tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66495124883422208722024-02-08T02:08:41.549+00:00Jennifer Denys blog pageJennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.comBlogger861125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-14455320566999032552019-12-06T15:13:00.003+00:002019-12-06T15:13:51.393+00:00Naughty Christmas Present<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My latest book is OUT! It’s the second in the Naughty Xmas series and features a Siren and a Troll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Wikipedia this is the definition of a siren from mythology:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, in my story, the Siren lives in the city. Unfortunately she sings when she climaxes....and her voice is deadly! (Literally).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The creature in love with her is a troll. Wikipedia describes them as:</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <i>Naughty Christmas Present </i>my troll is indeed ugly, but very muscular (imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger) and he is in no way slow witted! Gren desires the lovely Ligia but how can he have her when she could be his death?</span></span></div>
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-61946356284127772752019-11-08T09:00:00.000+00:002019-11-08T09:00:00.905+00:00Naughty Xmas series<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I said on Wednesday, I have a new book coming out in the <i>Naughty Xmas</i> series. I'll tell you more about the new book next week, but in the meantime I promised to give you some more info on the paranormal world the stories are set in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All stories will be set in a city (imagine New York) where the humans are blissfully unaware that paranormal creatures are all about them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst 'Naughty Christmas Wishes' was set partly in the human home of the heroine of the story, it also had half the scenes in Pogue's bar where the new story 'Naughty Christmas Present' is entirely set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As described in 'Naughty Christmas Wishes' Pogue's Bar is "</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a tall thin building which had hotel rooms above. It was sandwiched at the end of a street between a store and a wall...... it always amazed her that humans just didn't seem to notice the building where all sorts of paranormal creatures came and went with no one noticing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fay snorted. Humans were nore blinkered than reindeer at times."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got the idea for the name of this bar because in 'Naughty Christmas Wishes' I included tons of references to Christmas songs (if you haven't worked it out think of The Pogues who sang 'Fairytale of New York').</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pogue's Bar is run by a hunky Troll called Gren (there's your first clue to book two 'Naughty Christmas Present'!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Naughty Christmas Wishes' was my first attempt at a paranormal story outside of werewolves and concentrated on a fairy and four elves although other secondary creatures included an angel, a siren, a valkyrie, and a troll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had fun considering how the paranormal world would differ, for instance Fay makes a remark that the human habit of hanging stockings by the fireplace was against paranormal health and safety rules! LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fay also hates tinsel as she always gets tangled in it when she is put back in her family's 'Christmas box' every year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when her human made the comment that people put their decorations up far too early, that meant Fay had to stay in her box for longer than usual! (I always put my decorations up early!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come back on Monday to find out all about the new book 'Naughty Christmas Present' which is due out on 6 December.</span><br />
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<br />Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-64084609324882092802019-11-06T13:56:00.000+00:002019-11-06T13:56:35.850+00:00Naughty Xmas<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi everyone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'M BACK! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am restarting my blog because I have a book out on 6 December - my first book for two and a half years!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the next in the Naughty Xmas series so before I tell you about the new story I thought I'd remind you all of the Naughty Xmas stories which is a series of short paranormal stories set at Christmas</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first book was Naughty Christmas Wishes about a fairy from the top of the Xmas tree - Fay - who is rejected by her human family and she goes off to drown her woes in Pogue's Bar (a bar for paranormal creatures in the heart of the city).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst there she sees four GORGEOUS elves and makes a wish that they would notice her... then another wish they she could spend the night with them!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">"So, my lovely, we can do
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">I'll
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">"You can have just one of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Fay tried not to show her
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">"Or you can have one of us
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">That’s
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: 21.25pt;">“Or all of us at the same time.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was one of my favourite books to write. I had such fun dreaming it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A delightful lighthearted story about a Christmas Fairy and four elves..... a very adult version of Christmas wishes, almost tongue in cheek. There are two sentences in the book that sum it up nicely. Be careful what you wish for and how do four elves go into one fairy. A fun lusty read."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It can purchased on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Naughty-Christmas-Wishes-Jennifer-Denys-ebook/dp/B0197C182K/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=jennifer+denys&qid=1573048396&sr=8-8">amazon.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come back on Friday to find out more about Pogue's Bar and the paranormal world that Fay and her fairies live in.</span>Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-37024464746057553192018-04-27T08:30:00.000+01:002018-04-24T14:19:10.556+01:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Author:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Katerina Ross<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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very inconvenient curse upon him, struggles to make a living, taking part in
illegal boxing matches. Fighting is the only thing he’s good at now. But how
long can he keep it up? The fights are dangerous, and he’s untrained. A pretty
witch he meets one night says she might change his life for the better. Is she
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because he knows how to make her skin tingle. The pain delivered from his crop
makes her spirit sing. She needs Sir but she wants more—except he’s not
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short but intense time together, something very special.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She heads off to a coveted
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dreamed of having. And, despite pursuing her dream, Celeste can’t stop thinking
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Returning home before he
can follow her, she tells him they are pregnant. Impossible. Believing he’s
sterile, the reason his wife left him, Elliot is devastated—and lashes out. Celeste
flees his cruel words, putting distance between them, and now determined not to
name him as the father of their child.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But miracles do happen and
men can come to their senses. Elliot follows his heart and Celeste again opens
hers for their happily ever after.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently ran a workshop looking at sci-fi adversaries for a group of
Yorkshire writers. For the purposes of the workshop when I say sci-fi, I am not
talking about fantasy, eg, alternative universes or magic even if in the
contemporary world. It needs to have an element of space so could be futuristic
earth, on spaceships, alien worlds, with aliens but not Harry Potter, not
Middle Earth, not Game of Thrones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all, consider how some sci-fi lines have become part of our
culture: ‘I will exterminate you’, ‘I’ll be Back’, ‘Resistance is Futile’,
‘Live long and prosper’, ‘May the Force be with you’, ‘ET phone home’, even
‘Take me to your leader’! Suffice to say the sci-fi bad guys are nearly as well
known as the heroes so it’s important that they be well drawn characters to
make them memorable. But how do you decide as a writer how to choose? Well, I
am arguing that they could fall into just three categories – monster, machine
and humanoid (I am not including gods in this breakdown as it has to be
something mortal – Gods as adversaries is a whole other category).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we think of the archetypal alien is it the little grey man with
big black eyes? In 1893 HG Wells<span lang="EN">envisioned
the possibility of humanity transformed into a race of grey-skinned beings; who
were perhaps 1 meter tall, with big heads and large, oval-shaped pitch black
eyes. He then used this concept for the aliens in First Men on the Moon. Since
then it has been taken up by other writers and those claiming to be abducted.
Were they all copying Wells, was the little grey man known before Wells, or did
people truly meet aliens like these? I argue – look at how diverse we are on
earth. Surely any aliens wouldn’t all look the same (in Stargate they use the
plot device of these aliens having been cloned over and over again that they
now look the same).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That aside, writers have come up with an amazing variety of alien
beings as we look at the first category of monsters.<span lang="EN"> For this category,</span> I am talking non
speaking beings – Godzilla, Predator, Alien from the first alien film, the
Goa’uld snake from Stargate (which could only speak through a host they took
over but had no voice otherwise), the insectoid shadows from Babylon 5, the
monster from the Thing from outer space, the Triffids, pod people from invasion
of the body snatchers (though they did have speech when they transformed), the
bugs from Starship Troopers, even the mindless thread from Anne McCaffrey’s
Dragon books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually physically strong to made up for lack of intelligence or
speech. But impossible to reason with. One of the reasons we find them so scary
is that they can be equated with those things in our own natural world that we
loathe – spiders or bugs, snakes, reptiles, or just a big monster that will
envelope us in the night and carry us away from everyone. The dark always
scares us so these monsters are often depicted as being black. We know from
Monsters inc that they are okay purely because they are so colourful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also a number of them are invisible – like the monster from The
Forbidden Planet, the Predator had the ability to be invisible, as did the
Starship Trooper bugs, adding an additional element of fear and sometimes they
may have more than two arms making it more difficult for us to defeat them.
Also note, they are generally ugly – the word monster conjures something
revolting. One of the ugliest has to be Scorpius in Farscape but as he is a
‘speaking’ being he crosses over to another category. The ultimate monster is,
of course, Frankenstein. Our heroes and heroines are usually good looking so
the baddie has to be the opposite because we prize beauty so much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am intrigued by the fact that at least three of these – the triffids,
the monster from Thing and the Pod people are actually plants which, in itself,
doesn’t sound so evil! After all, we love our plants and flowers which are
beautiful. It might make it harder for the writer to convince the reader or
viewer but I love the irony in making monsters out of plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot of these monsters rely on a particularly destructive ability –
the stingers of the triffids, the acid thrown by the aliens of David Feintuch’s
Seafort saga, the organic eating thread – and didn’t Godzilla zap people with
their eyes?<span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So how do we overcome them? They are flawed in that their skin can be
pierced with bullets, their brains can be bashed in, they can get tired,
tripped up, electrocuted but it takes some doing. Of course, you have to do
this before they enter your body and rip through your stomach, aka, the first
Alien film. But sometimes we get them on our side and we conquer them - the
worms in Dune for example. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also find it very interesting in the Seafort saga how the aliens
throughout all the books, suddenly becomes the ally in the last book by making
you realise it was the humans that were hurting them and they were just
retaliating. It was only after decades that they eventually discovered how to
communicate with us. Because that is the crux of what makes this category so
scary – the lack of communication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Machines next. Think dalek from Dr Who, the borg from Star Trek,
replicators from Stargate, the Terminator, Hal in Space Odessy. The Matrix. The
Replicants of Blade Runner. The Cylons from Battlestar Galactica. You could
argue that Gort, the robot, from the Day the Earth Stood Still was an adversary
– certainly to the humans who tried to use their puny weapons on him he was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is another adversary we cannot reason with but also not having
feelings they have no compassion (although not sure monsters do either but
being machine makes it that much harder!) They are physically superior with no
animalistic flaws that we could overcome like we did with the monsters (I’m
ignoring the fact that Daleks cannot climb stairs – I think they got over that
plot flaw by having them fly). Machines can think quicker than us. They have no
humanity we can appeal to but at least we can communicate with them even if
they don’t listen to us!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interestingly writers have often used the suggestion of a ‘hive mind’
in conjunction with machines – the Borg, the Replicators and the Daleks,
certainly, worked as one hive or one enemy, giving a greater fear for us to
overcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I like the use of the term Tripods for the spaceships in the War of
the Worlds – it gives them an insect quality – these might be spaceships
operated by unseen aliens but it combines the monster with the machine in our
imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet humans overcame most of them – how? Well for a start, most
machines seem to just want to exterminate you. Limited in their thinking! By
being cunning we can get around them, by thinking outside the box, by thinking as
illogically as only humans can do! In many cases it was get as far from them as
you could, like with the Cylons, sometimes it was come up with a weapon to
destroy them, eg, with the replicators, or computer virus in Independence Day
(although they weren’t machines they needed their machines to make war on us)
or make laws so they are banned from human worlds, aka replicants. Of course,
in some films the machine won and they, to me at any rate, are the scariest. I
am thinking of Colossus in the Forbin Project which took over the world and the
hero had to give in at the end (I love a story that doesn’t end up with the
good guy always winning).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But generally humans win the day and let’s remember not all robots are
bad – Data in Star Trek, Robbie the Robot in Lost in Space. And Assimov wrote
the 3 robot laws so that robots did not become a danger to man!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, humanoids, eg, they physically look like humans unlike the
monsters so are less scary to look at and more of a stature with us making it
easier for us to physically fight them, have feelings unlike machines, we can
communicate and thereby reason with them. Klingons. Darth Vader may be part
machine but he started off as a human although he had a tendency to violence
even then. Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon, Khan from Star Trek. The evil
children of Village of the Damned (The Midwich Cuckoos if you go by the name of
the book). Lex Luthor from Superman. The Master from Dr Who (who eventually
became a Dalek if I recall). Magneto (although I preferred him when he was
being bad – we don’t always like our bad guys turning good). So, they can be from
Earth but many sci fi adversaries are actually other humanoids even if they are
alien, eg, two arms, two legs, a human like face, they speak English (actually
it’s amazing how many alien species do speak English!!). I would argue that the
apes from Planet of the Apes come under this category – they can speak English
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meglomaniac – Emperor Palpatine, Big Brother of the novel 1984, President Snow
of the Hunger Games, Ming the Merciless (see pic), Khan, General Zod, Captain Nemo and so
on. This is a different kind of dread for the reader to the ugly monster or
cold machine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hated maybe, but possibly not feared. As a reader why are we less
frightened of human adversaries? Is it because they are us we know how they
think, we can reason with them, we can appeal to their good side, and even if
they are a psychopath we know their physical and mental flaws? Is it because
they lack the ugliness of the monster – we perceive those made in our image to
be the good guys? Is it because we are not so physically overawed by them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the other hand, they know what makes us tick so it is easier for
them to overcome and kill humans – Scorpius continually got into John’s mind to
try to get the information he wanted. The use of the ‘hive’ mind was put to
great use by the children in the Village of the Damned who used their mental
abilities to destroy humans wanting to hurt them – not understandably except
when they creep you out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You do sometimes have the humanoid villain who is bit like a scary
monster but speaks English, I’ve already mentioned Klingons or Scorpious – a
nice crossing of categories. But the advantage of having a humanoid villain
that looks like a human is they can appear the good guys when in fact they are
the opposite. The ‘visitors’ from the 1980s series V. Darth Vader until he
turned to the bad side, etc. However, you will often find the sci fi writer
takes the humanoid villain down the route of mentally scaring the reader. Consider
all the sci-fi stories where humans with strong mental abilities are feared by
others, eg, x-men, humanz, John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The greatest megalomaniac with superior mental powers was Marc from
Julian May’s Saga of the Exiles. Charismatic, strong, good looking – everything
a hero should be! Except he is the anti hero. And sometimes a hero might be on
the edge of being bad – the gorgeous Avon from Blake’s 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the films and series of ‘superheroes’ have, of course ‘anti
superheroes’ who have a variety of powers. I’ve already mentioned Magneto. We
also have Mystique from Xmen – I was never sure if she was good or bad – I
think she could swing both ways. Interestingly, one of few women to be the
sci-fi villain. Consider all those I’ve mentioned so far – apart from the Borg
Queen (who I found more sexy than scary) there are only tiny pockets of
occasional girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do we overcome humanoids whether megalomaniac, pretending they are
good or those with superpowers? In most of these cases it seems to be with help
from other humans. That fits with our democratic culture – work together to
overthrow the despot, those with prejudices, those hurting others. Find the
chink in their armour (in Magneto’s case take all metal from his vicinity).
Mentally reprogramme (Alex in a clockwork orange). I recall a Dr Who programme
where the Doctor or their assistant recited nursery rhymes. Can’t for the life
of me remember who or what it was that they stopped in their tracks with that
method but what a great idea! Only when necessary, use the bomb. The professor
in Midwich only resorted to the bomb as a final straw which cost him his life. A
parable for today’s life, surely! Except this is fiction and not real life!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So in conclusion, I argue that the scariest of these three groups are
the humanoids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After all, Klatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still came to Earth to warn
us they will destroy us before letting us - mankind - go into space for they
saw how destructive we are. And in Forbidden Planet the invisible scary monster
that tore people limb from limb, although made by machine, was created from
man’s own mind. Be afraid – be very very afraid….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Author: Janelle Reston</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Universal Amazon Link: <a href="https://getbook.at/JanellesBest">https://getBook.at/JanellesBest</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">About
the Anthology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Hot Drinks Press is
thrilled to present nine delectable stories of lesbian love and lust by Janelle
Reston, the best-selling queen of Sapphic eroticism. Experience shower sex,
outdoor loving, BDSM, and a variety of forbidden pleasures. From first-time
sexual experiences at a women’s college to the kinky exploits of experienced
dommes, these scorching hot stories have something for everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Body
Shots<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">A
first-year college student goes wild at a party thrown by the women’s rugby
team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">An
Amish Girl Experiments with Chemistry<br />
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Yoder has long discarded her drab Amish garb for hot pink short-shorts and loud
music, but she hasn’t forgotten what she learned growing up — that love is best
expressed through baking. That philosophy has made her downtown bakery among
the city’s most popular, so she hires Leticia to help her out. Leticia’s
learning a lot about food, but she wants to taste more of Rachel’s love than
melt-in-your-mouth cinnamon rolls can provide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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experience lust—and maybe love—on a long-distance bike ride through New
Jersey’s Pine Barren’s to the Atlantic shore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an ordinary young woman resentful of the magic that runs in her family but has
skipped her generation. If she had such powers, she certainly wouldn’t be like
the witches who descend on her lake resort town every summer, wasting their
powers on stupid party tricks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aren’t so bad after all. And if reconciling herself to the world of witchcraft
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sexy, modern take on the Grimm fairy tale “Frau Holle” (“Mother Hulda”), a ski
resort manager falls through the ice and finds herself in a new world of
sensual delights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for Me<br />
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Jamison’s submissive tendencies awaken under the rigorous teaching methods of
dance professor Hannah Lacey. But Miranda soon discovers not any Domme will do.
Only Professor Lacey knows how to break Miranda down, then make her more whole
than she was before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a Pinch<br />
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students Jess and Kendra have always had a pretty vanilla sex life. That all
changes when Kendra overhears Jess making strange sounds behind a closed door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vibes<br />
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obsession with <i>The X-Files</i> and little gray aliens goes deeper
than most.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Surrender<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">A Deaf
dominant plays with the submissive female partner of her dreams. <i>All
About Romance</i> says this story “has an extremely strong sense of
character alongside a rapturous sense of love for bondage and dominance that
translates well even if you don’t kink to it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it nearly didn’t happen! We had bought our
voucher nearly a year ago but didn’t realise you couldn’t book a date at the
same time – dates were only made available about a month before and we were
aiming for early August. However, when Stef went to book it last July, she found
out the pilot wasn’t available when we wanted to go! So the next time we were both available and
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it got cancelled – there are very limited
critera for balloons being safe to fly. It has to be under 10mph (up in the
skies as well as down on the ground so if you are checking the weather
forecasts like we were doing, bear in mind it may be windier higher up), it has
to be dry and also good visibility. And on that occasion the conditions were
not right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2018 at 7.45am from York racecourse we finally went up, up and away!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– and maybe our earlier cancellations were meant to be because the day we went
up was an incredibly crystal-clear, sunny day. (We were also lucky because we
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they are too scared to do it themselves. I don’t like heights myself, but that doesn’t
deter me from trying out things at height. As long as I feel safe (like I did
safely harnessed going down zip wires at Go Ape), I am fine – the hot air
balloon basket came up to my chest – no chance of falling out. In fact, there
was no sensation of movement. You just drifted up into the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our 8 person balloon/9 with the pilot - was overawed by the sights we were seeing
and hardly said anything). Having said it was peaceful, I was astonished from
that high up (we went up about 3,000 feet I believe at the highest) to hear
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over, there wasn’t a lot of sights to photograph, although we did see
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-8214696534938733152018-02-23T08:30:00.000+00:002018-02-23T08:30:37.131+00:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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Kryssie Fortune with her latest book, ‘Wickedly Used’, a Dark Regency Romance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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company from ladies of the night, Major Richard Rothbury of the royal dragoons
is not the kind of man who will stand idly by as a woman is taken against her
will, and when he witnesses a disreputable cad attempting to force himself on a
girl in a back alley, he does not hesitate to intervene.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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offers herself to Rothbury, he is shocked to discover that not only was she no
harlot, she was a maiden and he has deflowered her. Furious at the girl’s
scandalous behavior and her carelessness with her own safety, Rothbury
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the largest fortunes in England, the fact that she cannot touch the money until
she marries or turns thirty has kept Elizabeth completely at the mercy of her
cruel uncle, and for years she has been treated as if she were a servant. Her
encounter with Lord Rothbury is by far the most exciting thing that has ever
happened to her, but while he shows great concern for her safety, he refuses to
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doesn’t consider a match between them to be possible, when Elizabeth disobeys
him Rothbury proves more than ready to strip her bare, punish her harshly, and
then enjoy her beautiful body in the most shameful of ways. But can she dare to
hope that he will one day make her his wife, or is she destined to spend her
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kryssie reads everything and anything, from literary fiction to
sizzling romance. Her earliest memory is going to the library with her mother.
She can’t have been more than two at the time. Reading, especially when a
book’s hot and explicit, is more than a guilty pleasure. It’s an obsession. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Regency Bath. The first book she fell in love with was Georgette Heyer’s <i>The Unkown Ajax</i>. After that, she
devoured every regency book she could. After a while, they went out of fashion,
but part of Kryssie’s psyche lives in in in Regency London. She longs to dance
quadrilles and flirt behind fans. Of course, Kryssie’s heroines do far more than
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miles from Whitby, where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. She enjoys gardening,
travel, and socializing with her author friends. You’d be surprised how many
erotic romance authors live in the North of England. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-36868990630538157352018-01-12T08:30:00.000+00:002018-01-12T08:30:40.748+00:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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Tale I)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christopher Beaufort works in what
could easily be the most cheerful place on earth, Santa’s Christmas Realm, but
as a vampire, he is nothing more than a shadow among the living.<br />
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Worn out by the demands of his job as
Chief Toy Officer, Santa assigns a human woman to help him, Samantha Kraus.
Tantalized by the fiery red-head, Christopher makes it his business to seduce
her, but as he does, something within him begins to stir.<br />
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<i>Life is a gift in which every moment
counts. </i><br />
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When Samantha Kraus accepted the job of
assistant manager at Santa’s, she expected elves, fairies and maybe<b> </b>some
shifters, but definitely not vampires. Least of all did she imagine her boss
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professional, Samantha finds herself falling for Christopher. But, can a
vampire’s heart ever beat again?</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Border Agent Houston Modey has had a
really bad few months. Doubt has him questioning his abilities when he's unable
to save a man while off duty. Unable to move on, he starts making really bad
decisions.When Lucas Quintin comes home to clear out his uncle's estate, he
quickly realizes that he has to take over the bar too. Late one night, a fight
breaks out at the bar. In the chaos, he saves Houston. With the damages to the
bar, Lucas plans to force Houston to work it off on his ranch.Houston is a
submissive who isn't looking for a Dom until he meets Lucas. Will Lucas still
want him when he realizes that he is the one responsible for his uncle's death?
With time running out for big decisions, Houston hopes his Dom won't regret
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-27139298999611965862017-12-22T08:30:00.000+00:002017-12-22T08:30:08.423+00:00Christmas activities 2017<div class="MsoNormal">
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lovely visit to Lincoln Christmas market in early December (I like to go to a
different Christmas market every year and this one was supposed to be the
largest in Europe) – although it was HEAVING with people! But what a lot of
stalls! And I didn’t get to do it all as we ran out of time (and energy). Of
course, we might have got around all the remaining stalls if we hadn’t spent an
hour in the pub (having a belated lunch!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this (but warning – do wear several, and I mean SEVERAL, layers of clothes
and/or take a blanket if you intend going as it is freezing in this building which
is the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Alps). It is a splendid building
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live/work there! Leeds is rather small (and can be boring because it’s the same
stalls in the same places every year but York gets bigger and bigger every year
and thankfully they have extended the length of time because it used to be
shoulder to shoulder shuffle around the stalls).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first year there was a special display of lights and other things in the Museum
Gardens in York (where the ruined Abbey is). Slightly overpriced I thought, but
certainly splendid particularly the hologram display on the walls of the Abbey
in amongst various other art installations and lots and lots of trees lit up
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for people I work with (a 30 minute walk with some origins of Christmas customs
thrown in). This is something I have done for a few years but for the first
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thought he had it all, a great job, a beautiful condo and a stable relationship
with his boss, but when his lover dumps him for another man, Paul is forced to
rethink his life. Rather than spend the holidays alone in San Francisco he
visits his childhood home in rural Pennsylvania. But only a few days with his
family is enough to convince Paul that you can’t go home again. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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for the airport in the midst of a snowstorm. Stranded in the woods, a chance
meeting with a hunter is his only option for survival. Paul knows the type, a
backwoods bigot just like the men he grew up with, but what choice does he
have? A few days with the hunter convinces Paul there’s more to Andy Reynolds
than meets the eye. But is it enough to bind two men who have nothing in common
except their sex? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Paul are totally committed to each other, but when the two-year itch infects
their relationship, Paul becomes distant and refuses to talk about it. Andy
arranges a much needed vacation, but on the way home they pick up a hitchhiker
who’s willing to trade sex for a roof over his head. Andy will do anything to
make Paul happy, even if it means bringing another man into their bed. But is a
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Press</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> | </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Knight-Sleepless-Duet-ebook/dp/B077SPXRVX"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Amazon</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">
| </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/silent-knight-sleepless-knight-gale-stanley/1127551847?ean=2940158863981"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Barnes
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doesn’t enjoy breaking hearts, but she has yet to find a man who knows how to
handle the package between his legs well enough to satisfy her needs. No man
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-54290210743223084252017-12-08T08:30:00.000+00:002017-12-08T08:30:20.005+00:00Wicked Weekends<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My Wicked Weekends today is all from one author, the fabulous Janine Ashbless.</b></span><br />
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The Prison of the Angels<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">by Janine Ashbless<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The Prison of
the Angels</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">,
the final novel in the <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B01MRSGKR9/">Book of the Watchers</a></i>
trilogy, and the story of a young woman who releases a fallen angel from centuries
of imprisonment, is now available from <b>Sinful
Press.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“When there’s
war in Heaven, on which side will you stand?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Genres:
Hot M/F/M Romance, Thriller, Supernatural<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I thought I was a good girl. I thought that no matter
what others did for my sake, I could stay innocent. I thought that as long as I
acted out of love, I’d be blameless.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br />
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<b><i>I was wrong, wasn’t I?</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Milja Petak’s world has fallen apart.</b><b><br />
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Her lover, the fallen angel Azazel, has
cast her aside in rage and disgust. The other contender for her heart, the
Catholic priest Egan Kansky, was surrendered back into the hands of the shadowy
Vatican organization, Vidimus, after sustaining life-threatening
injuries.<br />
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She has killed and she has betrayed.
She is alone, homeless, and at the end of her tether - torn apart by guilt and
the love she has lost. But neither Heaven nor its terrifying representatives on
Earth have finished with Milja. Both of her lovers need her in order to further
their very different plans, and both passionately need <i>her</i>, though they
may try to deny it.<br />
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Milja is once again forced into a
series of choices as she uncovers the secrets Heaven has been guarding for
centuries. But this time it is not just her heart at stake, or even the fate of
a fallen angel.<br />
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This time, the choices she make will
change <i>everything</i>.<br />
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This time it’s the End of the World.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Book
1: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cover-Him-Darkness-Romance-Watchers/dp/1940550017/">Cover
Him with Darkness</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bonds-Earth-Watchers-Janine-Ashbless/dp/1910908088/">In
Bonds of the Earth</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“An
absolute must-read.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Dan
Brown’s <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>, only much better written and with much more
sexiness involved.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">"Damn, if Dostoevsky wrote
smolderingly hot erotica about fallen angels, he’d be Janine Ashbless</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">—<i>Samantha MacLeod<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“The
first two books of this series are smart, sexy, literate, gripping, and moving.
I can’t wait for the third.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Oh it's incredible. I love this
series and the final book is a masterpiece.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Janine
Ashbless is a writer of fantasy erotica and steamy romantic adventure – and
that’s “fantasy” in the sense of swords ‘n’ sandals, contemporary paranormal,
fairytale, and stories based on mythology and folklore. She likes to write about magic and mystery,
dangerous power dynamics, borderline terror, and the not-quite-human<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Janine
has been seeing her books in print ever since 2000, and her novels and
single-author collections now run into double figures. She’s also had numerous
short stories published by Black Lace, Nexus, Cleis Press, Ravenous Romance,
Harlequin Spice, Storm Moon, Xcite, Mischief Books, and Ellora’s Cave among
others. She is co-editor of the nerd erotica anthology <i>Geek Love</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Her
work has been described as: "<b>hardcore
and literate</b>" (Madeline Moore) and "<b>vivid and tempestuous and dangerous, and bursting with sacrifice, death
and love</b>." (Portia Da Costa) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.janineashbless.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="color: #0563c1;">www.janineashbless.blogspot.com</span></b></a><b><u><span style="color: #0563c1;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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was bootless and naked, almost knee-deep in a drift. I still had my panties in
my right hand, but they seemed purposeless so I tossed them away with an
uncomprehending laugh, starlight fizzling against my bare flesh. I shook out my
hands and lifted my arms to the moon, feeling its glare lap me like a cold
tongue. Every particle of my flesh was filled with its glow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Milja?”
It was Egan’s voice, all resonance flattened by the snow. “Are you okay?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“I’m
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waded into sight between the small trees, looking around himself in confusion;
up at the laden branches, down at his hands. “I can see every flake,” he said
wonderingly. “I could see where you danced in the snow.” He finally caught
sight of me properly. “Ah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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came to him through the snow, feeling the squeak of its compression beneath my
bare soles. He was muffled up in all his outdoor gear, and I recognized my
discarded clothes in his gloved hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“I’m
hot,” I giggled, pulling the garments out of his hand and dropping them aside,
then catching his gloves and drawing them off to discard too. I put his hands
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“I
can count your eyelashes,” he whispered. His pupils were hugely dilated, making
his eyes look black and empty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“I’m
impressed,” I laughed, drawing his hand up to cup my bare breast, where it
belonged. “My eyes aren’t even down there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">He
made a valiant effort to lift his gaze back to my face, but failed. He seemed
hypnotized by the sight of my naked body, by the in-curve of my waist and the
swell of my breasts. “Oh God. That mead was spiked. There was something in it—I
don’t know what.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Angel
blood.” I quivered as his fingertips found my erect nipple. “It’s made with
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Don’t
worry.” I stretched up to brush my face against his, and the press of my body
forced him to move his hands around to my back and my ass, skin gliding over
skin, testing the slopes and curves like they were snow mounds he dare not
deface. “Just enjoy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brushed my cheek against his, teasing his lips with the promise of my own. His
frozen breath had formed a crust of rime on his stubbled jaw and I kissed it
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Milja.”
The word was thick with desire. “Don’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Welcome to Balls & Chains, a BDSM Club for gay men. Cross the
threshold and see the worlds of humans and shifters collide as these alphas
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story which comes to me as Series Coordinator. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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setting is a BDSM club for gay men called <i>Balls & Chains</i> (50% of the story
must be in this club) and shifters also attend this club surreptitiously (so
the club is mostly frequented by Humans who don’t know about shifters who keep
their animal selves secret). It can be any dominant shifter (eg, Wolf, Bear,
Lion etc). At least one of the main characters has to be a shifter. Word count
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To Claim a Mate by Jennifer Denys<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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Linley is a gay wolf-shifter. In order to appease the Alpha within, he has
taken up the BDSM lifestyle and become very experienced. This placates his
wolf to a certain extent, but his dearest wish is to find a mate—male, of
course. Except, the question is, how to find one in a city surrounded by humans
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Chains, a BDSM club he frequents, and immediately senses another of his
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against him and casting him out. Self-hatred and mutilation made him the male
he is today. An alpha in his own right, he prowls the rooms at Balls &
Chains in search of the one who will either save him from himself or break him
completely. Jaded and alone, he finds it difficult to pull away from the
self-made hell which has become his life, until a new submissive garners his
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the famous gay BDSM club. He craved distraction from his monotonous life and
had been assured that he would find it there. Little did he know exactly how
true that statement would be. Not only did Blake find what he was looking for,
but he also left with a slightly unhinged mate in tow…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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details including world building for the club and for wolf shifters (first two
books were wolf shifters) can be found on Luminosity’s website – but if you
decide to write another about another shifter species then you can make up your
own world building which will be added to the database on the website. Here is
the link: <a href="http://luminositypublishing.com/submission-calls/">http://luminositypublishing.com/submission-calls/</a>
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free, though, to email me any queries: <a href="mailto:Jennifer.denys@yahoo.com">Jennifer.denys@yahoo.com</a>
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-68016423497354950222017-12-01T08:30:00.000+00:002017-12-01T08:30:16.522+00:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Welcome to
Balls & Chains, a BDSM Club for gay men. Cross the threshold and see the
worlds of humans and shifters collide as these alphas dominate, and betas
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Past sins have forced Cadeon Rosseau into isolation, his pack turning
against him and casting him out. Self-hatred and mutilation made him the male
he is today. An alpha in his own right, he prowls the rooms at Balls &
Chains in search of the one who will either save him from himself or break him
completely. Jaded and alone, he finds it difficult to pull away from the
self-made hell which has become his life, until a new submissive garners his
attention…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Curiosity and a need for adventure lured Blake Copeland to the doors of
the famous gay BDSM club. He craved distraction from his monotonous life and
had been assured that he would find it there. Little did he know exactly how
true that statement would be. Not only did Blake find what he was looking for,
but he also left with a slightly unhinged mate in tow…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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along to Amara’s Facebook party 1 December <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1887659684895447/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1887659684895447/</a>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Detective Lukas Steele
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Kane and the vampires of his world. Falling hard for Kane wasn’t what he
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bar on Christmas Eve and sees four handsome (and young!) elves who have just
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BALLS & CHAINS SERIES – AUTHOR INTERVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Amara Lebel who has written a story for the ‘Balls & Chains’ series of
which I am the series editor (and book 1 ‘To Claim a Mate’ was one of my
stories).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyriWRPo9XEEPRToR7jlnEmCxA-NxffgoXXDam0UiwUBYimGfm9AS88iO7y0SLeOhVKhItCfRcID9Dbhge3n2Gbqwjhmtk6QmQsMU3cG6i1AuBuaOKlQDsRTPWy7CMcZ1JhBcmjD9CVDI/s1600/amara+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1599" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyriWRPo9XEEPRToR7jlnEmCxA-NxffgoXXDam0UiwUBYimGfm9AS88iO7y0SLeOhVKhItCfRcID9Dbhge3n2Gbqwjhmtk6QmQsMU3cG6i1AuBuaOKlQDsRTPWy7CMcZ1JhBcmjD9CVDI/s320/amara+pic.jpg" width="319" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My name is Amara Lebel, and I am an
Erotic Romance and ManLove author. I come from a small town in Northern Ireland
called Derry, where I now live with my handsome (French) hubby and gorgeous
family. I'm a full-time mum of three, and believe me when I say they keep me
busy. I spend my days chasing after my lil darlings, my nights lost in Yaoi,
and thanks to my amazing husband I spend my weekends writing up a storm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A huge fan of all things male, I can
honestly raise both hands and say that I have an unhealthy addiction to all
things M/M. I watch, read and drool over everything to do with gay couples.
Yes, I am a little perverted, yet in a good way. It’s where I get my
inspiration from, and I am not ashamed to say it. I also have a vast Yaoi
collection which I devour religiously - for those of you not in the know Yaoi,
and/or Shounen-ai, is MM anime and manga, ranging from Light to Hard core.
There are so many genres within this genre alone that there will be something
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have always had a love for erotica,
gay romance in particular. Kallysten is my favourite author of MM erotic
romance. I adore her characters, the worlds she created, and the relationships
she built within them. She was a huge influence in my decision to write, and of
course the genre I chose. Kally was the one who opened my eyes to world of MM
romance, and now I am truly obsessed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a little encouragement I
eventually put pen to paper and wrote my first ever MM romance, Denial (The
Unrequited Trilogy #1), which was published in Sept 2014. Now I take great
pride in sharing my erotic stories of forbidden lust and enchanted romance with
all of you, my fellow depraved sensualists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you would like to know more about
myself, or my books, please feel free to get in touch. I will happily answer
your questions! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When I heard about the Balls & Chains series I
thought that it would be a great opportunity to write something new. I have
always written gay romance, so I had no issue from this perspective. Yet, to
date, my stories have only ever been Contemporary Romance. With ‘Taming the
Alpha’, I could branch out and try my hand at not only Paranormal Romance, but
with BDSM in greater detail. It was a challenge for me, but one I accepted
gladly. Being a fan of PNR it was easy enough to get into the groove of
plotting a storyline and writing the wolves, the BDSM, however, I found more
difficult. I have some experience with the Lifestyle in real life, so I had
very little research to do, I could work from experience. My problems stemmed
from writing the BDSM scenes in a way which made them exciting and believable
for the readers, yet worded in a way which didn’t offend those in the Lifestyle
who may happen to lift my book and give it a read. I think I managed to succeed
with Cade and Blake’s story, fingers crossed, huh. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you did extremely well! I had no idea reading it that it was your first time
writing a paranormal story! JD)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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the ‘<i>Balls & Chains’</i> series. Have
you had any stories accepted in an anthology before? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes, back in 2014 I participated in an anthology
for Breast Cancer Awareness called Shades of Pink. An author friend of mine, Kallysten,
set it up, and is in fact looking for authors to participate in the 2018
anthology as we speak. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The stories included in the anthology were a
variety of genre and hotness levels. Yet they all had the same theme – Pink.
The anthology sold for a limited time only, and all proceeds went to a cancer
research charity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You can find my short story, Gabriel’s Rose, here
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.amaralebel.com/free-reads"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">https://www.amaralebel.com/free-reads</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
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ManLove authors called, Gypsy’s Wolf, a M/M Paranormal Romance. There were 25
of us involved, and we all wrote a chapter each, building the storyline and
characters. All proceeds go to charities which tackle homelessness in young
LGBTQ people. You can find the book here - </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.bookstrand.com/gypsys-wolf"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://www.bookstrand.com/gypsys-wolf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To date most my stories have been M/M, although, as
mentioned above, I do have a Free short read which is M/F and I am currently
working on a Paranormal Romance which is also M/F. I don’t really know why, but
I find it easier to write love between two men than I do with a straight couple
or two women. I have a feeling that a majority of my future releases will also
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Originally from the French Alps, he has a gorgeous French accent. He is tan
skinned, with brown hair and black eyes. With his strong jaw and regal nose,
the guy is handsome, sinfully so. Alpha of a pack which disowned him, not only
is Cade dominant, but he’s also jaded and scarred. At 150 years old, he’s been
through a lot, but from the looks of him you wouldn’t think he’s any older than
his early thirties. Cade refuses to work, instead living off the fortune he
inherited from his now deceased family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Blake Copeland is Cade’s polar opposite. Fair
haired, he has blue eyes, smooth skin, and a light aura. He is kind-hearted and
reserved, a true English gentleman. At 300 years old, he is the only remaining
wolf of his pack, which was forced into extinction at the hands of the humans.
Having no choice but to live among them, Blake forged a career in the medical
trade, and is a fully qualified apothecary – or doctor to you and I. Blake is a
submissive male, yet get on his wrong side and he will surely bite back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Welcome to
Balls & Chains, a BDSM Club for gay men. Cross the threshold and see the
worlds of humans and shifters collide as these alphas dominate, and betas
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isolation, his pack turning against him and casting him out. Self-hatred and
mutilation made him the male he is today. An alpha in his own right, he prowls
the rooms at Balls & Chains in search of the one who will either save him
from himself or break him completely. Jaded and alone, he finds it difficult to
pull away from the self-made hell which has become his life, until a new
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Copeland to the doors of the famous gay BDSM club. He craved distraction from
his monotonous life and had been assured that he would find it there. Little
did he know exactly how true that statement would be. Not only did Blake find
what he was looking for, but he also left with a slightly unhinged mate in tow…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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based in the UK, they have published stories from authors from several
different countries. Your story is set in the US but has French and English
main characters. Can you tell us which country are you from and why choose
those countries for your characters?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I am Irish, born and raised in a
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for my males – It’s no secret that
my lovely husband is French. This being so, I understand the language very
well, and have always wanted to put these skills to use in one of my stories.
There was never any doubt in my mind that one of my menfolk would be a handsome
French man. Hence, Cadeon Rosseau was born! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I had originally thought up Cadeon,
the stubborn fool had been bisexual, and his lover American. Yet over time, as
his story unfolded, I finally settled on him being gay with an English lover.
Cade demanded it, and no matter what way I tried to change his story, I just
couldn’t seem to change that fact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would like to change, nor my lifestyle. If I were to want anything, it would
simply be more hours in the day so I can write more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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girlfriend, why not get stranded together on a desert island where we can
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">No, I’m kidding. There have been a few milestones
in my life that I’ll always remember, for different reasons, some good and
others bad. To give you a few examples; I have had several girlfriends. I
survived something horrific. I am a qualified Mental Health nurse. I married
the one and only man I have ever been with. I am friends with a very famous
idol in the book world. I enjoy Role Play. I dabble in the BDSM Lifestyle. I
adore Latex. I have been to Australia, Thailand and the Middle East. I have
released several M/M books. . . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The most awesome thing I have done, is create my
family. My little demons are amazing, and I wouldn’t change them for the world.
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battle against skin cancer. I was given the all clear in October, and I am
beyond pleased. From the time I found the strange mole, right up until the
consultant told me the melanoma was all removed, had been the hardest few
months of my life. Stress, worry, doubts, body image issues, more stress. . .
but I won. So, yay me!! #warriorswearblack <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Email: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:amaralebel@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">amaralebel@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
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having me, Jennifer, and thanks to those who have stopped by. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol";">❤</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interviewing you. Good look with your book and thank you so much for writing
for the ‘Balls & Chains’ series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is a gay shifter series set in a BDSM club. Full details can be found on
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-2298283803714089442017-11-24T08:30:00.000+00:002017-11-24T08:57:16.033+00:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <b>Lady of Thorns</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Nicola M. Cameron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Genre:</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Fantasy Romance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some smouldering kisses, and a bit of light bondage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Love was never supposed to
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lady Amelie de Clerq’s prickly demeanor and earth mage abilities have
earned her the nickname “Lady of Thorns,” keeping potential suitors at bay and
making her the butt of the nobility’s jokes. Determined to attract a husband
who will love her for herself rather than her fortune, she decides to embark on
a journey of sensual self-discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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been summoned to Lierdhe to oversee business negotiations with a neighboring
earl. When Amelie asks Alain to tutor her in the bedroom arts, he agrees to
introduce the virgin mage to pleasure. But lessons in lovemaking soon turn into
a matter of the heart, forcing both Amelie and Alain to confront their fears
about intimacy, loyalty, and love.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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Davenport isn’t best pleased when the pub lunch she is expecting turns out to
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Boyden, pilot of a rescue helicopter, is attracted to Patience Davenport when
he rescues her and her date from the hills. He thinks they are irresponsible to
go out, unprepared and ill-equipped. He tells her so in no uncertain terms, and
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-28070725928268277672017-11-17T08:30:00.000+00:002017-11-17T08:30:00.229+00:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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Miller finds his calling in the Army, but an explosion in Afghanistan takes his
left eye and his career. Set adrift, he turns to alcohol, until an old army
buddy shows up and offers Ray a job. Now Ray has a secret identity. He puts his
combat skills to use as Cyclops, a paid assassin who rids the government of bad
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but even less so, did he expect him to be, Alkaline, the leader of the mafia
organization known as the Claws. If the lion shifter were not an alpha, things
might be easier, but as it is, his mate is bent on keeping them apart. Not that
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submissive. So when his lion decides that his soulmate is an alpha puma, he
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-90404865462299065142017-10-26T09:32:00.000+01:002017-10-26T09:32:04.327+01:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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rows ashore from a submarine at the small fishing town of Golfe-Juan on the C<span style="background: white;">ô</span>te d’Azur. She meets the Resistance Leader
code name “Hibou” with whom she had a romantic affair during a mission in
northern France several months previously. Once again, they engage in
subterfuge operations against the German forces in the lead up to the Allied
landings, code named <i>Operation Dragoon, </i>scheduled for the following
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and the possibility of being caught by the Gestapo from information leaked by
traitors in their midst causes some instability. However, love has a way to conquer
doubt, but as their love deepens so too does the risk of them making mistakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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come, or will his love for Simone lead to a moment’s carelessness that could be
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and tough fighters who go for knockout when it comes for taking what they want
from each other and their woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-32113452488622475582017-10-16T08:30:00.000+01:002017-10-16T08:30:16.998+01:00Portmeirion<div class="MsoNormal">
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in Bridge House 4 with views over the estuary and the village and is my fourth
visit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To recap the history of the village from
previous posts: Clough Williams Ellis began creating the resort in the mid
1920s and was still building cottages 50 years later just before his death.
Although it is called ‘the village’ – all the cottages are entirely for hire
for guests. You can stay in either of the two hotels or in the very quirky
cottages which are self catering or suite or just double rooms. It is quite
pricy, but in the suites or double rooms you get a range of luxuries – robes and
slippers, L’Occitane toiletries, sherry, bottled water and a large range of
teas/ coffees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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styles should work next to each other, so you have Georgian and rustic and Norwegian
and maritime, etc, and around the site are arches, bridges, statues, ponds,
gazebos, grottos, gardens and 20 miles of fabulous woodland walks which I
absolutely adore. There are also a few cafes and shops on site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the site is very peaceful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children’s fantasy story I am writing with my great niece (well, I am doing
most of the writing, she is providing ideas and illustrations) which uses
Portmeirion as a setting in the story. I hope that book will be self published
in the next year under my other pen name, Joanne Patrick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I will self publish in due course giving details of starting/finishing points,
length of walk, what to look out for and difficulty of walk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jennifer Denyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05874915507870085008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649512488342220872.post-23822486963676948092017-10-13T08:30:00.000+01:002017-10-13T08:30:20.940+01:00Wicked Weekends<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Editor: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://dalecameronlowry.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dale
Cameron Lowry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elizabeth Coldwell, Rhidian Brenig Jones, Morgan Elektra, Greg Kosebjorn, Clare
London, Dale Cameron Lowry, Carl Redlum, Rob Rosen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Print book will also be available<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <a href="https://dalecameronlowry.com/books/myths-moons-mayhem/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">https://dalecameronlowry.com/books/myths-moons-mayhem/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moons, and mayhem make the perfect threesome—and so do the men in this
anthology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nine erotic stories of paranormal <i>ménages a trois</i> fueled by lust and
magic, where mystical forces collide with the everyday world and even monsters have their own demons to conquer.</span></div>
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werewolf gets a lust-fueled lesson on fitting in with the pack, a professor
unlocks ancient secrets and two men’s hearts, and a pair of supernaturals find
themselves at the erotic mercy of a remarkable human. Ghosts, fairies, aliens,
and mere mortals test the boundaries of their desires, creating magic of their
own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Penned by
favorite authors such as Rob Rosen and Clare London, as well as by newcomers to
the genre, <i>Myths, Moons & Mayhem</i> is an eclectic mix of paranormal
lust and polymythic beings that will spark your fantasies and fuel your
bonfires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Man by Clare London</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At a London pub, a tear in the veil between the dead and the living opens up new possibilities for a ghost who could only ever watch the men he desired, but never touch.</span></div>
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Secret of the Golden Cup by Rebecca Buchanan</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">—A classics professor finds himself at the
center of a magical war. With an unfairly attractive student and a campus
janitor as his only allies, can he stave off the forces of evil?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Big Moon Shines by Carl Redlum</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">—A college student is intent on hunting down the man who turned him into
a werewolf. But his mouthwatering neighbors keep getting in the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What You Wish For by Elizabeth Coldwell</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">—Josh dreams of meeting Mr. Right, so his
roommate offers help with a love spell. Neither man is prepared for what
happens when the spell begins to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by Dale Cameron Lowry</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">—Losing sleep to the sounds of his tent-neighbors’ nightly lovemaking
has nature photographer Ethan at his wit’s end. What kind of magic can convince
the two men he should join them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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itself to the ground until a human teaches them to temper the flame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in May. This time the lovely Ashe Barker offered her house as a venue and we
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was on the Art of Listening and Communication using the well known fairy story,
Goldilocks. After reading it I then made 12 statements based on what I had read
and they answered true or false depending on what they heard. Often we make
assumptions based on what we hear, eg, the statement ‘Goldilocks woke up and
was frightened when she saw the bears and ran away in fright’. I only said, “Goldilocks
woke up, saw the bears and ran away.” So in that circumstance, the statement was false. People often impose their own feelings on
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Other sessions included using Triberr, and setting up a newsletter. It was great to see everyone and a fabulous day was had by all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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record in the 1860s being used by a native American from Kansas and is thought
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French, Rebecca Chase, Genevive Chamblee, Jordan Monroe, Laura Callender,
Sionna Fox, Elizabeth Coldwell, and Nanisi Barrett D’Arnuk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erotica<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's hot?:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This collection stars musicians and the people who love them. There are
sweet, romantic scenes that are beautiful to read, and wickedly sensual BDSM
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From deep DJ beats and dimly lit bars to sensual solos and classical
crescendos, Symphony Amore introduces you to a dazzling range of musical
performances.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this collection of nine stories, there is a broad spectrum of musicians
from all sections of the orchestra and beyond. Immerse yourself in tale of
conductors and concert-goers, romantic encounters and hard-hitting BDSM play,
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Music truly is the universal language and these stories by Rosalía
Zizzo, Charlotte French, Rebecca Chase, Genevive Chamblee, Jordan Monroe, Laura
Callender, Sionna Fox, Elizabeth Coldwell, and Nanisi Barrett D’Arnuk will give
you hours of reading pleasure.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buy links</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://mybk.li/symphony" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Amazon</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/symphony-amore-jordan-monroe/1127041343?ean=2940154898314" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Barnes and Noble</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1276846952" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">iTunes</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/symphony-amore" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">KOBO</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's hot:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Mutual masturbation in a darkened barn full of sleeping
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Murder. Passion. Two worlds colliding.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the second son of a Viking earl, Alv Gunnulfsen wasn't meant to
inherit a throne or avenge a murder. But when his brother is slain during a
raid and their father dies of grief, Alv is expected to take command and claim
the killer's death. In a world of ruthless retaliation and strict social codes,
he must also maneuver cleverly to protect a troublesome secret: his attraction
for men.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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the unthinkable to protect his family — hacked off the head of a Viking rapist.
The wrath of the blond savages will cost him his freedom, and possibly his own
head… Unless he's willing to accept the love of another man.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Kobo: <a href="https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/torn-avenger" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue;">https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/torn-avenger</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ruthless drug lord Ricardo “El Loco” Ferrer launders his black money by
investing in movie productions. As a teen, he learned to enjoy blow jobs in
jail. Now a man of power, his favorite pastime is checking out new acting
talent…and convincing them to “please” the team of producers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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audition for a movie part. He longs to shine, wants to walk the red carpet with
cameras flashing and a crowd cheering. He assures the film director and the
investors he’ll do anything to reach the top, but is he willing to comply with
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about, each year Cancer Research in the UK organise Race for Life events over
5k and 10k around the country, but they also organise Pretty Muddy Challenges
as well, and I took part in the latter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This involved going over obstacles over a 5k course such as up scramble nets, sliding down the other side into pools of mud (see pic), crawling under
ropes through mud pits, climbing over durdles (sort of blow up fences), etc
etc. All the while the marshals are squirting water or pushing mud in your
direction with great (and nearly malicious) enjoyment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amusingly, the hardest part was bouncing around a circuit on a space hopper! And they were so easy when I was younger! LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It was a very worthy cause and great fun and I raised
over £500 – many thanks to everyone who sponsored me and those who came and supported us.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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