Bounty Hunters' Captive now available on Amazon

Bounty Hunters’ Captive is now out on Amazon! 

http://www.amazon.com/Bounty-Hunters-Captive-Captured-Publishing-ebook/dp/B00J7R9VPW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395685414&sr=1-1

Garin Avon is a rugged bounty-hunter in space, who has a mission to find a contracted sex slave, the beautiful Felissa Delenn, who has run away from her master. He has secret reasons, more than just the credits he will earn--to get vital information. Meanwhile, he has to contend with his double-crossing ex-partner, fun-loving Rayn Dargo. They join forces, but on the journey home they go through various adventures with pirates, aliens, and meteorites, amongst others. Both of the men begin to fall for sassy, smart-talking Felissa. She takes advantage of this using her skills to try to persuade them not to send her back to her vile owner. This sets the two bounty-hunters at each other's throats. Will they return her to a life she only undertook for dire reasons, even though, for Garin, it is vital he returns her? And if they keep her, will she run away from them?

I love the way they add the line (only makes me want to read a story more!):

Note: This book contains forced seduction

Weekend Reading Recommendations

Hook up sites, tragic pasts and abandoned train cars - some great book suggestions for you this week:

Title of book: Losing It In Vegas

Name of Author: Michelle Graham

           

Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance

Description of Main Characters:

Rowan Cassidy is a zaftig 21 year old with long, wavy brown hair and dark brown eyes.

Bruce McGovern is a 35 year old firefighter with a brush cut and penetrating blue eyes.

Setting: A hotel room in Las Vegas

Length: 10,000 words

Blurb: Losing It is an online hook-up site for those looking for an easy way to lose their virginity. Rowan has no romantic prospects. Bruce is stuck in a dry spell. They meet in Vegas for a sexy tryst, but discover feelings neither of them expected.

What’s Hot: Great sex, oral and anal

Buy Link: http://www.amazon.com/Losing-It-Vegas-Michelle-Graham-ebook/dp/B00J0CUFG8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395271308&sr=8-1&keywords=losing+it+in+vegas

Title of book:  Saving Destiny

Author name:  Mary Lou George 

Genre:  Contemporary, mainstream, romance M/F (Siren/Bookstrand classified as Spicy)

Description of main characters: 

Heroine:  Sloan, 5’6”, twenty eight, indigo eyes, long dark hair

Hero: Mac, 6’4”, twenty nine, messy, dark hair, gray eyes

Setting:  Green Hills, Kentucky USA, summer

Length:  73,247 words, 234 pages

Blurb:  Years ago, Sloan Ridgeway and Mac Watson’s love story ended in tragically ever after.  When a broken engagement brings her home to small town Kentucky, Sloan is forced to enlist Mac’s help rescuing a starved and abused pregnant horse.  Can they save their own malnourished hearts in the process?

What’s hot in the story: former lovers try to deny that despite a tragic past they’ve never wanted each other more

Buy link:  http://www.bookstrand.com/saving-destiny

Title of book:  Petty Thief of Hearts

Name of author: Beth D. Carter

Genre: Contemporary Erotica Romance, Romance on the Go

Description of main characters:

Jessie Ciottie: 20 years old.  She has brown hair & brown eyes and was a college student until she saw a mob boss kill a man.  Now she’s waiting to testify but is forced to go on the run.

Ethan Stromhold: 22 years old.  He has black hair and blue eyes and panicked when no one believed he didn’t own the drugs in his car.  He ran and has been living the forgotten train subway for six years. 

Setting: Train station in Wilmington, DE

Length: About 30 pages

Blurb: Jessie has been in protective custody for a year. She’s due to give testimony but her location is found. On the run, a petty thief hides her. Ethan promises to get her to the courthouse on time. But the path between her and safety is dangerous. Ethan is the only thing that stands between her and a bullet.

What’s Hot?: A hot sex scene in an abandoned train car that the hero lives in and has fixed up. 

Buy Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/petty-thief-of-hearts-by-beth-d-carter/

Character Profiles

The Character profiles this month are from ‘Collared by Wolves’

Name – Natasha Talbot (known as Tasha)

Species - Human

Book – Collared by Wolves

Love interest – Griff, Ford, Max and Callum

Age – 24

Hair/eyes – Dark red hair, long and curling at the ends/Green eyes

Height/weight – Average height and weight but more voluptuous than werewolf women who tend to be taller and leaner.

Looks – Pretty rather than beautiful.

Other – Works in an office. Sees her life as very ordinary. Receives invite to attend a Beginners BDSM event but doesn’t realise it is at a werewolf BDSM club.

Name – Griff Seamer

Species – Alpha werewolf

Book – Collared by Wolves

Love interest – Tasha

Age – 36

Hair/eyes – Very dark, short hair. Dark eyes nearly black.

Height/weight – Not far off 6ft 4. Muscular

Looks – Olive skinned.

Other – Known as a rogue werewolf. Very much a loner. A very strong alpha.

The profiles on the other three heroes from this book (for Ford, Max and Callum) will be available to read next month. In the meantime if you are interested in reading this book it is available on Amazon.

Getting your first tattoo

Ever since I turned 50, bearing in mind that neither my later mother nor sister ever made it to the age of 50, I try to do at least one thing every year that is exciting, adventurous, outside my comfort zone or just something I’ve always wanted to do.

And along those lines I recently had a tattoo done! It is about 3” on my lower right calf – this was taken the day I got it. Ever the researcher I asked lots of questions and carefully noted the procedure for inclusion in a future book.

I did have a character with a tattoo in ‘Retraining the Dom’ who had one to cover up a scar. In the light of my research for having mine done I would probably have added some extra lines or comments stating that some artists won’t do tattoos over scars, particularly raised ones like keloid scars, as the ink doesn’t always stay there and the lines of the tattoo might be distorted.

Thankfully I didn’t have that problem and I deliberately chose an area of my body that will be less affected by wrinkle-age as I get older (ah ha! I’m not a fool!).

The first question everyone has been asking me is, “Did it hurt a lot?” The answer is not overly, more stingy than painful. Like someone pressing really really hard with a sharp biro into your skin. Again, I deliberately chose a fleshy area for that reason. What I wasn’t expecting, that I hadn’t read about in my initial research, was that some people having calf tattoos suffer from ‘blood rush’ to the area when standing after sitting or lying, or standing still after walking. It was agony for up to thirty seconds! I was ready to chop my leg off.

However, this sensation dissipated as the tattoo healed (phew!).

I was concerned about possible scabbing that some people seem to have had after their tattoos were done. It seems to vary from person to person and possibly depends on the skill of the artist. It is two weeks since mine (two weeks is the initial healing period) and I have only suffered from some slight flaking. So either the artist did it well, I heal well, or my aftercare was excellent.

This involved washing the area with antibacterial gel three times a day and washing the gel off with luke warm water with my hand only (no rubbing with a cloth).  Patting it dry with a paper towel and after allowing it to air dry for 10mins or so then putting on some expensive tattoo cream (which looks more like lip balm) that I got from the tattoo shop. I alternated this with tea tree cream as they said to start using non-scented creams (because the alcohol can draw out the ink) after a few days.

I am delighted with – and am thoroughly enjoying shocking everyone! I’ve had comments from “My life is so boring in comparison” to “You never cease to amaze me” to “Well done, you. I’m still traumatized from having my ears pierced nearly 40 years ago!”

For those that want to read more about Olivia's dragon tattoo (and where she got her scars from) in Retraining the Dom it is available on Amazon.

Jen

Weekend Reading

Waterfalls, ladders and big boobs - here’s some more suggestions for your weekend reading from more Eroticon authors:

Title of book: Stately Pleasures

Name of author: Lucy Felthouse

Genre: Ménage BDSM erotic romance

Description of main characters:

Alice Brown: A big beautiful woman that lacks confidence – Jeremy and Ethan help her find it in spectacular style.

Jeremy Davenport: Athletic, muscular, sinful lips, blue/green eyes, delicious arms. Gorgeous.

Ethan Hayes: Chin length tuggable hair, green eyes, dimples, very tall and muscular. Gorgeous.

Setting: A British stately home – Davenport Manor.

Length: 75,000

Blurb: Alice Brown just landed her dream job. Property manager at Davenport Manor. It’s only a nine-month contract, but it’s a boost up the career ladder. Things don’t get off to the best start, and she’s given an ultimatum. She’s so stunned that she goes along with their indecent proposal.

What's hot: Kinky sex up against a ladder in a beautiful library.

Buy link: http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk/published-works/stately-pleasures/

Title of book: Chasing Emily

Name of author: Jennifer Denys

Genre: Sci-fi/futuristic/Menage MFM

Main characters: Emily, age 45, eyes grey, hair is long, wavy, brown with red tones, average height say 5ft 5in, she is voluptuous – big bosom, big hips, basically a middle aged women.

Finn, age 34, eyes green, hair is blond, curly with a fringe that flops into his eyes, slight of frame but wiry and shortish in height, say 5ft 7in.

Robin, age 29, eyes brown, hair dark brown, short, straight, height is 6ft in, well built (works as a carpenter so strong arms).

Setting:  Sometime in the future on the planet of Duoterra

Length: 33k

Blurb: On the colony planet, Duoterra, unattached woman are expected to marry one or more men. But middle-aged Emily Dubois is fiercely independent. When she’s caught in a compromising position with travelling musician, Finn Taylor, her other lover, Robin McPherson, is insanely jealous. Can these two men work together to keep their woman from fleeing?

What's Hot?: Sex in a waterfall

Buy link: http://www.bookstrand.com/chasing-emily

Title of book: Sharing Nicely

Name of author: Victoria Blisse

Genre: Erotic Romance, Ménage & BDSM

Description of main characters: Greg Stamford: Late 30’s/ early 40’s age wise with a caramel tan, dark black hair  “like the classiest limousine and equally shiny” Thin, hard lips. Stern looking, stoic. Telecomms Billionaire.

Kerry Matthews: Has dark, curly hair, she’s tall, curvy (big boobs, big hips, a wobbly tum!) and has bright blue eyes. She’s smiles easily, is very practical and is the boss at Diamonds, a dance club, she built it up all by herself.

Darren Bennett:  Has an elegant air and self-assured smile, his hair is fiery red. He has Startling Blue eyes, he’s Scouse Broad shouldered, flat stomached, but not as tall as Greg, about 5”10.He wears suits but likes novelty ties. He’s always laughing, very light hearted but also cocky and forceful. A Telecomms Billionaire.

Setting: Contemporary, a large chunk of the novel is set in Venice.

Length of book: 52,000

Blurb: Two hot, sexy billionaires know what they want and they want her, but will they be happy to share nicely?

What's hot: A ménage scene with two hot billionaires and a curvy, sassy heroine!

Buy link: http://victoriablisse.co.uk/books/sharing-nicely

Eroticon 2014 - facts, figures and stats!

Eroticon – facts, figures and stats!

Some more interesting facts from Eroticon UK that I attended recently:

• Blog posts with good titles or opening sentences will draw the reader in, so hopefully this worked!
• Tweets with photos have a much higher click through rate! (note to self – must tweet more)
• Naked male flesh on the cover sells better (at least on MM books but I suspect it is true of other erotic romance books too)
• Exercise is proven to be far more effective than Viagra within three months (they didn’t say what type of exercise though!)
• Facebook is the biggest ‘outer’ of people wishing to keep their pen name private for whatever reason
• Most people will read a blog on their phone.
• 1/3 of woman in the UK aged 35-65 are incontinent (if you pee when you sneeze this counts – so I am one of them!!) and 85% of whom can be cured with 5mins of physio – must try pelvic floor exercises)
• UK obscenity laws makes it illegal to write (even in private emails or texts) about various items including gags where the person cannot withdraw consent. Considering what I activities I write about (as do many authors who write BDSM stories) I’ll be writing my next blog from prison…..
• The end of a blog is a good place to get the reader to engage with something else, eg, a link to something else like a new release, or leave them wanting more, eg, a follow up report or a good excerpt and they want to buy the book.
• Female readers of gay stories get upset if condoms are not used but male readers wonder why it is necessary!
• An average length for blog posts is 500-800 words but there’s no reason you can’t have shorter or longer post every now and then.
• Gay books that sell under 1,000 in the first two years are low selling, 1-5,000 are mid selling and over that is high selling.

Bearing in mind the latter and considering whether those figures can be transferred to other genres here are some stats relating to my books:

Submissive Training has sold over 10k and the full two years of sales have not yet been received! So, by far this is my biggest seller. (I still think people are expecting a training manual!)

The Submission Challenge was close to passing into high selling after two years having reached 4,700 sales.

Just Good Friends was just over 1,000 at 2 years, so just into the mid selling range.

Friendly Seduction was under 1k. (Shame because this was my favourite to write).

None of my other books has been out for two years yet but The Sub Who Switched, Wife for Three and Retraining the Dom have all sold over 1,000 already.

 

In the light of the earlier bullet points I added this pic for the naked male flesh! This post is now 512 words and if anyone is interested in buying any of these good selling books they are all available on the following links!!

Amazon UK

Amazon US

Bookstrand

Jen

What's Doing Mondays

Something you never knew about me......I was burgled in 2005 and all my jewellery was taken including family heirlooms such as a pocket watch which belonged to my great grandfather and had his name engraved (Harry James Chapman) similar to this one, only I cleaned mine better!

Also my late mother’s emerald engagement ring which had worn away so much she couldn’t wear it anymore and an unusual pendant – a seahorse in a green stone! This was the closest pic I could find but mine was a darker green stone.

Weekend Reading Recommendations

I am back from a Eroticon with three Eroticon authors......



Title of Book: Submission of the Siren (Sirens and Sailors 3)

Name of Author: Bella Settarra

Genre: Fantasy/Gods, MF

Description of Main Characters: Heroine:  Kalliope; slim, beautiful, long straight black hair, deep green eyes.  Hero: Rechavia; Big, muscular Dom, deep voice, shoulder-length dark, tousled hair, very handsome, brown eyes.

Setting: Mythical Island of Refrainia

Length: 52,983 words

Blurb: When Kalliope’s boredom lands her in the arms of another man Rechavia realizes it’s time to take her in hand.  As they fight to keep their island from a take-over bid, Kalliope and Rechavia also fight for their relationship.  Rechavia’s dominant nature surfaces and Kalliope finds herself on her knees!

What's hot?: Whipping in a woodland ‘dungeon’!

Buy link: http://www.bookstrand.com/submission-of-the-siren







Title of book: Misconduct: 6 (Hot Ice)

Name of author: Lily Harlem

Genre: contemporary erotic romance MF

Description of main characters:

Dustin 'Speed' Reed goaltender for the Orlando Vipers. Tall, short dark hair and a scar on his lip from a stray puck!

Gina Gunner daughter of retired owner of the Vipers. Business graduate struggling to be taken seriously by the team, it seems her sexy curves and sweet smile is all one particular player can take notice of!

Setting: The majority of Misconduct is set on a beautiful Island (if you've read the first book in the Hot Ice series, Hired, you'll have already been there).

Length: 187 pages

Blurb: Manage the Vipers hockey team! Me? Well, that’s my role now. Shame a gorgeous, cocky-assed goaltender is testing my patience. Sweet cheeks—really, is that any way to refer to the boss? But what’s the fun in having rules if no one ever breaks them? I’ll take what I can, give him what he wants and worry about balancing the books tomorrow!

What's hot: The discovery of a strap-on that creates a spark of excitement in one very hot, very hard to handle hockey player! 

Buy link: http://www.amazon.com/Misconduct-Hot-Ice-Lily-Harlem-ebook/dp/B00I3H1MIG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390982042&sr=1-1&keywords=misconduct+by+lily+harlem  

Title of book: Fulfilling the Contract Book 2 of The Mount Series (The sequel to The Initiation of Ms Holly)

Name of author: K D Grace

Genre: Contemporary MF erotica

Description of main characters: Nick Chase - deep cinnamon eyes, slightly mussed bedroom hair with a bronze shimmer of desert heat about it. He spends time in the sun. Limo driver.

Elsa Crane - Heavy auburn hair hung in wild ringlets down her back and over her shoulders. Well-muscled legs that goes on forever. Blue eyes. Tough and mysterious. Runs Mount Vegas.

Setting: Las Vegas

Length: 261 pages

Blurb: NICK CHASE picks up TANYA POVIC at a bar only to discover the explosive sex they share lands her in breach of her contract. Nick negotiates with her boss, ELSA CRANE, to allow him to fulfill Tanya’s contract by giving Elsa’s clients something worth watching through the plate glass windows of Vegas’s luxury hotels. As Nick and Elsa’s relationship sizzles more than hotel room rendezvouses are exposed.

What’s hot?: Voyeuristic pleasures

Buy link: http://www.amazon.com/Fulfilling-Contract-Mount-K-Grace-ebook/dp/B00I3OWABW/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394749214&sr=1-4 

Eroticon 2014

I'm back from Eroticon 2014 and had a fab time!

This is the third year - but, shock horror, no Eroticon in the UK next year :( - but it was still terrific meeting up with old friends including Janine Ashbless, Lily Harlem, Victoria Blisse, Lucy Felthouse, Jacqui Brocker to mention a few, introducing new friends to Eroticon, namely Bella Settarra, and meeting lots of new friends like Vida Bailey.

Some brilliant sessions and I learnt lots of things:

1. If a person is prone it means lying face down not just lying down as I had assumed. So a guy's erection cannot spring forth from that position.......

2. Straight women are the biggest buyers of gay erotic romance - and I'm not talking lesbian!

3. Due to the UK's obscenity laws it is actually illegal to write about some of the acts that we write about, even in private texts or emails!

4. Dominant titles like Master, Mistress, Dom, Dominatrix or Domme are gender specific - but submissive isn't' .....

5. I even learnt how to add a photo to a tweet on twitter :)

Jen

What's Doing Mondays

Check out two great blogs where I am featured/interviewed about 'Bounty Hunters' Captive':

Liv Honeywell (although I do know Liv was having problems with her blog so if it doesn't work I'll put up the link again another day).

and

Mellanie Szereto 

Find out how I incorporated classic sci-fi lines like "I guess this is first contact" into this story on Liv's blog and why my inspiration came from the stars on Mellanie's!


Thanks, ladies.
x

Jen

Weekend Reading Recommendations

Two great books for you to get your teeth into this week:

Title of book: Lucifer's Errant sub (#2 in the Blood Red Rose Club series)

Name of author: Clair de Lune

Genre: Contemporary BDSM

Description of main characters:

Devil is 18 and 5' 10." He's very handsome if rather undernourished. His most striking attribute is his long mane of unruly, black hair. He's hardworking, loyal and starved of affection. Lucifer is 40, six feet tall, and from Serbia. He owns a BDSM club called the Blood Red Rose in the UK. He has large, grey eyes, and long, straight, black hair. He has multi-coloured tattoos from wrist to shoulder. He's determined, dependable and very intelligent.

Setting: The story starts in Eastern Europe in a pseudo religious order called the Brotherhood.  It ends in the Blood Red Rose club, in the UK after a brief interlude in a travelling circus and a chase across Europe.

Length: 26,780 words

Synopsis: Who makes Devil run for his life? Follow his journey as he flees across Europe, discovering in the process what he wants and whom he truly loves. Has he found out in time and will his lover, Count Lucius Dragović, "Lucifer," succeed in finding him and making him his sub?

What’s Hot: The Devil’s initiation into BDSM

Buy link: http://www.bookstrand.com/lucifers-errant-sub

Title of book: Through the Dom's Lens

 

Name of Author: Doris O'Connor

Genre: MF/BDSM/interracial/rubenesque

Description of main characters: Junsako Frederikson, Japanese/American, sought after bondage photographer known as Master J and expert in Shibari, does not believe in love, and never gets involved with his models.

Sally Wood, curvy twenty something with body issues, keen to experience a taste of the lifestyle. She does a favor for her sister, and her life is never the same again.

Setting: London, UK, Junsako Frederikson Photography Studio

Length: 23 K

Synopsis: Sally is not her sister, but she is just the right body shape Master J needs, and he can't resist showing off all those abundant curves in Shibari suspension. If only Sally would let go of her body issues and see the beautiful submissive he sees through his Lens.

What's hot: Inappropriate use of Japanese food, spanking, and Shibari. Might induce hot flushes and the need for a shower, fan, or one's BOB or SO.

Buy Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/through-the-doms-lens-by-doris-oconnor

World Book Day 2014

It is 2014 World Book Day today!

In order to attract some new readers who haven't read any of my books before I am doing a big giveaway. Leave a comment saying which ebook you would like and your email address and the first 14 different people who haven't read one of my books before (!) to leave their comment will win an ebook (PDF only). Print combinations are not available as ebooks, only individual titles.

Check out my backlist on Bookstrand, Amazon or my blog.

Good luck.