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Freakin’ Frazzled Friday! (And a secret EXCERPT!)
Greetings, chicks readers! It’s been forever. I have been abuzz with activity lately. From a lengthy bout of company descending on the Glass household to the bustle of real life GROAN-up jobs to the flurry of activity surrounding the Carina Press launch and the publication of two books, I have been a bouncing Gin! Whew. Add laundry (not the fun/dirty kind – that comes later), a batdog that chewed a hole in the door of a hotel room last weekend (if she wasn’t so cute, I would have murdered her), a few rounds of unplanned car repair and various and sundry other small catastrophes, let’s just say I am a pooped little writer.
I have also been neglecting all of my lovely chickies. Let’s catch up and remember that though I’m the one typing these words, the other ladies here are VASTLY talented and need some of your love!
Neith – http://scorchedsheets.com/elise-logan/
‘Nez – http://inezkelley.com/
Kate – http://www.mystickat.com/
Go check them out and find out what they are up to in the world of writing. And buy something, won’t'cha?
Me? I have a little book coming out in THREE DAYS called “Coin Operated”!
Here’s the blurb:
When Elijah Elliot leaves a cushy job at a prestigious Atlanta advertising firm to strike out on his own, he recruits co-worker Beatrix London as his business partner. She’s smart, capable and, turns out, mouth-wateringly tempting. Now Eli has to keep his hands to himself, despite the very vivid daydreams he has involving his deliciously attentive associate. Daydreams that involve less administrative duties and more “yes, sirs” – less clothing and much more personal “activity reports”.
Bea’s attention to detail has only part to do with her work ethic. From the moment she first laid eyes on Elijah, Bea has had some pretty lathered-up fantasies about her brooding coworker. When a racy new advertising campaign sparks a test of their boundaries, Bea pushes Eli to cross the line he’s drawn between them – the one that keeps him from doing all the hot, sinful things she imagines he’s capable of.
A kiss that could ignite a cubicle’s carpet leaves Bea wanting more than Eli is willing to give. Eli’s reticence isn’t strictly an objection to a little office hanky-panky; his desire for Bea runs to the darker side of vanilla, and the gentleman in him just can’t seem to embrace the inner beast. But during a sexy showdown in a laundry room, everything comes out in the wash– hot, steamy and coin operated!
Carina launch is just around the corner. I will be appearing all over hell for interviews, I have several reviews out or upcoming and while you’re at my website, why don’t you enjoy a top-secret, super-hidden excerpt from Coin Operated?
No, not a secret baby, don’t start rumors.
Even better news, the cover for the second installment in the “Dirty Laundry” series,”Talk Dirty To Me”, cowritten by myself and the fanfreakingtastic Inez Kelley, will be out in July! Want to see the cover? Of course you do!
The blurb, you ask? I shall provide:
“Tell me what you want. Talk dirty to me.”
Biologist Nora MacGregor is frantic when she loses her dissertation research notes on Female Sexuality —and some very personal written fantasies. Then a sinful stranger calls with a wicked proposition: if she talks dirty to him, he’ll return her notes, page by page. “James” allows Nora to explore her deepest desires and challenges her clinical ideas about sex. But James can’t give her the loving touches she finds in her budding relationship with Dr. Jarod Reed.
Jarod seized an opportune moment to fulfill his desire for Nora by becoming the mysterious James. While the anonymous, erotic phone sessions are unforgettable, Jarod longs to tell Nora he wants more than just talk. But how can he confess his deception without it costing him the chance to make their fantasies a reality?
Look out for upcoming cover art and details of Inez’s installment for Dirty Laundry (the third in series) called “Coming Clean”!
Cheater Cheater and rambling
Yeah I am cheating but work with me here, I am low on coffee this morning.
So, what’s up with you? Anything exciting happening in your life? Share with me. Entertain me.
Me? Lots of things are bubbling behind the scenes. First and foremost is the launch of Carina Press on June 7th. That is going to set the ball rolling for my summer. I have THREE stories coming out with them this summer, one a co-write with our chickilicious Ginny Glass. Here look at this…
Did your heart beat just a little faster? Mine did. Love that presentation and the cover art is gorgeous!
Speaking of gorgeous…
I want to marry that video. Is it not simply stunning? Goldenheart Winner Jeannie Lin designed it and OMG, love it!
And just because he is so… so… well, you get the idea. I leave you with this guy.
SOUL FIRE – you gotta get this one!
“No question about it, Soul Fire is monumentally thrilling and exotic. I couldn’t put the book down. A rare treat for me, I devoured this story from beginning to end in one sitting and I want more! ... An out of this world paranormal romance/fantasy story that will have readers clamoring for more, Soul Fire is one hot read I will be recommending to all of my friends.” — Amanda Haffery, ParaNormalRomance "In Soul Fire, R. F. Long has created an intriguing world of light and dark magic. Of intense action and hot love. From the opening scene, she drew me in. Captivated me. She’s taken an age old tale of good versus evil and has freshened it up with unique characters ... I recommend R. F. Long’s Soul Fire. It made me smile and love and not want to put the book down." - Sandra Barkevich, Romantic Inks (read the full review here) "a great fast read, like a snowball rolling and constantly gaining momentum." - Natalie, IReadRomance.com “Let me start by saying “wow!”…R.F. Long has the amazing ability to drag her readers into the story and carry them along for the ride. The characters were unique and out of this world, yet they seemed like someone you could get along with and have fun with… If you want to read something mind-blowing and incredible then I would recommend you read this story.” ~~ Tulip, Whipped Cream Erotic Romance Reviews, 5 Cherries Iron born and iron bred. Trust not iron, it will see you dead. Rowan Blake could really use a magic wand to keep her struggling art gallery afloat. But the faerie key she stumbles across is far from a lucky charm. It’s a magnet for danger, and by touching it she’s unwittingly put herself in the middle of a war between the forces of light and dark. And in the arms of its rightful owner, Prince Daire. While searching for his brother, Daire finds himself trapped in the Iron World with a mere mortal woman who ignites his passion like no other. Each stolen kiss deepens their attraction and sends him spiraling closer and closer to the edge of his inherent dark desires. Desires that act as a homing beacon for the Dark Sidhe, who are intent on forcing him to fight on their side. The longer he lingers in her arms—and in her bed—the closer his enemies get to her door. And the greater the risk that the gateway to the Faerie Realm will shift, destroying not only his power to protect her, but his very life. Warning: Contains enchantments, danger, some very scary monsters, a trip to the dark side and hot, soul-transforming sex with an immortal prince. Buy from MBaM!, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
ebook available now (978-1-60504-619-8)
paperback available now (978-1-60504-712-6)
"Soul Fire" from Samhain Publishing
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Thursday 13: Random lines
Book #3 in the erotic Dirty Laundry series from Carina Press has been contracted for a late summer release. COMING CLEAN is a menage with Grant, Vivi and Cade. Here are 13 random lines to pique your interest.
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How do you ask your best friend to fuck your wife?
Grant scrubbed the wire brush across the still warm grill in a burst of nerves. He shouldn’t be sweating this. Cade had been his buddy since fourth grade, his college roommate, his best man when he’d married Vivi. They’d been through first beers, first girlfriends and first fuck-ups. Cade came to him when Shelly cheated. Grant went to him when his dad died. They knew far too much about each other to have secrets. But this wasn’t a secret— it was a fantasy.
Vivi’s fantasy.
Vivi wanted Cade.
Actually she wanted them both at the same time.
That and more.
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Obligatory Blurb
Coming clean never felt so good…
Grant and Vivi Michaelson share everything in their marriage; love, commitment, deep friendship – even their wildest sexual desires. Vivi’s fantasy unearths a long-time secret in her straight husband…one that involves his bi-sexual best friend, Cade Lorens. Making that ménage fantasy a reality will blur lines far beyond the bedroom, strengthening their bonds or threatening their marriage.
Cade has been secretly in love with Grant for decades. He’s willing to take a three-way-tumble, but he’ll safe-guard his heart. While there might be room for him in Grant’s bed, there is no room in his marriage for a third.
An annual vacation to the lake seems the perfect time to explore, experiment and test the sexual boundaries. But no vacation ever starts smoothly. A broken washing machine forces Grant and Cade into tight, wet quarters where more than temperatures rise. The stain of forbidden love may wash away or may be permanently set.
Face-Off Friday: Yep, Inez Won (Sort Of)!
So, chicks readers, have you been following the Carina Press poll to choose the name of the hero in Inez and Ginny’s upcoming release “Talk Dirty To Me”?
If not, here are the details:
Author vs. Author: Name that Hero!
Are you dying to know the outcome? (Drumroll please…!)
Out of 229 votes, JARED won out over JACKSON!
The breakdown was:
Jared: 121 votes
Jackson: 108 votes
So Inez won. Sort of. After much cat fighting, stiletto swinging and a bout of near-epic jello wrestling in a kiddie pool, we settled on “Jarod” as the spelling for our hero’s new name.
What do you think? Love? Hate? Indifferent?
Even though Inez was clearly the victor here (because let’s face it, she’s just plain awesome), we are both excited as heck for our upcoming Carina releases and can’t wait for you to meet Professor Jarod Reed in one of the first (among many to come!) of the Carina Press “Dirty Laundry” stories. Stay tuned, because there will be more fun stuff as release day approaches!
Thursday 13: LIpstick on his Collar
13 lines from LIPSTICK ON HIS COLLAR , coming soon from Samhain Publishing.
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Large, powerful and rough-skinned, his hands framed her face with a gentle touch, spiraling a jagged awareness through her. With one touch, he brought all those feelings of tenderness and promise back. Oh, I’m in major trouble here. Falling in love with Bram would be far too easy.
“Will you tell me your name?”
It sat on her tongue but she held it. The lure of still being his anonymous lover thrilled her with a secret wickedness. She pressed her breasts closer to his chest. “No…but if you guess it, I’ll admit it.”
His mouth quivered with a hidden smile. “What else do I get if I guess right?”
“What else do you want?”
He dropped his head to nibble at her jaw and devilish want dropped his tone to a husky, hungry level. “You, on your knees, in front of me, your lips around my cock.”
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*wink* It is a scorcher!
NEW CHICK!!
Introducing our newest blogging chick, GINNY GLASS!!
(Everybody wave to Ginny)
She will be titillating your senses every Friday from here on out. Ginny just contracted her first one and a half stories with Carina Press. Her first is titled Coin-Operated and I will let her tell you about it. The other half was a co-write with me titled Talk Dirty to Me. More on that later, too.
If you have read my freebie stories following Jace and Dayna, then you have seen the awesomely fun covers Wordsugar Design did for me. That’s her baby, too. Multi-talented is our chick.
And stay tuned! Chicks-n-Scratchin’ is getting a new look (retro vintage) and a new vibe(not that KIND!!), coming soon!
High Octane – Release Day
Well, technically it’s tomorrow, but since I post on Mondays, I’m putting it up now. Very sneaky of me, eh?
This is the first in my dimensional traveler series. More like a highly skilled group of military specialists who kick ass in two dimensions.
Here’s some blurbage:
Two hearts are never more than one dimension apart.
A routine fuel run through one of the planet’s dimensional portals explodes in violence when Major Geneieve Lockhart’s Jumper team is hammered with an unprovoked attack. With her ship disabled and contact to mission control limited, Genie faces her worst nightmare—losing her crew on the blood-soaked floor of a foreign desert.
Help comes from an unlicensed freelance mercenary ship, piloted by a man she never thought she’d see again. Her AWOL ex-lover, Lt. Col. Dante Bowen.
Bowen knows answering Genie’s distress call puts his undercover mission to expose a governmental conspiracy at risk. But after faking his death six years ago, he owes her something. Ending up chained in her cargo hold for transport to his own court martial wasn’t the thanks-for-the-rescue he expected.
The bridges between them may be in ashes, but their desire burns as hot as ever. Even as Genie wonders what happened to Bowen’s code of honor, her body betrays her heart at every turn. The hostile race that attacked her ship, though, is coming back to finish them off. The only way to ensure freedom—on both sides of the dimensional divide—is to put her trust in the one man who betrayed it…
High Octane by Kathleen Scott, Samhain Publishing, 2010
*is this a kick ass heroine or what?*
What’s New Wednesday!
12 bloggers have teamed up with 17 authors for a chance to win over 30 SFR books.
Authors with books in this event geared toward spreading the word about SFR include:
Ann Aguirre, Katherine Allred, Margaret L. Carter, Rowena Cherry, Ella Drake, Jess Granger, Susan Grant, Nathalie Gray, Leanna Renee Hieber, Claire Delacroix, Barbara Elsborg, Susan Kearney, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Karin Shah, Linnea Sinclair, Susan Sizemore, Ann Somerville
All you have to do for a chance to win is comment on the participating blogs. Start the contest on the Galaxy Express!
Wednesday What’s New??
“The Christmas She Rules”
Control is her kink…and she’s losing it.
It’s another gloomy Christmas for Pamela Dane. Not only is it the anniversary of a dark period in her life, but all her friends had the nerve to hook up. It’s not easy for a female Domme to find a playmate. Maybe The Cage in San Francisco will be the perfect place to escape—and find a willing man to chase away the memories.
Christian Nolan is at the BDSM club for the hell of it. Yet the minute Mistress Dane takes control of him, she not only stuns him with her talent, he stuns himself with his willingness to surrender. Her offer to meet him there for another night is intriguing—and frightening.
Pamela’s session with Chris shakes her to the core, resurrecting memories she’s afraid to face. But Chris isn’t willing to let her past haunt her…even if it leaves his heart in tatters.
Warning: Hot, strong man on his knees, which will bring you to yours. Strap-on action, anal play, lots of leather and tons of tension. Alpha male who likes to do whatever the right woman tells him to do, including another woman.
BUY IT HERE!
Want a taste? Read an excerpt HERE.
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Isn’t it gorgeous!!! The Tickle My Fantasy anthology is out in print today!!
Go ahead. Try to resist the magic. We dare you!
Carolina Wolf by Sela Carsen (psst! This is me!)
Debra knows that the teensy amount of witchcraft in her veins isn’t worth getting excited about. Yet someone—or something—thinks it’s worth attacking her. Rescuing her seals Maddox’s fate, but only if he can protect her from a rogue of his kind. A werewolf with a nasty streak…and a preference for raw meat.
The Ghost Shrink, the Accidental Gigolo and the Poltergeist Accountant by Vivi Andrews
Lucy is doomed. Not to death. To nightly visits from recently deceased Casanovas without the bodies to scratch her itch. Then a living fantasy arrives on her doorstep. Is her dry spell at an end? Not hardly. Jake has been sent to prevent her from getting laid until a particular horny phantom—and key witness in his investigation—pays her a visit.
ParaMatch.com by MK Mancos
Even though she lives without a paranormalady, Lucille has managed to carve a niche for herself with a paranormal matchmaking service. Enter Jager, deposed king of the Titans and successful paratrader. She can match anyone, except him. She doesn’t know that he’s out to negotiate the deal of a lifetime—a future with her.
Witches Anonymous by Misty Evans
Amy is done with Devil-worshipping. After swearing an oath never to use magic again, she’s in the market for a normal guy to complement her new lifestyle. And Adam looks like perfect hero material. Lucifer, however, isn’t about to be nice about letting her go…
Warning: This book contains hunky werewolves, smart-A** women and men who think that’s sexy, magic, angels, medieval legends, inter-species romance, disco music and flatulent Boxers. (The dogs, not the underwear.)
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“The Scroll Thief: a Tale of Ithian” by R. F. Long
Love is the wiliest thief of all.
A Tale of Ithian
Malachy and his sister rely on his talents as a thief to survive the dangerous streets of Klathport, former capital of the once-great kingdom of Ithian. Stealing a few papers should have been a simple job. Instead, it nearly costs their lives and throws them into an improbable alliance with a shape-shifting official, a desert tribeswoman, and a healer of enchanting beauty.
Cerys is far more than a simple healer—and the roots of her mission go deeper into the past than anyone can know. She needs Malachy’s skills to recover a stolen scroll, one that can be used to rewrite history and, in the wrong hands, release the dark powers of the Demon Realm.
Her mission was supposed to atone for a dreadful, long-ago act. Instead, it unleashes a chain of events which sees them pursued through city and desert by the fearsome Dune Witch and a killer known only as His Lordship. Romance, tragedy, and adventure blend in a tale of a magical land on the brink of war, and five unlikely allies who, by putting their lives—and their hearts—on the line, have the opportunity to finally set things right.
But at a terrible cost.
Warning: Contains scenes of graphic violence and torture, captivating magic and beauty, two dashing heroes, three gutsy heroines, several love stories and a heartbreaking sacrifice.
BUY IT HERE!
Read an excerpt HERE.
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ISBN 978-1-60659-542-8
