Monday, 6 January 2014

Cover Reveal: The Stylist, His Dom, and Their Dancer

A New Year, a new release, and a brand new cover to show off!
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Thursday, 2 January 2014

Winter Spanks Blog Hop


Thank you for joining us for Winter Spanks! Let’s warm up with some hot bottoms & cool prizes! Read on for a chance to win:

Welcome to my stop on the Winter Spanks Blog Hop!

I don't know about you, but my favorite thing to do in the winter is sit inside by the fireplace and admire the snow through my window. It's also the best place to curl up with a good book, or indulge in other indoor activities. Let's just say that the fire isn't the only thing keeping my butt warm this winter.

Anyway, I've already added a ton of books to my TBR pile for this winter, but I'm excited to tell you about my new release in February. So I'm posting a short spanking scene from that book for your enjoyment!

The Stylist, His Dom, and Their Dancer: Hedon Falls 4
coming February 13, 2014

Stylist Remy Alexander would do anything to please his Dom, Seamus O'Connell, even inviting a woman to share their marriage bed. Nicole Collins, his daughter's dance teacher, is sexy and submissive, but can their relationship survive Shay's past and Nicole's outraged father?

Excerpt (Unedited)
Remy watched the muscle twitching in Shay's cheek as he struggled with his emotions, and his heart ached. It was hard to see someone he loved hurting so badly. More than anything, Remy wanted to hold Seamus and tell him that everything would work out, but he'd been with him long enough to know that wasn't the approach that was needed.
"I'm sorry if I spoke out of turn, Sir," Remy said, lowering his head. "If you need to punish me, I understand."
Shay sucked in a breath, and then let it out slowly. "Over my knee. Now."
"Yes, Sir." Scrambling up off the floor, Remy lay himself down across Shay's lap with his ass in the air.
            The first slap of Shay's hand on his ass had Remy trembling. With each new blow, the stinging warmth spread over his bottom, and his cock hardened. He could feel Shay's erection pressing into his side, and despite the pain of the spanking, he smiled. It felt good to submit to his Dom, especially when it meant Shay could regain his sense of control. Remy closed his eyes and focused on the sensations. Shay had begun to reach down and cup Remy's balls in between smacks, the gentle touch a sharp contrast to the harsh sting of the spanking.


So what do you think? Leave me a comment and let me know for your chance to win your choice of one of my back list titles. Don't forget to visit the other stops on the hop, too!

RULES:
Follow the links to read the blogs–comment on the blog to prove you were there (or answer the participant’s specific question, if they have one). COPY AND PASTE COMMENTS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED! Each comment earns you one entry for the grand prize. You must provide your email address for your entry to count. Individual pages may also have their own form of entry (Rafflecopter, etc) for additional chances to win prizes. Enjoy all the free stories, posts, & fun!





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Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Happy New Year!



Well here we are, another year drawing to a close, and a time when we take stock of our lives and look toward a New Year.

2013 brought another whirlwind of excitement for me. My first book, Landing the Big Ones, released on January 8 (and nominated for Book of the Year at The Talent Cave Reviews!). It was followed by The Art of Love in February, and Training the Help in April. I had set a goal for myself of releasing one book per quarter and it looked like I'd be able to do that and then some. But another alter ego ran into some trouble with a book that required extensive rewrites and that pulled me out of the headspace I needed to be in to write erotic romance. Getting back on track proved more difficult than I had anticipated. And I found too many stories clamoring to be told, which distracted me a lot! What should have been Hedon Falls 3 got pushed back to #4, and then to #5 when a certain character kept begging me to write his story. In the end, I managed to finish Hedon Falls 4 and get it submitted, and accepted! My scheduled release is February 13. So I met my goal of 4 books last year, but one of them happened to be for a different pen name.

With all the craziness going on in my personal life as well (started a new EDJ, Dad has been diagnosed with cancer, hubby was out of work for a few months, kids are struggling in school) I've become much more withdrawn. I love interacting with readers, but I found myself with less time to devote to blogging and other social media.

So what's next for me?

I submitted a short story to Decadent and was rejected, but I have plans to revise that one and submit to another publisher. In addition, I'm halfway through another short for the same publisher, and I'm overrun with ideas for other shorts. My other self is working on a follow-up, and I have just started what I'm hoping will be a significant work for me (Michelle Graham).

My resolution is to devote more time to my writing career, both the actual writing, and the social media, though I'm going to start small. Here's my 2014 To Do list:


  1. Check in on Facebook at least every other day, even just for a quick peek.
  2. Ditto for Twitter.
  3. Do at least one blog post each week, in addition to blog hops, hosting blog tours, promo blitzes, and doing reviews.
  4. Finish and submit Hedon Falls 5.
  5. Finish and submit 4 short stories for another publisher (Siren doesn't do short ones).
  6. Finish and submit my alter ego's second book.
  7. Finish a first draft of my big, secret project.
That looks like a lot of writing, but I did the math and if I reach my word count targets for all of those writing projects, it's only 727 words every day. When it's put like that, it seems totally doable.

So friends and lovelies, I'd love to hear about your 2013 accomplishments, and plans for 2014. And I wish you all the best!
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Friday, 27 December 2013

Quintessentially Q by Pepper Winters: Spotlight and Review


Quintessentially Q 
by Pepper Winters

 "All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted...fucked up to want something so deliciously dark - wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence where two wrongs make a right."

 Tess is Q's completely. Q is Tess's irrevocably. But now, they must learn the boundaries of their unconventional relationship while Tess seeks vengence on the men who sold her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess's feet, and that's just what he'll do.

 He may be a monster, but he's Tess's monster.

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Author Bio:
Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex...her books have sex.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends.

Her debut book, Tears of Tess, will be followed with Quintessentially Q. You didn't think Q could stop so soon, did you? Her other two titles, Last Shadow and Broken Chance will be coming soon.

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My Review
My sincere apologies to Pepper as this review should have been posted last week, but it's such a crazy time of year that I hadn't finished reading the book on time.

I had the pleasure to review Pepper's first book, Tears of Tess, and I loved it. That book could have stood alone, but it left me wondering what would happen with Q and Tess. So when the opportunity to read the sequel came up, I jumped at it. If you haven't read Tears of Tess I recommend you pick that one up before you read Quintessentially Q. It will give you more of the backstory. (Buy links are at the end of the review)

In Quintessentially Q, we get to find out more about the enigmatic Q who Tess falls for. We get to see more clearly into Q's head, to understand his fears and motivations, and it rounds out the character so we can see his internal struggles, despite his cool exterior.

Overall, I'm enjoying the series, but I found myself wanting some threads to be resolved and for a lot more action. Ms. Winters does a great job at giving us a deep understanding of her characters' emotions and as a reader, you will experience everything that they do. I found the first four chapters or so difficult to get into. They're mostly hot sex and inner monologue. The sex was great, but the rest tended to be repetitive. The action really starts to build when Q takes Tess to his corporate offices and she ends up being kidnapped again by those seeking revenge for Q's dealings. What follows is a heartbreaking account of Tess's ordeals and Q's desperate search to find her. The last part of the book focuses on helping Tess to overcome what's happened to her.

Tess and Q's journey isn't over and I'm looking forward to the next book to see how they continue to build their relationship together, while fighting the evil mechanisms that brought them together in the first place.


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Friday, 20 December 2013

River Reckoning by Jenny Lyn Blog Tour


Blurb
Bond Mason’s roots run deep in the backwoods hamlet of Trespass, Florida. Nestled against the banks of the Suwannee River, the only home she’s ever known holds bittersweet memories of a family long gone. Except one of her ghosts isn’t dead and possessive ex-lover James Kyle wants her back. 

U.S. Deputy Marshal Nathan Gates sights are set on capturing fugitive Robert Kyle. Wanted for the cold-blooded murder of a DEA agent, Robert is suspected of being hidden away with his moonshine-brewing, marijuana-growing family of fellow lawbreakers, one of which is his brother, James. 

Nathan expected high temperatures when he arrived in Trespass. What he hadn’t counted on is his searing attraction to southern beauty Bond Mason. She winds him around her finger like a tendril of Spanish moss, but his lawman’s intuition tells him she’s hiding secrets too. When he finally convinces her to talk, he’s not prepared for the dark truths she reveals about her hometown. 

The Suwannee is deep, but Trespass’s sins run much deeper. For once, Nathan might be in over his head. 

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River Reckoning takes place in Florida, and as I look outside at the crappy weather in Ontario at the moment, I got to wondering what it would be like in Florida right about now. So Jenny told me!

FLORIDA IN THE WINTER
Thank you to Michelle for hosting me and my new release, River Reckoning.

For the record, I love living in Florida. I’m a born and bred native who has never lived anywhere else. The part of the state I live in, just a little south of the bend, is what I like to call “old Florida”. It’s still very rural, with lots of small towns and even more untouched and unspoiled land. We have tons of natural resources to enjoy. Springs, nature parks, the Gulf Coast, hunting and fishing, and of course, the beautiful Suwannee River.

Now before I start to sound too much like a tourist commercial, let me say that the one thing I envy my northern friends is real seasons. Here in Florida we have two—hot as Hell’s front porch, a/k/a summer, and Fall-ish. We might get a couple of weeks of jacket weather all totaled. Our leaves don’t go through the gorgeous color changes like they do in higher elevations. Most of our foliage is evergreens. If we get any color change at all, it’s a few yellows and drab browns.

If I were to move north, I’d likely freeze to death. My blood is too thin! And forget driving. Once every twenty years or so, we get icy conditions, usually because it rained then the temperatures dropped into the teens. Watching us Floridians drive on ice would be comical if it wasn’t so scary. Lots of folks turn their sprinklers on trees in their yard when we’re about to have freezing temps to create ice sculptures in the yard, plus it also protects the plant, strange as that sounds.

But having said all that, I do love where I live. It’s kind of fun to be able to wear shorts in December a week before Christmas, even if it does still seem weird to someone who should be used to it by now. And there’s always the beach. The sand is so white on some of them you can squint your eyes and pretend its snow.

Enjoy your holidays, everyone. Keep warm and be safe!

~Jenny

Bio
I started reading when I was four, thanks to a babysitter who found out the only way to get me to sit still was to put a book in my hand. By the time I entered kindergarten, I’d blown through just about every Little Golden Book ever printed. Ten years later, much to my mother’s dismay, I found her stash of paperback romance novels. She tried to divert me back to something more chaste by buying me Harlequins, but I still snuck copies of her Kathleen Woodiwiss’s and Johanna Lindsey’s when she wasn’t looking. Shanna, The Flame and the Flower, and Fires of Winter will always hold special places in my heart because they introduced me to roguish heroes, headstrong heroines, and the trouble they could get into together.

I live in a swampy little corner of north-central Florida with my family, both the two-legged and four-legged variety. I love to read, run hot and cold in regards to cooking, and I never miss an episode of Justified, Longmire, or Dexter. I guess I like justice in all its various forms.


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Monday, 21 October 2013

Big Cocks and Broomsticks Blog Hop


I'm excited to be participating in the Big Cocks and Broomsticks Blog Hop. I didn't know what I would write about, but hubby and I spent the weekend in Toronto at the Everything To Do With Sex show and I felt inspired.

So in honor of Halloween, I thought I'd talk a bit about role playing. For me, role play always feels a little silly. I've never been able to get deep enough into character to forget how self-conscious I am. Nothing ruins a scene faster than laughing out loud while attempting to play the naughty schoolgirl, or the dirty nurse, or the sexy nun or whatever else the situation might call for. I find that the fantasy works much better while it's still in my head. And if it's hubby's idea rather than mine, I find it even more difficult to stay in character.

But at the show, it astounded me the variety of costumes available from the "sex shops", from the slightly sexy to the downright slutty. Hubby did his best to try and find me something, but I'm a big girl and unfortunately "one size" does not fit all. Too bad really, because I think that a costume might be the key to helping me get into the role playing a bit more. Perhaps I'll have to start hitting the second hand stores to try and customize something from there. Now is definitely the time to be out looking!

So how about you? Do you enjoy role playing? What makes it easier or more difficult for you? Leave me a comment and I'll select someone to receive one of my ebooks and $10 in Strandbucks to use at Bookstrand. Plus, don't forget to use the Rafflecopter to enter for the Blog Hop Prizes, winner's choice of a gift card from Amazon or Barnes and Noble! Grand Prize is $100, Second place is $50, and Third place is $25. And all my fellow bloggers are giving away their own fantastic prizes so make sure you use the linky list below to hop around to their sites, too.

Happy Halloween!


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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Review: Remembering Joy by Jenni Moen



Blurb
Alexis doesn't believe in fairytales. She knows first hand that life can turn on a dime - that one stupid mistake can shatter dreams and irrevocably shape the future. Even though her memory of that day is hazy, she has spent the last ten years trying to put it behind her and focus on the future. Armed with the knowledge that her career will be her only legacy, Alexis works night and day to prove that she is more than just her last name. It's not only that she doesn't have time for love - she doesn't have the heart for it. After all, there's no point in starting something that you can't finish. However, when she meets Adam, she's drawn to him in a way even she can't deny. He is dark and brooding and strangely charming. He's the perfect distraction from the mundane life she's created for herself. And, as if fate is pushing them together, he seems to be around every corner. It's enough to almost make her entirely forget about her past and take a chance. Unfortunately, Adam's memory isn't hazy...not in the least. And, what she doesn't remember, he can't forget.

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Author Bio: 

Jenni Moen lives in her hometown in Oklahoma with her husband and three crazy, exuberant kids that have the potential to burn the house down at any moment.

When she's not chauffeuring kids around town, performing her mom duties as a short order cook and maid, or vacuuming for her fastidious husband, she hammers away at her keyboard at her big girl job as a patent attorney. While vodka and exercise have provided some relief from the daily grind, it is reading...and now writing...that are her true escapes.

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My Review
The blurb for the book intrigued me when I first read it. A woman running from a past she can't remember becoming involved with a man from that past. An interesting idea. And in reading Remembering Joy, I was very impressed by the whole concept. From the start, it's clear that Adam is holding some kind of grudge against Alexis, though you could only begin to guess at what it was. Doling out only small snippets at a time, the author strings you along until the big reveal, at which point as a reader, you're convinced that there's no way this can end well.

It's a strong debut novel, with writing that is, for the most part, technically sound. Alexis is a character that you instantly feel for, even though you don't know what her entire story is, and it's easy to see how she's torn about her burgeoning relationship with the handsome stranger.

I had one really big issue with the book though, and maybe it's just me, but for the entire first half of the book, I hated Adam. I mean he was a total asshole and had very few redeeming qualities. The way the story was written, we are privy to some of his thoughts and actions that Alexis has no clue about. And they're not nice. Not at all. I love a bad boy as much as the next girl, but there has to be something right from the start, that convinces me that beneath that exterior is someone I want the heroine to care about, and I didn't get that here. By the second half of the book, we get that information, but in the beginning it's just not there. I can't help thinking that it might have been more effective if the whole first half of the book was told from Alexis's POV, with the reader knowing only what she does, because she has no idea how bad he really is.

Don't fret though - Adam proves himself a worthy hero in the end, though not all the threads were tied up, because there is a sequel planned, and I, for one, intend to pick it up!


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