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Valentines Day is Coming…

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

Time–and the seasons–keeps marching on. Are you a seasonal reader? Did you read my new contemporary western novel, A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS in December? Have you moved on to my OPPOSITES ATTRACT, featuring a trilogy of stories that spans the seasons over Leap Year, March Madness and New Year’s Eve yet? Well now, if you haven’t done so yet, it’s time to read JUST DESSERTS–three women with big woes in the ‘man’ department try to survive love and life over Valentines Day.
A Cowboy for Christmas by Cat Johnson  Just Desserts Cat Johnson

Better get caught up now because February will be a busy release month. Texas Two-Step:Cowboy Shuffle releases from ARe February 2nd, and Valentine Cowboys is coming from Ravenous Romance, also in February. Stay tuned!

Happy New Year!

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

With reports of Amazon selling 1 million Kindles a week during December, I have to think we are poised on the brink of massive change in the publishing world for 2012…but we have to ring in the new year first. So dowload some eBooks before you celebrate tonight, that way all you need to do is wake up in the morning, grab your eReader, a cup of coffee (or a mimosa made out of leftover champagne) and settle in for a day of PJs, reading and recovery.

Oh, and did I mention I have an eBook out that spans a New Years Eve party just to get you in the celebratory mood? Check out OPPOSITES ATTRACT. Story 3 in the trilogy, featuring hot firefighter Antonio (who you may remember from my holiday read NICE & NAUGHTY), shows him recovering from divorce and meeting the woman of his dreams at a New Years Eve party he hadn’t wanted to be at in the first place. Here is the blurb for his story. Enjoy!

OPPOSITES ATTRACT: SECOND TIME AROUND

Antonio Sanchez thought that at 32 his life was all mapped out—wife, kids, career—until some major bumps in the road radically alter his course and send him careening right into the path of newly divorced Maddie Morgan. After being thrust back into single life, Antonio moves back in with his old-fashioned parents and has to learn to juggle being a part-time dad to his kids, his job at the firehouse and his role as Best Man for his newly engaged best friend Troy, all in addition to facing his unquenchable desire for Maddie. Throw in a slew of matchmaking friends and relatives, led by Maria whose apartment appears to be the Bermuda Triangle for floundering lovers and Antonio and Maddie discover just how complicated things can get. Can the pair prove that love really is better the second time around?

Available for download at

ARe

Amazon for Kindle

BN for Nook

Smashwords

 

Merry Christmas to all…

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

To all my friends, fans, readers, authors, stalkers, family, and any and all combinations of the aforementioned,

Thank you for making this year the most amazing of my career. I am humbled, I’m amazed, and I’m excited to start 2012, and it’s because of all of you. I wish you all a happy, healthy and sometimes naughty Christmas and New Year.

Cat

Need Some Holiday Spirit? TASTY HOLIDAY TREATS FROM CAT JOHNSON

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

HE CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR

A lonely writer, a snow storm and a sexy man with amnesia…all the makings for one hot Christmas Eve! Can Ginny find the inspiration she needs to get her career, and love life, out of the cold?

“this sweet holiday treat is worth its small weight in gold” Jenn, Guilty Indulgence

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A Cowboy for Christmas by Cat Johnson

A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS

Casey Harrington will never forget that the Christmas she turned 8 years old she got an Easy Bake Oven instead of the Cowboy Cody doll she’d begged Santa for. It’s a disappointment that shaped her life. Now, twenty years later, she is a high-powered marketing executive living and working in NYC, who can’t cook, doesn’t want to, and has a strange obsession with all things cowboy related.  A job offer too good to be true brings her to a Colorado ranch where she is instructed by her new boss to learn the Western lifestyle from Bonner Blue Boyd, ranch manager and living personification of her childhood crush Cowboy Cody.
Bonner doesn’t know what to do with this city girl on the ranch, particularly since he expected “Casey” to be a man. He fights his attraction to her for as long as any man could, and even when he gives in and the sparks fly, both know it could never work for the long run. She’s city and he’s country. To be together either she has to sacrifice the world she’s always known or he does. What they need is a miracle…luckily it’s the right season for those.

“In a nutshell, A COWBOY FOR CHIRSTMAS has it all.  A sexy cowboy, feisty heroine, great secondary cast, HOT SMEXIN’, a couple of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming and a totally SIGH-WORTHY ending!!!” DiDi, Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

UNDER THE COVERS

(a Red, Hot & Blue BONUS READ featuring BB Dalton)

Billy Bob “BB” Dalton thought he’d left his career as an underwear model behind when he became a Navy SEAL assigned to a team of special ops where no one is supposed to have a past or an identity. Now the military wants him to be the poster boy for their new recruitment marketing campaign, and during what was supposed to be his Christmas leave no less.

Luckily his ‘handler’ turns out to be hot enough to melt icicles in winter, but can BB convince this slightly older and definitely jaded career-focused marketing executive to let him go from working undercover to working her under the covers? And will she agree to spend Christmas with him?

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Nice & Naughty

NICE & NAUGHTY

What’s better than a fireman? Twelve of them, naked, on the pages of your calendar.

The hot firemen you loved in Opposites Attract are back with their friends, but now they’re wearing a lot less clothing and heating up the holidays like never before. Be prepared for secret identities, a sizzling calendar shoot, smoldering bachelor firemen up for auction, sexy Santas

and a whole lot more!

Secret Recipe: A famous lifestyle maven who secretly can’t cook? Good thing a sizzling hot fireman/calendar model knows his way around the kitchen and is there to rescue her and her charity event from certain disaster. If they detour to the bedroom on the way to the kitchen, even better.

Mr. December: When the real December calendar man gets sick, a rich department store owner has to step in for him and play Santa. Once he meets the pretty lady photographer sent to cover the event, things really start to heat up. The only problem is, she has no idea who he really is,
and he’s not all that keen on telling her.

Can’t Buy Me Love: What do you get when you take one over-worked caterer on the brink of a nervous breakdown and add a hunky fireman for sale at the charity bachelor auction she’s catering? You get a woman who finally finds the one gift to buy herself that she’s never going to want to return.

If you love the old black-and-white classic holiday movies such as Christmas in Connecticut, Shop Around the Corner and Holiday Inn, you’ll love the three Nice & Naughtystories they inspired.

Naughty Girls Don’t Wait–Open A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS Now!

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

I’ve gotten a few Christmas gifts early and yeah, I opened them immediately! Sorry, but that’s what naughty girls do.

  

There’s the custom made leather cowboy boot Christmas stocking sent to me by Kim and the Book Obsessed Chicks Book Club. There’s the cowboy boot ornament sent to me by PBRCowgirl. Apparently my obsession with both cowboys and boots is well known! I love both surprise gifts.

And now, finally, A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS is available in eBook for all of you to open, and I insist you do not wait until Christmas! Want a little taste to entice you? Here you go!!

A Cowboy for Christmas by Cat JohnsonBLURB:

Sexy, independent, corporate executive Casey Harrington’s life and career were shaped by a childhood Christmas wish left unfulfilled.  Now, twenty years later on a Colorado cattle ranch, she finally gets everything she’s always wanted—both a hot cowboy and a dream job.

But Bonner “Blue” Boyd is a rancher and Casey is a New Yorker, and even if the sex between them is hot enough to start a prairie fire, they both know that city and country might mix for a week, but it can’t work for a lifetime. Or can it?

When a dramatic turn of events reunite Bonner and Casey, this time on her turf in her city, she has to prove to her displaced cowboy he belongs with her, no matter where they end up. Luckily Casey knows the quickest way to a man’s heart is slightly lower than his stomach.

EXCERPT (rated PG):

“You ready to try one for yourself?” He cocked his head toward the cow checking operation before them.

Casey didn’t know if he was asking her to help shove them into the tight little railed enclosure, or pull on a glove and anally probe them. Not that it mattered. Both tasks were equally unpleasant and she didn’t know how to do either.

“Sure.” She mustered her courage and turned to face Bonner as he laughed and shook his head. “What, you weren’t serious? Was that just a test? Do I pass?”

“Yeah, you pass.” He grinned.

“Don’t let me stop you from doing your job though. If you need to slap on a glove and some lube, go for it. I’ll be fine here alone.” She waited for his reaction.

“Wouldn’t be the first time, Miss Casey. Believe me, I’ve checked the herd myself in past. The vet’s just a whole lot faster and usually a bit more accurate than I am.” He smirked.

Casey immediately got naughty thoughts regarding Bonner and the industrial-sized tube of lubricant she’d seen the vet with. She glanced sideways and found him watching her. “You know, if you’ve got any other tests for me, I’m up for just about anything.”

Bonner leaned close. “Don’t tease, Miss Casey.”  His voice was low and dead serious.

Again he seemed to be able to read her, and all her naughty thoughts. Interesting. Bonner Blue may live by the cowboy code, but he sure wasn’t innocent in that department.

“There’s something you should know about me, Bonner.” Her eyes narrowed. “I never tease.”

He dropped his chin to his chest as he closed his eyes and stayed silent.

“Something wrong?”

He opened his eyes. “Yup.”

“Feel like elaborating?”

Bonner stared right at her. “I’m thinking it might be best if I just give in, fucked you and got it over with. Then maybe both of us will have some hope of getting to any work or sleep over the next week.”

Once she recovered from the shock of hearing the last thing she’d ever expected to come out of Bonner’s mouth, Casey smiled. She laid a hand on the front of his shirt. “Well if you’re serious, make sure to grab that lube the vet’s using. You can demonstrate your examination techniques for me.”

His chest rose and fell beneath her touch as his breathing quickened.

“Blue!”

“Yeah.” His gaze didn’t leave hers even as he answered Dakota.

“There’s a whole bunch of ’em open. I’ve never seen this many not bred in one year. What do ya want us to do? Are we supposed to cull them all? Or do you want to save some for breeding next year?”

He drew in a deep breath. Still looking a bit dazed from her suggestion, Bonner hooked a thumb in Dakota’s direction. “I gotta—“

“I understand. I’ll be here when you get back.”

Bonner turned on his heel and she heard him mumble, “That’s what I’m worried about.”

Yup. The best way to absorb the cowboy lifestyle was to just jump right into it…or on top of one. Casey smiled.

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“In a nutshell, A COWBOY FOR CHIRSTMAS has it all.  A sexy cowboy, feisty heroine, great secondary cast, HOT SMEXIN’, a couple of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming and a totally SIGH-WORTHY ending!!!” DiDi, Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews


Have you been naughty or nice?

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

I know it seems early, but even as I type this there is a commercial on TV for the Rockette’s Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, so I guess like it or not the holidays are coming. So why not get in the spirit with my NICE & NAUGHTY?
Nice & NaughtyWhat’s better than a fireman? Twelve of them, naked, on the pages of your calendar.

The hot firemen you loved inOpposites Attract are back with their friends, but now they’re wearing a lot less clothing and heating up the holidays like never before. Be prepared for secret identities, a sizzling calendar shoot, smoldering bachelor firemen up for auction, sexy Santas and a whole lot more!

Secret Recipe: A famous lifestyle maven who secretly can’t cook? Good thing a sizzling hot fireman/calendar model knows his way around the kitchen and is there to rescue her and her charity event from certain disaster. If they detour to the bedroom on the way to the kitchen, even better.

Mr. December: When the real December calendar man gets sick, a rich department store owner has to step in for him and play Santa. Once he meets the pretty lady photographer sent to cover the event, things really start to heat up. The only problem is, she has no idea who he really is, and he’s not all that keen on telling her.

Can’t Buy Me Love: What do you get when you take one over-worked caterer on the brink of a nervous breakdown and add a hunky fireman for sale at the charity bachelor auction she’s catering? You get a woman who finally finds the one gift to buy herself that she’s never going to want to return.

If you love the old black-and-white classic holiday movies such as Christmas in Connecticut, Shop Around the Corner and Holiday Inn, you’ll love the threeNice & Naughty stories they inspired.

This book was previously published. It has been reedited from the original version.

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AVAILABLE NOW AT:

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Bookstrand

Smashwords

Don’t miss Troy and Antonio’s stories in Opposites Attract

Available now!

Happy Thanksgiving! And a lil’ teaser…

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

Wishing everyone near and far a very happy and safe Thanksgiving!

 

And after the leftovers are put away and the day after Thanksgiving pre-dawn sales are done, tune in to Makin’ 8 Outreach Radio at 12:30 PM Eastern Time on Blog Talk Radio (that’s Friday Nov. 26th) because I’m expecting (hoping) there will be a big announcement made live on air that you won’t want to miss!

 

Halloween Fun at JoJo’s Bookcorner

Posted on by Author Cat Johnson

All this week JoJo’s Bookcorner is hosting a Halloween Bash.

Today is my day on the blog where you will find a virtual pumpkin carving contest (go see my attempt), some of my favorite Halloween things and what I’m going to be this year.

I’m giving away an out-of-print paperback copy of Witches Night to one lucky US reader today and an eBook copy of Crossing the Line (open to international readers) next Sunday.

There’s also a Character Costume Party next Sunday, guest authors, games and prizes all week long so make sure to stop by!