this, the rules are simple:
1) pick a project – a current Work in Progress, contracted work or even something readers can buy if you’re published
2) pick six sentences
3) post ‘em on Sunday
See? Easy. Want to play? See the site for information on how to do just that: http://sixsunday.com
If you have a Twitter account, you can add the hashtag #sixsunday to your tweets when you tweet a link to your Six Sentence Sunday post. If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us!
May 18, 2012
Answers!
Well, really, answer. But it’s a good one.
Liia asked: WELL! I have a question about when you’re going to finish a certain series that was left on an insane cliffhanger that I’ve been DYING to read the next book of! *smiles sweetly* Pretty please when are you going to write the next book?
The series she’s referring to is the Rebirth series, my hot urban fantasy romance about Fae and vampires. The 3rd book in the series, Forged in Fire, ended on a major cliffhanger (I do like my twists and turns…). Have no fear, Evande, Quinn, Logan and the rest of the gang will be back. I just don’t have an exact date as to when. The fourth book is written, but in the wrong POV as the course of the series has changed from its original form as each book in the series has published (for instance, Callista actually died in my original cut of Forged in Fire, since she’s very much alive… *g*) Those changes will take a major rewrite that I have to carve out time for, but I am looking forward to it.
