I am happy to have Chloe Neill back at Smexy, this time to talk about her new YA book, Firespell, that comes out January 5th! My review was posted earlier today and I really enjoyed it!!I'll start with the obvious questions - why a Young Adult book? Actually, I was very fortunate--my agent suggested that I put together a YA idea for my editor at Penguin. I've always wanted to go to boarding school--and was fascinated by it as a teenager, when there weren't many books out about boarding school. Continue Reading
Review: Firespell by Chloe Neill
As the new girl at the elite St. Sophia’s boarding school, Lily Parker thinks her classmates are the most monstrous things she’ll have to face… When Lily’s guardians decided to send her away to a fancy boarding school in Chicago, she was shocked. So was St. Sophia’s. Lily’s ultra-rich brat pack classmates think Lily should be the punchline to every joke, and on top of that, she’s hearing strange noises and seeing bizarre things in the shadows of the creepy building. The only thing keeping her Continue Reading
TV News
True BloodThere a couple of new additions to my favorite vampire show on television, True Blood.Joe Manganiello, best know for his role on One Tree Hill, has been cast as Alcide Herveaux, the werewolf that helps Sookie track down Bill in book (and season) three. Think he growls as good as he looks?Theo Alexander has been cast as Talbot, the boyfriend of the vampire king of Mississippi, Russell Edgington. This makes my male/male smutty heart thump extra hard. I mean - look at him. Pair him up Continue Reading
Guest Review: Can’t Stand the Heat by Louisa Edwards
I am so happy to have one of my favorite bloggers and owner of my favorite pink hair, Book Chick City here to guest review today!For sharp-tongued Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Temple’s kitchen to write an exposé is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what really goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. The trouble is, she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secreT: this critic Continue Reading
Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs by Molly Harper *Promo*
Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs By Molly Harper Available Now!! ISBN: 9781416589426 Price: $7.99 ($9.99 CAN) Book Description Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children's librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that's sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she's mistaken for a deer, shot, and Continue Reading
Two Reviews: Bound by Deception and Bound to Him – Ava March
Lord Oliver Marsden has a secret. He's been in love with his childhood friend for years, though Vincent's never shown an interest in him beyond friendship. Ruggedly handsome, wealthy, and successful, Vincent is everything Oliver is not. And Vincent doesn't prefer men. Then Oliver discovers Vincent hires a man during his visits to a London brothel. Desperate to be with Vincent, Oliver orchestrates a deception, switching places with the brothel's employee. When Oliver arrives at the bedchamber, Continue Reading
Guest Author: Ashley Ladd and Giveaway
Smexy is happy to have author Ashley Ladd here today! A Rose is a Rose By Any Other Name Writers must do many things besides write stories. Of course there is research, editing and promoting. There is also a lot of administrative work behind the scenes. This week, my editor and I have been going back and forth about naming my most recently accepted story. Unlike “Truth, Justice and the Vampire Way” that Mandi reviewed on her blog today, the story in question is a Valentine’s Day short Continue Reading
Truth, Justice the Vampire Way – Ashley Ladd
When Tony Nelson is swept off his feet by Genevieve, an eight-hundred-year-old vampire queen who doesn’t look a day over thirty, it’s quickly apparent sucking his blood isn’t all the sexy vampire has in mind. But Tony has bigger plans for his undeath than a sexual attraction that sizzles his synapses. Torn between his insatiable hunger for Genevieve and his desire to celebrate his new “super” powers by fighting crime in Ft. Lauderdale, Tony butts heads with the feisty queen more than once. But Continue Reading
Smexy News
This week at Smexy:Monday - Review of Truth, Justice and the Vampire Way by Ashley Ladd with a guest post and giveaway later in the day.Tuesday - Review of Bound by Deception and Bound to Him both by Ava MarchWednesday - Book Chick City will be here with her guest review of Can't Stand the Heat by Louisa EdwardsThursday - Review of Mia's Return by Teal CeaghFriday - Chloe Neill will be here talking about her Young Adult debut, Firespell.This past week I received the following for Continue Reading
Review:Dark Stranger by Susan Sizemore
A twist of fate made Zoe Pappas heir to the Byzant throne. Bound by duty and devotion to keep the Empire safe, Zoe is captured while on a secret diplomatic mission and sent to an underground prisoner-of-war camp. In this strange, shadowy place, residents are governed by fellow inmate General Matthias "Doc" Raven, whose powerful magnetism rouses an urgent desire in Zoe. But the intensity of her attraction is matched by her surprise at discovering that Doc has a secret of his own: he is a vampire. Continue Reading