Smashwords E-book Sale!

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I know, I know, I haven’t been great at posting lately. Please forgive me and my very busy schedule. I recently got to spend some time at Origins, one of the largest gaming conventions in the U.S. It was a great time, and I got to play a lot of cool games! (My favorite that I played was probably Endeavor: Deep Sea. Much fun!

I would love to get back into my writing more for the rest of the Summer, and there is an e-book sale on Smashwords for July. Maybe this will inspire me to get my fingers typing away again. I have four books for sale on Smashwords.

A real quick list of what I have up for sale (all less than $2 on sale!):

  • Exploration: An Erotic Novel – What would you do with the sudden opportunity to explore any facet of sexuality and BDSM with no judgment, prejudice, or dangerous consequences? In Mara’s community of Zebulon, that’s what she’s about to find out. With endless possibilities for exploration, she’s asked to work on a special assignment—an offer that will change the course of her life.
  • Exploring Limits – In Exploration, Mara learns a lot about sexuality and relationships, but there’s so much more to explore. What happens when James, Marchand, and Brandon all have an opportunity to push her to the highest peaks of pleasure? What will she do with three men? Find out in Exploring Limits, Book 2 in the Exploration series.
  • Y is for Yes – A chance encounter after hours at her new office job ropes Yvonne into a world of BDSM and exploration she never imagined. Join Yvonne on her adventure to ditch the business suits for lingerie in Y is for Yes by J. R. Vincente.
  • Runaway – Join Aralyn as she runs from her past in this Erotic Choose Your Own Adventure novel. Aralyn leaves town when her life is turned upside down. Your blood will race as you explore a new town and new people with Aralyn. She might even get to explore a BDSM Dungeon! Make your own choices and find out.

My advice? Runaway! It’s a fun time. Choose Your Own Adventures are fun to read, hard to write, and a blast to read over and over again! Get it on Smashwords today!

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group #IWSG

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The Insecure Writer's Support Group

If you’d like to chime in and let us know your answers to the questions or drop a link to your post if you’re participating, please do so in the comments! And check out the IWSG website for more answers!

If you’re just stopping in for Insecure Writer’s Support Group, be sure to come back for some other fun features! On Tuesdays, we post a backlog of TMI Tuesday questions. On Fridays, we post some sexy fiction stories. On Sundays, I review Laurell K. Hamilton books (or parts of the books).

June 4 question – What were some books that impacted you as a child or young adult?

Jayden: I certainly was impacted by the Roald Dahl books. Fantastic Mr. Fox will always hold a special place in my heart. Later, Harry Potter became my obsession. It saddens me that the author is… well, I can’t come up with anything nice to say, so I’m not going to say anything else about that. But I remember when Book 6 came out, I had it delivered to my house and I didn’t stop reading until I finished it, including a short period of time where my boyfriend read it to me so I could rest my eyes (he was a faster reader and finished his copy before me; yes we got two copies). But another one was a Choose Your Own Adventure book about the Titanic. I must have read it a dozen times (and determined that if you saw the iceberg, you had to tell someone right away or the boat sinks. Shocking!) Later in life, I wrote my own erotic Choose Your Own Adventure, and that was pretty cool.

Richard: I actually just did some writing about this on one of my other blogs. The ones I usually highlight are:

Animorphs: Like any self respecting millennial, I too was exposed to (deep breath) Cannibalism, War crimes, torture, slavery, genocide, vore, interspecies romance, PTSD, body horror, and drug addiction by the elementary school book fair. Letting the main characters win is for suckers.
Michael Stackpole: There’s an overly complex line from the Battletech cartoon, to the Mechwarrior 2 video game, to the strategy guide, to the X-Wing novels, to the rest of the Star Wars EU (remember, fuck the Mouse!) and the Battletech novels. I like to think I channel a little bit of these in my action scenes.

Drop a link to your IWSG post in the comments so we can come check it out!

Incubus Dreams

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As I mentioned a few months ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. The next book is Incubus Dreams! I’m reading about 175 pages a week, so this book is going to be broken into three parts. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post! For those who are new to my blog, you don’t need to read the books to read the kinky stories on Fridays, and of course, you’re welcome to check out my reviews on Sundays!

Description from Laurell K. Hamilton’s Website: Anita’s life is more complicated than ever, as she is caught between her obligations to the living and the undead. A vampire serial killer who preys on strippers is on the loose. Called in to consult on the case, Anita fears her judgment may be clouded by a conflict of interest. For she is, after all, the consort of Jean-Claude, the ever-intoxicating Master Vampire of the City. Surrounded by suspicion, overwhelmed by her attempts to control the primal lusts that continue to wrack her, Anita does something unprecedented: she calls for help.

Anita is pushed to her limits-both professionally and passionately-when she is called in on what appears to be a case involving a vampire serial killer preying on strippers.

Non-spoilery Review:

It’s hard not to be too spoilery at this point. I mean, if you haven’t read any of the series, you probably won’t know what I’m talking about, and if you have read it, it doesn’t matter. It’s also a little weird saying the same things over and over again, especially when only taking a third of the book at a time. But what I can say is that I am still enjoying the series. This is about the point where I always fall off the wagon. As much as I love this series, sometimes I want to read a mystery or a romance or something else entirely. So I did take a little pause (whoops), but I’m back to reading now! And as always, I can’t put it down. I’m still struggling a little with the fact that Anita is so uncomfortable with male-male sex. Maybe that will get better? (I hope.) But we’re definitely pushing the boundaries of my memory of having read it in the past. I honestly can’t remember much past this. I know I read Micah (the novella that comes next) because I adore him. I’m not sure I got much past that…

Anyway, read Incubus Dreams! It’s good!

Here is the link to my very rough notes about this part of the book, including notes on characters and plot. It’s mostly for me, but if you had read it in the past and just need a refresher, it would suffice, though it doesn’t read nicely!

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back later this week for a kinky story!

A to Z Reflections

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Well, here we are in May and I’m late with my reflections post, haha. It’s all good. I planned all along to get the A to Z posts written and posted before April started and I had exactly 0 posts ready to go on April 1st. But I managed to almost entirely keep up. I think I had one or two days that I posted the day after and back-dated. I had a couple days where I was posting at 2am before I went to bed (or 3am or 4am…). But all 26 posts are up! And I think most of them are pretty good.

I also wanted to visit more blogs during April, and I didn’t succeed there either, but I’ve already found one that I’ve subscribed to and read all of her A to Z. I have a few that I was already following that I have or will read their A to Z. And I’m hoping now to be able to hit some more from Reflections and the upcoming Road Trip.

Drop your link in the comments so I can come visit your blog!

Sundays: Book Review

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Usually on Sundays I post about the current Laurell K. Hamilton book I’m reading in my quest to read all of the Anita Blake series. Not that I don’t love it, but sometimes I need to get out of the world of sex and vampires for a brief bit before diving back in. So I picked up a novel off of my TBR (to be read) pile a few days ago. It’s called The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. I didn’t know anything about it, but someone had recommended it to Richard so he picked it up when he was at the book store.

Holy shit.

Go buy it right now. It was one of the best books I’ve ever read. I couldn’t put it down. I read pretty much every night before bed. One night, after Richard went to sleep, I turned the light back on and started reading again. The next thing I knew, it was 2am. Whoops. (Thankfully, I’m off of work the week.) It’s such a good book. I highly recommend it.

Goodreads Description:

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…

Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of…

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!