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Congrats to:

Elena, comment #7

and

Rigmarole, comment #23

Yay! Please contact me via my contact link at the top right of this blog with your mailing address, and I'll forward on to Alison!

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Okay, win one of her BOOKS! [image error]

Wanna win No Limits? Alison is offering up two copies to two lucky winners! And trust me, you SO want to win. Alison is a fantastic contemporary author, whose writing is always intelligent, sexy, and full of very real characters.

Here's the blurb:

The Heat is On . . .


Simon Baptiste’s latest SG-5 mission just went south in a major way. With his career on ice for awhile, it seems like a good time to take care of some business back home in Louisiana. Simon knows it a

Is at Authors After Dark!

Hope everyone is well! We have finally gotten the basement and A/C fixed, so all is good here! [image error]

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Today is release day for the fourth Sydney Croft novel, Taming The Fire!

Here is the blurb:

POWER. PLEASURE. DANGER. IT DOESN’T GET ANY HOTTER THAN THIS.

He came to the underground London club for a night of extreme sex play with the enigmatic “Mistress Rik”. But the Special Agent known as Trance is really on a search-and-rescue mission to keep her alive. Part predator, Ulrika “Rik” Jaegar possesses feral powers that make her a danger to others–and to herself. That’s why the Agency for Covert Rare

Wow. Just…wow.

I have to say, I wasn't sure what to expect. I've attended three RWA conferences, and they are a lot of fun…and I figured RT would be similar. Uh…wow. *g* RT is definitely different!

I loved the fact that RT is packed with readers. It was AWESOME to be able to interact with people who love the same kinds of books that I do. The panels were fantastic, and the parties full of food, drink, and enthusiastic readers, authors, booksellers, and librarians…not to mention industry profe

It's coming up fast! Too fast. *gulp*

Today I've got some packages to mail, and then it's off to the hair dresser (where they have massage chairs and they give me wine,) and Belk for a pair of shoes. And then maybe the grocery story for travel and room snacks. Busy day today, so I won't get any writing done, but I can use the evening for catching up on email and finishing up contest stuff (Those of you who haven't received your prizes for the Spread The Word contest; they are either in the mai

Man, I'm getting good at sorting out contest entries according to prize and then feeding them into Randomizer.org! This time, I only had 3 groups instead of the gazillion I had in the Spread The Word contest, so this was easy! And if you didn't win, stay tuned…because there are more contests coming up!

Winners are:

Unleashing The Storm: Jamie - comment 61

Hot Nights, Dark Desires: ArkansasCyndi - comment 22

Seduced By The Storm: Jenn - comment 12

Congrats, winners! Please contact me through my co

[image error] In honor of the Sydney Croft books being caught up in the Amazon issue that has exploded all over the web and Twitter, I thought I'd give one away! Well, I'll give three!

I'm out of Riding The Storm, but if you haven't read the series, you could easily start with Unleashing The Storm. If you've read all of the novels but not the anthology, Hot Nights, Dark Desires, now is your chance to get it.

And if you love the cover of Seduced By The Storm as much as I do, you could get that one! [image error] I thin

In all the craziness, I forgot to say that I hope you and yours had a fantastic holiday!!! (Even if you don't celebrate, I hope you had a nice weekend that includes chocolate!)

Interrupting my usual posts for something of concern to authors and readers who use Amazon's search engine:

Recently, Amazon implemented some sort of new policy, where they are removing the sales rankings from books with erotic content or gay/lesbian lifestyle content (whether or not it is erotic.)

This might not seem like a huge deal, but the problem is that with the loss of the rankings came an inability to effectively search out these books.

So…from the front page, under "All Departments," if yo