I’m more than pleased to announce that The Girl with the Thistle Tattoo has a gorgeous cover and today’s my day to share it with you. The book should be released by Blushing Books on Friday, so look for the Blushing Books flyer in your email and grab your copy on release day. It’s an inexpensive self-gift, and you deserve it.

Book cover by Erin Dameron Hill of http://www.romancenovelcenter.com/edameronhill

How many times can you be spanked? Thirty? We’ve got about that many bloggers participating in the Saturday Spankings hop this week. That’ll keep you hoppin’ for a little while. I hope you’re having fun!

I’m celebrating the pending release of my latest book, The Girl with the Thistle Tattoo. It’s the story of Cal Chesterfield and his new sweetheart, Astraea. You might remember Cal from Kiki’s Millionaire.

In this Saturday Spankings segment, Astraea thinks Cal wants her to take off her pants in order to fool around, but the fool here is Astraea. Cal has another occupation in mind.

Confused, Astraea moved to sit on his lap, but he stopped her again. “Not to sit. To lie over. I’m going to spank you for being so stubborn that you can’t see your own self-worth.”

“S-spank me?” Wow. She’d been spanked during sex before, but never as a…what was this? A punishment?

Well, naughty girls get spanked. What else could she expect?

For more info on Thistle, check out these pages: blurb and excerpt available.

When you’ve seen enough, hop along!

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Happy Hump Day! December is here, and cold weather is upon us. Time to curl up with a hot cup of coffee and peruse the Horny Hump Day offerings in your flannel jammies. Thank you for hopping over to my little piece of the ‘net.

I’m revealing a bit from my upcoming release, The Girl with the Thistle Tattoo (excerpt here). You might be wondering if this is like the movie and book with a similar name. I assure you, it is not. This is Cal Chesterfield’s story, right about where it takes up from Kiki’s Millionaire. Cal is the younger brother of Jim, Kiki’s hero.

Cal is tired of shallow relationships and relationships that end in recriminations. When he sees Astraea, however, his mind goes pretty dominant and masculine, as we see in this little “thought bubble.”

She had a long, narrow waist and a butt that was tightly outlined in black yoga pants. It was a perfect butt, too. He wished he could lift her by it and take her right up against the wall.

In the coffee shop where this first meeting takes place, that might be a tad inappropriate. Cal’s going to have to wait, poor fellow.

Here’s the blurb for The Girl with the Thistle Tattoo. It will be released by Blushing Books in December.

A thistle is a prickly beautiful thing. Dangerous when your skin is bare, and soothing when seen on the Scottish hillsides. Astraea is beautiful and dangerous as well—dangerous to Cal Chesterfield’s peace of mind. She’s been a wild child for years, delving into things foreign to Cal’s more conservative nature, but she appears to want to change. She needs to learn some self-respect and acknowledge that she’s more than a pretty plaything.

Cal wants to change too. He’s too staid, too conventional, and he’s been a failure at making relationships work. It is time for Cal to step out of the square box he’s built for himself and try something different, someone different. Astraea is a perfect change of pace. But can Cal really change and loosen up? More importantly, can Astraea calm down and find a way to love herself so that she can love another?

Thank you for joining me for Horny Hump Day. I hope I, and the other Horny Hump Day authors, have provided a little hump day pick-me-up.

Spank! Spank! Spank! Doesn’t that sound make the day that much brighter? It should, because it’s Saturday Spankings Day!

My eight sentences come from my new book, soon to be released by Blushing Books: The Girl with the Thistle Tattoo. It tells the story of conservative Cal Chesterfield, who’s rather blown away by his serious attraction to a Goth chick. Unlucky in love up to this point, Cal decides to take a chance on Astraea.

Here’s my segment, wherein Cal and Astraea are talking about books. I’ll follow with the blurb.

“Gothic Horror? Sappy romances?”

She snorted her laugh. “Kinda. I read erotic romances with a…certain theme.”

Ah. Maybe that’s where this loose behavior came from. “Theme?”

“Yeah.”

“Might I ask what it is?”

“Spanking,” she whispered.

Astraea’s secret is out!

Here’s the blurb for The Girl with the Thistle Tattoo.

A thistle is a prickly beautiful thing. Dangerous when your skin is bare, and soothing when seen on the Scottish hillsides. Astraea is beautiful and dangerous as well—dangerous to Cal Chesterfield’s peace of mind. She’s been a wild child for years, delving into things foreign to Cal’s more conservative nature, but she appears to want to change. She needs to learn some self-respect and acknowledge that she’s more than a pretty plaything.

Cal wants to change too. He’s too staid, too conventional, and he’s been a failure at making relationships work. It is time for Cal to step out of the square box he’s built for himself and try something different, someone different. Astraea is a perfect change of pace. But can Cal really change and loosen up? More importantly, can Astraea calm down and find a way to love herself so that she can love another?

Come on over to the wild side and visit all the other Saturday Spankings authors.

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Many people are posting on Facebook and elsewhere, their daily thing to be thankful for. “I’m grateful for my new oven, because cooking is so much easier now.” Okay, that’s something to be happy about, but is it worthy of being sincerely grateful? Will the food taste so much better that your family will be more energized, satisfied, healthier because of that purchase? Or “I’m grateful for my Kindle. It’s the gift that keeps on giving: books!” Now, since I’m self-serving that way, I can get behind this, but only so far. Is any toy something to truly be grateful for?

What is gratitude? According to Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, being grateful is involved with wanting to repay a kindness. I would also add that it’s a selfless repayment, where one expects nothing in return, except for maybe a thank you. So that new refrigerator isn’t expecting a kindness or your gratitude, but maybe the person who bought it for you would appreciate one. Or the person who moved it (a tip, perhaps?). Reciprocal gifts are just one way to say you’re grateful.

If you’re grateful for being able to eat three meals a day, give someone else three meals a day (perhaps at a homeless shelter). Be grateful for what you have but pass it on. Someone else, feeling gratitude, will then pass a kindness on to yet another person. It snowballs.

Here’s a list of three things I’m grateful for and how I express my gratitude:

(1) I’m grateful for my husband, who understands the mind of an artist and patiently deals with my nuttiness with hardly a complaint. He supports me generously even when my meager earnings aren’t quite enough for me to do my share. How I show my gratitude? I say thank you to him at every turn, I tell him I love him, and I do small things for him that make his life easier without expecting him to notice or comment. I keep his needs foremost in my mind, without losing myself and the things he loves about me.

(2) I’m grateful for the time I had with my childhood family. All but my half-brother and niece are gone now, but I remember those good family times vividly and fondly. I look over my old photos and shed tears thinking about how warm and happy those days were. How do I show my gratitude? I help my niece with her projects, though I don’t expect anything in return. I give my children unconditional love, without expecting a phone call or a status report on my schedule. I tell them thank you for every good thing they do for me. And I try to introduce them to new places and people that they would never get to experience otherwise — those might be the most lasting memories they have.

(3) I’m grateful for the publishers who have taken a chance on me. They didn’t have to. I write well, but there’s always someone who does your craft better than you do. There are plenty of those colleagues whom I respect very highly and from whom I try to learn. What do I do to show my gratitude? I write more, helping them have a constant stream of product to sell. I show my loyalty to them by promoting their new releases and fledgling authors. I do my share of marketing (this blog, for example), which means the publisher prospers without having to make their whole job PR.

Here’s my gratitude to my bosses today: Blushing Books Publications, Stormy Night Publications, and New Dawning Bookfair. Check them out. I don’t get anything for pointing them out to you, except satisfaction knowing that I’m showing a little gratitude.

Those are the three things I’m most grateful for. Not just this year, but every year.

I hope you find the things you’re truly grateful for this Thanksgiving, and that on Black Friday you don’t forget that a kind word, a tip to a waiter, letting another person go ahead of you in line — these are signs of your gratitude, for you have opportunities most of the world’s population can’t even imagine.

Happy Thanksgiving, my US friends!

Here’s a very brief summary of The Princess and the Huntsman. It’s been on the Amazon Top 100 for Erotica for nearly two weeks!

Set in a medieval land in a fantasy realm, this fairy tale, erotic, spanking romance novel tells the tale of demanding and arrogant Princess Brandywyn and her hero, Tom Huntsman. Unfortunately, Tom’s a commoner with a knack for disciplining wayward princesses and he has a secret which could destroy their romance. In spite of his strict discipline, Brandywyn begins to feel things for Tom that she has never felt before… things that make her blush with shame. Can a princess not only lust for a huntsman, but love him as well?

Thanks for your time,

Welcome to the Wicked Warriors Blog Hop!

I and a large number of esteemed authors and publishing professionals are celebrating both Halloween and Heroes on this hop. People who leave comments will be entered in the drawing to win a Kindle Paperwhite from BTS (Book and Trailer Showcase) and Angela Knight (author of Unbound), a copy of Angela’s book Unbound (five winners), and a $10 Blushing Books gift certificate from me. Please leave me a personalized comment. Cut and paste comments are tacky, people.

While you’re here, take a look around. My specialty is erotic, spanking romance, and I have more than 20 published books. (More to be released later this year.) One book I’d like to bring to your attention is The Winner: Romantek. This is book one of a series, and was released the last week in September. It ran in Amazon’s Top 100 for romance/time-travel for three weeks, and remains on the Blushing Books bestseller list. The hero of this novella is White Star Smith, a Native American man with a simple goal which gets thoroughly confounded by a woman who ought to be a figment of his imagination, but isn’t.

Audrey Beacon is a winner. Because of her slogan writing ability, she’s won a fabulous vacation – one which only the rich and famous get to experience. It’s a big leap for her; she’s a small town girl, in a dull dead-end job; she’s never had an adventure. Nevertheless, she accepts the prize and is whisked away to a fabulous cruise ship and then the prize: a RAVE – a dream-generated reality adventure. She picks a time-travel RAVE, and goes to 1850s Nebraska.

While in her old West adventure, Audrey meets White Star Smith, an Native American man who has little tolerance for undisciplined females. He’s not hesitant to show his displeasure in order to help Audrey improve her attitude and behavior. Audrey feels totally free to let go for the first time in her controlled, unadventurous life, because of course White Star isn’t real. In short order, Audrey is in love.

Coming back to the real world is tough, and gets harder when Audrey realizes that White Star might actually be a real person. So what was he doing in Audrey’s RAVE? That was not part of the deal!

Can he love her, despite her low social status? Can she show him that she loves him, or is her heart too much to risk?

An excerpt can be found here.

You can purchase The Winner: Romantek Book One at Blushing Books right now. All formats available.
You can also get it on: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.uk, and Amazon.de.

Thank you for joining me here today. I hope to see you again soon!

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Quick! Let’s dash into Horny Hump Day for our weekly erotica flash. Just three sexy sentences for you from a host of erotica authors.

I’m revisiting Handling Stormy this week. It’s been on the Amazon Top 100, in the top 15 in the Native American Category, ever since it was published. Remember, it’s a revitalization of my earlier book, Bourbon & Branch Water. I think you’ll like it better, but if you bought the original, you might want to get a copy of The Winner: Romantek Book One or The Strong, Silent Type instead. They also have a Native American protagonist to add a soupçon of the exotic to the romance, and The Strong, Silent Type is also a story about Stormy Stillwater’s family.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s a segment from Handling Stormy. In this segment, sexy sounds prevail. I wish I had an audio track to accompany this one, but I’m afraid I’d be embarrassed.

Stormy caressed his biceps, murmured encouragement as he plunged in and pulled out, in and out.

It didn’t take but a few minutes before Stormy, still reeling from her first orgasm, rose to crescendo heights again finally crying out with the impact of her second frantic climax. Jeff came with her, his sound of pleasure perhaps the sexiest thing Stormy had ever heard before.

If you want more Handling Stormy, you can pick up your Amazon copy here, or dive on over to the Mecca of all spanking books, Blushing Books, where all formats are available. To wet your whistle, you can read the blurb and an excerpt here.

Don’t forget to visit all the other Horny Hump Day authors’ sites!

First, I’d like to thank the people who visit my Saturday Spanking posts so reliably, week after week. I hope I’m entertaining you, if only for a few moments. I’d also like to apologize for not getting to your posts last week. I have excuses, but none make me feel less guilty. I’ll try to do better in the days ahead.

Now, onto the Saturday Spanking post!

This week, I’m sharing the last little tidbit of The Winner: Romantek Book One. I’m afraid if you want more than what I’ve shared thus far, you might have to *gasp* buy the book.

In this segment, Audrey and White Star are in the woodshed. Yes, you guessed it, she’s getting spanked in the woodshed. It’s a cliché, but a fun one. At this point in the activity, Audrey is not a happy camper. She’s resisting, even though she earned this spanking for acting like a tart and she knows it.

Quick as a wink, White Star grabbed her wrists, and held them to the small of her back with her skirts. “Stop fightin’ me, Audrey, and take your medicine like a big girl.”

Tears formed in her eyes, even before he started the spanking. At about that time, the spanking commenced. The first blow made her gasp. The next several made her cringe. But the ones after that made her cry harder and squeal with pain. She didn’t even try to beg for mercy again.

To buy the book directly from Amazon, click here. From Blushing Books, here’s your link.

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Welcome to Horny Hump Day! It’s a day meant for lovers — lovers of erotica, especially. Each of the writers on this hop will be sharing 3 sexy sentences, meant to toast your raisin bread. Today, I’d like to share one HHD tidbit from The Winner: Romantek Book One.

In this segment Audrey and White Star are in the woodshed. As you might expect, woodsheds don’t only hold wood. Sometimes, they hold something a lot more sexy. White Star doesn’t want to be drawn to Audrey; he’s suspicious of her. But he can’t help himself.

“Why you got to make me want you so much?”

With a strong shove, he was inside her, sliding though copious wetness to seat himself deep. It felt magnificent, so right and sensual.

You might be able to guess what happens next…or you might not. Take a look at the book and find out. Here’s a blurb and excerpt.

You can buy it on Amazon or the mother lode of spanking books, Blushing Books. Available now.

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