Taste of Kiwi: Blog of Author Shelley Munro

My special guest today is Terry Spear who also writes young adult stories as Terry Lee Wilde. Today she’s talking about Vampire In My Dreams, which is currently available in both e-format and print from Samhain Publishing.

Thanks so much for inviting me to guest blog with you today, Shelley!

I write both urban fantasy werewolf and vampire adult and young adult stories. My newest release is The Vampire…In My Dreams, a 12-adult romantic suspense.
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Today my special guests are collaborative writers, Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon. They’re are also among my favorite authors, and I asked them to talk about writing partnerships since the idea of working on a joint project fascinates me. Read on to hear about their writing adventures. Their book Mexican Heat is due out in September from MLR Press.
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My guest today is the wonderful Nina Pierce who writes for Liquid Silver Books. She’s talking about a subject that strikes fear into all our hearts – rejection.

You’ve done it. Finished your first novel and sent it off to the editor or agent of your dreams. And now you wait. Since this one will be such a best seller you don’t want to waste precious time and you get started on your next novel. The words are just flying onto the page when the letter or email arrives. “Sorry, but this isn’t for us …”
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Welcome back to Vampiropolis!

Selena Illyria here. Yup, we’re going back to Vamp City. J. This time I’m telling Lida’s story. Lida, you met in A Fling in Vampiropolis, out now at Changeling Press. I adore her character. It’s always fun going back to Vampiropolis and finding a new aspect of the city to explore. In Discovering Passion we get to visit the Vampiropolis Museum and the Sensual District, also we learn a little bit more about the founding of the city.
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My guest today is Nancy Henderson who writes both historical and paranormal romance for Champagne Books and Linden Bay Romance. Nancy says she writes romance because she likes happy endings. She likes to believe love can become the answer when nothing else in the world makes sense. Nancy is talking about a problem many of us face. I’ll let her tell you…

I often blog about my book problem. I own too many books. They’re everywhere: next to my bed, in my writing office, in the living room, even under the sofa. I even have a makeshift end table made up of books, which came about when a stack of reference materials became too high so I placed a lamp on top of them. Needless to say, after my recent trip to the Romantic Times Booklovers’ Convention in Pittsburgh, the book situation has gotten worse. How do people do it, going to one or more book conventions every year? It’s not like I can read them and toss them out or have a garage sale, either. Most of them are signed. So they’re natural keepers.

Maybe I should add on. I would love my own library; a cozy sanctuary with a chair I could sink down in, a warm lamp, my cat curled up in my lap. The extra space might help for awhile, but sooner or later I’d start buying more books and the problem would eventually rear its ugly head again. I know a couple who literally have bookshelves floor to ceiling in every room in their house. I don’t want to turn into them, but I fear I might. They’re a wonderful couple, but…they just own too many books.

Maybe an e-reader. I’ve checked out the Sony and the Kindle. Both made me drool, but the price was a little hefty. Although I could discover many e-authors I’ve heard great things about with the e-reader. Who am I kidding? I’ll probably end up buying the e-reader, keeping all my books and buying more.

Anyone out there have this same problem? What do you do?

~ Nancy
http://www.nancyhenderson.com
http://www.nancyhenderson.blogspot.com

Hi there! I’m so happy to be blogging here today for Shelley. Surprised, though. I mean, letting me hijack her blog while she’s away on vacation shows a lot of trust. I guess I shouldn’t haul out the paper airplanes and Silly String until I’m sure she won’t be stopping by *grin*.

So, it’s a special week for me. Yes, Book 2 in my Immortals series, Immortal Kiss is now available from Linden Bay Romance!…But that’s not all, because it also happens to be my birthday this week!

Everybody sing!

Okay, stop, stop. Ouch. No more singing.

I’m still trying to decide if I should rightly be excited when it comes to having another birthday. After all I’m not a middle schooler who has a pool party to look forward to, or a fresh-faced sweet sixteen hoping for a brand new car from mom and dad (um, I better call about that one, it could still happen, right?)

The truth is I do love the idea of having a birthday. Sure, a lot of it has to do with getting a really great gift, even if I’ve had to send not-so-subtle email hints to my husband complete with photos and helpful html links to La Perla’s webpage for a month in advance. But it’s more than presents and cake (mmm…cake). It’s also an excuse for my family to tear me out of the computer chair to socialize and have some fun, and it’s about that awesome feeling of accomplishment when I look back on the last year. This year has brought so much to me that I feel overwhelmed and awed by it all.

I guess if I were immortal, eventually the days and years would start to run together and a birthday would seem more like a curse than a reason for celebration…and since I just happen to know a few Immortals who like to whisper in my ear, I’m sure that’s the case.

How about everyone else? Do you have a love/hate relationship with that one day of the year? Are you exactly where you thought you’d be when you think about your age, or had you thought you would have accomplished more…done things differently?

Finally, before I go, of course I’m going to leave you with some info about me, and a little teaser of Immortal Kiss! Pick up a copy today, and find out just why these are Immortals to die for!

J.K. Coi

Please visit me at my website for more information about upcoming books, chats, interviews, reviews, and all things Immortal: http://www.jkcoi.com
I’m also on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jkcoi
I blog at http://www.jkcoi.blogspot.com, as well as with three of my writer friends at http://www.vauxhallvixens.blogspot.com.

Wherever you happen to find me, I’m a bit of a party animal and love to meet new people, so feel free to join in the fun!

Evil lurks in the darkest of shadows, but a band of warriors stands ready to defend humanity against hell’s own monsters—Immortal men hand-picked by destiny and taken out of time hold the fate of the world in their hands.

Who was this man that held her in his arms and calmly offered to feed her with his own blood to quench her hunger? Why hadn’t he run from her in terror, or showed any surprise at her crazed, incoherent claims?

Just what exactly had he been doing with his life since he’d been gone from hers, that none of this seemed to faze him?

Baron leaned in close and brushed his lips against her mouth. Not even a real kiss, it was light and sweet, so completely not what she would have expected from him. Actually, she hadn’t thought to feel his mouth on hers ever again, and if asked, Max would have said that she didn’t want it.

“Do it Max,” he urged. Turning his face to the side, he bared his neck to her in blatant invitation.

How could she do this? How could she not?

She didn’t have the strength to withstand the insistent demand of the hunger. The cravings were impossible to resist any longer.

With a low moan her mouth descended to his neck.

At first she simply licked his skin, savoring the salty male taste of him and feeling the steady pounding of his pulse under her tongue. But then he groaned and tightened his arms around her, forcing a more intimate embrace, forcing Max to recognize just how much the old Baron had really changed.

His body was rock solid against hers, from the awesomely defined biceps twitching under her fingertips, the muscled thighs that acted as a cushion for her to sit upon, to the hard length that stretched his loose-fitting workout pants and pressed into her belly.

She moved closer, pressing her suddenly aching breasts closer against the hard wall of his chest. Her nipples tightened and a shock of pure pleasure shot through her to the wet core between her thighs.

Oh.

Oh no.

She didn’t want this, couldn’t want this. Not with him. It was too embarrassing. But her traitorous body didn’t seem to care. It wanted. It desired. It hungered.

My special guest today is Ellora’s Cave author, Wylie Kinson. Wylie has a new release out today called Law of Averages. Her book has a gorgeous cover, as you can see, and features an English Rock Star. Here’s the blurb:

Law of Averages is set in Bermuda, and today Wylie is talking about setting stories in exotic locations.

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This coming week I’m a guest blogger over at the CataNetwork Come and visit me on 15 May. The wonderful Wylie Kinson has a new release this week, and she’s visiting here on 16 May. BTW – check out her lovely cover. Very nice!

Sensual – part of the Catanetwork has a very nice new look plus a contest for authors. Check out the details below.

Check out Sensual!

I’m helping to spread the word about the newly redesigned website Sensual. If you like your romance novels on the steamy side, you’ll love this site. It’s full of reviews, interviews, excerpts, information on the newest print and ebooks and lots more. You can even win books and other goodies. So check it out. http://sensual.ecataromance.com
Authors, you can spread the word too! If you’d like a chance to win one of 20 Cover Ads and get a shot at a fabulous grand prize (a 3 Pack of their huge billboard ads – a $100 value!) just repost this blurb on your blog or website. Then stop by Sensual and leave a link to your post. All authors are eligible to enter and win so why in the world wouldn’t you? See their site for more information and official rules: sensual.ecataromance.com/?p=688

I’ll see you at Sensual!

I’m a guest over at Jenyfer Matthew’s blog today. I’m talking about my new release, WANDERLUST and also giving away a download of Playing to Win.
Come over and say hello to go into the draw to win.

I’m also over at Naughty and Spice and Pink Fuzzy Slipper Writers talking about exercise and bottom spread.

WRITE WHAT YOU WANT!

When I decided to indulge my every romance whim and write HER CINDERELLA COMPLEX, I wasn’t sure how it would go. I knew I wanted a wedding, a private island, an alpha male boss and a cheeky assistant and sizzling love scenes. That was my entire premise when I started the book. When pressed by my editor to give her a bit more information, I said it was a story about a runaway bride that gets to have her honeymoon anyway.

I came up with the title because I’ve always wanted a book with Cinderella in the title. No other reason than pure indulgence on my part. I knew what I liked to read, so and I started piecing together how my story should go. I’m a visual person, so this involved torturous hours scanning the web for pictures of islands, hot men, and sassy women. It’s a hard life, I tell you.
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