Thursday 30 October 2014

You may now call me a moron!



Ahem. Remember when I said I wasn't going to do this

I'm doing this. 

I'm insane.

Also, I'm aiming at 60k, but if the story is a 30k story, then it is, and I'm content with it. This story is outside my comfort zone a bit, and I'm going to have a hard enough time writing it without stressing about word count. 

Assassin is a working title. 

Wednesday 29 October 2014

WIP Wednesday - A Sneak Peak from Storm Episode 3 - A Road to Forgiveness


For this week's WIP post - I'm sharing an excerpt from Storm 3 - A Road to Forgiveness. 

So I'm doing something fun with Storm. Storm's a serialized story. A new episode is released every two months. You can buy each episode for just $0.99, or - you can just subscribe to my mailing list, and get each episode for FREE! 

If you do like what you read, and want to read the rest of it - the next episode of Storm goes out Oct 30th (tomorrow!) so subscribe today!  




I’d draped the blanket over myself by the time he’d returned. Winter in Nova Scotia, and though my heat was on, it was still cool enough in my apartment that I needed something to keep warm.
“Tsk, tsk,” Tim chided, seeing the blanket as he came back into the room. He was carrying an assortment of things in his arms, not just the clothespins he’d set off to find.
I smirked at him. “You weren’t keeping me warm. I had to find a substitute.”
He dumped the armful of things on the bed, and got in next to me. “Is there room under the blanket?”
For a few minutes, he just pressed into my body, and I warmed up against his skin. Finally, I wriggled my ass against him, and he laughed. “Yes, Tessa, I’m quite aware you want to be spanked. But...” his hands ran up the side of my body, all the way from my arms to my hips, before pulling my ass into his hard body, “sometimes, life is all about delayed gratification.”
I turned around and kissed him, nibbling at his lower lip till he groaned and pressed against me. “How delayed?”
“No talking anymore,” he instructed. “Except if you need to safe-word, of course.”
I pouted a little, but his tone had been firm.
“Okay, let’s see what we have to work with here,” he said, getting up and straddling me, his knees on either side of my hip, his erection grazing the entrance of my slick pussy. He tugged at my hands, positioning them so that they were gripping my headboard. “Keep them here.”
I nodded. He’d tied me up before, but somehow, this felt even more submissive. I wasn’t physically restrained, unable to move my hands. This time around, they were staying restrained only because he’d ordered me to keep them where they were. I felt very compliant as I obeyed.
“I know you are the painter,” his eyes were amused as they met mine, “but this evening, Tessa,” he pinched my nipples, sending blood rushing to the tender buds, “I’m going to use you as my canvas.” His nails lightly scratched the insides of my arms. “I’m going to paint you in shades of pink and red,” he promised, as I watched my skin change colour where his nails had made contact with the soft surface, “and purple,” his mouth reached down and sucked one of my dark pink nipples into his mouth, “and cream.” He straightened, and his fingers swiped through my pussy, finding it slick and sticky with juice.
He dangled those fingers in front of me. “You made a mess, Tessa,” he chided. “Shouldn’t you clean it up?” I parted my lips and reached my tongue out, licking my juices from his fingers with little flickering strokes. His eyes were hot with lust when I was finished, but his mouth was curved into an amused line.
“Such a naughty girl, Tessa.” His voice held a trace of rebuke. “You are such a tease. Here, move your hips a little.” His hands were on my sides, positioning me the way he wanted me, which was so that I was lying on my side, yet my shoulders were both on the bed, and my hands still gripped the headboard. “You look like a pretzel,” he noted, and I grimaced.
“Thanks,” I said dryly, remembering too late his instruction about keeping quiet.
He’d moved too, he was lying down next to me on his side, his body turned towards mine, his one leg draped over and around my knees, bringing me close to him. His dick was achingly close to my heat, and I wanted to part my legs and allow him entry, but today, I wasn’t the one doing the allowing. His leg held both of mine closed and tight.
Whap. The noise of the spank resonated around the room. “I hate repeating my instructions,” Tim said evenly. “Do I need to?”
“No Sir.” My voice was a soft, breathy flutter. I felt the pain from the spank transform to deep pleasure at my core.
“So eager for your spanking.” His voice was thoughtful. “How many, do you think?”
This time, I followed orders and didn’t speak.
“How about ten to warm that pretty little ass up? And ten as punishment.”
I nodded silently, and he chuckled. “You can always talk if you are going to say Yes Sir.”
I giggled. “Yes Sir,” I said, at the exact moment the first spank came down my ass.
The warming spanks went quickly, and I squirmed with mingled pleasure and pain through his strokes. His swats were even and firm, and he varied them around, never concentrating on one spot for more than one spank. Each spank was followed by his fingers rubbing the stinging spot and soothing my pain away.
I whimpered a little, but mostly because our lower bodies were pressed together, and I could feel his hard dick nudge against my thigh.  I wanted him with shocking intensity. My pussy was wet and ready and impatient, and yet my hands still held on to my headboard, reminding me that my impatience didn’t matter.
He paused when he was done warming me up, and ran his hand over my ass. “Can you feel how hot your skin is?” he asked. “It’s warm and flushed, and a very pretty shade of pink. But a true artist needs swirls of deeper colour, don’t you think, Tessa?”
“Yes Sir.”
His voice was amused. “I’m going to need you to change positions, Tessa.” He straightened his leg that had trapped me into his body, and his fingers met mine at the headboard. “Let go of the headboard, sweetheart, and get on your knees. Ass in the air, shoulders on the bed.”  
I followed his directions without demurral. I felt his weight shift on the bed as he moved, and then he knelt next to me, one arm curving around my waist to hold me steady. “I’d like you to count these spanks out.” His voice was deep and firm and it set my insides quivering.
“Yes Sir.” My words were a thin thread of sound in a quiet room. I sounded nervous. Was I nervous? I had a safe-word to protect me. There was nothing to be afraid of.
And yet. I suddenly understood something. A safe word existed for both our protection, but it wasn’t to be used lightly. I was still surrendering my will to him. I was still letting him decide that I needed to be punished. It was a game, but it was a game that was meant to be played seriously and with intent. I would be wrong to get one spank and safe-word, and beg for his dick instead. My compliance with his desires mattered.
The lesson here was that what I wanted in the moment didn’t matter. What did matter was that I trusted that Tim would understand what I truly needed. 
Check out the other excerpts here.

Tuesday 28 October 2014

My Reading List - Oct 20 - 27

I'm loving Starlet's reviews! Thanks so much, lovely book bloggers! Monica, Miranda and Shurrn, I really appreciate everything you guys do every single day. 

Also - Shurrn has a giveaway going on right now for all three Nights in Venice books. Go enter! 
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So, here's what I've bought or borrowed in the last week. I've read some but not all of them. If something has been removed from my Kindle Unlimited list, I read it. If I DNF'd it, I'll note that, but otherwise, I'm not going to review or recommend books (with the odd exception here and there.) 

What's on my Kindle Unlimited 10: 

There's some, but not a lot of movement. I've been busy - I haven't read as much. 

1. First Time Gang: Her Erotic Group Encounters by Sasha Song
2. Once Upon A Time (Twisted Fairytales: Vol 1) by Jenika Snow
3. Firebird by Annabel Joseph
4. The Disciplinarian: A Collection of Short Spanking Stories by Natasha Knight et al
5. The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey
6. Surrender (Surrender - Book 1) by Melody Anne

7. Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot by Ansen Dibell
8. Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
9. Elements of Fiction Writing - Conflict and Suspense by James Scott Bell
10. Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

Free Books I got:


Treat with Caution (Treats to Tempt You Book 1) by Serenity Woods
Concealed Power (The Healers of Meligna Book 1)  by K. J. Colt

Books I actually bought:


His Secretary: Undone (A Billionaire Romance) by Melanie Marchande
Mastering the Marquess (Bound and Determined Book 1) by Lavinia Kent
The Infamous Ellen James (Infamous Series Book 1) by N.A. Alcorn
Avoiding Amy Jackson (Infamous Series Book 2) by N.A. Alcorn (This is going to be DNF at 7%.) 

Saturday 25 October 2014

Saturday Spanks - Another excerpt from Starlet in Venice


It's Saturday! Time for another Saturday Spanks! 

Early reviews for Starlet are coming in, and everyone seems to like it! Yay! There's some difficult themes in this last Nights in Venice book (spoilers!), but I think it makes for a much richer story. 


Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited. 





Context: This scene picks up a little bit after last week's scene. Tia's punishment is about to begin. Want more Liam & Tia? Here's the prologue and the first chapter

As I remembered from the other night when I’d watched Liam punish Simona, the wall had paddles and crops and whips hanging from it. I expected him to walk over and grab something. My body was quivering with a mixture of nervousness and desire. I wasn’t sure what lay ahead for me, but as I watched the man standing in front of me with narrowed eyes, I felt safe.

“Spread your legs,” he ordered and I obeyed.

“Wider,” he said. He had a riding crop in his hand – when did he get that? - and with it, he punctuated his desire on my inner thigh. I tensed, waiting for a spank, but he just ran the crop against my legs. “Wider, Tia,” he ordered.

I spread my legs as far as they would go, and I struggled for balance. “Liam,” I cried, startled, as I teetered and almost fell, but my chest met his hard body.

“Not Liam,” was all that he said. “Sir.” 

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited. 

Click on for all the other authors!


Wednesday 22 October 2014

WIP Wednesday - Continuing with the Starlet in Venice



A Starlet in Venice is out! I'm very, very excited! 



Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited. 

Also - Starlet is only $0.99 until Friday morning! Take advantage of the special low introductory price while you can - it reverts back to $2.99 sometime Friday.

For this WIP Wednesday post, I'm picking up where I left off from last week's post. If you haven't read it, here's a link to Starlet's prologue. 

Chapter 1

Tatiana:

As I thought about the words I’d said to Liam, a year ago, on the Ponta di Rialto, my voice steadfast and my face illuminated by the light of the moon shining down on us, I cursed, not for the first time. Because in the intervening year, Liam had become one of my closest friends, a kind, steady and supportive presence in my life.

And I’d fallen in love with him.

But he was the manager at Casanova, a BDSM sex club, where women were plentiful and somewhat interchangeable, and sex was always on offer, and I was a woman who had never had an orgasm during intercourse. I was Liam’s friend, valuable only because of the relative rarity of what I offered. Friendship, companionship and conversation, without a sexual undercurrent to our interaction. The moment I slept with him, I would break something that we had, and I didn’t think we would be able to go back.

I wanted him with painful longing. I couldn’t have him.

***

I’d flown in from filming, tired and sleep-deprived. As usual, I pulled out my phone and texted Liam.

‘Back in town,’ I typed. ‘Drink?’

He always replied quickly. ‘You’ve eaten, rabbit?’

No, I hadn’t eaten; I was a lousy cook and I’d been away for three weeks. There was nothing resembling food in my apartment. I’d intended to grab something on my way to his place. ‘Not yet,’ I answered.

‘Good, I cooked dinner. Let yourself in and eat, rabbit. I’m working but I’ll be done at midnight.’

He’d taken to calling me rabbit in his teasing tone, and my heart clenched as I read his message, as it did every single time. Though I was exhausted and bone weary and I should have declined, I didn’t want to be alone tonight. ‘Okay.’

Liam lived in the penthouse of the palazzo that housed Casanova. He’d given me the security code many months ago, and I punched it in, entering the lobby. I usually took the elevators right upstairs, straight to his apartment, never stopping at the club that exuded sex and luxury and sin from its every pore. Today though, my emotions were lurching all over the place. “Can I peek?” I asked the guards at the door. I knew Killian and Niall well; we’d hung out and watched football games together.

Killian raised his eyebrow in surprise. Niall hid it better. “You got to surrender your phone,” he warned. “And pick a wristband.”

Who was I, top or bottom? If I chose to be dominant, I’d pick a black wristband. If I was submissive, I’d pick the blue one. Tonight, I was neither. I was a voyeur, watching the man I loved from the shadows. “Grey,” I replied, picking the colour of the observer. I knew the conventions of Casanova well enough, though I’d never entered the place.

Killian grinned at me. “You want us to tell the boss you are visiting?” His question was unexpectedly perceptive. Was it so obvious? Did I really wear my heart on my sleeve, and were my emotions so transparent? I would have thought I was a better actor than that.

I acted now. I laughed and winked and pretended like I didn’t care whether Liam knew I was in the club or not. “Let’s surprise him,” I said lightly.

“The boss doesn’t like surprises,” Niall said but he stood aside, and for the first time, I entered Casanova.

***

It hadn’t been some sense of prudery that had kept me away from Venice’s most exclusive BDSM club. It had been my utter certainty that my heart couldn’t survive watching Liam touch another woman. That, and an instinctive panic when I watched a woman, tied-up and struggling with her bonds.

Tonight though? Tonight my heart was already flayed and torn, and I was masochistic in my search for more pain.

I found it in the basement, outfitted as a stereotypically creepy BDSM dungeon, with whips and chains and a giant St Andrews Cross. There, underneath the spotlights, with darkness threatening to creep in from every side, Liam stood, his sleeves rolled up to show his strong forearms. He had a whip in his hand, and a beautiful, kneeling brunette at his feet.  

“Are you ready for your punishment, Simona?” I heard him ask. I was used to hearing him ask me questions in that same amused, indulgent, relaxed tone, and in that instant, I felt so very, very interchangeable.

I should have averted my eyes; I should have run away.


Any other day, I would have. Tonight, I stayed and forced myself to watch the man I loved look at another woman with attention, as if she mattered.  I leaned against the wall in a darkened corner and watched. 

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited. 

Blurb: 

Every single man who looks at me wants to fuck me. To them, I am merely a sexy body, tits and pussy and ass, playing a leading role in their wet dreams. I am never anything more.

Except Liam. Liam Callahan wants only friendship from me, and I should be delighted. I certainly don’t want anything else from him. I don’t want to be bent over his lap and spanked. I don’t want to be tied up and flogged, and I definitely don’t want him to fuck me.

Do I?

Note: A Starlet in Venice is a stand-alone story, but part of the Nights in Venice series. Other stories in this series are of different couples. This story includes spankings, domination, graphic sexual scenes, and more.


Check out the other participants! 


Tuesday 21 October 2014

New Release - A Starlet in Venice!

Hey hey, it's New Release day! 



A Starlet in Venice, the final book of the Nights in Venice series, is now available. Just until Friday (10/24), it's on sale at a very special price - only $0.99. Early Saturday, it'll snap back to its regular price of $2.99, so please - if this book looks interesting to you - buy it now and take advantage of the sale!

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited.

 


Blurb: 

Every single man who looks at me wants to fuck me. To them, I am merely a sexy body, tits and pussy and ass, playing a leading role in their wet dreams. I am never anything more.

Except Liam. Liam Callahan wants only friendship from me, and I should be delighted. I certainly don’t want anything else from him. I don’t want to be bent over his lap and spanked. I don’t want to be tied up and flogged, and I definitely don’t want him to fuck me.

Do I?

Note: A Starlet in Venice is a stand-alone story, but part of the Nights in Venice series. Other stories in this series are of different couples. This story includes spankings, domination, graphic sexual scenes, and more.

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited.

Want more Starlet? Read the prologue, and/or a scene that's a prelude to a spanking. 

Tomorrow - I'll share Chapter 1. And on Saturday, another excerpt from Starlet.

Monday 20 October 2014

My reading list - Oct 11-Oct 19

While I normally do this on Tuesdays - tomorrow is A Starlet in Venice's release day! There'll be some singing and dancing and assorted hoopla related to that, so this one is a bit early. 

Starlet's Pre-Order Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited on Oct 21.

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So, here's what I've bought or borrowed in the last week. I've read some but not all of them. If something has been removed from my Kindle Unlimited list, I read it. If I DNF'd it, I'll note that, but otherwise, I'm not going to review or recommend books (with the odd exception here and there.) 

Also, I'm still looking for dark erotica recommendations. Please? I've read Captive in the Dark by C.J. Roberts, so I'm not looking for riffs on that theme. If he's a wounded anti-hero, and the heroine suffers from Stockholm Syndrome, I don't want to read that. But if it's dark and not 'woman-falls-in-love-with-her-captor', can you leave me a comment? I'd really appreciate it. 

What's on my Kindle Unlimited 10: 

There's some, but not a lot of movement. I've been busy - I haven't read as much. 

1. The Disciplinarian: A Collection of Short Spanking Stories by Natasha Knight et al
2. Escape to Sin City: Part 1: Debra's Flight  by Bobbie Morgan
3. Revival (Return to Us Trilogy Book 1) by M. K. Gilher (this is going to be DNF at 48% though.)

4. Unexpected Consequences (Rod and Cane Society 1) by Cara Bristol
5. The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey
6. Surrender (Surrender - Book 1) by Melody Anne

7. Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot by Ansen Dibell
8. Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
9. Elements of Fiction Writing - Conflict and Suspense by James Scott Bell
10. Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

Free Books I got:

The Philosopher and the Poet: An erotic BDSM adventure based.. by Myra Corvine

Books I actually bought:

Healing Submission: Tales of Hurt and Comfort Boxed Set by Linda Barlow et al

Saturday 18 October 2014

Saturday Spanks - A Starlet in Venice


This excerpt is from my upcoming book A Starlet in Venice - the third and final book of my Nights in Venice series. It's a prelude to a spanking...





Context - Liam and Tia have been friends for a year. They find themselves falling in love with each other, but neither does anything to break the status quo. Until this scene...


Pre-Order Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CA. Or borrow it on Kindle Unlimited on Oct 21.

Special Note: Have you read Starlet's prologue? I shared the full prologue in my WIP Wednesday post last week. Click for more of Liam and Tia.   

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“He’s coming over,” Lucia whispered gleefully to me.

“My three favourite women in all of Venice,” Liam said easily as he joined us. His smile was so familiar to me, so untroubled. “May I join you ladies?”

“Please do,” Lucia grinned and Liam slid into the seat next to me. “We were just talking about sex.”

I could feel myself flush. Lucia wasn’t going to say anything, was she? I shot her a silent look of entreaty. I was going to die of embarrassment.

“In that case,” Liam grinned, “please, keep going. I want to peek at the fascinating discussions women have about sex.”

“Doesn’t the Dom of Casanova already understand what all women need?” I heard myself ask, my voice throwing down a challenge at Liam.

He looked at me, oddly intent. “The first rule of Casanova is that you don’t talk about Casanova,” he said. “It’s very much like Fight Club.” His eyes wandered over my body. “If you were a member, you’d be getting punished right now.”

Lucia was suppressing a grin. I didn’t know what devil jumped into me at that moment, but I looked at him. “I can play by the rules,” I said. “I can pay the price. Punish me then.” 

Blurb: 

Every single man who looks at me wants to fuck me. To them, I am merely a sexy body, tits and pussy and ass, playing a leading role in their wet dreams. I am never anything more.

Except Liam. Liam Callahan wants only friendship from me, and I should be delighted. I certainly don’t want anything else from him. I don’t want to be bent over his lap and spanked. I don’t want to be tied up and flogged, and I definitely don’t want him to fuck me.

Do I?

Note: A Starlet in Venice is a stand-alone story, but part of the Nights in Venice series. Other stories in this series are of different couples. This story includes spankings, domination, graphic sexual scenes, and more.

Pre-Order Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon CAOr borrow it on Kindle Unlimited on Oct 21.


And here's all the participating authors: 

Friday 17 October 2014

Freaky Friday - Halloween edition

Okay, okay. It isn't Halloween for another couple of weeks, I know. But this Slate link to the article on The Corpse-Lined Hallways of the Capuchin Monastery Catacombs was just too interesting not to share.

Photo courtesy Slate.com




Thursday 16 October 2014

A Duo of Covers!

Starlet in Venice releases Oct 21! Only 5 days away! 


And Episode 3 of Storm goes to the mailing list Oct 30. Not signed up? You should. It's a free story!


Wednesday 15 October 2014

WIP IT UP Wednesday: A Starlet in Venice



Hey, a new-to-me blog hop! Sure, why not? I'm always happy to share what I'm working on. 

So, technically, A Starlet in Venice isn't the actual work in progress right now. But it is the next, upcoming release, and I'm super excited by it. It's got BDSM and romance, friends becoming lovers, and so much more. 

I personally don't enjoy reading sex scenes without context. I must care about the H/h before the sex scene, else I'm not fussed. So, I'm just going to share the Prologue. (Note - Starlet is currently in the hands of my editor, and this is the pre-edited version.)



A Starlet in Venice (Nights in Venice Book 3) 

Prologue

Liam:

I looked at the woman who’d just been unceremoniously bundled into my hands. She was masked, but the tears trickled down her cheeks and she couldn’t seem to stop weeping.

For fuck’s sake, Antonio, I thought irritably. Sure, Antonio Moretti was a good boss, but since when did he think it was my job to clean up his women problems? Because this woman he just shoved my way was Tatiana Cordova, widely rumoured through all of Venice to be his mistress. And Antonio had taken off in search of Lucia Petrucci.

It seemed that it was my job to explain to this woman that her lover had just replaced her.

I muttered another curse at Antonio, but I had three sisters, and I was a sucker for a crying woman. “Come with me,” I said gently to her. I placed my hand in the small of her back and steered her outside. We walked on the narrow cobblestone streets in the darkness, with the moonlight intermittently shining down on her face, making each tear look like a sparkling diamond.

I stayed with her while she cried, and I could tell the precise moment her composure returned. I watched her walls come up, and her shoulders straighten.

For some reason, the walls bothered me. I wanted to tear them down and find the woman underneath, the sweet, forlorn woman that I’d ached to comfort. Because I could only bear to see a woman cry in a session. Never outside.

“He’s just a guy, you know?” I said in Italian. “Time heals all wounds.”

She removed the mask and shook her long blonde hair free, giving me a puzzled look as she did so. “I’m missing something here,” she replied in fluent English. “What are you talking about?”

Oh fuck. Did I have to tell her she’d been replaced by Lucia Petrucci? Heaven help me, I didn’t want her to cry again. Or was she just pretending, putting on a proud face while falling apart inside? That, I understood. My sisters were exactly the same way. You cried privately. In public, you were stone and ice and untouchable.

“Antonio,” I tried again. “In the end, he’s just a guy. We all are. Nothing special, nothing unique.”

Her sapphire blue eyes sparkled with merriment. “You think I’m in tears because of Antonio and Lucia?” Her lips twitched. “I’m delighted for the two of them.”

“Really?” I sounded completely skeptical.

“Really,” she assured me.

“Then you’ll have no problem having dinner with me tomorrow night?” I challenged her, and the merriment faded from her eyes.

“Liam Callahan, right?” she asked. “The manager at Casanova?”

I nodded. So she knew who I was.

“Let me be blunt with you, Liam,” she said. “Men solicit sex from me all the time. You can’t imagine how tiresome it is. So if you want to fuck me, you might as well skip the dinner and the fancy talk, and just come on out and tell me what you want. It’ll save us both some time.”

“What if I don’t want to have sex with you?” I asked her. “What if I just want to have dinner?”

She looked completely disbelieving, and with reason. Tatiana Cordova had a body that was made for sex, beautiful and lush and soft. I was lying when I when I told her I didn’t want to sleep with her. But I also wanted something more. “You know what I do for a living,” I said, and she nodded.

“In that case,” I said. “You’ll understand that sex is just as easy for me as it is for you.” An unreadable expression flashed across her face at that sentence, illuminated by the moon coming out from behind a cloud. “I want something I can’t get at Casanova.”

“Antonio assures me you can get anything at Casanova.” Her voice was rich with humour and slight mockery.

I smiled at her tone. “Almost anything,” I replied. “I just want someone to hang out with. Dinner. Friendship. Conversation. Nothing more. I miss normal human interaction.” Five years of constantly available sex, and I ached for something, anything else.


Her eyes softened. “Dinner,” she said quietly, “tomorrow night. Dinner and conversation, I can do. As for friendship? We’ll see.” 

A Starlet in Venice releases Oct 21, 2014. 

Blurb:

Every single man who looks at me wants to fuck me. To them, I am merely a sexy body, tits and pussy and ass, playing a leading role in their wet dreams. I am never anything more.

Except Liam. Liam Callahan wants only friendship from me, and I should be delighted. I certainly don’t want anything else from him. I don’t want to be bent over his lap and spanked. I don’t want to be tied up and flogged, and I definitely don’t want him to fuck me.

Do I?

Check out the other participants! 

Tuesday 14 October 2014

My Reading List (Oct 3-Oct 11)

I think I'm going to make this a weekly thing. 

So, here's what I've bought or borrowed in the last week. I've read some but not all of them. If something has been removed from my Kindle Unlimited list, I read it. If I DNF'd it, I'll note that, but otherwise, I'm not going to review or recommend books (with the odd exception here and there.) 

Also, I'm looking for dark erotica recommendations. I've read Captive in the Dark by C.J. Roberts, so I'm not looking for riffs on that theme. If he's a wounded anti-hero, and the heroine suffers from Stockholm Syndrome, I don't want to read that. But if it's dark and not 'woman-falls-in-love-with-her-captor', can you leave me a comment? I'd really appreciate it. 

What's on my Kindle Unlimited 10:


1. Revival (Return to Us Trilogy Book 1) by M. K. Gilher
2. Unexpected Consequences (Rod and Cane Society 1) by Cara Bristol
3. Lily Mine: A Historical Fantasy by Annabel Joseph
4. The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey

5. Surrender (Surrender - Book 1) by Melody Anne
6. Sinful Desires Vol. 1 by M. S. Parker

7. Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot by Ansen Dibell
8. Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
9. Elements of Fiction Writing - Conflict and Suspense by James Scott Bell
10. Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

Free Books I got:



Her Billionaire, Her Wolf--His Every Desire by Aimélie Aames (this might be a DNF for me at 15%, but it's still on my Kindle, so who knows?)
The Mattress Bargain: The Princess and the Pea byStella Rose
Billionaire Brothers by Lucia Jordan
Ella's First Exam: A Medical Exam Fiction by Caelia Portier

Books I actually bought:

BLAKE: Captive to the Dark  by Alaska Angelini
Midnight Watch: An M.J. Lowell Novella by M.J. Lowell
Reckless Games by MJ Lowell
Truly: The New York Series (The New York Trilogy) by Ruthie Knox
Chasing the Dollar (Miranda Vaughn Mysteries Book 1) by Ellie Ashe

Saturday 11 October 2014

Saturday Spanks - A Heiress in Venice

This excerpt is from An Heiress in Venice - the second book of my Nights in Venice series. The final book, a Starlet in Venice is with my editor so soon! It's not strictly a spanking scene, but it's a favourite bit of mine, so I thought I'd share. Enzo's acting on instinct, which I do often enough, so I can totally relate.

Special Note: If you read last week's excerpt of Thief in Venice, and want to read more, the book is currently on a Kindle Countdown deal. Expires today, but get it for just $0.99 while you can! 


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Context - Enzo Peron is a cop who has been called to Alice's apartment in response to a break-in attempt. There's attraction in the air between them, but neither of them does anything to take it further. Yet Alice has an impact on Enzo...


I didn’t entirely understand why I made my way to the club Friday night. It was tied up in the shimmer of desire that had hovered in the air at Alice Blackwell’s apartment. The touch of her hand on mine had awakened some kind of need in me.

Was I saying good-bye to Casanova? Was I running away from it, or was I running towards the familiarity of the club I’d belonged to for so many years?

I didn’t know, really.

Then I saw her there and laughed out aloud, and raised a silent toast to the universe, and to the gods of chaos and coincidence. Because Alice Blackwell at Casanova, wearing the blue wristband of a submissive, looking around with curiosity and without the slightest hint of fear?

Yes. This was going to be so good.

Blurb: 

He is Enzo Peron. By day, he is a Chief Inspector of Police in Venice. By night, a Dominant at Casanova, Venice’s most exclusive BDSM club. 

She is Alice Blackwell, an American heiress who has fled to Venice. She comes to Club Casanova, hoping to explore the submissive desires she has held in check for many years. 

He dominates her. She submits to him. 

But Alice has a past, and it is determined to reclaim her. 


Note: An Heiress in Venice is a stand-alone story, but part of the Nights in Venice series. Other stories in this series are of different couples. This story includes spankings, domination, graphic sexual scenes, and more.

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Friday 10 October 2014

Freaky Friday - George Harrison memorial tree killed by beetles

Creative Commons Image from Flicker
A friend mentioned this piece of 'isn't it ironic' trivia last night.

George Harrison's memorial tree killed by beetles.

I don't have one favourite Beatles song. I have many, but for whatever reason, this one popped up in my head as I was typing. 


And while we are here, check out the opening stanza: 

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away 
across the universe....

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy
are drifting through my opened mind
possessing and caressing me...

Can anything describe the process of writing better? John Lennon was a poet.