I first visited Vegas a few years back for RT (Romantic Times Convention). I was specifically going for the event, and I wasn’t really that excited about Vegas itself. Why? Well, I’m not much of a gambler, and I didn’t think it would really be my scene. (I was wrong) I dragged my best friend/book assistant along with me, it was my first trip to the US and I had no idea what to expect. After being in Vegas for a few days, I fell in love with the place. It has so much to offer, the nightlife, Continue Reading
Excerpt from Open House by Ruby Lang
In this excerpt, exhausted real estate broker Magda runs her nemesis, gardener Ty, late at night. Despite their enmity, he walks her to the subway station. “I’ll bet no one breaks into the garden,” she was muttering. Without thinking, he replied, “We get people cavorting there at night.” “Cavorting?” Damn. He couldn’t see her face clearly in the half-light of the city streets, but he could hear the laughter in her voice. And that made things better. “They leave things. Like Continue Reading
Guest Post: Favorite Christmas Movies by Shannon Stacey
Almost every year for the last decade, I’ve released a Christmas novella and it’s a tradition I hope to continue for a long time. I love writing novellas and I love Christmas, so it hardly feels like work at all! (That’s not true. Writing novellas is hard.) This year’s novella, One Christmas Eve, is a fun and sexy holiday story about a bookstore owner who’s living life on her own terms since her divorce, and the sexy but a little uptight man who opens a business next door. Like many holiday Continue Reading
Sexcerpt: Graveyard Shift by Jenn Burke
Angela will have a review for Graveyard Shift on Tuesday. Until then, here is a Sexcerpt from the book :) Wes and Hudson are back in Graveyard Shift, this time trying to figure out why shifters are dying in Toronto from drug overdoses, when drugs shouldn’t affect them like that, and worrying about signs a horde of newbie vampires might be plaguing the city too. Add in the European paranormal police, a threat from Hudson’s past, a runaway shifter, and…yeah, things are getting hairy. In Continue Reading
Guest Post: Who wins when a vampire crosses a dragon? by A.C. Arthur
This probably isn’t a very popular subject, but it’s Halloween so let’s have some fun! One of the villains in my upcoming book, Awaken the Dragon, is a vampire whose been cast out from the royal vampire court. Warrick’s not worried though because he has a plan. His plan involves an African demigoddess who’s being guarded by a three-hundred-year-old dragon. Now, to anyone else this might seem like a problem, but not Warrick. Why? Because he’s a powerful vampire. And as a powerful vampire Continue Reading
Guest Post by A. M. Arthur
Thank you to Team Smexy Books for having me here today to celebrate the recent release of LUCKY BREAK, the fourth book in my Clean Slate Ranch cowboy series. If you aren’t familiar with me, I’m A.M. Arthur and I write M/M romance with a dash of M/M/M here and there. I have over fifty books published and am best known for my contemporary series, including Cost of Repairs, Perspectives, and Belonging, but I also dip into paranormal and mpreg. Clean Slate Ranch is a tourist attraction, but it’s Continue Reading
Guest Post: Working Class Heroes & Heroines by Vanessa North
Working class heroes, man. I love ’em. Heroines too. I’ve written plumbers and farmers, bartenders and construction laborers—there’s something about someone who knows what it’s like to put in a hard day’s work that makes me believe that they can and will put that same work into their relationships. I worked in the white collar corporate world for years, and we liked to throw around the “work hard, play hard” line, but you have never seen play like a bunch of mechanics when they go out on the Continue Reading
Guest Post: The Sights and Sounds of NOLA Knights by Rhenna Morgan
I love New Orleans. I’ve been there more times than I can count, and I’m pretty much your standard tourist when I visit: Nighttime trips to the French Quarter.A stop at Pat O’Brien’s—because it’s Pat O’Brien’s.Requisite visits to at least one fortune teller—because it just seems to fit the city, and who knows where you’ll find a good idea for a book!A breakfast or mid-afternoon trip to Café Du Monde.Souvenir shopping at the French Market.Cajun Food.Cajun Food.Cajun Food. Oddly, hardly any Continue Reading
Guest Post: Subverting the Billionaire Trope by Angelina M. Lopez
My debut romance novel, Lush Money, is about a Mexican-American self-made billionaire businesswoman. I would love to say when I thought her up in 2015, that I was aiming for a trope-subverting heroine; that I anticipated the 2016 election, the #MeToo movement, and the resolve of women and people of color to no longer accept the status quo of being pushed to the background. But I’m just not that wise. I owe much to luck for the gift of Roxanne Medina, the smart and sultry billionaire heroine Continue Reading
Giveaway: Celebrating Kitty Scarlett’s One Year Adoptiversary
One year ago today, I officially adopted Kitty-Scarlett. Just 5 days prior I made an impulsive decision to adopt her. I’d been thinking for years about adopting a pet, but it’s a huge commitment. But in early October I was really feeling my aloneness with my son in college and my parents announcing they would be relocating to Nebraska. I just knew I needed some other living being at home with me. I need to feel less alone. I went to my local shelter with the intention of just looking. I knew I Continue Reading