Moving on...

I've set up a sparkling new website with the blog attached. Click the link below to join me at:

Snippet Saturday-Dialog

I have a snippet to share, but I'm going to direct you over to my brand new sparkling website to enjoy it. Click the link below.

Heat Wave goes live!

BIG NEWS!!

I promised, here it comes. :)

When I signed my first contract just over a year ago I flapped around for a while and then slowly started to figure this business out. Slowly. That's what happens when a piano falls on your head, it takes a while to shake off the shock and get rolling.

I started this blog. I set up a website. I joined the Samhain Cafe and started to chat with people. I deliberately didn't set up a yahoo group. Partly because I figured who in the world would want to hang out with me, and partly because I just didn't have time.

But a cool thing happened on the way past publication. I met some awesome ladies, and together we established International Heat, back in March.

We're going one step farther. Today, you can join Heat Wave Readers, a yahoo group with a difference. We're not trying to be another place to chat, since there are a ton of sites you can do that already. This is a place to get the inside track on new releases, hear about what we're working on, and get exclusive contests just for Heat Wave Readers.

To start off, we've got a whole month of goodies planned, including a truly awesome grand prize. I've been playing with the prizes. Remember? And seriously--WOW--there are eight published writers in the house. That's a lot of books to be able to give away!!

So if you're interested, the place to head is Heat Wave Readers. You'll want to check back all month long for sure as there will be week long contests, drop in ones and the Grand Prize handed out November 1st.

Wasn't that a nice surprise?

Hunk Day

Okay. In honour of starting to get back in shape I HAD to show you this picture. Just staring for a while and I swear I can feel my tummy muscles get stronger.

Have a great day all, we'll see you tomorrow for a VERY special announcement!

Tuesday Tidbit

I've been busy writing wolves, so thought I'd just go back and do a little shot out of the first book in the series. Wolf Signs.

We're fast approaching the release of book two! I'm getting excited...

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Oh, lordy, she wanted to be naked with him.

That was really, really not her.

She’d reached twenty-six years old with limited sexual experience. Whether it was because Tad was overprotective or because her deafness made her too unattractive to warrant more exploration, she’d never worried about it too much. She had read erotic stories over the years, and she knew how to climax, but she’d never had any desire to try much of anything with anyone.

Tad said she was saving herself for the “right man”.

Her parents had told her that when it was time, she’d know.

After all these years she’d figured that the Timex took a licking somewhere along the line and busted, because no one had really turned her crank.

Until now.

This stranger made her mouth water, and she hadn’t had a real taste of him yet. She opened her lips a crack, to see what he’d do and his eager tongue slipped past to trace the edge of her teeth.

Damn, he tasted good.

A sudden rush of scent filled her head and made it spin. Tingles raced down over her body coming to land between her legs. She reached out a hand to see if something was pushing on her crotch, but nothing was there except the internal pressure that made her want to squirm.

Keil’s hand slipped around to the back of her neck, drawing her closer and shifting her mouth to a different angle as he continued to kiss her. She pressed into him, enjoying the pleasurable sensations flowing through her. Yet even as she kissed back she wondered what she was doing. Why she wasn’t pulling her knife on him and getting him to back off?

He lifted her around to lie on top of his body as his tongue worked its magic on her mouth. His heart beat under her hands, the long, hard length of his body warm against her torso and limbs.

And she realized the long, hard length of something else nestled between her legs. Oh. My. Word. She pushed up with her hands on his hard chest to stare into his dark brown eyes, uncertain what to do. She felt safe, even if this had to be the most insane thing she’d done in her life.

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Some awesome reviews

Time for a little more fun. A few reviews for Rocky Mountain Heat AND a really cool one for the cover. April Martinez did a fabulous job with the cover, getting in everything I asked for. The rest of the review can be reached by clicking the links.

Seductive Musings:
I just love the cover of Rocky Mountain Heat from Vivian Arend's Six Pack Ranch series. While some covers are just nice to look at like this one is, I think it also conveys what the book is about too. For me that is the ultimate combination...enticing you to buy while conveying an accurate representation of the story. This one is brilliant at doing all of that....


The Romance Studio
This story started out with a strong opening that set the stage for the whole book. I found myself totally captivated until the very end...

I'm a happy girl!

Snippet Saturday- First Paragraph

First Impressions. First Paragraphs.

In a twist on the theme, I thought I'd show the progress from what WAS the first paragraph to what it ended up being. I'm an obsessive draft saver as I write. At the end of a story I will have dozens of the manuscript saved, and each time things get tweaked more and more.

From the Book 2 in the Granite Lake Wolves, coming October 27th. Wolf Flight.

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Version #1- started two years before the real story. Eventually got cut as too much back story.

The sun shone off the surface of the lake to reflect a million sparkling jewels back into his eyes. The bright blue summer sky stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak. Tad maneuvered his floatplane toward the portable dock visible along the north shore of the small lake. He took a deep breath and congratulated himself for being smart enough to find a job that got his butt out of an office and into some of the most beautiful county anywhere in the world.

Damn, he loved to fly.

He had just tucked the plane next to the dock, neat as can be, when he felt a solid clasp to his shoulder.

“Nice landing, hotshot, very nice.”

Version #2- starts in the real story but now there was too little backstory. It was impossible to jump in so fast, so as fun as this was, it got moved into a later chapter.

Hellooo Legs…..

Tad leaned up against the doorframe, the dropped washer he’d been chasing from the backroom forgotten as he looked up at a very well formed pair of gams. True, they were covered with a thick layer of high altitude fleece, but still. Tasty.

And the ass. The light brown pants did nothing to hide the curve of the sweet cheeks under the padding layers.

One of the ‘Top Ten Reasons to eventually move south’ was being clearly demonstrated. Number 3 on Tad’s list, in fact. Living in the Yukon meant that there was usually only about a two week window that the girls were able to wear mini skirts. Now in the cold of February the fact he could admire anything at all other than a fine pair of Kodiak boots and a floor length coat amazed him.

Version #3- Okay, getting more serious now. This -is- before the hero/heroine meet, but it turned out vital to know who the bad guy was.

The Whistler pack house was crowded after dinner, small groups of people arranged around the room talking amongst themselves. Many of the shifters had apartments off the back of the complex within the secret community. Hushed conversations carried on the air quieted even further as raucous laughter burst out from where the Alpha and his cronies sat in the prime seats before the huge stone fireplace. Unease filled Missy as she tried to concentrate on the discussion between the girls in front of her. She felt more tension than usual the air tonight and that was saying a lot. A warning sensation snuck up the back of her neck telling her it was time to retreat. To hide. Saying goodnight to her friends she headed quietly toward the exit.

#4- cleaned up and tweaked w/editorial finesse to become the final start for Wolf Flight

The Whistler pack house was crowded after dinner, with small groups gathered around the room talking amongst themselves. Conversations quieted for a moment as laughter burst out from where the Alpha and his cronies sat in the prime seats before the huge stone fireplace. An icy warning trickled up Missy’s spine, and she gave up on the discussion in front of her. She rose from her chair and headed quietly toward the exit, weaving between the couches and recliners that filled the meeting and relaxation area for the pack.

Missy had no illusions about the precariousness of her position. As the widow of a high-ranking wolf, even one whose position had come from his family relationship instead of his power, she was an obvious target for any of the wolves looking to improve their standing in the pack.

Which would be, oh, pretty much everyone. Only she wasn’t worried about all of them, just one very dangerous individual.

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For more firsts. ;)

Kelly Maher
Jody Wallace
Shelli Stevens
Michelle Pillow
Lauren Dane
Leah Braemel
Jaci Burton
Elisabeth Naughton
McKenna Jeffries
Moira Rogers 
Taige Crenshaw
Juliana Stone
Anya Bast
Lacey Savage
Shelley Munro
Sasha White
Ashley Ladd

Contests and Prizes, Oh My- what do YOU think?

We're getting ready to launch something BIG with International Heat- at the start of October in fact- shhhh, it's a secret still. :) And I'm playing with prizes.

What do you think? which do you like better?

1. Prize packages where there are books set out already so you know what you're winning

or

2. A chance to get winner's choice of books?

What would you consider a GRAND prize? Help me out here, and give me a few ideas. I've got some nice things falling into place, but I'd love to know what you're thinking would get you excited.

New Release- Lila Dubois

Okay, tomorrow we talk about Monster Contests, today we talk about Monsters.

Book Three in Lila Dubois' brilliant series, Monsters in Hollywood, released this week. This is one of those series that make you go 'that is such a cool idea...why didn't someone think of it before?'. And then after you read the book you're doubly glad that Lila thought of it. Because they are sooo much fun, so creative, so sexy and downright HAWT. I'm working my way through all the books again and have to confess this is one series I have in both ebook and print. Yup. That good...

“Gone with the Monster” by Lila Dubois

Buy from MBaM!
Read An Excerpt Online
Genre: Fantasy Romance, Red Hots!

ISBN: 978-1-60504-670-9
Length: Category
Price: 4.50
Publication Date: September 22, 2009
Cover art by Scott Carpenter

Kidnapping and bondage are no way to win a girl. Well, actually…

Monsters in Hollywood, Book 3

Runako has good reason to distrust humans. His sister’s murder taught him it’s safer to keep his Monster form under wraps. Now comes word that a woman is making a movie that will supposedly “help” his people. He’s not sure about that, but one thing is sure…Margo is too beautiful to be ignored.

Presented with the opportunity to use his people’s Captive Caves—a secluded mountain fortress designed to hold hapless, tasty humans prisoner—Runako knows exactly whom he wants to star in his ultimate fantasy.

Margo knows exactly what she wants and how to get it. At least where her career is concerned. Runako is just the kind of bad boy with whom she’d like to heat up her nights. In a land of skinny blondes, though, a hottie like him would never notice her lush, Latin curves.

No one is more surprised when she finds out his version of “wooing” includes kidnapping. Forced to stand before him in chains, her paper-thin confidence is burning up fast in the heat of his desire. And when it turns out she can identify his sister’s murderers, they both must decide where their loyalties lie…

Warning: This title contains light bondage, spanking, anal play, sex with a Monster and misuse of home décor.