Taste of Kiwi: Blog of Author Shelley Munro

Author, Emily Bryan is doing a 50 day/50 blog whirlwind cybertour to celebrate the arrival of her historical Vexing the Viscount.

Emily will be at my blog on 9 January, and she’ll be giving away a copy of Vexing the Viscount to one lucky commenter. Here’s a link to Emily’s itinerary

Come celebrate the last day of Deliciously Decadent December with Ellora’s Cave Author, Shelley Munro.

Cat Burglar by Shelley Munro

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Paranormal Shapeshifter
ISBN: 9781419918308
Release Date: 12/31/2008
Length: Novel

Blurb:
Laura Adams is a cop with ambition, and a job in Middlemarch isn’t what she wants for her future. Hooking up with the wrong man is responsible for the wrong turning, and she refuses to repeat the mistake, especially with a sexy thief.

Leopard shifter Jonno Campbell takes one look at Laura and desires her as his mate. He’s enthralled with the fiery cop, and when she arrests him, he’s ready for a strip search. Convincing Laura he’s innocent and that they should work together to capture the thieves stealing from Middlemarch residents isn’t easy. A kiss laced with his easy charm does the trick and sparks fly. Passion escalates into primitive hunger. A night of hot loving convinces Jonno. He wants forever with the gorgeous Laura, but her ambition, his feline heritage and a gang of thieves stand in the way of his progress. Then there’s the ex-boyfriend who wants Laura back. This time charisma and erotic promises might not be enough to win the lady.

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Want your own copy of Cat Burglar? Leave a comment here and be entered to win.
Can’t think of anything to say? Tell me if you think a leopard can change its spots. Can a bad boy turn into one who is great marriage material? Do you think you can kick your old/bad habits and turn over a new leaf for 2009?

For more chances to win visit the other Triple D author blogs.

Shelley Munro
Samantha Kane
Cheryl Dragon
Amy Ruttan
Aubrey Ross
Angelia Sparrow
Emma Petersen
LA Day

Wanna find out where the Deliciously Decadent December authors will be next? Join our Yahoo group for updates and chances to win copies of our latest releases. Click here to join.

Rules:
1. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win.
2. Winner will be chosen at random via Random.org
3. You can enter a total of 8 times by leaving a comment on each Triple D author’s blog but you will only allowed to win once.
4. You must be 18 and older to enter and/or win.
5. You must collect your prize within 10 days of prize announcement or prize is null & void.

Come Celebrate a Deliciously Decadent December with Ellora’s Cave Author, Angelia Sparrow.

Eight Days Ablaze
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Futuristic
ISBN: 9781419918520
Release Date: 12/24/2008
Length: Quickie

Blurb:
Lawyer Adina barJonas loves Hanukkah. And her Papa gives the best gifts. This year, it’s the VirtualClone Box, for “a fully integrated sensory experience.” Adina uses it to argue law, meet her heroes and thoroughly indulge herself with some very sexy men over the eight nights of the holiday.

But, Papa and her Uncle David have their own agenda, as always, and Adina finds that enjoying her new toy has played right into their hands.

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Want your own copy of “Eight Days Ablaze?” Leave a comment here and be entered to win.
Can’t think of anything to say? Tell me what piece of cyber-ware you are eagerly anticipating.

For more chances to win visit the other Triple D author blogs.

Shelley Munro
Samantha Kane
Cheryl Dragon
Amy Ruttan
Aubrey Ross
Angelia Sparrow
Emma Petersen
LA Day

Wanna find out where the Deliciously Decadent December authors will be next? Join our Yahoo group for updates and chances to win copies of our latest releases. Click here to join.

Rules:
1. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win.
2. Winner will be chosen at random via Random.org
3. You can enter a total of 9 times by leaving a comment on each Triple D author’s blog but you will only allowed to win once.
4. You must be 18 and older to enter and/or win.
5. You must collect your prize within 10 days of prize announcement or prize is null & void.

Note: two posts today. Don’t forget to check out the 3D post below.

Yes, it’s true. I’ve been a naughty girl. I’m taking part in Bitten by Books’ Naughty Nights of Christmas, and today I’m it. Win a download of Cat and Mouse. Here’s the link to Bitten by Books and the details.

NOTE: I have two posts today. Don’t forget to check out my Thursday Thirteen post below!

Come and celebrate a Deliciously Decadent December with Ellora’s Cave Author, Samantha Kane.

RETREAT FROM LOVE (Brothers In Arms)
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Historical/menage, gay, Regency
ISBN: 9781419919428
Release Date: 12/17/08
Length: Plus Novel
Price: $7.99

Blurb:

Brothers In Arms Book Five

A man with everything except his heart’s desire.
Frederick Thorne, Duke of Ashland, has been in love with Brett Haversham for years. If the only way to have him is to give him what he wants Freddy will share him, in bed and out, with the woman Brett loves. The woman who was Freddy’s first love.

A man sacrificing everything for the past.
Brett Haversham is in love with two people he’s sworn never to touch. But his desires prove to be stronger than his resolve when they both set out to seduce him–together. The incredible sex they share overwhelms him.

A woman with nothing left to lose.
Anne Goode lost her fiance Bertie in the war. Now his younger brother Freddy is back, all grown up into the handsome and powerful duke. And he’s brought Bertie’s best friend Brett with him. Lonely and already ruined, Anne can’t resist taking both of them as her lovers. Is the uncontrollable desire between the three enough to heal the wounds of the past and overcome the problems of the present? They must accept love rather than retreat from it.

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Want your very own copy of Samantha Kane’s /Retreat From Love/? Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win an ebook copy of this release.

Not sure what to comment about? Here’s an idea. What is your favorite sub-genre of historical romance? Regency? Georgian? Old West? Or something more exotic or unusual?

For more chances to win visit the other Triple D author blogs.

Shelley Munro
Samantha Kane
Cheryl Dragon
Amy Ruttan
Aubrey Ross
Angelia Sparrow
Emma Petersen
LA Day

Wanna find out where the Deliciously Decadent December authors will be next? Join our Yahoo group for updates and chances to win copies of our latest releases. Click here to join.

*Rules:*
1. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win.
2. Winner will be chosen at random via Random.org
3. You can enter a total of 9 times by leaving a comment on each Triple D author’s blog but you will only allowed to win once.
4. You must be 18 and older to enter and/or win.
5. You must collect your prize within 10 days of prize announcement or prize is null & void.

Come Celebrate a Deliciously Decadent December with Ellora’s Cave Author, L.A. Day.

Greek Temptation by L.A. Day
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
ISBN eBook: 9781419917431
Genre: Exotika, Menage, M/M/F
Length: Quickie
Release Date: December 12, 2008

Blurb:
Lykaios Diotrephes owns the ruin and invites her to stay at his villa. He’s tall, dark and gorgeous and just a glance sends shivers down her spine.
Mate with me or die.

Lykaios is alpha and with only one day left until the Herangetta mating ritual, he must convince Samantha to mate with him and Arcas—a younger male, as beautiful as Lykaios, who is his second, his lover. He knows that if she doesn’t, she’ll die. How do you convince someone to believe in lycan customs if they don’t believe in lycans? Lykaios and Arcas set out to seduce Samantha. She must accept them both…for life.
Reader Advisory: This book contains male/male sex and a public sex scene.

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Want your very own copy of L.A. Day’s, Greek Temptation? Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win an ebook copy of this release.

For more chances to win visit the other Triple D author blogs.

Shelley Munro
Samantha Kane
Cheryl Dragon
Amy Ruttan
Aubrey Ross
Angelia Sparrow
Emma Petersen

Wanna find out where the Deliciously Decadent December authors will be next? Join our Yahoo group for updates and chances to win copies of our latest releases. Click here to join.

Rules:
1. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win.
2. Winner will be chosen at random via Random.org
3. You can enter a total of 9 times by leaving a comment on each Triple D author’s blog but you will only allowed to win once.
4. You must be 18 and older to enter and/or win.
5. You must collect your prize within 10 days of prize announcement or prize is null & void.

Here’s Laura’s question for everyone.
Heroes in LA Day’s books tend to be Alpha Males. What you like or dislike about Alpha Males?

Today I have another Deliciously Decadent December author for you – Emma Peterson with her new release Seducing St. Nic.

And just to recap: Deliciously Decadent December is nine Ellora’s Cave authors with December releases. We decided we’d promote one another’s books on each other’s blogs, AND we’d give away copies of our new releases as we go.

On days we don’t have new releases to give away we’ll have books from other authors to give away and some of them will be our guests at the Deliciously Decadent December Yahoo Group, which you can join here. So drop by each day, where the nine of us will be visiting with guest authors and other readers. You’ll find an updated list at the Deliciously Decadent December Yahoo Group.

Seducing St. Nic by Emma Petersen
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
ISBN eBook: 9781419919497
Genre: Vampire
Length: Novella
Release Date: Dec. 10, 2008
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Barbara Jean Ruiz’s life has never been what anyone would call glamorous. She lives in an okay apartment, in an okay neighborhood and has an okay job with less-than-okay wages. Her life is…okay.

Then her luck starts to change. She wins a gorgeous fur coat. She gets promoted and her new boss is none other than the super-sexy St. Nic. Cypriano San Nicolo is everything a woman could want. He’s tall, dark, handsome, rich, successful and, oh yeah, the evil undead.

After nearly a century of self-imposed sleep, St. Nic has only two uses for humans—blood and sex. Until he meets Barbara Jean, his irreverent, wisecracking assistant. If he shows up at her apartment just before dawn, she’ll have to take him in. Into her bed, if everything goes as planned.

Here’s Emma’s question for everyone. If you could confirm the existence of one supernatural being which would it be?

My answer: It’s simple. I already know the Middlemarch shifters are real. What???? You don’t believe me. Surely you don’t believe I make all that stuff up?

Join 15 fabulous authors (including me) for some wonderful prizes. For full details of how to enter, click on the Naughty Nights icon below. Enter to win today!

And the Deliciously Decadent December fun continues with:

Crimson Pleasures Book Two

Loved the characters, the heat and the thought of an enthralling hero sinking his teeth into your neck in Crimson Thrall? Then get set for more passion, more intensity and a bigger bite!

Six centuries have passed since a treacherous enemy wrested Antonio’s love from his bed. He was outmatched and overpowered before, but nothing will keep him from claiming Serafina now—not even Serafina herself. Wild with hunger and a soul-deep longing, he declares a Bride Hunt, an ancient ritual most vampires abandoned centuries before.

Serafina endured a loveless marriage for the sake of her sisters. Now her husband’s death has freed her to think of her own happiness. Before she can decide how to flex her independence, she’s being hunted by a domineering, if utterly desirable, vampire bent on binding her soul to his. Antonio awakens sensations and ignites responses she never experienced with her husband, but is physical pleasure reason enough to spend eternity at his side?

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Want your very own copy of Aubrey’s Crimson Prey? Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win an ebook copy of this sizzling new story.

Rules:
1. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win.
2. Winner will be chosen at random via Random.org
3. You can enter a total of 9 times by leaving a comment on each Triple D author’s blog but you will only allowed to win once.
4. You must be 18 and older to enter and/or win.
5. You must collect your prize within 10 days of prize announcement or prize is null void.

Don’t know what to comment on? Here’s an idea!
I believe that cat people are drawn to vampire stories and dog people prefer werewolf stories. Do you agree or disagree and tell me why.

Deliciously Decadent December authors:

Amy Ruttan
Angelia Sparrow
Aubrey Ross
Cheryl Dragon
Emma Peterson
Kathy Kulig
LA Day
Samantha Kane
Shelley Munro

Deliciously Decadent December Begins!

Oops! I almost forgot to put up my Deliciously Decadent December post. I have two posts today so don’t forget to scroll down and check out the post below written by the wonderful Monica Burns.

Come Celebrate a Deliciously Decadent December with Ellora’s Cave Authors Cheryl Dragon and Amy Ruttan. Wanna find out where the Deliciously Decadent December authors will be next? Join our yahoo! group for updates and chances to win copies of our latest releases. Click here to join.

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