Bend Over Cowboy- new release from Paris Brandon

Hey everyone,Today I'd like to welcome my critique partner, Paris Brandon to my blog. She has a great new release from Ellora's Cave titled, Bend Over Cowboy. One lucky commenter today will win their choice of one of the e-books from Paris' backlist. Let the commenting begin and good luck to all. I can vouch that all of Paris' books are awesome!

Short, Sweet and Sexy!

How can I possibly call a story that involves strap-on sex, sweet? 

Perhaps I view the world a little differently but I believe that hot sex in a relationship can be sweet and funny. I’m a big fan of the “What if?” question. I’ve always loved a story where two consenting adults were having fun while exploring the boundaries of pleasure. Which is how my newest Ellora’s Cave Quickie, BEND OVER, COWBOY made its way from my quirky little brain onto the page.

If you enjoy short stories with a healthy dose of romance, hot sex and mutual respect have a peek at the excerpt and leave me a comment and I’ll choose someone to receive a copy from my backlist:

Cross My Heart…a Night Owl Review 5 Star Top Pick
Head Over Heels/Book One/Red Stilettos…5 Stars, The Romance Studio
Assassin’s Kiss…4 Stars from Romantic Times
No Holds Barred…4 Stars, Just Erotic Romance Reviews

Blurb:

The toss of a coin, a whispered request and some very interesting toys add up to an amorous weekend for an adventurous woman who isn’t afraid of asking for what she wants and a pleasure seeking cowboy that’s finally found a woman who can give as good as she gets!

An Excerpt From: BEND OVER, COWBOY

Copyright © PARIS BRANDON, 2012

All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.

“You plan on misbehavin’ anytime soon?” he asked, sounding hopeful as hell. His sexy grin made her want to drag him into the nearest dark corner and rub up against him like a cat but she’d just caught Livy’s confused what-the-hell-does-he-see-in-your-big-butt glare.

For someone as astute as the beautiful marketing executive usually was about business, she didn’t have a clue about personal relationships. Livy, with her lithe little cheerleader body and her surgically perfect profile was a trophy hunter and she couldn’t seem to wrap her mind around the fact that Tall didn’t have any interest in being part of her collection.

Bless her heart.

Kitty had had about all this party she could politely stand and she could tell Tall was getting itchy when he reached into his pants pocket.

“I think it’s time for our annual coin toss,” he suggested, pulling out what she knew to be the same quarter he’d used the first time they’d cut and run from Marcy’s annual to-do.

She knew because he kept it on the dresser in his bedroom. “Toss away, cowboy. I call heads,” she said sweetly and watched him flip the coin into the air, catch it and slap it down on the back of his hand.

His lips twitched after he lifted his palm and she knew she’d won again. “You are the luckiest woman alive.”

“Don’t I know it,” she bragged and couldn’t resist winking at him.

She’d been flirting with the idea of how this night was going to end since last summer’s Fourth of July impromptu photo shoot when she’d posed him naked except for his chaps and boots. And that raggedy-ass cowboy hat that was almost as battered as he was after surviving riding bulls and anything else he could get his hands on during his ten-year stint on the rodeo circuit.

She smiled and he looked wary, but as usual, very eager.

“Are you going to tell me what I’m in for or are you just going to smile all night and make me guess?”

She leaned in close and breathed in the sharp tang of his cologne that reminded her of crisp, dry leaves, earthy moss and sun-warmed leather. “I want to take you to bed and not let you out for days. I want to tie you up and watch your face while I take you every way you can imagine and some I hope you haven’t even thought about yet. And I want to strap on the prettiest pink cock you ever saw and fuck your ass until you beg for mercy.”

She watched him swallow hard and try to get his breathing under control while her heart was doing flip-flops. She was so wet she’d almost made herself come just from describing what she wanted to do to him.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and she went into his embrace, enjoying the feel of his just-bordering-on-impolite-grasp and parted her lips for his kiss. His tongue swept inside like a conquering hero while his big hands cupped her ass so hard she knew they’d leave marks. So much for behaving in public.

His mouth telegraphed a desperate need that she tried to match but she’d wanted him under her for so long that she started to shake and finally stopped wondering how his mouth could be so hard and sweet at the same time.

“Always said I wanted a woman who could give as good as she gets,” he whispered after he finally broke the kiss. She almost creamed her panties when she felt the full-body shudder that racked him.

“So you’re up for it?”

“Yeah baby,” he whispered and placed her hand over the erection tenting his pants. He licked his lips and his gaze locked on to hers. “I’m up for it.”

 Buy Link: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9942-bend-over-cowboy.aspx

Also available at :
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RXA1SY

Happy Reading!
Paris Brandon
http://parisbrandon.com

Bend Over, Cowboy: 5 Stars & a Recommended Read from:
http://www.guiltypleasuresbookreviews.com/2012/04/kclus-review-bend-over-cowboy-by-paris.html#more

Guest tomorrow!

Paris Brandon will be a guest on my blog tomorrow! Stop by to learn more about my critique partner and her new release, Bend Over Cowboy!

Virtual Blog Tour - Nara Malone's Snatch Me

A big welcome to fellow EC author, Nara Malone. She's joining us today to talk about the virtual world research she did for her latest release, Snatch Me. I've done some play in Second Life, so this will be a great read for anyone into virtual worlds and online gaming! Thanks for stopping by Nara!

PRIZE INFORMATION
Nara will be giving away a $10 Ellora’s Cave GC to one randomly drawn commenter during her virtual blog tour. So follow Nara on her tour and get a better chance at winning by commenting often.

When Romance Research Gets Too Hot To Handle…

I was hanging upside down by my ankles, caught in a rookie trap while three hunters dueled over me.

I explained when the winner cut me loose: "I'm not here for sex submission. I'm a writer, researching virtual role play."

He nodded and smiled. A leash snapped out, coiled around my neck. "No Anglais," he said.

Yep, that really happened. I was in a virtual role play world, doing research for my newest novel, Snatch Me, when I wound up in a situation that felt an awful lot like a scene from a novel.  I was in a world where all men were designated hunters and all females designated prey. I had to put on a special software tag that enabled the men to take me captive. That’s something a lot of people don’t know about these games. We’re not talking about rape play. You have to make deliberate choices to participate and even in the current situation the first thing a hunter will do is confirm that you want to stay with him, except when the pesky problem of a language barrier crops up:

What would you do if a giant, nearly-naked man hooked a leash around your neck? I took a giant step back. Yep, right into that same trap. Once again I was upside down, nose to nose with...not his nose.

Could it get worse? Yes.

I think he said this: "So, vous voulez choyer mon Popsicle."

I wasn’t sure what he wanted done to his Popsicle, but I could make a fair guess.

And yeah, that really happened too. I love virtual reality, but I am no wizard when it comes to getting around in cyber worlds. I can build a virtual world with trees and buildings and cozy little romantic corners where you can go hangout with your lover, secret spots where you can explore the more exotic flavors of love. I’ve recreated the setting for the Snatch Me novel in virtual reality and put it online for my readers to explore for free. But when it comes to walking a straight line through a virtual world without getting into trouble, I’m hopeless…

As soon as the hunter cut me down the second time, I dove through a hedge.

Bad move.

His horse was on the other side, and due to something called lag, I wound up with the horse attached to my head.  Unable to see where I was going I staggered forward and tumbled into the river.

You have to appreciate the complexities of virtual reality physics to understand how you can wind up with a horse stuck to your head. It has to do with horses being attachments you can wear and madly clicking with a mouse when you’re in a panic. Even though my captor didn’t understand English, he knew how to save me. I was thinking he’d be running the other way himself at that point. But he gallantly stuck with me.

He rescued me from the river and detached the horse from my head. He even supplied a change of clothing.

His mistake was turning his back on me while I put them on.

Mine was stealing his horse.

Unfortunately, his pet eagle was trained to fetch. There was just no escaping this guy.

Despite all the difficulties that can crop up, I believe in-person research is the way to go. You never know what you don’t know. You never know what kind of adventures can present themselves. My research adventures with the hunters were fun and the world was a primitive, pre-civilized setting. Snatch Me takes place in a post-civilized setting, the post-apocalyptic world of the Quarterz. And being much cooler and more skilled than I am, heroine Jolie’s adventures are go-up-in-smoke hot.

I hope you enjoyed this little introduction to the trials and tribulations of author life and to the world of capture role-play. If you’re wondering how things turned out with me that hunter. I could fill a book explaining, but I’m gonna wave my romance writer’s magic wand and pretend us a happy ending. After all, isn’t that why we all love romance novels?

~Nara Malone

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Blurb:  From the moment Jolie discovers the Quarterz, a virtual post-apocalyptic world for capture role-players, she can’t resist the challenge. She’s chosen a hard game, where sexual submission to a captor is expected, demanded, no quarter given. She uses the challenge to escape real life and feels a sense of kinship to a world like the Quarterz, a society too broken to fix.

Mack created the Quarterz and took a gamble when he secretly lured Jolie there. He suspects he and Jolie share sexual interests that neither can admit in person. Now he has to hope that time in the Quarterz can help Jolie cope as she struggles to rebuild her life. He has to stand back and allow her to find her way in a game where he’s not always the captor. But when the game is over, he’s determined to be the one who wins Jolie for real.

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By reading any further, you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under the age of 18, it is necessary to exit this site.

An Excerpt From: SNATCH ME Copyright © NARA MALONE, 2011 All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.

I’m hovering in the entrance to an alley. And yeah, I know there is trouble at the other end. An overturned police cruiser a few feet away is on fire, oily black smoke curls upward, fading into a blacker sky. The streetlamps here were broken so long ago there are no fragments of lens glass left under them. If those clues weren’t warning enough, No Escape is emblazoned in red spray paint across the gray cinderblock wall that marks the Quarterz entrance.
I know. I know. This is not a place girls should go alone. It’s not a place girls should go together. It’s no place for a young woman in a denim miniskirt, a translucent white tank top, no bra, no panties. But that’s what I am and that’s what I’m wearing.
Why?
I don’t know. Maybe because I’ve stopped caring. Maybe because when I’m standing here at the opening of this dark alley, that dead, empty feeling I’ve lived with these past months is washed away by a sizzle of nerves, a longing for the challenge of a fight, and a belief that I have a fair shot at winning.
I’m drawn to this place like a moth to a flame. I feel a kinship with the Quarterz—understand the hopelessness of being too broken to fix. I’ve spent three days arguing with myself, telling myself this is a bad idea, but I knew three days ago the sanest of my selves was outnumbered. I can’t be free from the pull of this place until I know why I want this. Until I’ve looked my darkest desires in the eye and walked through them.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Whether it's a shapeshifter romance exploring the primal power of the wild feminine, or BDSM romance where love digs into a character's shadows, Nara believes romance should open the door and push lovers into a new dimension: sexually, emotionally, and sometimes physically.
Nara Malone is an award winning novelist and poet. As a freelance journalist and writer, her feature profiles on women entrepreneurs and her romantic short stories have been published in newspapers, magazines, and digital publications.

Nara lives on a small farm in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. When she's not writing, she loves to run, hike, bike, and kayak. Every story she tells incorporates her love of animals, nature, and adventure.

You can contact her through Twitter, Face Book, or Yahoo mail. The user ID is nara_malone for all three.
Author Nara Malone - http://naramalone.com/
Snatch Me--Sex Bytes Exotika  - http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9476-snatch-me.aspx
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Nara-Malone-Author-Page/145054222179718
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/#!/nara_malone

Guest tomorrow --- Nara Malone!

Hi all,
   I'm really please to let you all know that Nara Malone will be my blog guest tomorrow. She is celebrating her latest release. I hope you all stop by to give her a warm welcome and check out her new book. Her post, When Romance Research Gets Too Hot To Handle... discusses her adventures in Second Life to research her new release, Snatch Me from Ellora's Cave Publishing. Follow Nara's blog tour and comment - she's giving away a prize at the end of her tour!

Virtual Blog Tour - Harlow Coban's Life in Death

Hi everyone. I want to welcome guest author, Harlow Coban, who is joining me today to share information about her new book, Life in Death.

 Author Harlow Coban was born in Kansas City, MO, but grew up in Denver, CO. She relocated to North Carolina five years ago with her husband, two dogs, and 16-year old twins.

She shares a birthday with the notorious Napoleon Bonaparte. In keeping with his legacy, she is currently working on taking over the world. Harlow’s positive attitude and fresh take on life are her tools and conquest is certain.

She spends her free time writing, dancing, traveling and defending mailboxes from her 16-year-old twins’ driving.

 Her debut novel, LIFE IN DEATH (February 2012), is a murder mystery which pulls from real-life situations from her own family history. She felt compelled to share her story with the world while offering a thrilling, entertaining, and amusing escape for readers.

Harlow is on a virtual blog tour and you can follow her on all her stops at the Goddess Fish blog. There are prizes at each stop on her tour, so the more you comment, the more likely you are to win! Grin...

The author will be giving away one prize at every stop which may include (but isn’t limited to):

Amazon Gift Cards
Book Lover Note Cards
Journals
Kindle Cover
Book Tote
Hunger Games Trilogy

Additionally, she’ll be awarding a $50 Amazon GC to the host whose stop has the most comments (excluding the author’s and the host’s).

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In keeping with her commitment to improving the lives of children, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of her book will be donated to the Boys and Girls Club in her home state of North Carolina. Here's what Harlow has to say...

WHY DONATE TO THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS

It was a day like any other.  I’d just gotten home from work, grabbed the stack of mail, and rifled through it.  An oversized postcard with a scenic view of the mountains got my attention.  It was from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Denver.  I flipped the postcard over and read it:

Hi,

Thank you for sending me to camp. 

I really love it here.  It’s fun.

JC

I burst into tears. It was proof – tangible proof – that my donation had enriched the life of a child. That was several years go and I still have that postcard. 

I came from very humble beginnings so much of what I experienced growing up like going to plays, museums, amusement parks, and camping was through the generous donations of others. Those were some of the best times of my life and I never forgot it. 

The legacy I want to leave is of one who, in some small way, enriched the lives of children. Through donation to the Boys and Girls Clubs of North Carolina (http://ncclubs.org/), I can do that.

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Life in Death
by Harlow Coban

Blurb:  When a girl that social worker Kari Marchant places in foster care is brutally murdered, she’s compelled to learn why. Her quest for the truth pits her against friends and coworkers. As Kari works to solve the horrific plot, more people die. She’s been targeted for death and she doesn’t even know it. How far should she go to learn the truth—even if it threatens her life?

When homicide detective Rance Nicolet meets Kari, his attraction to her is powerful—and the feeling is mutual. But things between them go terribly wrong when Kari’s old lover is found murdered with a letter from her in his pocket. The evidence against Kari is damning. Rance’s personal and professional lives collide. Does he blindly believe the woman he’s falling in love with or follow the evidence no matter where it leads?

Harlow  loves to connect with her readers and can be found on Twitter (@HarlowCoban), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Harlow-Coban/174596219285270), Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com) and her website (www.HarlowCoban.com).

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Excerpt:

"Where is she?" Luke Dolo, Patience’s father, pounded a fist on the table. His face had contorted into an ugly mask. His smooth, dark skin had a reddish tinge to it, either from alcohol, anger or both. 

 For the first time ever, Kari thought about alerting security. She weighed her options.

 “Mr. Dolo, please calm down. As I said before, you need to speak to the police.” She slid Detective Nicolet’s card over to him.

 He stared at it, eyes dull.

 “Just tell me what happened to her?” The veins in his neck bulged and pulsed.

 She didn’t respond. She couldn’t respond. It wasn’t her place to tell him his daughter was dead.

 He leaped across the table, hands closing around Kari’s throat like a vise. She struggled against his strength and they tumbled to the ground. He landed on top of her. The weight of his body coupled with the fall knocked the breath out of her, but she continued to struggle. She scratched and clawed at him to get free. His fetid breath nauseated her as she fought to take a gulp of air. Soon dots danced in front of her eyes and she felt dizzy.

 Detective Cobb had Luke on his stomach with his knee pressed into his back as he handcuffed him. “Looks like I showed up just in time.”

The Forbidden Bookshelf features the 1-800-DOM-help series

Hi all,
    I wanted to share with all of you that the Ellora's Cave series, 1-800-DOM help will be featured on The Forbidden Bookshelf dot net all week. Please stop by to read the interviews. Make a comment in my post and get a chance to win an electronic copy of Controlling Interest!

My interview will be up on MONDAY, MARCH 19. TOMORROW!!!! Stop by and show me some love. Or show me some like. I'm not picky. LOL

WINNER! Hot Valentine Lovin' February Contest

Congratulations to....drumroll....Ashley Applebee!  I'll email you today so I can get your information to mail the package to you! Thanks for participating in the contest!