Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Paranormal Romances for a Spooky/Sexy Good Time!

 
Vampires, werewolves and witches, oh my! Two Paranormal novels in one!

Vampires Boxed Set
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Min’s Vampire
One night turned into forever…

Min thought her biggest problem was the soulless vampire she’d captured with magic and made into her personal sex slave for the night.

That was until her comatose mother’s most deadly secret threatened to destroy them all. So much of what she remembers is a lie and one she trusts completely and loves deeply is the reason why.

Can she save the ones she loves—and herself—when the Queen of Air and Darkness comes calling.

 


Better off Dead
What if your fiancé turns out to be a werewolf, and worse, his creature-of-the-night girlfriend is trying to kill you?

Lucy Hart, eighteen-year-old queen bee and captain of the cheer squad, faces just that. She loses everything—money, social status, and even her home—when her father is arrested for tax evasion and immigrant slave trafficking. Reduced to flipping burgers, she plots to get her old life back by blackmailing her father’s slimeball lawyer and scheming her way into a gig pretending to be a rich young man’s “fiancée.”

The pay: enough money to let her write her own future. The bad news: the guy is a condescending pain in the butt.

In no time at all Lucy finds herself fighting for her life as her faux fiancé’s vampire girlfriend tries to slaughter her, and on top of that, getting royally grossed out by her own spanking new paranormal ability: necromancy. Yet somehow, while she gets back her life and kicks vampire butt, she also manages to fall in love/lust with her fake fiancé.

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Not Dead Yet
Someone is trying to kill Lucy Hart: assassins of every ilk and species have converged on Southern California, all trying one after the other—sometimes together—to snuff her out.

All of this is happening as Lucy tries to plan her impending nuptials and choose what sorority to rush in the fall.

On top of that there’s the gorgeous vampire, Vin—who now has a special blood bond with Lucy—who is trying to steal her away from her werewolf love, Gabriel.

In the end Lucy has to choose who she loves most, and save her own life—once again.
 


Ferro Mountain Shifters Volume 1
Follow the Ironcloud Saga. The Ironcloud family struggles to get by and to keep those they love safe from the preternatural baddies that come to destroy them. Shifters: werebears, werepumas, werewolves... with a Native American flare. Five shifter romances in one big book.

 
And here's some Contemporary Romances too!
 
Want Him
Groom dumps you at the altar? Fall in love with your hunky best friend.

When Susan is dumped at the altar-via cocktail napkin-it is up to her best friend Kevin to help her recover. After a brief post-wedding-that-wasn't coma, Susan finds herself in paradise, on her honeymoon, but with Kevin, not her groom. After some crying, paragliding, frozen margaritas and bad advice from her other best friend Liz, Susan decides to seduce Kevin and get rid of her pain with a rebound fling.

Kevin has secretly loved Susan for years and finally giving into her cuts him deeper than he could have expected.

He leaves her and severs all contact with her until six months later, when they are both vying for the same account-designing Chicago's new opera house. Competition takes on a whole new meaning for Susan when Kevin shows up on the arm of her arch nemesis, the cougar Francesca Costa. She now must not only vie for the opera house...but for her best friend's heart as well.
 
 


Hate Him XOXO

One woman’s struggle to save her career, ditch the gorgeous bastard who broke her heart and rejected her virginity in college… and get her orgasm back.

My name is Liz Hamilton. My career and sex life are circling the drain. My art gallery is about to become a laughing stock, and I can’t get past the heavy petting stage with a man without turning into a cold fish.

The problem? I watched my best friend give birth three months ago and lost my sex drive… oh, and I have paintings of zombie turkeys on the walls of my gallery.

Then Jackson Burk, the man who rejected my virginity back in college, appears to screw things up for me even more.

The solution?

Hell if I know...

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UK
Paperback
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Holding onto Hope

What’s a love challenged woman to do when life/fate presents her with not just one, but two fantastic hot studs? Screw it all up? Check! Watch Hope Jones, with a little help from her friends, pull on her big-girl panties and sort the whole wild, crazy mess out.
Hope Jones has two problems: one is new, the other is depressingly old.

The new problem: the bestselling author the publisher she shoots romance novel covers for hates her newest batch of covers. She has until the end of the week to come up with a breathtaking shot or she’ll be replaced. And there’s a sudden model shortage; they’re out of season.

The old, depressing problem: she hasn’t had a date, sex or a relationship in over two years.

She also has one hell of a headache.

Hope finds the cures for her two problems during a search through Wal-Mart for a painkiller to kill her headache.

Turns out the aisles of the retail giant are rampant with hot young model worthy specimens. And when her trusty Ford Taurus breaks down in the parking lot, a hunky mechanic in the Tire and Lube Express department fixes more than just her car.

Seemingly her troubles are good as gone…but then her new, fabulous cover is rejected, and in a desperate moment she has to choose between keeping her job and keeping the man she’s just starting to fall in love with.
 
 


Bette’s Turn
Raphael’s gorgeous... he’s sexy... and he’s decent to a fault.

He’s not a one night stand, a fun weekend, or even a one hot month kind of man.

He’s the real deal... a keeper.

And that’s Bette’s problem. Love has done wrong by her, many, many times. She has designed her life to avoid ever falling in love again.

She keeps things light now: fun, sex, and then she moves on two to three weeks later. Never more than a month with any man, no matter how good he is in bed, or how talented his tongue.

But the man she thought was for her best friend, now has eyes... and hands... and lips and... well... a hard everything, for her.

Can Bette let herself fall in love?

 


Saint Sex
Lucy is hopelessly in love with her boss, the sexy billionaire Dante Saint James. She’s kept it and her passionate fantasies for him to herself. That is until an unscrupulous reporter exposes more than just her truth, but Dante’s truth as well. Once everything is out in the open, though, will Lucy be able to face Dante ever again?


 


 Un-Dateable, a Novel

Dana's love life is as bad as her green thumb... which is black as death itself. But maybe with enough effort, and a makeover, she can find Mr. Right.

In Un-Dateable, physical therapist Dana Jamison comes to grips with her glaring lack of a love life.
Her mother likens it to her ability to neglect a potted plant to death in less than two weeks. Her best friend thinks she needs to throw herself into the dating world and find herself an orgasm-buddy.
Doggedly, she sets Dana up with one horrifically strange man after another with absolutely no success.

Until she matches Dana up with Dean Coulter, a hot young doctor who treats her like gold, feeds her
Chinese, and makes her body sizzle with lust. Dana and Dean move from dating, to sex-capades, to nearly being a couple.

But there’s something missing--she’s not in love with Dean. Dana’s in love with Gus, the abrasive, though handsome, plant nursery owner who helps her in her hapless efforts to keep her potted plants alive, along with her hopes for a love life.

With the good doctor suddenly proposing and Gus turning the sexual heat up on her, Dana must decide which man is the one for her, before she loses them both.
 
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Monday, October 22, 2018

Who's Your Favorite Narrator?

Who’s your favorite narrator? I’m talking about movies or on TV.
 
Mine are, Harold Perrineau who narrated the hysterical and sexy Woman on Top, also playing the fierce drag queen Monica Jones.
 
 
 


 
 He also narrated and acted in the wickedly horrific OZ. He’s the best.
 
 
 But there is a close runner up, in my book. The deliciously wicked narration of Desperate House Wives by the glorious Brenda Strong.

 
 
 


 
She played Mary Alice Young, but since she blows her head off with her pistol in the first five minutes of the first episode, she’s mostly in flashback episodes. But she narrated every episode—spare one—and wickedly summed up the themes of each episode to perfection, giving the show a tone utterly original, and a whimsical tone that could turn dark and serious on a dime. 
 
So those are my favorite narrators. Who are yours?

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

From Cordelia Chase to Lucy Hart: A New Kind of Heroine


 

 
I’m a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan.  I mean, total loco, watch one-to-two episodes a day for the last ten years fanatical.  I shiver when I see the name of one of the writers or producers from the show on new projects: Supernatural or the new Fright Night.  I started watching a sci-fi space western—Firefly.  I even started reading comic books for a while—all because Joss Whedon started writing an X-Men title.
 
I love the Buff-ster.  Joyce Summers is my favorite TV mom.  I had a huge crush on Xander…and for a short time Willow—I have a thing for redheads, don’t ask.  And just saying the name Faith fills me with fiendish delight.
 
And then there's Spike…
 
And Spike…
 
Oh, Spike...



But my favorite character has to be Cordelia Chase.  She’s funny, straight forward…so politically incorrect.  And out for number one…until she started fighting the good fight on Angel. 
 

It took half a dozen characters between the two series to replace what her character pulled off with nothing more than a supporting role, boiling complex issues down to brutal one-liners.  Just look at episode Faith, Hope & Trick from Buffy season three.  “You mean how the only guy who ever liked her turned into a viscous killer and had to be put down like a dog?” 


Or on Angel, season one, in Five by Five, where she’s talking to a prospective client: “No, it’s not about the money…Oh, it’s about that much money?  How soon can we meet?”  And then later in the next episode, sporting a ripe shiner, she lets Angel explain why he feels he needs to help Faith rehabilitate herself.  The whole while she’s having him sign checks payable to her.  She’d decided to take a paid vacation while Angel played twelve-step-program with the homicidal slayer.

“Like I’m going to stick around here with psycho-case roaming around downstairs, with three tons of medieval weaponry?  Not!”

Fast forward to 2009.  I’d just got another rejection letter saying that my heroine was, yet again, too wimpy…but they just loved the bitchy best friend.  I get that a lot.  I can write a hell of a vicious, funny, man-eating b-i-t-c-h.   


I’d recently read Jennifer Crusie’s The Assassination of Cordelia Chase, a great article that really limned Cordie’s impact on both series.

Halfway through a bartending shift at a local resort, a young woman dragged her rather hot, broad shouldered boyfriend over to get a drink.  She was wearing the tightest, shortest plaid catholic school girl skirt you have ever seen.

To her detriment the thing looked like hell on her rather plump rump; a fact every woman and cocktail waitress groused about.  But me, I couldn’t get one, utterly delicious thought out of my head: I wondered what her super hot boyfriend would look like in that skirt…and nothing else?

Then I wondered what kind of girl could get a guy to let her dress him up in school-girl drag?

And voila, I could see her, clear as day, the spitting image of Cordelia Chase…but not.

No, this girl was the star of her own story.  And her name was Lucy Hart.

Right away I wanted Lucy to have Cordelia’s best traits: a sense of style and entitlement, absolutely no tact, a cool, calculating intelligence, and a rich daddy.  Then I made her lose everything in a spectacular fashion, and plopped her six months later flipping burgers at a McDonald’s
. 
But I wanted her to pull herself up out of this poverty induced funk, and to do it in a ruthless, manipulative, utterly Cordelia-esque way. On top of all that, I wanted Lucy Hart to have her own superpowers, ones that were all her own, not given to her later on. 
 
So I decided to give her necromancy—the power over the dead.  Just like Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter.  I knew that would gross Lucy out completely.

So I wrote Better off Dead: a Lucy Hart,DEATHDEALER novel, and no one in the publishing world would give it the time of day.  They said it was nicely written, but that the main character just wasn’t likeable enough.  I didn’t want Lucy Hart to be just some sweet, misunderstood goody-goody.  I wanted her to be in it for herself, to be funny in an inappropriate, honest way, and to be possessed with self-confidence.
 

So I moved on to write another book, and left Lucy how she was.  I’d already wrote up a good outline for the next book, and about seven thousand words of text, but decided to write something more saleable to get my foot in the publishing world door. 

A couple months ago I read about Kindle’s self publishing program and simply couldn’t resist publishing Lucy’s book as I really wanted it.  I just knew somehow, somewhere, there would be others out there that would understand my new kind of heroine, and love her just as much as I do. 

Just the way she is
.
And now there’s a second novel, Not DeadYet, following my favorite gold-digger through her pre-wedding woes: dress fitting, hell-cat assassin, cake tasting, Sorority-girl vampire assassin, Walmart shopping trips, axe-wielding hottie assassin, engagement party, witch and shape-shifter assassins. 

Next up?

The WEDDING! Aka Dead and Burried.

My Books: Contemporary and Paranormal Romance


Want Him
Groom dumps you at the altar? Fall in love with your hunky best friend.

When Susan is dumped at the altar-via cocktail napkin-it is up to her best friend Kevin to help her recover. After a brief post-wedding-that-wasn't coma, Susan finds herself in paradise, on her honeymoon, but with Kevin, not her groom. After some crying, paragliding, frozen margaritas and bad advice from her other best friend Liz, Susan decides to seduce Kevin and get rid of her pain with a rebound fling.

Kevin has secretly loved Susan for years and finally giving into her cuts him deeper than he could have expected.

He leaves her and severs all contact with her until six months later, when they are both vying for the same account-designing Chicago's new opera house. Competition takes on a whole new meaning for Susan when Kevin shows up on the arm of her arch nemesis, the cougar Francesca Costa. She now must not only vie for the opera house...but for her best friend's heart as well.
 
 


Hate Him XOXO

One woman’s struggle to save her career, ditch the gorgeous bastard who broke her heart and rejected her virginity in college… and get her orgasm back.

My name is Liz Hamilton. My career and sex life are circling the drain. My art gallery is about to become a laughing stock, and I can’t get past the heavy petting stage with a man without turning into a cold fish.

The problem? I watched my best friend give birth three months ago and lost my sex drive… oh, and I have paintings of zombie turkeys on the walls of my gallery.

Then Jackson Burk, the man who rejected my virginity back in college, appears to screw things up for me even more.

The solution?

Hell if I know...

Kindle US
UK
Paperback
Smashwords FREE!
iBooks FREE!
Nook FREE!
Kobo FREE!


Holding onto Hope

What’s a love challenged woman to do when life/fate presents her with not just one, but two fantastic hot studs? Screw it all up? Check! Watch Hope Jones, with a little help from her friends, pull on her big-girl panties and sort the whole wild, crazy mess out.
Hope Jones has two problems: one is new, the other is depressingly old.

The new problem: the bestselling author the publisher she shoots romance novel covers for hates her newest batch of covers. She has until the end of the week to come up with a breathtaking shot or she’ll be replaced. And there’s a sudden model shortage; they’re out of season.

The old, depressing problem: she hasn’t had a date, sex or a relationship in over two years.

She also has one hell of a headache.

Hope finds the cures for her two problems during a search through Wal-Mart for a painkiller to kill her headache.

Turns out the aisles of the retail giant are rampant with hot young model worthy specimens. And when her trusty Ford Taurus breaks down in the parking lot, a hunky mechanic in the Tire and Lube Express department fixes more than just her car.

Seemingly her troubles are good as gone…but then her new, fabulous cover is rejected, and in a desperate moment she has to choose between keeping her job and keeping the man she’s just starting to fall in love with.
 
 


Bette’s Turn
Raphael’s gorgeous... he’s sexy... and he’s decent to a fault.

He’s not a one night stand, a fun weekend, or even a one hot month kind of man.

He’s the real deal... a keeper.

And that’s Bette’s problem. Love has done wrong by her, many, many times. She has designed her life to avoid ever falling in love again.

She keeps things light now: fun, sex, and then she moves on two to three weeks later. Never more than a month with any man, no matter how good he is in bed, or how talented his tongue.

But the man she thought was for her best friend, now has eyes... and hands... and lips and... well... a hard everything, for her.

Can Bette let herself fall in love?

 


Saint Sex
Lucy is hopelessly in love with her boss, the sexy billionaire Dante Saint James. She’s kept it and her passionate fantasies for him to herself. That is until an unscrupulous reporter exposes more than just her truth, but Dante’s truth as well. Once everything is out in the open, though, will Lucy be able to face Dante ever again?

 
Vampires, werewolves and witches, oh my! Two Paranormal novels in one!

Vampires Boxed Set
Free Everywhere!
 




Min’s Vampire
One night turned into forever…

Min thought her biggest problem was the soulless vampire she’d captured with magic and made into her personal sex slave for the night.

That was until her comatose mother’s most deadly secret threatened to destroy them all. So much of what she remembers is a lie and one she trusts completely and loves deeply is the reason why.

Can she save the ones she loves—and herself—when the Queen of Air and Darkness comes calling.

 


Better off Dead
What if your fiancé turns out to be a werewolf, and worse, his creature-of-the-night girlfriend is trying to kill you?

Lucy Hart, eighteen-year-old queen bee and captain of the cheer squad, faces just that. She loses everything—money, social status, and even her home—when her father is arrested for tax evasion and immigrant slave trafficking. Reduced to flipping burgers, she plots to get her old life back by blackmailing her father’s slimeball lawyer and scheming her way into a gig pretending to be a rich young man’s “fiancée.”

The pay: enough money to let her write her own future. The bad news: the guy is a condescending pain in the butt.

In no time at all Lucy finds herself fighting for her life as her faux fiancé’s vampire girlfriend tries to slaughter her, and on top of that, getting royally grossed out by her own spanking new paranormal ability: necromancy. Yet somehow, while she gets back her life and kicks vampire butt, she also manages to fall in love/lust with her fake fiancé.

Kindle US
UK
Paperback
Smashwords FREE!
iTunes Free!
Nook FREE!
Kobo  FREE!
 


Not Dead Yet
Someone is trying to kill Lucy Hart: assassins of every ilk and species have converged on Southern California, all trying one after the other—sometimes together—to snuff her out.

All of this is happening as Lucy tries to plan her impending nuptials and choose what sorority to rush in the fall.

On top of that there’s the gorgeous vampire, Vin—who now has a special blood bond with Lucy—who is trying to steal her away from her werewolf love, Gabriel.

In the end Lucy has to choose who she loves most, and save her own life—once again.
 


Ferro Mountain Shifters Volume 1
Follow the Ironcloud Saga. The Ironcloud family struggles to get by and to keep those they love safe from the preternatural baddies that come to destroy them. Shifters: werebears, werepumas, werewolves... with a Native American flare. Five shifter romances in one big book.


 Un-Dateable, a Novel

Dana's love life is as bad as her green thumb... which is black as death itself. But maybe with enough effort, and a makeover, she can find Mr. Right.

In Un-Dateable, physical therapist Dana Jamison comes to grips with her glaring lack of a love life.
Her mother likens it to her ability to neglect a potted plant to death in less than two weeks. Her best friend thinks she needs to throw herself into the dating world and find herself an orgasm-buddy.
Doggedly, she sets Dana up with one horrifically strange man after another with absolutely no success.

Until she matches Dana up with Dean Coulter, a hot young doctor who treats her like gold, feeds her
Chinese, and makes her body sizzle with lust. Dana and Dean move from dating, to sex-capades, to nearly being a couple.

But there’s something missing--she’s not in love with Dean. Dana’s in love with Gus, the abrasive, though handsome, plant nursery owner who helps her in her hapless efforts to keep her potted plants alive, along with her hopes for a love life.

With the good doctor suddenly proposing and Gus turning the sexual heat up on her, Dana must decide which man is the one for her, before she loses them both.
 
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