It’s time for the $10 gift card drawing of Itty Bitty Blog Tour commenters!
There were 27 qualifying comments spread over the four blog stops. The winner, chosen by Random.org, was comment 25, which was posted by Lynne Powell (on MC Hana’s blog)!
Congratulations, Lynne!
And THANK YOU to all the folks who commented and who downloaded Slow Waltz.
Don’t forget, there’s also the Absolutely Erotic Blog Hop happening from the 8th to the 23rd! Lots of prizes there, too!
Slow Waltz, a Spring Fling short story, Came out on Tuesday, May 7th!
From May 7th until the 12th, Slow Waltz will be FREE at Loose Id, and then 99 cents after that. Also, only at the Loose Id site, from the 7th to the 12th, Close Quarter will be $2 off the cover price! They have every e-reader format imaginable at the site, too!
In celebration of the release and the week it’s free, I did an itty bitty blog tour! Here’s the schedule!
On Tuesday, May 7th, I was over at Jessica Freely’s blog
On Thursday, May 9th, I was over at Kay Berrisford’s blog.
On Friday, May 10th, I was over at Attention is Arbitrary.
On Saturday, May 11th, I was over at MC Hana’s blog.
If you commented at any of the stops on my itty bitty blog tour, you’ll be entered in a random drawing to win a $10 gift card at either All Romance Ebooks, Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice). One entry per blog stop! So if you comment on all four blogs, that’s four entries.
I’ll be drawing the winner here on my blog on May 13th!
It’s not too late to comment, so stop on by the other blogs and let me know what you think!
It’s Release day for Slow Waltz, my Spring Fling short story! It features Rhys and Silas from Close Quarter, but is a stand-alone short, so if you haven’t read Close Quarter, that’s okay!
Until May 12th, Slow Waltz is available for FREE from the Loose Id website! After that, it’s only $0.99.
And if you like Slow Waltz, and haven’t read Close Quarter, it will be $2 off at the Loose Id website until May 12th, as well!
Here’s the blurb:
New lovers Rhys Matherton and Silas Quint finally have a chance to breath easy and enjoy a well-earned respite on board a transatlantic cruise to New York City. But the lack of danger gives Rhys too much time to think about the enormity of falling in love with a man who isn’t human. He’s not sure love at first sight can last, especially when your lover is fae. Sure, the sex is fantastic, but that’s not enough to hang the rest of your potentially immortal life upon.
To distract himself, Rhys suggests he and Silas take a set of lessons to learn to waltz. The plan backfires when they are paired with two older women—one of whom reminds Rhys of his recently deceased mother. Instead of being able to ignore thinking about his future with Silas, he’s actively questioned about his lover. And it seems the whole boat knows who he’s sleeping with.
As Rhys learns the steps of the waltz, he has to decide if he’ll continue to dance around what he feels for Silas or if he’ll finally learn to trust in his partner’s love for him.
Slow Waltz, a Spring Fling short story comes out on Tuesday, May 7th!
From May 7th until the 12th, Slow Waltz will be FREE at Loose Id, and then 99 cents after that. Also, only at the Loose Id site, from the 7th to the 12th, Close Quarter will be $2 off the cover price! They have every e-reader format imaginable at the site, too!
In celebration of the release and the week it’s free, I’m doing an itty bitty blog tour! Here’s the schedule!
On Tuesday, May 7th, I’ll be over at Jessica Freely’s blog
On Thursday, May 9th, I’ll be over at Kay Berrisford’s blog.
On Friday, May 10th, I’ll be over at Attention is Arbitrary.
On Saturday, May 11th, I’ll be over at MC Hana’s blog.
If you comment at any of the stops on my itty bitty blog tour, you’ll be entered in a random drawing to win a $10 gift card at either All Romance Ebooks, Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice). One entry per blog stop! So if you comment on all four blogs, that’s four entries.
I’ll be drawing the winner here on May 13th!
Be sure to stop on by!
The Absolutely Erotic Blog Hop, will showcase erotica and erotic romance authors from the Absolute Write forums. Each day, interviews will be posted, and when it’s all said and done, some lucky commenter will win a huge prize! LA Witt is coordinating the prize give away, but for now, it includes:
$25 Amazon gift card,
$15 gift card from (winner’s choice) AllRomance, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble,
$10 Bitch Face Cosmetics gift card,
An ebook from each of the following: Azalea Moone, Erika Lindsen, L. A. Witt, Lauren Gallagher, Ravon Silvius, M.C. Hana, Erin Lark, Jack Pyle, Tara Quan, Scarlet Day, and Mina Kelly, plus three erotic shorts by J.E. Keep.
A beaded continuous rope necklace from M.C. Hana. It is 23″ long x .5″ wide; woven with cobalt, sapphire, and iridescent gray #8 glass seed beads in a non-repeating pattern subtle enough for everyday or dress wear for men or women.
Here’s the schedule (links to be added later):
| On this date… | …this person’s blog… | …will feature this author. |
| May 8th | L. A. Witt | Erika Lindsen |
| May 9th | Erika Lindsen | Mina Kelly |
| May 10th | Mina Kelly | Thea Landen |
| May 11th | Thea Landen | Charley Descoteaux |
| May 12th | Charley Descoteaux | J.M. Keep |
| May 13th | J.M. Keep | M.C. Hana |
| May 14th | M.C. Hana | Jack L. Pyke |
| May 15th | Jack L. Pyke | Ravon Silvius |
| May 16th | Ravon Silvius | Jocelyn Dex |
| May 17th | Jocelyn Dex | Tara Quan |
| May 18th | Tara Quan | Anna Zabo |
| May 19th | Anna Zabo | Scarlet Day |
| May 20th | Scarlet Day | S. A. Meade |
| May 21st | S. A. Meade | Erin Lark |
| May 22nd | Erin Lark | Azalea Moone |
| May 23rd | Azalea Moone | L. A. Witt |
So it’s going to be an eventful month!
You may have noticed the absence of a WIP Wednesday entry. That’s because I was a wee bit busy with something else on Wednesday.
I signed with a literary agent! I’m now represented by Jennifer Udden of the Donald Maass Agency.
There’s a longer post about this over on my other blog.
I’d like to think I was as unfazed as this:
But in reality I was more like this:
Sneak Peak Sunday is a blog hop where authors share a snippet of a book or work in progress. More snippets can be found by checking out twitter tag #sneakpeeksunday.
This week, I’m sharing a snippet from a soon-to-be-released Spring Fling short story Slow Waltz (coming May 7th from Loose Id). It continues the adventures of Rhys and Silas from Close Quarter.
Slow Waltz will be FREE on Loose Id’s website from May 7th to May 12th (and .99 after that), and Close Quarter will on sale for $4.99 until the 13th.
Here’s the blurb for Slow Waltz:
New lovers Rhys Matherton and Silas Quint finally have a chance to breath easy and enjoy a well-earned respite on board a transatlantic cruise to New York City. But the lack of danger gives Rhys too time to think about the enormity of falling in love with a man who isn’t human. He’s not sure love at first sight can last, especially when your lover is fae. Sure, the sex is fantastic, but that’s not enough to hang the rest of your potentially immortal life upon.
To distract himself, Rhys suggests he and Silas take a set of lessons to learn to waltz. The plan backfires when they are paired with two older women—one of whom reminds Rhys of his recently deceased mother. Instead of being able to ignore thinking about his future with Silas, he’s actively questioned about his lover. And it seems the whole boat knows who he’s sleeping with.
As Rhys learns the steps of waltz, he has to decide if he’ll continue to dance around what he feels for Silas or if he’ll finally learn to trust in his partner’s love for him.
In this snippet, Rhys is dancing with Debbie, the woman he’s been partnered with for waltz lessons. He’s a bit distracted:
She poked him in the ribs once more. “You’re gonna start stepping on my feet.”
Rhys shook himself out of his thoughts. “Sorry. It’s just…never mind.”
“Worried about the future?”
He nodded.
She waved a hand. “Oh, the world’s gonna run you and your man over a few times. Just get up and give it what for and keep going.”
“If only it were that easy.”
She laughed. “Honey, there isn’t anything easy about that.”
Deep laughter, sharp as lightning in a black sky, echoed above his head. The darkness imbedded in that sound froze his blood, but no one else seemed to hear. The mass of rioters pushed and yelled and flowed ever forward. Day turned to night and the hot wind became icy needles pricking his skin. A chasm opened up in front of his feet, and those around him pushed him in and down. Around him the void closed in.
“We’ve found you at last, Vasil Kutsera.”
Sneak Peak Sunday is a blog hop where authors share a snippet of a book or work in progress. More snippets can be found by checking out twitter tag #sneakpeeksunday.
This week, I’m sharing a snippet from a soon-to-be-released Spring Fling short story Slow Waltz (coming May 7th from Loose Id). It continues the adventures of Rhys and Silas from Close Quarter. Here’s the blurb:
New lovers Rhys Matherton and Silas Quint finally have a chance to breath easy and enjoy a well-earned respite on board a transatlantic cruise to New York City. But the lack of danger gives Rhys too time to think about the enormity of falling in love with a man who isn’t human. He’s not sure love at first sight can last, especially when your lover is fae. Sure, the sex is fantastic, but that’s not enough to hang the rest of your potentially immortal life upon.
To distract himself, Rhys suggests he and Silas take a set of lessons to learn to waltz. The plan backfires when they are paired with two older women—one of whom reminds Rhys of his recently deceased mother. Instead of being able to ignore thinking about his future with Silas, he’s actively questioned about his lover. And it seems the whole boat knows who he’s sleeping with.
As Rhys learns the steps of waltz, he has to decide if he’ll continue to dance around what he feels for Silas or if he’ll finally learn to trust in his partner’s love for him.
In this snippet, Rhys is showing Silas just how well he’s learned to dance:
“You’ve learned well.” Silas’s voice was deep and breathless.
Rhys nipped his ear. “Did you expect less?”
“Never.” Silas stopped moving and opened a little space between them. He unbuttoned the top of Rhys’s shirt. “But I want more.”
So did Rhys. As with the waltz, he mirrored Silas’s movements, undressing Silas even as he was being undressed, kissing and licking at Silas’s flesh. His neck, his chest. While massaging Silas’s hard cock through his pants, Rhys caught one of Silas’s nipples between his thumb and forefinger and gave it a not so gentle squeeze.
Silas inhaled a hiss, then unbuttoned and unzipped Rhys’s jeans. “Turn around.” He spoke the command into Rhys’s ear, punctuating it with a nip.
Rhys did as told, prickles of anticipation raising bumps on his bare skin. He had some idea of what Silas intended, but exactly how—that was always interesting.
Altan took Vasil’s mouth with his and used the other’s gasp of surprise to push his tongue past those sweet lips. Vasil tasted of wine and mountain streams. Of campfires and long earthy summer days. Altan deepened the kiss, eliciting a low moan from Vasil before the he responded in kind, giving back what Altan took.
Coming soon! I’ll be taking part in the Absolutely Erotic Blog Hop, where we’ll be showcasing erotica and erotic romance authors from the Absolute Write forums. Every day during the hop, there will be interviews posted, and when it’s all said and done, some lucky commenter will win a huge prize full of books, gift cards, and other items!
The Hop runs from May 8th through May 23rd! I’ll be posting more about this as we get closer.
Anna Zabo 