Tag: Kindle

Cowboys, Romance Novels

Ho, Ho, Promo Ho – A Cowboy For Christmas

The holidays are coming. I know that even without looking at the calendar. I keep seeing Target’s Christmas ads on TV,  Amazon.com is loaded with newly released holiday-themed books, and the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas starts in about 2 weeks. Apparently I am woefully behind in promoting my holiday-themed books and I can’t have that, now can I?! So here we go, the first of my Christmas books, and not that an author should play favorites but I think this one is definitely mine. It’s A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS. I love the hero. I love the concept, and I loved writing this novel, proven by how easily the words hit the page. Almost 52,000 words written in just about one month. That’s what happens when I’m confident and in love with an idea. My fingers, and the words, fly. It could also be I wrote it on a crazy tight deadline last November with last year’s Hallmark Countdown to Christmas as my background ‘music’. In fact, I think with the sexy-as-sin love scenes removed to make it G-rated, this book would make the PERFECT made for TV holiday movie. (Hint, hint… anyone have Larry Levinson’s studio phone number? He […]

Life, Romance eBooks

News and Novels–reality in romance

Sometimes my life, and my job, is really cool. Like this morning when I was anxiously waiting for the coffee to drip, one slow painful drop at a time, while the small television in my kitchen was tuned into the ABC morning news. Even in my caffeine deprived state, certain words from the newscaster captured my attention. Pirates/Navy Seals/Rescue. I knew without hearing more that in this day and age if there were pirates involved we were talking about Somalia. And if there was a rescue involving helicopters in that region of the world, that helo would be going to Djibouti. How was I so certain of this before I’d even heard, or read, the entire story? Because through my book research, through the contacts I’ve made in the active military world, I’ve had what is nearly, but not quite, an insider’s view of the Joint Task Force’s Camp Lemonier on the Horn of Africa in Djibouti, just miles from the Somalian border. I know there are special forces and there is always a squadron of US Marines maintaining heavy helicopters (CH-53s) there. I know what the hangers look like, the Cantina where the troops relax with a beer after a […]

Romance eBooks

New Release (again) – Gillian’s Island

 What’s happening? I recognize this cover. It’s not new!! Yes, yes, I hear you. Let me explain… Due to circumstances beyond the owners’ control, Sapphire Blue Publishing, the original publisher of my erotic short story Gillian’s Island, has closed its doors, and as of December 1st, all rights for stories published with them revert back to the authors. So that means this to you… I’ve reworked Gillian’s Island, expanded a smoking hot sex scene bringing the story up to 22k words and rereleased it for 99 cents on BARNES & NOBLE NOOK, Amazon Kindle, All Romance eBooks, and Bookstrand. It was fun going back in and revisiting this story. It was while researching the writing of it back in 2009  that I first discovered the Eat Something Sexy site where I researched the aphrodisiacs I have my characters eat, which eventually leads to some pretty wild times for them. It was shortly after signing up for the Eat Something Sexy newsletter that Amy Reiley put out a call for bloggers to join her team, and I, taking a chance that a site about sexy food might be interested in an author who writes sexy stories, responded. She was interested and Confessions […]