Free Read from Ellora's Cave!

I have a free read available! It's called CAUGHT RED-HANDED and you can download it for free from Ellora's Cave!



Dru Summers can never wait until Christmas morning to open her presents. So when her husband Ryan puts a new one underneath the tree on Christmas Eve, she can’t help but sneak downstairs to take a peek while he’s sleeping. When Ryan catches her in the act, he decides the best way to deal with her behavior is to give her that spanking she so richly deserves. To her surprise, it turns out to be the best Christmas present of her life!

http://www.jasminejade.com/p-8706-caught-red-handed.aspx

Hope you like it!


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Paige

"Stories so hot they'll make your cheeks blush!"

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Banned Books Week

Don't forget that this is Banned Books Week (September 25 - October 2). I've written a rather lengthy post about the subject in general at Three Wicked Writers Plus Two.
http://threewickedwriters.blogspot.com/2010/09/playing-with-fire-book-banning.html And my publisher, Ellora's Cave, is encouraging everyone to review their favorite banned book this week. Check out the post here> http://redlinesanddeadlines.blogspot.com/2010/09/favorite-banned-book-blogs.html

You can find a list of banned or challenged books on the American Library Association site. http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/2000_2009 Books like The Color Purple,
To Kill a Mockingbird, and Of Mice and Men. So what's the number one challenged book? The Harry Potter Series.

If you don't have the time to give one of these books a review, at least stop and think about book banning this week. Censorship in any form is wrong.

Age...

Does it help us or does it hinder us?

Well I have to say both at some point in our lives. Depending on what the issue is and so forth.

Now this weekend, yesterday as a matter of fact I have to say it help this girl. *Grins*

What happened...well let me tell you...

Stepping into the Wal-Mart auto center of my area, I had a Starbucks ice coffee latte in one hand and a bag of Wal-Mart goodies in the other. Just finished my shopping, I thought the auto center would have my oil change done by now. Nope. Looking out the window of the waiting room area, I noticed my little Nellie or should I say Phoebe, because that's what my son named our little Tuscon, still sitting there with her hood open and a man washing the windshield like crazy. *Cringes* Sorry dude, it's love-bug season down here right now.

So anyways...I spy this handsome young man looking out the window as well as I sat down, removed the safety plastic seal from that Starbucks cold latte I'd just purchased in Wal-Mart and opened the bottle taking a nice cool drink. As I lowered the bottle I noticed him looking at me with a smile, so I smiled back, before returning my attention the the vehicle outside the window.

Well, he starts a conversation with me, about his truck. So to be polite I comment back and was my happy self. Then I notice him casting looks at me from the corner of my eye and I'm like - oh no he isn't. I'm 39 years old and this kid can't be more than 30 with nice toned athletic body, biceps, short brown hair and bright blue eyes.

OK I looked! I'm not dead or blind!

So he starts up another conversation and I talk with him until they call my name about ten minutes. He was trying to get info like what area of the county are you from, I'm from this end I live right off of this road, blah, blah, blah, what kind of work do you do, I do this, Do you know that Applebees down there, me and my buddy go there all the time ect, ect, ect...Well obviously he was listening to the intercom as well and uses my name as he stands up to shake my hand and says it was a pleasure speaking with me.

OK, I'm not used to men doing that, I'm really a shy person and turn the other way if i think a man is looking at me...well except for my honey that is *Grins*. But I'm telling you, I swear I could have gotten this kids number if I'd asked him out for coffee or something.

But I'm in a committed relationship with my wonderful man and I don't think the kid would have liked him coming along, LOL. I said the same and as I walked out to my car I had to Text my BFF telling her, I think I was just hit on.

OMG What an EGO booster!! It's nice to know that this girl at 39 years old still has a Wa-pow factor even in my jeans and t-shirt sitting in Wal-mart LOL.

So guess what came out of that...A Story Plot!! Thanks kid!! And yes, I did tell my honey! LOL. So Age can have it's advantages even sitting in Wal-Mart!

Choosing A Pen Name - NOT A Stripper Name!

Choosing a pen name for your writing is a very important and often neglected practice. I saw a post by Angela James recently about choosing a pen name and I thought I'd expand on it. Your pen name is your brand and you need to promote it very well. When I chose my pen name I wanted to choose one that sounded like a real person but not use a name that was very commonly associated with someone else. I chose "Elizabeth" because that's my favorite female name. I chose "Black" because it's a classy surname that is just above eye level on bookstore shelves for me since I'm short. I wanted my books to be the first ones you saw when you came to the romance section of the bookstore. Elizabeth Black has a middle name that begins with "A" but I won't tell you that one. That name is Lizzie's secret. Suffice to say it sounds like a stripper name.

And that's where I want to begin with the important task of choosing a pen name.



1. Don't choose a name that sounds like a stripper name. I can't stress this enough. You are a writer not a pole dancer. I've seen some really ridiculous names out there. My stripper name, according to the Stripper Name Generator is Cherry Tightdream. That's not a name I want to see on the cover of a book. My real name is not much better. The stripper name for my real name is Chastity DixonSparkle. Yech. I chose Elizabeth Black because it has class and it's believable. Remember that you will have your pen name for many years to come. Do you want to be known as Cherry Snowflake thirty years from now? You want people to take you seriously.

2. Make sure your chosen name isn't already taken. Don't choose Nora Roberts or Stephen King for obvious reasons. Now if your real name is Nora Roberts or Stephen King you'll obviously have to change it. Run a Google search of your chosen name and see how often - or if - it comes up. Elizabeth Black isn't all that common as far as writers go although there is already one but she doesn't write romance novels. I come up often enough in the first two Google searches of my name so I'm happy with it.

3. Choose different pen names for different types of writing. I heard science fiction writer Harry Turtledove discuss his multiple pen names at a science fiction convention many years ago. Depending on what he had written, he had a pen name for it. I use my real name to write feminist and family law articles. I use Elizabeth Black for sex writing and erotic romance writing. That way Google searches aren't confusing. If you write in several different genres you may want to pick a different pen name for each genre. The same goes for fiction vs. nonfiction. Stephen King wrote "Thinner" and other books with the name Richard Bachman because he wanted to know if people would buy his books if his famous real name wasn't attached to them. They did. So there.

4. Choose a name that doesn't disappear on the bookshelves. A friend of mine who writes science fiction chose his pen name based on where he knew he'd likely see his books on a bookshelf. He didn't want to start his surname with W, for instance, because his books would end up on the bottom shelf where no one would see them unless they looked down. No, you want your books near eye level. So he chose a surname beginning with K. I chose B because I wanted my books to be just above eye level, especially since I'm short. Most people start at the As and work their way down, at least that's what I do. So I chose Elizabeth Black because of where she'd be on a bookshelf.

Well, there you have it. There is actually a set of good rules to follow when picking a pen name. Take my advice and be very careful about it. Remember, once you choose your pen name, you have it for the life of your writing. Choose carefully.

Another Gratuitous Product Endorsement!

Time for another gratuitous product endorsement! It's called Almond Breeze and I discovered it through - you guessed it - Hungry Girl! LOL!



It's a non-dairy beverage made from real almonds that's cholesterol-free, filled with calcium, Vitamins D & E, as well as Vitamin A, and it comes in Original, Vanilla and Chocolate. You can get it unsweetened, too, which is what we buy! You can put it in just about anything you can put milk in, and it'll make it creamier tasting! We like it in oatmeal, tea and hot cocoa!

You gotta get it!

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Paige

"Stories so hot, they'll make your cheeks blush!"

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Positions

Oh yes, hehehhe, C has a big grin on her face. LOL

After reading or writing about a position, do you say “Hey honey, can we try this?” Not only to see if it’s fun *grins* but to see if it can really be done.

Yeppers, sometimes, I find myself writing about a scene, and then, it just doesn’t make any sense when I reread it.

Like, is it possible for him to rub that while in this position, and keep doing the hunka hunka like he is? *cupping hands to mouth* “HONEY, I need you, we have research!!” Hehehe *eyebrows wiggling*. Can you see the grin from ear to ear?

How about the Karma Sutra? I haven’t had the pleasure of cracking that open…yet, but have read Cosmo, and every now and then, they toss in some sweet positions to try out. Some I just look at and ask, ‘do I need yoga before trying this?’

One of my friends told me about this position. The stare I directed at her was disbelief as she continued to described it and gave her the "That's impossible without crashing to your head" speech. I'm thinking you need to be a gymnast for this and I'm the farthest person from a gymnast. I even told my nail tech about it and two weeks later when I went in, she's like, 'Thank you for that, we tried it and WOW, he grabbed me the next day to do it again *big smiles*.'

What, what is it you ask...hehehehe...well I wrote about it in A Lady's Challenge, the sequel to A Slave's Way Out. Soooo, I guess you'll have to pick it up to find out :-) because it's just not something to put up on a blog *Grins*

So what about you…do you read or write that scene, squint and say, ‘huh, it sounds plausible, but can it be done?’ And then go try it? Hehehehe

Hey on an off note here...did anyone notice it's almost Christmas shopping time? LOL Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I need to get moving so I'm not caught up in the rush, Ahhhhhhh :-)

Have a great day all and happy reading!!!!

C~

GUEST AUTHOR - Annette Snyder!

My life has always been a bit unconventional. I couldn’t wait to move away from my small hometown and live the big city life. After I graduated high school, I did just that. I first moved to a town of 100 thousand then to sprawling Houston and, after having kids, rethought my small town roots and moved back home. My experiences have been as varied as the places I’ve lived and people have always told me, “Wow, you should write a book.” So I did that too.

I started with Sally Murphy, the first novel of the Travis Pass Series, my 1800’s era work. I then continued with my WWII trilogy, consisting of Viveka’s War and Eureka Springs and my current project, Respectable Affair. My Contemporary novel, Drive Thru, released July 1st and is the second in a series which includes last year’s release, Intimate Flames.

My ideas spring from all over. I had five sets of grandparents as I grew up and they’d tell me awesome and intriguing stories. One day, my good friend told me the story of her ancestry and I merged my history with hers to get Travis Pass. Once I wrote that, I had ideas for Liberty Road, Rock Creek, Albert’s Rain….you can find all those titles on my website http://annettesnyder.atspace.com/

Five years since my first novel published with Whiskey Creek Press, I’ve got thirteen out and scores more ready in different stages and genres. You can find all that on my website too plus the latest about my appearances and my new venture, the Fifty Authors from Fifty States blog http://annettesnyder.blogspot.com/

I want to thank Paige Tyler and the other Nice and Naughty authors for letting me take up space on their blog and as a special thanks to visitors who comment, I’d like to offer an autographed copy of one of my released novels. If you post, I’ll put your name in a hat and pick then I’ll email the winner for their choice from my released list.

Thanks again to Nice and Naughty!

New Review for GOOD COP, BAD GIRL!

I'm so excited! Bella from FAR gave GOOD COP, BAD GIRL my hot erotic romance from Ellora's Cave, 5 Angels! Check it out!


"I have only one comment: why didn't my birthday come with a handsome man in uniform ready and willing to spank me? Good Cop, Bad Girl is one hot short story that tugs on many readers' fantasy strings. Not only does Kirk give Julie one deliciously erotic spanking, but he follows it up with a night of amazing sex. I'd say it's more Happily For Now than Happily Ever After although it's too soon in the beginning of this relationship to truly tell, but what a relationship it would be should they continue their nights after this one. A sizzling read!"

Read the complete review here!
http://fallenangelreviews.com/2010/August/bella-goodcopbadgirl.htm


Read an Excerpt!
http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/ExcerptGoodCopBadGirl.html

Watch the Trailer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgnpc0sx354

Buy it from Ellora's Cave!
http://www.jasminejade.com/p-8153-good-cop-bad-girl.aspx

Buy it on Amazon Kindle!
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Cop-Bad-Girl-ebook/dp/B003IWOBZ2/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272303657&sr=1-24


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Paige

"Stories so hot, they'll make your cheeks blush!"

http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/
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The Bouncer

By A.J. Llewellyn

Several months ago, I traveled to Austin, TX, to visit my best friend, Tam. I was excited to visit her new location, meet her beautiful man and cuddle her super-delicious baby girl. Armed with a tutu and tiara for Tam's toddler, I was excited about my short four-day trip.

I'd never been to Austin, but from the second I arrived, I knew it would be the ideal setting for a gay erotic romance novel.

Tam picked me up at the airport and we picked up exactly where we'd left off.
"I'll show you gay Austin," she said.

I blinked and missed it.

We circled the block and she pointed out four tiny gay bars and one lesbian cafe. I was surprised - and disappointed.

At the time, I was stunned that the most progressive and accepting Texan city is pretty much still keeping things close to the vest - the vest that's hanging on a wire hanger at the back of the closet.

I remember posting a tweet, making a joke about the plethora of gay cowboy novels that had flooded the ebook market. I said they needed to be classified as paranormal romances.

That single tweet got me a lot of emails from authors expressing surprise at my observation.

Some of them had jumped on the Brokeback Mountain Revisited genre with gay cowboy stories. A few of them knew the gay guys on the range was a myth, others imagined with the many books on the market that sweaty, sexy, half-clad gay cowboys just prowl Austin looking for company.

Anyway, Tam, my darling Tam...what can I say about her? She's thrown herself into motherhood the way she threw herself into being my friend.

She remains the only woman I know who sat ringside at boxing matches with me, not only loving it, but understanding it.

She remains a master chef, a master of all things...and I threw myself into her day-to-day life.

That meant Gymboree.

Yep, I know all the songs by heart. Thanks to Tam, I wake up with that bloody "Cleanup" song in my frickin' head. As I chased bubbles with the little kids and applauded their sharing. caring and cleaning efforts, the idea for The Bouncer came to me.

Jumping from my favorite what if starting point, I wondered, what if a single gay guy came to Austin to help his brother run his new gay bar...and got into trouble and had to do community service in an inner city gym...with toddlers?

The result was The Bouncer, one of my favorite stories to write.

Tam will recognize her street with its dried and crackly lawns thanks to watering ordinances.

She may recognize the honey butter references for which she is responsible since she introduced me to the lovely, sweet-yellow stuff.

But most of all, I hope she recognizes some our conversations in this.

She is a goddess, a true creator. I am certain we were friends before this life and will be in the next one, too.

I hope by then the "Cleanup" song leaves my brain. If not, I'll shrug it up to a lesson learned, and kept, from The Bouncer.

What about other authors/readers? What was your fave experience that inspired a story or a piece of art or music? Leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of THE BOUNCER...

Available now at: http://tinyurl.com/256hqh5

Aloha oe,

A.J.

The Muse of Music

It just hit me recently that no matter where I am and a song's on, my muse decides to hit me smack between the eyes with a story idea.

I also noticed a while ago, that I love to write with music in the back ground. I remember my early writing days, you know, when the big ole' floppy disks were used LOL. I'd have classical on in the back ground. Now it's usually a mix of everything or if I'm in a certain mood and that portrays over to the scene I'm writing, I'll have the music playing to go with it.

Like...A fighting scene...well of course we're going to have some hard alternative head banging rock and roll!! Woo-Hoo. LOL :-)

Of course my muse decides to pop up at the most odd times. LOL.

Example: I'm in the middle of a conversation with someone and suddenly...boom, there that muse is. Not sure if it's the conversation itself, a key word that my brain picks up on or the tone of the conversation.

And sitting in the passenger seat on a trip will always cause the muse to pop it's head. I can't say weather my muse is a she or a he. I guess it depends on my mood and what strikes me at that moment. But well...Wozzers LOL. The stuff that comes up :-)

I'm so glad I have that muse if mine!!

Happy reading and have a great day!!!!

C~

Saturday Soulful Quotes

Happy Saturday everyone! So glad to be back this month with another installment of soulful lines from authors who are not afraid to get sappy, sensual, or even suggestive in their romances.

Today, I am featuring books from new releases which just came out. And of course, these are all authors I recommend reading from. I hope you enjoy!

“Keep your hands off my cock until I place our order. If I can't breathe, I won't be able to speak.”

Tina Donahue, In His Arms

“Because you want me to trust you,” he said hoarsely. “And I don’t know any other way to make you see that I do.”

Unable to bear the possibility that she wouldn’t believe him, or worse, dismiss his display of trust, he looked away from her. A moment later, something wet hit his stomach and he jerked his head back toward her to see tears rolling down her cheeks. Horrified that he’d made her cry, he rolled her off him onto her back and hovered over her to wipe the tears from her eyes.

“It’s all right, cara. I know it’s not much, but it’s the only card I have in my hand at the moment. I’ll try to do better, carissima. I promise.”

Monica Burns, Assassin's Heart

“Emie, you may have been away for seven years, but I’ve never lost track of you or what you’ve been up to.” He rummaged for plates and cutlery with familiarity, but continued in the same quiet, almost singsong voice. “Now, although I’m not pleased with the way you’ve conducted your life, tonight you’ll see what I have planned for you. We need to catch up and get… reacquainted.”

Gabriella Edwards, Until Emie

He stepped in his bathroom when a moan through the wall stopped him and pulled him back to his bedroom.

Keri Ford, Through The Wall

“My lord,” she responded, twisting to face him. 

Dægan smiled jovially upon her use of the feudal idiom. He looked as though he were memorizing every aspect of her morning face, from the warmth that reddened her cheeks, to the innocence of her guilt-stricken smile.

“Shame looks lovely on you,” he said, eyeing her breasts devilishly.

Renee Vincent, Ræliksen

Sexy New Ellora's Cave Cover! UNMASKED!

Got my cover for UNMASKED my Halloween-themed Exotica Quickie from Ellora's Cave and I so love it! The artist, Syneca, did a beautiful job on it! I think it's so sexy!



When Tabitha Buckley gets a chance to go to the hottest Halloween costume party in LA, she can’t turn it down, especially since the coworker she’s been lusting after is going to be there. And since she knows he’ll be dressed as the phantom of Venice, he should be easy to find. What Tabitha doesn’t know is that this isn’t the average costume party, but a spanking party. Having gotten spanked by a few boyfriends before, that doesn’t bother her as much as the fact that there’s more than one phantom of Venice on the guest list. Not to be deterred, she decides the best way to figure out which masked hunk is her coworker is to let each phantom spank her until she finds the man she’s looking for. And when she finds him, the night is going to end exactly like she’s always fantasized - in bed having hot, sweaty sex!


Look for it Oct 13th from Ellora's Cave!


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Paige

"Stories so hot, they'll make your cheeks blush!"

http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/
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GUEST AUTHOR - Jeri Westerson!

Days and Knights

I spend a lot of time thinking about knights and what it means to be one. A strange occupation for a middle-aged Jewish mother in the 21st century but what are you gonna do? The reason I spend so much time on this particular occupation is that the protagonist, dare I say hero, of my medieval mystery series is a former knight. He has lost the right to call himself so due to a little thing called treason. But he was a knight longer than he's had to go without it. It defined him. His code can not as easily be excised or torn from him as his surcote was.

But what exactly is a knight and what did it mean to call yourself one?

Well, for one, you were usually of the nobility and were raised to be a knight, and that means lots of years of intense training in riding, swordsmanship, hand to hand combat, hawking, and hunting. Hawking and hunting were more leisure pursuits, but to be able to manage a hawk, the watch for the clues in the bird that a kill was to take place meant patience and observation. In hunting, it meant riding, using a bow for deer or a javelin for boar. All of it, leisure or not, would seem to have prepared a young man for war.

And war was an important make up of the medieval period. It’s all about showing your strength and keeping the reins of power in your hand and age old disputes about borders. And it was sometimes about accumulating wealth. And all this meant showing the other guy that you were strong enough, brave enough, and well armed enough to do it.

And young. If you were going to be trained as a knight, you might be fostered into the household of another noble family and serve as a page by age seven. When you were a bit older you could serve as a squire while continuing your own training. But to be a knight was an expensive prospect. Not only did you need to provide your own armor—something that might cost the equivalent of $2000 today—you also had to provide yourself with several horses. Your warhorse, a horse for the luggage, and a horse for your squire. From about five to twenty-four horses, some sources say, enough for your full retinue. That meant also supplying your squire with a wage and livery, that is, a uniform of sorts so that everyone would know he belonged to you.

You could be knighted by the king or a lord when you were as young as seventeen or eighteen and then off to war with you! Can you imagine a gang of young toughs let loose in the countryside with horses and weapons? Can you say “rape and pillage”? Testosterone and weapons? Really, not a good combination.

At any rate, the warrior class was important for securing boundaries and settling disputes, for protection of individual lands and the general running of the country.

And it wasn’t all swords and savages. This courtly class developed the idea of chivalry and courtly love. Notions of fairness and courtesy—though not always put into practice or in the way we appreciate them today—had their start in the Middle Ages. In fact, the word “courtesy” stems from how you behave at court as well as the word “curtsy” for how you behaved at court to one’s betters. Chivalry, in the earliest sense of the word comes from the French chevalier, meaning horseman. Later, it came to mean a set of rules and virtues by which a knight should live. Courtly love stemmed from that and was a notion borrowed from the Saracen (Muslim) people the knights encountered and killed during the Crusades. This was a kind of unattainable love for a virtuous maiden or virtuous married woman which quickly degenerated into adultery on a poetic level. So it was very much like stalking, only with poetry.

We can’t get away from the notion of a “knight.” There is the Dark Knight, Batman, stalking the streets of Gotham; white knights, the guys who are supposed to sweep us off our feet and take us away from all our troubles; Knights of The Roundtable—mythical King Arthur’s guys. They all represent an ideal, a vision of masculine strength, honor, and nobility. Something romantic.





Jeri tries to keep it romantic and a little angst-ridden in her Medieval Noir novels. The latest is THE DEMON’S PARCHMENT, available October 12. Read the first chapter on her website www.JeriWesterson.com. Be looking for the October issue of Romantic Times Magazine, where THE DEMON’S PARCHMENT is a top mystery pick! And in November, Jeri has an article in RT as well.

Visit her website at http://www.jeriwesterson.com/

Blog Hop This Weekend!

There's a blog hop this weekend and you know what that means! Hot hunks and cool prizes!

Click on the banner below for more info!



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Paige

"Stories so hot, they'll make your cheeks blush!"

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