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International Heat Global Warming Blog Tour!

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

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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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sin125And 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…



Sin Undone!

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Squee!!!!! I has a cover!!!!

Now, I realize it's black and white — and pretty. But it'll be even prettier in person, because it'll have a metallic wash over it, so it'll be silver and black instead of black and white. I can't wait to see it!!!!!

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HER TOUCH IS DEADLY

As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she’ll die before she’ll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin’s innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence.

HIS HUNGER CAN’T BE DENIED

Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she’s no stranger: He’s bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality. Worse, Sin is the underworld’s most wanted and Con soon learns he’s the only one who can help her . . . and that saving her life might mean sacrificing his own.

Here's a link to Sin Undone's page…with an excerpt!



Today’s Post…

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

is at Writeminded!

Also, recently Lore and Wraith have had awesome news, but I'm excited to announce that Shade is no longer feeling left out, because his book, Desire Unchained, won the CAPA award for Best Paranormal Romance 2009 at The Romance Studio!

:cool: WTG, Shade!

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Wraith Does It Again!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

cataaward2009I'm just so proud of that sweet little demon!

I just learned (I'm a little late - been down with a migraine for days, but yesterday it hit critical mass and left me curled in a ball under my covers for a good 18 hours) that Passion Unleashed won a CataNetwork Reviewer's Choice Award for 2009!

:cool: Yay!

You can check out the list of winners at each of the three CataNetwork sites:

Single Titles
Sensual Reads
CataRomance

Also, an early heads' up:

I'll be doing a blogtalk radio interview on February 17th at 2PM EST. You can call in with your questions during show time to participate in the live interview @ 646-378-0039. Listen-in or chat on the Grand Central Publishing channel on BlogTalkRadio. If you would like your questions to be read on air by the host or if you would like to give advanced notice of your participation during the live call, email anna.balasi@hbgusa.com

I'm already nervous. I always sound like a big doofus when I'm live! :rolleyes:



New York Times Print List!!!!

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

:grin: Squee!!!

I just found out that Ecstasy Unveiled not only hit the New York Times bestseller list for the second week in a row, but it hit the PRINT list at #20!!!! OMG!!!

I'm so excited! Thanks once again to all you amazing readers who have been buying the books and supporting this series. Writing it has been a dream come true, and y'all made it happen!

THANK YOU!!!



USA Today and New York Times!!!!!

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

ecstacy-unveiled_200 :grin: Exciting news, and not just for me!!!!

My hands are STILL shaking, and I found all this stuff out yesterday afternoon, but…Ecstasy Unveiled hit #58 on the USA Today list, which is a big jump from #81, which was where Passion Unleashed debuted.

AND…Lore also jumped 10 spots on the New York Times, putting Ecstasy Unveiled at #23 on the NYT!!!! Squeeeeee!!!!!! <--that's me, still squeeing even though my voice is kind of gone.

But that's not all.

Nope.

My awesome Sydney Croft buddy, Stephanie Tyler, also hit the New York Times bestseller list at #22 — for the first time!!!! Holy crap, Steph! You're a New York Times bestselling author!!!!!

We're right next to each other, which is really freaky, but it also makes sense. We've been running neck and neck since the beginning when we got The Call within days of each other. Then we sold our Croft books together. Then we sold our individual series within weeks of each other.

She hit the NYT on her third book, and I hit on my third book. And we both hit this time on the same day, side by side, with purple covers.

How weird is that?

So anyway, that's the news. Oh, and we sold the first two Sydney Croft books to Germany, so yay for foreign translations and fun covers!!!

Thanks to everyone who has been so enthusiastic about the Demonica series and who bought Ecstasy Unveiled. You guys are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Big, squishy virtual hug!!!!!!



Lore is Here!!!!

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

ecstacy-unveiled_400YAY!!!!

OMG, Ecstasy Unveiled is FINALLY here!

Man, it was a bumpy road — his first draft nearly killed me, and then came revisions, all of it done during a move from Virginia to Wisconsin. I was writing in the car as my husband drove, was writing in the hotel rooms when we stopped, and I didn't unpack boxes in the new house for a month.

But the book came together, I got a great cover, and it all fell into place. Even better, I share today with my Sydney Croft partner, Stephanie Tyler, whose book, Hold on Tight is out today too — and with a purple cover!

Also, I've got some stuff going on around the blogsphere today, but it's early in the morning and I haven't had any coffee, so I can't remember them all. I'll update throughout the day as links come in to me.

Here's one, though: I'm at the RomCon blog talking about book covers!

Also, my publisher made this really cool interactive E-card for the release — just click here to be taken to my desk! Check out the gargoyle! And if you click on the papers, you'll get some concept art and info about the weapons in the book, and click on the iPod to hear me talking about weapons in the Demonica world. My publisher is so awesome…



Almost There!

Monday, January 25th, 2010

I'm SO excited — tomorrow Ecstasy Unveiled officially releases!

And there's a cool party coming on the 27th to celebrate!

Just hop over to Bitten By Books and RSVP for 25 extra entries.

Entries for what?

Grand Prize: 2GB Apple iPod Shuffle in green (just like Sin's in her book) plus a $25 gift certificate
2nd Prize: The Demonica tote pictured below with all the goodies
3rd Prize: The Demonica mug pictured below with all the goodies

I'm going to try to do a video interview for the party — TRY being the operative word, here. I'm kind of lame when it comes to stuff like this. And shy. Yes, you heard me. Shy. My horns are definitely well-concealed. :grin: Hope you'll join me!
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All Over Blogland Today!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

img_2238I'm really, really busy today, all over blogland, giving away stuff and doing interviews and blog posts…

:grin: Would love for you to come see me!

First up…Lore (Ecstasy Unveiled) and Chris (Hard To Hold) are interviewing each other in a two-day Demon/SEAL event! And we're giving away stuff. Including demon and SEAL duckies! Come see what happens when you stick a demon and SEAL in a room together! :cool:

Next, I'm over at the fabulous Beth Kery's with an interview and a giveaway! And while you're there, don't forget to enter her BIG contest, in which you can win $100 gift certificate! Come on over! :wink:

I'm also over at the Witchy Chicks blog talking about things like Egypt! The Witchy Chicks blog is run by some awesome authors, so come check it out! :smile:

Also…this is the bag I've been giving away as prizes on several blogs — it's a neat tote/boat bag, so if you see a bag listed as a prize, that's it below! (includes the pens and bookmarks, but unless specified in the contest, not the duckie or notebook)

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A Mish-Mash!

Friday, January 15th, 2010

How is everyone? Surviving the cold?

It's warming up here in Wisconsin — a January thaw. Bleh. I want more snow! This has been such a mild winter. I will be happy to not have rude snowmobilers cutting through my yard, though.

While working on revisions to Sin Undone (I love this book!) I've been watching the tragedy unfolding in Haiti. It's bringing back a lot of memories of Katrina, and that's been a little hard. This is one of those times I wish I'd followed through with my desire to keep my EMT certification and join a SAR team. :sad:

In more uplifting news, there's still time to check out my interview at Paranormal Haven and win Passion Unleashed!

Also, I just got an AWESOME review of Desire Unchained at The Raving Readers. I'm always extra happy to get good reviews of Shade's book, because I know he can be the hardest character to like for a lot of people. His book is also much darker than Eidolon's, so the shift in tone can throw readers. The harshest reviews I've gotten on the Demonica books have been on Shade's book. So any time I get a great review of Desire Unchained, I'm super excited.

Speaking of reviews, Larissa at Larissa's Life loved Passion Unleashed! Don't forget to stop by to comment on the daily posts for more chances to win!

Have a great weekend, everyone!



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