Hi everyone!

I'm on "tour" this week, so there are a lot of poor bloggers who are stuck with me for a day. At some blogs there are reviews, at others, Q&A's, others doing features. But all will have giveaways, so be sure to hit them all! (P.S: My publisher is supplying the books, so they won't be signed, and they are open to US/Can only for the same reason.)

Here's today's list:

Q & A and giveaway at Red Hot Books, where you might get a little insight into what I'm planning for Reaver, and the thin thread that keeps me from turning into crazy Cat Lady…

Q&A and giveaway at Michelle and Leslie's Book Picks — find out where I'd tour in the Demonica world and what Ares has on his iPod!

Review and Five Fun Facts and giveaway at One Book Shy of a Full Shelf

Review and giveaway at The Book Girl

Review and giveaway at Love To Read For Fun

Giveaway at Just Another Blog

Giveaway at Bookhounds

Giveaway at Simply Stacie

There will be more, but the posts aren't up yet.

ALSO, as a celebration for Eternal Rider's release, Eternity Embraced is on sale for .99 cents everywhere it's sold! Links on the book's page!

Okay, so we have a winner, thanks to Random.org, but if you didn't win, don't worry…I have a contest coming up next week for another book.

So the winner of Gena's The Darkest Secret is:

Ganeva, Comment #32

Congrats, Ganeva! Please contact me via the Contact link at near the top of my blog with your address and I'll get Gena's book sent to you!

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Just a reminder, it's the last day of Operation: Auction, so head over and bid!

Also, I'm talking about the Four Horsemen's horses over at the Parajunkee blog, complete with a giveaway!

Today I'm at Beth Kery's blog with an exclusive sneak peek of Eternal Rider (plus a giveaway!) Hop over and see how Ares responds to violence.

I'm also at The Open Book Society where I'm talking about my superpower, how I deal with new releases, the future of the Demonica series, and the Lords of Deliverance series!

Happy Thursday, everyone!

I'm celebrating by…writing! Yeah, not much different from any other day…

Anyway, today I'm up at The Pop Culture Divas, where I'm discussing one of my favorite fiction categories: dystopian/apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic.

Speaking of "apocalyptic," I got a four-star review from RT for Eternal Rider:

"Eternal Rider is the first in a new series, Lords of Deliverance, featuring the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. The sexy and intimidating Ares was introduced in Sin Undone, a title from Ione’s Demonica series. Like the Demonica series, this first offering is just as compelling and powerful. Ione has the amazing ability to create intimidating, powerfully sexy and utterly compelling heroes. And her heroines aren’t too shabby either! Love, hope, sin, redemption and, of course, end-of-the-world danger fill the pages." YAY!

Today I'm also at the Dark Faerie Tales blog talking about…sex! *gasp* See why I write it and comment for a chance to win a prize!

Also, if you're a writer and are using Scrivener 2.0 for Mac and would like a romance template for it, please feel free to email me. It'll save a ton of work when you start new projects, and if you're just test-driving Scrivener, it'll make learning it SO much easier. This is only for Macintosh — I don't have a Windows version. Email me at larissaione AT gmail DOT com for the template.

I'm sure I had something else to blab about, but I can't remember what, so I'm going to get to work. The Horsemen are calling me!

No, I'm not really that excited about Monday, but I'm hoping the exclamation points and smileys will fool me into being thrilled.

Not so much.

Anyway, a couple of quick things: First, I'm at Zoe Winters's blog giving away a couple of copies of Eternity Embraced, so pop on over!

Second, only six days left to add your ballot in All About Romance's annual poll. Get your favorite in!

Third, my Sydney Croft partner, Stephanie Tyler, is giving away books at Joan Swan's blog. If you like romantic suspense and hot military heroes, this is your contest!

Have a great day!

Also…the good news: Got word today that the release date for Eternal Rider (the first Lords of Deliverance book) has been moved up! It'll now be released in March instead of April. Yay! of course, that means I need to get my butt in gear!

So hop over and say hi, and don't forget to vote in the poll on the right!

Borders Blog

To celebrate the first anniversary of International Heat, we've set up a Global Warming blog tour and invited some friends to join the party. And what sort of party would it be if we didn't have prizes?

During the week of March 13-17, we invite you to visit our blogs as we will each post a special red-hot excerpt, cover or review for you. (I have a Sin Undone excerpt below!) Simply leave a comment at each blog you visit. Visit them all and your name will be thrown in the hat for a special drawing. Four winners will be chosen and they will be announced here on March 18. It's that simple.

What are the prizes?

Prize one:

Waiting for Wednesday ebook by Mari Carr

Autographed print copy of Dream Machine by Jayne Rylon

Only Yours ebook by J.R. Patrick

Prize two:

Choice of ebook backlist by Jambrea Jo Jones

Death, The Vamp and his Brother tote bag, plus winner's choice of Lexxie Couper ebook.

Choice of backlist title by Dawn Montgomery

Prize three:

Bath and Body gift bag courtesy of T

Choice of backlist title and a package of TimTams from Jess Dee

Rodeo Heat by Desiree Holt

Prize four:

Choice of backlist title from Amanda Young

$10 gift card to Amazon courtesy of Valerie Tibbs

Choice of backlist ebook from Vivian Arend

Blog tour (you don't need to go in order, but you do need to comment at all of them to be eligible for a prize.)

Mari Carr

Desiree Holt

Viv Arend

Pearl's House of Romance

Jambrea Jo Jones

Z.A. Maxfield

J.R. Patrick

Carol Lynne

Jayne Rylon

Lexxie Couper

Dawn Montgomery

Valerie Tibbs

Larissa Ione (That's Me!)

eBook addict

Amanda Young

Rhian Cahill

Nicole Austin

Jess Dee

Selena Illyria

Lila Dubois

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And now…my excerpt! This is from Sin Undone, which is the fifth book in the Demonica series, and will be out August 31st!

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“I’m not going home with you.”

“We’ll talk about it while I’m patching you up.” Con jerked his thumb toward the back. “Go.”

Grudgingly, Sin climbed between the front seats and ducked through the hatch-like door separating the cab from the box section of the ambulance. A dull red light illuminated the space, and the same Haven spell symbols from UG were scrawled on the walls, but other than that, it could have been a human ambulance.

Her leg throbbed as she worked her way down the narrow isle between the bench seat and the stretcher, but that wound wasn’t nearly as bad as the pain spreading through her arm. She didn’t have to look to know a large gash had split her dermoire across her biceps. The pain had struck suddenly, but she’d borne it in silence, the way she always did. As an assassin, she never gave her victims the luxury of a scream, so she figured she didn’t deserve one any more than they did.

She didn’t deserve for the gash to be treated, either. She’d allow Con to mend her leg, but her arm was off limits.

Con jerked black rubber shades down from rollers over each window. Every sliver of outside light was snuffed, obviously a necessity when transporting vamps and other light-sensitive demons during the day. “Take off your pants.”

“Wow. Not one for foreplay, are you?”

He turned to her with lethal grace despite the limitations of the cramped compartment. “I spend hours on foreplay,” he said, his voice a slow, sexy drawl. “What about you?”

Heat flooded her face. Somehow, he knew the answer, knew she’d never engaged in foreplay in her life. For her, sex was fast food, not gourmet cuisine.

“Foreplay is overrated.” The gash in her arm screamed with pain as she shed her pants and hopped up on the stretcher. She left her thigh and ankle holsters in place, though, because they weren’t going anywhere.

“Then you’re not doing it right.” Con snapped on some surgical gloves, somehow making the sound and the action erotic. “You’ve had shitty lovers.”

“You were one of my lovers,” she pointed out, but he didn’t take the bait.

“Once. And there is something to be said for a hard, fast fuck.” His voice became a mesmerizing purr. “But there’s nothing like taking the time to slowly peel off every article of clothing, to kiss every inch of your lover’s skin as you do it. To lick all the sensitive places until they quiver. To explore all the textures of your partner’s body with your fingers, your mouth.” His fangs flashed as he added, “Your teeth.”

Hunger gripped her so fiercely she had to struggle to breathe. Yet somehow, she managed to speak calmly, as if Con’s graphic words hadn’t affected her. “The end result is the same. An orgasm. So why waste all that time? In the hour it takes you to lick someone from head to toe—” God, seriously? Want. “—I could have had half a dozen orgasms.” Assuming she was with some fictional male who could come that many times too — or a Seminus demon, whose ejaculate left females climaxing over and over, even if he left the room.

“Trust me,” he murmured, “the wait is worth it. You’ll get all those, but they’ll be better. Hotter. A-fucking-mazing.”

Sin went utterly wet and achy. Even if her succubus needs weren’t creeping up on her, Con would have jumpstarted things.

“Put pressure on your laceration.” The abrupt change of tone and subject made her blink, but he turned away to paw through the glass-faced cabinets and toss supplies next to her on the gurney.

Still dizzy with the images he’d put in her head, she grabbed a paper towel from the dispenser behind her and held it to the bleeding wound. A trickle of warmth ran down her arm and into her palm, and she covertly tucked another paper towel inside her coat sleeve. Then she entertained herself by watching Con’s fine ass hugged by black BDU pants. When he swiveled around back to her, she got a kick out of the way his gaze went to her bare thighs and black silk thong that was now damp with her arousal.

The longer he stared, the faster her heart beat, the more her belly fluttered.

The hotter it got inside the damned ambulance.

When his silver eyes finally snapped up, they’d darkened to a rich, smooth pewter, the hunger in them stark and undeniable, which was no surprise given what they’d just been talking about. For just a moment, she wondered if he’d act on his need…

Talking about the hybrid classic books! Wondering…have you read any? Do you plan to read any?

Any books you'd like to see hybridized?

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