The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter

Available August 25, 2009.

I Do Not Want To Wait Until Then, I Want The Book Now! 🙂

Available for pre-order at:

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | Borders

Cyber Party at…

Nalini Singh’s blog. She giving away lots of goodies in celebration of her upcoming release Branded By Fire on July 7, 2009.

Stolen Heat by Elisabeth Naughton coming July 28

Demons Week starting tomorrow

Do love Demons? Good! Visit my blog all weekend long as I will some of the best romance authors with demon heroes visiting all week. So here’s the plan:

Monday, May 18: Jaci Burton will be here and one lucky commenter will win their choice of Surviving Demon Island, Hunting The Demon, or The Darkest Touch.

Tuesday, May 19: Cynthia Eden is visiting and one lucky commenter will win a copy of her upcoming new book Midnight’s Master.

Wednesday, May 20: Rita Herron will be here and one lucky commenter will win a copy of Insatiable Desire.

Thurday, May 21: Meljean Brook is visiting and one lucky comment will win their choice of Demon Angel, Demon Moon, Demon Night, or Demon Bound.

Friday, May 22: Gena Showalter will be here and one lucky commenter will win their choice of The Darknest Night, The Darkest Kiss, or The Darkest Pleasure.

Saturday, May 23, Larissa Ione is visiting and one lucky commenter will win their choice of Pleasure Unbound, Desire Unchained, or Passion Unleashed.

In addition, there will be one grand prize winner for the week who will win a book from each participating author, a $20 gift certificate from me from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Borders, and two autographed books from Kresley Cole – Dark Desires After Dusk and Kiss Of A Demon King.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All winners will be announced on Sunday, May 24, 2009

Your comment will only count once for each individual day. However, the more times you comment during the week the more chances you have for the grand prize.

All winners will have seven days to accept their prizes or another will be chosen.

What a yummy cover?

Hard And Fast by Erin McCarthy

available May 5, 2009

Love Me Tomorrow – Dee Tenorio

Just two more months

A 21st Century Courtesan by Eden Bradley available March 24, 2009

She’s spent her life pleasuring others.

Now it’s her turn…  

She lives in a world of silk sheets, imported champagne,

and endless erotic delight…

She fulfills the deepest fantasies of the most powerful men in the world. Sensual, seductive, and discreet, Valentine Day is a high class call girl, pampered and adored by her exclusive clientele. But Valentine has a secret. Always in control, she’s never experienced true pleasure outside of her work. But all that is about to change…Now, the woman who’s spent a decade pleasuring others is about to embark on an erotic journey of her own…

It happens one night at the opera. Seated next to her in the dark is a stranger. As the music swells, so does the sexual tension. Gorgeous, sophisticated Joshua Spencer invites her for a drink, and soon she’s fantasizing about taking him home. When they finally come together in a night of the wildest lovemaking Valentine has ever known, she’s hooked. But suddenly Valentine is questioning everything. Joshua has no idea what she does for a living.  Can she risk everything—including her hard-earned freedom and one final, shattering secret—for one man?  And would he still want her if he knew the truth?

“Blog All About It” For Shiloh Walker & Fragile

Sometimes the last thing you want is exactly what you need…

“Okay, you wanna be literal? Devon, are you avoiding me?”

Damn, where in the hell is an interruption when you need one? she thought irritably. A sardonic little voice in her head said, Chicken. To that voice, Devon thought back, Damn right.

She’d meant it when she told Luke Rafferty he was a complication she didn’t need in her life. She’d meant it even though she wished she wasn’t such a fricking coward. Devon just didn’t know if she was ready to handle the ups and downs that came with anything more than a casual friendship. Casual friendships–that was all she had. And it was damn lonely, too.

Then you need to do something about it.

Before she could talk herself out of it, she looked Luke square in the eye and said, “Yeah, I’ve been dodging you.”

He blinked, a little taken aback by her honest response. “Do I take that to mean you changed your mind?” he asked, his gray eyes narrowing on her face.

“I don’t know. Yes. No–” Devon blew out a breath, feeling like a fool. And a coward. Damn it, she liked this guy. He was funny, he made her smile and the way he was with kids just totally melted her heart. But she was too much a coward to do anything about it. Shuffling her feet, she shoved her hands into the pockets of her blazer and said, “Yes, I’d changed my mind. Then I changed it back. Right now I’m kind of caught in the in between.”

Luke reached up, brushed a strand of her hair away from her face. His hand lingered and Devon could have sworn electricity jumped between them, just from that simple touch. He felt it, too. She could see it in the way his eyes darkened, the way he hissed in a breath. His body changed, too, tensing and from the corner of her eyes, she could see his other hand close into a fist. The hand that had brushed her hair back from her face slid backward, curving around her neck.

“We really shouldn’t keep ignoring this, Devon. It’s not going away.”

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Coming February 2009

A Romantic Adventure with Elisabeth Naughton

Romantic Adventure

 Thanks so much to Greta for inviting me to guest blog today. I’m thrilled to be here.

I have a close friend who is a public relations specialist for a local university. As an author, she’s the kind of friend you want – especially when she uses her talent for free on your behalf without your even asking for her help. 😉 My dear, sweet friend Lisa Catto contacted several local media outlets about the release of my book, and one of the angles she used to pitch my story was this idea of literature following in the footsteps of popular movie genres.

My debut romantic suspense, STOLEN FURY (which released last week) has been compared to both Romancing The Stone and Indiana Jones (which couldn’t thrill me more), and the reviews so far have been stellar. Publisher’s Weekly recently called it a “Rock solid debut,” and one reviewer compared the hero in my novel to a “Han Solo/Indiana Jones rogue.” As someone who has loved both those movie franchises, it makes me smile to hear my book being compared to them, and I don’t see it as a negative at all. In fact, I see it as only positive. People recognize Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone and immediately know my book will have some sort of treasure hunt/adventure storyline, which is what I want them to think…because it’s true.

However, I think with anything, you do often wonder about too many comparisons. Does my book have enough adventure? Enough romance? Enough suspense? Am I giving the reader the same, but different? (Always what we writers are worrying about, it seems.) So I’m sure you can only imagine how excited I was at a recent review, this one by Stingletitles.com, where the reviewer said:

“In Ms. Naughton’s debut, she really brings you into the story, so that even though you know on one level there will be a positive ending, you forget about that and nibble on your nails and read as fast as you can, hoping that they will survive and over come the obstacles in front of them. All of the characters are very real as well. You really feel for them. They aren’t caricatures, so you may know people like them.

I find that a lot of the time these days, when a story involves archeology and adventure, people compare them to Indiana Jones and while I can see the possibility for that here, I really feel, that Stolen Fury is its own story.”

For me, that pretty much sums up how I feel about this book. From a writer’s perspective, I want to give the reader something they know they’ll already enjoy – adventure, suspense, romance – along with something unique that they may not have gotten somewhere else. While you could say STOLEN FURY is written in the same vein as Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone, it is definitely its own story. And I’m happy to know readers and reviewers are realizing that.

Recently I was interviewed for an article and was asked why I thought romantic adventure as a subgenre is so small compared to other romantic subgenres, especially with the popularity of movies such as National Treasure, Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone (which, by the way, I hear is being remade as I type.) Personally, I think it’s because romantic adventure has always been shelved with romantic suspense and, therefore, the subgenre itself isn’t well-known. Romantic suspense encompasses such a vast range of styles from dark, gritty serial killer books to lighter adventure romances like STOLEN FURY, it’s hard to differentiate within the subgenre itself. I think (hope) though with the resurgence in the next generation of the Indiana Jones storyline, the remaking of Romancing the Stone and the excitement over other treasure hunt movies like National Treasure, Fools Gold & The Mummy (even though it’s paranormal) we’ll see an upswing in the lighter-style romantic adventures of old.

How about you…do you read adventure novels? Do you enjoy watching adventure movies? What would you like to see more of in romantic fiction?

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 And before I forget…In honor of STOLEN FURY‘s release, I’m running a FUN, interactive contest on my website:

Are you searching for Fortune & Glory? (And who isn’t in this economy?) Simply go to www.elisabethnaughton.com/fortune.html to enter and play.

Embark on your very own quest, partner up with a sexy treasure hunting guide and enter to win a $100 VISA gift card! 

Three weeks and counting