Last
reminder to get your anthology stories to me for Luminosity’s anthology called ‘Men
for Hire’! The deadline is midnight on Weds. More details here
Monday, 30 March 2015
Friday, 27 March 2015
Weekend Reading
Meddling alpha wolves, fashion icons and princes – our true loves come
in all sorts!
Title of book: Resisting the Alpha
Name of author: Jessica Coulter Smith
Genre: Paranormal
Description of main characters:
Micah Smythe - Over 6 feet, shaggy dark hair,
muscular, alpha wolf
Bridget Donohue - A little over five feet, long
dark hair, full kissable lips, and attitude for miles
Setting: Present day in a small paranormal town
Length: novella
Blurb:
Bridget Donohue is beyond
furious with the meddling alpha of the local wolf pack. He not only crashed her
wedding, but scared the groom away.
Disgruntled by his
attraction, Micah Smythe feels the pull but isn’t willing to bite.
What's hot?: Sex in a back alley
Title of book: Rumpled Between the Sheets
Name of author: Kastil Eavenshade
Genre: Contemporary romance
Description of main characters:
Benjamin Elstiltzkin has gray
eyes and dark brown hair. He broad chested form stands six foot tall and is an
icon in the fashion industry.
Mary Becken has hazel eyes and
blonde hair. Her petite frame is a mere five foot four inches. She's found her
calling making fashion for her hometown of Beowulf Hollow.
Setting: 1970s
Length: 28,550 words
Blurb:
Some want to find love at all costs. Some believe there is a cost to find
love.
When Mary Becken’s mother passes away, she
takes over her tailoring business. Soon her dress shop is swarming with
customers and invitations come pouring in for Press Week.
Benjamin Elstiltzkin is ruthless in the
fashion world, and no small town upstart is going to dethrone him.
What's hot?: Once their love ignites, no place is safe from
their passion—not even the ladies' room during Press Week in New York.
Title of book: Bad Apple
Name of author: Wren Michaels
Genre: Fantasy
romance/fairytale retelling
Description of main characters:
Snow White – pale skin, long dark curls, blood red lips
Darien – Irish, dark hair, blue eyes, strong build, prince
Setting: Fairytale
castle/haunted woods
Length: Novella – 20,000
words
Blurb:
Snow White has always been pure, but one night gives in to her desires.
Prince Darien witnesses her indiscretion, and together they tap into a part of
Snow long buried. But Queen Miriam, once betrayed by Snow’s mother, wishes to
kill her. Darien must believe in true love’s kiss or lose Snow forever.
What’s hot?: Voyeurism.
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Alien Manhunt - winner of Best Gay Heroes award
Further to my fabulous news about winning three
awards in the Ménage Romances Fans’ Awards (thanks to all my wonderful fans),
here is the third book I am highlighting:
‘Alien
Manhunt’ – winner of the Ménage Romances Fans’ Awards – Best Gay Heroes characters
(which was also a runner up in the Futuristic and Romance on the Go series categories
for Evernight Readers’ Awards a few months ago)
This story came to be in a dream one night. Really!
I woke up having just dreamt it and immediately thought, “What a great short
story that would be.” I had never intended to be a short story writer because
it takes a totally different skill to writing novellas – you can’t tell the
whole journey of their romance, just an episode within it.
But I just had to write it up, pretty much as I
dreamt it with lots more detail – although I added a third character at some
stage.
Having finished it, though, I was sorry to let the
characters go so soon and when readers indicated they wanted to know what
happens next, I decided to write a sequel, ‘Alien Manhunt 2’.
There will be an ‘Alien Manhunt 3’ which will come
out later this year – just to round off the story. Three aliens, three planets.
But
back to AM 1 – here is the blurb: Abducted and forced to run for his life in a manhunt
comprised entirely of human men, Greg spies the two aliens fiercely competing
to capture him, and he begins to lust after both of them. Taran, a hunky
humanoid/reptilian, and Suva, a tall, beautiful, slender creature, are both
desperate to get to the human first, while being attracted to each other. Back
on Earth Greg was the dominant one, but the situation has changed now. What do
they want with him? Sell him, torture him or make him into their sex slave?
Each one keeps their innermost desires secret. But is the truth finally out?
Reviews include: This is the first book I have had the pleasure reading by
Jennifer Denys, definitely will be reading much more. Gave the book 5 stars
because I loved the ménage relationship between the men...scorching!
If you are still interested here are some buy
links:
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Torn Between Two Lovers - winner of Best Paranormal Award
Further to my fabulous news about winning three
awards in the Ménage Romances Fans’ Awards (thanks to all my wonderful fans),
here is the second book I am highlighting:
‘Torn Between
Two Lovers’ – winner of the Ménage Romances Fans’ Awards – Best Paranormal
(it also came runner up in Best Contemporary and Best Shapeshifter categories).
This is the second in ‘The Haunt of the Wolves’
series set in a werewolf BDSM club (the first one being ‘Collared by Wolves’). What I liked about doing this series is that
since werewolves set themselves apart from the human community (and they are
mythical anyway!) I could play around with the rules of BDSM and make it
rougher – being wolves they like to bite and claw. Also non-consensual bondage
- they chained up any bratty submissive werewolves whether they wanted to be
chained up or not as a play on canines being chained.
I also had my first death in this book.
But back to TBTL, what I liked when writing this
story was playing off the heroine’s human lover against her werewolf lover. The
blurb says it all: The mysterious werewolf entity from ‘Collared by
Wolves’ is called on again when lovely submissive shifter Evie Pierce, runs out
on her alpha werewolf Dom, tall and hunky Stefan Russell. A handsome human,
Jace Talbot, a visitor to the area, who doesn’t know that werewolves exist,
rescues her from malicious rogues who attack her in the forest.
As
she recovers they begin to fall in love, but Evie has a dilemma. She is torn
between Jace and his sensual, romantic ways and her old BDSM life with Stefan,
and all the excitement that brings.
A
confrontation between the two men leads to a stark realization, horror, and
betrayal. This changes all their lives as they struggle to understand what has
happened, and then a natural disaster means the two men have to work together.
But what will happen once it’s all over? Whom will she choose? Human or
werewolf? Gentle or rough?
In order to win her over the human has to show his
strength and the werewolf has to show his emotions – both the opposite of their
normal selves – so it was fun to play around with character development.
Here’s
an excerpt:
The rain lashed at Evie’s face as she
exited her car, hitting her cheeks like pinpricks, and she turned away, causing
her hair to blow into her eyes. Irritated, she swiped it away with a growl.
“Dammit!”
Like members of her wolf family, she
abhorred storms. It didn’t matter when she was in her wolf self as her fur was
thick and waterproof, but when it was turning into a gale like this one was,
she instinctively wanted to find her fellow wolves and curl up under the pines,
noses tucked in, sharing heat, staying safe.
Instead she was in her human form about to
visit Jace.
Things had got better with Stefan. In the
last week he had worked hard to refresh her submissive training, and it had
been successful. She seemed to have gotten past her fears. In the meantime, he
was somehow gentler than he had been before, more caring. It was a welcome
surprise. Evie wondered if it was because of the attack or because he feared
her leaving him for Jace.
But whether to marry him or not was still
up in the air, and she knew he desperately wanted an answer from her. He had
even gone as far as telling her that he would take no other submissives if she
was his mate as well as his sub.
“Really?” She had been skeptical.
He had cupped her face. “If that’s what it
takes for you to be my mate.”
Evie believed him, but somehow, her past
jealousies didn’t matter that much-except Brenda. She would always be the thorn
in Evie’s side. The issue instead was which of her lovers she would miss more
if she had to give one up. That was why she was now standing outside Jace’s
front door—to make a decision one way or another.
Reviews include: I really loved this book
If you are still interested here are some buy
links:
Tomorrow I will highlight ‘Alien Manhunt’ winner of Best Gay Heroes story.
Monday, 23 March 2015
Bounty Hunters Captive - winner of Best Sci-fi award
Further to my fabulous news about winning three
awards in the Ménage Romances Fans’ Awards (thanks to all my wonderful fans),
here is the first book I am highlighting:
‘Bounty
Hunters’ Captive’ – winner of the Ménage Romances Fans’ Awards – Best
Sci-fi (it also came runner up in Best Light Bondage and Best Straight
Characters categories).
This story came out of a much earlier contemporary book,
‘Friendly Seduction’ in which a
sci-fi writers enlists the help of a friend to add more sex into the sci-fi he
is writing and in doing so they fall in love.
‘Bounty
Hunters’ Captive’ is the story they wrote and I always felt it would
be good to write it for real. What I wasn’t reckoning on was making it into a
series, however, Tianna, the sister of one of the heroes, went and got herself
kidnapped, too (believe me, the characters do it all themselves whether we want
them to do it or not!). So BHC became the first of a new series called ‘Captured
in Space’. I am working on the second one as we speak – title still to be
decide, but something like ‘Captive of Two Imperial Princes’ and it will be
Tianna’s story. This one will be finished in the next couple of months.
Meanwhile, back to BHC – what I loved about this
was adding in sci-fi references (being a sci-fi geek myself) so there are
references to:
Star Trek (Prime Directive)
Star Wars (Naboon)
Babylon 5 (De Lenn)
Forbidden Planet (Krellim)
Battlestar Gallactica (Dagget)
War of the Worlds (spaceship with three wings)
Dune (Melange)
Dr Who (Gallifris)
Stargate (Chulluk)
The Thing from Outer Space (flesh eating plants)
Superman (Krypton rock)
2001 A Space Odyssey (Hal) ……. To name but a few
(Most of the words I use are slightly altered from
the original, afterall, we are talking about a galaxy far far away …..)
Anyhow this is the blurb: 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?
Reviews include: This book was really good. Garin, Rayn, and Felissa had a lot of
funny moments and I found myself laughing out loud at stuff they said.
Here are a few of my
favourite funny snippets from the story:
“Well, for Christ’s sake,
Garin, what are you waiting for? Go and kill it with a neck pinch or light
saber or something!”
Glancing up he
could see the green giant rising to his feet as Felissa ran by him. “Shit!” He
turned and quickly caught up with her.
She screamed at
him. “He’s still following! Why didn’t you do something?”
“You’ve been
watching too much sci-fi. I’m getting out of here.”
“Felissa’s foot was injured,” Garin lamely
explained.
His partner raised an eyebrow. “Really? And you
were mending her with your dick, eh? I’ll have to remember that remedy in
future.”
Pointing at the screen, Garin demanded,
“There. Hit it dead center with the photons and it will set off a wormhole.”
Felissa goggled at him with incredulity.
“Won’t that just blow it up along with everything else in the universe, and
obliterate all mankind, or turn into a black hole, or something?”
He nearly smiled. “What did I tell you
about your love of sci-fi?”
Rayn groaned, and huskily said, “Garin, for crying out loud,
do something or she will kill me.”
Garin loomed above them, his arms crossed, wryly retorting,
“Well, you are horizontal already, so that makes death easier.”
“Thought
you were too tired, Garin,” queried Rayn teasingly as his heavy breathing
started to ease.
His
partner grunted. “I had to do something to exhaust her. Otherwise she’ll hit
the warp booster by mistake, and we’d end up at the ends of the universe.”
If you are still interested here are some buy
links:
Tomorrow I will highlight ‘Torn Between Two Lovers’ winner of Best Paranormal story.
Friday, 20 March 2015
Weekend Reading
Dungeons,
shibari and sheets are all in this week’s ‘Weekend Reading’! Read on to find
out more…
Title of
book: Burning up the Sheets (Uniformed and Blazing Hot
6)
Name of
author: Tonya Ramagos
Genre:
Contemporary erotic MFM Menage
Description
of main characters:
Tasha Ingram – 32, 5’62, long flaming red hair,
eyes the color of warm honey
Shawn McKenzie – firefighter, mid-twenties, 6’
tall, light brown hair, green eyes
Corbin Spencer – firefighter, mid-twenties, 5’11”,
ebony hair, smoky grey eyes.
Setting:
Cherish, TN
Length:
41,097 words
Blurb:
When smokin’ hot firefighters Shawn McKenzie and Corbin Spencer offer to
give Tasha Ingram what she wants with no strings attached, how can she refuse?
Sure, they’re younger than her, but won’t that make it easier for them to keep
their promise and walk away in the end?
What’s hot?: Sheets
covering every space of floor and furniture in the house – read the book to
find out how sheets are sexy!
Title of book: Alex’s Sacrifice (The Wilton Park Grand
Hotel 1)
Name of author: Skye Michaels
Genre: BDSM Contemporary, M/M, Sextreme
Description of Main Characters:
Beta - Smart Alec Alexander Richmond, aka Alex is 28. He is 5’10” and
slender but sleekly muscled and strong for his smallish frame and really quite
beautiful, wavy blond hair brushes his collar. He has big green eyes with blond
gold tipped eyelashes.
Alpha - Jarred Ransom, is 40 years old handsome, dark-haired,
imposing. Ex-SEAL Commander and a structural engineer, with a strong,
muscular body. He keeps his dark hair short and has some dark hair on his
wide chest. This man was is ruggedly handsome, with a lot of
presence. He has short dark hair and
icy blue eyes.
Setting: a luxurious gay hotel in Wilton
Park, Florida with portions at a BDSM hotel located on Fort Lauderdale Beach
Length: 32,276 words
Blurb: Alex Richmond is in love
with his tough, impatient boss, Jarred Ransom. When a past sub of Jarred’s
turns up with a son that looks like Jarred and little Benji is in danger, the
parental instincts of both men surface. Alex is prepared to sacrifice his
happiness for Benji’s welfare. Can Jarred convince Alex they can have it
all?
What’s Hot?: a masquerade party in the
dungeon of The Black Dahlia Hotel.
Title of book: Retraining the Sub
Name of author: Jennifer Denys
Genre: BDSM/MF/Contemporary
Description of main characters: Luke - dark blond hair, cut short, blue eyes. About 6ft 1in. Now muscular torso (used to be thinner). Handsome but has a hard arrogant face. Age 31.
Ann - brassy honey-blonde dead straight to the tip of her shoulder (used to be very long, brown and wavy before she took up BDSM), brown eyes, 10in shorter than Luke at 5ft 3in. Age 29. Now nice legs and body but used to be very thin.
Setting: modern day, BDSM club
Length: 29k
Blurb: When submissive Ann misuses
her safe word once too often she is told to attend a retraining program.
However, the only Master prepared to train her is hard, inflexible Luke, the
man she jilted eight years previously. It becomes a battle of wills to see who
will lose control—the battle being about trust. Who will ultimately win?
What's hot?: The heroine is bound shibari style by the hero
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Award winner!
I WON THREE AWARDS
IN THE MENAGE ROMANCE FANS’ AWARDS!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! My first ever
awards. J
I was nominated in eight categories and
came runner up in another 4 so am rather gobsmacked at the moment! Here are the
categories that won:
Best Paranormal for 'Torn Between Two Lovers'
Best Gay Heroes for 'Alien Manhunt'
I will be doing a feature each day Mon-Weds
next week highlighting each of these books, giving more detail including snippets
of info about writing each book you might not know!
Watch this space……
Monday, 16 March 2015
Something you never knew about me....
Something
you never knew about me…..
I
collect foreign dolls. It began when I was about 8 and my cousin bought me a
set of six foreign dolls in a box. One of those mass-produced doll sets, none
of which came from their original country!
Over
the years I collected a huge number from all parts of the globe (not that I’ve
visited every corner of the world but I asked people to get me a doll if they
were going somewhere I didn’t have one from – I particularly liked to get them
from the proper country).
I
had a clear out about 10 years ago and gave a number of ‘repeat’ dolls (the
mass produced type ones!) to a colleague’s young daughter but I still have
about fifty left.
This
picture is of a few of them from countries such as China, Korea, India, Fiji,
New Zealand, Aruba (I think), Russia, Poland, Greece, Spain, Holland … and closer to
home the hairy barbarian from Scotland!
Jen
Friday, 13 March 2015
Weekend Reading
It’s a sci-fi fest whether
you are after alien princes, colonists or Nasa researchers, take your pick!
Title of book: Ruled
Name of author: J. J. Lore
Genre: Sci-fi erotic romance
Description of main characters: Edem: an Alphan prince,
golden skinned with black horns. He’s impulsive, passionate, and slightly
spoiled.
Mallet:
Edem’s bondmate and bodyguard. Muscular and golden-skinned as well, he’s much
more cautious and decisive.
Corrine:
a young human woman who works in a soup kitchen. She has grey eyes and long
blonde hair she keeps tucked up under her chef’s toque.
Setting: Earth of the future and on an
Alphan spaceship
Length: 136 pages
Blurb: Two high ranking Alphan males are
visiting Earth incognito on a fact-finding mission. What they discover is the
woman who is the perfect mate to them both. Bonding with her is a threat to the
throne of Alpha, but it’s a risk they’re willing to take.
What’s hot?: Intimacy in an enormous
tub on board the royal spaceship. (Good thing the artificial gravity was
working!)
Title of book: Wife for Three
Name of author: Jennifer Denys
Genre: Sci-fi/futuristic/ménage
Description of main characters:
Name of author: Jennifer Denys
Genre: Sci-fi/futuristic/ménage
Description of main characters:
Brianna Thrope, just about to turn 23, brown eyes,
long dark blonde hair, small about 5ft 3in, average weight. Pretty with heart
shaped face and a lovely smile, good figure, big bust.
Adam Hollis, 35, blue eyes, very fair hair, the
tallest of the brothers at 6ft 3in, well muscled. He is brooding, moody, silent
type. Well tanned since he works outdoors.
Curt Hollis, 30, pale blue eyes, very dark brown
hair, the slightest of the brothers so about 5ft 11in and not as well muscled
as the other two. Curt is impatient and cocky type. Well tanned as his brothers.
Eric Hollis, 26, gray eyes, light brown hair, about
6ft 1in, stockier than Adama. Eric is sweet and fun loving. Smiles a lot,
caring. Well tanned as his brothers.
Setting: on the planet of Duoterra
Length: 37,500
Blurb: Advert: Three brothers want a wife to share. On colony planet, Duoterra, single women have to sign marriage contracts with one or more men. With her uncle making a deal to sell her, Brianna runs away but is life with three unknown men any better and will her uncle catch up?
Setting: on the planet of Duoterra
Length: 37,500
Blurb: Advert: Three brothers want a wife to share. On colony planet, Duoterra, single women have to sign marriage contracts with one or more men. With her uncle making a deal to sell her, Brianna runs away but is life with three unknown men any better and will her uncle catch up?
What's Hot?: Sex in a barn amongst the haystacks
Buy Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/wife-for-three
Title of
book: Captive
(Titan Year 3)
Name of
author: Tatum Throne
Genre: Sci-fi/MM
Description
of main characters:
Xand Lume: Height:
6'5", Gray eyes, Black hair. Turitan Alien.
Jaxon Montero: Height:
5'10", Blue eyes, Black hair.
Kevin Prophet: Height
5'9", Blue eyes, Blond hair.
Setting: Deep
space/Earth
Length: 37,500
Blurb:
NASA researches Jaxon Montero and Kevin Prophet have been abducted and held captive by aliens. They are now in the fight of their lives.
Xand Lume is the commander of the Titus, a scientific vessel sent out from his home world to find compatible life to mate with. Unable to deny his need to have the males, he seduces both of them.
What’s hot?:
Sex in an
observatory in deep space.
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