New Cover!

Thought I'd share the new cover for Till Surrender, my MM para/fantasy story coming May 7 from Total E Bound.

Read the blurb over at my website

The Ice Cube

My author is part of a very hot anthology based in sexy Sin City! The Ice Cube is a highly erotic short story about erotic torture involving an ice cube and some very enticing voyeurism.

Sin City brings to mind decadence of every kind. To indulge in your basest desires and live uninhibited. Perhaps to stand in front of a window and take your punishment, hoping its witnessed. No shame, no hesitance-just desire and erotic torture.

This anthology is available now as an ebook-http://www.amazon.com/Voyeur-Eyes-Only-ebook/dp/B0072LGYFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329721247&sr=8-1 and as an audio book- http://www.amazon.com/Voyeur-Eyes-Only-Windows-Encounters/dp/B0078P5Z3C/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1329721247&sr=8-1

Read, listen, and most certainly enjoy these erotic stories...perhaps you can feel yourself the voyeur watching the pleasure of so many others...

More Time Wasting

Even with all the social media sites out there, more keep popping up. Crawling out of the woodwork to tempt us *me* and keep us *me* hooked on shit and wasting time. I try my best to stay off those damn things, because God knows, there's not enought time in the day to do all the mess I gotta do. With writing and family and the day job, I mean, I have no time to play around on Twitter and Facebook.

But I do.

Because those bastards are just plain addicting.

Right?

I don't do the rest. FB and Twitter are my main ones, but I recently discovered Pinterest.

OMG! It's awesome and time consuming as hell.

Have you heard about/tried Pinterest? You should. Or maybe stay away from it. It's not the like the othe's first off. Consider it a board in your house that you pin things to, swatches, interesting pics, fave colors. Stuff like that. It keeps you organized and it's too damn fun.

Check out my boards, where I pin food, drinks, my characters inspirations and any old thing that catches my fancy. I know, I'm sending you into the Lion's den, but come on...live a little.

VD

How to celebrate Valentine's Day like a vampire

-blood red roses: these should be given to your valentine at the beginning of the date and their petals should be spread over the intended place of romance, whether that is a bed or a bath or a carpet in front of a fire perhaps

-blood red wine: this will loosen silly inhibitions and heat the body making it pleasant to take off clothing and feel each other's touch

-blood red velvet cake: this sweet treat fed to your valentine will be a sensuous foreplay if done right

Valentine's Day done right, the vampire way :) well if a vampire could consume wine and cake...

Happy Valentine's Day to all human and not

Valentine's Day Blog Hop and More...

This weekend kicks off the With Love Valentine's Day blog hop. Over 260 authors, tons of prizes inclusing gift cards, chocolate, jewelry and ebooks. I'm participating and two lucky commenters wins their choice of my backlist. Check it out by starting at my blog.

On the news front, I signed a contract this week so it's official: Love the Sinner, my M/M gay-for-you novel, has been contracted by Ellora's Cave. Awesome sauce!! Can't stop grinning.

And...

Make Me Burn, the follow up to my bestselling, Make Me Sweat, was also contracted last week by Evernight Publishing. It is also M/M. Blurbs are on my recently over-hauled website. Busy me ;-)


Happy Valentine's Day to the lovers!! Keep it sexy, make it wicked.


R.I. P Whitney Houston

Far From The Usual

I bring delicious cover goodness and blurb for my upcoming novella, Far From The Usual. Evernight Publishing has contracted this interracial story for a tentative April release date.

He’s her ex’s brother, yet Arden Windham aches to be in Cam Mercer’s arms. The man is rude and obnoxious, his blue eyes cold and unfeeling, but he makes her body melt. Being with ex-con Cam is nowhere in her plans, not if she wants the affection she’s worked so hard to gain from her overbearing father. Still, Cam’s touch is unlike anything she’s ever felt and Arden finds herself having to choose between her wants and her needs.

 
Cameron Mercer is his family’s black sheep, a man apart. For six months he watched Arden waste her time with his twin and now she’s free, he’s not waiting another minute. He’s on a campaign to get her off the tight rope she’s been walking. There’s a rebel behind that smooth façade and he’s on a mission to set Arden free. Too bad she insists on putting up a fight.


COMING SOON from Evernight Publishing

How To Survive In A Vampire Neighborhood

Ooookay. By the instructions on "Ten Ways To Recognize A Vampire Neighborhood" I gave you last time, you've determined that you might be in trouble. Now what can you do about it?

Obviously, you could simply move. But that takes time to prepare, time you might not have, unless you're willing to desert your present life and burn all your bridges. Because, if the Vampires learn you've found out about them, they might not want to let you go, or worse, might want to follow you to make sure you won't pass on what you've learned.

Is there any other option for you? Of course there is, and that's what this blog is about.

Let me first recap the ultimate goals:

First, you don't want to be bitten.
Second, obviously, you don't want to be transformed.
Third, you still want to live a normal life.

Luckily, there are a number of things you can do. Some are obvious, some may surprise you.

1. Be careful about going out at night, be selective about your company and make sure you never come home alone after sunset. If they can't get you alone, Vampires may look for easier prey.
2. Don't invite any strangers into your house after sunset. Tell them to return around noon. Only if you've seen them walking in sunlight, they may visit you late.
3. The same applies to new friends. Don't bring them home from bar or dance on the same night. Tell them you're old-fashioned and want to meet for a coffee (around noon) before inviting them to your place… or following them to their place.
4. Another option is to eat lots of garlic. This makes you less attractive to a Vampire, however, it also makes you less attractive to the ordinary human lover. It's a tradeoff, and if you re-read my statements above, I didn't promise you an easy way out, right?
5. Start wearing gothic neckwear and wristwear yourself, especially the stuff with spikes. This gives you a few seconds during which a hungry Vampire must search for another place to bite - perhaps the soft skin of your thighs? Yeah, sturdy leather pants help, too.
6. Wearing black and covering your neck might lead a Vampire to the misconception you're already engaged with another - he/she might check this first before approaching you and taking chances with a superior Vampire. However, this only lasts for a while.
7. On the other hand, when it comes to colors, avoid red and white. See my blog entry on "What To Wear At A Vampire Ball" for details.
8. Carry a wooden stake with you and begin to train how to use it. Also train your state of mind: You must be willing to kill a sentient, even if undead, being in order to save your own life, and you must do it the gory way. It needs a lot of effort to penetrate skin with a wooden stake, and if you hesitate, you're busted.
9. Re-read the "Ten Unusual Ways To Kill A Vampire" and start obtaining the necessary tools.
10. Buy a Car Vampires Like. See my previous blog to learn how this may help you.

These hints may buy you time, if not your life. However, there's no guarantee. In the end, they're the predators, and we're the prey. Sorry.

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