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I’ll keep this short, sweet, and right to the point. I’ve uploaded the third chapter of my ongoing free story into the files section of my yahoo group. Trust me, you don’t want to miss this so, uh, join! BTW, I hope everyone has a great Fourth of July. Go on ladies and gents, make your own fireworks!!!
It’s apparent that the cover gods love me. I’ve been lucky enough to have covers that are good, great, and breathtaking. The latest fits in the final category. So here it is…the cover for Red Stone of Passion.
It’s it beautiful? I get hot just looking at it. and the dynamics between the three characters… Yeah, I’ll just let you salivate on that!
So I’ve started a free ongoing story. Whoohoo! I know. It’s called Masquerade of the Lyon and it features Layla, the heroine, Jagger, the hero, a will and a curse. Tell me you’re not curious. Go on. Tell me. I’m already deeply in love with the characters. I posted the prologue and first chapter on the website HERE and in the files section of my yahoo group. Check it out and let me know what you, whether in an email or the comments section. Technically, there is a catch. The remaining chapters will only be available in the files section of my Tidbits group (There’s got to a perk to join! :-D). And you do want to join if only so you don’t miss what’s going on in Layla and Jagger’s story. I’ve already written a few chapters so trust me when I say you don’t want to miss the rest of their story. So like I said before…JOIN!
I almost always find it difficult to find something to post about, but I told myself I’ll add to my blog every week, at least once a week. So here goes. I finished the edits on Tied and Tempting and feel comfortable enough to give you a peek at my goodies. So here goes…
Tied and Tempting Blurb Yahara does not do nature. She does not hike. She does not do trees. She does not do anything remotely green or natural. As far as she is concerned Central Park is all the green the world needs. She likes her concrete-filled city just the way it is. But as the leading ad “man” at her firm, she’s given the incredible job of creating the new magazine spread for a clothing line that’s totally green. Her big break! It just might be Yahara’s chance of getting one of her ads in a high paying fashion magazine. She’s more than willing to trade her Manolo’s for hiking boots. Kauri does not like humans. They are selfish, self-centered, and careless. They care nothing about the world that is their home. But he must mate. And with a human. Once his gaze catches sight of the tall, dark-skinned full figured woman that is Yahara, he decides humans aren’t so bad. His big break! Now, if he could just get her to stop threatening to burn down his forest whenever he makes her angry… He just might have to pull out the whips, chains, and handcuffs for Yahara. Excerpt
Yahara shifted from her left to right foot as she stared up at the seemingly endless path that lead up the hill. She glared at the trail. According to Kauri she was supposed to haul her big ass up it. “You’re kidding, right?” “Afraid of a few trees?” One dark eyebrow lifted. He had to be kidding. She wasn’t afraid of a few trees. She was terrified of the pollen, plants, and animals that lived along the trail. Woods were her natural born enemy, but she wasn’t about to tell the hottest man she’d ever met that. “No, I’m not,” she muttered. “Great.” “That doesn’t mean I’m going to trek my ass up there.” She turned and headed back toward her cabin. Unfortunately, it wasn’t going to be a quick walk. It had taken them nearly twenty minutes to reach the beginning of the path and that was because Kauri had carried both of their backpacks. She was not looking forward to the walk home. When he’d talked of a date she’d pictured herself in a black dress, him in dress slacks, and a candlelit table between them. She had not dreamed of flies, dirt, and the sound of critters in the distance. No fucking sirree! If Kauri’s ass had not been so fine, she wouldn’t have even considered taking her hiking boots out of the box. But no, she’d let his muscles, dark brown eyes and sexy, overgrown mahogany hair get the best of her. She blamed her response entirely on her dry spell. For Christ’s sake, what self-respecting black city girl starts hunkering for a white nature boy? The sexy bastard probably lived off granola. “Yahara!” She shook her head and picked up her pace. “No way, Jose. That damned thing is two miles up.” Yahara had made the mistake of asking Kauri how far their trail was right before they reached it. She’d laughed so hard, she thought she’d broken something. And then she looked at his face. Yahara immediately sobered up. He was serious. And after taking a look at the trail, Yahara knew she was not climbing it. “Stop running away.” The words seemed to rumble around her seconds before his long, strong fingers grasped her arm. She glanced down at his hand before lifting her gaze and glaring at him. “Why are you touching me?” He smiled. Both eyebrows lifted at that. Either the man was stupid or brave. She’d given him the, “Do you want to keep your manhood” voice and he’d smiled at her like she’d just asked the time. “What if I promise to give you something very special when you reach the top?” Visions of them together, limbs tangled immediately flashed through her mind. She pushed them aside and gritted her teeth before shaking her arm from his grip. “This better be damned good,” she growled before turning and heading back to the trail.
Couples Caught Behaving Naughty Huh? Yeah, that’s what I thought when I first saw it. Believe it or not, a number of individuals discovered my website using those search words. Couples caught behaving naughtily…. I was thrown for a loop until I saw which novel page the search engines landed on. Violet Storm. Hmm, well that makes sense. Violet Storm is about a mixed fairy who takes a gorgeous blond elf on a tour of a nightclub’s naughtier rooms. I guess that kind of falls into the category of couples caught behaving naughtily since one of the rooms they enter is exhibitionist, but really…?Why did google send them to my site? Were the triple x-rated sites down at that moment? Sigh…I just know that person was disappointed as heck once they started reading my excerpt.
Sweating with Sven check in On another note, in the last week and a half I’ve been writing like a demoness. I finished Beauty on Fire, a short story and I’ve completed more than thirty (30) percent of my novella Forbidden Love. I also have twenty (20) percent of the first novella in my X-Games anthology completed. I’ve also been working on edits and rewrites. On top of all that writing, I started outlining my next round of stories. I can’t really tell you guys anything about them until they are more concrete, but I’m very excited. Very excited. <g>. I’m so happy right now. I just got the cover for my upcoming Loose Id release Sugar Mama and it is absolutely gorgeous. I really, really and I do mean really love it. I want to have Frauke from Croco Designs’s babies. I don’t know about you, but I am so hungry for cake looking at the cover. Isn’t the cover delicious?
Another check in? Yay! At least that’s how I would be feeling if I wasn’t ill. Some 48hr bug hit me. I struggled with it on Monday, pretending to be invisible. On Tuesday, it took me down for the count. I work up this morning, much later than I would have liked feeling a lot better. *dances just a little before sitting down quickly cause unknown muscles still hurt* Back to the original topic -> So far I’ve been doing pretty well with my daily goals. I told myself I wanted to write approximately 1,500 words a day or a total of 10,500 words a week. I reached that last week. And it looks like I’ll still reach it this week even considering the fact that I didn’t write that much yesterday (750 words) and the day before (1500 words). I’m technically doing well because I’m forcing myself to write about 2,000 words a day so that way I’m not playing catch up at the end of the week. No catch up here. Plenty of goal achievements. So far I’m over 75% done Tied and Tempting. I’ve started Beauty on Fire, Forbidden Love and X-Games. The BIG PROBLEM is X-Games is my target story, what I hope to have accomplished by the end of the Sweating with Sven session and so far I’ve only got 3,500 words completed. I’m not quite so worried about it because I knew, coming in, that I wouldn’t be able to focus on X-Games until Tied and Beauty on Fire were completed. So now it’s a mad dash to finish them so I can work on X-Games. Until next check in… Yes, I’m participating in the Sweating with Sven challenge. You wouldn’t know it from the fact that I have not written a single post about it, but *shrugs*. I have always done things at my own pace. The funny thing is that although I haven’t been writing blog posts, I’ve been keeping up with my daily goals. I’m almost halfway through Tied and Tempting and I’ve started my two new WIPs, Beauty on Fire and X-Games. Yesterday I wrote 2,500 words. Not bad considering I wasn’t feeling well. I might post a snippet of my current WIPs when I’ve gotten a little more completed. Until next check in… Here are the famous words that I pray that we as a nation and as individuals never forget.
The truth is we have come so far, but we haven’t come far enough. So ask that on this day, we all look beyond our boundaries, especially if it means loving outside color lines. That’s what I’m going right since I’ve got a brand new, smoking hot cover and its for BLUE JEANS! I could not be happier with it. It definitely gives you a clue to what kind of romance writer I am. Well, erotic, duh! p.s. Tell me what you think!
First, I want to congratulate the reader who won Violet Storm as part of the Raven Hunt. *throwing confetti* Congrats, Poohleigh! Hope you love Storm and Isaias.*Snicker* I feel like Pink with that title. According to my critique partner, I’ve been so out of commission she thought I was “dead in a ditch.” You got to love Celia. She’s so smart, funny, and caring. Which is why when I told her my big idea for a scavenger hunt she did not laugh in my face. Let me tell you guys I am SO EXCITED. The rules are below. One book will be given to a single winner and one book will be given to the Grand Prize winner who wins a copy of all of the books donated by all authors. Here’s how the hunt will work: Every participating author will insert the image available at the blogspot (which would be provided) somewhere on their website on 11/23/07 (day after Thanksgiving): Once found, the readers will email blastinthenew@gmail.com with the link to the author’s page showing the image or submit the entry through the blog at http://blastinthenew.blogspot.com. Winners will be drawn from all valid entries on 1/1/08. |
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